World War 2
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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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This is going to be a short blog. It will only contain a set of series of passport size photographs of prisoners of Auschwitz. I don’t know their names, but that really doesn’t matter. All that is important to know that most of them will have died during the Holocaust. Each one of them was…
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I think the best way of telling the stories of the Holocaust , is to bring it down to a personal level , so that people can find some association with it, although it is impossible to fully comprehend the horrors. What makes it difficult is just to pick one of the millions who were…
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Hedwig Klement just a random name on random suitcase. But this random suitcase is not just any suitcase. It tells the story of a woman forcefully uprooted from her home in Prague. All she could take with her was this suitcase. That suitcase is all that remains of her because she was murdered in Auschwitz.…
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The picture above is a baby picture of Milda Sykora. A brilliant scientist and researcher. At a young age she had set herself the task to find out what triggered the unset of Rheumatoid Arthritis. She had seen several people in her family suffer what the disease for which there is no cure. Tirelessly she…
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This most be one of the most intriguing WWII stories,not is it only one of those rare positive WWII stories it also ties in to WWI and the effects of it still apply today. We have no name for this hero, all we know him as is J.D. . We know of J.D is that…
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Below is a part of the testimony of Hans Friedrich a member of of the 1st SS Infantry Brigade. His words are shocking. “Try to imagine there is a ditch, with people on one side, and behind them soldiers. That was us and we were shooting. And those who were hit fell down into the…
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We will never see you smile again Your life ended before my life began We will never hear you sing again. Your were 7 when you took your last breath. Not because you were ill. No the opposite was true you were full of life and energy. It was evil men and women who wanted…
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This is a picture of Emmi G,a victim of the T4 euthanasia program. Killed because she was ‘different’. What makes her story even sadder is the fact that we don’t even know her full name. All we know is that she was 16 when she was killed with an overdose of tranquilizers on December 7,…
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Ik draag een gele ster. Waarom? Kenden zij mij dan van te voren niet? De kinderen bij mij in de buurt hebben geen gele ster. Ben ik anders? En als dat zo is, hoe ben ik dan anders? Ik adem de zelfde lucht, ik lees dezelfde boeken en speel met hetzelfde speelgoed. Ik zie hetzelfde…
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