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purr-rat beauty

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 09:55 AM Apr 2025

My family visited the Holocaust Museum [View all]

A beautiful, detailed, and somber presentation of a very grim time for mankind.

I have never been and I feel I have received the picture and I don't think I need to return.

The stories of how nazism came to be left a lead chunk in my stomach and cotton balls choking my throat. My eyes welled up at every turn. I couldn't help but see the parallels between the nazis and maga. Their hatred for anything and everything that didn't fit their ideology, their painfully twisted view of anyone who was deemed inferior or a threat.

And then the horror of mass imprisonment, forced labor, eugenics, and murder! A sickening kind of depravity that one nor millions should ever endure and suffer under.

Tragically England and France failed Poland, could it have changed the course of the most notorious death camp? The only answer we have is, nothing was done...so no.

Tragically the U.S. sent the St. Louis back to Germany, aboard close to 1,000 seeking refuge from the demons ravaging Europe. We failed them.

Their terror was systematic, kind of like we are seeing here. The break down of diversity, intelligentsia, liberalism, religion, justice, democracy, humanity. It is all right in front of us again, practically....no literally being broadcasted loudly.

I had a nightmare the evening following our visit. I was set to face trial for something I had no knowledge of, I was in fear, confused, anxious, lost, persecuted...I can't recall the last time I had a nightmare but I was able to wake from the dark of my eyelids, unlike those who were awake in the dark and watched the nightmare unfold in front of their open eyes.

Shalom

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