Holocaust
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Despite the dire circumstances she was living through, Anne Frank did not give up hope. It should be a lesson for all of us. The following are some (of her) words of hope—she was wise beyond her years. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”…
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I know that some people will see the title of the post and will get the shivers. They will think it is going to be a story of indescribable horrors of cruelty. Perhaps a tale of experiments on women in Dachau. They might not even read the rest of this post because they might not…
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One aspect of the Holocaust which is often forgotten is the other damage caused. What I am referring to is the fatalities caused by a lack of qualified medical staff. I am not sure if there is any data on that, but it stands to reason that aside of the 6 million or more Jews…
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A father does everything for his children. A father provides for their needs, offers them comfort, and protects them. He loves them, hugs them, and tucks them in with bedtime stories. But how can a father, with all his love and care, become a monster to other children? Without hesitation or remorse, he killed thousands—many…
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Some might think the title, Escape to Suriname—A Holocaust Christmas Story, is a bit contradictory. Dutch Jews were fully integrated into Dutch culture, and many would have participated in the Sinterklaas and Christmas celebrations. This story is about more than that, and one I was not familiar with. On Christmas Eve 1942, more than a hundred,…
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The Holocaust is by far the worst era of mankind. It has shown us how a supposedly cultured and sophisticated society murdered millions because they were deemed not to have a place in that society. But this didn’t come as a light from the blue. It had been brewing for decades, and two political movements…
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You hate me simply because I am a Jew. You hate me just because I am not a pure Aryan. Yet by your own definition I look more Aryan then your leader, the same man who has told you to hate me. You hate me because you lack the intellectual capacity to recognize that your…
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This is Eva Feldmannova , a human being. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being like any other human being on earth. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being with the same needs, same desires like any other human being on earth. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being. a young girl who wanted education,…
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I wish I could say that, despite the horrors inflicted during the Holocaust, humanity somehow managed to restore itself. But I would be lying. How can we claim that, knowing that 1.5 million children were brutally murdered in the most inhumane ways imaginable? Children like Greetje Leger, who has been reduced to a statistic: “Reached…
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The photograph above is one of the most well-known photographs of the Holocaust. Yet, it is from a period of the Holocaust which is seldom spoken about. We mostly hear about the concentration camps and extermination camps. However, prior to the industrialized scale of murder, approximately two million Jews were murdered by bullets. The summer…
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