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Auschwitz Trip: Remembering Not to Forget
Indiana Public Media ^
| Jan 28, 2010
| Stan Jastrzebski
Posted on 02/15/2010 7:20:45 PM PST by grame
For the last week, a group led by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor — founder of Terre Haute’s CANDLES Holocaust museum — has gathered in Poland. The group has toured concentration camps and on Wednesday witnessed the ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz camp by Russian soldiers.
Listen closely enough here and you can almost make out the footsteps of the hundreds of thousands who perished here. Eva Kor survived until Russian troops liberated the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps on January 27, 1945. But each time she returns to this place – a strip of land straddled by two sets of railroad tracks known as the “selection platform,” she remembers those who were not so fortunate.
(Excerpt) Read more at btvpoland2010.ning.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; candles; mengeletwins
Eva Kor was one of Dr Mengele's twins. Links to more stories here http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/auschwitz-trip-teens-history-horror/
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posted on
02/15/2010 7:20:46 PM PST
by
grame
To: grame
I have the links reversed. The first one a blog by a 7th grader who went on the trip with his jr high video class. The second one is the link to the original story and others related to it.
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posted on
02/15/2010 7:22:37 PM PST
by
grame
(May you know more of the love of God Almighty in the coming year)
To: grame
Our current TOTUS-reading, antisemitic fuhrer is clearly saying “maybe again!”
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posted on
02/15/2010 7:27:51 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: grame
And despite all this they voted Obama.
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posted on
02/15/2010 7:29:10 PM PST
by
gitmo
(FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
To: grame
“The group has toured concentration camps and on Wednesday witnessed the ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz camp by Russian soldiers.”
Not to belittle the Nazi atrocities, but no one ever liberated or commemorated the gulags.
To: Western Phil
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posted on
02/16/2010 6:08:39 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: gitmo
“And despite all this they voted Obama”
How many of them?
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posted on
02/16/2010 6:08:57 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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