Holocaust Remembrance Day

[One-Eye]

Remember, the Holocaust was the morbid equivalent of 2,000 WTCs. Those people were captured, dehumanized, tortured and murdered because of physical/mental abnormalities, criminal history, culture, or religion.

We can't forget.

*holds candle*

[Bandalero]

amen!

[call me andrew]

also dont forget there were 12million total victims. yes, 6 million were jews, but there were others. nazis hated blacks arabs gays gypsies (who are they anyway?) communists and asians.

[Johnny]

*hold a candle too*

[superrgirll]

my old algebra and geometry teacher (i dropped his class after the first week cause i couldn't stand him. best decision i ever made) says that people shouldn't make such a big deal about the halocaust and only about 100 people died.

this teacher is crazy. i heard a couple years ago he called a male student the devil because he had an earring.

[Johnny]

I heard a similar story. I remember my social studies teacher telling the class about some teacher that was telling his students that that the holocaust never happened and it was a lie. That Wanker

[One-Eye]

Gypsies are Romanians, and they are a group that has often been regarded as mysterious, strange, devil-worshipping, etc. Our common conception of the travelling fortune teller has some truth; gypsies used to travel around Europe making a living through mysticism and fortune telling. Their name came about because a few hundred years ago, Europeans thought everything strange, old, and mysterious came from Egypt, so they labeled the Romanians "Gypsies".

There's your history lesson.

[call me andrew]

those dudes are so cool!!

just think of how lame scooby doo would be without romainians

[Corey]

scooby doo is already lame

[emily]

I'm Romanian. So, yeah. Grandma was in Auschwitz.

[One-Eye]

[emily]

it's ok, she survived. wouldn't be here if she didn't.

[Sufjan Stevens]

That's still fucking horrible she had to be subjected to that.... < cringe >

[emily]

yeah, it is. she fortunately was liberated by the british in a warehouse. but they made her walk like ten miles barefoot on gravel. she partly survived because she was pretty and a photographer paid her to take photos of her to advertise his business.

[finding emo]

My grandma was in Bergen-Belsen, my grandfather was in Buchenwald, and my other gram was also in Buchenwald... My other grandfather was lucky and was born American. (I'm Jewish)

[happening fish]

Just to clarify, the gypsies aren't exactly Romanian. They are just sort of nomads who happen to be centered in Romania. Romanians are mostly fair-skinned and light-eyed people, and gypsies are tanned, dark, and usually very dirty. They're everywhere in Romania, in their little wagons and stuff, and selling onions and such in markets. The chic thing in Romania is to look down on them cause they are highly unaware of sanitation and they are VERY forward beggers. My grandma always yells at the younger beggars to go wash up and find a job but she always gives money to the old ladies because they are not young enough to work. It's quite neat, if you give an old gypsy lady some money she'll cross herself and say something to the effect of "God bless you child". They're neat people

[Joe Cooler]

Someday im gonna try to do the equiv of the walk of life. The walk Jewish groups take every year through Germany to remember. If what you see on that walk isnt proof enough that the holocaust then nothing is. In one of the death camps (auschwitz i think) they have like a two story mound of human ash sitting in a memorial of some sort. Its an open memorial though so it slowly grows smaller and smaller as the years go by.

[emily]

yeah, my grandma was in a concentration camp that started with a B too... I'm pretty sure it's Buchenwald, she wasn't in Birkenau. my dad is Romanian, not a gypsy, and he has tan skin and dark brown hair. my grandma also has black hair, but my grandpa looked a lot like me and had dirty blond hair.

[happening fish]

Yeah not all dark-skinned people are gypsies, but all gypsies are dark-skinned.