Holocaust memorial day, Monday the 27th January

I take it then Paull you will not be attending any Holocaust Memorial Events. It isn't compulsory. I myself cannot find a local event - seems where I am living now doesn't hold any.

Only point I would make, and continue to make, the holocaust happened, as with many such incidents, at the time of a war, it wasn't part of the war. It had been their intention to do this before war started, and they carried on the process regardless, with the battlefronts hundreds of miles away. The allies arrive at the camps after the deed had been done.

It is widely reported that death hangs in the air in these places, as if it can never be cleansed away. Thousands of all nationalities have made the pilgrimage, and indeed groups of British politicians went there this year.

If it makes you feel better you can claim the stockpiles of shoes, false teeth, old suitcases etc are all a sham, if it gives you any satisfaction. But someonhow nothing gets rid of the sense of death concentrated in one place, even seventy years on.

If I may quote Martin Niemoller, a protestant pastor who spent seven years in german concentrations camps because he was an outspoken critic of the ***. He was imprisoned before the war started, as were already many jews.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out.-- Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out. --- Because I was not a Trade Unionist

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out.. -- Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me. -- and there was no-one left to speak for me".

Say what you like Paull. But some at least will see the importance of remembering.

I take it then Paull you will not be attending any Holocaust Memorial Events. It isn't compulsory. I myself cannot find a local event - seems where I am living now doesn't hold any.

Only point I would make, and continue to make, the holocaust happened, as with many such incidents, at the time of a war, it wasn't part of the war. It had been their intention to do this before war started, and they carried on the process regardless, with the battlefronts hundreds of miles away. The allies arrive at the camps after the deed had been done.

It is widely reported that death hangs in the air in these places, as if it can never be cleansed away. Thousands of all nationalities have made the pilgrimage, and indeed groups of British politicians went there this year.

If it makes you feel better you can claim the stockpiles of shoes, false teeth, old suitcases etc are all a sham, if it gives you any satisfaction. But someonhow nothing gets rid of the sense of death concentrated in one place, even seventy years on.

If I may quote Martin Niemoller, a protestant pastor who spent seven years in german concentrations camps because he was an outspoken critic of the ***. He was imprisoned before the war started, as were already many jews.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out.-- Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out. --- Because I was not a Trade Unionist

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out.. -- Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me. -- and there was no-one left to speak for me".

Say what you like Paull. But some at least will see the importance of remembering.