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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
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:38pm
- Legion Of CANDY
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:03am
"You can pick up your own Memorial Candle from the Advent Calendar today or tomorrow."
Um, it says today OR tomorrow...
I was able to get a second one... Should I report it to like the glitches forums?
- Legion Of CANDY
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:04am
Woops!! Sorry for the double (now triple) post!
Sorry!
- Sage
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:10am
Teared up while reading this... you've said all I could ever think to say and more. <3
"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."
Powerful, powerful words that never rang truer in all of human history.
"If human beings are capable of such cruelty, then they are capable of the same degree of kindness and compassion."
Indeed. We cannot stop such hatred, but we can counter its effect through tolerance, respect, and understanding. Remember the (original) golden rule: do not do to others those things that you would not want done unto you. Us "westerners" have created a more modern "positive" version of this, but I feel the original is far more powerful.
In case anyone would like to know the meaning behind the design: the prayer shawl and cap (I'm drawing a blank on the technical terms at the moment...) are primarily to get the main point across, but the grey coat has the most significance- I chose to color him in shades of ashen grey, referring to the atrocity of the crematoriums so often brought to mind when thinking of the Holocaust in particular. Also added an almost haunting glow to inspire a feeling of solemnity; I know from this angle you cannot tell, but the candle is a six-pointed figure- the Star of David.
- Moved to #5230
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:23am
Amen. <3 Thank you so much for this. It's an important reminder.
- Goku-san
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:05am
Very nice of you to do this. It's nice that this community celebrates remembrances like this. :3
- Screaming Lord Byron
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:16am
I love that you're doing this. I'm British, and I don't know of anyone who didn't lose a member of their family, or a friend of the family in the second world war. When I was growing up, it was always there in the background - never forget what we were fighting for. These days the war seems very distant, and the reasons behind it almost forgotten, so it is good to remind ourselves that if we become complacent, then we are in danger of allowing the atrocities of hate to happen all over again.
- Aprilis
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:17am
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns 1785
- persephone
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:07am
The holocaust is one event that can make me want to punch something in anger, and sit down to sob at the same time. I like in Poland, I've been to Auschwitz, Schindler's factory, and other places. People these days may want to hush it up, pretend it never happened, to twist the truth and say that it wasn't even half as many people who died as actually did. That the numbers and history records lie.
I am so thankful for those of us who refuse to forget. Who refuse to let the truth be turned into a lie. Who refuse to allow ourselves to be deceived.
World War II history fascinates me, its very real to me and all the events that happened. I have the whole time line memorized, what happened where and when. But what happened to those Jews isn't just fun, or something to smile at, or to enjoy learning about. People are people, not the dogs they were treated like. No, I take it back. They weren't treated like dogs. They were treated like the scum of the earth, worse than any other thing alive- or maybe not even alive.
What happened during the Holocaust was despicable... But never forget.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Not might, or can, but doomed.
Never forget, and never allow the truth to be twisted.
~ Ice
- anna is a pie
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:12am
In the UK, Holocaust Memorial day is on the 27th of January i believe.
But the Holocaust should never be forgotten, so thank-you for this.
Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:02am
"You can pick up your own Memorial Candle from the Advent Calendar today or tomorrow."
Um, it says today OR tomorrow...
I was able to get a second one... Should I report it to like the glitches forums?