FYI: The Holocaust

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo] Today, for the first time in a long time, I wept. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC this afternoon. Washington DC is one of the greatest cities in world, the architecture and the wealth of knowledge in the museums truly captures humankinds ability to achieve. It is only fitting that in a city that celebrates mans acheivements, a museum was erected to remind us of our darkest hour. It is the most emotional place I have ever visited. Being a history major in school, I thought I knew all about the Holocaust, I thought I knew the greusome details, I thought I had seen all of the horrific pictures. But I was wrong, I knew so little, and had seen even less.

Although I have not the time nor the space to share 99% of what I read, saw, and heard today, I would like to share a story that I received in a pamphlet that I picked up during my visit. It is a story about a boy named Max Rosenblat. He was born July, 1939, in Radom, Poland. Remember, this is just one of over a million stories that could be told....[/color]

[i]Max's parents, Taube and Itzik, first met as children in 1925. Taube was the daughter of a tailor who hired apprentices in his shop, and Itzik was one such apprentice. The Jewish youngsters fell in love and dreamed of getting married even though Taube's family frowned upon the match.

In 1938 Taube and Itzik married. The couple lived in an apartment on 49 Zeromskiego Street in Radom, where Itzik opened a womens tailor shop. Max was born in July 1939. He had curly hair and blue eyes like his father. Two months after he was born, Germany invaded Poland. The Germans occupied Radom and evicted all the Jews from Zeromskiego Street. The Rosenblats had to leave everything, even Max's baby carriage.

Radom's Jewish council assigned the Rosenblats to a shack, which was enclosed in a Jewish ghetto in April 1941. Max slept in a homemade bed of straw. He had no toys and little food. In August 1942, when Max was three, the Germans began rounding up and deporting all of the Jews in Radom's two ghettos who could not work for them. Max's father tried to hide his family in his shop, but they were caught in a roundup and Max and his mother were tken away. They were marched to the railroad and herded into a boxcar.

In August 1942 Max and his mother were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they were gassed upon arrival. Max was 3 years old...[/i]

[color=red][size=3]For the dead [u]and[/u] the living we must bear witness[/size][/color]

[Guest Matt]

[color=red][b]I have been there before. It is a [i]very[/i] sad place. It is a place everyone should go to, but I will never go again. I, also, cried. I am getting chocked up now just thinking about it.:bawl:[/b][/color]

[SaiyanPrincessX]

I've never been there but I have herd of it. Last year a women came to my school who had been Anne Franks childhood friend, untill Anne went into hiding with her family. The womens name is Hanna Picgostler(sorry the last name is spelt wrong, its been awhile). She described what the camps were like and about the last time she talked to Anne threw a fence, she was on one side. They were both 15. That was a few days before Anne died I belive. Its sad...:(

[Roxie Faye]

I've never been to the museum, but I'm sure it's a sad, and amazing place. For about two months, my grade studied the holocaust. We were involved in activites, went to a holocaust museum near us, read the book [U]Night[/U] by Elie Wiesel, had guest holocaust survior speakers, saw a play on it, and did many other things pertaining to the holocaust. It is a state requirement that all children must learn about the holocaust inschool before they reach ninth grade. I think it's a wonderful requirement. If no one can remember what happened, how can we make sure it doesn't happen again? We can't. That's why it's so important to remember the holocaust, no matter how painful- so it doesn't happen again. and I hope it doesn't.

[Sui Generis]

I have never been there, but I have seen MANY pictures of it. I know that I don't have the full affect of the museum unless I am there, but from what I saw in the pictures, it has to have been very emotional. It is really sad to think that so many people had stories such as that, young couples just getting married, kids playing out on the street, and even mothers giving birth being shot for being Jewish...its very humbling to be a human and know that we did this. Its very sad to. My heart goes out to anyone who was apart of that horrid point in man kind...and pity them as well.

[ff X_Tidus]

I have never been there for one good reason, i live in england, but the way you all talk about makes it sound cool, but still, it doesnt beat sitting on your butt all day playing computer games and watching TV

[James]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ff X_Tidus [/i]
[B]I have never been there for one good reason, i live in england, but the way you all talk about makes it sound cool, but still, it doesnt beat sitting on your butt all day playing computer games and watching TV [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=royalblue]How incredibly rude and insensitive...:rolleyes: [/color]

[Sara]

I was there a couple years ago...

I have to agree, it's a very emotional place.

[Lady Macaiodh]

[COLOR=darkblue]i have some jewish ancestry so i can relate to this stuff better than most. i'm glad we don't live in those times & are protected from that kind of thing here i america, for the most part.

but if it's not one thing, it's another. let's face it, until [i]all[/i] prejudice is erased from the world, none of us are truly safe... [/COLOR]

[The Darkness Bu]

hmph...

ff X_Tidus I predict you won't go far on these boards

[RicoTranzrig]

About that memorial...I think I've seen it before through pictures...is it that place with a Lot of candles and mirrors?

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo]Well it does have an aea that has candles lit in rememberance, but it is a very large museum in Washington DC that serves as both a memorial and a learning tool for the Holocaust. But the pictures you saw may be of an exhibit at the museum...[/color]

[Guest cloricus]

We read the diary of Anne Frank in school. Very sad.

[Roxie Faye]

My teachers in school told me that the Holocaust Museum(sp?) has one room full of just shoes, all from the people in the camps, and then another room with a train, or a cattle car in it. has anyone ever seen those rooms? or do you think they aren't open to the public?

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo] No they are all open to the public. During the flow of the museum you walk through one room that has shoes of all sizes and colors...some of the shoes are so tiny...that came Auschwitz. You also walk through a box car that the Nazis would load up with people. They had two small slants for windows and it wasn't uncommon for the "passengers" to emerge with broken ribs and arms after being packed in these carts for several days without food or water.[/color]

[phoenixflames]

I went there in my senior year. It was so sad...That was probably the first time in years that I had cried in public...