Auschwitz
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I was struggling to give this blog a title. I was thinking of naming it—Brothels in the Concentration Camp. However, I think that would not do justice to the horror and impossible choices these women had to make. In general, women who worked in brothels had a bit of autonomy over their lives. Some women enjoyed…
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A single chess piece with little of no value, yet it is invaluable. A bit of carved wood part of the game of 32 pieces, 16 white ,16 black. A game played by millions and played by people of all religions and none. A game which equally unites and divides people. This pawn piece says…
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Fritz Löhner-Beda was an Austrian born Jewish librettist, lyricist and writer. Born Wildenschwert, Bohemia but he grew up in one of Europe’s most cultural cities,Vienna. Alas Vienna’s culture was to become tainted to a degree. In the 1920s, Löhner-Beda became one of the most popular and sought-after librettists and lyricists in Vienna. This popularity though…
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9 Candles were on my last birthday cake,just one away from double digits . 9 Candles on my cake, one candle for each year. 9 Candles were lit, I could feel the heat of each of them. 9 Candles that punched 9 little holes in my cake. 9 Candles, not enough to light up the…
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A mistake many people make is to think that Auschwitz was only 1 camp.Aside from Auschwitz ,Auschwitz Birkenau and Monowitz which were the 3 biggest camps, there were another 40+ camps. One of these camps was Rajsko (Gärtnerei, which means Horticultural center or nursery). It was officially established on 12th June 1943. The camp was a…
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I was struggling with the title of this blog and even about the contents. I was going to do a picture blog with pictures of some of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and even though I have done blogs containing horrific images I realized that although a picture tells a thousand words it doesn’t…
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+++++++++++++++++WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++++++++++++++ The Nazis used forced labor to clean the Gas chambers. It was done by the so-called Sonderkommando, mostly made up of Jewish inmates who were selected because they were often young and still reasonably fit, fit enough to carry out physical labor. Being forced to clean the gas chambers was actually…
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Killing the Jews and other so called “subhumans” in Auschwitz just wasn’t enough for the Nazi regime. Examples had to be made too, these examples were made by carrying out punishments. Most of these punishment were carried out in Block 11 this was also the place where the first attempts to kill people with Zyklon…
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My name is Frouktje Oudgenoeg, I am 2 years old. My last name means Old Enough. That is exactly what I am. I am old enough to sing and dance. I am old enough to play outside in the garden, come rain or shine. I am old enough to get my face dirty with jam…
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War often brings out the worst in people. they commit crimes they would usually never even contemplate, but equally war also brings out the best in people performing heroic acts they know can cost their lives. Early 1943 Jews throughout Belgium were rounded up and arrested.People like three members of the Gronowski family(Mother,son and daughter),…
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