World War 2

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  • The Dutch Churches Protest

    I can’t deny the facts that the Dutch could have done more during World War II, especially concerning helping their fellow Jewish citizens. On the other hand, it is easy for me to judge because I was never in a situation where I had to choose between aiding a neighbour with a good chance of…

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  • I am Fanny Cogan.

    I am Fanny Cogan. I was born on Saturday November 27,1937. Born in the city by the Seine, Paris, the city of love. And I was loved by those who knew me and saw me. I was born on the same day as the revue Pins and Needles premiered at the Labor Stage Theatre on…

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  • It would be so easy for ordinary citizens to turn a blind eye to the Holocaust, and indeed many did. I do not judge these people, because faced with a similar situation I don’t know how I would react. Anyone critical of the Nazi regime could face a prison sentence or worse, death. And it…

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  • Some people think that all Germans subscribed to the Nazi regime’s policies and that there was no resistance. But that is not the case, there were many who did resist the Nazi’s warped ideology. And they often paid dearly for it. Otto and Elise Hampel were 2 ordinary people. Otto Hampel  was born 21 June…

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  • As the title might suggest I was trying to find some poetic sentences to describe this picture. But I couldn’t,because the more I looked at the picture the less sense it made. In fact it made no sense to me at all. What is the sense of keeping all these shoes? Were they meant as…

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  • Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So much has already been documented about this, so therefore I will focusing more on the lesser known facts about that fateful day and the aftermath The crew of the Enola Gay consisted of 12 men. Prior to the war in the Pacifc and taking command…

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  • On August 4,1944 a tip from a Dutch informer led the Gestapo to the now so well known secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne Frank, her family and all the other occupants would be arrested. Via her diary Anne Frank became one of the  symbols  of the Holocaust. I often read people describing her diary and her…

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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 Olympic Games are the biggest sporting events in the world. But more then a sporting event is is also a political event filled with propaganda. This was never more clear then in 1936 during the Berlin Olympic Games. On July 26,1935,German sports commissioner Hans von Tschammer und Osten advised that no Jews would represent…

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