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So, so, so many parallels. I made the comment to my DiL that history repeats itself. She said it doesnt necessarily repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. I could hear quite a few groups around me saying what I was thinking. Especially the very first bit about how it started. Substitute a few names, and it could have been an article written about today.
Im glad I went. I think everyone should have to view the exhibit, and more importantly, read the placards.
marked50
(1,377 posts)Here is a list of some around the world posted by the United Nations. The list is probably not complete as I know of at least one other that I visited. It was in the Imperial War Museum in London. It was back in 2001 so it might not be there anymore.
https://www.un.org/en/holocaustrememberance/additionalresources/museums
Anne Frank House (Netherlands)
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (Poland)
Bergen Belsen Memorial Museum (Germany)
Budapest Holocaust Memorial Center (Hungary)
Dachau concentration camp Memorial (Germany)
Ghetto Fighters' Museum in Israel (Israel)
Holocaust Museum in Curitiba (Brazil)
House of the Wannsee Conference (Germany)
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (USA)
Kazerne Dossin (Belgium)
Le Memorial de la Shoah (France)
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (Canada)
Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (USA)
Památnik Terezín (Czech Republic) - (Terezin Memorial)
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (China)
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (South Africa)
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (United Kingdom)
The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (Norway)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USA)
Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center (Israel)
ShazzieB
(16,703 posts)It's located in Skokie, IL, a suburb north of Chicago, which used to have the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the U.S. (or so I've read]. I don't know how many survivors there still are in Skokie, since many have obviously died by now, but when I went there a couple of years ago, I saw people (either museum staff or volunteers) wearing name tags that identified them as such. It gave me a lump in my throat.
It's a very, very nice museum. I love it, and would visit often or even volunteer if I lived close enough. Here's the website if anyone is interested: https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/
Old Crank
(3,692 posts)Berlin. Monument for the Holocaust along with the Topography of Terror.
Munich has the Jewish Museum and the national Jewish document center on the site of the former Brown house.
Mosby
(16,438 posts)You didn't say in your post.
WarGamer
(12,530 posts)I don't see the comparison... at all.
And I've studied history for 50 years.
speak easy
(9,352 posts)Is this Nazi enough for you? "Officers in tactical gear going into communities" dragging people out of their homes to take them to mass detention camps?
Youre talking about officers in tactical gear going into communities, being videotaped in the streets, putting kids in car seats, carrying baby formula. Then what do you do with those families? said Jason Houser, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements chief of staff from January 2022 until March 2023. Are you going to go into neighborhoods in Philly, New York, Baltimore and start tugging people out of communities? Thats what they want. It puts law enforcement and the communities at risk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/20/trump-mass-deportations-immigration/
WarGamer
(12,530 posts)The Anti-Defamation League is calling on the Lincoln Project, a super PAC launched by a group of never Trump Republicans in 2019, to pull an ad that draws parallels between Donald Trumps presidential campaign and Adolf Hitlers regime in Nazi Germany.
The minute-long ad, titled Translation and released on Friday, features Trumps promises to reissue a 2020 executive order targeting rogue bureaucrats and corrupt actors overlaid on historic footage of Nazi-aligned German forces, and Jews being beaten down by Nazi thugs during Hitlers rule. The video part of a series highlighting Trumps potential anti-democratic agenda in a second term contrasts Trumps commitment to forming a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with visuals of Nazi loyalists giving salutes.
In a statement shared by email, an ADL spokesperson said the comparison denigrates the memory of the 6 million and trivializes the horrific events of the Holocaust.
The ADL urged the Lincoln Project to pull the ad and to refrain from using Nazi analogies in the future.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/579381/trump-hitler-lincoln-project-ad-translation-adl/
I agree with the ADL... these comparisons trivialize the actual events and horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust.
speak easy
(9,352 posts)is not the same as your statement "don't see the comparison... at all".
If dragging a million people out of their homes to mass detention camps, does not ring a bell, nothing will. They will be targeted by race - latinos without 'papers'. No these camps will not be extermination camps - neither were the first concentration camps - the final solution did not get truely get underway until fall 1941
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overview
No comparison at all? Really?
keithbvadu2
(37,108 posts)woodsprite
(11,949 posts)Was nazis marching in uniform, some with torches, some carrying their flag, and singing. It reminded me of the march held in Charlottesville and the pic you posted.
keithbvadu2
(37,108 posts)Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who would try to deny it.