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[arabianrose]

my sister is entering her third week studying the Holocaust in her english class ... She not only had to know about Anne Frank, but she also had to know about Anne Frank's father, mother, cousin, teddy bear, all their places of birth, all their occupations, her father's friends, her mother's friends, her mother's uncle sister and brother and their

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[alixkat]

Until about six months ago I didn't know about something that is called "The Forgotten Holocaust" which was the genocide of the ethnic Poles and basically my mother's family. I'm 27 and I had to find-out about it on a History Table at Border's

[demondoll2001]

I agree with you and posh_cookie.

[arabianrose]

it really was a breath of fresh air reading this post ... i agree with you and yet, all I can do is *Siiiighhh*

[arabianrose]

You haven't metioned anything I haven't already heard, but honestly, there's a way to argue any and everything - as you eloquently have done. I know that you don't get arrested in the US for saying things like that, but given the title of "Anti-Semitic" is just as condemning as a life-sentence. In my drowsiness last night, that is the point I was trying to make. And something else I wish to mention. I don't know if you are American or not, but as a Syrian woman of Muslim parents (thought non-practicing) parents, it is much harder for me, psychologically, to assert my viewpoint. It gives me the same feeling of unassurance that I get when I go to the airport. I know I'm doing nothing wrong... but

[arabianrose]

Check that: first paragraph:

i meant to say: *Syrian-American woman*