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70 Years Ago this day

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And today is the 89th anniversary of my Dad's natal event. :friendly_wink:

Right now he cruising the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore with my sister (she just sent me this photo).

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aeronca65t said:
And today is the 89th anniversary of my Dad's natal event. :friendly_wink:

Right now he cruising the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore with my sister (she just sent me this photo).
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Hey Nial today is also my dad's birthday. My birthday is January 25 and I remember yours is close to that date. Could we be brothers? :smile:
 
I've read in a couple texts that when Hitler saw what happened to Mussolini, he vowed never to let "the mob" kill him and attack his body.
 
aeronca65t said:
...and by the way, when I was a little kid, my Dad actually taught me a ribald song making fun of Hitler and Mussolini (starting with....."Whistle While You Work....." )

Elliot: We are almost ~Twin Sons of Different Mothers~! :friendly_wink:

I was born Jan 22 (1951). But my granddaughter was born Jan 25.
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When I was a kid my Dad took our family on a history tour of Europe that included Dachau and Anne Franke's house. Big impact on a young man.
 
I've also been in the Ann Frank house. You are right Bas, something very moving indeed.
Nial- your dad looks terrific!
 
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Gliderman8 said:
I've also been in the Ann Frank house. You are right Bas, something very moving indeed.
Nial- you dad looks terrific!
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So was standing in front of the ovens at Dachau and knowing what had happened there.
 
Basil said:
So was standing in front of the ovens at Dachau and knowing what had happened there.
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Yeah, no doubt.

My father-in-law (who is now 91) was a young US Army soldier when he walked though the Buchenwald camp just as it was being liberated. I am apparently the only person in our family that he has talked to about it.
 
Get to the Holocaust
Museum in DC if you haven't been there. I made it a point to take my kids when they were old enough.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Get to the Holocaust
Museum in DC if you haven't been there. I made it a point to take my kids when they were old enough.
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It's pretty amazing... the way you descend through the building.
I've also been to Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ann Frank house. Stirring places that all should see..
Deciding it was time to go, my dad (then 18) and family escaped from Berlin in 1938.
 
I spoke with one of the volunteer guides at the Holocaust Museum. She told me when her husband was liberated, he only weighed 95 lbs. He spent many months in a hospital after his liberation. His camp jacket hangs on the wall in the museum.
 
On the top floor of the museum is an amazing library. The Germans were excellent at keeping records, and anyone can visit so-as to find family in log-books. I found 3 family from my father's mother's side that all died in Auschwitz. It was easy (with the help of a librarian) to pull out a big, leather, hand-recorded book.
 
Both of Mitsy's parents had to dodge the Russians and the Nazis as teenage kids. Some hair-raising tales from both of them.
 
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