Saturday, December 25, 2021

Five years before #Kristallnacht – v2 (repost)


Five years before Kristallnacht
evil of their creed, their power,
hate they held inside -
The truth is we had only seen it.
 
Five years before Kristallnacht
before the fires, the destruction
Evil was on full display in his eyes
if the world had only seen it.
 
Five years before Kristallnacht
a world blind by choice, convenience,
not acting to stop hate, genocide,
while there was still time to change it.
 
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November 10, 2018

Summary of Kristallnacht poems

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23kristallnacht%20%40raymondafoss&src=typd

November 10, 2018

Five years before Kristallnacht – v2

posted in 3 parts

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061338644005511169

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061338403386679296

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061338333010259969

edited November 10, 2018

Five years before Kristallnacht – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/five-years-before-kristallnacht-v2.html

November 10, 2018

Rev Martin Niemöller Quote

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061327971993161729 - part 1

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061328149756166145 - part 2

Edmund Burke Quote

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061325201252720641

November 10, 2018

Five years before Kristallnacht

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/five-years-before-kristallnacht.html

(the photo was in Life Magazine in 1933, after all…)

edited November 10, 2018

Black and White – v5

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/black-and-white-v5.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1061293896012099589

(editing V2)

edited November 10, 2018

The Granary – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-granary-v3.html

edited April 25, 2015

Black and White – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/black-and-white-v2.html

September 4, 2006 19:05

Black and White

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/09/black-and-white.html

edited April 25, 2015

The Granary – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-granary-v2.html

January 30, 2010

The Granary

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/granary.html

This poem is about my memory,

of the jarring sensation

seeing a photograph circa 1994,

of one of the all-time

great pictures, capturing evil,

before it rose up to full flowering

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm,

http://www.granarygallery.com/title.php?titleID=10005991

of Joseph Goebbels,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels,

in 1933 at the League of Nations

Life Magazine article about the photo

http://life.time.com/history/goebbels-in-geneva-1933-behind-a-classic-alfred-eisenstaedt-photo/#1

on display at The Granary Gallery

(http://www.granarygallery.com/),

on Martha’s Vineyard

taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),

http://www.gallerym.com/collections/alfred-eisenstaedt/

a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.

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edited November 10, 2018

a lesson I have not learned – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-lesson-i-have-not-learned-v4.html

October 23, 2014

a lesson I have not learned – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-lesson-i-have-not-learned-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited November 10, 2018

we must forgive – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/we-must-forgive-v2.html

edited October 22, 2014

we must forgive

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-must-forgive.html

edited November 10, 2018

we are to forgive – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/we-are-to-forgive-v2.html

new October 22, 2014

we are to forgive

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-are-to-forgive.html

edited November 10, 2018

to forgive to forget – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/to-forgive-to-forget-v2.html

new October 22, 2014

to forgive to forget

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/to-forgive-to-forget.html

edited November 9, 2018

to forgive without forgetting – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/to-forgive-without-forgetting-v4.html

edited October 3, 2015

to forgive without forgetting – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/to-forgive-without-forgetting-v3.html

(editing version 2)

edited October 22, 2014

to forgive without forgetting – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/to-forgive-without-forgetting-v2.html

new October 21, 2014

to forgive without forgetting

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/to-forgive-without-forgetting.html

based on profile quote of

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

https://twitter.com/TheDesmondTutu

“Forgiving is not forgetting; it's actually remembering—

remembering and not using your right to hit back.”

Mpho and Desmond Tutu for the #Forgiveness Challenge

Forgiveness Challenge

http://forgivenesschallenge.com/

The Book of Forgiving

http://forgivenesschallenge.com/book/

by Archibishop Desmond Tutu

https://www.facebook.com/DesmondTutuOfficial

and Reverend Mpho Andrea Tutu

https://www.facebook.com/mpho.tutu

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mpho-Andrea-Tutu/449943685134202 

and story of Corrie ten Boom about forgiving former Nazis

http://tenboom.com/en/

&

edited October 20, 2014

a lesson I must learn

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-lesson-i-must-learn.html

edited October 20, 2014

a lesson I have not learned – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-lesson-i-have-not-learned-v2.html

October 17, 2014

a lesson I have not learned

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-lesson-i-have-not-learned.html

https://www.facebook.com/raymond.a.foss/posts/10152543923238003

“The first to apologize is the bravest.

The first to forgive is the strongest.

The first to forget is the happiest.”

 

author unknown

seen 10/17/2014

post 10/14/2014

https://www.facebook.com/rachelschallenge/photos/a.188918864473754.41998.109820289050279/819929781372656/

on Rachel’s Challenge

https://www.facebook.com/rachelschallenge

http://rachelschallenge.org/ 
https://twitter.com/rachelschalleng
http://instagram.com/rachelschalleng

and see

The first to forget is the happiest –

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-first-to-forget-is-the-happiest/457860517579019

&

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edited November 10, 2018

the crowd wearing yellow stars – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-crowd-wearing-yellow-stars-v2.html

July 13, 2013

the crowd wearing yellow stars

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-crowd-wearing-yellow-stars.html

inspired by the book,

http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Star-Jennifer-Roy/dp/076145277X

Yellow Star,

by Jennifer Roy

& page 11 – Chapter “February 1940” and poem, “Relocation”

& pages 218-222 – Chapter “Winter 1945” and poem, “An Amazing Story”

&

edited November 10, 2018

Their Haunting Witness – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/their-haunting-witness-v2.html

September 3, 2010

Their Haunting Witness

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/09/their-haunting-witness.html

on remembering

http://www.ushmm.org/

the United States Holocaust Museum

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/a_and_a/inside1/

in emails today

&

edited November 10, 2018

so we would never forget – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/so-we-would-never-forget-v2.html

October 16, 2015

so we would never forget

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/so-we-would-never-forget.html

Elie Wiesel

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/eliewiesel.aspx

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007176

https://www.facebook.com/eliewieselfdn

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elie-Wiesel/108197219208037

and Holocaust

Blog Action Day 2015 – “Raise Your Voice”

October 16, 2015

http://blogactionday.org/

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Blog%20Action%20Day

https://www.facebook.com/blogactionday

https://twitter.com/blogactionday12

https://plus.google.com/102886248124157027141

http://www.pinterest.com/blogactionday/

https://twitter.com/blogactionday (2010)

 

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