What is the link between Sunflowers, Holocaust survivors and Forgiveness?

Question

What is the link between Sunflowers, Holocaust survivors and Forgiveness?

Answer 1

They're all full of p**s.

Answer 2

Alongside "The Sunflower," Thomas Moore's poem "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms," Rabbi Yonassan Gershom's "Beyond the Ashes:  Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust," and "Chela on the Path," El Morya....

Answer 3

I believe that the link between Sunflowers and Jewish survivors of the holocaust is linked to Simon Wiesenthal's book titled "The Sunflower".  It is an amazing book. The point of it all is that without forgiveness, there can truly be no future-"The Sunflower is a book and a symbol, both relating to a story told by Simon Wiesenthal, the famous n**i hunter. Simon names his story The Sunflower, because, as a prisoner in the Holocaust, he sees a graveyard where n**i graves are surrounded by living sunflowers, but Jews are just piled in heaps. His life is so awful that he is even jealous of the dead n***s. The Sunflower becomes a symbol of his story that is about remembrance and about the ethical problem of forgiving a dying n**i. I have researched the story of Simon Wiesenthal, and read his story, The Sunflower. Then I researched the concept of forgiveness in other religions, and explored this concept in the context of the Holocaust and everyday life. To truly understand this, you must read the book. Remember that usually when we ask for forgiveness, we have made a mistake and are asking for people to understand that we didn’t do it on purpose. It’s hard to make a mistake burning down a building and killing a human child. When you are trying to get forgiveness for something that you did on purpose, I think you have to show that you learned what you did was wrong and punish yourself. I think that the only punishment suitable for a murderer is to feel guilt and sadness for the rest of their life, and that is exactly what Simon Wiesenthal gave the n**i."

About the Book:

"While imprisoned in a n**i concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?

In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising and always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion, and human responsibility!!!."

Answer 4

Read the Wiki cited below. On a personal note, my Husband is Jewish and some of his family were killed in the Holocaust.{ However, his Mother has forgiven him for marrying a German.}

Answer 5

All looks for New Dawn...

New Starting....