The Auschwitz Album

[machine gewehr]

Just came across this,thought I should share.

No matter how much I see these pictures,read the stories etc. every time I see one,I get chilled to my bones,horror strikes my mind like a swift blade,tears fill my eyes...Why,just...why?

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibition...dia/index.html

Also,if you got the heart to handle it,I suggest


There were times I threw the book away,I was left with an empty face for a long time doing nothing but staring at the wall with the book in my hands,life lost it's meaning if it had any,I cried...

[Relic]

Originally Posted by machine gewehr

Just came across this,thought I should share.

No matter how much I see these pictures,read the stories etc. every time I see one,I get chilled to my bones,horror strikes my mind like a swift blade,tears fill my eyes...Why,just...why?

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibition...dia/index.html

Also,if you got the heart to handle it,I suggest


There were times I threw the book away,I was left with an empty face for a long time doing nothing but staring at the wall with the book in my hands,life lost it's meaning if it had any,I cried...

If you read up about what happened during WW2 and DONT cry, then you're not human.
I've had the chance to talk to folks who lived through it and it just boggles the mind...it's just unimaginable what a human can do to another.
Here;s the most frightening aspect to me though - as you read something like this, the "comfort zone" that you think about is that it happened a long time ago. You think, "ok, this is past history and long gone..." but it's not
Look at what's going on in parts of Africa, parts of Asia... this sort of stuff is STILL HAPPENING. It's hard to think about sometimes.

[DaveDeVille]

horrific ...

[Smokin' Toaster]

For the last 3 years, I’ve staffed a trade show booth for my company at the SPS Automation tradeshow in Nürnberg, Germany. It's a beautiful old town, I highly recommend visiting it. It is not without some dark history, however.

This past year I went to the unfinished Nazi Party Congress Hall at the site where the Nazi Party rallies were held. It has been preserved as a monument and reminder of that time. There is a very educational, but sobering permanent exhibit called “Fascination and Terror” that explains how the Nazi’s basically brainwashed the German people, minimizing individuality and maximizing the state and Adolf Hitler, so much so that it was a given that the individual would lay down his life for them as a matter of course. It’s quite chilling. It’s also a reminder that it could easily happen again. The German people were so downtrodden with the great depression and with England and France demanding Germany repay their war debts that a wheelbarrow full of money would not buy a loaf of bread. Hitler emerged as a “savior” of Germany and, given the alternative, the German people bought into it.

Those who do not remember (and study) the past (as it happened, not as it is presented by biased sources) are doomed to repeat it.

[waleross]

My family has an album from many years ago (early 60's or late 50's) showing photos from the concentration camps when they were liberated. The album speaks for itself and I believe it had no title as such . Very sobering topic........G_D bless...

[shadowtippy]

My Dad helped liberate a couple of concentration camps in WWII. He didn't talk much about what he went through during the war, but when he mentioned those camps, his eyes would tear up, and he was one tough SOB.

[MonetBass]

It's hard to believe that this stuff went on, but seeing actual photographs like that make it very real.

I bought the movie "Schindler's List" because (1) it seems to be a fairly accurate portrayal of that time, and (2) so my son, when he's old enough, can watch it and understand the atrocities that occurred.

[machine gewehr]

Originally Posted by Relic

If you read up about what happened during WW2 and DONT cry, then you're not human.
I've had the chance to talk to folks who lived through it and it just boggles the mind...it's just unimaginable what a human can do to another.
Here;s the most frightening aspect to me though - as you read something like this, the "comfort zone" that you think about is that it happened a long time ago. You think, "ok, this is past history and long gone..." but it's not
Look at what's going on in parts of Africa, parts of Asia... this sort of stuff is STILL HAPPENING. It's hard to think about sometimes.

I don't cry often,It's really hard for me to cry.To get me crying you'd need a really good reason.

While reading the book,what really got to me,that made tears fell from eyes when Delbo told the story about how an SS commanded a German Shephard to attack the woman next to her for no reason.The dog ripped her throat,went back to its handler,they left the body lying on the floor.

I stood still for 15 mins with tears in my eyes than threw the book away.The next tears that fell were of anger,not sadness.

Originally Posted by shadowtippy

My Dad helped liberate a couple of concentration camps in WWII. He didn't talk much about what he went through during the war, but when he mentioned those camps, his eyes would tear up, and he was one tough SOB.

Kudos to your dad.I don't even want to imagine being there,looking the survivors in the eye...

[Shakin-Slim]

Not many things make me cry very often. I haven't read this book, but I figure I'm still on topic in regards to atrocities between humans. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, when I read the first few chapters, I cried out of sadness and sometimes profound anger. Bitter tears, like the Johnny Cash album. Now, I know what to expect with each chapter. Even though I don't cry, I still feel incredibly upset and angry.

The other thing that has made me cry recently is every time I watch the news and see how my fellow Kiwi's in Christchurch have to deal with their city and also tears of pride when I see how we pick ourselves up.

The documentary The Invisible Children is a real tear jerker and testament to the fact that such horrific things are happening to humans still, as pointed out earlier.

[machine gewehr]

Originally Posted by Shakin-Slim

The other thing that has made me cry recently is every time I watch the news and see how my fellow Kiwi's in Christchurch have to deal with their city and also tears of pride when I see how we pick ourselves up.

August 1999.A major earthquake stroke Turkey,few months later another one...Leaving thousands of dead,buried alive behind...

Those unharmed physically were left with a few scars in their soul,I'm just one of them.

I watch the news about New Zeland,had to change the channel...I feel for you...

[MIJ-VI]

Poor, poor kids...