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You are told to wear a yellow star. It is a badge to indicate that you are an enemy of the people. Enemy of what people though? Sometimes it says the word Jude other times it says Jood or Juif. In Yugoslavia you are told to wear a yellow armband with black “Z”, an abbreviations…
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(originally posted on 10 July 2020) I have done a few hundred of these blogs now, blogs about children where I tried to bring them back to live a small bit, But when I saw the picture of Franciska Weisz something inside me broke, I know thst she is just one of 1.5 million children…
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There are few people that intrigue and disgust me simultaneously in similar measures, but Mengele is one of them. I deliberately am not calling him Doctor because he failed to honor or even pledge to the Hippocratic Oath. One line of that oath states the following “I will use treatment to help the sick according…
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My dad passed away on June 27 2015, his funeral was on July the 2nd. My siblings and I had decided that the day after his funeral we would go to his birth place, Maastricht, to remember him and to celebrate his life.We’d go by train so no one had to drive in an emotional…
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The biggest group of people who were murdered during the Holocaust were the Jews. An estimated 6 million were killed. The number of 6 million should have really been zero, because none of these people had done anything wrong, They were only killed because they were Jewish or had been Jewish, there was no other…
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We are in awe if we stand in front of a garden filled with flowers of all colours. Our mind wanders how such a beauty came to fruition. After a heavy shower ,we look up and see the colours of the rainbow in the sky, Secretly we hope that one day we will find the…
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The Nazi regime in Germany (1933–1945) is infamous for its industrial-scale atrocities, including genocide, war crimes, and systemic abuses of human rights. Among those complicit in these crimes were not only military officers and politicians but also scientists and physicians who abandoned medical ethics in favor of ideology and power. One such figure was Dr.…
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The 12th of May 1942, is the date that changed my life. I know some of you will find this an odd statement because it was 26 years before I was born. 12 May 1942 was the date that my paternal Grandfather died at the hand of the German occupiers, either by execution or suicide.…
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It is important to tell the stories of those who collaborated with the Nazis. Regardless of what some governments want you to believe, there were collaborators in all occupied countries. Some were even more evil than the occupiers. However, it is equally important to honour those who helped their fellow citizens, often at risk of…
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Before I go into the main story, I want to start with an extract of the testimony of Marcel Nadjari, who was a member of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. The Sonderkommandos were groups of Jewish prisoners forced to perform a variety of duties in the gas chambers and crematoria of the Nazi camp system. “The…
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