27 Jan 2023 45 Comments
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Lest we ever forget or worse still deny.
Rounded up beaten into compliance
Herded onto trains, treated worse than cattle.
Sorted to the left or the right no point to defiance.
Death or slave labour, hunger a constant battle.
Shot or beaten at a soldiers whim
Deemed subhuman because you were a Jew.
The race or religion may change but it ever was and is… nothing is new.
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Jan 27, 2023 @ 13:31:40
It was a terrible time when those in power lost all that is good in human beings. I pray that such times will never come again.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 13:57:51
I fear to a certain extent those times have never gone away just the names , religions and nations change 💜💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 15:09:11
I agree and that is very unfortunate.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:31:21
Yes indeed 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 13:37:57
Oh Willow. It’s so sad isn’t it. How can be humanity be so cruel?
Jan 27, 2023 @ 13:51:16
I really don’t know but man is such a wicked species really and it never ever learns 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:30:53
😢 I know… money and power are terrible motivatiors.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:31:31
Yes Money is God!
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:35:26
Their God, not ours…
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:51:41
Yes indeed 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:18:37
Sadly, I don’t think humans have changed and this could happen again
Jan 27, 2023 @ 14:29:37
They have not have they ? It’s been this way since time began or at least since man first walked the earth , it still continues and sadly it always will…. Humankind never learns. 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 21:24:17
Your comment is very true. Many years ago, I was instrumental in getting a Bosnian Muslim refugee, who had been imprisoned in a concentration camp by Serb nationalists, to speak at a Holocaust commemmoration sponsored by the local council, but with a mainly Jewish audience. He spoke movingly and simply. I looked to see how the audience – mainly older Jews – was reacting. Their faces said, “It still happens”.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 21:48:59
Yes it’s so sad you can pick any country in the world today and there will be mistreatment of humans by humans to a lesser or higher degree. Our species never learns. Thank you for relating your story. 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 15:08:21
I don’t understand why everyone of us does not appreciate life in all of its forms. People can be heartless. The pain and suffering from the Holocaust will last for generations and generations. Some families completely destroyed. The pain of those who escaped it is indescribable. In high school we watched a black and white film called The Night and the Fog. It was the most horrific thing I had ever seen in my young life. I will never forget and will never deny.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:33:52
I am so grateful that there are people like us who will not forget. Like the wonderful Lilley who at 98yrs is using tictok to educate whole new generations.
Jan 28, 2023 @ 14:13:06
What a wonderful video, Willow. Thank you for sharing it.
Jan 28, 2023 @ 14:17:07
Such awful experiences and yet she is sharing and teaching still 💜💜
Jan 28, 2023 @ 15:17:47
❤️
Jan 27, 2023 @ 15:21:15
😦 I’m glad to hear my kids’ schools still cover this. It’s important we learn from history.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:30:38
Yes we must never forget 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 15:31:42
It should always be remembered but alas, the survivors are now few and far between.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:28:57
Yes indeed but we must keep it in view this wonderful woman Lilley is doing her best .
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:16:22
Lest we forget 💛
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:25:15
Bless 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:26:34
There’s such a lot to remember. It seems as though the people with the power to stir up more genocides and hatreds have forgotten. Or more likely don’t care.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:30:07
Yes it has always been that way and always will but we must keep the memories alive 💜
Jan 28, 2023 @ 09:46:02
I don’t think it’s an inevitability. We know what we have to do, start shouting when these ideas appear rather than kid ourselves they’ll just go and play quietly together in a corner.
Jan 28, 2023 @ 09:55:28
Yes indeed we do need to shout! 💜💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:33:03
I watched an interesting fiction show on Netflix called Hunters, where a group of Jewish people hunt down Nazis. Al Pacino was in it, and I thought the acting was great.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:26:04
I know the show , excellent and probably based on the truth 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 16:59:37
Season 1 seemed like the truth but when they added Adolph Hitler in season 2, that was more fantasy.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 17:54:08
Yes indeed 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 19:09:56
We have to make sure the next generation doesn’t forget. My children are the grandchildren of a survivor but they don’t seem to understand it wasn’t that long ago. Very frustrating.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 19:47:52
Sadly they think it’s ancient history don’t they 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 20:56:49
Hi Willow, A beautiful poem. It is so painful to think mankind did this. We can be truly great and utterly unspeakable.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 21:21:41
Yes sadly we can 💜
Jan 27, 2023 @ 21:37:48
We cannot forget. We cannot allow deniers to sway opinion.
Jan 27, 2023 @ 21:44:45
No never , never 💜
Jan 28, 2023 @ 16:45:17
Never forget!
Jan 28, 2023 @ 16:53:22
Never never
Jan 30, 2023 @ 01:18:16
This is a beautiful tribute
Jan 30, 2023 @ 07:04:48
We must never forget or deny.💜
Jan 31, 2023 @ 17:10:31
A powerful tribute to the Holocaust, Willow. I brought me out in goosebumps.
Jan 31, 2023 @ 17:11:43
Such a painful subject 💜