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A Visceral Visit




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angiekey




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Registered: February 2016
Location: Princeton (DFW) Texas
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Created for March 2022 This or That? Challenge #9b - Use alliteration in your title, caption or journaling

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While visiting Veronica in Portland, we stopped by the Oregon Holocaust Memorial. I'm fascinated by the different ways in which various cities and countries have chosen to remember the atrocity of Hitler's Holocaust. The Oregon memorial features a stone bench that sits behind a circular, cobblestoned area intended to simulate a town square. During the Holocaust, many Jewish families were gathered in town squares before being loaded onto trains and taken to concentration camps. The square contains scattered bronzes of shoes, glasses, a suitcase, and other items to represent everyday objects that were left behind. A cobblestone walkway with inlaid granite bars to simulate railroad tracks leads to a wall of history panels and a soil vault panel with interred soil and ash from six killing-center camps: Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. | When we lived in Stuttgart, I visited Dachau. I've walked through the showers-cum-gas chambers. I've stood before the crematorium furnaces. I've seen the photos of a room stacked nearly to the ceiling with corpses and then walked into that same room, cavernously empty. And while that experience helped me know what happened from 1933-1945, there was something about this memorial in Oregon that hit me on a visceral level. Seeing those bits and pieces of ordinary human lives interrupted so violently takes 'knowing' to 'feeling'. It was the single baby shoe that hit me hardest ... like a punch to the gut. Bravo to the designers of this memorial. It's as Elie Wiesel said: 'For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.'
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SweetChar

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Registered: February 2020
Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 5,248
Fri March 4, 2022 6:52pm

Wow! What a powerful memorial. Thank you for including your journaling...I would have wanted to read it. You've captured the feeling so well in your pictures, layout and journaling...it really touched me.
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norton94

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Registered: December 2007
Posts: 6,754
Fri March 4, 2022 7:30pm

Amazing page bearing witness yourself to the atrocities. Thank you for sharing your page. It is really poignant and timely. Amazing work
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Scrap-therapy

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Registered: November 2009
Location: France (Loire Valley)
Posts: 2,339
Mon March 7, 2022 6:37am

I saw your layout in the sneek Peak Angie and I have to share it with my mom as it touch us so much.
I was curious to see where it was. I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau some years ago and I still remember all the awful things there was. It's a place I will never forget and most important I want to never forget what happens because it's something the World should never forget!
I'm so touched by your story and the elements you took i picture and I feel the visceral feeling you talk so well! This is really poignant!
Thank you so much for sharing this layout and make us discover this Memorial, so important and so powerful!
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