Tag Archives: Auschwitz

Góra Kalwaria.

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

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 →

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Loving classical music.

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Classical music, Chopin, Nelson Mandela, a few jokes, a beautiful performance, and a poignant story about an Auschwitz survivor: worth the 20 minutes!

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Women and the Holocaust.

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Pure evil is not just man’s domain.

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Re “Adolek Kohn, an Auschwitz survivor…”

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

I am surprised that the blogs I read often have not written about this man and his dance in Terezin and Auschwitz. Disappointing.   More on this man here and here.

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Kudos to Adolek Kohn, an Auschwitz survivor…

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

and his family, for celebrating overcoming incredible odds, the defeat of a nefarious regime, and LIFE! A great and glaring error in the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, that refers to the concentration camps as “Polish” concentration camps.   No, they … Continue reading →

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The Cross.

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

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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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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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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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