Comments on: SHARE YOUR STORY http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com Choose Love Over Hate Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Nanne Lynne http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Nanne Lynne Sun, 30 May 2010 19:05:42 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-272 I have been involved with this inhumane act since I was very young. I remember WWII very well, and as I grew up, I knew I wanted to know more about the lives of these people who were able to survive. I am not Jewish, but I have many Jewish friends, and several survivors have spoken to my students in our classroom here in Southern California. We have borrowed some of the survivors' stories on line and used them in drama class to make an impact on many students and adults. We have the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which is mind-boggling for most students who really have never studied this ugly part of our history. Your father was very brave to save your mother's life. How frightening it must of been for these people. I applaud your chutzpah for tackling this. I know it must cause great pain in your heart. I have been involved with this inhumane act since I was very young. I remember WWII very well, and as I grew up, I knew I wanted to know more about the lives of these people who were able to survive. I am not Jewish, but I have many Jewish friends, and several survivors have spoken to my students in our classroom here in Southern California. We have borrowed some of the survivors’ stories on line and used them in drama class to make an impact on many students and adults. We have the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which is mind-boggling for most students who really have never studied this ugly part of our history.

Your father was very brave to save your mother’s life. How frightening it must of been for these people. I applaud your chutzpah for tackling this. I know it must cause great pain in your heart.

]]> By: Martin Brennan http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Martin Brennan Mon, 24 May 2010 01:36:38 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-249 I spent 2 years in Israel when I was younger (1984 or thereabouts) and it was there that I read "Schindler's Ark." I spent some time on a kibbutz and it was there that I first saw people with the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. There were a lot of survivors from the camps living on the kibbutz and one memory I have is watching "Sophie's Choice" in the kibbutz cinema and the scene where she has to decide which child to save and the sobbing from the people who actually lived through this experience. Would love to go back with my family as I loved the country and the people. Martin Brennan Ireland I spent 2 years in Israel when I was younger (1984 or
thereabouts) and it was there that I read “Schindler’s Ark.” I spent some time
on a kibbutz and it was there that I first saw people with the
concentration camp tattoos on their arms. There were a lot of survivors
from the camps living on the kibbutz and one memory I have is watching
“Sophie’s Choice” in the kibbutz cinema and the scene where she has to decide
which child to save and the sobbing from the people who actually lived
through this experience. Would love to go back with my family as I loved
the country and the people.

Martin Brennan
Ireland

]]> By: Katrin http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Katrin Mon, 24 May 2010 01:25:22 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-248 Dear Martin Kent My family is from Germany. My maternal Grandmother used to be a private teacher and early childhood educator for Jewish families in my home city of Hannover Germany. My grandfathers were never Nazis. My paternal grandfather was sentenced to death by the Hitler regime for his opposition however because his family was so well known in the city of Freiburg, his sentence was reduced to labour camp and he was deported to Russia. Why my interest in the Holocaust, why now? Seven years ago my childhood friends and my Father purchased the ruins of a huge, once beautiful house. A house that was part of the Israelitische Gartenbauschule, a Jewish educational centre for horticulture in Ahlem near Hannover. For the last seven years we have been involved with the restoration of the 70 room 4 floor "Jewish Heritage House" and we have since found out much of the good and sad history of the house and the compound it sits on. We also found out that this Jewish Institution was taken over by the Nazis and was made a Gestapo headquarters . There was even a concentration camp there. Over 60 years and we unearth all the terrible findings. This makes it all very personal. Our pain and sorrow as a next generation of Germans over what has been done by our ethnic community is great. The House my friends are restoring is now called house of hope"Beth Hatikva" and it serves many purposes, including the meeting of Jews and Germans in the Cafe Jerusalem and the centre of memory. Thanks for all your great work. Will visit your site many times. Thanks for sharing your story ! Many kind greetings from Katrin Dear Martin Kent
My family is from Germany. My maternal Grandmother used to be a private teacher and early childhood educator for Jewish families in my home city of Hannover Germany. My grandfathers were never Nazis. My paternal grandfather was sentenced to death by the Hitler regime for his opposition however because his family was so well known in the city of Freiburg, his sentence was reduced to labour camp and he was deported to Russia.
Why my interest in the Holocaust, why now? Seven years ago my childhood friends and my Father purchased the ruins of a huge, once beautiful house. A house that was part of the Israelitische Gartenbauschule, a Jewish educational centre for horticulture in Ahlem near Hannover.
For the last seven years we have been involved with the restoration of the 70 room 4 floor “Jewish Heritage House” and we have since found out much of the good and sad history of the house and the compound it sits on.
We also found out that this Jewish Institution was taken over by the Nazis and was made a Gestapo headquarters .
There was even a concentration camp there.
Over 60 years and we unearth all the terrible findings. This makes it all very personal.
Our pain and sorrow as a next generation of Germans over what has been done by our ethnic community is great.
The House my friends are restoring is now called house of hope”Beth Hatikva” and it serves many purposes, including the meeting of Jews and Germans in the Cafe Jerusalem and the centre of memory.
Thanks for all your great work. Will visit your site many times.
Thanks for sharing your story !
Many kind greetings from Katrin

]]> By: Theresa Billotti http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Theresa Billotti Sat, 22 May 2010 11:06:04 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-242 Mr. Kent, Thank you for your email informing me of this site. I have been aware of your work. I have some experiences I also would like to share. We are of the same age, so I know you and many other readers would remember the newsreels in the movie theaters back in the 50's & 60's. Many of the clips showed WW11 video's and the horror of the Death Camps. I recall as a young girl seeing survivor's behind the barbed-wire fences reaching out to the soldiers who had liberated them. My father, a quiet, reserved man, was an 11 yr. Navy veteran from 1935-1946 and always became still when these clips appeared. I was around eight or nine when I asked my father what did those bad people who were behind the fence do? My father replied, "They were not bad people; they were good people who had bad things done to them by bad people." I asked him simply, "Why Daddy?" My father was at a loss for words and turned to me with glistening eyes and said, “I don't know." That unanswered question has remained with me for life. During my early Nursing career, I cared for a female Holocaust survivor who bore the numbered tattoo on her arm. While I wanted to ask her questions, I dared not intrude into her painful past. However, one evening she was moaning and thrashing around her bed, I entered her room and gently woke her. She began to sob & once I found she was not in physical discomfort, I just sat with her & held her until she was calm. It was then she told me of her experiences in the camps & her endless nightmares. I walked away as changed person & the need to know why stronger than ever. Less than a year later, I had another patient who bore horrific scars all over his body. His fingers, arms, toes & feet were all malformed and all his nails were absent. He was a quiet man who rarely spoke unless addressed. I was in his room often to provide care & requested him as a patient for the duration of his stay. His patient social history revealed some of reasons for his physical condition & I was again horrified. "Willie" was an innocent victim of the Holocaust and German. He lived in a very small, rural village close to the Czech border and retreating German troops entered the village gathering up all boys over 10 and all men. Willie, who was 15, was given a German helmet and a rifle he was very quickly taught to load & shoot at the approaching Russian Army. The troops left with the threat of returning to the village & killing everyone if they didn't defend the village as instructed. The Russians entered the village the next day & all males over 12 and under 60. were taken by them, if they were in good health, otherwise were shot dead as Combatants. Willie was forced to march to Russia & imprisoned in a "work-rehabilitation" camp in Siberia. He remained there ten years before his brother was able to locate him with the aid of the International Red Cross, & it took another eight years to get a release for him. His village no longer existed as it and the women therein, were ravaged, and the survivors fled. His one remaining brother was the one who located him. Sadly, this village had a small community of Jews before the war and the ones that chose to remain were hidden & cared for by the community throughout the war. I had a close friend who was a Czech Catholic Holocaust survivor. She, her husband & her mother helped protect two Jewish sisters during the war at the cost of her husband's life & almost my friend's as well."Julia" & her family knew the family of the girl's & when asked to help, they did without question. They were betrayed, her husband shot & killed, she herself was shot 2X but survived. Julia, her mother & children were sent to a camp in Germany. At war's end Julia was working for the American's as a translator & was assisted to immigrate to America. Her husband was given the "Medal of the Righteous" & a tree planted in his name in Israel on the "Avenue of the Righteous". In 1993, I was invited to attend a ceremony honoring her as a "Righteous Gentile". The women she saved were now women with families. One lived in the US & one in Israel & together, they had contacted the Israeli Government to get Julia the recognition she deserved. The Israeli Ambassador & the local Jewish community welcomed her & we stood by her as she received her medal & the promise her tree would be planted near her husband on the Avenue. I have met other Holocaust survivor's over the years and survivors of the genocides in Cambodia & the Sudan I was proud to call friends. This has prompted me to study the Holocaust/Genocides both independently & on an Academic level. I contacted Professor Elie Wiesel, whom as many know, is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Humanitarian, Author, Teacher & Holocaust survivor. It was in response to an article he wrote in Parade Magazine & he was gracious enough to personally answer me; this letter is to me, a prized treasure. Although I am a Gentile, I believe we are all connected through our humanity and as such, we bear the burden to protect our fellow man. It saddens my heart that even today, we have not yet learned this lesson. Generations later, we still stand by & watch Genocides occur; governments turn a blind eye until the slaughter of innocent’s reaches the ordained number of death's to qualify as a true Genocide. Even then, we seem powerless or unwilling to take the necessary steps to prevent this from happening again. Sadly, I still hear my little girl voice in my head with the clear image in my mind asking "Why Daddy?" I fear we shall never know the answer but we must continue to strive to do so. Then perhaps we will never have to ask it again. Mr. Kent,
Thank you for your email informing me of this site. I have been aware of your work. I have some experiences I also would like to share. We are of the same age, so I know you and many other readers would remember the newsreels in the movie theaters back in the 50′s & 60′s. Many of the clips showed WW11 video’s and the horror of the Death Camps. I recall as a young girl seeing survivor’s behind the barbed-wire fences reaching out to the soldiers who had liberated them. My father, a quiet, reserved man, was an 11 yr. Navy veteran from 1935-1946 and always became still when these clips appeared. I was around eight or nine when I asked my father what did those bad people who were behind the fence do? My father replied, “They were not bad people; they were good people who had bad things done to them by bad people.” I asked him simply, “Why Daddy?” My father was at a loss for words and turned to me with glistening eyes and said, “I don’t know.” That unanswered question has remained with me for life.
During my early Nursing career, I cared for a female Holocaust survivor who bore the numbered tattoo on her arm. While I wanted to ask her questions, I dared not intrude into her painful past. However, one evening she was moaning and thrashing around her bed, I entered her room and gently woke her. She began to sob & once I found she was not in physical discomfort, I just sat with her & held her until she was calm. It was then she told me of her experiences in the camps & her endless nightmares. I walked away as changed person & the need to know why stronger than ever.
Less than a year later, I had another patient who bore horrific scars all over his body. His fingers, arms, toes & feet were all malformed and all his nails were absent. He was a quiet man who rarely spoke unless addressed. I was in his room often to provide care & requested him as a patient for the duration of his stay. His patient social history revealed some of reasons for his physical condition & I was again horrified. “Willie” was an innocent victim of the Holocaust and German. He lived in a very small, rural village close to the Czech border and retreating German troops entered the village gathering up all boys over 10 and all men. Willie, who was 15, was given a German helmet and a rifle he was very quickly taught to load & shoot at the approaching Russian Army. The troops left with the threat of returning to the village & killing everyone if they didn’t defend the village as instructed. The Russians entered the village the next day & all males over 12 and under 60. were taken by them, if they were in good health, otherwise were shot dead as Combatants. Willie was forced to march to Russia & imprisoned in a “work-rehabilitation” camp in Siberia. He remained there ten years before his brother was able to locate him with the aid of the International Red Cross, & it took another eight years to get a release for him. His village no longer existed as it and the women therein, were ravaged, and the survivors fled. His one remaining brother was the one who located him. Sadly, this village had a small community of Jews before the war and the ones that chose to remain were hidden & cared for by the community throughout the war.
I had a close friend who was a Czech Catholic Holocaust survivor. She, her husband & her mother helped protect two Jewish sisters during the war at the cost of her husband’s life & almost my friend’s as well.”Julia” & her family knew the family of the girl’s & when asked to help, they did without question. They were betrayed, her husband shot & killed, she herself was shot 2X but survived. Julia, her mother & children were sent to a camp in Germany. At war’s end Julia was working for the American’s as a translator & was assisted to immigrate to America. Her husband was given the “Medal of the Righteous” & a tree planted in his name in Israel on the “Avenue of the Righteous”. In 1993, I was invited to attend a ceremony honoring her as a “Righteous Gentile”. The women she saved were now women with families. One lived in the US & one in Israel & together, they had contacted the Israeli Government to get Julia the recognition she deserved. The Israeli Ambassador & the local Jewish community welcomed her & we stood by her as she received her medal & the promise her tree would be planted near her husband on the Avenue.
I have met other Holocaust survivor’s over the years and survivors of the genocides in Cambodia & the Sudan I was proud to call friends. This has prompted me to study the Holocaust/Genocides both independently & on an Academic level. I contacted Professor Elie Wiesel, whom as many know, is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Humanitarian, Author, Teacher & Holocaust survivor. It was in response to an article he wrote in Parade Magazine & he was gracious enough to personally answer me; this letter is to me, a prized treasure.
Although I am a Gentile, I believe we are all connected through our humanity and as such, we bear the burden to protect our fellow man. It saddens my heart that even today, we have not yet learned this lesson. Generations later, we still stand by & watch Genocides occur; governments turn a blind eye until the slaughter of innocent’s reaches the ordained number of death’s to qualify as a true Genocide. Even then, we seem powerless or unwilling to take the necessary steps to prevent this from happening again. Sadly, I still hear my little girl voice in my head with the clear image in my mind asking “Why Daddy?” I fear we shall never know the answer but we must continue to strive to do so. Then perhaps we will never have to ask it again.

]]> By: S. Brown http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-239 S. Brown Thu, 20 May 2010 03:56:24 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-239 I despise intolerance and unfortunately, I have a lot of family who behave as Hitler did. How I came out to see that we ALL are human beings I will never know. I am fortunate to have a husband and my only child, my son, who sees a person as a human being and not by the color of their skin, their religion or their beliefs. I suppose this is how the world is but I continue to hope, hope that this world will one day change. Thank you for this wonderful information. Keep up the humanitarian work that you do, it will make a difference. Sincerely, S. Brown I despise intolerance and unfortunately, I have a lot of family who behave as Hitler did. How I came out to see that we ALL are human beings I will never know. I am fortunate to have a husband and my only child, my son, who sees a person as a human being and not by the color of their skin, their religion or their beliefs. I suppose this is how the world is but I continue to hope, hope that this world will one day change.
Thank you for this wonderful information. Keep up the humanitarian work that you do, it will make a difference.
Sincerely,
S. Brown

]]> By: Holly http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Holly Sat, 01 May 2010 23:40:34 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-203 Hello to you all, I just want too sy how I am truly amazed by all of your stories. I admire the bravery and courage it takes too talk about such hard and difficult times. As for my story... My great-grandfather, English name tony, was polish. He was born and raised on a farm in Poland alongside his brothers and sisters. Although times were hard for them, tony grew up in a happy and safe environment... Untill it all went wrong. Tony grew up into a honourable and well presented young man. At the age of 19, what tony knew as his home land was overturned by the Nazis. What was he to do? The family were no longer allowed tobgrow crops and they certainly couldn't afford to buy them so what were they too do? From here tony did what he thought was best. He went on the run. Unable to persuade his family to come with him tony left for anywhere he could get. Only days later, tony heard news of how the farm he grew up on had been destroyed and heard nothing of what came of his family. He had nothing left in the world. Until... Through many ways tony finally made it to england where he met my great grandmother and came to be what he called his 'happy ever after'. I never got the pleasure to meet my great grandfather as I would have been more than honoured too do so. I personally do not understand how one could let something so disastorous go as though it never happened? Therefore, as a extra to my history course, I took a trip to Poland too see for myself what it was like. I visited auschwitz and met a holoucaust survivor named josef. He told me on his story how he was taken as a prisoner of war to the concentration camp. His family, friends, neighbours, all brutally murdered. At the liberation of the camp josef was set free, but what did he have too come out too? Nothing. I asked him, do you forgive them for what they have done too you? He replied yes. I asked. How? After all of this? I don't understand how one could forgive for such tradegies? He replied, sweet, we are all human and we all make mistakes. He had been through such terror and could forgive yet I can not forgive for pathetic little things people do too me? I was ashamed at myself, embarrassed too be crying infront of such a digniful man. This man has changed me. He's changed the way I think and my outlook on life, and for this I am eternally grateful, he is my hero. Holly Hello to you all,
I just want too sy how I am truly amazed by all of your stories. I admire the bravery and courage it takes too talk about such hard and difficult times.
As for my story…
My great-grandfather, English name tony, was polish. He was born and raised on a farm in Poland alongside his brothers and sisters. Although times were hard for them, tony grew up in a happy and safe environment… Untill it all went wrong. Tony grew up into a honourable and well presented young man. At the age of 19, what tony knew as his home land was overturned by the Nazis. What was he to do? The family were no longer allowed tobgrow crops and they certainly couldn’t afford to buy them so what were they too do? From here tony did what he thought was best. He went on the run. Unable to persuade his family to come with him tony left for anywhere he could get. Only days later, tony heard news of how the farm he grew up on had been destroyed and heard nothing of what came of his family. He had nothing left in the world. Until…
Through many ways tony finally made it to england where he met my great grandmother and came to be what he called his ‘happy ever after’.
I never got the pleasure to meet my great grandfather as I would have been more than honoured too do so. I personally do not understand how one could let something so disastorous go as though it never happened?
Therefore, as a extra to my history course, I took a trip to Poland too see for myself what it was like. I visited auschwitz and met a holoucaust survivor named josef. He told me on his story how he was taken as a prisoner of war to the concentration camp. His family, friends, neighbours, all brutally murdered. At the liberation of the camp josef was set free, but what did he have too come out too? Nothing. I asked him, do you forgive them for what they have done too you? He replied yes. I asked. How? After all of this? I don’t understand how one could forgive for such tradegies? He replied, sweet, we are all human and we all make mistakes.
He had been through such terror and could forgive yet I can not forgive for pathetic little things people do too me? I was ashamed at myself, embarrassed too be crying infront of such a digniful man.
This man has changed me. He’s changed the way I think and my outlook on life,
and for this I am eternally grateful, he is my hero.

Holly

]]> By: Don McGregor http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Don McGregor Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:36:57 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-192 It is individuals like yourself who are chosen "I believe by God" to educate the world of past horrors and to see to it that it never happens again. I would love to help in some way, but not sure where to begin. This might sound weird to you, but here goes. Ever since I was young and now feel a bond to the Jewish people. I am for as I know not Jewish, but I have a bond in my heart and soul that I can not explain. Again if there is any way I can assist you in your cause please let me know. I am in Canada and would love to do more. I pray for you and your cause. Keep up the great job that you do. All the best! Don McGregor It is individuals like yourself who are chosen “I believe by God” to educate the world of past horrors and to see to it that it never happens again.

I would love to help in some way, but not sure where to begin. This might sound weird to you, but here goes. Ever since I was young and now feel a bond to the Jewish people. I am for as I know not Jewish, but I have a bond in my heart and soul that I can not explain.

Again if there is any way I can assist you in your cause please let me know. I am in Canada and would love to do more. I pray for you and your cause. Keep up the great job that you do.

All the best!

Don McGregor

]]> By: Larry Williams http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Larry Williams Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:03:25 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-185 There has never been one group of people that have suffered so much and been so misunderstood by so many as the Jews. I am a Christian and have been married to a Jewish woman and long before she arrived on the scene to be my wife I have loved Jewish people for what they are and who they are, Moise Rosen of Jews for Jesus is a very deep man and his group would consistently come to our church The Gathering place in Danville, California and share the traditions that make up the Jewish Heritage.When I was a small boy in the late 40's and 50's my mother would share with me her tremendous fear of the German's and remind me that they had risen twice in a century, but she also reminded me there Germans that stood against all the evil that Adolph Hitler intended for the jews and all others that were "useless eater"s", and those not of the Aryan race of superhumans.The Count Von Stuaffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Corrie Ten Boom and many others that had a moral conscience. I watch every movie that may have a shred of truth about the Holocaust. Why? Because I love Jewish people. Some forget their great contribution to our civilization and society in general. Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein and so many others that have given themselves for people like me. We cannot fail them in there hour of need as we did in the Holocaust.Listening yo Elie Weisel's "Perils of Indifference" to Congress was an indictment to all free peoples that our land of freedom (U.S), stood by while we allowed "wholesale Murder" to take place under F.D.R.'s administration because it wasn't politically correct. I wonder how God feels about this?The movie's that move me the most are Anne Franks Diary, Dan Curtis's War and Remembrance, a screen play-mini series by Hermann Wouk that will rip your heart out and bring you to your knee's when you see the scene at a concentration camp in Poland as Himmler views a trial run on the gassing of I believe Hungarian Jews and the scene with the little Jewish girl crying in her mothers arms as a young Nazi SS guard restrains his German Shepard herding them into the "delousing" building and her mother pulling a flower to calm the little girl, herself being terrified about what's to come.Then Himmler and his Goons viewing the affair as if it was a common sporting event with little emotion about the extinction of a human lives, then to see the little girl dead on the cart with blued lips from the toxic Zyklon-B makes my heart break and I feel nauseous and in me wells up a righteous indignation as to why we did not use the Atomic Bomb on them instead of the Japanese.Then I understood my mother' s fear of the Nazi's. God is the only one that can erase a people that are corrosive to humanity. Such as the Amaelkites, (which Saul didn't follow God's instructions), even Haman reared his ugly head to complete the destruction of the Jew's. Thank God for raising up Esther(her Persian Name). People needed to be educated as my heart ached the night I saw Leon Leyson convey his story. Dan Curtis fought with the censor's of ABC to get the full impact of the Holocaust, nudity for the sake of reality must not be mitigated away because we want to clean up our crime. Our we our brother's keeper, you bet we are, as humans we are to be humane ,if we are indifferent to the suffering of others God help us. God bless those who risked it all for the Jewish people and woe to the Capo's by proxy that turned a blind eye to save their own bacon. You say it is easy for you to say, you weren't there. You are correct, but I live by heart and to love another is the greatest gift God gives and the only one we can give back to him. How can life be worth living If we see such things and turn our backs when we can assuage the pain and suffering of this great people called the Jews. Yes I would fight for them and along side of them. We Christians have persecuted them , thrown them out of our church's, taken their property, and called them, "Christ Killers"without understanding God's choice was for the Jewish people, not for their intelligence or character, because they were few in number and in his great big heart he loves them and that is good enough for me. After all God can choose anyone he wishes and we Gentiles should feel about them as he does, thus loving and helping them. Watch the movie the Boy in the Striped Pajamas and you will the unassuming love a Nazi Commandant's son for a little Jewish Boy in a concentration camp who discovers the truth about Jew's and loves the Jewish Boy and ends up going to oven's with him by mistake. It is heart rending to see the love in the Nazi Commandant's son's heart for the Jewish Boy. It is the love that transcends all racial barriers, which is the very thing God has been trying to teach us since the beginning of Creation. Love the big enigma, that mankind just can't get right. well I could write volumes on the feelings I have for the Jewish people, all positive and loving, but enough has been said by this Gentile to have you understand, you have friends those who love, not everybody hates you. There has never been one group of people that have suffered so much and been so misunderstood by so many as the Jews. I am a Christian and have been married to a Jewish woman and long before she arrived on the scene to be my wife I have loved Jewish people for what they are and who they are, Moise Rosen of Jews for Jesus is a very deep man and his group would consistently come to our church The Gathering place in Danville, California and share the traditions that make up the Jewish Heritage.When I was a small boy in the late 40′s and 50′s my mother would share with me her tremendous fear of the German’s and remind me that they had risen twice in a century, but she also reminded me there Germans that stood against all the evil that Adolph Hitler intended for the jews and all others that were “useless eater”s”, and those not of the Aryan race of superhumans.The Count Von Stuaffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Corrie Ten Boom and many others that had a moral conscience. I watch every movie that may have a shred of truth about the Holocaust. Why? Because I love Jewish people. Some forget their great contribution to our civilization and society in general. Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein and so many others that have given themselves for people like me. We cannot fail them in there hour of need as we did in the Holocaust.Listening yo Elie Weisel’s “Perils of Indifference” to Congress was an indictment to all free peoples that our land of freedom (U.S), stood by while we allowed “wholesale Murder” to take place under F.D.R.’s administration because it wasn’t politically correct. I wonder how God feels about this?The movie’s that move me the most are Anne Franks Diary, Dan Curtis’s War and Remembrance, a screen play-mini series by Hermann Wouk that will rip your heart out and bring you to your knee’s when you see the scene at a concentration camp in Poland as Himmler views a trial run on the gassing of I believe Hungarian Jews and the scene with the little Jewish girl crying in her mothers arms as a young Nazi SS guard restrains his German Shepard herding them into the “delousing” building and her mother pulling a flower to calm the little girl, herself being terrified about what’s to come.Then Himmler and his Goons viewing the affair as if it was a common sporting event with little emotion about the extinction of a human lives, then to see the little girl dead on the cart with blued lips from the toxic Zyklon-B makes my heart break and I feel nauseous and in me wells up a righteous indignation as to why we did not use the Atomic Bomb on them instead of the Japanese.Then I understood my mother’ s fear of the Nazi’s. God is the only one that can erase a people that are corrosive to humanity. Such as the Amaelkites, (which Saul didn’t follow God’s instructions), even Haman reared his ugly head to complete the destruction of the Jew’s. Thank God for raising up Esther(her Persian Name). People needed to be educated as my heart ached the night I saw Leon Leyson convey his story. Dan Curtis fought with the censor’s of ABC to get the full impact of the Holocaust, nudity for the sake of reality must not be mitigated away because we want to clean up our crime. Our we our brother’s keeper, you bet we are, as humans we are to be humane ,if we are indifferent to the suffering of others God help us. God bless those who risked it all for the Jewish people and woe to the Capo’s by proxy that turned a blind eye to save their own bacon. You say it is easy for you to say, you weren’t there. You are correct, but I live by heart and to love another is the greatest gift God gives and the only one we can give back to him. How can life be worth living If we see such things and turn our backs when we can assuage the pain and suffering of this great people called the Jews. Yes I would fight for them and along side of them. We Christians have persecuted them , thrown them out of our church’s, taken their property, and called them, “Christ Killers”without understanding God’s choice was for the Jewish people, not for their intelligence or character, because they were few in number and in his great big heart he loves them and that is good enough for me. After all God can choose anyone he wishes and we Gentiles should feel about them as he does, thus loving and helping them. Watch the movie the Boy in the Striped Pajamas and you will the unassuming love a Nazi Commandant’s son for a little Jewish Boy in a concentration camp who discovers the truth about Jew’s and loves the Jewish Boy and ends up going to oven’s with him by mistake. It is heart rending to see the love in the Nazi Commandant’s son’s heart for the Jewish Boy. It is the love that transcends all racial barriers, which is the very thing God has been trying to teach us since the beginning of Creation. Love the big enigma, that mankind just can’t get right. well I could write volumes on the feelings I have for the Jewish people, all positive and loving, but enough has been said by this Gentile to have you understand, you have friends those who love, not everybody hates you.

]]> By: Maria Goldberg http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Maria Goldberg Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:07:52 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-160 I am a British Catholic "Maria Teresa Bernadette" married name "Goldberg", and married my husband an American Jewish Man. I became interested in what the Jewish people had to endure, and felt so very sad to think that this could happen to such lovely people. I would sit watching at the edge of my seat, with tears rolling down my face, not being able to understand the cruel, disgusting way they had been treated, and how this could have ever happened to them. I am a British Catholic “Maria Teresa Bernadette” married name “Goldberg”, and married my husband an American Jewish Man. I became interested in what the Jewish people had to
endure, and felt so very sad to think that this could happen to such lovely people. I would sit watching at the edge of my seat, with tears rolling down my face, not being able to understand
the cruel, disgusting way they had been treated, and how this could have ever happened to them.

]]> By: Cesar Vega Gomez http://yearslaterwewouldremember.com/share-your-story/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Cesar Vega Gomez Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:57:30 +0000 http://martinkent.wordpress.com/?page_id=43#comment-157 Hi Martin Kent: I living in Aguascalientes, Mexico. I don't speak English, but I make effort. I have a son, his name is Oscar to honor “Oskar Schindler." The history of these man is incredible and I believe it takes courage to do a thing like that. I have great admiration for Oskar Schindler and I think he is an example for my son. Excuse me my English, wait to you understanding my message. Cesar Vega Gomez Mexico Hi Martin Kent: I living in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
I don’t speak English, but I make effort.
I have a son, his name is Oscar to honor “Oskar Schindler.” The history of these man is incredible and I believe it takes courage to do a thing like that. I have great admiration for Oskar Schindler and I think he is an example for my son.
Excuse me my English, wait to you understanding my message.

Cesar Vega Gomez
Mexico

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