April 2023
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I had planned to write a post on the victims of Buchenwald that died shortly after liberation, I was sidetracked by stumbling across the story of Albert Leonard Wittenberg. Albert was born on 14 April 1909, in Paramaribo, Surinam. Surinam was a Dutch colony in South America. Like many of his fellow countrymen and women,
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Mauthausen was a concentration camp in Austria. It was one of the most brutal and severe of the concentration camps. The prisoners suffered not only from malnutrition but also because of overcrowded huts, constant abuse and beatings by the guards and kapos, and also from exceptionally hard labour. An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the
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In general, I try to avoid using graphic images as much as possible. Not because I think they are not important, but because they are. and solely because I find it difficult to erase them from my memories. However, it is important every now and then to be reminded of the unfathomable horrors. Buchenwald was
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The picture above was taken in October 1938, Lindbergh received a silver cross from Herman Göring the then 2nd highest Nazi official. Below is part of timeline of the Holocaust up to that point. 1933January 30 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany March 22 Dachau concentration camp opens April…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Westerbork may not have been an extermination camp, but that didn’t mean it was less evil. In a way, it may have been eviler because it created an illusion that life wasn’t that bad and gave the people a false hope that their endurance of camp life would be…
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Who is Berthold Mendel Judenfreund? He was just a farm labourer, not a man of violence or a criminal, just a farm labourer. On April 10, 1943, 25 years before I was born, the Nazis murdered him at Auschwitz. What makes his story so sad is that he could have survived. His nephew said the
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: They say a picture tells a thousand words. But it never tells the full story. The picture above has a clear description of how evil men can be, below are some testimonies and eye witness accounts of liberators and survivors of the Holocaust. Gina Rappaport was liberated by the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Rita and Sandor Joachim Krammer were both murdered in Auschwitz on October 26, 1942. Rita was born on 5 January 1935 in Groningen, the Netherlands. Her little brother, Sander Joachim, was born on 15 March 1937.Their mother, Regina Krammer-Gunsberger. was born in Deutschkreuz in Austria, and their father Jacob…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: All stories of children who were murdered during the Holocaust are extremely sad, but even in that there are different levels. The story of Helga Renate Sara Zons is particularly heartbreaking . There are no pictures of her just a death certificate to remember her by, The certificate was…
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