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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA thousand words
A woman cleans a Stolperstein, or "stumbling stone," placed in the sidewalk in front of houses where victims of the Holocaust lived before they were deported and killed by the Nazis....Often the argument for preserving Confederate statues and allowing Confederate flags is that we should not forget our history. In Germany, Nazi buildings are extremely hard to come by nearly all have been destroyed. Yet Germany certainly has not forgotten anything: There's just a recognition that remembering and memorializing are two different things.
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/08/16/543808019/the-view-of-charlottesville-from-berlin?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170816
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A thousand words (Original Post)
mia
Aug 2017
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H2O Man
(73,579 posts)1. Recommended.
Thank you.
rzemanfl
(29,566 posts)2. K&R. n/t
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. Recommended.
Imagine one of these stones for each African slave, and one of these stones for each member of the First Peoples killed by the colonists and Americans.
The path would be enormous.
mia
(8,361 posts)4. Would love to see that happen.
A path from Jamestown to Washington.
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)5. I would love to see the neo Nazi polishing them.
George II
(67,782 posts)8. Not six million.
Skittles
(153,171 posts)6. poignant read
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)7. Makes chills run up and down my spine.
I'm old enough to remember friends of my parents who would come to visit who had numbers tattooed on their arms in blue ink. For quite a number of years I wished I had never asked my parents about those tattoos.
George II
(67,782 posts)9. The mother of my Godmother had a tattoo on her arm. As a child, I never knew what it represented.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)11. I can't see the whole plaque,
but it looks like Else Luft was eighty-two years old when the Nazis deported her to Theresienstadt. Incredible.
Here lived and worked Erna Herrmann. Born 1898. Deported to Theresienstadt May 18, 1943. Died in Auschwitz.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)12. Still so sad - but it's good to never forget.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)13. "Remembering and memorializing are two different things."
Must often be repeated.
Thank you for posting this.