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Holocaust Memorial Day : Benedict XVI in Auschwitz. The place where we are standing is a place of memory, it is the place of the Shoah. The past is never simply the past. It always has something to …More
Holocaust Memorial Day : Benedict XVI in Auschwitz.
The place where we are standing is a place of memory, it is the place of the Shoah. The past is never simply the past. It always has something to say to us; it tells us the paths to take and the paths not to take. Like John Paul II, I have walked alongside the inscriptions in various languages erected in memory of those who died here. All these inscriptions speak of human grief, they give us a glimpse of the cynicism of that regime which treated men and women as material objects, and failed to see them as persons embodying the image of God. Some inscriptions are pointed reminders. There is one in Hebrew. The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from t ...
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Where also are the plaques, monuments, and museums of those some 50,000,000 people who were murdered by Stalin from 1923-1950?