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These are comments left by visitors to the Holocaust History Project web site, in the month of April, 1998. From here you are free to formulate your own theory. Nothing but the facts.
I have studied the Holocaust for quite some time now, and I have found it bar-none the most tragic, upsetting, and most horrific thing that has ever happened, in the history of the entire world. I always love reading more and more about it to try to understand, but no one will understand the reasoning behind this, I don't think. It is tragic that a people, a race, could be controlled by, not a mad man, a truly evil man with brain-washing capabilities. What is worse, in my opinion, is that we fought to try to end this 50 years ago, and the same thing is going on. I'm glad your page is so informative to the younger generations, prejudice is ignorance, and the children need to learn before they get "draw in", just like the SS and the SA did. Thank you for providing your site!
Thank-you so much for this page. I can't belive that some people don't even belive this horrible thing ever happened. I have been interested in this subject for a long time now and thanks to you I have relived what a horrible thing this was. I would like to pay my respects to every one that died in the death camp or who were killed by Germans any where. Thank-you again. You can never underestimate the importance of the work you have done. Now that there are fewer and fewer living victims of the insanity, the words of the revisionists are becoming more credible to people who believe that it's not in man's capacity to visit this kind of evil on others. It is important that we never forget.
I think I'm going to vomit. Evil is not to evil as good is to good. Evil is always a perversion of good. It would be different if the Nazis were truly ignorant and sincerely believed that persecuting the Jews and other out-groups was a true and proper course of action. But the waves of suicides by the major players, and the revelation that members of extermination squads had to be drunk to carry out their orders, are good arguments that they had guilt about what they were doing, and were conscious of it. If they TRULY believed that Jews were inferior beings on the order of vermin, why would guilt be necessary?
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The terrible things that went on in WWII are horrifying. All of the pain, the suffering, and the deaths . . . it's all so sad. People need to learn about what went on so that it doesn't happen again.
I am saddened to think that people like David Irving are believed. Intolerance whether it be religious or racial is a sad and wasted emotion.
I can not understand the Holocaust or how it ever happened. I know some of the long history of hatreds concerning the Jewish people- but I can not comprehend it. As a christian,I believe strongly that Christianity has ignored the Holocaust and has forgotten already. The Church has not integrated this kind of suffering and guilt into its theology or searched for reconcilation within the faith or with the Jewish people. Finally, I also can not understand how God looked down and let it happen. I have only questions. Below is part of a song I wrote about WWII. "And the big guns roared and blasted through the night While hate poured out its vengenance on those who cried And the bombs fell from the sky and broke the night While our men and boys died in lonely places And we'll never forget the faces Of those who died In World II" Randall C. Reynolds (I only hope we never forget- thanks for creating this site)
I was looking stuff up for my brother. Thank you so much for creating this page. I can only hope that the people will understand what The Holocaust was like, and that it will never happen again.
The following is a simple tribute I wrote for all Holocaust victims A VOICE FROM THE HOLOCAUST We are the silent witnesses The murdered masses of the holocaust We rest at uncounted tragic places We called out but noone heard Now we are but earth and ashes You the witnesses who remain must tell our story You must quell the hatred, bigotry and intolerance The future must not repeat this evil We are forever gone from this earth You will be gone some day also Who will tell our story Give it as a gift to your children They must learn from our tragedy For if they do not heed this lesson Millions more will share our fate And become earth and ashes Russell Kellam Grafton, VA April 1998
I was looking for pictures for a school project, and i had a hard time finding them anywhere. Very nice informational site though
I WAS LOOKING UP INFO FOR MY ENGLISH CLASS AND I FOUND YOUR PAGE VERY INFORMATIONAL!!!!!! THANX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tobias
I was in the Holocaust museum of Israel. I will never forget my experience. I will never understand why was it happened. Salom Israel
As a future history teacher, is important to learn all that I can about the Holocaust. This is an excellent source to get imformation.
I am a Veteran of both WWII and Korea. As a former Military Pilot I have seen enough devastation and waste of human lives, to last more than just one lifetime. Lately I've been bothered with the fact that within the next few years, many more victims of the Holocaust...history's worst tragedy...will run the course of their life span. Who then, if not you and I will be able to recount the terrors of one human toward another. With this thought in mind, I say THANK YOU for your great website...and thanks to the wonderful work of Steven Speilberg (videotaping the memoirs of the victims). We, the survivors of history owe it to our children and to their children...to keep this memory alive...FOREVER! It must not EVER happen again!
i have always loved history, and i have always thought this was the most horrific part of history. elyse jolly, age 13
World war II was a terrible time in our history, and I sympathize with any survivors. For a good, sad, historical movie, see Schindler's List!
I was really surprised, you have so many informations which are useful, but scarry. My visit here has been very useful. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was looking for a project for my world history class to do over world war II. I was enormously pleased with your web site. It will be used as resource for many years to come. Thank you, Chris Rose, Teacher Edmond Memorial H.S. Edmond, Oklahoma.
I would like to interview Hidden Children for a book on individuals raised as non-Jews who discovered they are of Jewish descent. Wishing this website continued success. BK
The holocaust is one of the few things i have actually paid attention to in class. Perhaps that is because I have actually visited Dacchau, and read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Both things struck me as real, as many know, something that is very hard to accoplish with 16 year old. So, one day I wrote a poem. I do that quite often, but this one made some sense so here it is. I Lay Frozen
It isn't quite done yet, and I'm looking for a visual to go with it, so if anyone has one, let me know
I LOVED ALL MY INFO THAT I GOT FROM THIS PAGE IT REALLY HELPED ME OUT I CAME HERE BECAUSE I WAS DOING A REPORT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND I GOT EXCELLENT HELP THANKYOU MARY SWARTZ AGE14 CAPECORAL,FL
The world MUST NOT FORGET. Keep up the very good work in all media.
I enjoyed reading the web site. It is so sad to think of such a sad to have remember for the Jews. I'll keep all in my prayers. Julie
Meeooww!!! I really enjoyed your helpful info.
I really enjoyed it!
"PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM..."
Your website is an important contribution to Holocaust education. Congratulations on ajob well don In America today the threats to Jewish survival are assimilation and intermarriage. Jewish Education and Torah Observance will help us prevent what Nazi Germany tried to do the Jewsih People, its' destruction.
Most of my grandpa's family was murdered in the Holocaust. So it's very important to me to remember and learn all about the holocaust. I'll never forget.
I found this to be both a very interesting and imformative site.The events and horrors of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
I have always been a student of WWII, and the holocaust in particular because I am a Jew born in this country in 1940. It is only by circumstance that I did not end up in the camps, to die a horrible death. My grandmother, father's side, lost many relatives in her native country, Roumania. She came here as a refugee to the pogroms prior to the 1920's. I have always felt a sense of guilt, to have been granted the circumstances that brought survival, when so many, that I never knew, died. I do not practice Judiasm in my daily life. My upbringing did not foster this. I was Bar Mitsvah'd, and confirmed. I belonged to a local temple for a number of years until I was divorced. Since then I have not attended services. I relate to the jewishness in me in cultural ways, but not religious practice.
I love Israel so, I want to know about Holocaust. I am a Handong Univ.student in Korea. Our school students go to Israel during winter vacation every year.
Estuve en El Museo del Holocausto en Israel, y entre al museo donde estan las velitas de los ninos y fue muy triste, compre el Diario de Ana y es tan deprimente, que mucho sufrimiento, Dios los tenga a su lado.
Greetings! Glad to see your site on-line. Informative and interesting. I look forward to reading new additions on your site. I think it is important to never forget and to educate younger generations about what happened. It is also important that everyone understand that this kind of thing could happen again given a specific set of circumstances and that society should be ever vigilant against it. Considering the growing numbers of neo-nazi movements and similar groups plus the fact that they are continuously spreading their hate propaganda we can never be too cautious.
I am a grown and married child of a survivor of the Holocaust. My father survived three concentration camps and was finally liberated in April of 1945. I found this site to be very well done and the pictures were very graphic. I will add this site to my homepage and will visit again. The world must never forget what happened during the Holocaust. Being a child of a survivor, it is my responsibility to make sure that no one ever forgets !
I really liked this site but you have to put more info in here or better pics so that us people that have to do reports, then we have stuff to put together. Otherwise it was cool
To all who suffered the Jewish Holocaust,----God was there,AND heaven knows all of you.
May the innocents rest in peace and may God have mercy on the souls of the perpetrators.Never again!
I thought this was great! It was very respectful to all of the lost lives in the Holocaust. Thank you for your help I'm using your information for my history report!
As a teacher of Holocaust literature, I am always on the look out for new sites to share with my ninth graders. I will add this site to our ever growing list!
My prayers go out tonight to those that survived the Holocaust, for it is they that must wake up with nightmares and live with daymares. Some may find the movie, "Shindler's List" tooartsy but whenever I see that movie I weep continuously. I feel ashamed to be a human when I think of what we are capable of doing. God bless.
Excellent Job!!!
Allow me to compliment you on the presentation of your new Website. Disregarding the polemics, you fulfil a valuable service by making available the Stroop Report in the form you do. I shall be posting similar documents on my site (ww.fpp.co.uk), e.g. the Bruns interrogation April 1945, and if I can scan it the Aumeier manuscripts, which are as important as the Hoess ones in my opinion. I propose to place links to your site on mine. Regards
Congratulations on the good work you've done! I particularly appreciate your commitment to putting documents on the Page. These will be particularly useful for our students who are doing research assignments. Barry Carr History La Trobe University Bundoora Victoria AUSTRALIA 3083
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This site looks very interesting. The introductory essays are of quite a high standard, although they are to some extent marred through the use of invective, for example making the assumption that all persons who question any aspect of the "official" account of what happened to the Jews in the Second World War are necessarily scoundrels or mentally ill. I have detected certain elements in the essays that I consider open to debate, based on what i have read on this topic, and intend to send in some comments soon, after I have consulted my sources again.
After visting the Ann Frank House in Holland and walking out in tears, you wonder why the rest of the world stood still while this was going on. Hopefully this will never be allowed to happen again.
The scariest thought is that within a few years all the survivors would have passed away, that is why it is now our responsibility to remember and teach the history of the Holocaust. Being Jewish it is incredibly close to home but every living person must be aware of the Holocaust and we must all engrave 'Never Again' in our thoughts.
Just knowing how so many people feel about the Holocaust gets to me just as much as the deaths and suffering that some people actually went through. The Holocaust itself didn't only kill those who were there but also those who came years and years later. Like me, a 16 year old. Though I want to know more and more about this "historical tragedy", I can't help but wonder how God let people do this. And if it's so possible who will be the next to come and give such orders. When? It scares me. But I have to overcome this fear. And that's why I came to this site. Thanks.
The terrible and inhuman things that happened in that time have haunted me since I was a child. It is my earnest hope that no one should ever be allowed to forget.
As a human being, I find it nescessary to educate the youth of America about mankinds useless rage and hatred of other human biengs.It is not a matter of simply teaching curriculum, but passing along the knowledge and the hope that we can do somthing about racism and hatred in the world. That is why we will remember.
I am the education director of the CANDLES Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was referred to your site. I would like to list it in our entry and I offer to you any of the information on our web site for informational purposes on your site. I searched for medical experiments and for Auschwitz twins experiments and did not find results. We have had nearly 13,000 hits in a year so we are a good resource for you and for others. Your page is interesting and informative and that is what I am finding people want.
It's hard to belive that this only happened about 60 years ago.
I am only 17 and still don't know all that much of the world, But I do know that what happen during the Holocaust should never happen to any one person. And thanks to web sites like this it allows all ages to learn what happen and lets people know that history won't repeat its self in such a horrible way again if we teach and show people what happen.
Sorry about double entry, I think that as long as history is taught in the world, that the world must know that the Holocaust did exist and that all of the deniers need to re-examine history and take a look at the truth.
As long as we have the ability to remember, to write and to speak, no-one will ever let the horrors of this terrible era die. God forbid that it ever happen again on this beautiful planet that has been loaned to us. I was 15 when I saw my first "camp" photograph in a magazine and to this day it haunts me. That was in 1948, and I have never forgotten.
Would God ever forgive us if we let this happen again?
I discovered your wonderful page while looking for information re: Latvian Holocaust and the Latvian Resistance. Please keep up the good work, this information is needed more than ever and should be a required class in every high school. Nancy Jarmin NJarmin@aol.com
You should include more pictures on your web page. Overall, the web site acheived its purpose and was very good.
The story of the Holocaust is but one chapter in the ongoing tragedy written by those who would have the audacity to think they speak for their god. Only by the conceit of believing one is absolutely right, or "chosen", or "saved", or "blessed", or in some way designated by a supreme power to direct the rest of humanity can a holocaust be justified. Never forget the Cambodians, the Armenians, the Rwandans, the Native Americans. They are all just as dead, killed by the same self righteous "spokesmen of god."
Congratulations on the quality and dedication of your site. It is imperative that this black chapter in European history should not be forgotten nor should anyone be allowed to get away with belittling it or even denying its very existence.
This is really sad, but at the same time very informative. Well Done.
Its very sad to discover how one man can order that many people to be killed. I found the page when doing a research paper and find it very interesting. I will never forget!
How can one deny the death of so many? The sheer horror of the number of dead is enough of an answer. It is inconceivable how the annihilation of a people could be the desire of a man. To admit that someone had the capacity to want death for so many makes a certain impression on our lives. We, as a human race, are capable of this evil. If we choose to ignore it and forget, we all feel a little more secure, we all sleep a little better at night. So we pretend it didn't happen. But to deny it is to open up a path for it to happen again. And God knows that is the last thing we want. Words can not describe the horror of this event and the fear entailed when one looks back on it, but it can not be denied and forgotten. For in our mistakes, we learn and only then can we truly sleep better for a new security is gained: knowing that this tragedy and evil will not occur again. Denial achieves nothing, education is key. I extend my sincere gratitude to the makers of this site for furthering this essential education. To anyone else reading these words I reiterate the message: we surely must "Never Forget."
No one will convince me the Holocaust did not happened. I spent nearly 5 years in a Ghetto and 10 months in Concentration Camps like Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen Belsen where I was liberated. In Auschwitz I was separated from my only living relative left at the time,my mother whom I never saw again. I just self published a book on the subject, and am involved in speaking to schools and churches. As for the denyers- they know the real truth. They are denying to clear their guilty concience. No one has that kind of imagination to have come up with this kind of story. Ls I often hear people say they visited former Concentration Camps and find the sites horryfying. As a former inmate of several of those Camps I wish to tell you that what you see now is a sanitized version. I visited Auschwitz last Sommer and overheard people say "it's not as bad as I imagined". I agree! It is not the way it was. The wooden barracks had to be burned to stop the spread of the desease! The barracks you see now were for most part the German soldiers quarters. The sites are preserved as Museums and KEPT UP as such. There was not a blade of grass in Camp when I was there. The artifacts were not neatly organized behind glass. They were skeletons barely able to walk performing hard labor. You smell now no smell of burning flesh, and you hear no screams of torture from the abused, nor do you see bodies lying in the road. It LOOKS presentable. LS
We will not forget.
I am a student of the Holocaust and have found your site most interesting. The world must never forget!!!! I talk to people every day and they know nothing about the darkest chapter of the 20th Century.
I am the principal of a small high school in NE Wisconsin. For 11 years I taught history and the holocaust was my fav- orite topic. I traveled extensively in Europe and visited Dachau on 3 occasions. I still sometimes teach a holocaust unit to middle school and high school students. I found your web page described yesterday in a Green Bay newspaper. It is very interesting and I will visit it again often. I will pass on your site to my teachers and students who have already ex- pressed interest. Keep up the good work. Nie wieder!
I am a Dutch man, My english is not so well,so I will write in the Dutch lanquest. Ik denk dat deze side moet blijven doorgaan,de Holecoost moet de wereld duidelijk maken ,dat dit nooit meer mag gebeuren,waar ook ter wereld. ter wereld.Mijn vader had een Joodse onderduikster in huis,hij is verraden,in November 1944,opgepakt,via de Wolven plein gevangenis,naar Amsterdam vervoerd en van daar naar Mauthausen,van Mauthausen ,naar Berg en Belsen. waar hij op 5mei 1945 is overleden. J.Lubbers
I am teaching the first course on the Holocaust at an Iowa Community College, and just came upon your site. It looks very interesting and useful. I'll be back. Jane Forster
Thank you for helping to keep the record straight. JP Diploos
April 2, 1998 Since becoming a christian 8 years ago I became interested in the Holocast.I wondered why God allowed this to happen to His chosen people. Then I realized from the old testment that God hide his face from his people whenever they had turned away from Him.
It is very good to have this site. Here you can, on your own and yet together, think, look, remember and share memories which are often not your own. For me it's less lonely with site's like this
Never forget! I plan to teach my son about the holocaust & how the jewish people of Europe suffered under the nazis.People must also understand the murders of Stalin & the japanese.I recently read a book titled:The Rape Of Nanking.The japanese war crimes must be observed also.Everone should know the horrors of the nazis,Stalin & Japan!
This web-site is a gift. They say that when we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. For the sake of the generations to follow, we must NEVER forget. My children will visit this site and the new museum in Washington D.C.
I have read a great amount on the HOLOCAUST and I hpoe this site will help me to learn more.
"There is no such thing as genocide only the killing of your brother"
While on vacation in Germany several years ago, I visited Dachau. It was the most emotional experience of my life. Keep up the work you are doing. We must remember!
I have been to Poland and visited some of the death camps. What a horrifing experience. The visit still haunts me. I have also visited Yad Va Shem in Israel. The childrens memorial is one of the most touching moments I have ever experienced. Being a Zionist Christian, I am convinced if the Jews and the Church do not wake up, this could happen again. G-d forbid. For Zion's sake, Jim Brown Menorah Ministries Intl
I, along with my family, visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. I have always believed that it happened, but to see it firsrt hand like that erased any doubt I may have had. I feel all people should have to visit there at least once in their liftime. I feel it would change a lot of attitudes.
One of the most beneficial classes that I took in college was "The Destruction of the European Jews" taught by Howard Wisch. I am an Algebra teacher now and I believe that all students today should be well informed on the Holocaust so history will not be repeated.
After visitig Poland a few summers ago with my wife and children, for the purpose of visiting my father's still existing "shtetl"(Zabludow) and seeing first hand the sights of many of the holocaust atrocities, I am more convinced than ever that we American Jews should do all in our power to assure that FUTURE generations......."NEVER FORGET!" Remembering is sometimes very hard.....forgetting is easy!
I AGREE WITH THE STATEMENT: NEVER FORGET. IT IS INCONCEIVABLE HOW PEOPLE COULD INFLICT SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS ONTO THEIR FELLOW MAN. I HAVE VISITED THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, D.C, AND UNLIKE ONE OF THE OTHERS WHO SIGNED THIS GUEST BOOK EARLIER, THERE WERE MANY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO WERE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY, WATCHING THE VIDEOS, INTENTLY STUDYING THE DISPLAYS, ETC. THE COURAGE DEMONSTRATED BY THE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED IS TRULY PHENOMENAL. TO THINK, NOWADAYS, SOME PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT SUCH PETTY THINGS, WHEN THEY SHOULD APPRECIATE THE FREEDOM AND TRUE WONDER OF LIFE.
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