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cc34882e | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 My father was stationed in Alabama when white supremacist terrorists killed four Black girls in Birmingham. My favorite neighbor in the latter 2010s was a Holocaust survivor who was only alive because she made a run for it during a Nazi death march through the forest.

Ancient history? Hell, it isn't even history when you KNOW someone who was there.
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MoiraEve | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a763f0a6 Absolutely! The stories my aunt told us about what they endured during the Armenian holocaust would curl your hair. It is good to have first-hand experience, so you can never believe the lies about how “it didn’t happen”.
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4d9138de | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a763f0a6 

Seeing in real life the tattooed concentration camp number on an elderly person's forearm is the most chilling thing I have ever seen.