Auschwitz
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Hedwig Klement just a random name on random suitcase. But this random suitcase is not just any suitcase. It tells the story of a woman forcefully uprooted from her home in Prague. All she could take with her was this suitcase. That suitcase is all that remains of her because she was murdered in Auschwitz.…
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We will never see you smile again Your life ended before my life began We will never hear you sing again. Your were 7 when you took your last breath. Not because you were ill. No the opposite was true you were full of life and energy. It was evil men and women who wanted…
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This doll belonged to a 7 year old Belgian girl her name was Aline Klajn. I could say 2 things about Aline. I could say she was from Polish parents and I could also say she was Jewish. But none of that warranted her death, but yet it did. She was killed because she was…
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This is a blog I had wanted to do for a long time but was reluctant to actually start it. I was afraid it would be used out of context by both pro life and pro choice advocates. However this blog is really about desperation and inhumane sacrifices. I would therefore urge every one not…
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I can never understand hate. I can’t understand hating a human being I don’t know. I just can’t and I never will. I understand love I understand love but can’t describe that warm feeling when you are close to someone you love. I can understand that feeling when you look at a baby, so pure…
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93 trains left concentration camp Westerbork in the Netherlands between July 1942 and September 1944. All the trains were heading eastbound. Not one single journey would be a pleasant one , The final destination would more then likely result in death. I deliberately call Westerbork a concentration camp, because that’s what it was, It is…
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Haute Couture fashion is not something you would associate with Auschwitz, yet there were about 23 women who worked as dressmakers, producing dresses and haute couture fashion. These female prisoners served as the staff of the “Upper Tailoring Studio,” a private dressmaking shop for the wives of SS officers stationed at the facility. They were…
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In the 1920’s it would not be uncommon ,in the Catholic south of the Netherlands, that 1 or 2 children in a family would join a monastery or convent. But 6 from the 8 children was rare. What makes it even more rare with the Löb siblings that their parents had been Jewish. but they…
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I am Fanny Cogan. I was born on Saturday November 27,1937. Born in the city by the Seine, Paris, the city of love. And I was loved by those who knew me and saw me. I was born on the same day as the revue Pins and Needles premiered at the Labor Stage Theatre on…
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Dear Iwan Rebałka, this is your data which is used to make up your statistics. Born -February 6, 1925 in Kreis Krasnopilla, Russland—an area which is now the part of Ukraine. Religion – Greek Orthodox Job at time of arrest-Milkman Deported to Auschwitz – August 20, 1942 Assigned number – 60308 marked as political prisoner.…
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