Holocaust

  • The First to Die in Dachau

    Often, the public thinks that the murders by the Nazis during the Holocaust only started after World War II began. However, in fact, it began in April 1933, only ten weeks after Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It is sad enough that young men lost their lives on April 12, 1933; it is even…

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  • I never met Lia, in fact today is the first time I came across her picture. It would have been her 93rd birthday two days ago. She was born in Amsterdam, 20 September 1932 . And murdered in Sobibor, 2 July 1943. Reached the age of 10 years. When I was born she would have…

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  • Holocaust Testimonies

    Mara Ginic (now Kraus) was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1925. At the age of 3 or 4 she moved with her grandparents to Osijek, Slavonia(Nowadays in Croatia). When she was five years old her parents divorced and her mother moved to Belgrade, but she stayed with her father and grand parents in Osijek. When…

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  • Hans Scholl

    When you look at the picture, you would assume it is the mugshot of a hardened criminal. But you couldn’t be further from the truth. The picture is of Hans Scholl. He was arrested and later murdered for exposing the criminals that arrested him. There wasn’t an awful lot of resistance in Germany against the…

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  • 107 Duizend mensen

    Terwijl ik gisteren luisterde naar het lied 15 Miljoen Mensen van Fluitsma & Van Tijn, kwam ik op het idee om er een alternatieve tekst van te maken. Een soort muzikale waarschuwing aan de Nederlandse regering: wat er mis kan gaan als je je laat meeslepen door extreme politieke ideologieën, of ze nu van rechts…

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  • On July 26, 1897, in the Austrian village of Wattens, Jakob Gapp was born into a modest working-class family. He grew up like many boys in Tyrol: ordinary, hardworking, with no hint of the extraordinary courage that would one day define him. Yet his life would unfold in ways that would test the limits of…

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  • The Nazis would never have been able to commit the crimes they committed if they hadn’t received the cooperation from businesses that supplied to them. Technically some companies may not have been directly involved in the killing of Jews.Roma’s,Homosexuals and others, but by facilitating the third reich they played an equal part in the Holocaust.…

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  •  Rest in peace little one, but how can you? You did not ask to be born but yet you were. But that was good because it was because of the love between two people, you came to be. You were so wanted. A blessing to be seen by every one. Rest in peace little one.…

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  • 41 Months and 6 Days

    41 Months and 6 Days was all I was allowed to live. After 41 Months and 6 Days I was given a death sentence. No, I was not a criminal. No, I harmed no one. In fact I wasn’t even of a school going age as of yet. What did I do in those 41…

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  • I am not going to say too much about Margareta Maria Gallinat. Suffice it to say she sought employment abroad to terrorize innocent citizens. She was born in Ragnitz on 16 October 1894 in Rotsche Bach, Hamar. In April 1940, Gallinat read a newspaper ad for Aufseherin and decided to apply. Two months later, she…

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