International Holocaust Remembrance Day

[Shnookie]

Hi. It’s Shnookie. As some of you know, I’m Jewish and a daughter, niece and granddaughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Saturday 1/27/24 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Russian Army. Tho the Nazis main target was to wipe out the Jewish population, in reality, after the Jews they went after the Romani’s - Gypsies and Gay populations just to name a few groups. And sadly before WW II started, Nazis rounded up people with mental illnesses, physical disabilities and prostitutes among others. The point being is that there is a need for tolerance for people of all different races, religions, sexual orientations and varied backgrounds. I believe on HU we support each other and can communicate in an open and nonjudgmental environment. I wish more people were like this. Sendings Hugs S

[Dolphin14]

Shnookie

Thank you for your post and sharing the upcoming Remembrance Day

Tolerance, acceptance and non judgement..... the works works be a much better place

Thinking of you

❤️🐬

[Shnookie in reply to Dolphin14]

U R so sweet. I need to make a correction. It’s the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And it is also important to remember, that many of the brave liberators of all of the concentration camps suffered from “Shell Shock” now known as PTSD from witnessing the horrific scenes of inhumanity during the liberation. It is also important to note, that unfortunately at the time of liberation in the 1940’s, no mention was made of the brave soldiers of color such as the African-American, Latino, Native American and the famous Japanese-American Go for Broke Unit that enlisted out of the internment camps to fight for the U.S. who liberated the camps as well.

[Dolphin14 in reply to Shnookie]

I love learning from you.

Thank you

❤️❤️

[Shnookie in reply to Dolphin14]

You R so welcome. There’s a touching story out of this. Kareem Abdul Jabbar the NBA superstar his father was an enlisted soldier who befriended a young Jewish male survivor at the end of WW II. I believe they exchanged names. Jabbar’s father went back to Brooklyn and the young boy immigrated to Israel. After his father’s death, Jabbar contacted the boys family and met with his descendants in Israel.

[Dolphin14 in reply to Shnookie]

This is a heart warming story. I'm sure there are many more like that. We should hear more stories like this as opposed to the ones of hate

[Shnookie in reply to Dolphin14]

You are 100% correct. And in Yad Vashem in Israel, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Israel, are chronicled stories of brave Gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during WW II. They have received commendations as Righteous Gentiles. That is how my family was saved during the war. My grandfather had a close Gentile friend. He gave him jewelry and gold coins and my family hid in the cellar area of his house. The friend put his life at risk. One never knew if the Gestapo or Polish collaborators would come to the house to look for Jews.

[MadBunny]

Thank you for your informative post and reminding us of such an important day 🤗

[Shnookie in reply to MadBunny]

You are very welcome. Hope U R well. Please give Dylan, a hug from me

[fauxartist]

The day we forget, the day we stop teaching our young, is the day the atrocity and horror will repeat itself. May we never forget as it is already happening again around the world and because of so much inhumanity and loss of compassion from being overly self-absorbed with our own little cocooned worlds we have made for ourselves....we just don't believe it could ever happen to us.... yes.... it can, ... your freedoms are already being taken away, bit by bit, and it's all how the Holocaust started.... book burnings, marginalization of different cultures, races and religions....limiting education....

Over 6,400 children lost in Gaza, more in Africa, Ukraine, Syria...all over the world.

[chazboy]

My Great Grand parents all my great Uncles. Aunts and some of their children were killed in this camps. I see see some people saying it never happend

[Shnookie in reply to chazboy]

I’m so sorry that you lost so many relatives during the Holocaust. The revisionists who say that the Holocaust never took place R extremely dangerous. And with so much Social Media, the lies spread quickly. And unfortunately, there R many people who believe them.

[kenster1 in reply to chazboy]

sadly we have deniers that rubbish terrible events strangely though a survivor who survived the Manchester arena bombing said it was all staged and no one actually died.