Holocaust

  • This Is What Hate Does

    ++++++++++++++++ CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++++ I don’t like posting horrific pictures in relation to the Holocaust, or any other subject for that matter. And I don’t like it for two reasons. Firstly, I find it physically challenging to stomach, and it generally gives me nightmares. Secondly, we have come to live in a society where some

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  • The UN designated this day January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, although Auschwitz (which consisted out of about 40 camps) was the biggest death camp. There were other camps, though smaller in scale but equally as evil. I know it is hard for

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  • Evil Science

    The one thing that I have conflicting feelings about is the data that was gathered from the Nazi experiments. On the one hand, I believe it should never be used; on the other hand, I have benefitted myself from it via some medications I used, although I did not know the origins at the time.

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  • Warning contains graphic images Holocaust, Shoah, and Genocide are words that describe something that isn’t describable. The horrors are unfathomable. Generally, I try to avoid horrific images and focus on personal stories. However, over time we need to be reminded, in graphic detail, of what humanity is capable of doing. The Nazis murdered on an

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  • Amsterdam City Bioscoop (cinema) is probably one of the finest film houses in the Netherlands if not Europe. In 1995, the Pathé Cinema Group bought it, and since then, its called Pathé City. But it has one black page in its long history. The Nazi regime in the Netherlands had passed legislation that the Jewish

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  • The murder of children during the Holocaust is what haunts me the most. Sometimes I try to be poetic and philosophical when I try to memorialize them, but often seeing the raw cold data is the most effective way to remember these young innocent lives. So many futures were destroyed. The picture above is from

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  • Although its official name is Gurs Internment Camp, let’s call it what it really was, a concentration camp. It is also probably one, if not the only time, the Nazis sent Jews westward. At first, it served as a camp for Spanish Republicans and German refugees who fled from Nazism. The Gurs Camp was among

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  • In The End Love Prevailed

    I planned to do this blog about Elisabeth Flesschedrager-Appelboom. She was born in Amsterdam, on 2 February 1921 . Murdered in Auschwitz, 18 January 1945. She reached the age of 23, and was a seamstress. She was married to Philip Flesschedrager, who was born in Amsterdam on 8 July 1920. Murdered in Auschwitz, 26 December

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  • I could post thousands of photographs of victims every day or share disturbing and graphic images—some so horrific that we instinctively turn away. We avert our eyes because we cannot fathom the depth of the evil displayed before us. It seems impossible to comprehend how any human being could commit such atrocities against another. And

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  • It is well known that the Nazis made no distinction in age when deporting Jews in the Netherlands. The result was that even venerable elderly people were murdered in Auschwitz and Sobibor, and other camps. Among the victims listed on the Joods Monument(Jewish Monument) site, Klara Borstel-Engelsman is the oldest, at the remarkable age of

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