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JDPriestly

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16. Americans today do not know much about all these things. Hence the movement against Israel.

Sun Jan 11, 2015, 05:46 PM

Jan 2015

They just don't know what happened. It is something vague in the past. They think it is all patched up and repaired. You just cannot repair things like the Holocaust, the Gulags or, I must add, the Armenian genocide. There are other similar events, but I am not thinking of them at the moment. Rwanda was one. There are others. South Africa for example. But none of them were as enduring as the discrimination and killings of Jews in Europe over centuries.

When we lived in Austria, the last of the Catholic shrines against the imagined Jewish crimes was closed. So the discrimination continued for centuries. I would not want to live in Europe if I were Jewish.

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The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show (The Guardian) Caution: Graphic [View all] inanna Jan 2015 OP

Thank you for this post. I will make sure I see the documentary. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2015 #1

Rec progressoid Jan 2015 #2

K&R... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #3

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that SheilaT Jan 2015 #4

I think that's right. The French documentary "Night and Fog" had preceded it by a few years villager Jan 2015 #11

K&R and yuiyoshida Jan 2015 #5

A college friend's parents survived Auchwitz, another's mother was a Greek war refugee, one's appalachiablue Jan 2015 #6

Dad was in the liberating force.......forever scarred. joanbarnes Jan 2015 #7

But also a hero. inanna Jan 2015 #8

Recommend. The true horor of war and genocide, face to face, is something Americans have been Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #9

FWIW.....Frontline did a show, using the footage dixiegrrrrl Jan 2015 #10

All who do not understand why Israel needs to exist, please see that film. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #12

JDPriestly Diclotican Jan 2015 #13

Thank you. The Jewish and Gypsy peoples suffered in the Holocaust so much worse than JDPriestly Jan 2015 #14

JDPriestly Diclotican Jan 2015 #15

Americans today do not know much about all these things. Hence the movement against Israel. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #16

JDPriestly Diclotican Jan 2015 #19

K & R !!! WillyT Jan 2015 #17

I'm pretty sure I saw (probably on PBS) clips of British soldiers liberating Bergen-Belsen Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2015 #18