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[eumelia]

hagar_972 wrote a beautiful post about Holocaust Memorial Day

Here's an excerpt of what she wrote:

How do I paint to you a world without great-grandparents, without the brothers and sisters and cousins of your grandparents, without even cemeteries? How do I let you understand this wish of two generations before me, to have been born from the sea, to lose in its waves the past, because the past is murder and hatred, your neighbours turning in your parents and you hiding in the attic for three years eating potato peels, the past is death marches and public tombs?

She also trasnlated this post of mine.

Here's the body of the text:

"Memorial Day songs on the radio are simultanously beautiful and depressing.
Fun, as they say.

I thought i'd be writing some post about the meaning of humanity, about mercy, history and history repeating itself and how people never learn from history or from the mistakes with which we have to live, but I don't need a Holocaust Day for that, so perhaps on another day, when I don't feel so optimistic.
Yes, optimistic. Surprising, isn't it?

Today at work - I am taking care of a six-months-old baby - I heated up her bottle and then I realized it was almost ten, and I didn't know what to do. I figured it's only a couple of minutes, she can wait while I stand at the siren.
Only bummer, just then she started to cry.
So I picked her up - just as the siren started - and as she calmed down once I held her, I just stood in place holding her, rocking gently from side to side to keep her calm.

I have to say it was something, so whisper a lullyby for a baby during the memorial siren for those who were murdered in the Holocaust.
I am very glad to have held all this potential in my arms as we all grieved for all that was lost.

So yeah, I am optimistic."

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[hagar-972.livejournal.com]

I spent half a day writing that post, with about three drafts. Big depressing Ouch, it was, but I just had to get that Remember across.

(And yeah, I really wanted to translate those texts.)