World War 2
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Most of the SS guards working in Auschwitz and indeed other camps had not been hardened soldiers before the war. They had been ‘ordinary’ people. And that is still a mystery to me, how could these men become so involved in these unspeakable evil acts, Some were more willingly than others , but each one…
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There is a beautiful Irish song, written and composed by Jimmy McCarthy, called “My Wonder Child.” Below is part of the song text. “This child he means the world to me There is no more enchanted A child can take this place of ruin And magically enhance it.” This really applies to every child ever…
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I wish I could tell you beautiful stories about the artist Lunek Milch I wish I could tell you beautiful stories about the scientist Lunek Milch I wish I could tell you beautiful stories about the Doctor Lunek Milch I wish I could tell you beautiful stories about the janitor Lunek Milch I wish I…
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I have done so many pieces on the horrors and the ugly side of World War 2 so I decided that today I am going to turn it around a bit. Today the focus will be on celebrating some of the beautiful women who served in WWII in a variety of ways. The picture above…
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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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