Thank you for this post.

I will always remember.

My Marine Raider dad fought the Japanese on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa, to name a few. I know that both of them would be horrified to see the President of the United States embracing fascism, authoritarianism, and kowtowing to dictators the way the thing currently infesting the White House is doing.

my mother was the only one to survive her family of 5..my father and his 3 brothers survived but his parents, sisters, grandparents, nieces, nephews all gassed...my mother never recovered so overwhelmed by guilt for living ...my father moved on in a way..I'm 70 years old and I can still recite from memory the numbers branded on their arms

I'm so sorry--your poor mom. Survivor's guilt is a terrible thing, especially since she was a complete innocent. Thank you for sharing.

My grandfather escaped Poland six weeks before the invasion. He never saw most of his family again.

Just to avoid any confusion, there are two places in Europe called "Galicia".

The town of Rohatyn is currently in western Ukraine. When the photo was taken, it would have been part of Poland.

The other Galicia is in Spain, north of Portugal.

By Barbara Sonek

... is what Nazis do ...

Art, music, poetry, science, medicine, philosophy, empathy. I grieve for what we've lost.

What great dreams were snuffed out so early? What could all of these children (and so many, many more) have become? What could they have done, and how could they have changed the world in ways we can hardly even imagine?

So much lost, for nothing but evil...

teachers. People who contributed to the world and made the world a better place. Future mothers and fathers. Who knows if the cure for cancer did with some of these children?

Evil. Pure evil.

And too many still try to say "it didnt happen".

It boggles my mind, today and then that anyone could kill little children and still live with themselves. Anyone really, but little kids?

....Auchwitz/Birkenau. It was the most emotional experience outside of love that I’ve ever had. I couldn’t finish the tour of Auchwitz. I cried walking around Birkenau.