Stories from WW2

NJFemmie · 04-13-2010, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Jet

I'm always very sorry about this. I grew up with Jewish people and I'm very sensitive about the holocaust and anything anti-semitic. The Jewish people I know, some of them orthodox and some holocaust survivors, had a great impact on me growing up. Thanks for sharing your story.

What is an interesting fact that a lot of people don't realize is -- it was not only the Jews Hitler had a penchant for killing. The people of Poland were basically enslaved. ALL Jews had a death sentence, along with the infirm, old, homosexual, Jewish sympathizers, etc... and some Jews and non-Jews- who were healthy enough to perform labor - were put to work in concentration camps. Many of them were killed - "just because". If you spoke against the Nazis, you were killed. If you looked at them funny, you were shot. If they woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day ... well, you get my drift.

My parents were not Jewish. To my knowledge, even though my mother's maiden name "could" be of Jewish decent - she was Catholic. I will never know about my ancestry - when my parents died, they took whatever memories were left of them to their graves.

I can certainly "understand" to a certain degree what it was like for everyone, especially the Jews during that time.

Andrew, Jr. · 04-13-2010, 11:47 AM

Milton's side of the family had relatives who ended up in c. camps. The stories they told make my blood boil, and then the tears come. I just don't understand hate, discrimination, or evil. It boggles my mind.

Milton also will speak very little of what he saw, and what happened when he came across the c. camps. They tore the soldiers up so horribly. Some of the men actually had mental breakdowns because of it.

Today the grass does not grow where the bodies were buried of those who were killed at Ausch. The Pope, when he went there a few years back, threw Holy Water on it, and prayed, but that was all. I am not sure if grass will ever grow there. It is like a continuous reminder of what happened by those who died.

There was one battle that Milton talks about constantly. It was between the US and German's. The German's were gathering the upper hand and were heading towards north towards Russia (I think). Milton said it was by far the second worst battle next to Normandy that he ever experienced. The cold was bitter, and there was no food, no cigarettes, no nothing. The soldiers took over towns, and ate/drank whatever they could find. The German's were using children as their tattletails (scouts). Innocent enough, yet, deceiving. So, we ended up having to kill children. In Milton's words, it was them or us.

Milton has night terrors and flashbacks to that battle. All those men do. It was a special order by our President (Truman at the time). Milton has medals and letters written by several presidents that are framed and hanging on his wall.

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Andrew, Jr. Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Me Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Over the Rainbow in a House Posts: 5,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,004 Thanked 5,249 Times in 2,216 Posts Rep Power: 0	Milton's side of the family had relatives who ended up in c. camps. The stories they told make my blood boil, and then the tears come. I just don't understand hate, discrimination, or evil. It boggles my mind. Milton also will speak very little of what he saw, and what happened when he came across the c. camps. They tore the soldiers up so horribly. Some of the men actually had mental breakdowns because of it. Today the grass does not grow where the bodies were buried of those who were killed at Ausch. The Pope, when he went there a few years back, threw Holy Water on it, and prayed, but that was all. I am not sure if grass will ever grow there. It is like a continuous reminder of what happened by those who died. There was one battle that Milton talks about constantly. It was between the US and German's. The German's were gathering the upper hand and were heading towards north towards Russia (I think). Milton said it was by far the second worst battle next to Normandy that he ever experienced. The cold was bitter, and there was no food, no cigarettes, no nothing. The soldiers took over towns, and ate/drank whatever they could find. The German's were using children as their tattletails (scouts). Innocent enough, yet, deceiving. So, we ended up having to kill children. In Milton's words, it was them or us. Milton has night terrors and flashbacks to that battle. All those men do. It was a special order by our President (Truman at the time). Milton has medals and letters written by several presidents that are framed and hanging on his wall.