No 50th Birthday Celebrations for Abraham

The name Abraham is synonymous with the age of 50 in the Netherlands. When a man reaches the age of 50. Dutchmen who turn fifty are embarrassed by a life-sized puppet of Abraham in the front garden or outside an apartment.

Abraham Barend did not reach the age of 50.

Abraham Barend did not reach the age of 40.

Abraham Barend did not reach the age of 30.

Abraham Barend did not reach the age of 20.

Abraham Barend did not reach the age of 10.

Abraham Barend reached the age of 9.

Abraham Barend was born in Amsterdam on 12 January 1934 and murdered at Sobibor on 2 July 1943.

Franz Paul Stang was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka during World War II. He did reach the age of 50—in fact, he reached the age of 63.

Prior to Sobibor, he had also worked for the T4 program. He denied so many children their early birthdays, not even reaching double figures.

Franz Karl Reichleitner, was the commandant of Sobibor in 1943. He died at the age of 37.

The photograph above is of SS officers entertaining a customs official on the terrace of the Merry Flea. The high-quality drinking glasses were likely stolen from gas chamber victims. (Left-to-right: Daschel, Reichleitner, Niemann, Schulze, Bauer, two unknown women, and the customs official)

Celebrating while women and children were murdered in the gas chambers.

One of the SS officers, Erich Bauer, died at age 80.

Abraham Barend reached the age of 9.






Sources

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/sobibor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/186385/abraham-barend

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