I've spent some of my weekend watching WWII movies and some of them have really choked me up. We're also getting ready to bring a flag up the cemetery for my dad.
I know exactly what you mean by choking up watching WW11 movies. I do need to take one out for my Father, Brother, and Grandfather. Daddy used to take us out when we were very young to memorials that listed lives lost in the wars or who served and no longer with us. It was a solemn day and one to show much respect for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Passing the same respect and meaning of the day to my grandchildren.
Hi Betsy, such a lovely post...lest we forget. There is a movie I actually watched twice, because the message in it is so powerful. Although there is no mention that it is "based on a true story", what we know about the Nazis and how they treated the Jews, even though this may not be based on a true story, you feel as though it might be. The movie is called "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". I told my friend, who is 6 years older than I, (I am 68), and she watched it and was as touched by it as I was. Not sure if you have seen it or not, but I think you may find it on YouTube, as my friend did. I saw it several years ago on a TV station, I forget which station, but it was so powerful that when they re-aired it weeks later, I had to watch it again. Thank you so much for sharing, and I really appreciate your visits and kind comments on my blog.
I will take a look at this Linda. I have heard of this movie and glad you brought it to my attention. When I went to visit my daughter in Bavaria in 2007 while her husband was stationed there, we took a drive to Dachau. Toured the concentration camp. We both chose not to tour the ovens way in the back. I just didn't want to look inside. We did see many photos, the showers and beds where the prisoners slept. A few things that belonged to some of the prisoners like papers with their name and so on. Dreary and sad. Hard to believe that with Germans living their everyday life did not know a thing that was going on across the street from them in this place. Very sad and these poor people looked like skeletons in the pictures that were there, nothing but bones. Thank you for visiting, Betsy
Hi Betsy, thanks. I haven't seen any of the concentration camps myself, but I did visit the Montreal Holocaust Museum and was so moved by what I saw it deeply affected me. My neighbour who lives in my building down the hall from me is from Poland. She told me that she visited Auschwitz and how deeply it affected her. I have seen the concentration camps and the starved and emaciated prisoners only in videos but I found it all deeply disturbing.
I was shocked at what happened. That is why I didn't want to walk any further in this camp to see the ovens. Lot of information we learned that day visiting. Pictures and names, still with me.
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I've spent some of my weekend watching WWII movies and some of them have really choked me up. We're also getting ready to bring a flag up the cemetery for my dad.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean by choking up watching WW11 movies.
DeleteI do need to take one out for my Father, Brother, and Grandfather. Daddy used to take us out when we were very young to memorials that listed lives lost in the wars or who served and no longer with us. It was a solemn day and one to show much respect for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Passing the same respect and meaning of the day to my grandchildren.
Hi Betsy, such a lovely post...lest we forget. There is a movie I actually watched twice, because the message in it is so powerful. Although there is no mention that it is "based on a true story", what we know about the Nazis and how they treated the Jews, even though this may not be based on a true story, you feel as though it might be.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is called "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". I told my friend, who is 6 years older than I, (I am 68), and she watched it and was as touched by it as I was. Not sure if you have seen it or not, but I think you may find it on YouTube, as my friend did.
I saw it several years ago on a TV station, I forget which station, but it was so powerful that when they re-aired it weeks later, I had to watch it again.
Thank you so much for sharing, and I really appreciate your visits and kind comments on my blog.
I will take a look at this Linda. I have heard of this movie and glad you brought it to my attention. When I went to visit my daughter in Bavaria in 2007 while her husband was stationed there, we took a drive to Dachau. Toured the concentration camp. We both chose not to tour the ovens way in the back. I just didn't want to look inside. We did see many photos, the showers and beds where the prisoners slept. A few things that belonged to some of the prisoners like papers with their name and so on. Dreary and sad. Hard to believe that with Germans living their everyday life did not know a thing that was going on across the street from them in this place. Very sad and these poor people looked like skeletons in the pictures that were there, nothing but bones. Thank you for visiting, Betsy
DeleteHi Betsy, thanks. I haven't seen any of the concentration camps myself, but I did visit the Montreal Holocaust Museum and was so moved by what I saw it deeply affected me. My neighbour who lives in my building down the hall from me is from Poland. She told me that she visited Auschwitz and how deeply it affected her. I have seen the concentration camps and the starved and emaciated prisoners only in videos but I found it all deeply disturbing.
DeleteI was shocked at what happened. That is why I didn't want to walk any further in this camp to see the ovens. Lot of information we learned that day visiting. Pictures and names, still with me.
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