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World History

agingdem

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2. my parents were Holocaust survivors...Auschwitz

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Sat Sep 24, 2022, 06:48 PM

Sep 2022

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I grew up with the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust...the numbers branded into skin, night terrors, paralytic depression..and the horrific memories told in a voice with no inflection no emotion....and every once in a while, one of the three networks would show footage of a concentration camp: heads shaved starving prisoners, standing behind a barbed wire fence and my mother would sit on the floor, eye to eye with the television, hoping to see someone she knew, inconsolable when she didn't...

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About the Holocaust, an entire film about the concentration camps..now at Democratic Underground. [View all] Stuart G Sep 2022 OP

"How Do You Kill 11 Million People" by Andy Andrews. spike jones Sep 2022 #1

my parents were Holocaust survivors...Auschwitz agingdem Sep 2022 #2

Thanks for posting... farmbo Sep 2022 #3

Thank you... agingdem Sep 2022 #4