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.
The Allied Reaction Regarding the Holocaust During 1942
"What the Allies Knew"
Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski
The following letters, reports, telegrams indicate the Nazis brutal persecution of the Jews in Poland, and the extent to which the Allies knew what was happening in Poland.
General Sikorski’s broadcast to Poland of June 9 1942:
The wave of terror in Poland has assumed such vast dimensions in the spring of this year after Himmler’s visit that the Polish... 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
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
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
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
What it took for one Jewish man to survive the Holocaust The Story of Victor Lewis
[Published with the permission of Victor Lewis]
Victor Lewis circa 1936
I’m not a poet or a writer. But I have an important story to tell. My memories of the Nazi occupation of Poland and my experiences during the Holocaust gave me nightmares and interrupted my ability to sleep for many years after the war.
I wrote this account in memory of my dearest parents and siblings... Read Full Story
The Gas Chambers at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka
Descriptions and Eyewitness Testimony
The intention of this article is to provide a brief description of all the gas chambers constructed at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka death camps constructed by the Nazis, as part of the Aktion Reinhard murder programme, during 1941 and 1942 in the General Government.
The Belzec Death Camp
Stanislaw Kozak
Stanislaw Kozak testified about the construction of the... Read Full Story
Women Record Their Accounts of the Holocaust Melita Maschmann Bund Deutscher Madel Member Melita Maschmann “On the night of November 9 1938, the “Crystal Night” a shadow fell on our joy. Of the riots of that night I saw nothing. But in the morning I saw the wreckage of the little shops and restaurants in an alley near Berlin’s Alexanderplatz , where the inhabitants were Jews. I was horrified at the violence that must have raged there. But didn’t we hear all the time that international Jewry... Read Full Story
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. Advertisement The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such... Read Full Story
Prime Minister's speech to the UN. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the... Read Full Story
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