Holocaust

  • Cat in the hat;How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and It’s a Wonderful Life are not stories you would associate with WWII or propaganda, and yet they have a distinct ,albeit indirect link to WWII propaganda movies. The name Theodor Seuss Geisel will mean little to many people,although there is a hint in his name which gives…

    Read more →

  • Regardless how talented you were, or how much value you could add to the German culture, if you didn’t comply to the Nazi ideology or dared to criticize it, you stood a good chance of getting executed. Karlrobert Kreiten born 26 June 1916,  in Bonn, Germany) was a Dutch-German pianist,  holding Dutch citizenship his short life…

    Read more →

  • Nazis and Cinema

    Ever since its inception , the media of  film has been a perfect tool to inform the masses be it in an entertaining way or in a more sinister manner. It was and still is the perfect way to distribute propaganda material en mass, although in more recent  years social media has taken over that…

    Read more →

  • I Color the sky

    I Color the sky, that is what my name says Himmelfarb,Sky Color But I can’t really color anything I am only 2 I am from Paris Paris, the city of love, But not for me. I was taken from there. I am only 2 and I don’t know how any one could hate me. In…

    Read more →

  • The word ‘Hero’ is branded way too easily nowadays, Recently I heard someone on a current affairs program saying he saw the Kardashians as his role models and heroes, that actually scared me. If people whose only contribution to society is self indulgence and self promotion are seen as heroes, then real heroes like Father Józef…

    Read more →

  • Theresienstadt was a 1944 Nazi propaganda film depicting  Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps.  The film intended to be viewed in “neutral” nations  showing how “humane” conditions were at Theresienstadt. Nor only was it enough…

    Read more →

  • You could have been my teacher You could have been the mother of my best friend You could have been the midwife who helped deliver me You could have been my dentist You could have been a waitress in my favourite restaurant You could have been a lady working in a shop who wraps my…

    Read more →

  • The 4th of May is the day when the Dutch remember the dead—those who died because of war. At the start of World War II, my hometown had 37 Jewish citizens; by the 4th of May 1945, they had all perished. Here is a poem remembering those 37 innocent lives. You are not different than…

    Read more →

  • A 7 year old enemy of the state is what I am. Not like a spy or soldier A 7 year old enemy of the state is what I am. Not like a politician or a criminal A 7 year old enemy of the state is what I am. Not like someone evil or bad…

    Read more →

  • +++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++

    Read more →