...or shallow exercise that trivializes a victim of genocide..?
"My name is Henio Zytomirski. I am seven-years-old. I live on 3 Szewska Street in Lublin," he writes on his profile. His birthday is March 25, 1933. He is no more than seven or eight years old. As a young Jewish boy, he was killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp.
Being an honest hater of all things "social media", my impulse is to consider this a violation of the sanctity of any memorials of the event. But as the Holocaust slowly ebbs from living memory, with the last of it's survivors dying off, the need is arising to find a way to keep the scale of the atrocity real for generations to come.
If the historians or should I say history revisionists and our so called educators of today and recent generations did their jobs properly we would not need pages like that on face book or anywhere else.
In black and white subjects like math the newer generations on the whole surpass my generation in every way. In history, critical thinking and accepting the social engineering that happens all around us, the younger generations fall far short by accepting inferior systems and information without questioning what they are being told. This is the reason we are having so much trouble with all the politically correct crap we have today.
Posted by: Bob Devine | November 23, 2009 at 04:17 PM
That gives me the creeps.
It's important to remember and understand what the Holocause was, and what it meant. I'm just not happy about seeing it done like THIS.
Bob, you're absolutely right about the failure of our society to teach history and critical thinking. Some kids will pick those sorts of things up through chance or brains and inclination, but we're not imparting them systematically.
Posted by: mikey | November 24, 2009 at 07:34 AM