tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54954812011-04-21T19:41:55.219-07:00My gut feelings and expressions about what I've learned of WWII concentration camps.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811391853781373068noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495481.post-1056080164201620482003-06-19T20:36:00.000-07:002003-06-19T21:12:25.053-07:00Bloody, thirsty, broken cross<br> <br />starve them, gas them, burn them Jews!<br> <br />Death, sweet peace at last. <br /><img src="C:\Documents and Settings\Yolonda\My Documents\My Pictures\swastica.bmp"><br> [Image taken from www.biblehelp.org/why.htm] <br>This picture is a swastica, an infamous symbol which has now become a symbol of hatred, destruction, and death, associated with the Nazis.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5495481-105608016420162048?l=lauranorris.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811391853781373068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495481.post-1056075066923567072003-06-19T19:11:00.000-07:002003-06-19T19:11:06.983-07:00Check this out: <a href="http://www.holocaust-history.org/~dkeren/camps/belsen/">Photographs from Belsen Concentration Camp: Victims, Perpetrators, Liberators</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5495481-105607506692356707?l=lauranorris.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811391853781373068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495481.post-1056074725569142902003-06-19T19:05:00.000-07:002003-06-19T19:09:05.103-07:00Torutured to death, made to work without food, beaten, abused, and seemingly forgotten, the Jews were massacred by the thousands. Seeing their pictures, my mouth dropped open, my insides froze. I literally could have spewed at the thought that those are real people whose bodies I am seeing so emaciated. <br />Skeletons. Nothing but bones with souls. <br> <br />I'd like to quote my friend, Micah, who is right now in Germany on a service mission: <br /><UL> We visited Buchenwald, a concentration camp, a <br />couple weeks ago as <br />well. I can't even describe some of the horrors those <br />prisoners endured. The <br />ovens where they burned people, the zoo that used to <br />sit just 20 feet from the <br />prison fence, the stories of Nazi torture, and the <br />pictures taken just after <br />the Americans arrived made me feel shame at just how <br />evil we humans can be at <br />times. <font color="purple"> Skeletons pushing skeletons...men with hollows <br />for eyes staring off <br />into space like they were without souls, or smiling, <br />actually smiling! at the <br />fence for an American photographer. I wondered how <br />they could smile after all <br />they had endured, and felt very humbled.</font> </UL> <br />Well said. We humans are amazing creations, capable of both great horror and great good. But, oh, the horror! <br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5495481-105607472556914290?l=lauranorris.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811391853781373068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495481.post-1056072789986814512003-06-19T18:33:00.000-07:002003-06-19T18:33:09.946-07:00I am almost speechless with disgust and horror.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5495481-105607278998681451?l=lauranorris.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811391853781373068noreply@blogger.com