Auschwitz
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The eagle flies high in the sky on a warm, sunny day. He wonders if he can fly to the sun. Because he is the ruler in the skies, no one can stop him. He can go wherever he wants to go—free to roam, not restricted by anyone or anything. During his flight, a strange…
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On March 26 and 28, two transports of Slovakian Jews were registered as prisoners in the women’s camp, where they were subjected to forced labor. These were the first transports organized by Adolf Eichmann’s department IV B4 (the Jewish office) within the Reich Security Head Office (RSHA). On March 30, the first RSHA transport from…
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Heroes don’t always wear capes or dressed in uniforms. Sometimes, they are just ordinary people. I say ordinary, but they are often anything but ordinary, as with Fredy Hirsch. I first heard of Fredy a few years ago. As a birthday gift, I recently received the book The Librarian of Auschwitz. While the story centres…
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The term ‘work extension’ was a euphemistic term for the actual goal of the deportations: to work to death those who were healthy enough to work and to murder all others. At least 102,000 Jewish Dutch people were murdered or died from exhaustion and diseases. Auschwitz-BirkenauIt is not exactly known when the Nazis decided to…
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The title is a translation of a line from the Dutch song Blauw (“Blue”). I was listening to it in my car today, and this particular line stayed with me. That line perfectly captures what I experience every time I write about the youngest victims of the Holocaust. Seeing their faces—just a fleeting moment captured…
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Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s national holiday—a time to reflect on Ireland’s complex Holocaust history On May 2, 1945, Taoiseach(prime minister) Éamon de Valera expressed condolences to the German ambassador following the death of Adolf Hitler. This gesture was met with widespread national and international criticism. Angela D. Walsh, a resident of East 44th…
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and while that may be true, a photograph never tells the whole story. Although photographic evidence of the Holocaust is invaluable, I believe that reading or hearing the firsthand accounts of survivors is just as important—if not more so, Premysl Dobias was born in June 1913…
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There are no monsters under my bed who want to hurt me or do me harm There are no monsters under my bed, but I wish there were for I know they aren’t real. There are no monsters under my bed, but there are monsters everywhere else. The monsters can be a stranger, a teacher,…
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Raguhn, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was established during World War II in the village of Raguhn, Germany. This relatively small camp housed between 500 and 700 female prisoners, primarily Jewish women and girls, who were subjected to forced labor at a nearby aircraft parts factory operated by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG.…
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Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, is infamous for his role in orchestrating the mass deportation of Jews to Nazi extermination camps. However, among his numerous atrocities, one of the most controversial and perplexing episodes was the so-called “Blood for Goods” deal. This proposal, made during the final years of World…
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