A Reason to Remember: International Holocaust Rememberance Day Jan 27

My wise old grandmother told me to study history so that I wouldn't repeat it. Hopefully we'll never see anything like the Nazis again although I suspect it will be a different kind of horror, like 9/11 and those terrorists for example.

CONGRATULATIONS!  You've been featured in the group LOCAL HISTORY!

Mike...Thanks for the post...amd comment on the new door repai

gary d in Denver

Mike, this should be a very interesting exhibit and hope it comes to Canada.  It is very painful to even think something like that actually happened to people.  Let it not happen again!  BTW, who's waiting for the trim you or pooch LOL!

What a fascinating exhibit this must be. Love the title of C.S. Ragsdale's book, 'Living Longer Than Hate.'

Excellent blog Mike  I would love to someday see this exhibit as it's story hits home pretty close...

My father was a Holocaust survivor and at age 16 was captured in Lvov taken by truck & escaped Aushwitz the very night he was brought there by slipping through a barbed wire fence (with the help of 2 other young and fearless Poles). They traveled on foot for several months to northern Italy taking odd jobs, hiding on farms, eating (almost starving) leaves from trees, wild berries from bushes, and even dirt - whatever they could find. They joined the war effort to fight against Hitler when they ran into marching allied troops (what else could they do?).

My grandmother (on my Mothers side) on the other hand (farming family) who was at the nearest town (Sandomierz) selling tomatoes at the train station at the exact time a cargo of Poles & Jews came through (probably on their way to a death camp) took a misplaced young boy (malnourished somewhat & estimated to be between 3 & 5 yrs old) left behind by the Nazi's (he jumped off as the train slowed into the station to switch) and raised him as her own - he only remembered his 1st name Marion and feeling fear - perhaps picked it up from being around those he traveled with and his family enough to jump and run!

I pray history never repeats itself

Sincerely,

Grace

Mike, I am late in finding this Blog but found it very interesting.  I was a history major in college and actually wrote a thesis on WWII and the Holocaust.  My Father was with an army unit that liberated Dachau in April 1945.  I usually keep up with this stuff and don't know how I missed this.  My dream is to someday get to Washington to the Holocaust Museum to see all the exhibits. I also enjoyed reading Grace's comments. Thanks for sharing this Blog we must never forget!