Yom Hashoa (Holocaust Memorial Day)

[kita0610]

I've told this story several times in the past, but it still gives me chills.

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[flaming_muse]

It gives me chills, too. <3

Never forget.

[bdbdb]

I love that story. <3

[syducingfate]

And then I cried.

You might like this, I really did.

http://popchassid.com/photos-holocaust-narrative/

[kita0610]

Oh, G-d.

Oh. Thank you SO MUCH for that link.

Now I'm crying too.

Thank you.

[syducingfate]

I just saw this one a minute ago, I never knew this:

[nwhepcat]

Wow, what a wonderful post. Such beautiful faces, such spirit. Thanks for passing that along.

[dabhug]

First time I've read that story. Gives me chills. Bless Henry and bless that little boy, too.

Hugs to you. One of the most haunting things that I will never forget is the Tower of Faces in the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. We must never forget.

[kita0610]

I was there. It made me sick- physically sick. I have no idea how people go to the camps. My kid went, when he was in Germany and Prague last summer. Dachau. He wouldn't say anything about it until this year. It took him that long. I couldn't have done it at all.

[eve11]

I visited Auschwitz/Birkenau in 2000 with my university choir. It was surreal; incomprehensible; numbing. It took days just for the realizations of what I had seen, heard, photographed, to set in. Then the physical grief & delayed reaction afterward was something I've thankfully only ever experienced one other time in my life.

[kita0610]

My father and sister went there too. Absolutely no way could I have done it. No way.

My dad still talks about how the strangest thing was the silence. No birds, no insects. He said it's as if nothing wants to be there.

[stir_of_echoes]

I remember reading that from you before and I never forgot it and think about it often.

I remember my brother telling me about his visit to the camps when he was in Germany he talked about it just the once, just so people who would know.

Never forget.