Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the day is marked now each year on the 27th January as Holocaust Memorial Day (at least here in the UK). Although the camp was liberated and the Second World War in Europe was in its last few months, this day is one with mixed feelings as the horrors of the Holocaust and what happened to millions of not only Jews, but many other people, is remembered.
The Second World War and Holocaust Memorial day in general for me always brings up strong emotions. Most of my extended family come from Eastern Europe and mainly Poland and although they were not Jewish, many were taken to various concentration camps and some died during the war while others lived but with the horrors of what happened and what happened to them afterwards. Knowing some of this past of my relatives, and the fate of so many millions of others has always been difficult to process for me. At times I still find it so unbelievable that such atrocities could have been done by other human beings and less than a hundred years ago!
Today, being the 75th year anniversary, I felt it was doubly important to post something for this occassion. And so I’ve gone with a poem which I hope you will like. It may stir some emotions in some of you, it has for me while writing it, but I hope you do like it and it does have a generally positive message. ❤
An Important Time to Remember…
©The Strawberry Post
An important time to remember,
Those who were left behind,
As we promise we’ll never suffer,
The same fate of being so blind.
To mark out some as different,
To seperate, try to erase,
Those who do not fit,
The ideal of human race.
Cannot change what has been done,
But can learn and truly see,
That we are all so alike,
And deserve to all be free.
That not one is all above,
Each soul is just the same,
Inside there is no difference,
Regardless of skin or name.
An important time to remember,
To treat others with true kind,
And promise we’ll never suffer,
Past fate of being so blind.
What do you think of the poem? Are you commemorating this day in any way? Have any of your family or anyone you know had links to the Holocaust? Let me know what you think in the comments below 🙂
The Strawberry Post 
Beautiful poem.
It’s so sad what was done, and that the human race doesn’t seem to have learned from it.
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Thank you ❤️❤️❤️.
It really is sad, and the world seems to be heading backwards rather than moving forwards right now 😦
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Beautifully written. I was watching the news reporting on it this morning and it was really difficult to listen to the stories of people who survived. We can’t ever let anything like that happen again.
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Thank you ❤ Absolutely agree, it is heart breaking to hear what people went through. I really hope that people always remember so that it can never happen again.
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This is a beautiful tribute in memory and respect of all those this period in time has affected, not just those poor souls who were in camps, but those who lost loved ones or those who managed to escape but were forever traumatised. I find it hard to get my head around. The scale of it for a start, but how the hell could people go along with doing this to other human beings? It’s too awful to contemplate let alone to do it. This has got to be one of the biggest learning curves in history that I hope it never, ever repeated on any kind of scale 😢
Caz xx
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Thank you ❤ Yes, it's amazing to think that people have done this to people. That they somehow didn't see others ass human beings but as something else, it really is something that should never be forgotten.
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