History
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I have to confess that the the title is somewhat misleading because Hugo Gutmann was not a typewriter salesman as of yet when he recommended Hitler’s award of the Iron Cross First Class. Hugo Gutmann was one of the 12,000 Jewish military who fought for Germany during WWI. from 29 January to 31 August, 1918…
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Time! When you think of it, time is such a bizarre concept. It can be measured in an exact set of parameters, years,months,weeks,days,hours,minutes,seconds and even milli and nanoseconds. Yet when you lose someone you love, a day can seem like a year, and a year can seem like a day. Time goes fast and slow…
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Franz Josef Engel (1898–1944) was an Austrian actor and comedian whose career and life became emblematic of the vibrant Jewish artistic culture that flourished in Europe in the early 20th century and was later decimated by the Holocaust. His story is one of creativity, survival, and profound loss—a narrative shared by many Jewish artists who…
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This a picture blog looking back at some events in our History. A picture often tells a thousand words. It is important that we never forget our history because if we so we forfeit out future. Four-year-old Michael Finder escaping communism in East Berlin from a window. October 7, 1961. A German child meets her…
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Philip Mechanicus was born, three days before Adolf Hitler, in Amsterdam on 17 April 1889 to a Jewish family. After he left school, he started to work for the social-democratic daily newspaper Het Volk in the shipping and records department. He worked his way up to become a journalist. After finishing his military service, he worked in…
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If I could turn back time, would I bring my lost loved ones back to life?Or would I, in doing so, only return them to more pain and suffering? If I could turn back time, would I revisit the place where I first met my wife?Would she still be there, smiling the same way?How different…
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I have already done a piece on the Milgram experiments, and this will be more of a follow up. The Milgram experiment,was designed to observe the extent to which individuals would perform acts that violated their personal conscience when under orders from an authority figure. Basically they wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient…
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The Holocaust is often best described in the simplicity of the art and words of the child victims. Below are some poems and drawings from children of the Holocaust. The painting above was by a child interred in the Terezin Camp during the Holocaust. She dreamed of seeing butterflies again. At TerezínWhen a new child…
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Although this blog is about a massacre which killed 750,000 victims within a week, not everyone reading this will be shocked about it. At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. In 1939…
