| Vicente Montoya |
| September 20, 2009 05:15 AM |
Two words: NEVER AGAIN. It is very hard being empathy with the feelings of survivors, it make me feel very sad. I can not imagine inside a ghetto with my sons, my wife, my parents in law. It was the worst and I do not wish that for anybody. From Spain, my condolences to survivors and my gratitude to all american people who fought and fight nowadays for our freedom. |
| roseline pierret |
| September 17, 2009 02:41 PM |
I visited the holocaust museum recently in Washington . I came out as many , thinking that this should never have happened and should never happen again . But , do we learn.... How can we explain the massacres in Rwanda , in Darfour... and the world not intervening...What sadness... |
| Sharon Davis |
| September 09, 2009 05:51 PM |
I never really knew much about the holocaust until recently. To read the impossible situations these beautiful innocent people had to survive, just amazes me. Now I think each time I have a bad day or feel sorry for myself I will think about their suffering and loss and be thankful for my small troubles. My heart goes out to those who survived and even more to those who did not survive. These are the true heros in history. |
| Ed M |
| September 02, 2009 08:27 PM |
During the Mid Seventies, I installed burglar alarms in Great Neck NY with my friend Jack Jacobson. He occasionally spoke of his fathers' experiences in the LODZ ghetto, and told me about the model that his father Leon had made of it, and how he would have been killed if it had been discovered. The first time I went to Jack's home, he showed me the model, and the significance of it became a permanent part of my memory. Leon survived the war, and wound up owning a coffee shop at the Great Neck, NY LIRR station. Over the years, I lost touch with Jack, but have always remembered Leon, his Lodz model, and how important it was for me at the time, as it made the Holocaust "real" for me.... Never Again !!!!! |
| Werner Gessner - Koenig |
| August 28, 2009 02:39 PM |
I was crying when I saw the camp, thinking of all the massacre done here, not so long ago...whenI stood in the gas chamber in the camp > my thought are only what human beings can do to human beings < only I hope this does not happen again ! We must be alert and pray for peace! |
| Danielle from Hells Kitchen |
| August 20, 2009 12:53 PM |
It's hard to believe that these atrocities occurred not that long ago...I understand better the expression, "We must never forget", because it is easy to dismiss something so terrible once it is 'said and done' and life gets back to normal...I feel the same way about 9/11. |
| stefany |
| August 04, 2009 11:11 PM |
wow...that is my comment to this powerful website. i am completely thankful for this website.especially with hearing the holocaust survivors i found out things that i didnt know (specific). I will always have the promised people of our god in my heart and my blessing go out to these brave holocaust survivors for sharing their painful stories. god bless |
| Terri - age 49 |
| August 01, 2009 02:29 AM |
I was age 7 when I visited Dachau concentration camp. I still remember. I feel every member of the human race should experienece what I did as a young child. The horror of what one man could do to another has changed my life permanently. Perhaps this is how we should teach compassion and tolerance to future generations. Thank you to the museum for making history only a mouse click away. |
| Turker Akdogu |
| July 20, 2009 08:16 PM |
My mother bought me a book when i was 9 called the diary of anne franks.it was my first book in my life.and i couldnt stop my tears.that book showed me how humankind can become monsters when they are so ignorent.i hope some day all the world will learn how to live together in peace.i dont have chance to see those genocide camps at the moment.but my friends who have already been there say all the world has to be ashamed of having such places and letting them excist.all victims of this disgrace RIP. |
| Adolfo Almudevar |
| July 14, 2009 04:45 PM |
Although Spain was not involved in 2WW, there were thousands of spanish prisoners in Mauthausen from the beginning. At least 7000 of them died there. They had to leave Spain in 1939 when Spanish Civil War eventually ended with the defeat of the Republican Army by Franco's Nationalists. Many of them were in France when Germany invaded it. Even those who had joined the French army were considered as political prisoners and sent to Mauthausen. Many of those who avoided being captured, joined french résistance (in many cases, given their 3-year military experience in Spain, organizing the first cells in Southern France) and vere captured by Germans later on , were sent to Mauthausen on the following years. |
