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.
In this day and age when the average person’s idea of a hero is a successful highly paid athlete, football, baseball, or soccer player, when the perception of heroism has long lost its true meaning for so many it is heartwarming to read the story of Irena Sendler :
Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Yad Vashem memorial, has died.
Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated... Read Full Story
Gregory Peck, as the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, and Sir Lawrence Olivier, as a Nazi hunter, both starred in the 1978 thriller The Boys From Brazil. In that movie Dr. Mengele has hatched a monstrous plot to bring back Adolf Hitler in a younger, more energetic form. The movie was based on a thriller of the same name by Ira Levin.
Yesterday the British daily Telegraph , had the following on its online edition:
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’
The... Read Full Story
Plaszow Concentration Camp
Joseph Bau’s – Journey Through the Past
Joseph Bau
Former Plaszow inmate Joseph Bau (Prisoner Number 69084) invites the reader to a virtual tour of Plaszow Concentration Camp, as it was in 1944.
Here is the Main Gate – thousands of people pass through it – in rows of three, keeping time to the monotonous pace of the rasping bellows of the Kapo, “Links, Links, Links ” to the accompaniment of the hollow echoing of wooden shoes... Read Full Story
Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies
The Polish parliament honoured Irena Sendlerowa last year for her heroism
The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced.
Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her daughter said.
After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took... Read Full Story
Nachum Remba
Nachum Remba
Nachum Remba was born in Kolna, Poland in 1910, into a prominent Zionist family, Remba spent most of his adult life as a communal worker. Prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, Remba was the secretary of the education department of the Warsaw Kehililla, the official administrative body of the Warsaw Jewish community.
Although himself an employee of the Warsaw Judenrat , he did not hesitate to join a committee to combat corrupt... Read Full Story
The White Rose
The White Rose (weisserose), named after a Spanish novel (Rosa Blanco). The Group coordinated efforts on Campus for Civil Rights and Opposition to Nazi policies. Among their efforts on campus were weekly discussion groups, painting 'freedom' on brick walls at the entrance into campus, and distributing leaflets opposing the Reich on moral and political grounds, encouraging students to think for themselves.
The White Rose
Sophie & Hans Scholl... Read Full Story
· 5/22/2009 11:20 AM HEART wrote: Whilst many “Self-Proclaimed Debunkers of Revisionism” believe they are doing something noble by “ giving the Deniers a hard time ” you are in essence accomplishing nothing but validating that a ludicrous revisionist viewpoint has any merit was so ever. Forcing Holocaust Deniers to lose composure doesn't discredit the Denier. It simply proves the Denier is just as human as the rest of us and can react adversely when challenged. (We would remind all... Read Full Story
Einsatzgruppen A
The Massacres in Kovno
Reports and Eyewitness Accounts
Franz Walther Stahlecker
Franz Walther Stahlecker
Franz Walther Stahlecker was born in Sternenfels, Austria on the 10 October 1900. He was trained as an administrative jurist, and he joined the Nazi Party and the SS on the 1 May 1932. His SS number was 73041 and his NSDAP number was 1069130
He served in the police and in 1934 he became chief of the police in the Wurtemburg... Read Full Story
The Sobibor extermination camp, where retired autoworker John Demjanjuk is alleged to have served as a guard, was built by Nazi officers in occupied Poland in 1942 and razed to the ground 18 months later. In the time it was operational, some 250,000 Jews, Gypsies and political prisoners were murdered in its gas chambers. The first trains carrying mostly Austrian, Czech and Polish Jews from the nearby Lublin Ghetto began arriving in May 1942. SS officers forced the men, women and children to... Read Full Story
Mauthausen Image Gallery
The SS Album & Liberation www.holocaustresearchproject.org
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Battered inmate photographed by the SS during... Read Full Story
From Spain's Princess Letizia to Italy's Mara Carfagna, the game of politics is no stranger to beautiful, powerful women. Following is a list of women whose influence is matched only by their sheer hotness.
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