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Today.
We light a candle in memory of those who lost their lives, loved ones and ancestors to one of the cruelest atrocities the world has known.
Six million Jewish men, women and children perished.
The persecution that these people endured permeated out to any group that was considered inferior, any group that challenged the ideals of a specific ideology.
This hatred was founded on everything from faith to sexual orientation to disabilities to race to politics.
To poorly paraphrase some past quotes on the Holocaust, people claimed that if only they had known what was really going on, they would have stopped it. Though the Holocaust is over in some respects, genocide is not, and I think it's important to be reminded of this reality. It's easy to push the grim parts of our world away: close the history book, turn off the TV, claim ignorance to the crimes happening thousands of miles away. We can't pretend like these things haven't happened and that they don't exist, because if we do, how will they stop?
All our differences aside, we are human beings.
If human beings are capable of such cruelty, then they are capable of the same degree of kindness and compassion.
Even if you feel like the smallest person in the world, you always have the power to impact someone else in a positive way. Don't let that opportunity pass you by. Life is too short and too precious to waste it on something like hatred.
You can pick up your own Memorial Candle from the Advent Calendar today or tomorrow.
It will turn your active pet into a Meep made by Sage (#37348) in honor of this day and out of respect for those we remember.
- Eri
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(#17) on Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:38pm
- Legion Of CANDY
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:54pm
Thank you for this. Many don't know of the tragedies of the past, and I think this is a wonderful way to remember the loved ones lost and hurt.
- Squirrel Teilchen
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:55pm
Thank you for this. Being of both German and Israeli descent, Yom HaShoah is something that is known in my family and we always remember the family members we lost during that time. Picked up the Meep (beautiful work!) and named it after my late jewish grandmother, "Elisa".
- Ancient Mew(Sylver)
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:56pm
I am not Jewish, but of Germanic descent. I had family fight in that war, which side, I couldn't tell you for certain..but yeah.
The Dallas Holocaust Memorial is one of the most eye-opening and heart-wrenching museum experiences I have ever witnessed.
I am very pleased that this is something recognized on Aywas.
- Xavi
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:56pm
That's really sad.
- 🎃ηǝǝरส🎃
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:02pm
Unfortunate that 6 million people died for silly reasons, for wasteful ideologies (or any ideology). Waste of lives. Also unfortunate that most of the victims were Jewish. All killed because some human thought their opinion/belief was superior. Motives bother me more than the killing. Belief was unnecessary and it ostracised innocent people. Same still happens today. Ashamed to be part of the human species.
- Amagami
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:03pm
Thank you for doing this ^^
- Storm
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:04pm
Thank you for doing this. As someone with a Jewish mother, I could have easily been a part of this terrible tragedy if I had been born in a different time and place, and that's one of the reasons I feel particularly touched by this gesture. My great uncle was a prisoner in the forced labour camps during World War II because of his Judaism, but was fortunately freed at the end of the war and immigrated to Canada, where he married my great aunt.
I have had the chance to meet another Holocaust survivor, a woman who travelled to my school each year to share her story with the grade five students and plant tulips in the memory of those who died in the Holocaust.
All this is by way of saying that I'm personally touched and grateful that you took the time to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. I truly appreciate it, as I am sure the rest of the Aywas community does.
- Justbeingme
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:04pm
I just wanted to also say thank you for doing this!
- Hauk & Darling
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Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:09pm
Thanks for this :) My great-grandparents were from Germany, and my great grandma and her brother were the only survivors of her whole family. She recently passed away, so this means a lot to her memory <3
Posted on: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:50pm
Awesome thing to do and I love the new pet