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Did anyone see Songs of praise on Sunday at 6pm? It was very sad, a college group from the UK visited Auschwitz and there was huge piles of shoes, hair, false limbs, toys, suitcases and cyclone B canisters. Each tin of gas represents thousands of people being killed. It had me in tears the way they showed everything.

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I didn't see that. There is a documentary on tomorrow night (US) that I'd like to catch called From Swastika to Jim Crow. It talks about survivors who later became teachers and leaders in the Civil Rights movement.

There will be a memorial day on the 27th in the UK. At the moment there is a programme on BBC2 on Tuesdays about Auschwitz (sorry about the spelling) which is a documentary on the holacaust, do you get that in the US?

I get BBC from cable. BBC2 (?) I've never heard of. I'll check my listings later today and see if it's on over here.



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It's on at about 9pm here.

Aura wrote: Did anyone see Songs of praise on Sunday at 6pm? It was very sad, a college group from the UK visited Auschwitz and there was huge piles of shoes, hair, false limbs, toys, suitcases and cyclone B canisters. Each tin of gas represents thousands of people being killed. It had me in tears the way they showed everything.

:yh_sad


Pity we would not get that kind of quality TV over here yet maybe in a few years it will show up. We always seem to get these things after they originate elsewhere. It sounds facinating. Likely would have had me in tears too.

What is really disturbing is that in these days and ages there are people out there that don't believe this horrific event ever took place.

Aura wrote: It's on at about 9pm here.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/pr ... 4_43327_50

folks - again, for some reason threads are being created in the 'request a new forum here' area. i don't know why. but each time you post here, the FG admins are alerted, because.....well, because someone is 'requesting a new forum here'. but you're not. so please - find an appropriate area on forumgarden, and start your thread there. thanks.

Aura wrote: Did anyone see Songs of praise on Sunday at 6pm? It was very sad, a college group from the UK visited Auschwitz and there was huge piles of shoes, hair, false limbs, toys, suitcases and cyclone B canisters. Each tin of gas represents thousands of people being killed. It had me in tears the way they showed everything.

:yh_sad Full marks to the BBC :-6

The people who don't belive shoould visit the camps, perhaps they don't want to belive. By the way' if I wanted to start a new conversation and can't click on new thread, then how should I do this? Thank you.

minks wrote: Pity we would not get that kind of quality TV over here yet maybe in a few years it will show up. We always seem to get these things after they originate elsewhere. It sounds facinating. Likely would have had me in tears too.

What is really disturbing is that in these days and ages there are people out there that don't believe this horrific event ever took place.
There is a man who owns an art gallery in a little town in Virginia. The name of the town is Edinburg. He is a concentration camp survivor. Lost many relatives in the camps. His art work reflects the feelings he has because of the events He also travels around the US speaking to groups in schools about the holocaust. ,

That was a very interesting documentary but I seem to remember that they implied that it was the Jews themselves who took the money , jewellery, etc off the other inmates and kept it for themselves. Is this really true?

Also, did they really say that the place was burnt to the ground before it was liberated so nobody could actually prove what it had been like, or did I just misunderstand that?

Thank you

Aura wrote: By the way' if I wanted to start a new conversation and can't click on new thread, then how should I do this? Thank you.


Good question Aura...it's one of those things everybody thinks you know, but you don't, since no one ever told you. It's like this...say I wanted to talk about "antigravity" I would go to the Science and technology forums, To do that, you click on the little tree at the upper left hand corner of your screen that shows you where you are right now. Click "forumGarden" That takes you to the main page.

From there scroll down to the appropriate forum, "Science and Technology," click on it. Inside the Science forum are all the threads currently active. Now look up at the top left hand corner of this page, there's a button called "New Thread" That's the one you want!

I took a class in college called "The Holocaust" History 114. We had actual holocaust survivors come to talk to us every day. it was awe-inspiring, and nightmarish at the same time.

One guy said the only toilets were open trenches 20 feet deep. To use it you had to back up to it and squat. Meanwhile the guards indulged in their favorite passtime...trying to sneak up on you and push you in.

If you fell in, they urinated on you, then laughed as you slowly starved to death, waist deep in urine and feces. Dead bodies floated all around you in the muck.

Man's inhumanity to Man knows no boundries.

john8pies wrote: That was a very interesting documentary but I seem to remember that they implied that it was the Jews themselves who took the money , jewellery, etc off the other inmates and kept it for themselves. Is this really true?



Also, did they really say that the place was burnt to the ground before it was liberated so nobody could actually prove what it had been like, or did I just misunderstand that?



Thank you Jewish prisoners were assigned to sort through the belongings of the newly-arrived. it was an area of the camp they called "canada". they placed all valuables in a large locked box in the center of the sorting room. except what the nazi gaurds stole directly, which was plenty. especially portable things like jewelry. it was not the Jewish prisoners stealing. they were forced into that job. and auschwitz was a huge complex comprising 45 camps. no, they couldn't burn it down. what they did try to do was dig up all the bodies that had not been cremated and try to burn them all in huge fires from hell. :-1

We must all learn from history