It Started With DIVISION, Not Gas Chambers: Us vs. Them..

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- Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz. Remembering & Honoring Those That Were Lost. Daily Kos, 1/27, Repost 2/23, 2022.

This is a republication, for the most part, from a diary that i post here every International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Much of the content was first published in 1997, in a gender friendly Siddur in which i was a member of, and contributor to, the editing team.

There is no coincidence that January 27th was specifically picked because that was the day, in 1945, that the Soviet army entered Auschwitz-Birkenau and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners. That was followed by the Americans liberating Dachau and Buchenwald, England liberating Bergen-Belsen and on and on until all the 20 major and over 1,200 camps and sub-camps were liberated.

Today is the 76th anniversary of that event in Auschwitz. On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Personally, i can trace the deaths of my ancestors to four separate camps. Auschwitz is but one. In 1941, a Polish couple, he a postmaster and his wife a seamstress... Catholics… were neighbors to my distant cousins and their two families. They tried to hide them… to protect them.

And were successful in doing so for 4 months…. until another neighbor discovered this and turned them in. My ancestors, and this couple… and their children... were sent to Auschwitz and disappeared into the horrors of the Shoah. In just the short time of my tenure here, there are now many in roles of great importance that are trying to normalize those that are goose-stepping over the rights and very lives of our brethren...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/27/2077194/-On-The-Anniversary-Of-The-Liberation-Of-

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