Holocaust

  • The Transport 64  from Westerbork in the Netherkands , was the designated transport number for the moving of 2511 people to Sobibor in Poland, on May 18th 1943.(The transport also had designated number 12, there would often be more numbers for 1 transport) Most of them were residents of the city of Nijmegen. In the…

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  • Why?

    Why do you hate me? We have never met before. How can you look at me and feel a justification to kill me? Why do you follow orders of someone who doesn’t care about you? How can you still consider yourself a human being. Why do you hate me? We have never met before How…

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  • Law Abiding Citizens

    It is not always a good thing to be a law-abiding citizen. Don’t worry; I am not encouraging anarchy, but it is a fact that many things that we now know were evil and vile were once laws. Like slavery once was legal and written into law. Combine that with a nation whose culture it…

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  • (updated February 15, 2024) Now that the  we are only a few months away from the UEFA Euro 2024 and , it is a good opportunity to look at one of the sport’s legends. Ernest Erbstein, aka Ernest Egri-Erbstein was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and  He was involved in  football as a player and coach…

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  • The killing of Athletes

    It is often said that the death of a million is a statistic but the death of one is a tragedy, and unfortunately this is true. People just become desensitized when they see the pictures of a great number of corpses. It is just human nature, a defense mechanism because the brain just can’t fathom the…

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  • So many people say that World War 2 should be left in the past, it’s been more then 7 decades now and we should move on. And to an extend they are right. However what these people forget is that the effects of WWII are still current in ways that they didn’t even consider, many…

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  • My heart is broken

    Dear Simone Frajermauer you were 3 when you were murdered in Auschwitz. It was August 3 1944. It was 24 years before I was born. I never met you but yet you broke my heart. Now on this day July 11,2021  your eyes stared into mine and they have a question for me? They ask me”Have…

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  • Wilhelm Kube was a devout Christian as well as a zealous Nazi. Those 2 aspects of his life clashed a few times during WWII. In July 1941, just after the German occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union, he was appointed Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus). As Generalkommissar he was in…

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  • More so than any other extermination or concentration camp is Auschwitz associated with the mass extermination of Jews. However it did not start of that way. At the beginning Auschwitz was a relatively ‘small’ camp and the first prisoners were Polish political prisoners, most of them were Catholic and only 20  or so were Jews.…

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  • In April 1945 the allied troops forced the citizens of Neunburg,Germany to face up to some of the atrocities ordered and  committed by their elected government. They were made to look at bodies of Jewish  and other slave laborers in woods outside Neunberg, where they were marched from a Nazi Gestapo camp and where thy…

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