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I notice the nazis have fled the thread. Or maybe they just went to bed.
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Consequently, the Tasmanian government is now the only state government in Australia which has not enacted any native title legislation. |
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Money. Tens of thousands of jewish businesses were "aryanized" during Hitler's "purification" attempts, providing germans with an income and quite often considerable wealth. Also, the possessions of those who left germany or were deported were sold for bargain prices, providing the germans who gained from that with a hefty profit. Blechh. Going to barf now. Enai |
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It is often claimed that Truganini was the last Tasmanian aboriginal. Not so. She might have been the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal but even that might not be so as that honour seems to go Fanny Cochrane Smith who lived to 1905. Fanny was born at Wybalenna on Flinders Island (after the round up of the aboriginals in the early 1830s). She eventually moved to the Tasmanian mainland and she married William Smith, an Englishman, in 1854. There had 11 children and there are many descendants around to day. Another full-blooded aboriginal woman, Dolly Dalrymple also married a white man and has many descendants. These descendants consider themselves to be aboriginals including my aunt who is a descendant of Fanny Cochrane Smith. There is also other people claiming to be Tasmanian aboriginals. During the round-up some women living in the logging camps of the Huon were hidden by their white husbands. Later these women often claimed to be South Sea Islanders and told their children to say the same. They were scared of being rounded up (which is understandable). I believe that my great, great grandmother was one of these women but we have yet not proved it beyond doubt. An aboriginal doesn't have to be a full-caste to be aboriginal. Also Tasmania does have a Native Title Act Tasmanian Native Title Act |
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There is no need to apologise for having your post moderated, not to me at least. I have the luxury of not having lost anyone to the holocaust, you have. There is a huge difference. Whilst I have studied it in great depth all my life and at times wept I am still a mere observer disgusted though I am, it has not affected me personally or my family. It is a very emotional subject and I think everyone can forgive you for feeling intense anger. As for trying to get him to open his mind??? Worth every second. As a young girl I happened to see a documentary one night about the holocaust, I was so horrified I could hardly sleep. Since then I have studied the subject, people think I am weird and morbid sometimes. Maybe I am but I think I've been trying to get my head around it and still to this day I can't. Each time I read a survivor story it's like the first time I've heard about the holocaust. It hits you afresh. To me those books were written to be read and I just want to read them so that another survivor has had their story known to someone. I want to go to Poland to visit the camps. People ask me why and all I have for an answer is I want to pay my respects. People have said but it had nothing to do with you, you weren't even born when it happened, you didn't even have family that was lost so why would you want to pay your respects??? I just want to tell them all (although I know they can't hear me) that I am sorry that this happened to them, I have always thought about them and always will and will not forget them. I want to lay some flowers and light a candle. No prayers just my thoughts. And it is for all of the victims of all nationalities and creeds. Sounds weird I know but I just have this need to do it one day. Now this is emotive language but it's the way a lot of people feel so the revisionists and deniers had better get used to the fact and the fact that there are non jews non gypsys non homosexuals etc always willing to smite their claptrap on behalf of those that can't because they are dead. |
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To alli:
Let me share a family story with you and the rest of the board. My father has a cousin, a second cousin I think, named Simon. He is a kind, gentle man. He is married to a woman named Pearl, a beautiful woman. They are both in their seventies now. They have two children, grandchildren etc. Back in Hungary, during the War, Simon and Pearl were engaged to be married. They and their families were taken to the death camps. Pearl survived. She returned to the town where she came from. She was one of the few survivors. Another was an older man, a friend of her father's whom she had known all her life, who had lost his entire family. He asked her to marry him. He had some money and suggested that they emigrate to America. She agreed to marry him. But, before they married, Simon, her fiance, returned to the town. He, too, had survived the camps. They married and came here. I remember them well as a child, and I remember their daughters. My parents are still in touch with them. They are retired in Florida. As a writer of fiction, I wouldn't dare to contrive a story like that. RED DAVE |
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Thanks for sharing that Dave, it was so nice that they found each other again. I hate to think of all the loving couples seperated forever. I hope they both managed to find some peace in their lives.
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