Sometimes I get inspired by the simplest things. Tonight I have been inspired by a butterfly. Well, not an actual one but by The Butterfly Project. You can click on the link for more information.
This project speaks to me for a couple of reasons on the knowledge that of the 6 million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, 1.5 million of them were children...CHILDREN!
The second reason is that the one thing that my Dad has known about his biological parents was that they were Jewish immigrants. He knows nothing much else about them. I have always wondered if they came to the U.S. to flea persecution? Did their families perish along with so many others? In essence, this is personal.
I have visited the Holocaust Museum of St. Louis and I met face to face with a survivor and heard her story. In fact, I worked for a survivor by the name of Barbara Grossberg.
This project puts focus on the children. These children who did not grow up and who did not get to play like other children. These children who were torn from the arms of the parents and never seen again. It pains me to think of the atrocity bestowed upon them. The least I can do (and you can too) is remember that the existed, remember that they were live human beings and make a butterfly.
The entire story is heart breaking sooo many people were murdered. What I HATE is the amount of USA influence that may have occurred during that period. Of course when many found out it was stopped, but it took so damn long. Some children were allowed to play, Twins. For some reason they had an obsession with twins. Scary. Plus many stories do not tell the real story. The real horror that little girls & boys put up with through the terror time.Breaks my heart...
ReplyDeleteThe twins were experimented on. Sick as can be.
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