I just found this post, and I need to reblog it, because it is powerful and crucial for us to read.
Regular Sunday Announcements are in process and will post later today, but yesterday was International Holocaust Rememberence Day. I share the poem of a child imprisoned and murdered at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. We remember it with the hope that there will never be another genocide and that children of every race, country and creed will be allowed to fulfill their promise, to grow up, to grow old and to die in God’s time. Even as we do, there are genocides currently happening around the world, ten of which are full-blown. Ironically, “prominent scholars of the international law crime of genocide and human rights authorities take the position that Israel’s policies toward the Palestinian people could constitute a form of genocide.” Details HERE. May all sentient beings find peace.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
by Pavel Freidman
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
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A powerful poem Charles, thank you for sharing it!
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You are very welcome.
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Heartbreaking.
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Yes, it is.
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Such a moving poem. I recently read ‘Schindler ‘s List. So sad and so unbelievable what man does to fellow man. And, yes, the atrocities continue. Sad.
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Yes, and we must always learn from the past and try to prevent them again in the present and future.
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Agreed, unfortunately mankind has been saying that forever. Well, we can keep trying, right? Have a great day!
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Yes, we must always keep trying.
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So very sad
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Yes, it is.
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That poem title became the title of a book, I don’t know if it is still in print, which is a collection of art and writings of children in the camps. When I first learned of the book I managed to track down a used copy. Imagine what the children in cages along your southern border might leave? Thanks.
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I completely agree with the connection you make.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing this beautiful work. So sad.
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You are very welcome.
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This makes my blood run cold, Charles. I am currently researching the South African concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War, these were the first ever, too awful for words.
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Yes, they were horrific.
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My heart aches for those then and those now being killed in the name of what???
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Regardless of the reason given, it is always wrong and evil.
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