Auschwitz-Birkenau
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There are so few things that make sense in relation to the Holocaust, in fact there is nothing that make sense. On January 17,1945 In mid-January 1945,the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. This murderous evacuation, known as the “Death…
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Late in the morning of 4 August 1944, Dutch police entered the Secret Annexe and arrested the Frank family, the van Pels family, Fritz Pfeffer, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler (who worked at Opetka). Otto Frank was the managing director of Opetka, and they had helped to hide the residents. On 8 August 1944, after several days…
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There are millions of Holocaust stories I could write, but none will be as powerful as the testimonies of those who survived the darkest era. Following are some of those testimonies. Written by Zdeněk and Jiří Steiner, born 20. 5. 1929 in Prague, residents of Prague, former prisoners in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt and…
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I wish I could explain why this 15-month-old girl was an enemy of the state, but I can’t. I wish I could explain why this 15-month-old girl was an enemy of the French state, but I can’t. I wish I could explain why this 15-month-old girl was an enemy of the French state controlled by…
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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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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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Maria Mandl was one of the many Austrians who were delighted when Hitler annexed his native Austria into Germany. She saw opportunities and she took them. Born in Münzkirchen, Upper Austria on January 10,1912 to a shoemaker and his wife. On 15 October 1938 , shortly after the annexation she got her first job under…
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One teardrop rolls down my face when I see your smile. I don’t know why because I have never met you. Yet I feel a profound sadness to know that this smile will never be seen again. One tear rolls down my face when I read you were murdered aged 4 or 5. Then I…
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If any one still has any doubts about the scale of murder during the Holocaust, you only have to look at the the 2 official documents below. They are both from the death register in Auschwitz. The first page are the registered deaths of female prisoners. The document is dated December 11,1943 the heading says”…
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When you look at some bizarre connections in History, you cannot escape the fact that life sometimes has a ironic way of weaving a tapestry of coincidences. One of Hitler’s favourite movies was the Walt Disney classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” released in 1937. One of the main animators of the movie was…
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