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Category Archives: World War II
“The importance of killing children.”
The last surviving prosecutor of a monster’s trial received the Rule of Law Award yesterday: Bach, who is the last surviving prosecutor of Eichmann’s trial 50 years ago, had just finished reading the autobiography of Rudolf Höss, commandant of the … Continue reading
Rule of Law award to be given to Gabriel Bach.
I remember reading “The House on Garibaldi Street” by Isser Harel. This espionage account made quite an impact on me, as a young girl, especially since I happened to grow up not too far from Eichmann’s (alias Ricardo Klement) house … Continue reading
Irena Sendlerowa and the Polish women of World War II.
PBS will be airing this Sunday a special program dedicated to the Polish Catholic women of World War II that fought against the Nazi Germans to save the Jewish children from annihilation. One of these women was Irena Sendlerowa (Irena … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Empathy, Holocaust, Irena Sendler, Poland, World War II
Tagged Irena Sendler, Irena Sendlerowa, Jewish Ghetto, Poland, World War II
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“His death meant my life…”
From Born in a death camp: A miracle baby and her mother: “Had my mother arrived in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp holding my brother in her arms, she would have been sent straight to the gas chambers,” Eva says. “But … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Czech Republic, Holocaust, World War II
Tagged Anka Clarke, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Terezin
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Ferdinand The Bull: an allegory?
The story of a “political” animal… Apparently, Hitler banned the book, though Stalin approved of it, and allowed only this children’s book, that was not about communism, to be disseminated in Poland. Life Magazine had a wonderful spread on the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Poland, World War II
Tagged Ferdinand The Bull, Franco, Hitler, Life Magazine, Munro Leaf, Spanish Civil War, Stalin
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“Nazi war crimes as described by German soldiers”.
Spiegel Online magazine has a fascinating long article on the review by historian Sönke Neitzel and social psychologist Harald Welzer of 150,000 pages of transcripts of secretly recorded conversations with German prisoners of war. The prisoners the Americans had were … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Empathy, Germany, Holocaust, Soldiers, World War II
Tagged Harald Welzer, Nazi war crimes, Sönke Neitzel, Soldaten
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The story of Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic who tried to tell the world of the Nazi attrocities.
If you have never heard of Jan Karski, do read the article by Dalya Alberge: The extraordinary memoir of a Polish resistance fighter who gave the first eyewitness report on the Holocaust to the Allies is to be published for … Continue reading
Góra Kalwaria.
It was 70 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Auschwitz, Felix Karpman, Góra Kalwaria, Holocaust, Poland, Religion, World War II
Tagged Auschwitz, Felix Karpman, Góra Kalwaria, Ger, Gur, Hasidic Gur dynasty, Holocaust, Isaac Meir Alter, Jewish history, Last Jew of Góra Kalwaria, Poland, shtetl, Transformation and tagged Antoni Słonimski
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Avraham Carmi’s story.
“[T]he Master of the Universe has a sense of humour.” So says a Holocaust survivor, who spent time in Warsaw, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and was caught and sent to Treblinka. His is a story of horror, audacity, tenacity, … Continue reading
Posted in General, History, Holocaust, Poland, World War II
Tagged Avraham Carmi, Norman Davies, Poland, rising Jewish ghetto, Treblinka, uprising, Warsaw
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Sir Nicholas Winton, a hero for the ages. (Continued)
I was working away listening to the Classical Music station, when I heard commentary that there was a new movie that had premiered in Prague (my ears perked… living in Prague was unique experience for me at a special time … Continue reading
The French orphans of the Holocaust.
A baby born in the Rivesaltes internment camp south of France, in 1940, is today a 70 year old man, who still lives in France. Camp Joffre in Rivesaltes was a destination for “undesirables” during World War II in the … Continue reading
Posted in Auschwitz, Blogging, Camp Joffre, Europe, France, History, Holocaust, Poland, Rivesaltes, World War II
Tagged Blogging, Camp Joffre, Elisabeth Eidenbenz, France, French Orphans of the Holocaust, Friedel Bohny-Reiter, Mothers of Elne, Perla Zandt, Rivesaltes, Vichy France, Wladimir Zandt
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Coming face to face with the Holocaust.
When I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a few years back, an official at the death camp remarked that they never really had any visitors from the Muslim world. At the time, I thought it was a terrible sign of the times, that … Continue reading
Posted in Auschwitz, Culture, Empathy, Europe, Holocaust, Human Rights, Poland, Religion, State Department, World War II
Tagged anti-Semitism, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Hannah Rosenthal, Imams, Muslims, Rashad Hussain
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War prisoners and their doctors.
The conundrum of getting too close to evil: …“the near destruction of modern culture will have gone for naught if we do not draw the right conclusions about the forces that produced such chaos. We must learn the why of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Europe, History, Science, Soldiers, World War II
Tagged Douglas M. Kelley, Hermann Goering, Jack El-Hai, psychiatry, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, war criminal
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