Holocaust Memorial Day - Monday 27 January

[Dicko69]

I hope it is still taught in schools, it was for me including a trip to the Manchester Jewish museum. When I was in my late teens early 20's there was an Austrian fella in my local who was in a concentration camp with his parents, 2 brothers and sister. Only he survived. He never saw his mum or sister after day 1, but the stories he told stay with me now, 20 odd years later. The abuse/torture he and his siblings, especially his father suffered is so inhumane its barely believable today.
We don't realise how lucky we are. Everything pales into insignificance to the atrocities suffered

 

[bluethrunthru]

I hope it is still taught in schools, it was for me including a trip to the Manchester Jewish museum. When I was in my late teens early 20's there was an Austrian fella in my local who was in a concentration camp with his parents, 2 brothers and sister. Only he survived. He never saw his mum or sister after day 1, but the stories he told stay with me now, 20 odd years later. The abuse/torture he and his siblings, especially his father suffered is so inhumane its barely believable today.
We don't realise how lucky we are. Everything pales into insignificance to the atrocities suffered

I am old enough to recall when the World at War was first broadcast - I was about 11 or 12 then - when it got to the Holocaust - something I was aware of from things like All Our Yesterdays from when I was even younger but the World at War episode on the Holocaust stopped me dead in my tracks.

The Peoples Century was worth a watch too