It was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the...
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It was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions.
By solemnly commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust, we will keep history in mind, never forget the past, cherish all lives, and create a better future.
(Bumped up from Friday evening.)
Does it matter what we call someone? Is terminology essential for taking action against someone responsible for a monstrous crime? I confess I’m amused by the furor over whether to label Major Nidal Hasan a “terrorist.” But so what? If call him a terrorist does that fast track him to a court martial? The answer is no. If you call him a “terrorist” does that ensure he is executed for his crimes? No.
The key issue with respect to Hasan was whether or not he... Read Full Story
Documents & Photos Related to the Prague Ghetto & Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Anton Thumann Arrest photo AX Transport List Transport list BO 1909 Welfare payment demand for 5200K [dated 1940] Welfare payment demand for 5200K [dated 1940] (second part) Welfare payment demand for 10.360K [dated 1942] Welfare payment demand for 10.360K [dated 1943] Source Robert Wolf 2nd Welfare payment demand for 10.360K [dated 1943] Source Robert Wolf Terezin to Sobibor transport document Terezin to... Read Full Story
Holocaust Remembrance
A time to memorialize, debate, debunk or debauch?
Guest Publication by
Dr. Martin Friedhaus
[photos added to enhance the text]
[Please note that editorials posted in this section are the sole viewpoints of the individual author and do not necessarily
represent any collective opinion of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, or the University of Northampton]
Tourists look at individually-painted dominoes along the... Read Full Story
Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in January after being bogged down for years with funding problems. Its aim, among other things, is to give scholars from around the world unique access to roughly 8,000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to parts of a vast archive belonging to the Jewish Community Vienna. But... Read Full Story
US Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday paid tribute to Jewish fighters who battled Nazi Germany in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, which has come to symbolise courage against overwhelming odds. Flanked by a Polish army honour guard, Biden solemnly laid a wreath at the foot of the imposing monument unveiled in 1948 near the site of the fighters' last stand in their ill-fated revolt. The wreath of red, white and blue flowers -- the colours of the US flag -- bore a ribbon reading "In Memory of... Read Full Story
Jules Schelvis
Recounts his Journey and Arrival at to Sobibor Death Camp Recounts his Journey and Arrival at to Sobibor Death Camp
Jules Schelvis & his wife Rachel in 1941
Jules Schelvis, his wife Rachel, whom he married on the 18 December 1941, were deported from Westerbork, transit camp in Holland to the Sobibor death camp in Poland on the 1 st June 1943. Rachel’s family included as the head of the family, her father David Borzykowski who was born in... Read Full Story
The Minsk Ghetto Jewish Minsk Minsk, capital of the Belorussian SSR, in 1926 the Jewish population of Minsk was 53,686, by June 1941 the number had grown to 80,000, constituting one- third of the city’s population. Only a small fraction of the Jews managed to escape from the city in the six days between the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the conquest of Minsk on 28 June 1941. German parachutists who had been dropped east of the city intercepted thousands of Jews who were trying to... Read Full Story
Israel on Saturday expressed its condolences over the death of the last commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi Germany during World War II. Mark Edelman, who died in Warsaw on Friday aged 90, "gained respect in Poland, Israel and the entire world as a most important moral voice for the memory of the Holocaust," the foreign ministry said in a statement. "The Jewish people and the state of Israel mourn the death of Edelman, one of the commanders of the heroic uprising... Read Full Story
Radogoszcz Police Prison
Lodz Ghetto
Pre-war view of the industrial district of Lodz
Before the Second World War Radogoszcz was one of the oldest villages and districts of Lodz. In the early 1930’s Samuel Abbe built the biggest, three storey factory building in the area near to the crossing of the Gen. J. Sowinskiego (modern name) and Zgierska streets. It was accompanied by a... Read Full Story
Poland marked the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany's liquidation of the World War II Lodz Ghetto Thursday with ceremonies honouring its 220,000 Jewish victims, Holocaust survivors and Poles who saved them. "Today, when we pay homage to those who perished, those who survived and those who displayed the greatest bravery in saving their Jewish neighbours, we must remember it is here in Europe that the genocidal Nazi ideology was born," Poland's President Lech Kaczynski told hundreds of guests... Read Full Story
