email memorial chain
thanks stacy, i learned something new today.
My Friends, in my 18 months in Europe I toured the most wonderful sites that a middle-class boy from Texas can imagine. But I also toured the most horrific that anybody could can imagine; I toured three sites in which the German Nazi's carried out their Holocaust. These sites are viewed by many, and everyone I saw was somber and walked out in various stages of disbelief, anger and horror. I'm asking you to read the following - there are no pictures of the prisons to horrify you; this is something totally different. Please, take a few moments - this will make its mark... then I think you'll want to forward it to your friends.
God is merciful,
Michael
Here's the story:
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving-
Recently there was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena Sendler. During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive'... she KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, being German. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, for larger kids. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2,500 infants/kids. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and arms, and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize... she was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Here's the request:
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated.
Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Please don't delete it without forwarding. It will only take you a minute to pass this along.
Thanks!
My Friends, in my 18 months in Europe I toured the most wonderful sites that a middle-class boy from Texas can imagine. But I also toured the most horrific that anybody could can imagine; I toured three sites in which the German Nazi's carried out their Holocaust. These sites are viewed by many, and everyone I saw was somber and walked out in various stages of disbelief, anger and horror. I'm asking you to read the following - there are no pictures of the prisons to horrify you; this is something totally different. Please, take a few moments - this will make its mark... then I think you'll want to forward it to your friends.
God is merciful,
Michael
Here's the story:
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving-
Recently there was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena Sendler. During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive'... she KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, being German. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, for larger kids. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2,500 infants/kids. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and arms, and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize... she was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Here's the request:
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated.
Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Please don't delete it without forwarding. It will only take you a minute to pass this along.
Thanks!