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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:29 PM Original message |
Do you have a relative that is/was a Holocaust survivor? |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. My uncle was one of the first troops into one of the concentration camps |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Photographic evidence is forever. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I have YET to watch Shindler's list and I have a copy |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. interesting site.... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. My dad and his story is also recorded |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. always have more than one passport and more than one port for the storm |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. My father in law, his brother, sister, and their father survived the Shoa. |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. No. My family got out before WWII started. |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. My family lost over a dozen in Bergen Belsen and Dachau |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. I forgot to mention that I know a live person portrayed from "Defiance" |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. good film and a very interesting book, i highly recommend reading it |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. GOOD FOR HER! |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Defiance is an excellent movie. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 03:17 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. i cant remember that from the book, but then again the book and the film were pretty miles apart |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 05:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Is Bielski a common last name? |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. When I was a kid back in the 50's I had a neighbor... |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
14. Don't know. We were told all the remaining relatives in Poland and Russia... |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
15. My grandfather was with a unit that liberated a camp. |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
16. no relatives but a very close family friend when I was a kid; closer than most of our relatives... |
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mamaleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
17. Thank you for the link. Yad Vashem also has a database. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
18. As far as I know, my relatives were killed in Bobruisk. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
19. I believe Gen. Eisenhower marched the people into the neighboring camps |
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denbot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 03:15 AM Response to Original message |
21. I'm desended from Chiricahua Apaches, and Tarahumara on my moms side. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 03:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Yes, yes you are |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 03:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. i guess everybody's people have been victims of a holocaust in that respect at some point in time |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 04:22 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. White slaves. |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 05:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
30. Very good point and poignant reminder |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 04:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. They didn't survive n/t |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
27. Not Holocaust victims, per se |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 05:51 AM Response to Original message |
28. My boyfriend has a relative who is quite old |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
31. my mother was smuggled out of austria as an infant |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
32. My father's died at Auschwitz. |
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