Holocaust
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+++++ CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++ Something I just can’t get my head around is that in this day and age there are still people the Holocaust ever happened. It sickens me to the core. In an era where we should educate future generation about the Holocaust and other genocides, history is disappearing from the…
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Little child, you are someone’s treasure, a product of love. You are born like any other child, no burden nor danger are you. And yet, they fear you and want to eradicate you as if you did not exist. Why do you anger them and what makes them hate you so much? Your eyes…
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Even if you don’t know any German you will know what those 3 words mean. Arbeit macht Frei- Work will set you free. 3 simple words which had such a great impact. The Nazis turned these words, which when you look at them basically had an honorable intend, into the most despicable words ever uttered.…
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Some people believe that when the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 the life of its Jewish population changed over night. This however was not the case. Like in other European countries the undermining and eventual eradication of Jewish life was a gradual process. Until September 1940 very little changed,It was only then when…
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Elisabeth Appelboom and Philip Flesschedrager did what so many young people of their age did, they fell in love, got married and promised to stay together until death did them part. For most married couples it is a journey they enjoy for many years to come. But not for Elisabeth and Philip. because death did…
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This will be a blog with very few words but mostly pictures. Pictures drawn by victims of the Holocaust. The artists are unknown, or at least unknown to me. but the art tells a bleak story of daily life in the concentration camps. The above picture is of a clergy man holding some sort of…
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I am one in a million, my Father says. I am unique in every way, my Mother says. I am their bundle of joy my parents say. I am a threat to the nation, the Nazis say. I am costing the country a lot of money, the government says. I should not have been born, …
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I often like to play with words for example when you take Warsaw and switch some parts of the name you get an accurate description of what the city went through during WWII . Saw War and Was raw. Warsaw saw the war in its rawest and most brutal form. It is also one of…
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Regardless how talented you were, or how much value you could add to the German culture, if you didn’t comply to the Nazi ideology or dared to criticize it, you stood a good chance of getting executed. Karlrobert Kreiten born 26 June 1916, in Bonn, Germany) was a Dutch-German pianist, holding Dutch citizenship his short life…
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