General Chat

Just watching this - how incredibly moving - I'm sat here in tears. Particularly as it follows three teenagers, just in the process of applying to universities, on a visit to the camp. They have my utmost admiration for wanting to be there and feel some of what happened. And the death statistics are horrendous. I pray that all those who lost their lives in this most terrible way are resting in peace in a better place.

Mandy I would agree it was very upsetting . I can remember my mother crying when the news was made known and pictures released. Iwas about 13/14 and it has remained with me ever since. *It could have been prevented had the worlds population taken more notice. Rupert Bear.

Mandy It was very moving and it also made me very angry. Although I was involved in WW2 it made me feel I would like to wipe out a few more nazis although there must be very few of them left now. The most moving piece was Goretski's symphony. Who was the wonderful singer, do you know? len

Len Sorry, the name of the soloist went up too quickly at the end, but he was a member of the Zemel Choir. Their website is www.the-zemel-choir(.)org. In the photograph on the home page, the soloist is second from the right in the back row. Mandy :)

I've always thought it a very poignant subject, but one that also made me very angry at the perpetrators. However, it was always something that had been "in the news" and "in the war", before I was born. Then about 10 years ago my sister-in-law from London celebrated her birthday in a German restaurant in London. My maiden surname is also a Jewish name, and the party was booked in that name. My brother didn't think anything of it. During the evening there was a German group sat near us, with one person in particular looking over at us with absolute loathing. I thought it was me being paranoid, but a lot of the others noticed it, too. I later learned that he was a Nazi supporter. That was a real eye-opener to me, and very scary. He made no secret of his feelings, yet we'd done nothing wrong.

A close friend of mine, a Jewish girl who was sent to London in 1938 but who lost her parents, committed suicide last year as she was too unhappy about all her lost relatives. The film made me realise more fully how she must have been suffering. Len

Len, that is so sad, Lucia

Thought it was appropriate to nudge this one up today, with no apologies for doing so. Mandy