January 30, 2005

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And so it went...

    By Jack Grant

Joe Gandelman has written his perspective on the Holocaust, in memory of the 60th anniversary of the capture of Auschwitz.

"This was my family," he said, slowly opening the photo album. Then he started pointing to a host of aging photos showing large, smiling groups of people of all ages.

"He's dead -- killed by the Nazis. She's dead -- killed by the Nazis. This little boy? Hitler killed him, too.And this little girl." And so it went, as he showed his grandson the photos of family members who had been murdered by the Nazi regime in concentration camps. Some had simply disappeared.


And still... some feel it is appropriate to call for the deaths of groups of people because of their politics, their religion, their philosophy...

Never forget...

Yet we already have.

And so it goes...

Posted by Jack Grant at 18:16 on 30 January 2005
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