World War 2
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It is strange how things can come full circle. My first real blog was about an event during WWII in my hometown of which I was blissfully ignorant about, until I stumbled upon it by accident.. I came across the story of Frieda Goldschmidt-Jakob which actually ties into that story. On October 5,1942 the RAF…
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I probably could go into great detail in relation to Fr Lolling, but to be honest he is not worth it. The only reason why I am doing a blog about him is that today marks the 75th anniversary of his suicide. Now I don’t want to go into all the mental complexities that people…
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If you wouldn’t know the wider context of the picture, you would smile at it and think” a lovely picture of young people in the military enjoying themselves”. And that is exactly what they did , they did enjoy themselves. However this weren’t just some random service men and women. These men and women all…
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Usually, when I write a blog which contains the word teenager, it refers to a murdered someone during the Holocaust. Meyer Abramczyk wasn’t one of those and sadly passed away when he was aged 87. Metaphorically speaking, the teenager Meyer—was killed during the Holocaust. He was born on July 24, 1926 in Belchatow, Poland. His parents were…
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When people hear the word Auschwitz ,a shiver goes down their spine, and that is a good thing. However so many people do not really know that much about Auschwitz. They think it was only one camp, where there were really many other camps connected to Auschwitz. about 40. Some even think that from day…
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Heinrich Bütefisch- is not a well known name in the context of WWII and the Holocaust, yet he was responsible for the deaths of thousands, In addition to that he also worked for a company who had helped to develop Zyklon b, the gas used to kill millions. The company that produced Zyklon B was…
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The question who betrayed Anne Frank and the others hiding in the annex, has never really been conclusively answered. There are plenty of well founded speculations but there has not been a 100% certainty yet to who betrayed them. There is also still a possibility that no one betrayed them but that they were discovered…
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One sign, 2 languages, 5000 bodies. A sign that explains that a number of 5000 bodies are buried there. No individual graves with head stones. No individual places where family members leave small artifacts or flowers. No place to gather around a single grave to say a prayer. Some of those 5000 may have been…
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May 10, 2020 is Mother’s Day in most countries, with only a few exceptions like the UK and Ireland who had it on March 22. May 10 1943 is the date when one Jewish Mother and Grandmother was killed at Westerbork, aged 83. Her name was Jeanette Meyer-Cahn, wife and widow of Daniel Meyer. Daniel…
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There is a lot of rightful criticism about how the Dutch dealt with the Jews during WWII. A lot more could have been done, there is no question about that. But, it is easy to say these things in retrospect. If you are faced getting killed for a simple act of defiance , you might…
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