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Post by sharon on Jan 5, 2012 9:23:08 GMT -6
Update: ------------------------ I posted this a while back: tcjewfolk.com/my-terror-not-his/I have an article published today on a local Jewish blog. It's definitely for a Jewish audience, so I'm honestly not sure if it will make any sense without that context, but I thought I'd share the link anyway. ------------------------ I've been asked to be a semi-regular writer for the website. So I'll keep letting you know when my articles are up. Again, since it's for a Jewish audience things are not necessarily explained, translated and such. But as usual, I'm glad to answer any questions.
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Post by bunsy on Jan 5, 2012 9:37:13 GMT -6
Wow. Thought provoking. Thank you.
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Post by AuntSueto4 on Jan 5, 2012 9:45:30 GMT -6
Thank You for sharing. Wow, how tramatizing for you to see those pictures, all by yourself, and without explaination at that moment. I'm glad the teachers explained it all.
Good for you to keep your terror in check, realizing that it was yours and to not pass that on to your ds. I'm not sure if I'd have been able to do that in the moment.
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Post by irish on Jan 5, 2012 10:20:05 GMT -6
As always Sharon, your article was beautifully written. I found myself tearing up and my stomach was clenching too. Thank you for sharing
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Post by anokamom on Jan 5, 2012 10:25:46 GMT -6
WOW-beautifully written!
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Post by fungirls on Jan 5, 2012 10:39:31 GMT -6
Incredible, Sharon. What an experience you had, and glad that you are protecting your son from those details until you feel the time is right. Never forget is right - but all in appropriate ways and in due time.
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Post by laurac on Jan 5, 2012 10:51:09 GMT -6
Great job, Sharon!
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Post by betherin on Jan 5, 2012 11:00:42 GMT -6
Wonderful writing Sharon! You always have a way with words.
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Post by healerarina on Jan 5, 2012 11:31:29 GMT -6
I had a hard time learning about wwII as well. My grandparents were in a forced labor camp in Germany. Though they weren't Jewish, my grandpa's stories of the camps and how they were taken from their polish farm were interesting, my grandma would never speak of what she had been through. My grandpa always had a story from the war, and yes he did talk about people getting shot.
I had public school education, so there was nothing too graphic. The thing I found hardest to watch was miazaki's "Grave of the Firefly's". The film is lifted from a journal they found on a body in Japan shortly after the nuclear bombs were dropped. They say it can be shown to young kids, but it gave me nightmares when i saw it as an adult. DH and I plan on making our kids watch this when they are older.
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Post by ballerinamomma on Jan 5, 2012 13:50:12 GMT -6
Great article Sharon!
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Post by deannemdm on Jan 5, 2012 15:03:59 GMT -6
Amazing article. Thanks for sharing it with us!
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Post by sharon on Jan 5, 2012 16:55:02 GMT -6
Wow, FAR more responses than I was expecting! Thanks so much for taking the time to read! Sounds like the website wants more articles from me, so more to come!
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Post by dara1012 on Jan 5, 2012 22:32:34 GMT -6
Very well written Sharon!
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Post by angel22 on Jan 5, 2012 23:18:29 GMT -6
Beautiful Sharon. Thank you for sharing this! I remember how I saw the pictures and really read about the terror that was the Holocaust. I was a senior in High School and cast as the mother in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." I researched the role, learned the proper prayers and what they mean and had nightmares from the pictures. I can't bring myself to watch Schindler's list and still tear up when I hear the music from it (we learned the score in choir that year.) I was beyond amazed at what I had to learn on my own- what the schools DON'T or can't teach.
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Post by sharon on Jan 6, 2012 6:52:18 GMT -6
Yes, it IS important to teach it. Which is the conflict for me - because my gut reaction has always been (on a very physical level) that he should have NO exposure to it. I know in my head that's not logical and not the way to go, even if it were possible, which it is not. I'd have to deny him a Jewish education in general and I would never do that. So therein lies the internal battle with myself to find some reasonable way to approach this, when total avoidance is not right, but neither is what was done to me. I've talked to my sister about this and she feels the same - like she can't see this reasonably and has no perspective, but wants to find it. She actually had it worse off than me - there were relatives who were around when she was little and would talk about it in great detail to her from a very young age and in very confrontational ways. I did see Schindler's List. I really felt I needed to. I didn't sleep for 3-4 nights after and carrying on with my work and life commitments was really hard. At that point I decided I'm done. I know the horror. I've read Night. I know there is more I could read and see but I just decided I won't because I need to be able to function. I was drawn into watching Uprising when it was on TV, thinking it would be OK since it was about the Ghetto and not the camp and I was wrong.
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