Holocaust
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Harriëtte Zeeman just another teenager. But she was more then that. She was someones’s daughter. She was someone’s sister. She was someone’s friend. She was someone’s student. She was someone’s neighbor. She was someone who annoyed people. She was someone who made people laugh. She was someone born in Amsterdam. She was someone’s enemy. She…
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Dora Gerstein was a Jewish actress and singer born on 23 March 1899 in Berlin. She was murdered on February 14,1943 in Auschwitz. On one of the sites I used to do the research on Dora I noticed the line ‘Body lost or destroyed’. Not only her body was destroyed but also her talent and…
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I know some people will criticize me for this article. Because they cannot fathom why anyone would harm a nine-month-old baby, leave alone murder her. Seeing the face of a baby, knowing the child was killed by an evil regime, hits them hard in the gut. But I don’t care, truth is I want people…
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It is easy for me to be judgmental about Stella Goldschlag, but the fact is I don’t know what I would have done. However Stella did go beyond anything I would have done. Stella was boen in Berlin on July 10,1922 as the only child to a middle class Jewish family. Although the family did…
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There is no, nor was there ever, nor will there ever be any justification for murdering a 6 year old child, or any child for that matter. A 6 year old child should be send to school not an extermination camp. What sick twisted ideology thinks it is okay to murder a child? Nelly Tarszis…
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Killing the Jews wasn’t enough for the Nazi regime. They also needed to be humiliated. and their deaths had to be profitable. Laws were introduced to remove them from any social interaction and then they were forcibly removed from their homes, with only one suitcase of possessions, all other valuables were sold or just…
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There are 2 different pictures in this blog. Both pictures portray children but their reality could not be further apart, yet the were all victim of hate. One because he was murdered because of hate, the others because they were indoctrinated by hate from a very young age. The picture above is of 2 toddlers…
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I am not a great fan of statistics because without the full story behind them, they can be manipulated and often they are. However sometimes they can be useful to indicate a scale, In this the scale of death and destruction during the Holocaust. Between July 15,1942 and 13 September 1944 107,000 Jews were deported …
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This picture really upset me, it comes from an album from the National Monument of Camp Vught. When I saw the picture first I thought it was a family picture of 4 siblings. But these kids are not related, it appears to be a staged picture taken at Vught Concentration Camp But that is not…
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Some people think of Auschwitz as 1 camp but it was a complex of over 40 camps operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland. It is estimated that at least at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, o which 1.1 million were murdered. But I do believe that number is higher,however since I…
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