This Wednesday January 27 marks the 5th International Holocaust Rememberance Day as designated by the United Nations in 2005 to honor all the victims of the Nazi era.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archives
On January 27th 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by the Allies ending one of the darkest periods in the world's history. Now 65 years later the Georgetown Library is presenting an exhbit titled ' A Reason to Remember' from Jan 17th thru Feb 13 2010 sponsored by the Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City. This traveling exhibit of photos, artifacts, and documents from five Jewish familes in the 1930's and 40's in Germany portrays the stories of life in the rural German village of Roth and is a microcosm of life across Nazi occupied Europe and how it affected the Jewish residents. On January 27th at 2pm the library will have a free lecture by C.S. Ragsdale, auther of 'Living Longer Than Hate', the story of Holocaust survivor William Morgan who escaped the camp at age 16. His entire family perished and he was the only inhabitant of his village to survive. For more information visit the United Nations Holocaust site, or the Georgetown Public Library.
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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.
Very true Russel, what scares me today is the various groups that wish to rewrite history to reflect their views. The images of the death camps will hopefully prevent any whitewashing of that horrible episode of history.
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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
Grace,
What a heartfelt reply. I loved reading your family's story. Hopefully someone in your area can contact the traveling exhibit and perhaps have it visit your area. My dad told me stories of liberating death camps in Poland. He said the sights there were worse than the horror of D Day and seeing his buddies die on the beaches.
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!