tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post8563185441162418647..comments2023-11-03T15:50:56.001+01:00Comments on POET IN RESIDENCE : Auschwitz Liberation DayGwil Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-28183892381201524232015-01-30T09:08:30.545+01:002015-01-30T09:08:30.545+01:00While the world looked away the Venetians gave the...While the world looked away the Venetians gave the Armenians an island in their lagoon which I thought was a nice gesture.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-51487192151542220742015-01-29T17:32:24.428+01:002015-01-29T17:32:24.428+01:00I admit, I had to research the 1915 genocide. Inte...I admit, I had to research the 1915 genocide. Interesting that the Armenian church traces it's roots to the 1st century and Armenia was the first Christian state. vegahelphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12406216686482814327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-77878286333462452912015-01-29T09:13:47.722+01:002015-01-29T09:13:47.722+01:00Lest we forget . . . Yes, indeed. And that busine...Lest we forget . . . Yes, indeed. And that business of forgetting is why Hitler could get away with it. Giving the orders to attack Poland he said: Who remembers the Armenians today? Yes, the world had already chosen to forget the 1.5 million murdered or sent into the desert to die in 1915. And some still like to 'forget'. Forgetting is a convenient euphemism for burying the facts along with the corpses. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-57787370901814280202015-01-28T18:43:53.010+01:002015-01-28T18:43:53.010+01:00I was so proud of my daughter when she came home f...I was so proud of my daughter when she came home from middle-school yesterday and started asking me questions about Auschwitz and what she had learned in history class. Her English class is reading Lois Lowry's The Giver and her world view of suffering and the potential cruelty of mankind seems to be thoughtfully expanding. Lest we forget... vegahelphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12406216686482814327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-29339553966731298602015-01-27T09:27:23.619+01:002015-01-27T09:27:23.619+01:00Thanks Rachel. Following up on your comments on th...Thanks Rachel. Following up on your comments on the 1985 documentary I found the trailer for the 2013 award winning film 'The Last of the Unjust' on You Tube. It seems to be another one worth looking out for. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-6033723879701310622015-01-27T09:19:24.179+01:002015-01-27T09:19:24.179+01:00Yael, your personal story is a lesson to us all. T...Yael, your personal story is a lesson to us all. Thank you. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-36047651788225230862015-01-27T09:17:10.691+01:002015-01-27T09:17:10.691+01:00Pat, I'm not surprised he didn't speak abo...Pat, I'm not surprised he didn't speak about it again. What a shock he must have had. The word 'Belsen' soon entered schoolboy vernacular, even in Wales, as I well remember from my junior school days in the 1950's when a particularly thin and unhealthy looking boy was cruelly teased. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-26861854767790714002015-01-26T22:00:11.670+01:002015-01-26T22:00:11.670+01:00My fother who is 90 this days was also in the Brit...My fother who is 90 this days was also in the British Army (THE jewish brigade) and was sent to Bergn belsn to find some relatives.He found his cousin and brought her to Israel but no one from his familly survived.Yaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15181961536405061470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-39397617158420409592015-01-26T20:37:50.758+01:002015-01-26T20:37:50.758+01:00I mean the documentary was four hours and there mu...I mean the documentary was four hours and there must be another part to watch this week because I believe in total there are four hours of interviews.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-7409069809689654892015-01-26T20:36:21.709+01:002015-01-26T20:36:21.709+01:00We watched the first part of Claude Lanzmann's...We watched the first part of Claude Lanzmann's 1985 Holocaust documentary last night. . The interviews with the farmers who worked in the fields around the camps and knew nothing except seeing the cattle trucks go in with 1000s of people who never came out again and silence were very moving. It went on for four hours. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-55712770349466688372015-01-26T20:19:48.379+01:002015-01-26T20:19:48.379+01:00My brother was in one of the first groups of Briti...My brother was in one of the first groups of British soldiers to enter Belsen - he never ever spoke of it afterwards.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com