International memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.
In 2025 International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be monday 27 january.
He was a gambler, who loved living on the edge. He loved outsmarting the ss. I would not be alive today if it wasn't for Oscar Schindler. To us he was our God, our Father, our protector.
Oskar Schindler not only saved the lives of 1200 Jews, he saved our faith in humanity.
Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.
The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map.
The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews? ' The real question is" Why aren't all the Christians here?
But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocaust was the work merely of a well-armed minority who didn't do as much harm as is claimed-and likewise, to argue that the Irish Famine was either an inevitability or the fault of the Irish-is to say that both were mere unreliable rumors, and not the great motors of history they so obviously proved to be. It suited me to think so at the time, but still I believe it to be true, that if there are going to be areas of history which are off-bounds, then in principle we are reduced to fudging, to cosmetic narrative.
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.