The Holocaust List found

[orphanedhawk]

  This story was aired on CBS on "60 MINUTES" ** about a long-secret German archive that houses a treasure trove of information on 17.5 million victims of the Holocaust. The archive, located in the German town of Bad Arolsen , is massive (there are 16 miles of shelving containing 50 million pages of documents)and until recently, was off-limits to the public. But after the German government agreed earlier this year to open the archives, CBS News' Scott Pelley traveled there with three Jewish survivors who were able to see their own Holocaust records. It's an incredibly moving piece, all the more poignant in the wake of the meeting of Holocaust deniers in Iran and the denial speeches in the UN.

   We're trying to get word out about the story to people who have a special interest in this subject. It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way! Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to 10 people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain. Please don't just delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this along -

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2972691n&tag=mncol;lst;9

( I just got this in my email, and thought I'd share it here)

[orphanedhawk]

Be nice, everyone's hypocritical sometimes.

If el is showing a softer side, be supportive.

[nursegirl6572]

, is massive (there are 16 miles of shelving containing 50 million pages of documents)

Just mind blowing.

The holocaust museum is a place everyone should see once in their lifetimes.  There are just no words.  I was so deeply moved.  


Be nice, everyone's hypocritical sometimes.

If el is showing a softer side, be supportive. .

I agree!

[rivll]

When I was in Cambodia the horrible holocaust that happened there struck me somehow as even sadder. Pol Pot killed his own people~ fellow Cambodians.
He tortured and killed anyone with education, anyone who wore glasses was suspected to be educated and met the same fate.

No tragedy should be compared to another tragedy as better or worse.
Mass killing of all people is abhorrent and inexcusable.

The only different I see in terms of Jews being killed as opposed to other peoples is that there is a long history of murdering Jews that did not end with the systematic hunt and murder of the European Jews. For some reason, it just doesn't end. It is the reason, in my opinion that we must never forget and why we must never be silent when any people is being wiped our, whether it be in Dakar, Cambodia or Europe.
It is our job as fellow humans to stand up for each other.

[orphanedhawk]

"No tragedy should be compared to another tragedy as better or worse.
Mass killing of all people is abhorrent and inexcusable. "


True, true.
I should have been more thoughtful in my wording.

[rivll]

:-)

[el_em_en_oh]

You're serious with that comment?

As I've said REPEATEDLY... the "hitler" reference was an extreme example of what I'd be willing to vote for, before voting for B.O.

Doesn't mean I support anything that hitler did, or stood for, or represented.

You can make quite the idiotic statements sometimes, mikesimon. I'm not a whole lot better, but you take the cake.

ANYONE that thought that the hitler references meant that I supported him, or condoned the atrocities which he perpetrated, is an idiot and didn't actually READ what I wrote.

Hitler was a monster, plain and simple.

If anything, it shows how little respect I have for B.O... unless that point eluded you.