Remembering Auschwitz

We were not guilty of looking the other way then, that’s why Britain bankrupted itself, to liberate Europe. We only finished paying off our war debts in 2006, I think, 200? anyway.

Sorry, should have said, children incarcerated in cages, removed from their parents.

westendgirl, I couldn't agree more. The situation in the US with the migrant children living in inhumane conditions springs to mind. HOW could people there have stood by and not protested? Children!

westendgirl, in similar vein, a comment that I heard this morning resonated with me. We must never forget that these atrocities were committed by ordinary people. People like you and me.

Before we start apportioning blame perhaps we could think about this point I heard on the radio. How many of us would be guilty of looking the other way , of doing nothing when we knew ?

A good description of Krakow Iam, I love that city, it’s beautiful. Warsaw is not particularly beautiful, but is incredibly interesting re WW2.
My Jewish friends have said they’ll absolutely never visit Germany and they dislike Germans. I can’t blame them really for what their families suffered during the holocaust. However I like Germany, and again there’s so much history, WW2 and the Cold War era. Berlin is another very interesting city.

lemon grove, I don’t know if you’ve visited Kraków. I went a couple of years ago, beautiful city with a fascinating history. We visited auswitch as well as the Schindler museum. I don’t know about collective guilt but the way they have preserved and commemorated the Nazi occupation is impressive and very moving.
The Jewish quarter is growing again, lots of good tourist accommodation, restaurants and a small Jewish community. My Jewish friends who lost family in Austwich would not stay in the city.

I wonder if the Polish people feel a collective guilt about the camps?Many worked there and collaborated enthusiastically with the Germans.
It must never be forgotten.

There have already been instances BlueBelle, Rwanda, Cambodia, and others. But whilst each and every one is an unbelievable horror, there is a unique quality of awfulness about the mechanised murder, thousands at a time, that was the holocaust.

And how easily it could happen again ....
Heartbreaking and unbelievable

There are indeed no words.

The capacity of men (and women) to behave in an inhuman way towards other men has always been apparent through history, but the holocaust must truly have been the worst atrocity ever.
I have visited Auschwitz twice, it is unbearingly sad. It is also quiet, almost like an eerily silent scream. There really are no words.

Did anyone watch Holocaust: Night Will Fall the other night? It was on More4 channel. Truly horrific. A difficult watch but fascinating how the footage was put together.

Heartbreaking, thank you for posting it.

we were all taken to majdanek concentration camp when I was 15, me and my 6 younger siblings. It was eerie, this was in 1963, no cars or coaches and a long walk into the camp. No birds singing at all. We all remember it as if it were yesterday