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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Monday, January 27th is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day is set aside to honor and remember the lives and strength of Holocaust victims and survivors of World War 11. 


In memory of those who were consumed in the Holocaust

May their memory serve as a blessing --- and a warning

 

 

The Holocaust Memorial Museum is the American national memorial to the victims of the six million Jews and millions of non-Jews in Washington, D.C. There are other Holocaust Memorial Museums throughout the United States including Dallas, Texas, where visitors can see historical artifacts in their exhibits. Each museum is dedicated to teaching the history of the Holocaust and advancing human rights to combat prejudice, hatred, and indifference.  At another location in Dallas there is the Museum of Biblical Art. On display is artwork to also educate and teach the Holocaust. 

 

Jewish and Polish were murdered. Others were too, including Austrian, Russian, Serbs, Czech, Roma, French, Gypsies, Protestants, Catholics, handicapped, and many others. Many people risked their own lives by hiding Jewish refugees in their homes. The grim realities of the ghettos and concentration camps with gas chambers were real. 

 

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a good day to honor those that died and those who survived. Both were tortured. Antisemitism is horrible. 

 

The Big Lie About Antisemitism

You just have to tell one lie long enough

and often enough, and it's easy for people

to think that that's the truth. Sadly, that's

what becomes the reality. 

 

Posted by

Patricia Feager

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Bill Salvatore - East Valley
Arizona Elite Properties - Chandler, AZ
Realtor - 602-999-0952 / em: golfArizona@cox.net

Another period in time, we must never forget. Great information. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!

Bill Salvatore, Realtor- Arizona Elite Properties

Jan 22, 2025 04:22 AM
Patricia Feager

Bill Salvatore - East Valley - so much suffering that never should have happened. Watching the way the Vietnam War unfolded was frightening enough for me. I couldn't imagine living during the Holocaust and seeing those pictures and faces in newspapers or magazines. 

Enjoy your weekend.

Jan 24, 2025 07:05 AM
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker

Thank you so much, Patricia, for this reminder. I've know people who were survivors of the Nazi camps... nothing gets one's attention more than seeing numbers tattooed on someone's arm. I am beyond appalled by the overt antisemitism we are seeing in our country today (not that I support covert antisemitism). 

Jan 22, 2025 04:55 AM
Nina Hollander, Broker

Patricia Feager at this point, I feel that what is happening at many of our top universities and colleges is not so much surreal, but disgusting. Sadly, I'm a graduate of several of the worst offenders.

Jan 24, 2025 07:28 AM
Patricia Feager

Nina Hollander, Broker - There were many Jewish people in Chicago when I grew up, but I never knew their backstories. Because there were so many immigrants, we never talked about their background or asked who, what, where, how, or why questions about each other and their family members. 

Knowing what I know now, I would not have been afraid to ask questions. It must have been hard for you to see tattooed arms of survivors like you did. It's so hard to continue hearing about antisemitism in this world, especially by college and/or university students. It's all just sooooooooooooooooo surreal. 

Jan 24, 2025 07:09 AM
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Oswego, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Good morning Patricia. My best friend is Jewish. I have met some of his relatives who survived the concentration camps. One aunt told me several stories and showed me the number tattooed on her wrist. It could have been avoided but political expedience overruled common sense. A lesson learned or maybe not? Enjoy your day.

Jan 22, 2025 04:59 AM
Patricia Feager

Greetings Wayne Martin - I have a feeling you think about your best friend and his family often over the years. Your friend's aunt was a survivor - WOW! Listening to her stories must have been an unbelievable experience. It was good she shared and showed you her number tattooed on her wrist. 

There was a book at the University of North Texas being given away for free. I picked it up and kept it called "The World Must Know," 'The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum' by Michael Berenbaum. 

In the book there is a section on "Tattooing and Shearing." Author writes: "For those who survived the first selection, the introduction to life inside the death camp was the humiliation of being shorn and tattooed. 

One of the inmates, Michael Jacobs (not AR's, Michael Jacobs) was quoted:

As you stretched out your arm, they gave you a number... And as they gave me tattoo number, B-4990, the SS man came to me, and he says to me, "Do you know what this number's all about?" I said, "No sir." "Okay, let me tell you now. You are dehumanized."

Such horrors to the survivors who have been tattooed and experienced the tragedies beyond imagination is hard to understand. How does one forgive and live with that number on their arm?  

Jan 24, 2025 07:22 AM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hello Patricia - such atrocities should never be forgotten so remembrance days are necessary.  

Jan 22, 2025 05:34 AM
Patricia Feager

Michael Jacobs - No. The atrocities of the Holocaust "should never be forgotten." The pictures in the book I'm reading are cruel and sickening. How could those orders be followed out by the SS? So sad and incomprehensible. 

Jan 24, 2025 07:28 AM
Kat Palmiotti
eXp Commercial, Referral Divison - Kalispell, MT
Helping your Montana dreams take root

Thank you for the reminder. This is another example of a time in history that should not be forgotten, so it is not repeated.

Jan 22, 2025 05:51 AM
Patricia Feager

Kat Palmiotti - "Not repeated." Yet I think about all those people in the past 4 years who were sentenced to prison without hope of getting out for something as simple as carrying an American Flag, or praying outside a facility performing abortions, and I say to myself, thank God for our new administration and his pardoning. 

Jan 24, 2025 07:31 AM
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

Too often people looked the other way, or put their own interest ahead of doing what was right. Having visited a camp it is an eye opening experience and there are so many similarities in our world today. Let us never forget all those who suffered, the disabled as well as all the different nationalities, and jews as well.

Jan 22, 2025 06:31 AM
Patricia Feager

Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543- I think looking away and putting one's "own interest ahead of doing what was right," is just as evil. Simply unforgivable; yet many had/have the courage to forgive. And I shiver inside and say myself, why was this possible???? 

Jan 24, 2025 07:34 AM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Patricia it is sobering to look at what happened during the Holocaust and come to the realization that mankind is capable of doing those horrible acts.  

Jan 22, 2025 09:40 AM
Patricia Feager

George Souto - what hurricanes and fires do to people, their homes, and their environment is horrible. But what mankind did to those who suffered by the SS and Nazi government was a million times worst because it was ordered, intentional, and executed. 

Jan 24, 2025 10:27 AM
Adam Feinberg
Elegran - Manhattan, NY
NYC Condo, Co-op, and Townhouse Advisor

Antisemitism has been on the rise over the last decade. Growing up in well known Jewish community- I didn't experience it first hand for most of my life but that has been changing. The nation has changed- nastier and too many filled with hate. I don't see it changing back anytime soon. I am not religious- but I do celebrate some traditions and certainly the culture (I live about 75 blocks from Zabar's) - but even without a yarmulke or facial identifiers like payos and a beard, I still have traditional Ashkenazi genetic features (i.e. - I look Jewish). It's 2025- I don't live in a bubble- but I had hoped that we would get past these irrational hate based behaviors by now (insert any or all minorities into this statement and it still works). 

Jan 22, 2025 10:54 AM
Patricia Feager

Adam Feinberg - your transparency is appreciated. Firsthand insights motivate me to want to know more especially when my gut tells me it is credible information. And you did that! Antisemitism is at the root of horrible atrophies with grave consequences. You made a great point - "...insert any or all minorities into this statement." This is very pertinent to know, because as we all know, history repeats itself. Sadly, without immediate consequences to the wrongdoing, such as what we now know about the Holocaust, leads to bad behavior that are not only irrational and shortsighted, but harmful to others. How many more generations of suffer. Survivors have stories to tell that should never be ignored. Yet, many will turn a blind eye because it doesn't impact them. 

Adam, I respect people who stand up for shared principles that matter. 

Thank you. 

Jan 24, 2025 02:06 PM
Lew Corcoran
Better Living Real Estate, LLC - East Bridgewater, MA
Expert guidance. Exceptional results.

Thank you for sharing such a poignant reminder, Patricia Feager. Your acknowledgment of the Holocaust's impact is powerful, and it’s crucial that we honor those who suffered while fostering understanding and empathy in our world today.

Jan 22, 2025 12:17 PM
Patricia Feager

Lew Corcoran - In my heart, I couldn't postpone this post for Monday, January 27. I am in hopes many will be thinking about the Holocaust to raise awareness before it becomes an International Day of Remembrance. 

What people need to know is stories made into movies like "The Pianist," "Sophie's Choice," or non-fiction books such as: "The Boy on Block 66," "Hidden, or "We Must Not Forget," are heart wrenching. I don't know, but I wish these stories were mandatory readings for High School, Colleges, and Universities. 

Here on ActiveRain, if we know stories about people who survived the Holocaust, like Wayne Martin or have lived in an environment where you live through changed behaviors over time, such as Adam Feinberg we should pay attention to what they say and support the notion antisemitism cannot go on.  

 

Jan 24, 2025 02:20 PM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Patricia Feager I read many World War II books and watched most of the movies. I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC; it is hard to believe humans could treat each other in this way. Animals do not. It is a time in history we hope and pray we will never repeat.  

Jan 22, 2025 02:09 PM
Patricia Feager

Hannah Williams - Good for you for reading WW11 books and watching movies about the Holocaust. The two movies that pierce my heart are "The Pianist," and "Sophie's Choice." I cry each time, especially the scene where Sophie makes a choice. Just the thought of having to make a decision like that is unfathomable. 

The International Day of Rememberbrance for the Holocaust is worthy of contemplation and prayer for those who believe in faith. There are so many devastating testimonials. The Museums of the Holocaust are the quietest and most silent thought-provoking of all. 

Jan 24, 2025 02:25 PM
Hannah Williams

Patricia Feager  I read the "The Tattooist of Auschwitz and saw the series.I am now reading All the Broken Places - which is part 2 of the Boy in the Striped Pajamas  by John Boyne if you have not read I highly recommend 

Jan 27, 2025 09:57 AM
Hannah Williams

Patricia Feager Hulu has two excellent movies - We Were the Lucky Ones - which was a book and a series   - and LEE, which is about a Vogue model who became a Photojournalist during World War 2 

Jan 27, 2025 08:17 AM
Patricia Feager

Greetings Hannah Williams - I hope the sun is shining on you today!

I read "We Were The Lucky Ones." It was so good, I still have it on my bookshelf. I don't have Hulu and wasn't aware that it was made into a movie. If it becomes available on regular T.V. I will be sure to watch it.

I have not heard about LEE. It sounds very interesting! I will definitely see if it's available through my public library. This is definitely one that sparks my curiosity. Thanks for the recommendation. 

I just finished read "The Tattoist of Auschwitz," by Heather Morris (based on the powerful true story of Love and Survival). It painted a behind the scenes look at the life of a Tattooist and what it was really like in Auschwitz. A real page turner. I finished it in one day. The writer goes into great detail about what happened when the war was ending and to the couple who fell in love. 

The ending was completely surprising! If you read it, be sure to read the Author's notes. This book was very different from other books I read because it covers just before, during, and after the liberation. It's one of those OMG endings and now I'm still thinking about the ending and how true it was for others. 

If your interest in peaked, check Wikipedia for Lale Sokolov, the main character for this true story.

As always, it's great communicating with you here on AR!

Jan 27, 2025 09:05 AM
Patricia Feager

Hannah Williams - I wasn't aware there is a series to "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." I'll have to see if I can get them.

Thanks for the recommendations for "All the Broken Places" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." For some reason, "All the Broken Places," sounds familiar. I'll have to check my bookshelves to see if I bought the book and didn't read it. Nonetheless, I will definitely make an effort to find them all and read them too. 

I went to check to see if I had "All the Broken Places," but found other books. 1) An Interrupted Life, the diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 is an oldie and a goodie. 2) The Winemaker's Wife, by Kristin Harmel (read it, loved it). 3) "When the Summer Was Ours," by Roxanne Velletzos... bought it, forgot about it. I need to read it.

I still have a lot of places to look for "All the Broken Places."

Jan 27, 2025 10:46 AM
Chris Lima
Turtle Reef Realty - Port St Lucie, FL
Local or Global-Allow me to open doors for you.

Patricia Feager Thank you for this post and some perspective this a.m.  We hear, read and even live in tragedy.  Although it's beyond painful, there is always a lesson to learn.  Let us never forget.

Jan 23, 2025 07:12 AM
Patricia Feager

Chris Lima - In a few comments I made to others here on AR, there is another book I have read more than once called "The Tattooists of Auschwitz." On Monday, the 27th I registered for an event that has survivor stories to share. You're right, "Let us never forget."

Jan 24, 2025 02:31 PM