Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400372" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Yom HaShoa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are things <br>which people never discuss, <br>like wickedness and destruction<br>and loss of humanity <br>that comes with hate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s funny how people<br>loose sight of God<br>and declare wars in His name <br>and kill the innocent in office towers<br>and lose all humanness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could never understand<br>why like animals, <br>people have been kept in camps.<br>Even my great grandmother<br>died in a British concentration camp<br>and the names of the predecessors<br>of many Afrikaners, <br>stays written on their harts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see terrible photographs<br>of people lying like broken shop dolls, <br>where they are famished, molested, <br>embarrassed, degraded, broken and killed<br>and Yom HaShoa<br>hits mighty blows<br>into my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Having been a soldier myself, <br>I wonder how warriors<br>could lose all humanity, <br>or were they only<br>sociopathic animals<br>without any honour and fame; <br>when they demonstrated their cruelty<br>in Auschwitz–Birkenau, <br>Buchenwald, Treblinka<br>and at other places.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a Afrikaner boer<br>and from Scottish decent<br>and my forefathers fought as boers<br>and rebels, against the British<br>and my Scottish great grandpa<br>stood against them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can go back<br>and trace and know our families<br>and somehow every body; <br>might be a Jew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sometimes wonder<br>from where my father’s names, <br>Jacob and Solomon comes<br>and if it is only from<br>the sacred book.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still identity, integrity<br>and freedom<br>and being humane, <br>goes much further<br>than race and nationality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the end<br>everybody stands<br>at the feet<br>of the Judge and Creator; <br>where words and deeds<br>carry their own power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Yom HaShoa=>Holocaust Remembrance Day. With thanks to Mahdokt, for the pictures and message in her email that inspired this verse.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
<img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share">
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400372" data-title="Yom HaShoa de Gert Strydom" data-description="There are things 
which people never discuss, 
like wickedness and destruction
and loss of humanity 
that comes with hate.

It’s funny how people
loose sight of God
and declare wars in His name 
and kill the innocent in office towers
and lose al..."></div>
</div>
</div>