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Article about Jewish women of the Holocaust (warning...very sad)

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I was just browsing news articles on cnn.com and found one about Jewish women of the Holocaust.  (Don't look if you can't handle it.  I can't stop crying right now.)  Above the article, there is a photo montage, and one of the pics shows women who had been forced to strip naked before being walked down to a ravine for execution.  Several of the women were holding toddlers our kids' ages and obviously trying to comfort them in what they, I'm sure, knew were their last moments. 

OMG, I can't imagine what that would have been like to not only go through it yourself but to have to hold your child and try to comfort him or her too.  I've done quite a bit of reading about the history of WWII, specifically survivor stories, and obviously, I knew that everything that happened was atrocious.  However, this particular pic was new to me, and it just really hit my soul as a mother.

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Re: Article about Jewish women of the Holocaust (warning...very sad)

  • CD+ALCD+AL member
    Sorry!  I meant to post this in 12-24, but some of you might find it interesting too.
     
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  • LLB430LLB430 member
    I have always been very interested in the Holocaust....but I don't think I can look at the pictures right now.  The thought alone has my stomach turning.  Maybe later tonight I will sit down and look at them after dd is in bed.
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    Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm reading it now, then passing it on. I have a very Jewish name, and all of my dad's survivor friends used to give my parents a hard time about it because everyone would know I was Jewish "if it happened again."

    I used to do a unit of Holocaust literature in my classes but haven't since getting my new professorship. You just reminded me how important it is for me to start doing that again.

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  • KateLouiseKateLouise member

    Thank you for sharing this. I'm in New Zealand. Our Jewish communities are small, and not hugely visible, but I am still interested in the holocaust and for what it shows about humans, both the good and the bad.

    The picture of the naked women (the woman cradling a younger baby particularly broke my heart) is the kind of image or situation you hear about that makes me think about human survival instinct.

    I have a dialogue in my head that goes something like:

    "Why did they line up and wait to die? Why not tell the soliders to shove it?"

    "because the soldiers would have killed them on the spot."

    "But they're going to die anyway, and surely they know that, so what difference does it make.?"

    and then I reflect how when faced with it, most of us would hang onto every second that we have left, and would not abandon our frightened child. And that breaks my heart.

    ETA: having read the article, it raises some interesting points. My gut reaction is that it absolutely should be discussed, but I can understand the points for not doing. 

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