Poland
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Joseph is just one of the 6 million Jews who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was murdered today 80 years ago in Auschwitz. He was born in Amsterdam, 20 February 1921. Joseph Charles Rosenberg Polak (Jop) lived with his parents at 163 Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat in Amsterdam. He wanted to study medicine, following in…
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On 3 September 1944, Anne Frank and her family were put on a transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. It would be the last train to leave Westerbork. The train arrived three days later at Auschwitz. The women selected from this transport, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were marked with numbers between A-25060–A-25271. Anne Frank’s final…
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Queen Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw both World War I, although the Netherlands was neutral during World War I and World War II, as well as the Dutch economic crisis of 1933.…
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In a way I hate saying Happy Birthday ,because is supposed to be Ina’s 80yj birthday today. But she didn’t even get to celebrate her 2nd. She was born in Amsterdam on August 30,1942. She was murdered on October 22nd,in Auschwitz. The reason why I do say Happy Birthday is because she deserves to be…
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In August 1942, a group of refugees from the Netherlands was arrested in Belgium. The men were placed in Breendonk, and the women and children were placed in the Jewish orphanage. They were all very young children. In the end they were all deported to Auschwitz and murdered upon arrival on August 28, 1942. Below…
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Many people give great credit to the USSR for their pivotal in the allies defeat of the Nazi regime. They say if it hadn’t been for the Soviets, the war could have lasted a lot longer and could have gone Germany’s way. However, it can be argued that because of the USSR the war lasted…
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He is just one of the 6 million. But I believe that remembering all those Jewish fellow citizens, is best done one at a time. They were all human beings like everybody else. The same ambitions, the same emotions. Iwan was born in Iserlohn, Germany, on 31 March 1903. He came from Cologne to The…
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A flower from Poland. is a book written by Louis Rautenbach. “I wrote about the massacre of the Polish people during WWII. The babies and children were kidnapped mostly to be killed, some to be raised by Germans (those with blonde hair and blue eyes, thin lips, etc). Some older children were used for slave…
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Sports are taken very seriously in the Netherlands, and the Dutch are passionate about many sporting events. For a small country, it does well in many sporting disciplines. Equally important are the people reporting or covering sports, especially on the radio. Hartog “Han” Hollander was the first Dutch radio sports journalist. He was Jewish—but changed…
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Eva was born on 1 January 1924, in Oleszyce, Poland, a small community where over half of the people were Jews. She had seven siblings, and she was the oldest. Her father, was a wealthy merchant and head of the Oleszyce Jewish community. He had an international business that distributed religious articles, including Torahs and…
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