Holocaust
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The Holocaust is by far the worst era of mankind. It has shown us how a supposedly cultured and sophisticated society murdered millions because they were deemed not to have a place in that society. But this didn’t come as a light from the blue. It had been brewing for decades, and two political movements
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You hate me simply because I am a Jew. You hate me just because I am not a pure Aryan. Yet by your own definition I look more Aryan then your leader, the same man who has told you to hate me. You hate me because you lack the intellectual capacity to recognize that your
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This is Eva Feldmannova , a human being. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being like any other human being on earth. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being with the same needs, same desires like any other human being on earth. This is Eva Feldmannova. a human being. a young girl who wanted education,
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I wish I could say that, despite the horrors inflicted during the Holocaust, humanity somehow managed to restore itself. But I would be lying. How can we claim that, knowing that 1.5 million children were brutally murdered in the most inhumane ways imaginable? Children like Greetje Leger, who has been reduced to a statistic: “Reached
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The photograph above is one of the most well-known photographs of the Holocaust. Yet, it is from a period of the Holocaust which is seldom spoken about. We mostly hear about the concentration camps and extermination camps. However, prior to the industrialized scale of murder, approximately two million Jews were murdered by bullets. The summer
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The date 11 November has a good number of special meanings. For example, the Armistice of World War I was signed on the 11th day of the 11th month on the 11th hour. Add 11 after the 11th hour, and you have a different meaning. I do not know the exact origin—however, the date 11/11
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This might seem like a strange statement for me to make to the people who read my blogs, but when it comes down to it, I know very little in relation to the Holocaust. Yes, I do know the statistics and the numbers. Yes, I do know the stories of the survivors and even a
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I was going to do a piece on the often-forgotten victims of the Holocaust, those who did want to be captured alive and decided to take their own lives. But when I looked at the list of suicides of Jews in the Netherlands during World War II, I discovered there were hundreds. Many decided to
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Every aspect in Auschwitz was designed for either extermination or dehumanization of the prisoners, mainly Jewish prisoners. For those young and fit enough to work there was a daily roll call, sometimes these could last for hours. Prisoner were forced to stand still, wearing very thin clothing regardless what weather condition ,even the slightest movement
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Many European countries had an equivalent of the NSDAP(Nazi) party, the Dutch National Socialist party was the NSB. It may be hard to believe nowadays but not every National Socialist party started off as an anti-Semitic party, as was the case with the NSB. The NSB even had Jewish members, and the party leader ,Anton
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