(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
As was mentioned on this page yesterday, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. For years the holocaust was considered a ‘private Jewish affair’…. that line of thinking ended today.
There were others that suffered and died…. and finally the zionists are admitting it…the following is truly a breakthrough in the way history is treated in Israel. Perhaps one day we will see a monument erected in Tel Aviv in honour of the Palestinian victims of today’s holocaust.
Monument to honor homosexual Holocaust victims
Reuven Weiss
A monument honoring the homosexual men and women who were persecuted due to their sexual orientation and perished during the Holocaust is to be established in Meir Garden in Tel Aviv, according to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai.
A quarter of a million homosexuals were persecuted during the Holocaust, and tens of thousands were murdered because the Nazi Party believed their sexual preference to be deviant. In the concentration camps in which they were imprisoned, gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle while lesbian women wore a black patch.
A sketch of the proposed monument (Imaging by Filmind)
Plans for the monument’s erection were initiated by Itai Pinkas, one of the homosexual community leaders and a member of the Tel Aviv Municipality City Council, who serves as the mayor’s advisor in matters of the gay community.
The monument is to be the first in Israel to commemorate these victims, though four of its kind exist worldwide, in Sydney, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Amsterdam. It has been designed as an iron triangle, on which the victims’ names are to be inscribed.
falastini Hurr said,
May 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Yup indeed.
Mark you calendar for May 23-25 where we assert the Palestinian National rights. We will say it loud that we will never forget. Palestinians are the Key holders of peace. Join the thousands and strengthen the network of the thousands of activists. Express your opinion and let the many panelists know of where Palestine should go. Support our efforts to empower our community and assert the Palestinians right of return. Join the many Palestinian Americans and their supporters in Chicago commemorating the 60th year of the forced exile of the Palestinian people. Be pro active, ask questions to the Panelists and discuss the current event. We must empower ourselves and make a strong network for Justice, Peace and Freedom. Be pro active. Enough talks, actions are required.
robertsgt40 said,
May 1, 2008 at 3:26 pm
What a coincidence that today is Remembrance Day. It’s also May Day. Illuminati Day Red Day(celebrated in the former Zionist dominated USSR) It’s also Bush’s famous “Mission Accomplished Day”. Also the 50yr anniversary of Cuba’s revolution. Carl Marx would be proud( son of a Rabbi). Who da thunk?
rrpulliam said,
May 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm
This is more of a request than a comment. I’m told millions of non jews died during the same period. If we had a list of these millions who were persecuted or murdered during this period it might give a little competition to the holocaust industry. Is there such a list and where may I find it?
Jessie said,
May 1, 2008 at 6:20 pm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3303484,00.html
rrpulliam check this out.
Robin said,
May 1, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Check this out too rrpulliam
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Lucaire.htm
http://remember.org/forgotten/
This is a Wiki article, but as with all Wiki articles, it gives the external links at the bottom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany
Matt Giwer said,
May 1, 2008 at 9:59 pm
However one million is a conveniently round number. Perhaps it was an early estimate and in error. In 2004 Israel issued a more refined number still alive in that year, 1,092,000, for the purpose of actually filing lawsuits. So 59 years after the event 16/75s were still alive. That leaves us with 5,118,750 alive in 1945 if none were killed for inability to work and the birthrate were the same as peacetime. If we go with those under 13 being killed we have 27,300,000 holocaust survivors alive in 1945. This is nearly twice as many Jews as were in all the world in 1938.
<a href=”www.giwersworld.org/holo3/holo-survivors.phtml”
The entire article is here.
Dan said,
May 2, 2008 at 3:13 am
Supposedly 4- 6 million Jews died as a result of the Holocaust. Over 24 million Slavs dies in the same Holocaust. Don’t forget that the mainly Christian/ Catholic Croats rolled over to Nazism, and it was the Muslim Serbs who resisted so fiercely that Hitler postponed Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR) by 4 weeks in order to crush the Serbian resistance. He ended up about 2 weeks too late to secure St. Petersburg, and German troops were frozen out for the winter months. The same thing ruined Napoleon’s attempt to conquer Russia.
The Holocaust should be more about the brave Serbs than the Jews. They fought harder, and many more paid the price.
Still, the Holocaust serves as a reminder that we cannot allow Fascism to dictate the terms of living to others.