• The Holocaust in Words

    This is a selection of random testimonies and eyewitness accounts by victims and perpetrators. The testimonies are from several interviews. I will not indicate who the victims or who the criminals are. I think it is quite clear from the language they use. Lilly Kaplan“Some gentlemen showed up, I don’t remember if it was two…

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  • Mother’s Finest were probably the first band to fuse Rock with Funk. 48 years ago they released their biggest hit to date “Piece of the Rock” It is a song is about people who are all searching for something more in their lives, success, money food, etc. The story teller is saying that everyone wants…

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  • Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a U.S. Army psychiatrist who became renowned for his psychological evaluations of high-ranking Nazi officials during the Nuremberg Trials. His work not only contributed to the fields of psychiatry and forensic psychology but also provided a rare glimpse into the minds of those responsible for the atrocities of the Holocaust…

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  • The Glasses in Piles

    A thousand lenses, thick with dust,lie tangled in a heap of rust,frames twisted like the lives they bore,left broken there upon the floor. Each pair once rested on a nose,brought blurred lives close and clear;each bridge and temple bent and worn,a testament to seeing here. Round, thin, and wire-bound,child-sized frames to old, stout rims—each one…

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  • Auschwitz is synonymous with terror, cruelty, and the Holocaust’s unimaginable suffering. The vast concentration and extermination camp complex built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland has become a symbol of the industrial scale of mass murder. However, within this broader landscape of death, an often overlooked chapter of exploitation lies in the form of the…

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  • “A World Without Heroes” is a song by the American rock band KISS, featured on their 1981 concept album Music from “The Elder.” The song stands out for its departure from the band’s traditional hard rock style, leaning more toward a ballad with softer and more emotional tones. It was co-written by band members Paul…

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  • Turn Back Time

    If I could turn back time, would I bring my lost loved ones back to life?Or would I, in doing so, only return them to more pain and suffering? If I could turn back time, would I revisit the place where I first met my wife?Would she still be there, smiling the same way?How different…

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  • Johanna Langefeld (née May, 5 March 1900 – 26 January 1974) remains one of the most intriguing and morally complex figures among the female staff of Nazi concentration camps. Rising from a modest background as a domestic-economy instructor to become an Oberaufseherin (senior female overseer), she served at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and the women’s section of…

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  • It is strange how you can come across some stories. I was actually doing some research on the fate of the pets of Jews during the Holocaust, when a picture came up of Leo Katzenberger. What drew my attention was that Leo looked a lot like one of my Uncles, who was also called Leo;…

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  • I have already done a piece on the Milgram experiments, and this will be more of a follow up. The Milgram experiment,was designed to observe the extent to which individuals would perform acts that violated their personal conscience when under orders from an authority figure. Basically they wanted  to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient…

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