Poland
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Recently I heard this bizarre debate on how humane the killing with Zyklon B was. It was so much better then being executed. Fortunately the site where this was debated on was taken down ,unfortunately I didn’t take note of the names. In case if any one is wondering if the killing with Zyklon B…
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If you wouldn’t know the wider context of the picture, you would smile at it and think” a lovely picture of young people in the military enjoying themselves”. And that is exactly what they did , they did enjoy themselves. However this weren’t just some random service men and women. These men and women all…
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Usually, when I write a blog which contains the word teenager, it refers to a murdered someone during the Holocaust. Meyer Abramczyk wasn’t one of those and sadly passed away when he was aged 87. Metaphorically speaking, the teenager Meyer—was killed during the Holocaust. He was born on July 24, 1926 in Belchatow, Poland. His parents were…
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When people hear the word Auschwitz ,a shiver goes down their spine, and that is a good thing. However so many people do not really know that much about Auschwitz. They think it was only one camp, where there were really many other camps connected to Auschwitz. about 40. Some even think that from day…
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May 10, 2020 is Mother’s Day in most countries, with only a few exceptions like the UK and Ireland who had it on March 22. May 10 1943 is the date when one Jewish Mother and Grandmother was killed at Westerbork, aged 83. Her name was Jeanette Meyer-Cahn, wife and widow of Daniel Meyer. Daniel…
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There is no, nor was there ever, nor will there ever be any justification for murdering a 6 year old child, or any child for that matter. A 6 year old child should be send to school not an extermination camp. What sick twisted ideology thinks it is okay to murder a child? Nelly Tarszis…
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Some people think of Auschwitz as 1 camp but it was a complex of over 40 camps operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland. It is estimated that at least at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, o which 1.1 million were murdered. But I do believe that number is higher,however since I…
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“Three shots! Three lives lost! All I can hear are shots, shots.” This line is the final entry of Renia Spiegel’s diary. It is the final entry but it was not written by her but by her boyfriend. Renia had left her diary with her boyfriend ,Zygmunt Schwarzer, for safekeeping. You see Renia could not…
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++++courtesy of HSA-Holocaust Social Archive++++++++++++++++ She was the troubled daughter of the rabbi of Warsaw’s great synagogue; he was the son of a Polish Jewish leader. As neighbors they used to play together as children, but when they grew up, each went on their separate way. The leader’s son became a communist who fought in…
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The “Letters to Henio” project began in the city of Lublin in 2005 as part of an activity to preserve and reconstruct the city’s Jewish heritage. A local cultural center, Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre, organizes this educational activity. According to the center’s director, Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, the main idea of the project is as follows:…
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