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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis man is invited on a TV show, but he has no clue why everyone suddenly stands up:
Link to tweet
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Deuxcents
(16,456 posts)One person can make a difference n what a difference this man made. What a tribute on this day of remembrance. Ty. 🙏
multigraincracker
(32,762 posts)just now.
Thank you Sir.
TheBlackAdder
(28,262 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)okaawhatever
(9,479 posts)MyMission
(1,856 posts)A remarkable man.
Thunderbeast
(3,432 posts)Today I think of the cousins, uncles, and aunts who did not leave Belarus with my grandparents in 1903. They faced the famines and tortures of Stalin, and were then marched to the camps by Hitler...never to return.
This horror happened but eight years before I was born. My family tree is asymmetrical. My paternal ancestors were murdered and lost to history.
We can not forget how goddamn easy it was to normalize this genocide carried out by people convinced that their actions were a rational choice...With the asserted approval of their God.
The horror is way too common. Kosovo, Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, North America...All were killing fields in relatively recent times.
canetoad
(17,218 posts)The realisation that WW2 ended only nine years before I was born became more.... influential? Pertinent? I'm not sure what the description is.
I lived in Scotland and England until we migrated in 1965. I remember DPs (Displaced Persons) in our town, and seeing their tattoos.
George II
(67,782 posts)....for most post-war refugees. Many fanned out across the country, but just as many stayed in New York.
In our Brooklyn neighborhood we had several people with numbers tattooed on their arms. At 9 years old we moved to a Jewish neighborhood in Queens, and there too were refugees from the camps.
Deuxcents
(16,456 posts)I have no words only to say thanks god you are here with us. 🙏
calimary
(81,610 posts)NEVER FORGET. NOT EVER.
barbtries
(28,824 posts)brer cat
(24,667 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)... but it's hard to believe that he never told anyone, even his own wife. He has earned his place in Heaven, for sure.
rurallib
(62,491 posts)I was blubbering then. I am blubbering now.
What would I have done? Would I have the courage when called on?
wnylib
(21,807 posts)have to face right now!
What will we do if Trump's fascists take over Congress and the WH? What are we doing now?
We need to think about this now and decide what WE will do. Will we accommodate the smaller injustices in the hope that they won't get worse? Or will we put our feet down firmly in public opposition the minute that it starts, before it can get worse?
I suggest massive rally protests and civil disobedience at the slightest indication of any bigoted or racial injustice.
alterfurz
(2,476 posts)Wonder what you would have been doing in Germany, as Hitler rose to power?
You're doing it right now.
wnylib
(21,807 posts)to get people thinking.
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)LoisB
(7,256 posts)What a wonderful man.
ChazII
(6,207 posts)for the history books.
GeoWilliam750
(2,523 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....died several years ago. He was ONE HUNDRED SIX years old. I'm sure a decade or two were added to his life for the way he lived his life.
Here's more about his story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton
MLAA
(17,376 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,178 posts)Now that Ive cleared the tears and can see to type, Im so moved by the people who were brave enough to make a difference and to help others. He is my hero.
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)...tears.
SWBTATTReg
(22,226 posts)when you hear the idiots moan and gripe about immigrants, etc. today (including former president rump)...
This man being honored is worth 1000 times the man that rump is.
Chili
(1,725 posts)Thank you for posting this. We must never forget.
TomSlick
(11,152 posts)May his memory be a blessing.
XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)I have no problem crying over such a remarkable human being.
calimary
(81,610 posts)Just started me crying.
Angels among us.
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kimbutgar
(21,289 posts)I really dislike those Holocaust deniers who are using this for their political purposes and to divide us.
Watching it again brought a tear to my eye.
Thank you for sharing.
KS Toronado
(17,478 posts)Nittersing
(6,397 posts)What a gift that this was organized while he was still alive.
ShazamIam
(2,577 posts)standing audience.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)homegirl
(1,436 posts)DC's Union Station 'covered end to end' with swastikas the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day:
for shame...
Never forget
Wild blueberry
(6,681 posts)What a splendid human being.
Thank you!
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,584 posts)Thanks for the thread demmiblue.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Almost 27 years after this aired.
His life karma paid back astounding.
murielm99
(30,790 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Beautiful story.
OLDMDDEM
(1,579 posts)I have a lot of specks in my eye. Grab a kleenex.