Poland
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Delphine Anja Jennifer Drielsma Delphine was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 19 June 1939. and murdered in Auschwitz, Poland, on 24 September 1942. She reached the age of three. A 3-year-old enemy of the state. Which state, though? In a world where shadows linger, cold and gray,A tender soul was taken far away,Innocence wrapped…
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Mordechai Santilhano was a Dutch-Jewish performing artist. He was born on 11 January 1905. He was murdered in or near Auschwitz on 12 October 1944. He used the artist name Max Santiel or simply Oom Max-Uncle Max. I could say quite a lot about him, but I have decided to leave his own words to…
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The history of World War II is usually written in the sweeping movements of armies, the strategic decisions of generals, and the devastating statistics of ruined cities. Yet, some of the most profound battles of that dark era were fought in total silence, within the hidden recesses of the human soul. Among these quiet victories…
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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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I was struggling with the title but to be honest I can’t think of another way of describing it. An estimated 1.5 to 2 million children were killed during the Holocaust. How many were killed in Auschwitz is not clear but if you consider that for example on October 10,1944 800 gypsy children were gassed,…
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The one thing that always puzzled me is why did the Nazi’s insist in having such a thorough administration? If you are planning to eradicate millions, why document it? I just don’t understand the psyche of it. Of course the Nazi’s didn’t see “the final solution” as a crime but only a method of getting…
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History rarely writes scripts as pure or as devastating as the life and death of Captain Witold Pilecki. In the grand, tragic theater of twentieth-century Europe, his name stands as a solitary monument to human courage—and an indictment of totalitarian cruelty. Pilecki is famously remembered as the Polish cavalry officer who intentionally got himself captured…
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The Stroop Report is one of the most damning and significant pieces of documentary evidence from the Holocaust, meticulously detailing the Nazi suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Compiled by SS General Jürgen Stroop, the report serves not only as a military account but also as a grim testament to the brutality and…
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Pip: History of Sorts is the kind of site that looks at a photograph of a selection ramp and refuses to let you scroll past — dirkdeklein has been doing that work, post after post, this week. Mara: The posts cover a lot of ground: the machinery of the camps themselves, the perpetrators and collaborators…
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I know some Polish people will vehemently deny that this ever happened, but it did. It is a shame some people still insist on whitewashing history because it serves no one, and the truth always comes out. We can only stop these crimes from happening again when we learn from the past. It is not…
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