Len Cnut Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Survivors warn of new crimesAuschwitz survivors have urged the world not to allow a repeat of the crimes of the Holocaust as they mark 70 years since the camp's liberation."We survivors do not want our past to be our children's future," Roman Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death camp's site in Poland.Some 300 Auschwitz survivors returned for the ceremony under a giant tent.Some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there between 1940 and 1945, when Soviet troops liberated it.Jump media playerMedia player helpRussian President Vladimir Putin was among world leaders not attending the ceremony amid a row with Poland over the commemoration and linked to Russia's recent intervention in Ukraine.Instead, the Russian leader attended a commemoration at Moscow's Jewish Museum along with Russia's Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar.The Kremlin accused Poland of engaging in anti-Russian "hysteria" after Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna credited Ukrainian soldiers, rather than the Soviet army, with liberating Auschwitz."The Russian people carried the lion's share of the fight with fascism on their shoulders - 70% of all the Red Army fighters and officers were Russians," Mr Putin said at the museum.He also paid tribute to more than half a million Jews who had fought in the Red Army and made a "huge contribution to the victory against the enemy". In his speech at Auschwitz, Poland's President Komorowski drew a parallel between Nazi Germany and the USSR, recalling the massacre of Polish elites by Soviet forces.Before leaving Paris for Poland, French President Francois Hollande condemned the "unbearable" problem of contemporary anti-Semitism, telling Jews at a Holocaust memorial, "France is your homeland."Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was a "disgrace" that Jews faced insults, threats and violence. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30996555Never forget. Edited January 27, 2015 by Len B'stard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 unfortunately, crimes like this are still committed each and every day in different countries around the world.I knew a man who had the number on his arm, but he never talked about it. He was a boy during WWII.This was a terrible time in history, but like I said, people are still suffering each day and no one seems to care about it.I still have a hard time believing that the US and it's allies had no idea that millions of Jews, Christians and other innocent people were being put in camps and killed each day. The Nazis filmed every damn horrible act they did, yet no one knew about it? I find that hard to believe.There have always been millions of Jewish people living in the US, especially the New York area and I know they must have been missing their relatives and wondering what was going on?The whole world needs to remember this time and continue to learn about it, but the world is still not a better place 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) The survivors get fewer and fewer every year. Now I am well versed in the subject but I do believe people need to be reminded of what happened because when the survivors are all gone so will their memories. Every story needs to be heard. Edited January 28, 2015 by Georgy Zhukov 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The past has to be remembered so it doesn't happen in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The past has to be remembered so it doesn't happen in the future.You can't remember what you did 24 hours ago in most cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcat Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Auschwitz was liberated by the soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front, but that’s not the point.Russia just has no right to be offended and cry about “historical revisionism” because they have to ask themselves how did Auschwitz became possible. Maybe someone helped Hitler to dismember Poland in 1939?Auschwitz was built in 1940 with tacit approval of Stalin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It'll be like sending Muslims to death camps... It's just wrong.Jew/Christian/Muslim/Hindu/Buddhist/Atheist etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It'll be like sending Muslims to death camps... It's just wrong.Jew/Christian/Muslim/Hindu/Buddhist/Atheist etc...Yes, Snakes, quite right, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Maybe I'm wrong...But people are so quick to condemn Auschwitz, yet jump on the anti Islam wagon saying it's this that, out dated and unwelcome in the West... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) My lord, no one sane is suggesting concentration camps for anybody! Muslims are people, and many of them are good, hard working citizens of the respected countries they are in. Just like there are wonderful and terrible Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists, Agnostics, Hindu, Bahai, etc people out there.We're all PEOPLE first and foremost. Our cultures, race, and religions aren't what define us, it is the person we are that doesAs for the holocaust and other atrocities- it is really important to remember the past. These things are happening today, and it is sad so many turn a blind eye. The past should be remembered so it is not the present or future Edited January 28, 2015 by ZoSoRose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Yeah, people are people, and what ever gets them trough the night should never be a reason for somebody's extinction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelica Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Maybe I'm wrong...But people are so quick to condemn Auschwitz, yet jump on the anti Islam wagon saying it's this that, out dated and unwelcome in the West...Cause criticizing religion and genocide are basically the same thing?Daisy, Holocaust jokes aren't funny Anne Frankly I won't stand for them. Edited January 28, 2015 by Angelica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I see what you did there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Angelica's was pretty funny lolIdk Daisy, that one was a bit dark for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheapJon Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 So should I can the one about masturbating to schindler's list? Whoops.In my defense it was about Snakepit. With the greatest respect in the world, Snakepit is not exactly someone you would immediately go to for holocaust academia and scholarship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Schindler's Lift! http://www.schindler.com/uk/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators/schindler-2400.html Edited January 28, 2015 by Dazey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Make sure to wipe Schindler's fist afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Don't worry, Daisy, I am not offended. You just made me go "dude... wtf" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsMainMan Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The survivors get fewer and fewer every year. Now I am well versed in the subject but I do believe people need to be reminded of what happened because when the survivors are all gone so will their memories. Every story needs to be heard.One of the highlights of my undergrad was interviewing a survivor (Sarah Ginaite-Rubinson). What have you found to be the best books on the subject?Gitta Sereny's Into the Darkness, Helene Berr's diary and Ronald Headland's Messages of Murder were the best one's I've encountered, aside from Noakes and Pridham's Nazism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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