Tag Archives: Holocaust

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 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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Beyond the Pale.

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

British discount airline easyJet has recalled some 280,000 copies of its in-flight magazine after complaints about a fashion shoot staged at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, daily Financial Times Deutschland reported on Tuesday.

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Germans, The Holocaust, Poles: raw wounds.

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

Der Spiegel online had this lede last week: Polish media and politicians have sharply criticized this week’s SPIEGEL cover story about Hitler’s European helpers outside of Germany. They believe the article is part of an attempt by Germans to foist … 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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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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Irena Sendlerowa.

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

I’m disappointed that I missed the  Hallmark Hall of Fame television docudrama about Irena Sendlerowa.  But I came across these comments from Phyllis Chesler that are worth pondering: … yesterday was the fiend Hitler’s birthday and the day the United … 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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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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