Remembering on Holocaust Memorial Day

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It has been estimated that over 1.6 million people were killed at Auschwitz.

Here are some pictures of Auschwitz as the world pauses to remember those horrible times when it seemed like the world had just gone insane and forgotten: 

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/slideshows/auschwitz/ausch-show001.htm

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/27/5934012-holocaust-remembrance-day-commemorated-around-the-world

More Holocaust Archives Online:


http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/explore-yad-vashems-holocaust-archives.html

An excellent, gut wrenching article in the Augusta Chronicle from April 21, 1945:

http://www.newsinhistory.com/blog/liberation-nazi-concentration-camp-reveals-scenes-horror

My family wasn't there, but my parents had the opportunity to visit the Nazi Concentration Camps in the early 1950's.  My dad was stationed in Germany and the family was able to live on the German economy with him.

I remember some stories my parents told about those times.  Among them are visits to the Concentration Camps.  My mother was haunted by the feeling of deep despair and death she felt among the air at the camp.  She would shudder as she said it was like the dead were still there crying out for the world to listen. 

She never forgot her visit to the death camps, and as such, she would tear up talking about those visits- even forty years later.

My prayer is those poor souls will find peace with the Lord. 

Ahh, genealogy. May the world never forget.


©2011 AS Eldredge

Wordless Wednesday: The Original Nuremberg Laws Finally at National Archives

General Patton ignored orders from General Eisenhower in 1945--

but the original Nuremberg Laws finally make it to the National Archives in 2010.








My parents had the opportunity to visit some of Hitler's concentration camps while my dad was part of the American Occupation Force after World War II.  The sight, the smell, the feelings of being there where so many lives were lost due to Hitler's policies were overwhelming according to my mom.  She never forgot the sights and the horrors of the tour of the camps.  When she talked about the visit, she would close her eyes and shudder as the tears would roll down her face.

Ahh, genealogy.  Sometimes history comes back to us in the sight and in the sounds of today.  I guess I'll just take a moment and say a prayer for those who suffered and died in the concentration camps, and remember my mom.



©2010 AS Eldredge