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The title is Holocaust Tattoos, but it was only in Auschwitz that the new arrivals selected for work would receive a tattoo. As a rule, they were tattooed on their left forearm to display, in dark blue/ black ink, the camp serial number assigned to them. The Nazis recorded more than 400,000 serial numbers at Auschwitz.
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: So many words can be read and written about the Holocaust, but it is often the images that stick in ones mind. They say a picture paints a thousand words. In this blog there will only be pictures, and although all of them are horrific. none are graphic. There…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I don’t think I have to tell anyone who Elie Wiesel is. But for those who don’t know him, I’ll give a brief overview who he is. He was born in Sighet (in Transylvania, now a part of Romania, but part of Hungary between 1940 and 1945) on 30…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: +++++++COTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++++++++ In general I try to avoid posting graphic pictures, for 2 reasons really. Firstly I know from my own experience if something is too graphic I look away. Secondly we live in an era where so many people get offended by everything, and especially the truth,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The history of Sittard-Geleen is a bit of a complicating one. The city used to be 2 towns, but in 2001 the towns of Sittard and Geleen merged and is now known as Sittard-Geleen. On September 18,1944 both towns were liberated. With the liberation of Sittard on 18 and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: While all other concentration camps were built or configurated to facilitate mass murder on an industrial scale, there were some exceptions. Plan-Frederiks was a plan made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam that was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German…
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“They say we’re young and we don’t know” is the line of the Sonny and Cher song, “I Got You, Babe,” that Bill Murray hears over and over again, in the 1993 comedy (yes, that’s right, 30 years ago) “Groundhog Day.” This will not be a movie review, although I do think it is one
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