Zachor...remember

[filkerdave]

I'm going to start with the end of the day first, I think, because the earlier part deserves to stand out.

I got off the Metro and walked down to Lush. Many, many of my friends, people whose judgement I trust fully, like their products, and since I have a nice big tub here at the hotel

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[mbumby]

Thank you for sharing this visit.

[kallisti]

No human being should ever have to experience the horrors that took place during the Holocaust, but because people did experience them, we should remember....and never, never forget!

ttyl

[callylevy]

Thank you for sharing this.

[zsero]

Canada's refusal, in the main, to take refugees before the war (China took more, I believe).

China didn't "take" refugees, as such. Shanghai was an open city, with no visa requirements at all, and anyone who could find some way to get there could enter and stay; there was nobody to stop them. Before the war broke out many people who could have gone there decided not to. Once the war started, getting transport, and transit visas to pass through any countries on the way, became difficult. (The famed "Sugihara visas" were Japanese transit visas, allowing holders to pass through Japan on their way elsewhere; on the strength of these people were able to get transit visas from the USSR, and buy tickets on the Trans-Siberian railroad, and they ended up in Shanghai.)

[lauriemann]

Going to memorials like that can be upsetting but it's oh so necessary.

The thing that really got to me about the National Holocaust Museum in DC was the huge pile of shoes from one of the camps.