Tag Archives: Holocaust

The world´s oldest Holocaust museum is in London…

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

and has a chilling collection of children´s books and games: One large board game is called “Juden Raus!” which means “Out With The Jews!”. It requires the players to roll dice and move smiling, brightly-coloured figures about a village, picking … Continue reading →

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An allegory regarding a gay Holocaust survivor: a kiss to Mickey Mouse.

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

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A horrific pictorial history of The Holocaust.

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

When a human life was labelled “life unworthy of life” (Lebensunwertes Leben): The Atlantic has the 18th installment of a 20 part pictorial history of World War II that must be seen to begin to comprehend the horror.

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La Vita è Bella…

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Last night I watched again La vita è Bella, a most beautiful, comical, satirical film.  I never get tired of it.  It is, truly, a gem. Here is an indelible scene:

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Learning and teaching about the Holocaust.

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers a learning site for students: Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust. It is the first step in … Continue reading →

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The power of one: a Catholic priest’s life mission.

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has a mission: Yahad – In Unum is the leading research organization investigating the mass executions of 1.5 million Jews and Roma/Gypsy people in Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1944.  This is sometimes … Continue reading →

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“Stop seeing Poland as a place of death.”

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Poland’s Jews are finding they can lead normal lives, according to this lovely article.  It reaffirms what I thought when I lived in Warsaw.  A few years ago, I wrote about the last Jew of Góra Kalwaria and my impressions: … Continue reading →

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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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Sir Nicholas Winton, a hero for the ages. (Continued)

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

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 →

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“The Museum of the History of Polish Jews…

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

… is dedicated to preserving the lasting legacy of Jewish life in Poland and of the civilization created by Polish Jews.” For more information on the Museum go here.

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Tony Acevedo wrote a diary as a 20-year-old inside a slave labor camp:

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

It took six decades for the U.S. Army to publicly recognize the Berga soldiers — largely the result of Acevedo’s diary and his telling his story to CNN two years ago. On this visit, he became the first Mexican-American to … Continue reading →

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The Holocaust and Lilly Friedman’s wedding dress.

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Against all odds, here is a moving tale of recapturing innocence lost and hope for a better life:  a German pilot trades his parachute for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes, and a young … Continue reading →

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Holocaust “Shoah” director’s interview…

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

with Der Spiegel: I witnessed roundups of Jews, but we had only a vague idea of what would happen to the deportees. My father was much more pessimistic than I was, by the way. It was more of an apprehension. … Continue reading →

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“The most terrible thing is to look at the freezing children…”

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Kudos to SpiegelOnline for a harrowing article on The Hell of Polish Jewry.   Never in the article is there a glossing over of who the perpetrators of the hell-on-Earth were. Ponder on this photo, which I am lifting shamelessly from … Continue reading →

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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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