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Total Stories: 50          Published: Wed, Jan 31, 2007



Dignity of Difference


Last week if anyone had been watching Big Brother they would have seen three or four people bullying another because they were different - a different religion, a different culture, a different class, a different race.

Last week and this week at Enniskillen Castle Museums, school children learned where bullying can lead.

They discovered the horrific story of the Holocaust during the Second World War

Fermanagh County Museum at Enniskillen Castle hosted a series of talks to mark Holocaust Memorial Month – some from Eva Clarke, a survivor of the Holocaust and others by Tom Jackson of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Eva Clarke, a survivor of the Holocaust who's mother gave birth to her on a coal train while being transported from Auschwitz to another concentration camp in Mauthausen, spoke of her family's experience during the Holocaust.

She told how her mother managed to hide her pregnancy while she was at Auschwitz because she was so malnourished, weighing only five stone.

Explaining why she travels around the world recounting her family's story she said: "I tell my story to commemorate the millions of people killed during the Holocaust and whole generations who have been wiped out and have no one left to remember that they ever lived. My story is the story of one family among millions of families which helps people today to relate to the personal struggle to survive.

I hope that people will learn the lessons of the past and learn that racism, any form of racism, has a logical conclusion of genocide."

Tom Jackson from the Holocaust Memorial Trust spoke of the rise of the Nazi party in Germany during the 1930s and how their attempts to kill anyone who was different to them led to the extermination of 11 million people throughout Europe.


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