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Originally Posted by "Eight Ace":ec229

Given the magnitude of what was done and the pure evil behind it, I don't mind if the
Jews or anyone else remind us of the holocaust as long as there are people on earth.

Those who are accusing Jews of hogging the atrocity lime-light while Russians, Poles, gays, gypsies and
others are not remembered, remember them yourselves if you really feel that strongly, contact their governments
about it, meanwhile thank the Jews for also reminding us where these others were brutalised and slaughtered.

As far as "getting over it", ..as Tripper pointed out, many survivors are still alive, and their families
have had to live with it too, they've found no peace in Israel and have to deal with anti-semitic wankers
in most other places around the globe...not exactly what I'd call closure.

To anyone who feels this remembrance is totally ruining their lifestyle...stiff shit.

nothing in this world has caused me greater direct emotional empathy than watching an old man reach to pay for his groceries and seeing his concentration camp tattoo...[/quote:ec229]

True to that. For me it was when we had the former owner of Bick's (Pickle Company), come in and tell us his story of how he survived the holocaust and lost his entire family to it. He told us about getting off the rail carts, and being seperated at auschwitz from his mother and sister, He wondered what happned to them, when he later asked a fellow inmate in his bunk, the man brought him outside and pointed to the smoke. I found it to be the most powerful story that I had ever heard. "Get Over it", you say ? .. What you should really be saying is "how can I not forget it". It is not only a scar for the Jewish community of the world, but a scar on us all, a testament to our own complete failure to prevent such events.