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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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- Moved to #4311
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:26am
Eri, those words might be the most beautiful words I have heard all month.
- ZEL
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:39pm
This is really, really beautiful.
Being from Germany, the war and especially the Holocaust are still a topic present in my [our] every day life, especially since I have huge interest in history, and my [our] wish to keep the memories of those who lost their lives back then will always be there. I've been to Auschwitz and various other places connected and/or associated with the Holocaust, and it still moves me deeply to remember the things I've seen, not to mention the thoughts of how the victims must have felt. We've had the chance to talk to a former prisoner of Auschwitz this year, who has been arriving there with the first transport and endured the camp the whole time it's been in use, even survived the death march, and I honestly can't think of anything that has moved me more than hearing his story.
It's great, no, wonderful, to see the Memorial Day being mentioned on a site like Aywas, it just goes to show that it doesn't matter WHERE you bring that topic up, as long as you do. So...thank you for this.
Also, the Meep is cute <3
- M07H
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:16pm
I watched the pianist then ate a pickle
- Limey ♥ Mr. Theron
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Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:12pm
Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, disabled individuals, and anyone daring enough to aid them.
My gay Jewish lair partner is still out of commission due to being a victim of a hate crime, unfortunately, but I will make one of these meeps for him.
I honestly wish I could hoard dozens of them just for him.
- Rythos
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Posted on: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:31am
Dang, I haven't had time to get on until now. x-x FML, stupid job. That's such a sweet thing for you guys to do and I completely missed out on it. Augh.
Posted on: Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:52am
It's okay if you get a second one. :3 - Eri