Holocaust
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It is often said that the “Holocaust by bullets” is the forgotten Holocaust, and I agree. However, in my opinion, it is not the only forgotten aspect of the Holocaust. I believe the deportations themselves also belong in that category. While we know a great deal about what happened after the transports arrived at the…
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Dagobert Stibbe was born in Amsterdam, 13 October 1918. He was murdered in Auschwitz, 23 June 1943. He was a student at the Technische Hogeschool(Technical University)Delft. He tried to escape to Switzerland, but this failed. He was caught on 2 June 1943 just 15 meters away from French-Swiss border. He was sent to the transit…
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Below is an estimate of the number of people who died as a result of the war, the occupation, and the persecution during the years 1940–1945.The total number of Dutch people who died lies between 225,000 and 280,000. At that time, the population of the Netherlands was 9 million. Mathilde Adrienne Eugènie Verspijck was just…
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+++CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++++++ The concentration camp subcamp Leipzig-Thekla in Leipzig was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp it was set up at the beginning of March 1943 .It was liberated on 19 April 1945. 1450 male prisoners had been in the camp. The prisoners had to do forced labor at Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH…
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Alois Hitler was born on June 7, 1837, in the small village of Strones, in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, near the Bohemian border. His mother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, was unmarried at the time of his birth, which led to uncertainty surrounding his paternity. For the first several years of his life, Alois bore…
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The Ardenne Abbey massacre took place during the Battle of Normandy at Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe near Caen, France. In June 1944, members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend executed 20 Canadian soldiers in the abbey gardens over a period of days and weeks. The killings formed part of the wider…
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I don’t know why I decided to do a blog specifically about the women victims of the Holocaust, but I just felt compelled to do one. I am married to a beautiful wife, and we have a beautiful daughter. I have two older sisters, and of course, like everyone else I also have a mother,…
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Salo Muller is a Dutch physiotherapist, author, and Holocaust survivor known for his efforts in seeking justice and compensation for Holocaust victims. He was born on February 29, 1936, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Salo Muller’s early life was profoundly affected by the Holocaust. His parents, who were Jewish, were deported and murdered in Auschwitz when he…
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On June 5, 1940, Governor Wouters refused entry to Jewish refugees from Austria who arrived by ship at the port of Curaçao. They were only allowed to disembark after pressure from the Minister for the Colonies. However, as citizens of an enemy nation, they were subsequently detained on Bonaire. It wasn’t until 1942, after repeated…
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Ruth Westheimer (June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), widely known as Dr. Ruth, was an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. The New York Times described her as a “Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a cultural icon in the 1980s,” noting that she “ushered in a new age of freer, franker talk about sex…
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