Still Hard to Read

Before I met my wife I had a Jewish girlfriend for a few years. On one visit back to her home in NYC, she pulled out a large scroll and unrolled it across the table. There were a couple dozen instances where, beneath a name, it read "lost in the holocaust." It was a profoundly moving experience.
 
These are the types of things that make me just sit up and thank whatever for just how fortunate my life has been. To be honest, I sometimes feel guilt for obsessing over such an utterly trivial thing as a power cord while similar atrocities continue to happen to others today.
 
Heart wrenching piece.

I was invited to the linked performance by the Israeli Chamber Project. They are performing a piece by Gideon Klein, composed in a Nazi prison camp. Nine days after completion, he was sent to Auschwitz, and he was killed, at 26 years of age.



[video]http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/theresienstadt/klein-gideon/[/video]
 
Gut wrenching indeed. To think of the week by week, day by day, hour by hour struggles the Jews in WWII endured in these camps puts a knot in your stomach.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Sad, terrible and unnecessary. Hard to believe that as humans, we are capable of such atrocities.
 
Asamel said:
As anti semitism rises in Europe...
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Semantics perhaps, but anti-semitism always been there. Where do you think all the NAZIs - other than to the U.S., South America, etc. - went? Watch some of the shows on NAZI collaborators on what's now the American Heroes Channel or formerly known as The Military Channel. Watch about what went on in Italy, Greece, France, Belgium, Finland, and the many Russian satellite states! No where. They just went underground, particularly in East Germany. So it's just been an unmasking. It's always been there.

That's why I get a real real kick when Putin accuses us of supporting anti-Semites in the Ukraine. Russia wrote the book on Pogroms.
 
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