RE: Holocaust Denial
August 30, 2017 at 10:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2017 at 10:41 pm by CatholicDefender.)
Don't mean to nitpick, but I think "Giant Casts a shadow" featured the liberation of Dachau, the main camp liberated by American forces. Auswitz was liberated by the Soviets.
It seems now that Aushwitz is the only camp discussed and the only one there seem to be survivors from anymore.
Perhaps because it is the largest and most horrific one that people survived. I read somewhere that there were only about 10-20 people each who survived Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka.
Funny thing, my family and I have some direct experience with Holocaust survivors.
My father grew up in Milwaukee in the 60s and 70s, and even before it started being a subject in schools he was friends with Jewish kids who lost family members and the holocaust, and a number of them were missing a half set of grandparents or had no grandparents at all.
It was also common knowledge (Im not sure how) that people in his suburbs a little bit older than my grandparents were in the concentration camps.
When I was a child, there used to be a nice old man and his wife that lived close to the park my family would go to. My mother was quite friendly with him. I only learned later that he was a German Jew whose family had to flee Vienna after Kristallnacht (when he was around 9 or 10 or so.)
My mother still tells the story that shortly after 9/11 she talked with him and he said that 9/11 felt to him like Kristallnacht in a much reduced sense. He said that like Kristallnacht, the attack on the twin towers felt to him a new chapter in history and that there was no going back to what it had been at this point.
He moved away some years ago and I never did learn what became of him.
It seems now that Aushwitz is the only camp discussed and the only one there seem to be survivors from anymore.
Perhaps because it is the largest and most horrific one that people survived. I read somewhere that there were only about 10-20 people each who survived Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka.
Funny thing, my family and I have some direct experience with Holocaust survivors.
My father grew up in Milwaukee in the 60s and 70s, and even before it started being a subject in schools he was friends with Jewish kids who lost family members and the holocaust, and a number of them were missing a half set of grandparents or had no grandparents at all.
It was also common knowledge (Im not sure how) that people in his suburbs a little bit older than my grandparents were in the concentration camps.
When I was a child, there used to be a nice old man and his wife that lived close to the park my family would go to. My mother was quite friendly with him. I only learned later that he was a German Jew whose family had to flee Vienna after Kristallnacht (when he was around 9 or 10 or so.)
My mother still tells the story that shortly after 9/11 she talked with him and he said that 9/11 felt to him like Kristallnacht in a much reduced sense. He said that like Kristallnacht, the attack on the twin towers felt to him a new chapter in history and that there was no going back to what it had been at this point.
He moved away some years ago and I never did learn what became of him.
