The Impact of the Holocaust on Survivors and their Children

[PlentyGroovy]

http://www.sandrawilliams.org/HOLOCAUST/holocaust.html

This was an incredible read. I don't think the world comprehends how devastatingly hard it was to recover from the holocaust for the survivors. How long it takes to for generations to overcome such a complete and utter betrayal. It sure makes me feel very empathetic to Israel and how much I want them to succeed and prosper.

[Deb101]

Yes, it is something to ponder the depth of tragedy is very very difficult to wrap your mind around when you have nothing to compare it to. I had the privilege to visit Auschwitz some years ago. Something the Polish guide said has stuck with me to this very day. She was describing the horrific accounts of what happened there and said, "We still haven't learned."

I'm afraid this is all too true of the Jew hating Europeans.

I was completely taken off guard when watching a French news cast on public TV. There was an account of Air France being sued by a Frenchman who had been denied a seat on the jet because he was obese. The airline personnel actually measured his girth in front of other people at the airport and embarrassed him. The New cast showed the courtroom where the Air France lawyer was making the argument that they did not embarrass this man. "It wasn't like he was called a Jew."

It was also irritating to read last week that there are still Germans today and probably many other Europeans that think the USA should be tried for war criminals for bombing Germany into the ground.

Like that Polish lady was saying, they didn't learn, they just don't get it. But there is still hope because Saul of Tarsus didn't get it either until God got hold of him and knocked him on his butt!

May our faithful God have mercy on Europe and us as well. Not because we deserve but because we so desperately need it!

[Wally]

It prepped a nation for birth.

A birth in a hostile place surrounded by those who would abort it.

They were born fighting for life. A struggle that continues to this day.

Partly because of Pride.

Now if they would only open their eyes and look upon the One pierced........

[PlentyGroovy]

Yes, it is something to ponder the depth of tragedy is very very difficult to wrap your mind around when you have nothing to compare it to. I had the privilege to visit Auschwitz some years ago. Something the Polish guide said has stuck with me to this very day. She was describing the horrific accounts of what happened there and said, "We still haven't learned."

I'm afraid this is all too true of the Jew hating Europeans.

I was completely taken off guard when watching a French news cast on public TV. There was an account of Air France being sued by a Frenchman who had been denied a seat on the jet because he was obese. The airline personnel actually measured his girth in front of other people at the airport and embarrassed him. The New cast showed the courtroom where the Air France lawyer was making the argument that they did not embarrass this man. "It wasn't like he was called a Jew."

It was also irritating to read last week that there are still Germans today and probably many other Europeans that think the USA should be tried for war criminals for bombing Germany into the ground.

Like that Polish lady was saying, they didn't learn, they just don't get it. But there is still hope because Saul of Tarsus didn't get it either until God got hold of him and knocked him on his butt!

May our faithful God have mercy on Europe and us as well. Not because we deserve but because we so desperately need it!

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I think about how they are surrounded by such hatred in Israel and then to consider where they came from, it's got to be hard on a person!! To know the world once stood by and did nothing while innocent people lost property, lives, their health, in some cases their entire family.

[PlentyGroovy]

It prepped a nation for birth.

A birth in a hostile place surrounded by those who would abort it.

They were born fighting for life. A struggle that continues to this day.

Partly because of Pride.

Now if they would only open their eyes and look upon the One pierced........

We know they will, they were blinded for our sakes. One day they will realize that Jesus is the Messiah they were looking for all the time.

[IMSAVED]

Yes,it was awful.In the 70's I used to talk with a lady where I worked.She was an older lady with an accent.I noticed that she had some numbers tattooed on her arm.I asked her if she was in a concentration camp.She said "yes". That is all that she said.

[CarlaL48]

Yes, it is something to ponder the depth of tragedy is very very difficult to wrap your mind around when you have nothing to compare it to. I had the privilege to visit Auschwitz some years ago. Something the Polish guide said has stuck with me to this very day. She was describing the horrific accounts of what happened there and said, "We still haven't learned."

I'm afraid this is all too true of the Jew hating Europeans.

I was completely taken off guard when watching a French news cast on public TV. There was an account of Air France being sued by a Frenchman who had been denied a seat on the jet because he was obese. The airline personnel actually measured his girth in front of other people at the airport and embarrassed him. The New cast showed the courtroom where the Air France lawyer was making the argument that they did not embarrass this man. "It wasn't like he was called a Jew."

It was also irritating to read last week that there are still Germans today and probably many other Europeans that think the USA should be tried for war criminals for bombing Germany into the ground.

Like that Polish lady was saying, they didn't learn, they just don't get it. But there is still hope because Saul of Tarsus didn't get it either until God got hold of him and knocked him on his butt!

May our faithful God have mercy on Europe and us as well. Not because we deserve but because we so desperately need it!

Great post, Deb.

BTW, my Mother worked for the War Production Board in D.C. during the war, and she said there were signs on the beaches near Quantico, "No Jews Allowed." Mom had several friends who were Jewish, and they all ignored the signs and went anyway. Nonetheless, it underscores the height of anti-Semitism at the time and how complicit our own country was.

[gma dolittle]

At times I am ashamed for being a Gentile. My heart goes out to the Jews both now and then. I used to work with a woman whose mother had been a CC victim. She was a hoarder. She had boxes from floor to ceiling of non pershible food. The mother said if you have never been really hungry, you would not understand. I have native American blood along with Irish and German. I am at times ashamed to be part white when I read of the horror of what whites did to natives. I am ashamed to be white when I think of the past slavery in America.

I do thank God for forgiving me and adopting me into Abraham's family. I am now an adopted Hebrew and a chosen child of God. God's will will be done, the Holocost happened to the Jews, but the AC's holocost will happen to the future saints that were left behind. grandma