Category Archives: Auschwitz

The saddest flower!…

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Photo lifted from my son’s collection from his album on Auschwitz…  So, so true…

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How could you hate him, when he was so handsome?

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

But Mengele himself was never cruel to them? “Never,” they say in unison. They said he was almost fatherly. “We knew he’s not going to harm us. We knew it.” “Because he was so handsome,” Pearl says. “You forgot about … Continue reading →

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“A shocking insight into the abyss”.

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

From Spiegel Online: Original blueprints of the Auschwitz death camp, discovered by chance in a Berlin apartment last year, have gone on display in the German capital. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor, said they give a glimpse of “true hell”.

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A Nazi, Wilhelm Hosenfeld, made a Righteous among the Nations.

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

After 7 years, I finally watched Polanski’s The Pianist, the story of a Polish Jew, Władysław Szpilman, who was an expert on Chopin. I hadn’t watched the movie, in part, because I was repelled by Polanski’s criminal history. It is … Continue reading →

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Message in a bottle.

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

The primordial urge not to be forgotten: “Construction workers have found a message written by inmates of the Auschwitz death camp almost 65 years ago…”

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Hatred of the Jew is like the lunar eclipse.

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

On anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism, too, will have its eclipses, but they are necessarily ephemeral. The primordial hatred of which we are speaking will continue to circle and shine and proceed through its phases because it has always done so — and … Continue reading →

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Processing of human hair from the Auschwitz death camp.

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

The horrors of World War II are never quite behind us.  According to Spiegel Online: The deputy head of the Auschwitz Museum’s research department, Dr. Jacek Lachendro, told SPIEGEL TV that part (1.95 tons) of the hair still exhibited in … Continue reading →

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The Last Jew of Góra Kalwaria.

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

It was 68 years ago to the day that the shtetl Góra Kalwaria lost all of its Jews. According to the Yad Vashem website, the Jews from Góra Kalwaria, or Gur as it was known then, were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto between February 25-26, 1941. Continue reading →

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Irena Sendlerowa: Member of the “decent” race.

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Irena Sendlerowa had a gentle and sparkling gaze. She was a giant of a human being, working against all odds to wrench 2500 children from the arms of their miserably desperate parents, risking her life as well as others in … Continue reading →

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Have you ever heard of Oswiecim?

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Auschwitz From Krakow (Poland), driving through beautiful fields, along country roads with fruit trees lining the sides of the roads, one eventually arrives at the most infamous place in the world: a pleasant little town called Oswiecim about an hour … Continue reading →

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