Comments on: Remembrance Day

By: Elbnymphe

Elbnymphe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:14:21 +0000

As a German, I also want to thank you for this moving post. The Germany I live in today would not have been possible without your grandfather’s significant sacrifice, and that of the hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers who decided to fight in a country far removed from where they lived.

By: kelly

kelly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:05:28 +0000

What a truly lovely post. Thank-you.

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By: LB

LB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:04:44 +0000

Thanks everyone, and David especially you. I just saw the Holocaust Museum in DC a few weeks ago and it reminded me again why my grandfather, who was pacifist by nature and, at age 35, considered really too old to be a soldier, would have felt that he couldn’t live with himself if he didn’t volunteer. Perhaps the full truth of the camps wasn’t known by this point, but the gruesome policies of nazism were plainly obvious even without that knowledge, according to my grandfather’s friends – I’ve always been confused by claims that nobody knew what was really going on. My grandfather never really recovered from that war, but then obviously no one who survives a war ever really does. A great aunt of mine talked about how deranged the men were after the war, even decades later, and you could sense that. I can’t speak for Holocaust survivors because theirs would be an unimaginable and unique trauma. Any war experience is strange because despite the fact that the ones who lived through a war inevitably feel alone with their memories, their experiences still seem to travel down the generations in strange ways, even when they aim to prevent this by never talking about them.

By: David Bekier

David Bekier — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:52:48 +0000

Thank you for publishing these extraordinary documents and artifacts.
As a child of Holocaust survivors I want to acknowledge the bravery and sacrifice of the Allied soldiers who fought and died to defeat the Nazis in WWII. Had they not done so, my parents would have perished and I and my children would never have been born.

By: knitgirl

knitgirl — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:03 +0000

thanks for sharing. it is hard to comprehend.

By: melody

melody — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:10 +0000

beautiful post.