World War 2
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Statistics often make me uneasy. Stripped of context, they can be twisted to tell a misleading story—and it frequently is. Yet, there are moments when numbers, stark and raw, help us grasp the scale of events too vast for words alone. It is one of those moments. Between July 15, 1942, and September 13, 1944,
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But ever since I began blogging about the Holocaust, I have encountered images that have left me speechless—none more so than those depicting the suffering of children. On August 18, 1939, Wilhelm Frick ordered all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report children under the age of
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Anyone who ever had to go through a medical procedure will know how important the job of a nurse is. When you arrive at the medical facility it is usually a Nurse who sees you first, A nurse will care for you set you mind at ease, often they get to do the mots horrible
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++++++++++++++++ CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++++ I don’t like posting horrific pictures in relation to the Holocaust, or any other subject for that matter. And I don’t like it for two reasons. Firstly, I find it physically challenging to stomach, and it generally gives me nightmares. Secondly, we have come to live in a society where some
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The UN designated this day January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, although Auschwitz (which consisted out of about 40 camps) was the biggest death camp. There were other camps, though smaller in scale but equally as evil. I know it is hard for
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On January 2, 1941 The Andrew Sisters recorded “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” which became a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune that was written for the Abbott & Costello comedy film, Buck Privates.
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The one thing that I have conflicting feelings about is the data that was gathered from the Nazi experiments. On the one hand, I believe it should never be used; on the other hand, I have benefitted myself from it via some medications I used, although I did not know the origins at the time.
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Amsterdam City Bioscoop (cinema) is probably one of the finest film houses in the Netherlands if not Europe. In 1995, the Pathé Cinema Group bought it, and since then, its called Pathé City. But it has one black page in its long history. The Nazi regime in the Netherlands had passed legislation that the Jewish
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The murder of children during the Holocaust is what haunts me the most. Sometimes I try to be poetic and philosophical when I try to memorialize them, but often seeing the raw cold data is the most effective way to remember these young innocent lives. So many futures were destroyed. The picture above is from
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Although its official name is Gurs Internment Camp, let’s call it what it really was, a concentration camp. It is also probably one, if not the only time, the Nazis sent Jews westward. At first, it served as a camp for Spanish Republicans and German refugees who fled from Nazism. The Gurs Camp was among
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