This deserves a wider readership so apologies for not putting NJC in advance, but frankly, it needs to be read.
On this day, 57 years ago, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was liberated by the Russian army. Many view today as a day to commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Delete it if you must. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp complex in the history of the war and the largest site of genocide in documented history. An estimated 2,200,000 people were murdered there, most of them Jews and most of them between 1941 and 1945. There were five large gas chambers and crematoria that, when combined, had a daily killing capacity of 6,000 people a day. The Germans destroyed the gas chambers but their foundations remain in tact; one was reconstructed for the purposes of the on-site museum. In any case, I think this is a subject that warrants some reflection and some awareness. Tonight I'll think of those precious faces of those terrified children who have been stolen from time and I'll think of their poor mothers and fathers who could do nothing to stop the madness. Remember their names, imagine their smiling faces at birthday parties before the war, never forget they had memories and goals and dreams. Remember them. -Andrew Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
