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Originally Posted by JEK
I have walked the path of those terrible transports during my trips and entered that acursed gate to a place God daily mourns looking upon in my most humble opinion, mans inhumanity to man
I didn't... it was too hard for me because my Polish was extremely limited and I was alone... I just laid flowers to the monument of Janusz Korczak and the kids at the Jewish Cemetery on Ulica Okopowa in Warsaw, and called it a day.

Prejudices are natural and I will be the first to admit that I have them, but I also know, again on my own example, that knowledge dispels them. Learning about the group to which you are prejudiced, learning stories, specific things, will enable you to see that they are people just like you, and if you have the least spark of intelligence and humanity in you, it will make a difference.

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I didn't... it was too hard for me because my Polish was extremely limited and I was alone... I just laid flowers to the monument of Janusz Korczak and the kids at the Jewish Cemetery on Ulica Okopowa in Warsaw, and called it a day.

We all have to do what we feel comfortable with, I found the guides at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Terezin and Buchenwald quite helpful, they had many guides who were bi-linguial in numerous languages.

I agree with you about learning about others but also, it is what you are learning that matters, of course if one is being say taught a math course by a teacher that has limited comprehension in the subject matter the results will not be as beneficial as those who have a teacher with a better and more extensive grasp of the topic at hand. Also, learning is a two way street, if the one side of the street does not wish to budge but demands the other side of the street comform to their side, well, thats where the fur starts to fly at times... grin

Yes, people are all like us, it is what they choose to be that matters but if they refuse to change or wish to continue a path of negativity towards one due to whatever reason, well, then the part from scripture shake the dusk from your sandles and walk away kinda comes to my mind, you do your best in this life journey, we are all responsible for our own souls.

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Originally Posted by MariyaNJ
I just laid flowers to the monument of Janusz Korczak and the kids at the Jewish Cemetery on Ulica Okopowa in Warsaw, and called it a day.

Mariya,

Although I think I'd have gone on to the camps, it would almost certainly have had to be another day. Like you, after visiting that memorial, I'd have had to call it a day.

May the memory of Janusz Korczak and 'his children' be eternal!

Many years,

Neil


"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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