Ukraine
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This a piece that was newly published On October 24,2022, for The New School’s online journal Public Seminar, responding to James Carroll’s epic six-part essay in that outlet, “Revelations of the War in Ukraine.” It was written by Robert Edwards a writer based in New York City (blogging at The King’s Necktie), and a former…
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It is stories like Gideon’s that make me want to give up doing blogs on the Holocaust, but paradoxically, it also encourages me to continue with it. The reason why I want to stop is apparent. Every time when I see a picture of a beautiful innocent infant, knowing that child was murdered by an…
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I don’t think not too many people would have expected at the start of 2022, that Kharkiv would be dailyin the news in relation to battles happening in the area. It is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.Kharkiv was founded in 1654 as Kharkiv fortress, and after these humble beginnings, it grew to be…
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Dear Comrade Putin, You tell us that you don’t want a war. You are only conducting this ‘military operation’ in Ukraine to create peace. You say you want-Mir-I believe that is ‘Peace’ in the Russian language. But if this is really ‘mir’ then please do explain it to that poor man in Odessa, who went…
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Dear Comrade Putin, You are telling the world that you have carried out this military mission in the Ukraine, to protect its citizens, to rid it of Nazis. However you have not fully explained to us what you consider to be Nazis. I would love it if you could just clarify that matter, to a…
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Sonja would have been 80 today. But as the title suggests she was murdered when she was only 5 months old. She was the product of love between two people. Her parents were, Mother, Frederika van Amerongen-Veffer and her Father, Philip van Amerongen. Sonja’s Mother was a seamstress and her Father a butcher. Just regular…
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Time and time again, reports about the Holocaust were either ignored or not believed, even when the reports came from eyewitnesses like Kurt Gerstein. Gerstein was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). In this capacity, he would travel to Auschwitz,…
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Dear Iwan Rebałka, this is your data which is used to make up your statistics. Born -February 6, 1925 in Kreis Krasnopilla, Russland—an area which is now the part of Ukraine. Religion – Greek Orthodox Job at time of arrest-Milkman Deported to Auschwitz – August 20, 1942 Assigned number – 60308 marked as political prisoner.…
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The pursuit for truth and justice for the victims of the Holocaust should never ever stop.Even when perpetrators are brought to justice it is still just a hollow one, because what punishment can possibly cover the vile and sickening crimes committed. However it is important that these people are pursuit regardless what age they are,…
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I am just a boy on a rocking horse, not a man but a boy aged three. I am just a boy on a rocking horse, quite happy as you can see. I am just a boy on a rocking horse, I feel like a cowboy or a knight. I am just a boy on…
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