Holocaust History

[Sixties Fan]

During World War II, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities. The Germans regarded the establishment of ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. The assumption behind this separation was to stop the Jews, viewed by the Nazis as an inferior race, from mixing with and thus degrading the superior Aryan race.

Nazi high officials also believed that the Jews would succumb to the unfavorable living conditions of the ghetto, including lack of food, water, and living space. Furthermore, the ghettos served as round-up centers that made it more convenient to exterminate large numbers of the Jewish population later.

(full article online )

Ghettos Under the Nazis | My Jewish Learning

Jewish Ghettos Under the Nazis. The Holocaust During the War. History of the Holocaust. Jewish History from 1914 - 1948. Modern Jewish History. Jewish History and Community.

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[marvin martian]

I will start with the Nazi account from the beginning of Nazi persecution of Jews



I just found this 1936 book, The Yellow Spot, which documents in detail the beginnings of Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany, with lots of photos and facsimiles from Nazi media.

The terror in reading this book is in the knowledge that the horrific facts recounted here in mind-numbing detail - the pogroms, the arrests, the anti-Jewish laws, the ordinary Germans enthusiastically joining the hate - were only the opening act to what was to come. All of the events in this book occurred from 1933-35, more than three years prior to Kristallnacht.

(full article online)

The Yellow Spot: Detailed, contemporaneous accounts of Nazi persecution of Jews 1933-1935 sound a lot like today's antisemitism (PDF)

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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It's hard to believe the DemoKKKrat party has four Holocaust deniers serving in Congress, right now in 2022, as well as prominent Biden supporters like Richard Spencer and Linda Sarsour, who also deny the Holocaust. The cancer of anti-Semitism has rapidly spread across the American left.

 

[Sixties Fan]

It's hard to believe the DemoKKKrat party has four Holocaust deniers serving in Congress, right now in 2022, as well as prominent Biden supporters like Richard Spencer and Linda Sarsour, who also deny the Holocaust. The cancer of anti-Semitism has rapidly spread across the American left.

The endless belief that antisemitism exists in the US left, only.

Kari Lake endorsed an antisemitic Oklahoma Republican who says 'the Jews' are evil

Less than a month ago, Kari Lake rejected an endorsement from a prominent antisemitic man, saying that she “absolutely denounces bigotry in all its forms, especially anti-semitism.”

www.azmirror.com

Doug Mastriano has ties to antisemites, and Pa. Democrats want voters to know it

Gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has personal and financial ties to spreaders of antisemitic rhetoric. Democrats want voters to know it.

whyy.org

Trump Goes Full Anti-Semite, Unloads on American Jews in Wildly Bigoted Rant

The former president hit on nearly every anti-Jewish trope in the book, including the one about Jews supposedly controlling the media.

www.vanityfair.com

Trump uses anti-Semitic tropes to again criticize Jewish Americans

Former President Donald Trump, in a newly released interview, claimed that Jewish Americans "either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel," while also suggesting that evangelical Christians "love Israel more than the Jews in this country."

www.cnn.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

It's hard to believe the DemoKKKrat party has four Holocaust deniers serving in Congress, right now in 2022, as well as prominent Biden supporters like Richard Spencer and Linda Sarsour, who also deny the Holocaust. The cancer of anti-Semitism has rapidly spread across the American left.

Congressman Paul Gosar Recruits Holocaust Deniers Into the Republican Party

A Republican with a plan to extend the party’s rightward edge.

nymag.com

GOP Congressmen Meet With Accused Holocaust-Denier Chuck Johnson

The two Republican lawmakers say they didn’t know about the alt-right troll’s past.

www.thedailybeast.com

Kevin McCarthy Leads House GOP In Blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust Remarks

The freshman Republican has repeatedly equated COVID-19 safety measures with the treatment of Jews under the Nazis. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected that rhetoric, but she doubled down.

www.npr.org

 

[Sixties Fan]

Tova Friedman, left, and other children when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in January 1945. Photo: Provided.
A memoir written by one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp will be released in September and will tell her story of survival and perseverance while growing up during the Holocaust.

Tova Friedman, now 83, was born Tola Grossman in Gdynia, Poland, in 1938, a year before the start of World War II. She was six years old when Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945.

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One of Auschwitz’s Youngest Survivors Recounts Her Childhood During The Holocaust in New Memoir​

by Shiryn Ghermezian​

Tova Friedman, left, and other children when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in January 1945. Photo: Provided.
A memoir written by one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp will be released in September and will tell her story of survival and perseverance while growing up during the Holocaust.
Tova Friedman, now 83, was born Tola Grossman in Gdynia, Poland, in 1938, a year before the start of World War II. She was six years old when Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945.

In “The Daughter of Auschwitz” — co-written with former war reporter Malcolm Brabant— Friedman recounts her harrowing experiences living in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz, where she escaped death numerous times, including improbably surviving a Nazi gas chamber. Friedman and her mother hid from Nazi firing squads right before the liberation of Auschwitz by hiding among corpses.

In the book’s prologue, Friedman writes that the purpose of her telling such her story was to try and “immortalize what happened, to ensure that those who died are not forgotten. Nor the methods that were used to exterminate them.”

(full article online)

One of Auschwitz’s Youngest Survivors Recounts Her Childhood During The Holocaust in New Memoir

Tova Friedman, left, and other children when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in January 1945. Photo: Provided. A memoir …

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[Sixties Fan]

Jewish Actress Helena Bonham Carter Joins Holocaust Film About ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton

Helena Bonham Carter at Alice In Wonderland Fan Event. Photo: Made In Hollywood via Wikimedia Commons. Jewish British actress Helena …

www.algemeiner.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

He preserved Ukrainian Jewish culture — before, during and after the Shoah

"Song Searcher" follows the expeditions of Moyshe Beregovsky, whose ethnomusicological field work helped preserve Ukrainian Jewish music.

forward.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Almost 80 years after Piotr Sanevich and his family saved a Jewish boy named Dimitri Schmeiger from the Nazis, Sanevich’s daughter and seven grandchildren fled the bombings in Ukraine for Be’er Sheva, where Schmeiger’s family lives today.

Anatoly and Lydia Odarchuk fled to Israel from Rivne in Ukraine with seven of their nine children when the shelling began. Lydia’s father was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for risking his life to save Jewish children during the Holocaust.

(full article online)

Ukrainian Refugees Find Shelter with Israeli Family Whose Grandfather Was Saved by Theirs

"It was an act of bravery, and we, the Jewish people, owe his offspring a debt of gratitude."

www.jewishpress.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Nazis line up Jewish deportees in front of the German city of Halberstadt’s famous 13th-century Gothic cathedral, in an image presented by Lothar Lou Beverstein to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.

During the past decade, scholars have realized how pictures can contribute to our understanding of mass violence as well as the resistance to it. Some can provide the only evidence we have about an act of persecution – for example, a photograph of anti-Jewish graffiti. Others will reveal additional details, as in the image of a court proceeding against anti-Nazi resistors.

Photographs are now in some cases the sole objects of scholarly inquiry. They are used to identify perpetrators and victims in specific cases, when other sources would not reveal them.

Here’s one example: An image shows uniformed Nazis standing in front of a passenger train filled with German Jews in Munich on November 20, 1942. Who were those men? More importantly, what are the stories of the barely recognizable victims behind the windows in this image?

Investigating photos of Nazi deportations​

Between 1938 and 1945, more than 200,000 people were deported from Germany, mainly to ghettos and camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.

To make pictures of Nazi deportations accessible for research and education, a group of university, educational and archival institutions in Germany and the Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California launched the #LastSeen Project — Pictures of Nazi Deportations in October 2021.

This effort aims to locate, collect and analyze images of Nazi mass deportations in Germany. The deportations started with the forced expulsion of around 17,000 Jews of Polish origin in October 1938, right before the widespread antisemitic violence of Kristallnacht, and culminated in the mass deportations to Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1945.

The mass deportation targeted not only Jews, but also people with disabilities as well as tens of thousands of Romani.

What can we learn from the pictures? Not only when, where and how these forced relocations took place, but who participated, who witnessed them and who was affected by the persecution acts.

I work with the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research to manage the outreach for the #LastSeen Project in the English-speaking world. The project has three main goals: first, gathering all existing pictures. These images will then be analyzed to identify the victims and perpetrators and recover the stories behind the pictures. Finally, a digital platform will provide access to all the images and unearthed information, both enabling a new level of study of this visual evidence and establishing a powerful tool against Holocaust denial.

(full article online )

How Holocaust researchers rely on unknown photos from public to recover lost stories

More visual evidence of Nazi deportation is emerging in attics and archives in various countries, providing a powerful tool against Holocaust denial

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns’ new documentary series about the Holocaust is Otto, a Jewish man seen in the series’ first episode who tries to secure passage to America for his family but gets stymied by the country’s fierce anti-immigration legislation.


It isn’t until the third episode that viewers learn that Otto’s daughter is nicknamed Anne, and the pieces fall into place: He’s the father of Anne Frank, the Holocaust’s most famous victim.


Burns calls the delayed detail a “hidden ball trick,” hoping that an audience with only passing knowledge of the Frank family will not immediately clue into the fact that Otto was Anne’s father. Burns and his co-directors, two Jewish filmmakers, want their viewers to ponder the question of what the US government felt Anne’s life was worth when she was still a living, breathing Jewish child and not yet a world-famous author and martyr of the human condition.

(full article online)

PBS series asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews in WWII

Ken Burns’ “The US and the Holocaust” chronicles the xenophobic and antisemitic climate in America in the years leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews.

www.jpost.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

STRALSUND, Germany (JTA) — This charming medieval city nestled into the country’s Baltic coast appears an unlikely setting for a reunion of an extended family torn asunder by the Holocaust.

On August 18, against the odds, some 20 descendants of Julius Blach and his brother Felix Blach gathered for four days in the city where the Blachs lived and ran the Jewish family’s leather business at Heilgeiststrasse 89, in the heart of the city’s commercial center.

Eighty-plus years after the Holocaust, few of the family’s descendants knew any other relatives existed. Some grew up with Jewish traditions, others were unaware of their family’s deep Jewish roots. A few have visited Stralsund and the site of their family’s business and home, but most never have, and many have never met each other.

(full article online )

German cellist reunites over 30 members of a family descended from Holocaust victims

After being connected by Friederike Fechner, almost two dozen descendants of brothers Julius and Felix Blach come to Germany to see their once-prominent family's legacy firsthand

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Surviving the Holocaust​

Hess was the opposite of drop-dead gorgeous; her luminous beauty and Shirley Temple curls more than once literally saved her life. Hidden as a bewildered five-year-old by a Polish gentile judge, a friend of her lawyer father, the tiny Natalia Chojnacka was plonked under a pile of blankets in a wooden chest when the Nazis came hunting for Jews in Piótrkow Trybunalski, Poland. “A young German soldier opened the lid, scrabbled through the things and saw me lying there,” she recalled, years later in an Israeli high school staffroom, where she headed the English department. “His blue eyes opened wide. He looked around, covered me again, and left.” Hess’s magic was working already.


Surviving the Holocaust meant a miracle a minute, and the judge’s wife knew the Germans would be back. She insisted the little girl be sent to family friends walled up in the ghetto, despite their promises and money received from the child’s parents before being deported to their deaths.


Natalie related this, in her serene, twinkly manner, over break-time bagels at Jerusalem’s Gymnasia Rehavia; it catapulted me back to a high school lesson of my own.

(full article online)

Remembering Natalie Hess, a Jerusalem teacher who survived the Holocaust

Natalie Hess, who died recently at the age of 86, was my idol; she molded my life and the lives of countless others. If you were a teacher trained by her, you could do anything.

www.jpost.com

 

[Mindful]

Anne Frank with her sister at the beach.

They deserved to live!

 

[Mindful]

The wan smile of a girl whose future robbed and identity forgotten.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Wolf Blitzer himself has written (in the Wall Street Journal in 1985) of what he called “the documented abandonment of European Jewish refugees before and during World War II.” And now the powerful testimony of his father has cut through all the excuses and rationalizations:



“The biggest puzzle for me is that they did not bombard the railroads leading to the crematoria. This is the biggest puzzle. We saw the airplanes—in 1944, we saw airplanes bombarding cities. We were laughing, we were happy, we were even praying to God—we could get killed from those bombs, but we couldn’t understand why they did not bombard—every day, thousands of people were burned and gassed in the camps, only because they had the possibility to bring those trainloads of people. If those rails had been bombarded, they couldn’t have done it so perfectly.”

(full article online)

In just a few sentences, the elder Blitzer reminded us of three key aspects of the bombing issue:

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

www.israelnationalnews.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Ending Germany trip, Herzog visits concentration camp his father helped liberate

'In this terrible place, we remember the imperative that is binding on us all: the imperative of life,' president says at Bergen-Belsen after meeting survivors, high schoolers

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[marvin martian]

Wolf Blitzer himself has written (in the Wall Street Journal in 1985) of what he called “the documented abandonment of European Jewish refugees before and during World War II.” And now the powerful testimony of his father has cut through all the excuses and rationalizations:



“The biggest puzzle for me is that they did not bombard the railroads leading to the crematoria. This is the biggest puzzle. We saw the airplanes—in 1944, we saw airplanes bombarding cities. We were laughing, we were happy, we were even praying to God—we could get killed from those bombs, but we couldn’t understand why they did not bombard—every day, thousands of people were burned and gassed in the camps, only because they had the possibility to bring those trainloads of people. If those rails had been bombarded, they couldn’t have done it so perfectly.”

(full article online)

In just a few sentences, the elder Blitzer reminded us of three key aspects of the bombing issue:

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

www.israelnationalnews.com

Wolf Blitzer works for one of the most anti-Semitic organizations in America.

 

[Ringo]

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has published archival documents about the extermination of Polish residents by Bandera during the Great Patriotic War, including during the "Volyn massacre". The text of the document on Wednesday, September 7, was posted on the agency's website.

The special service noted that during the Soviet era, "dark spots" in the history of the war were not covered, so as not to humiliate the dignity of representatives of fraternal peoples. In particular, the media did not discuss crimes committed by members of the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists" (OUN-UPA, banned in Russia as an extremist organization), as well as their associates from the Polish "Home Army".

The FSB added that one of the most terrible crimes of Ukrainian nationalists during the war was the "Volyn massacre" of 1943. The first act of genocide on the part of Bandera was the murder of 137 Poles during the massacre in Parosl. This crime was committed by the 1st hundred of the UPA under the command of Grigory Pereginyak, known under the pseudonym Dolbezhka.

Ethnic killings of Poles reached a climax in July and August 1943. In total, according to historians, more than 36 thousand people were killed at that moment: men, women, children and the elderly.

The People's Commissariat of Security of the USSR regularly received reports of mass massacres by the Nazis and their accomplices from among the Ukrainian nationalists. One of them, published by the FSB, tells about the massacre in the city of Vladimir-Volynsk. "During the service in the churches, Bandera killed 11 priests and up to 2,000 Poles on the streets of the city," the document says.

At the same time, the Nazi invaders did not pay attention to the atrocities of the nationalists. "The occupiers not only did not stop the Bandera genocide of Poles, but used these cases to call the surviving Poles to join the gendarmerie to fight Bandera," the FSB said.

ДОКУМЕНТЫ НАРКОМАТА ГОСБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ СССР О ГЕНОЦИДЕ ПОЛЯКОВ БАНДЕРОВСКИМИ БАНДАМИ НА ВОЛЫНЕ :: Федеральная Служба Безопасности

ДОКУМЕНТЫ НАРКОМАТА ГОСБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ СССР О ГЕНОЦИДЕ ПОЛЯКОВ БАНДЕРОВСКИМИ БАНДАМИ НА ВОЛЫНЕ

www.fsb.ru

 

[surada]

GET LOST. !!!!

VERY LOST. !!!!

Are you afraid of contemporaneous writings about Palestine?

 

[Sixties Fan]

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has published archival documents about the extermination of Polish residents by Bandera during the Great Patriotic War, including during the "Volyn massacre". The text of the document on Wednesday, September 7, was posted on the agency's website.

The special service noted that during the Soviet era, "dark spots" in the history of the war were not covered, so as not to humiliate the dignity of representatives of fraternal peoples. In particular, the media did not discuss crimes committed by members of the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists" (OUN-UPA, banned in Russia as an extremist organization), as well as their associates from the Polish "Home Army".

The FSB added that one of the most terrible crimes of Ukrainian nationalists during the war was the "Volyn massacre" of 1943. The first act of genocide on the part of Bandera was the murder of 137 Poles during the massacre in Parosl. This crime was committed by the 1st hundred of the UPA under the command of Grigory Pereginyak, known under the pseudonym Dolbezhka.

Ethnic killings of Poles reached a climax in July and August 1943. In total, according to historians, more than 36 thousand people were killed at that moment: men, women, children and the elderly.

The People's Commissariat of Security of the USSR regularly received reports of mass massacres by the Nazis and their accomplices from among the Ukrainian nationalists. One of them, published by the FSB, tells about the massacre in the city of Vladimir-Volynsk. "During the service in the churches, Bandera killed 11 priests and up to 2,000 Poles on the streets of the city," the document says.

At the same time, the Nazi invaders did not pay attention to the atrocities of the nationalists. "The occupiers not only did not stop the Bandera genocide of Poles, but used these cases to call the surviving Poles to join the gendarmerie to fight Bandera," the FSB said.

ДОКУМЕНТЫ НАРКОМАТА ГОСБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ СССР О ГЕНОЦИДЕ ПОЛЯКОВ БАНДЕРОВСКИМИ БАНДАМИ НА ВОЛЫНЕ :: Федеральная Служба Безопасности

ДОКУМЕНТЫ НАРКОМАТА ГОСБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ СССР О ГЕНОЦИДЕ ПОЛЯКОВ БАНДЕРОВСКИМИ БАНДАМИ НА ВОЛЫНЕ

www.fsb.ru

Hi Ringo, is this more WWII history than the Holocaust?

What does it have to do with the Holocaust ?