Lithuania
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This is a Substack from my good friend Grant Gochin. On June 11, the Government of Lithuania used Holocaust Museum LA’s reopening to claim “Lithuania’s place” in Holocaust memory. The museum had been warned, in writing, about exactly this. It welcomed Lithuania anyway. The reopening deserves praise. After a major expansion, the survivor-founded institution opened…
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It wasn’t only the Nazis who used the railway for mass deportations. In the pre-dawn hours of June 14, 1941, a synchronized knock echoed across thousands of doors in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Families were awoken by officers of the Soviet secret police (NKVD), read a brief decree, and given mere hours to pack a…
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The history of the Holocaust is often defined by the scale of its industrial slaughter, yet some of its most profound horrors lie in the specific, targeted decrees designed to extinguish the very concept of a Jewish future. On May 7, 1942, the Nazi administration in occupied Lithuania issued a mandate that transformed the Kovno…
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There were several horrific events on March 27 1944 1,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, France, to Auschwitz. 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kovno Lithuania 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo Children’s Aktion-Nazis take all the Jewish children of Kovno,Lithuania.,and deport them One Father carves the date of the…
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This is just my opinion and there is no scientific research done on this, at least not as far as I am aware, but I think the Holocaust can be categorized as organized randomness. On a large scale the industrialized murder of millions was organized efficiently, however on smaller scales the treatment of mainly Jews,…
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The title of this post, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust, is from a 2005 documentary produced by MTV (yes, MTV). It starred several famous actors reading excerpts from diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust—most murdered. I’ve mentioned the full-length movies in this post. I also picked…
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Introduction General Walter Stahlecker’s report, officially known as The Stahlecker Report, stands as one of the most chilling and revealing documents from World War II. Written in 1941, it provides a detailed account of the early activities of Einsatzgruppe A, a Nazi mobile killing unit operating in the Baltic states and parts of the Soviet…
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Bizarrely enough diaries were not always used or recognized as evidence or as study material for the Holocaust. researchers tended to dismiss Jewish diaries as subjective and unreliable. Only in the last few decades the value of diaries have been acknowledged. To me there is nothing more powerful of the words of those who lived…
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The photograph above is of a child-size violin that belonged to 13-year-old Boruch Golden, who the Nazis murdered in the massacres at Ponary in September 1943. Baruch began playing the violin when he was six years old. His sister, Niusia (Anna), saved the violin. She survived the war in hiding. Following the invasion of Soviet…
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The vow: David whispered in Dora’s ear. “No matter where they take us, we will meet back here in the Square, when this is over. Stay strong my Love, and know my thoughts and prayers are with you.” Dora replied with tears in her eyes. “I love you David and I will pray every night…
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