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« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2011, 01:22:11 PM »
powerful pictures. i have visited Krakow before when i was 17 as a part of school delegation to study history, for me it was intense as i am Jewish and my maternal line comes from Poland. to walk those streets, to hear the language , to read it. people would try to speak to me all the time because i understood some polish and could reply in Russian and i learned many things, in some parts of Poland old women looked at me as if i were a ghost . i couldn't help thinking about my grandma R.I.P whose whole family was murdered by the local assistants of the Nazis. Holocaust could not happen if the Germans wouldn't have had an assistance from the local population 
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« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2011, 06:57:33 PM »
Eye-opening pics SP!   th_bf
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« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2012, 09:47:25 AM »
Excellent photography here. Very powerful. Thank you for the upload.
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« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2012, 05:06:15 AM »
Quote from: AMonk on March 08, 2008, 09:31:54 AM
For myself, I don't "do" funerals....and I NEVER, ever go to viewings.

Sorry...... offtopic



Sorry to read that.   Life is like a coin  - it has three sides.  The good, the bad and the ugly.

You have to embrace it all. Life has a way of throwing things at us and keeps repeating until that particular lesson is learnt.  Very important in my book to see all things.  No need to wallow in it but important to see it as it is, otherwise it is all too easy to get a warped picture of reality. 

To me its like protecting your child from the dark side in the world and giving them the illusion that it doesn't exist - it just isn't fair to them. one day they have to confront it on their own grounds, and if we havent accustomed them to what is real, then you are doing them a huge disservice.

I know you actually believe this stuff Amonk, just that its something im a bit passionate about  th_ak
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« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2012, 11:40:53 AM »
@ Fox -- My comment was made in response to a now-deleted portion of the Post.
FYI -- My "favourite" era of history is WWII.  I have even taught this Topic for "O" Level students.  I have myriad books, films, etc about it (including copies of at least 2 films shot when the Allies first went into the death camps) th_ao th_ap th_a which I shared with my students, and encouraged them to borrow.                   
I still do not go to viewings.  Not my mother, not my father, not my stepson.  Yes, I went to their funerals.  But I (still) do not go to any other funerals unless I absolutely "have" to attend.

@ Slim -- my apologies for the HighJacking of your Thread.  This is a powerful set of images.
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