Auschwitz

  • This is a short poignant story but it has so much in it.A story of hope,survival,death, bereavement and most of all a story that tells us that life is a very precious thing. It is also a stark reminder that we have to remain vigilant to ensure that evil doesn’t win. It is the story…

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  • This blog will be based on facts and some presumptions, but the presumptions are more then likely correct. I was going over the history of the deported Jews from my birthplace Geleen, south east of the Netherlands. when I noticed the name of the Cohen family. There is not a lot I know or could…

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  • The existence of concentration and extermination camps were well known before they were liberated. The reason why it was not acted upon is not clear to me. I have heard the theory that it was more important to win the war then to liberate the camps, because defeat of Nazi Germany would ultimately safe the…

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  • There are no monsters under my bed who want to hurt me or do me harm There are no monsters under my bed, but I wish there were for I know they aren’t real. There are no monsters under my bed, but there are monsters everywhere else. The monsters can be a stranger, a teacher,…

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  • I will be your voice

    Dear Marta Weisz, you don’t know me and I don’t know you but yet I pledge to be your voice. You were a product of love between 2 people, but you were killed by a product of hate. I say product because when you were born you produced a feeling in your parents which can not…

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  • When I grow up, I am going to be a Doctor or a Pilot or a Policeman. When I grow up, I am going to be a Baker, or a Carpenter or Fireman. When I grow up, I am going to write great stories and everyone in the whole wide world will read them. When…

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  • I am 3

    My name is Julia Bricht, I am 3. When I am four I will go to school and learn all sorts of things and play with my friends. When I am 6 I will go the big school and will get to know more people and learn even more things. When I am 12 I…

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  • I am Kira Zylberszac

    I am Kira Zylberszac or perhaps I should say I was Kira Zylberszac. My age is 7 years old I died on August 19 1942 together with my younger brother Serge, We did not die because we were sick or someway a threat to the world. We died because of  an ideology. You see we were Jewish…

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  • This Is…

    This is Margot Jany, eight-years-old when she was murdered in Auschwitz-Birenk. This is Ernest Frydman, age nine from Paris, France deported and murdered in Auschwitz on August 1942. This is Mina and Joseph Kiszelewski, murdered in the gas chamber on August 26, 1942, at ages nine and six. This is Bernard Gutman, age eight, from…

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  • Ala Gertner, Róża Robota, Regina Szafirsztajn and Estera Wajcblum, more then likely these names mean nothing to you. But these 4 young women showed a bravery that would make the bravery of any hardened warrior pale in comparison. These 4 women were all members of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau The Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who worked the death…

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