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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, but I think it is really cool when people find out something interesting about their ancestors.  My grandfather fled Nazi Germany and his stories always fascinated me.  [/quote]When I was an AA student at the University of Chicago in the '70s, I had three Jewish roommates.  One of my roommates' parents were sent to Auschwitz and showed me their tattooed identity numbers on their arms that were placed there at the camp.  And when my roommate's mother put her arm around me and told me that 'contrary to popular belief, we Jews understand what your ancestors went through', I just broke down and cried.

I ran my fingers across those numbers, and the next summer during a group excursion to Europe and while we were in Munich, I made it a point to detour to Dachau.  This had (and still does) such an impact on me that 20 years later, I took my children to Africa to see the 'Door of No Return'.

I speak only for me but I allow no one to approach me (or more directly, get up in my face) and denigrate anyone whose ancestors suffered so much during enslavement, African or Jewish.  I have touched and felt pain, literally and figuratively.

No one should ever forget.[/quote]

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