History of Sorts

Many opponents of the Nazi regime found their untimely death in Plotzensee prison. Those executed were German resistance fighter, but also Polish and French forced laborers, and many others.

A great number were executed by guillotine but on September 3 the guillotine was damaged beyond repair after an RAF raid. From then one the methods of executions were hanging or firing squad.

After execution, the bodies were released to Hermann Stieve, an anatomist at the medical college of what is now Humboldt University of Berlin. He and his  assistants dissected the bodies  for research purposes.

Stieve had a particular  interest in the effects of stress on the menstrual cycle, and produced  230 papers based on this research, among them one that demonstrated that the rhythm method was not an effective method of preventing conception.

He received prison records which contained  information on how the women had reacted to their death sentences, and…

You stole my childhood and took my life for one reason and one reason only. hate!

Because of your hate you denied me to grow up to become a Doctor, who could have save your mother,your father or your child.

Your hate stopped me from being an artist, whose paintings could have brought some much colour and joy to the world.

Your hate stopped me from becoming a writer, whose words would have educated the masses.

Your hate stopped me from being a musician,whose compositions would evoke strong emotions.

Your hate denied me the opportunity to become an architect, whose services were so much needed after the war, even to rebuild your house.

Because of your hate I will not be  a mother, I will not be the mother of the son or daughter who could have nursed you in a nursing home.

You stole my childhood and with that…

This is going to be a short blog for it is impossible for me to do an in depth story without turning into an emotional wreck.

Eva Heyman was a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl. I have a daughter the same age, with the same beautiful smile.

Eva had one simple wish ,which she recorded in her diary.

“Yet, my little Diary, I don’t want to die, I still want to live .. I would wait for the end of the war in a cellar, or in the attic, or any hole, I would, my little Diary….”

“I don’t want to die because I have hardly lived”

She wrote this on May 30th 1944.less then 5 months later she was dead, She died on October 17 1944. A certain Dr Mengele made sure of that.

Eva’s mother, Agnes Zsolt was rescued by allied troops when they liberated Bergen Belsen…

Mohandas Gandhi, frequently known by the honorific Mahatma (meaning “great soul”), was famous for advocating civil disobedience and nonviolence to achieve his goals.

Starting in 1921, Gandhi led the Indian independence movement through such methods, finally achieving freedom from the British empire in 1947, just six months before his death.

Less known is Gandhi’s efforts through a series of letters in 1939 and 1940 to keep German dictator Adolf Hitler from starting a war in Europe.

The British saw to it that the 1939 letter was never delivered. It seems they did not realise its propaganda value, considering how much Gandhi is revered today. But it did show that the Indian leader was a shrewd reader of international affairs – even a month before the Nazi-Soviet Pact made World War II inevitable, Gandhi had fully realised that the only way to avert war was for the German leader to adopt…

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Although the German army had one last offence left in them,it must have become quite clear to them that despite the early success during the Battle of the Bulge, the war was coming to an end and they would be at the losing side of it.

Rather then accepting the inevitable in dignity, some of the German troops continued in an evil and brutal way.

The pictures below contain graphic images.

A war correspondent looks down at the dead body of a young Belgian boy, murdered by Nazi soldiers.

Stavelot, Belgium. December, 1945.

The bodies of Belgian civilians litter the streets.
Belgium. Dec. 15, 1944.

The blasted ruins of Bastogne after a raid by German bombers.
Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 26, 1944.

American soldiers, stripped of their equipment and one robbed of his boots, lie dead at the crossroads. Honsfeld, Belgium. Dec. 17, 1944.

The scene of the Malmedy…

Your life was ended, your voice was taken. But today I am your voice.

I cannot bring you back to life but I can speak for you, your name will not be forgotten, your voice will be heard.

Jacques Kligman age 12 from Paris, France was  deported to Auschwitz on convoy 23 then murdered on August 1942

Francoise Sukno was brutally murdered in the gas chamber in Auschwitz with his mother and older sisters on August 5, 1943 at age 2 months.

Claude Vecksler age 11 months was sadly deported to Auschwitz then murdered on September 25, 1942.

Marta Weisz- From Sarkoz Romania. Marta was  murdered in Auschwitz Death Camp on May 31, 1944 at age 2.

I do not care if people will criticize me for telling your short story, I do not care that people say leave the past in the past.

You were once the future.

Rest…

This may sound strange but is often easier to look at  graphic images of the Holocaust, because throughout the years I have seen so many that nothing actually shocks me anymore.

But seeing the last words of the victims has such a profound effect. With images you close your eyes or look away and although there is a memory of that picture, the impact gets lesser when you look away.

However the words are forever etched in your soul, they are the cries from eternity.

“Blanche, if it’s a boy, name him Jacob Ben Meier. If it’s a girl, name her Rachel.”

Meier Vieijra was born on 26 December 1918 in Amsterdam.

In 1939, Meier married Blanche Nabarro

Meier’s parents lived in central Amsterdam, near the Portuguese Synagogue on the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein, the square that became the scene of the first large round-up of Jews in Amsterdam, on 22-23…

In this blog I will only show pictures of 4 year old children who were murdered by the Nazi regime. You can make up your own mind what you think about that. But before you do look at your own 4 year old child, or the child of a relative,neighbor or friend and try to determine how big an enemy this child would be.

4 YEARS OLD.

The picture above is of  Micha Kalichowski ,he was only 4 when he was sadly murdered in a town Bronogura, Poland in 1941 during the Holocaust.

Abram Minkin was only 4 years old when he was sadly sadly murdered in his hometown at Riga, Latvia in 1941.

Levi Spier was only 4 years when he was sadly murdered at Sobibor death camp on Jul 9, 1943

Mara Gofman was only 4 years old when she was sadly murdered in her hometown at Mariupol…