Women
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Because today is International Day of the Disappeared There are few things more unsettling than a person who simply disappears. When someone dies, however tragically, there is usually a funeral, a grave, a place where flowers can be laid, and eventually—however painful—some measure of acceptance. When a person vanishes without trace, none of those things…
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No matter how you twist or turn it, when you are complicit to a crime, you are just as guilty as the perpetrator, and perhaps even more guilty because you were an enabler of that crime. Hermann Stieve was Director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 to 1952, which was from the early…
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The Ravensbrück Rabbits was the name given to 74 Polish women, who were subjected to medical experiments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Of the 74 women, 5 died as a result of the experiments and 6 other victims whose wounds did not heal were executed. The other survived with permanent damage. Rather then go through…
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I was initially hesitant to write this blog, but with the ongoing debate about what defines a woman, I felt compelled to share my thoughts and celebrate the beauty and wonder of women. In this post, you’ll see two images—one created by AI and the other of a real woman. Can you tell which one…
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Ravensbrück was a notorious Nazi concentration camp located in northern Germany, near the town of Fürstenberg. Established in 1939, it was unique in being primarily a camp for women, although a minor men’s camp was added later. Ravensbrück played a significant role in the Holocaust and the Nazi regime’s system of terror and repression. Ravensbrück…
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I don’t know why I decided to do a blog specifically about the women victims of the Holocaust, but I just felt compelled to do one. I am married to a beautiful wife, and we have a beautiful daughter. I have two older sisters, and of course, like everyone else I also have a mother,…
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On 7 July 1942, Heinrich Himmler, in cooperation with three others, including a physician, inaugurated experimenting on women in Auschwitz and investigated extending this experimentation on men. Himmler convened a conference in Berlin to discuss the prospects for using concentration camp prisoners as objects of medical experiments. The other attendees were the head of the…
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The history of the Holocaust is often defined by the scale of its industrial slaughter, yet some of its most profound horrors lie in the specific, targeted decrees designed to extinguish the very concept of a Jewish future. On May 7, 1942, the Nazi administration in occupied Lithuania issued a mandate that transformed the Kovno…
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++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++ The concept of gender balance is widely discussed today, but history shows that achieving it doesn’t always lead to positive outcomes. Even the Nazi regime, infamous for its atrocities, had its own form of gender balance. But does that make it commendable? When it comes to the capacity for evil, men and…
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Afghanistan is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. But I am not going to address that here, there are plenty of news outlets where you can read all about that. I want to go more into the history, or at least the recent history, of Afghanistan. The name Afghanistan (Afghānistān, land of…
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