Auschwitz
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Mary Weinrib was born on July 16, 1925, in Warsaw, Poland. She was born Mary Mania (Malka) Rubinstein. She grew up in Wierzbnik, a Jewish town that was part of Starachowice, Poland. Her mother was Rose Rubinstein, a dressmaker. Her father, Gershon Rubinstein, was a butcher. The family, which included a younger sister (Ida) and…
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The Drancy concentration camp, located in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, stands as one of the most significant sites in the history of the Holocaust in Western Europe. Functioning primarily as a transit camp between 1941 and 1944, Drancy became the central hub for the deportation of Jews from France to extermination camps, most notably…
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On May 8, 1940, the Van Hasselt family were festively dressed—as guests at the wedding of Meijer Nieweg, Missus van Hasselt’s brother. Simon van Hasselt was wearing a white flower for the occasion. Two days later, the Germans invaded the Netherlands. Less than two years later, on April 29, 1942, the van Hasselt family, like…
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In Auschwitz fields where shadows lay,Beneath a sky once soft and gray,The burning pits, an open grave,Consuming all the souls they gave. The earth, a pyre of endless pain,Where ash fell down like bitter rain.The flames roared in hell’s desire,And teardrops trembled on the fire. The faces lost, the names erased,Humanity’s heart is cruelly displaced.The…
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Men do not have a ‘monopoly’ on evil. Women can be just as evil if not more. This is one of those stories where it’s difficult to decide what is more disturbing: the atrocities committed by Herta Oberheuser, or the fact that she ultimately evaded full accountability. Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911, Cologne – 24…
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More than 80 years later, researchers still regularly uncover more new findings about World War II, including the atrocities committed in concentration camps. A study by Robert Sommer reveals that between 1942 and 1945, the SS established ten brothels in various concentration camps, where a total of 200 women were “put to work.” The clients…
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I have to warn you up front, this is not an easy read. I will try to stick to the facts and keep my emotions out of it, regardless on how difficult that will be. And I will keep it only to the experiments and the post war situation for Horst Schumann. Horst Schumann was…
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When I write an unfinished life, I mean it as the life of the 1.5 million children who were murdered during the Holocaust. For several years I have been trying to finish a song to remember all those children, but for some reason, I cannot finish it. Every time, I sit down to visualize the…
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Rudolf Breslauer was born on 4 July 1903, in Leipzig, German Empire. He was a German Jewish director and cinematographer. He died on 28 February, 1945, in Auschwitz, a month after liberation. Westerbork Film is the title of a film made in 1944 at the Westerbork Transit Camp in the Netherlands. It was a transfer…
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Tonight, the 98th Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, will take place. Unfortunately, many award shows have increasingly become platforms for politics rather than celebrations of the arts, and I fear the Oscars may be no exception. Yet I want to take a moment to look back at the life of a man who…
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