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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 12, 2019 17:24:41 GMT
What an incredibly thoughtful and beautiful video John. I was in Poland last year but I didn't get to visit Auschwitz but I will someday
Man's inhumanity to man and how easy it can creep in.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Dec 12, 2019 22:58:33 GMT
As a young boy I remember my dad telling me stories of World War 2 and also remember watching 'The World at War' on television showing the horror of war and particularly the dreadful and shocking footage of what took place in the concentration camps. I was very lucky to be born 4 years after the war ended and I've always wanted to go to Auschwitz and Birkenau to see for myself and to pay my respects. So I went this year on a cold misty day on November 23rd.
I've made this short slideshow of my photographs. I'll never forget that visit and the horror of what happened there which will stay with me forever.
I hope I've managed to capture the atmosphere from my visit while paying tribute to all those who died and suffered in Auschwitz and Birkenau. "I want to say to all people around the world - this should not happen again. I saw the faces of the people we liberated - they went through hell." Anatoly Shapiro, Jewish Red Army commander whose troops liberated the camp "It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity." Simone Veil, Auschwitz survivor and former French Health Minister "I have mixed feelings. Some can forgive, and some cannot. I can forgive, but with a cold heart." Greek Holocaust survivor Benjamin Capon Very moving John.
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 14, 2019 14:55:05 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 14, 2019 14:56:55 GMT
As a young boy I remember my dad telling me stories of World War 2 and also remember watching 'The World at War' on television showing the horror of war and particularly the dreadful and shocking footage of what took place in the concentration camps. I was very lucky to be born 4 years after the war ended and I've always wanted to go to Auschwitz and Birkenau to see for myself and to pay my respects. So I went this year on a cold misty day on November 23rd.
I've made this short slideshow of my photographs. I'll never forget that visit and the horror of what happened there which will stay with me forever.
I hope I've managed to capture the atmosphere from my visit while paying tribute to all those who died and suffered in Auschwitz and Birkenau. "I want to say to all people around the world - this should not happen again. I saw the faces of the people we liberated - they went through hell." Anatoly Shapiro, Jewish Red Army commander whose troops liberated the camp "It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity." Simone Veil, Auschwitz survivor and former French Health Minister "I have mixed feelings. Some can forgive, and some cannot. I can forgive, but with a cold heart." Greek Holocaust survivor Benjamin Capon Very moving John. Thank you. My visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau will stay with me for ever.
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 14, 2019 19:04:12 GMT
What an incredibly thoughtful and beautiful video John. I was in Poland last year but I didn't get to visit Auschwitz but I will someday
Man's inhumanity to man and how easy it can creep in. Thank you Patti, it is well worth visiting Auschwitz and Birkenau but be prepared to shocked and very saddened at the horror that happened there My son went a couple of years ago and said that there's nothing in the way of a contrast or distraction around the area - no shops or buildings - as it should be. He said he was numb for a while driving back. As you say, it stays with you forever.
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 15, 2019 7:50:06 GMT
My son went a couple of years ago and said that there's nothing in the way of a contrast or distraction around the area - no shops or buildings - as it should be. He said he was numb for a while driving back. As you say, it stays with you forever. Eldest Granddaughter went there on a school trip a couple of years ago and expressed similar feelings upon her return to these shores. Friend of my Father was an army motorbike messenger in WW2 and spent his service years in north Africa and Europe and was with a unit which liberated one of the camps and all he ever said was that the sense of utter inhumanity to fellow human beings would stay with him forever.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 27, 2020 11:44:09 GMT
The Liberation of Auschwitz 75 years on
Original photographs taken in 1945 alongside my own photographs taken in November 2019
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Post by bunkerfan on May 15, 2020 13:58:20 GMT
As the song goes--"Regrets, I've had a few." nonrabbit reminded me the other day of this video we put together 3 years ago and I missed a great opportunity to post it on V.E. Day last Friday so I hope you all don't mind seeing it again a week later.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 15, 2020 14:30:32 GMT
As the song goes--"Regrets, I've had a few." nonrabbit reminded me the other day of this video we put together 3 years ago and I missed a great opportunity to post it on V.E. Day last Friday so I hope you all don't mind seeing it again a week later. It's a beautiful video John and all you own handiwork
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Post by bunkerfan on May 15, 2020 19:26:41 GMT
As the song goes--"Regrets, I've had a few." nonrabbit reminded me the other day of this video we put together 3 years ago and I missed a great opportunity to post it on V.E. Day last Friday so I hope you all don't mind seeing it again a week later. It's a beautiful video John and all you own handiwork Hey, wait a minute, I remember you Standing over me in the video classroom making sure I did everything right
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Post by nonrabbit on May 16, 2020 16:53:12 GMT
It's a beautiful video John and all you own handiwork Hey, wait a minute, I remember you Standing over me in the video classroom making sure I did everything right That pic's making me look like one of the guests at the Swan and Royal and I'm not talking Churchill
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 8, 2020 14:28:59 GMT
Remembrance Sunday 2020"Rise And Fall" I've seen the sunlight shining on the valley I've seen the shadows darken on the deep I've seen the young men riding out for glory And broken in defeat There was an hour that never knew a gloaming*( twilight) The whole of life, enchanted in a day And we'll be there, forever in the places Where we used to be Passing the hedgerows, moving through the orchards Through the bocage and breaking out for Caen Dealing fear and all our dices loaded With the courage of the dawn And some will rise and some will fall To gain the world or lose it all And that time was mine to hear you when you called You were our youngest, brightest flower Walking side by side through our darkest hour And we'll take this cup, this portion evermore I've seen the last wave breaking on the beaches I've seen the angels crying on the wire I've seen the first star up and brightly shining Couldn't rise much higher Now we're waiting here not getting older But we can dream like we cannot believe With all those fools, those great historic moments That flatter to deceive And some will come and some will go To rise on wings in the skies of gold Or to fall down to the final, silent cold When I was young it burned so bright The only son, a rising Christ Now I'm left here in the fall out of that light The rise and fall The rise and fall fb.watch/1DKeZdruVG/Let me know if that link doesn't work - it does for me but I'm logged in to FB. It's an official Runrig Facebook video of a great performance of the song at Edinburgh castle. If it doesn't here's the song.
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 8, 2020 18:41:41 GMT
Remembrance Sunday 2020"Rise And Fall" I've seen the sunlight shining on the valley I've seen the shadows darken on the deep I've seen the young men riding out for glory And broken in defeat There was an hour that never knew a gloaming*( twilight) The whole of life, enchanted in a day And we'll be there, forever in the places Where we used to be Passing the hedgerows, moving through the orchards Through the bocage and breaking out for Caen Dealing fear and all our dices loaded With the courage of the dawn And some will rise and some will fall To gain the world or lose it all And that time was mine to hear you when you called You were our youngest, brightest flower Walking side by side through our darkest hour And we'll take this cup, this portion evermore I've seen the last wave breaking on the beaches I've seen the angels crying on the wire I've seen the first star up and brightly shining Couldn't rise much higher Now we're waiting here not getting older But we can dream like we cannot believe With all those fools, those great historic moments That flatter to deceive And some will come and some will go To rise on wings in the skies of gold Or to fall down to the final, silent cold When I was young it burned so bright The only son, a rising Christ Now I'm left here in the fall out of that light The rise and fall The rise and fall fb.watch/1DKeZdruVG/Let me know if that link doesn't work - it does for me but I'm logged in to FB. It's an official Runrig Facebook video of a great performance of the song at Edinburgh castle. If it doesn't here's the song. A lovely and fitting tribute nonrabbit. This wonderful piece of music recorded in 2018 from Elgar's Enigma variations "Nimrod 'The Hunter.'" It always brings a tear to my eye.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 8, 2020 20:30:22 GMT
A lovely and fitting tribute nonrabbit. This wonderful piece of music recorded in 2018 from Elgar's Enigma variations "Nimrod 'The Hunter.'" It always brings a tear to my eye. So moving Bunkerfan
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Post by newdayyesterday on Nov 10, 2020 9:54:17 GMT
Aye.....lest we ever forget indeed
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2020 6:48:25 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 11, 2020 10:58:19 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2021 7:16:04 GMT
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we will remember themOur own hero
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 11, 2021 7:37:59 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2022 7:23:09 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2023 7:53:14 GMT
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