Holocaust Remembrance Day
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soniaPointing to what sovay said about the banning of Maus in Tennessee. "Some people's children must be protected from knowledge that others are never permitted to live without, but then, some people's children are really people."
Also, Let's talk about Maus, Tennessee, and failing a test.... 9 minute video by Beau of the Fifth Column. "Children will want to know how an entire country went off the rails like that."
My parents got me "children's" books about the Holocaust, well, books about children's experiences of the Holocaust, and we went to Holocaust memorials in every country we visited starting when I was 5 years old, and of course my mother talked about her Onkle Kurt who-died-in-the-Holocaust, and my aunt on the other side talked about growing up without extended family because they were all killed in the Holocaust.
I bought Maus as an adult, and it is staying on my bookshelf.
I remember. Not just in a "that happened back then" way, but in a "watching it happening now" way that's full of dread.
minoanmiss posted a brief, powerful poem "You won't be forgiven anything".
Relatedly, because many disabled people were killed in the Holocaust, You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus. Viasheafrotherdon.
sovay said about the banning of Maus in Tennessee. "Some people's children must be protected from knowledge that others are never permitted to live without, but then, some people's children are really people."Also, Let's talk about Maus, Tennessee, and failing a test.... 9 minute video by Beau of the Fifth Column. "Children will want to know how an entire country went off the rails like that."
My parents got me "children's" books about the Holocaust, well, books about children's experiences of the Holocaust, and we went to Holocaust memorials in every country we visited starting when I was 5 years old, and of course my mother talked about her Onkle Kurt who-died-in-the-Holocaust, and my aunt on the other side talked about growing up without extended family because they were all killed in the Holocaust.
I bought Maus as an adult, and it is staying on my bookshelf.
I remember. Not just in a "that happened back then" way, but in a "watching it happening now" way that's full of dread.
minoanmiss posted a brief, powerful poem "You won't be forgiven anything".Relatedly, because many disabled people were killed in the Holocaust, You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence by Mia Mingus. Via
sheafrotherdon.
I won't hunt down the images ...
Date: 2022-02-05 10:33 pm (UTC)for reasons which will become evident.
Somewhere in 1960–63, I learned to read and LIFE magazine published a photo story on a ruined death camp. I was curious about the showers: if it was so horrible, why did the camps help the prisoners stay clean? My parents attempted to answer without terrifying me, which isn't possible. I had Zyklon-B nightmares for years.
I think most well-nourished grade schoolers have a keen sense of justice. It's important to learn that humans can be evil, and that justice is a continuous project.
At the end of the 60s, I accompanied my parents to Austria. We toured a memorialized camp -- I can't recall which one -- and I'll never forget the classy split-level suburban house, complete with picture windows, overlooking the former death camp.
Re: I won't hunt down the images ...
Date: 2022-02-06 12:42 am (UTC)I have enduring images of the "showers," too. I don't think I saw photos when I was in grade school, but I did read books describing people's experiences with them, and I think I was in high school when my parents took the family to see all 9 hours of the movie Shoah (in two showings), and there must have been photos of the showers there.
Your word-picture of the house overlooking the camp gives me chills. Appropriately so.