These are comments left by visitors to the Holocaust History Project web site, during the months of June, July, and August 1998. hELP! i AM RESEARCHING MUSICIANS OF THE HOLOCAUST '''THEIR CHOICES. ANY INFORMATION WILL BE MOST APPRECIATED. THANK YOU ELIZABETH JORDAN [email protected] August 31, 1998 For those Americans that have never been to Germany, I have to tell you that I've touched the walls, have seen the double rows of barbed wires and have witnessed the ovens at Aushwitz when I was stationed there in '86-'87. The guards had refortified their bunkers with concrete making a person turn twice before going down the long hallway. Now there are pictures hung in these hallowed halls that showed the horrors and atrocities that went on during that time. I now live in the south. And although I'm not Jewish, I can't stand to hear someone shoot their mouth off saying that there's just NO proof that the holocaust never happened. To them I say,"I've been there. I've walked where some Jews took their last steps. Where some worked endlessly and ate sawdust or ashen bread just to keep alive." And even though I've seen all this and touched it, I still can't even fathom what these people went through. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I can't imagine having a government take her away from me only to slowly starve her to death. When I was in seventh grade, my English class read the "Diary of Anne Frank". But I just never knew of what she was really hiding from until I went over there. I don't see how anyone can deny this atrocity. I only pray as the many others do that we never allow this to happen again and yet look at Bosnia-Herzegovnia. Not many know of the concentration camps that existed there until recently and of the Prisoners Of War (POW's) who were taken out into the small fields and given mass executions. This is one reason the Air Force still does recon missions over the areas. Most of it has stopped but maybe this shows us that it was very possible back then that this could have happened easily. The fact is, no one wants to take on the responsibility. We don't want our youth to die intervening and yet that is what everyone is saying. We have to stop praying and start acting. Write the local congressmen and tell them that we can't let them do this again. I apologize for taking up so much space but I just thought I'd put this out to show others that they don't know as much as they should. I'm just trying to tell others to check these things out and be realistic. I hope you don't believe me and check these things out for yourselves. Robert Martin [email protected] August 31, 1998 Danke f�r Eure Homepage-Seite. Sie hat mir sehr weitergeholfen bei meinen recherchen. Klaus Ch. Kufner 31.August 1998/Berlin-Germany Klaus Ch. Kufner http://www.taz@de./ August 31, 1998 May history never repeat itself for life is too short for living in hate. May Hitler and every other person of the nazi party who is too good to say sorry may you hear the screams of those you tortured in hell. But to those who ask for forgivness you shall be forgiven. Misti [email protected] August 30, 1998 Robert D. Levy [email protected] August 30, 1998 Amanda August 28, 1998 I hope that the horrors of the past will never be repeated. I cannot understand why anyone could ever believe that the Holocaust did not happen. I am not Jewish, but I cringe in reading what happened. We do not need hate of others. We need understanding and empathy. May these horrors never be repeated! Angelia B. August 28, 1998 We all know the saying that "those who forget history are destined to repeat it" (or something to this effect). Thank you for letting us see the past, no matter how repulsive, so that we may know what happened and work to prevent another such trajedy. As a young civil rights lawyer, I have learned that while it may be easy for a government to take away rights, once the rights are gone, they are usually not returned without a stuggle and sadly may be violent. The lesson is to fight any erosion of civil liberties, which is the most dangerous of human cancers. Thank you, again Suzanne E Coe [email protected] August 27, 1998 I have just finished reading a "historical fiction" book relating to events surrounding pre-WWII Germany and Austria. Although the characters were fictional, the events were certainly not! It certainly gave pause to wonder how the events leading up to WWII might have been avoided, IF others had stood up to Adolf Hitler and his regime. All the "what ifs" ... we all need to learn lessons from the past ... Thank you for your presence on the Internet. I'm glad I found your site after reading the deeply moving book! [email protected] August 23, 1998 Jennifer [email protected] August 22, 1998 I think this is a great page!!! We are studying about the world wars in American History this year and I find all of this information of interest. I am using this to learn more about who our country fought and what they fought for. Amy Garletts [email protected] http://www.angelfire.com/ak/amylovestaft/index.html August 21, 1998 Grazie Giovanni Cappellotto [email protected] August 16, 1998

I never knew my Father. He has killed in the D-Day landings on Utah Beach. I have always been proud of the father I never knew because I know that he died for freedom. He was good man. He did not deserve to die, nor did ALL of the people in the shadow of a world gone mad. I am not Jewish: one need not be Jewish to be enraged at mans inhumanity to man. This is an excellent site. Thank you. Shalom. John [email protected] August 13, 1998 Jennifer L. Brodsky [email protected] August 13, 1998 Harry, Thanks for asking me to be a part of this project. We are in process of completing the form 1023 and will get it to you soon. Sol SOL SCHWARTZ [email protected] WWW.SSACPA.COM August 13, 1998 LET'S PRAY TO GOD THAT NOTHING LIKE THIS EVER HAPPENS AGAIN. JAMIE SCHEICH [email protected] August 13, 1998 Bev & Fred Koebrich [email protected] August 12, 1998 I am trying to complete a History coursework project, my question is; 'Why did Hitler embark on a policy of gassing the Jews?' Can anyone help???? Jenny [email protected] August 12, 1998 If the democracies would have responded at the beginning when Hitler started his persecutions the Holocaust might have been avoided. We went too late to Bosnia (but at least we went), did almost nothing in Rwanda, and now do nothing but make idle threats about Kosovo. We haven't learned anything unless we follow words of condemnation with action to stop the murderers. Rick Lawrence [email protected] August 5, 1998 This is an excellent site even though the text and pictures are heartbreaking. When I taught middle school English, I taught The Diary of Anne Frank. My students couldn't understand how this could happen. We are so used to our freedom in the U.S. They thought the Jewish people "should have just gotten on a train and left the country." It was very difficult to make them understand that this tragedy started slowly and could even happen in our own country. Now, I'm a middle school librarian, and I am writing a research unit on the Holocaust to go with The Diary of Anne Frank. People need to know the truth about this atrocity, so we are never lulled into a false sence of security. Thanks for some excellent information. Catherine Catherine Purgahn [email protected] August 4, 1998 having personally experienced the virulent anti semitism in eastern europe, I was born on the Ukraine in 1950, and lived in poland for 5 yrs., i can tell you that the nazi philosophy had and still has many enthusiatstic suppporters in many eastern european countries, they could not have done what they did without the tacit, and overt help from the surrounding population. To only lay it at the feet of Hitler and his cronies is simplistic. Please people, stop it!!!! Life is too short too spend it on hate. elena krybus [email protected] August 2, 1998 As a german, what can I say? Sorry? Thanks god in my country not more! But what is about the new "holocaust"? Biafra, Cambodia, Indonesia, Africa? Cut the world not learn? Why is it still happen that some people hat minoritys? Stop it! Chris Christoph Baare [email protected] July 29, 1998 I transcribed the story of a Holocaust survivor's experience for the Holocaust Oral History Project. I admit that this experience gave me an understanding of the Holocaust and its relevance in history. I now appreciate the reasoning of not allowing these events to be forgotten -- it provides the only prevention of it happening again. Susan C [email protected] July 29, 1998 Why do we do this to ourselves? It still goes on. Hugh E. Nichols July 26, 1998 Why can't I find informattion about Afro-Americans who gavethierlives during WWII? Xavier Harrison JJ L XX July 26, 1998 Words are not enough. Walter Thomas [email protected] July 25, 1998 First of all, i am German. I don't know, if i should feel ashamed of it. It wasn't my fault, where i was born. And the holocaust happened so much time ago. I live in the Federal Republic of Germany, not in the 3. Reich. There are places around me, where it happened. I see old people, who must have been involved in it. I speak with people on the phone, who tell me, that they were near my town, as they were in the "Wehrmacht". My Grandfather-in-law said, he voted NSDAP. It makes it very hard, to identify with Germany, but i have to make up my mind about it. It wasn't Hitler, who did it. It was a whole country, that turned mad. It is my country in a way. I can't understand, how it could happen. Lots of people must have seen, what tragedy was coming. Their fault was, that they kept silence, until it was too late. What would YOU have done? This is just a short expression of personal feelings, i will find better words in the years to come and hopefully i'll find the right words to tell my children, what has happend. The people, like Jamie McCarthy, who fight the untruth spread by Deniers and Neo-Nazis do such a good job and deserve our "Thanks" and support. Any country can do, what Germany has done. Just respect the men, women and children around you and their right to live. This can make a future, that is better than the past. Regards, Niels Niels [email protected] July 22, 1998 peace richard baker [email protected] July 21, 1998 I am left speechless and shocked by this tragic moment in history. I just regret that people did not give as much attention to the blacks in America who had to face the same sorrows, lighter but through a more extensive time period. I feel the jews pain in the Holocaust. I still feel that we were denied an apology. It was given to many persecuted, like the japanese in the United States during World War II, but no the Afro-Americans, Anonymous [email protected] HTTP://WWW.ANONYMOUS.COM July 19, 1998 i am doing a project about something to do with the holocaust in my freshman seminar class. i don't remember the name of the guy, but i am trying to find info about the weird/mad doctor who did all the weird, sadistic experiments on the victims of hitlers twisted ideas. I think it was Dr Mangola. of course it is probly spelled so wrong, and all, but if anyone reads this and has some info just lying around that they want to share, ya know feel free to send it to me. thanx! and lol andie andie early [email protected] July 19, 1998 the Holocaust. the word, concept, context--all make me cry. the massive loss of life. the children. i'm speechless. coming from polish-jewish, and german-jewish descent--it hits harder. this must never be forgotten. mary kathryn ellermeyer stapleton [email protected] July 14, 1998 It must never be allowed to happen again.The pain and suffering, no-one can imagine what it must have felt like. A grim reminder of man's worst enemy..... man himself . GERRY FINDLAY [email protected] July 10, 1998 Thank you for your very graphic pictures and details conerning the holocaust. I plan to use your URL in my teaching of the holocaust, The Diary of Anne Frank, and WWII. nbc Natalie Brewer Callier [email protected] web.taylor.k12.ga us July 10, 1998

		I spent nearly 2 hours on your very informative site. Although I am not Jewish, I still had tears in my eyes. When my 6 year old daughter gave me a hug on her way to bed tonight, I asked her if she knew who Adolf Hitler was. She replied, "He is that man that killed all those people a long time ago." The horrors of the holocaust will never be forgotten. Dan Rutledge [email protected] July 7, 1998 As a father, teaching my son about the realities of the world is part of my duty; as horrible as the realities are. Your web site has helped me to explain what lies behind the animation of Hitler as found in the 1940's cartoons of that period. They were done patrioticly, of course; but done in that format could be considered unreal, and not subject to be believed. Childhood impressions last the longest. This may be a small thing, but remember the nazi youth, it does not take much to mold a childs thinking. Thank you very much. Mike Margotta [email protected] July 5, 1998 I have seen your site before and have admired it greatly. As a compliment to it, please have a look at the images on Cybrary of the Holocaust http://www.remember.org/camps/ or http://www.remember.org/jacobs/ There are also articles about genocide, Holocaust, war, violence and Cults at http://www.bravenewweb.com/idea/ Thanks again for all the energy you have spent creating this site. Alan Jacobs [email protected] http://www.remember.org/jacobs/ June 14, 1998 People and governments sould not be allowed to forget what happerned in Nazi Germany, because when they do, further atrocities like those in Bosnia are allowed to happern. Those who deny the Holocaust deny history. Nick Dixon [email protected] June 14, 1998 Hitler was an evil person. He alone did not persecute and kill 6000000 people Myron Eichengreen [email protected] June 11, 1998 I grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn on 13th Avenue: I saw many elderly jews with numbers on their arms. They had many stories. Now that their numbers are dwindling, it is important to have a site just as this one to both inform and to supply a starting point/inspiration for much deeper research. Ironically, my father and my uncle had to fight with Mussolini. I never met my uncle. My Dad, Vitale, refused to join the fascist party but my uncle, Anthony, did in order to remain a professor. They were both sent to the russain front and were captured. They spent about 3 years in a gulag. After the war, they had to sell their house for next to nothing and move to Argentina as many italians did because they could not get jobs. When my uncle had the big picture of the extent of what atrocities had been commited by the germans, he felt deeply ashamed and wished he could undo his previous affiliation to the fascist party. My father fought with his brother about this and never fully forgave him for it. My Father was thankful that italian soldiers (as far as he knew) were never asked to work in extermination camps. He always told me that he would have rather put a bullet in his own head than take orders to murder defensless, innocent people. He called the Third Reich the cruelest cowards ever to walk the earth. I hope he is right, and that they are never equalled or outdone. Rawanda? More horror. Shame at all of us for the inaction. In closing may I quote words from my Messiah, Jesus Christ: "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brother, that you do unto me." Good words to take with us into the next millenium. Peace. - Anthony Anthony Catalano [email protected] June 10, 1998 It is really impressive that you have devoted yourself to to high calibre Holocaust studies! A complete copy of a Columbia University Masters Thesis is now available FREE on the web, at http://www.jpi.org/holocaust/ It augments all of your studies with an in depth study of THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND JEWISH EDUCATION IN AMERICA. Best wishes for the future! Sincerely, Yitschak Rudomin [email protected] Yitschak Rudomin [email protected] http://www.jpi.org/holocaust/ June 10, 1998 This site has really showed me a lot . I only visited it for some project research yet spent hours looking through. Not only do we learn from the facts but from other peoples comments. That is why I wish to share my views. Many people hate me because of my admiration of Hitler. He was a very clever man to be able to persuade a whole county to do what he wanted. It wasn't only him but his large workforce which helped him achieve his aims. This however dose not excuse his ideas and I do not follow his ideals. How anyone could allow the murder of 6 million men, women and children, normal people, is inhuman. Ema Bennett [email protected] June 10, 1998 hi my name is Gwen. This sight is great. I am not personally Jewish but I still feel the pain. I am 21 and just realized how many 11 million people is. In my senior year at college I have decided to write a 50 page essay on this touchy subjuct. I feel it is important to teach everyone about the holocaust so something of it's level can never occur again. Thank you!!!!!111 Gwen Sisnowski none none June 8, 1998 I was not even thought of when this tradgdy occured(I'm 34) but we must never forget what the madness of just one man can do to so many innocent lives. I,m not a jew myself but that does not mean that I don't feel for the descendants of those murdered in cold blood. May they all rest in peace. Mark Applin [email protected] http://home.clara.net/mapplin/index.htm June 6, 1998 None Martin Silber [email protected] June 6, 1998 Thankyou. This site is proof that the internet is a good thing. I will be returning here again and again. The Holocaust Museum near Detroit is another good source for people who are not near Washington, D.C. My first personal awareness of the Holocaust happened when I first started teaching school back in the sixties. At my first parent conference I was talking to the mother of an extremely bright first grader when I saw the numbers tatooed on her arm. I think I just froze. Seeing where I was looking, she said, "of course, David is adopted. I could never have children after what happened to me, but I hope you can see how important he is to us." Phyllis Lindblade [email protected] June 5, 1998 All my life I have tried to understand the magnitude of this incredible tragedy for the Jewish people. This site has been a most rewarding source of information on this event, and I thank you deeply for the opportunity of visiting it. Keep up this great work so people will never forget. Sincerely, JULIAN OTERO MEXICO Juli�n Otero [email protected] June 5, 1998 I found this page very useful for an essay i was doing for a GCSE essay and I spent lots of time browsing through sites about the Holocaust Rebecca Heggs [email protected] June 5, 1998 Thank you for all your info it really helped Tamra Lambert [email protected] June 4, 1998 I am just beginning to research the Holocaust in an attempt to narrow down a particular aspect for my senior thesis project next academic school year. I have found a lot of helpful information from this site and feel I am ready to dig my heels into one of the world's worst tragedies. Carolyn L. Zook [email protected] June 3, 1998 Hi everyone I really enjoyed this site its got lots of great imforation Eric Miichaud [email protected] June 3, 1998 hello, my name is freddy. i am a 14 yr old jewish young man doing a documentary on the holocaust. i would like 2 thank you for all the info i got from your site. god bless you .have a good day freddy smith [email protected] June 3, 1998 A all around good informative page AdaM� [email protected] http://www.holocaust-history.org June 2, 1998 This is important work; please do not be discouraged by the misery of your findings. I manage a public access to the Internet project in a public library, and have put a link to this site on our system. Keep up the good work, ignorance endangers us all... Tom Donald [email protected] June 2, 1998 Visiting this site has increased the knowledge I had obtained from a visit to The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. in Fall '96. It will serve to educate my own child until I can take my family to the museum. It could prove to be very useful to educate all children, as they must be. For we must all be ever vigilant, should it start to happen again, and stand against and hinder its growth, one and all. Those who withstood its trauma, from being removed from their home to their enduring of the ugliest evils, should always have a place in your heart and mind. Michael F. Salvatore [email protected] June 1, 1998 guest book pages from previous months... May 1998 April 1998 March 1998
		Last modified: September 10, 1998 Technical/administrative contact: [email protected]