YESTERDAY WAS THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ
HOLOCAUST ~ What does it mean to us now ?
Seventy five years since the Liberation
Of AUSCHWITZ ~ Nazi Concentration Camp ?
Angela & I visited AUSCHWITZ
To see for ourselves ~ something concrete of .......
The systematic elimination
Of SIX-MILLION JEWS ~ by the Third Reich.
What we saw did put it into perspective
Better than all the Films we saw and the
Books we had read about the HOLOCAUST !
Human hair - piles of glasses - shoes - false limbs
Suit cases with NAMES ~ Incinerators !
And even more so ~ meeting survivors
Hearing them recount EXPERIENCES !
Thanks for reading ~ comments welcome ~ Love Brian & Angela ๐๐งก๐
LORNA LOVE was a Buchenwald Survivor aged 18 when the Germans
released her ~ with others ~ to cross the River in flimsy boats ~ some
drowned. They we taken in by the British Army ~ She married one of
the Officers. Because of her fluency with Languages ~ German ~ English
Russian - Yiddish - she was given an Honorary Rank and served as an
Interpreter in the Nuremburg war Trials ! She taught @ Essex University.
She told us *Because I am a JEW ~ I will FORGIVE The Third Reich
BUT ~ I will never ever FORGET what happened in the Death Camps !*
Try to visit AUSCHWITZ to see for yourself. It is Heart Breaking but it
does put the HOLOCAUST into perspective ! The victims were actual
Human Beings like You & I ! There are still survivors (all aged over 80)
but in a few years they will all be in Paradise. There was much on TV
Yesterday and many of the Survivors had the strength to speak out.
This POEM is presented as a Blank Verse (iambic pentameter) Sonnet.