Post by Dave on Dec 2, 2008 17:56:09 GMT
Until today I had never heard the word Kindertransport before, let alone know what it was and what it meant, but today I was really moved by a story on the J.Vine show on BBC2.
History and me? well I love reading what Merse bartondowns, Jon and all our other posters have to say, when they talk about days gone by. I love it when the Herald Express have the bygones section in it.
I just love to see the pictures of how things I know now, looked in the past and I really love going and seeing old buildings and castles etc, anything really that is from the past that relates more to what I know.
I never really liked history at school, I was only interested in what was going to happen next, rather than get bored by what some Roman had done, before I was even born. One part I never liked was the history that was to do with wars, maybe its because I just don't like violence, but I must confess to knowing very little about our two world wars.
I know the second one had a man called Hitler, who killed millions of Jews, but how it started etc and how it all ended is not recored in my memory cells. I do know about one war, the battle of Hastings, I know a lot about it really, but it was not by choice.
You see I was in my teens and went into a library to find a book, I can across a book called The 14th Of October by accident. Well its the date of my birthday, so I had to take a look. The 14th of October 1066 was the battle of Hastings, so I took the book out and read my one and only book on a war.
After today I intend to learn more about the wars our country as been involved with, I know I have always had the greatest respect for those who have died so we can have a free country to live in. So what has changed my mind and has moved me enough to say to myself, I really want to know much more.
On the J.Vine show today was a lady who Is a Jew, but one who was brought to this country as a child to prevent her and thousands more Jewish children being killed by the Germans. I learned about the Kindertransport , set up to transport so many Jewish children to the safety of our country.
Her story was really moving and also very sad,just after the war had ended, she had seen a list of the Jews who had survived. She believed her mother and her auntie were on the list, but could not see her fathers on it. A while later she was able to go home to her own country, only to learn her mother had died of an illness, shortly after the war had ended.
Her auntie was still alive and told the story to the young Jewish girl, that her father had been in a camp, but was shot dead in what was known as a walking shooting. Her auntie then gave her a letter written by the girls mother, the mother wrote it to the daughter, but was never able to find a means to get it to her.
In the letter the mother talked about all the things, that she wished her and father could have been able to give her, but simply couldn't. She talked about her hopes and future happiness, that she wanted for her daughter, that was the point I found hard to hold back my tears.
A very moving personal account of life for a young Jewish girl during the war and the real cost to her and her family. Its such stories that make our world we live in now, seem so perfect and one we should never feel the need to moan about. We are lucky and have so many to thank for our freedom, for me taking history lessons again are going to help me appreciate so much more in my own life.
History and me? well I love reading what Merse bartondowns, Jon and all our other posters have to say, when they talk about days gone by. I love it when the Herald Express have the bygones section in it.
I just love to see the pictures of how things I know now, looked in the past and I really love going and seeing old buildings and castles etc, anything really that is from the past that relates more to what I know.
I never really liked history at school, I was only interested in what was going to happen next, rather than get bored by what some Roman had done, before I was even born. One part I never liked was the history that was to do with wars, maybe its because I just don't like violence, but I must confess to knowing very little about our two world wars.
I know the second one had a man called Hitler, who killed millions of Jews, but how it started etc and how it all ended is not recored in my memory cells. I do know about one war, the battle of Hastings, I know a lot about it really, but it was not by choice.
You see I was in my teens and went into a library to find a book, I can across a book called The 14th Of October by accident. Well its the date of my birthday, so I had to take a look. The 14th of October 1066 was the battle of Hastings, so I took the book out and read my one and only book on a war.
After today I intend to learn more about the wars our country as been involved with, I know I have always had the greatest respect for those who have died so we can have a free country to live in. So what has changed my mind and has moved me enough to say to myself, I really want to know much more.
On the J.Vine show today was a lady who Is a Jew, but one who was brought to this country as a child to prevent her and thousands more Jewish children being killed by the Germans. I learned about the Kindertransport , set up to transport so many Jewish children to the safety of our country.
Her story was really moving and also very sad,just after the war had ended, she had seen a list of the Jews who had survived. She believed her mother and her auntie were on the list, but could not see her fathers on it. A while later she was able to go home to her own country, only to learn her mother had died of an illness, shortly after the war had ended.
Her auntie was still alive and told the story to the young Jewish girl, that her father had been in a camp, but was shot dead in what was known as a walking shooting. Her auntie then gave her a letter written by the girls mother, the mother wrote it to the daughter, but was never able to find a means to get it to her.
In the letter the mother talked about all the things, that she wished her and father could have been able to give her, but simply couldn't. She talked about her hopes and future happiness, that she wanted for her daughter, that was the point I found hard to hold back my tears.
A very moving personal account of life for a young Jewish girl during the war and the real cost to her and her family. Its such stories that make our world we live in now, seem so perfect and one we should never feel the need to moan about. We are lucky and have so many to thank for our freedom, for me taking history lessons again are going to help me appreciate so much more in my own life.
It's only by fully educating the following generations that full awareness and knowledge of all the personal sacrifice, suffering and degradation can be planted as seeds that should ensure that never again will there be such wicked and evil wholesale slaughter and abuse of human rights on this earth.
its in my blood 