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Profound, if you think about it ( Jewish Holocaust) Posted 5/16/2008 6:30:12 PM I'm reading a book entitled, "LaLa's Story" A Memoir of the Holocaust written by LaLa Fishman & Steven Weingartner. The author penned a dedication at the beginning of the book, and it touched me in a most awe striking way. I found it very insightful and deep, if you really think about what this woman lived through and how she lost so many she loved (at the hands of the Nazi's during World War II during the Jewish Holocaust). Many times we hear the numbers of Jews exterminated like cattle, tortured and starved and oft times, it is merely a number because we were not personally touched by this genocide of modern times. However, listen to the author's words and take a moment to really think about each and every individual person that was murdered at the hands of the Nazis during the war. It's hard to wrap my brain around the immensity of it all~but for a moment, I was there as I read these words~and I felt the individuals with shattered bodies crying from the mass graves and the camps like Buchenwald and Auschwitz ... "This book is dedicated to the sacred memory of my beloved parents, Olga and Ilya, my sister, Rysia, my grandmother and granfather, and my aunts and uncles, and cousins who perished in the Second World War. May their descendants remember them always and know that they were once flesh and blood, drawing breath like the rest of us, living life in all its complexity, nurturing hopes and dreams for a future they never saw. We live in their future, and it is our solemn duty to ensure that they never disappear into our past. May the Soul of the Deceased Be Bound Up in the Life Eternal" Whoa, that's profound. (1) Comments

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