April 2025
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This blog is not meant to accuse current students , but is aimed at them as a history lesson. The history they could easily repeat if they are not careful. Much of the text below is repetitive because I researched several sources. However, in this case, repeating the text is important, During the Nazi era
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I was going to put a lot of pictures in this blog, but then when I looked at this picture I thought that it would be enough. A class, class mates and a teacher, like any other class in any other school. Except it isn’t. Here the children are taught to hate. The kids standing
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“As long as a name is mentioned, someone is not forgotten,” meaning if you mention the name of one person, that person is remembered. I know it sounds quite obvious, but when you think about it for a minute, it is the essential first step to ensure that the Holocaust will not happen again. I
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On April 16, 1947, in the shadow of Auschwitz—a name now synonymous with human suffering and industrial-scale murder—justice was served in one of the most symbolically powerful moments of the post-war reckoning. Rudolf Höss, the former commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, was executed by hanging. The
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In early April 1945, as the Second World War approached its harrowing conclusion, the Nazi regime intensified its efforts to relocate concentration camp prisoners in a desperate attempt to obscure the full extent of their crimes. Among these efforts was the transportation of prisoners from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstadt in three trains—each a grim convoy of
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Jacob ElsasAmsterdam, 21 April 1927 – Bergen-Belsen, 15 April 1945 Reached the age of 17 years Hijman van Emden Rotterdam, 8 November 1910 – Bergen-Belsen, 15 April 1945 Reached the age of 34 years Occupation: Merchant Julius Kropfeld Rütenbrock, 5 August 1922 – Bergen-Belsen, 15 April 1945 Reached the age of 22 years Occupation: Worker
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Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were prominent passengers aboard the Titanic. Isidor Straus was born in Germany in 1845 and immigrated to the United States with his family—when he was a child. He eventually became a successful businessman and co-owner of Macy’s department store in New York City, along with his brother Nathan. Isidor
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On April 15,1945 the 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division of the British army liberated about 60,000 prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. One of the soldiers, 21 year old Corporal Ian Forsyth, called it “A place of darkness and death.” What the British troops encountered was described by the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby,
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Helmut Kleinicke was a German engineer who supervised construction projects at Auschwitz—but unlike many in his position, he quietly and courageously saved Jewish lives from the gas chambers. Born in 1907, Helmut grew up immersed in nature in the forests of Lower Saxony, where his parents worked as forest rangers. He later studied civil engineering
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The night of April 14, 1865, marked one of the darkest moments in American history—the culmination of a calculated conspiracy that aimed to decapitate the leadership of the United States government during the final days of the Civil War. While President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre is the most remembered event from that night,
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