On this day...

[MrScorpio]

[MoonRiver]

1. ...

[dameatball]

2. I did not know. Thank you for the post.

[onethatcares]

3. and the fascists that want to take our country

have waited until close to the last of the greatest generation have died to do so.

Most of them never fought in any combat or military positions, they've only swift boated and

shot from the sidelines of a video game.

Life is not a box of chocolates, it's good against evil. You get to choose what you swallow.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Very timly poat my friend.

How many have forgotten or understand the meaning.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. A quick Google check says that

at least 56,000 died there. I am astonished that the number (either number) is so small, given the terrible numbers who died in the many camps.

On our honeymoon in 1980 we went to (among other countries) Poland, where my husband's family were mostly from. They were/are Ashkenazi Jews. I insisted we go to Auschwitz. He was reluctant, and I'm not entirely sure he was glad we went, but I certainly am. There are things that need to be seen.

As the Holocaust retreats from living memory, it is very important we preserve what we know.

[irisblue]

7. .

[The_jackalope]

8. On Sunday, my new girlfriend who is a rabbi is co-officiating an ecumenical Holocaust ceremony

in a Catholic church in Montreal. It is called the 39th Christian Commemoration of the Shoah.

In these days of deepening divisions, she is passionately committed to ecumenism.