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Just because there were other groups than the Jews
persecuted under the Reich does not mean the Jews suffered any less and
does not make my relatives any less dead, and all that rang very true to me
at Buchenwald.
-How were expectations of the visit met or not met?
I was very happy with the behavior of the group. We were very supportive of
each other and respectful; I was very proud. Other than that everything was
pretty much like I'd expected.
-At this point, what do you feel the purpose(s) of concentration camp
visits are?
"So that the generation to come might know, the children, yet to be born,
that they too can rise up and declare to their children." Something like
that, that's what the Jewish memorial at Buchenwald says. It's about never
forgetting. It's not like reading a history book; it's about standing on
the very ground where these things happened; the feelings of evil and
horror and death never go away from a place like that, and in order to make
sure it never happens again everybody, on either side of the issue, should
stand in a place like that and feel such horror.
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