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.
====
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.
====
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
&
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
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
&
==============
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
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://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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