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There are few people that intrigue and disgust me simultaneously in similar measures, but Mengele is one of them. I deliberately am not calling him Doctor because he failed to honor or even pledge to the Hippocratic Oath. One line of that oath states the following “I will use treatment to help the sick according…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is not clear if Tanya Savicheva was born on January 23 1930 or January 25 1930,there seems to be a discrepancy in some of the records. The one thing that is clear is she died age 14. She was the youngest child in the family of a baker father, Nikolay…
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My interview with Eddy Boas survivor of Bergen Belsen and author of I am not a victim, I am a survivor.
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Given the fact I am also a Dirk J(my J as in Johannes, the Dutch equivalent of John) I could not resist doing a piece on this man. Dirk John Vlug (August 20, 1916 – June 25, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the…
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I took a break for a few days in writing about the Holocaust, basically it was getting a bit too much for me and I needed a break. However I do realize that if I stop writing about the Holocaust it means one less person to tell the stories and opportunity to keep that history…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: 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…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Every year since 1963, the Space Medicine Association has given out the Hubertus Strughold Award to a top scientist or clinician for outstanding work in aviation medicine. Dr. Hubertus Strughold (1898-1986) is known as the “Father of Space Medicine”. He first coined the term “space medicine” in 1948 and…
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Helene Wegbrejt it is just a random name She lived in Paris. She was French and Jewish. Her birthday was September 16,1930. She would have been 89 today,but she didn’t even get to age 12. She was murdered in August 1942 in Auschwitz. She was one of many on Transport 20 from Pithiviers to Auschwitz…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Holocaust a word that everyone knows the meaning off but yet no one understands. No one understands why it happened, at least not really. People will say it is because the political ideology of a few, who wanted eradicate all of those who they deemed undesirable. But…
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