.H o l o c a u s t
S u r v i v
o r s a n d
R e m e m b r a n c
e P r o j e
c t
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T A B L E
O F
C O N T E N T S
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< iSurvived.org >
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< ForgetYouNot.org >
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<
HolocaustProject.org
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HolocaustRemembrance.net
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< ForgetYouNot.net >
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HolocaustProject.net
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The
Holocaust "is probably the
greatest and most terrible
crime
ever committed in the whole
history of the world."
Winston
Churchill
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VI.
Holocaust Selected Readings, Photos,
and Items of Interest
 
"The
fifth commandment, 'Thou shall not kill,'
is not God's commandment at all:
It is a Jewish
invention."
Statement
of the high Nazi official Stahle after the
protest, on December 4, 1940,
by the evangelical priest Sautter against
the criminal acts of euthanasia
(http://www.sobibor.info)
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Selected
Readings
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2.
Remembering
the
Forgotten...
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3.
Notable
Events
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4A.
Inmate
Art from Concentration Camps:
Expressing the
Inexpressible
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4B.
Contemporary
Art About and in Response to
the Holocaust
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4C.
Holocaust
Literature
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4D.
Music
of the Holocaust --A Remembering for
the Future
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5.
Holocaust
Memorial Foundations and
Museums
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6.
Notable
Web Sites
Honoring
the
Memory of the Holocaust
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7.
Selected
Photos and Posters Related to
the Holocaust
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8.
Holocaust Memorial Plaques, Stamps and
Related Artifacts
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9.
Holocaust
Online Exhibits
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10.
Nazi
Plunder of Valuables
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Pile
Of Bodies At Dachau
--Yad
Vashem Archives
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"When the first GI's [American
soldiers] started returning home from
the war [after liberating Dachau
and other camps],
one of the things that drove them crazy
was that no one would believe what they
had to say!
No one would believe the stories of what
they saw."
.Dwight
"Ike" Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of
the Allied Expeditionary Force
with
other US Officers at Ohrdruf,
a subcamp of the Buchenwald
concentration camp,
after liberation
Photo
Credit: The Holocaust
<martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/holocaust.html>
 
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Selected Readings:
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United
States National Security
Archive Electronic Briefing
Book No.
150.
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Between
savagery and killings, savouring the pleasures
of life:
Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of
Auschwitz, and SS auxiliaries relaxing at a
recreation lodge near the camp
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.On
the Extermination of Jews in
Poland
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We wish to remember.
But we wish to remember for a
purpose, namely
to ensure that never again
evil will prevail. ...
Only a world at peace, with
justice for all,
can avoid repeating the
mistakes and terrible crimes
of the past.
.John
Paul II, Yad Vashem, March 23,
2000.
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A
Polish
Jewish
Family
(The
Rotmenschs)
--wife,
children
and
grandchildren
with
armbands
In
order
to
mark
and
isolate
the
Jews,
a
decree
of
November
23,
1939,
ordered
all
Jews
above
the
age of
10 in
the
General-Government
of
Poland
to
wear
white
armbands
with a
blue
star
of
David.
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From
Yad
Vashem
Archives
<www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Wolbrom/holocaust/during_c.htm>
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Gone
now
are
those
little
towns
where
the
shoemaker
was a
poet,
The
watchmaker
a
philosopher,
the
barber
a
troubadour.
Gone
now
are
those
little
towns
where
the
wind
joined
Biblical
songs
with
Polish
tunes
and
Slavic
rue
Where
old
Jews
in
orchards
in the
shade
of
cherry
trees
Lamented
for
the
holy
walls
of
Jerusalem.
Gone
now
are
those
little
towns,
though
the
poetic
mists,
The
moons,
winds,
ponds,
and
stars
above
them
Have
recorded
in the
blood
of
centuries
above
the
tragic
tales,
The
histories
of the
two
saddest
nations
on
earth.
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Polish
Jewish
poet
Antoni
Sonimsk
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"We
can't tell
two stories,
the history
of Poland
and the
history of
the
Jews,
because
simply they
exist
together and
they must be
told
together..."
Ewa
Junczyk-Ziomecka
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Of
all the
occupied
countries,
the
percentage
of Jews
saved in
Poland was
the
smallest,
since the
predominant
attitude was
hostile,
while rescue
was an
exception to
the
rule.
[Isaiah
Trunk]
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From
the
Editor
April 1998 --Volume XVIII,
Number 2
From
the
Editor
January 1999 -- Volume XIX,
Number
1
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- From
the Night of the [Kristallnacht]
Pogrom to the Final Solution: Experiences and
Lessons
by
Gerhart M. Riegner
- The
Holocaust and the Catholic Church's Search
for
Forgiveness
by
James Bernauer, S.J., Professor of
Philosophy, Boston College, USA
- The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Marek Edelman
- The
Last Letter of April 23, 1943 from Mordecai
Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto
Revolt Commander
- Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin Speech
at
Central Memorial Assembly in Warsaw, Poland
on the 50th Anniversary of
the
Warsaw
Ghetto
Uprising
- The
Couriers of the Jewish Underground in Poland
During the
Holocaust
by
Gary Scott Glassman
- The
Story of Mala Zimetbaum and Edward
Galiñski
1922-1944
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Mala
Zimetbaum,
interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, was
an interpreter there. Despite her
high status, she gained the sympathy
of the inmates, and in turn, helped
her fellow prisoners.
She
became the first woman to escape
from
Auschwitz,
but was caught and returned to the
camp. She committed suicide rather
than be killed on the
gallows.
[Source:
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t087/t08761.html]
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- We
Remember
Treblinka!
- Naming
the Jews of
Bocki
- The
Rescue of the Danish
Jews
- What
the Camps Were Like,
told through the eyes of people who suffered
through them
- ECHOES
OF A VANISHED HERITAGE (by Martin
Rudner):
An
historical outline of the Jewish community of
Kuty,
a kehila in Eastern Galicia, culminating in
its destruction during the
Holocaust
- ECHOES
OF A VANISHED HERITAGE (by Martin
Rudner):
An
account of the Jewish community of
Buczacz,
its history and society, culminating in its
destruction during the
Holocaust
- Insights
Into Europe's
Auschwitz
- Remembering
the
Kristallnacht:
Commemorating
the 69th anniversary of Kristallnacht at The
New York
Synagogue
Remarks
by Dr. Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth, Consul
General of the Federal Republic of Germany in
New York, USA.
- On
Truman's "Cultural" Anti-Semitism
- "America,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust" by
William J. vanden Heuvel
- The
Holocaust
Chronicle
- New
Revelations on Holocaust trough declassified
CIA
documents
- Catholics
and Jews Confront the Holocaust and Each
Other
- The 1999 John
Courtney Murray Lecture -
- Oral
and Written Testimonies: Lithuania and the
Holocaust
- The
Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the
Holocaust Project
- Australian
Memories of the Holocaust: Anka
Fischer
- Nazi
Conspiracy and
Aggression
- Women
& The Holocaust -- Personal
Reflections
by
Dr. Karin Doerr, Concordia University,
Canada
- The
Bleeding Sky :
My Mother Journey Through the
Fire
- A
Visit to
Auschwitz
- Auschwitz:
A Contested
Space
- Edward
R. Murrow's Report From
Buchenwald
- Italy
and the
Holocaust
- The
Holocaust in Italy: Meeting the Challenge of
Holocaust and
Genocide
- Italian
Jews, Jews in Italy, Holocaust Literature,
Holocaust Survivors, Memoirs of the
Holocaust
- Church
Built in Memory of Italian Holocaust
Victims
- "A
Year in Treblinka" by Yankel Wiernik,
Survivor of
Treblinka
- "Hungary:
The Last Major Jewish People Facing Nazi
Destruction"
by Dr. Judith Fai-Podlipnik
- Unscrambling
the History of a Nazi Camp in
Croatia
Who
Was Killed and by Whom Still Unsettles Croats
and
Serbs
- "Rescue
Through Labor Service in Hungary: Captain
László
Ocskay
and
the 101/359 Labor Service Company"
by Dan Danieli
- The
Testimonies of the Last Prisoners in the
Death Camp
Chelmno
- The
Dachau Liberators: Delivering Them From
Evil
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When
the first GI's started
returning home from the
war,
one of the things that
drove them crazy was
that
no one would believe what
they had to say!
No one would believe the
stories of what they
saw.
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http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/Liberation.asp
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Dachau
liberated by the US Army
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- Women
and the
Holocaust
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Upon
arrival,
the masses of Jews were immediately
sorted
for death or slave
labor.
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- The
Jewish Community of Gyula and the Shoah:
Documents
[2003
Edition; Compiled and the Introduction
Written by Mrs Kereskényi Edit
Cseh
Studies of Gyula 6 Edited by Gyula
Erdmann
Translated from Hungarian by Mrs Edit
Miskolczy and László
Miskolczy
Published by Békés County
Archives with the sponsorship of
Békés County
Self-Government
English translation sponsored by Gyula Jewish
Foundation]
- YIDN
IN PLOTSK - JEWS IN PLOCK
by
Sol Greenspan
(NYC,
1960)
Translated
from the Yiddish "Yiden in Plotsk" by Morris
Gradel
Editing and proofreading by Ada Holtzman,
10.1.2000
Part
III: The Holocaust in
Plock
- A
Gulag and Holocaust Memoir of Janina
Sulkowska-Gladun
- Bearing
Witness to the Holocaust:
How
the First Video Archive of Holocaust
Testimonies was
Established
- "The
Dentist of Auschwitz" --a Memoir by Benjamin
Jacobs
- Homosexuals,
Genocide of the
Holocaust
- Hadamar:
Committed to Hadamar
Hospital
- Confronting
the Past: Contemporary German paediatric
response to medical practice in the Third
Reich
by
Michael Shevell
- Celebration
Of Oneness: "One Voice" by Douglas S.
Johnson
- Eternal
Testament: Memoirs of a
Partisan
- Secher-Schab
Letters from the
Holocaust
(Courtesy of The University of Memphis
Libraries, Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
- Hans
Namuth Oral History Interview Conducted by
Paul Cummings
for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution,
1971
- Never
Forget: Remembering the Holocaust through
Survivor Memoirs and
Diaries
.The
Kindertransport
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Photo
Credit:
<juedisches-museum-
berlin.de/exil/kindertransporte_quelle.html>
Plaque
unveiled by Sir Nicholas
Winton on 16th September 2003
at Liverpool Street Station in
London, UK --this main London
railway terminus. Two of the
rescued Kinder, Harry Heber
and Erich Reich, were present
at that memorial event.
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 "I
can see the
world
gradually
being turned
into a
wilderness,
I hear the
ever
approaching
thunder,
which will
destroy us
too, I can
feel the
sufferings
of millions
- and yet,
if I look
into the
heavens, I
think that
it will all
come out
right, that
this cruelty
too will
end, and
that peace
and
tranquility
will return
again. In
the
meantime,
I must
uphold my
ideals, for
perhaps the
time will
come when I
shall be
able to
carry them
out."
--(From
Anne Frank's
Diary, July
15th
1944.)
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Children Of Izieu,
France
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Eleven-year-old
Liliane Gerenstein,
born January 13, 1933
in Nice, France,
wrote a heart-rending
letter to God just
days before the
children of Izieu
were sent to their
deaths at
Auschwitz:
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"God? How
good You
are,
how kind and
if one had
to count the
number
of
goodnesses
and
kindnesses
You have
done,
one would
never
finish.
God?
It is You
who
command.
It is You
who are
justice, it
is You
who reward
the good and
punish the
evil.
God?
It is thanks
to You
that I had a
beautiful
life
before,
that I was
spoiled,
that I had
lovely
things that
others do
not
have.
God?
After that,
I ask You
one thing
only:
Make my
parents come
back, my
poor
parents
protect them
(even more
than You
protect
me)
so that I
can see them
again as
soon as
possible.
Make
them come
back
again.
Ah! I had
such a good
mother and
such a good
father!
I have such
faith in You
and I thank
You in
advance."
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The
poem below was written by a
young person in the Terezin
Ghetto, where the arts
flourished as a defiance of
the soul, even in Children.
Nothing free, like the
butterflies or the Jews,
lasted long in the Captivity
of brutal men. Pavel could
watch butterflies soar over
barbed wire, fences and guns,
until there were no longer
butterflies. It is a poignant
reminder not only of the depth
of expression in young Jewish
souls, but of the captivity of
art in having to hide defiance
and honor in
metaphor.
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 "I
Never saw Another
Butterfly"
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I
never saw another
butterfly . .
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The
last, the very
last,
so richly, brightly,
dazzling
yellow.
Perhaps
if the sun's tears
sing
against a white stone
. . .
Such,
such a yellow
Is carried lightly
`way up
high.
It
went away I'm sure
because it
wished to kiss the
world
goodbye.
For
seven weeks I've
lived in here,
Penned up inside this
ghetto,
but I have found my
people
here.
The
dandelions call to
me,
And the white
chestnut candles in
the court.
Only
I never saw another
butterfly.
That
butterfly was the
last one.
Butterflies
don't live here in
the
ghetto.
--
Pavel Friedman, June
1942
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Remembering the Forgotten...
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The
monument over the grave of the great
Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in
Kaniv, Ukraine, surrounded by the
barbed wire of a German concentration
camp in World War II.
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Prisoners
engaged in forced labor,
Sachsenhausen, 1940
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In
1939, thousands of Jewish
refugees escaped Nazi
persecution
to the only place that was
open to them...
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Religious
school for Jewish
refugee children.
Shanghai Ghetto,
China, September 8,
1944.
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We
Remember Jewish
Sompolno!
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3.
Notable Events:
The
Beginning of The Holocaust:
Kristallnacht
or "The Night of Broken Glass" pogrom of Nov.
9-10, 1938.
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.End
of the "1000-year-old" Nazi
Reign
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As
reported by The New York
Times:
May
2, 1945
May
8, 1945
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David
Ben-Gurion proclaiming the
establishment of the State of
Israel.
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President
Truman meeting on May 8, 1951 with
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion of
Israel and Abba Eban. They presented
the menora as a token of esteem for
President Truman's timely
recognition of the State of Israel
on May 14, 1948.
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4A.
Inmate Art from Concentration Camps and Gettos:
Expressing the Inexpressible
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From
Stutthof Concentration Camp:
Portrait of the prisoner Wachlaw
Lewandowski,
illegally
made in the
camp
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Self-Portrait
by German-Jewish painter Felix
Nussbaum
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Nussbaum's
most famous painting:
Self-Portrait with
Jewish Identity Card,
probably from late
1942. The Nazi
occupation ID card
states JEW in French:
JUIF, and in Flemish:
JOOD
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This
detail image portrays
the German-Jewish
painter Felix
Nussbaum, who was
raised in Osnabruck,
a city in Germany.
During the war, Felix
and his wife Felka
Platek were in hiding
for their lives in
Brussels, Belgium for
three years. They
were arrested in 1944
and deported on the
last transport of
Jews from Belgium to
Poland. Felix and
Felka were prisoners
No. 284 and 285 on
the train in which
they were deported on
July 31, 1944. They
were gassed to death
at Auschwitz on
August 3, 1944. Felix
was 39 years old and
Felka was 45.
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<connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/shoah_-_details2.htm>
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Paintings by David
Olère (1902 - 1985),
Auschwitz Holocaust
Survivor
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Unable
to Work / Les inaptes au
travail
131x162 cm, A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, New
York.
Inability
to work was often an immediate
death sentence.
In the background of this
painting, smoke rises from the
crematorium to form the SS
insignia.
Of the one thousand Jews in
the convoy that brought
Olère to Auschwitz, 881
were immediately gassed.
Only six of the 119 selected
for work survived the War.
Their
Last Steps / Leurs derniers
pas
73x54 cm, Ghetto Fighters
House, Israel
<fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/olere.htm>
Gassing
/ Gazage
131x162 cm, A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, New
York.
The container in the lower
right is labeled Zyklon B.
Although Olère spent
most of his time doing art for
the SS and translating BBC
radio broadcasts,
he was, from time to time,
called upon to help empty the
gas
chambers.
<shoah.freeservers.com/photo.html>
<fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/olere.htm>
The
Experimental Injection / La
piqûre
expérimentale
1945, 92x72 cm, A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust, New
York.
The infamous Dr. Mengele
administers an injection as
terrified prisoners look
on.
<shoah.freeservers.com/photo.html>
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The
Terezin (Theresienstadt)
concentration camp, an hour
north of Prague (
Czechoslovakia), was called a
"model ghetto" during the
Second World War. The Nazis
showed it off to the Red Cross
to prove that conditions
weren't as horrific was
thought, and that child
inmates were in fact being
educated by other imprisoned
artists, writers and
intellectuals. The reality, of
course, was different, only
some 10 per cent of the 15,000
children sent there between
1942 and 1944 survived the
war. What did survive,
however, were over 4,000
drawings and paintings they
left behind, one of which is
posted at left under the title
"Happier Place:
Picture from Terezin."
[Source:
Montreal Holocaust Memorial
Centre]
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Yehuda
Bacon
(b.
1929)
[Yad
Vashem Art Museum]
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In
Memory of the Czech Transport to the
Gas Chambers, 1945, Charcoal on
paper
Yehuda
Bacon was born in Czechoslovakia to a
Chassidic family. In 1941, he was sent
to Terezin (Theresienstadt) at the age
of thirteen, where he began to draw.
Whilst in Terezin, he studied under the
direction of artists Otto Unger,
Bedrich Fritta and Leo Hass. In 1943 he
was deported to Auschwitz. He emigrated
to Eretz Israel with the Youth Aliya in
1946, studied art at the Bezalel
Academy of Art and then continued his
studies in Italy, London, New York and
Paris. In 1961 he testified at the
Eichmann trial. Bacon lectured in the
art department of Haifa University and
at the Bezalel Academy of Art,
Jerusalem.
A
short time following his liberation
from Auschwitz, the sixteen-year-old
Bacon drew this portrait of his father
who perished in the death camp. Like a
necromancer, Bacon conjures up the
thin, exhausted face and blazing eyes
of his father, the disembodied face
ascending from the smoke. The image of
the father whose life was ended in the
furnaces of Auschwitz is reconstructed
by the son who still remembers the
father he was recently separated from.
This recollection will never be
eradicated since Bacon committed it to
paper. The turbulent mental state of
the artist is manifested by the
agitated, quivering lines surrounding
the portrait. In the lower section of
the drawing, where we would expect to
see his father's body, we detect the
crematoria and a body hanging off the
barbed wire fence which surrounded the
camp. In the right-hand corner, the
artist has added the date and time:
10.VII.44, 22:00 - marking the exact
moment when his father perished.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Drawing
by
the Auschwitz Survivor and Polish
Artist Jan Komski
[Originally
designed for fifty-two horses, these
wooden stables were used extensively in
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each provided the
living space for over a thousand
prisoners. More than two hundred of
these barracks were built. In typical,
thorough fashion, they were constructed
complete with the rings for tying the
horses attached to the walls.]
Polish artist Jan Komski is a survivor
of Auschwitz. His personal history is
full of remarkable events, including
being part of the very first prisoner
transport to arrive in Auschwitz, and
being part of one of the most famous
escapes from the camp. (To read a
synopsis of Jan
Komski's
story,
click in here.)
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<Marc
Chagall (1887-1985): Loneliness,
1933>
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4B.
Contemporary Art About and in Response to the
Holocaust
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Jan
Hartman's painting of a death march he
was on
from Auschwitz to Bielsko.
[Photo
Credit: London Imperial War
Museum.]
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4C.
Holocaust Literature and Remembrance:
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A
6893
by
Anna Sotto
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All
There is to know about Adolf
Eichmann
by
L. Cohen
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She
didn't cry
When they removed
Her clothes, her ring
Her shoes, her hair.
But when they took away
Her name
She wept.
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Eyes: Medium
Hair: Medium
Weight: Medium
Height: Medium
Distinguishing features: None
Number of fingers: Ten
Intelligence: Medium
What
did you expect?
Talons?
Oversize incisors?
Green saliva?
Madness?
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"In
a Sentence, I Felt Like I was Going
Through the Holocaust All Over
Again"
Interview
with Michael
Goldman-Gilad
Investigative Officer for the Eichmann
Trial
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Essays
and Poems of Romanian Jews from the
city of Oradea (in Hungarian, Nagyvarad
) during the Holocaust:
[unless
otherwise stated, translated by Susan
Geroe]
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Al Filreis: Hope
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by Larissa
Andrusyshyn
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an electrified barbed wire
fence,
a ditch,
and a wall with seven guard
towers
surrounds.
human
remains arrive suffocated
and left in boxcars.
the camp is intended for the
incarceration
of political
opponents.
they
were buried in mass graves
until the construction of
crematoriums
was completed.
new and more efficiently
built
it is estimated that it took
10-15 minutes to incinerate
a body there.
exact
numbers of the victims are
inconclusive,
because no one took record after
the flood
of russian p.o.w.s
2.
at the time of liberation
the american troops forced
local farmers to drive carts
loaded with corpses through the
town of dachau
to educate the people
there.
3.
prisoners hair was sent
to a. zink fur manufacturer ltd.
of nuremburg
.50 marks was to be paid
for every kilogram of hair
sent.
womens hair, because it was
longer,
was spun into yarns
and made into socks for boat
crews.
4.
m. tregenza
archeologists report, dachau:
during an excavation
uncovering the mass grave
he puts his hands to the deep
grey sand
finds carbonized wood and human
bone fragments
and one incisor tooth
shinning in the black like a wet
glass eye.
5.
today it is possible
to buy a brand new condo
a few feet from the walls of
dachau
youll see the trenches
beyond your backyard fence
and above your neighbors
house
the tall mcdonalds sign
glowing in the
distance
outside
your window
the gate that reads
"arbeit macht
frei"
labor
will make you free.
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Shemà
You
who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who return in the evening to
find
Hot food and friendly
faces:
Consider
if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of
bread
Who dies because of a yes or a
no.
Consider if this is a
woman,
Without hair and without
name
With no more strength to
remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb
cold
Like a frog in
winter.
Consider
that this has been:
I commend these words to you.
Engrave them on your hearts
When you are in your house, when
you walk on your way,
When you go to bed, when you
rise.
Repeat them to your
children.
Or
may your house crumble,
Disease render you powerless,
Your offspring avert their faces
from you.
--
Primo Levi
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- Humor
as a Defense Mechanism in the
Holocaust
[2000
Ph.D. Thesis at Tel-Aviv University
by Dr. Chaya Ostrower under the supervision
of Prof. Avner
Ziv]
- Humor
in the Holocaust: Its Critical, Cohesive, and
Coping
Functions
by
John Morreall,
Ph.D.
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A
Jewish father teaching his son how
to say grace before
meals:
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"Today
in Germany the proper form of grace
is 'Thank God and Hitler.'"
"But suppose the Führer dies?"
asked the boy.
"Then you just thank
God."
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Hitler
and his Fortune Teller:
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As
Hitler's armies faced more and more
setbacks, he asked his
astrologer,
"Am I going to lose the war?"
"Yes," the astrologer said.
"Then, am I going to die?" Hitler
asked.
"Yes."
"When am I going to die?"
"On a Jewish holiday."
"But on what holiday?"
"Any day you die will be a Jewish
holiday."
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To
Hang or Not to Hang Them?
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In
Munich, cabaret performer
Weiss
Ferdl
would
bring out large photographs
of Hitler, Goering, and other Nazi
leaders, and then think out
loud,
"Now should I hang them, or line
them up against the
wall?"
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- Modern
Humor:
Iran
Holocaust Cartoon
Contest
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4D.
Music
of the Holocaust: Music of Another World --A
Remembering for the
Future
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Music
Silenced By Hitler
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During
the course of World War II,
the Nazis successfully used
their control of music and the
arts as a powerful propaganda
weapon against those aspects
of German cultural life they
hated most. In terms of music,
this eclectic blacklist
included compositions from
Europe's modernism movement,
music written by Jewish
composers, music containing
explicit sexuality, black
jazz, and any piece written in
opposition to Nazi
ideology.
Calling on
a combination of racial
doctrine, Wagnerian
anti-Semitism, and their own
belief of Aryan supremacy, the
Third Reich sought to destroy
every form of music it had
branded with the term
Entartete Musik (degenerate
music) during the period that
led to World War II. Adolf
Hitler and Joseph Goebbels
worked closely to formulate a
plan that would erase this
music from the face of the
earth.
Through
their efforts, a generation of
musical innovation and promise
was not only abruptly
curtailed in Europe, but
excluded from its rightful
status in history. What should
have been the dawning of a
thrilling new phase of musical
evolution, instead fell silent
under the dark shadows of the
swastika.
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<University
of Virginia, USA, Source:
virginia.edu/topnews/releases2001/music-feb-16-2001.html>
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Camp
Orchestra at KL
Auschwitz I. --SS
photograph, 1941.
[Courtesy
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Museum,
Poland]
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Prisoners'
Orchestra during a
Sunday concert for
the SS-men in
Auschwitz
in 1941.
The orchestra was
probably conducted by
the inmate Franciszek
Nierychlo.
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[Photo
credit: Main
Commission for the
Investigation of Nazi
War Crimes, courtesy
of USHMM
<fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/81216.htm>]
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Prisoners'
Orchestra:
Gestapo
men viewing a parade
of prisoners forced
to march while
playing music.
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In
addition to
torture and
dehumanization,
the Nazis
forced camp
inmates to
perform the
most
incongruous
activities.
One such
example was
the camp
orchestra
which was
formed to
delude the
prisoners
into a sense
of false
well-being.
Inmates with
musical
abilities
were forced
to march
around the
camp playing
music, while
being
ridiculed.
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<holocaustmmb.org/The_Arbor_of_History/35.html>
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Amidst
the horrors of Auschwitz,
music was a part of daily
life. There were several
orchestras and bands in the
two camps, made up entirely of
inmates. Marches were played
at the camp gates as the
labour gangs were led out to
work each morning and
musicians were called upon at
all times of the day and night
to perform for the SS and Nazi
officers. For those
incarcerated music was, in
Primo Levi's words, "the
perceptible expression of the
camp's madness". For the
surviving orchestra players,
music was their
salvation.
-- <BBC Source: bbc.co.uk/music/classicaltv/holocaust>
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5.
Holocaust Memorial Foundations, Repositories,
and Museums:
Forever
let this place be a cry of despair and
a warning to humanity, where the Nazis
murdered about one and a half million
men, women and children, mainly Jews
from various countries of Europe.
[Auschwitz
and Birkenau,
1940-1945]
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Auschwitz
-
Birkenau
Exhibition
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- C.A.N.D.L.E.S.
(Children of Auschwitz-Nazi Deadly Lab
Experiments Survivors) Holocaust
Museum
founded by the Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor
Eva Mozes Kor (A-7063) from Transylvania,
Romania
who together with her twin sister Miriam
survived the Auschwitz experiments of the
infamous Dr. Mengele.
- Holocaust
Memorial Center: Illuminating the Past,
Enlightening the Future
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House of the Wannsee
Conference
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On
January 20, 1942, fifteen
high-ranking civil servants and
SS-officers met in this house to
discuss plans of "The Final
Solution" of the Jewish question in
Europe, the decision to deport the
Jews of Europe to the East and
murder them. On the 50th anniversary
of the conference a memorial and
educational center was opened in the
villa in 1992.
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World
War II Museum:
The
Holocaust
- Dallas
Holocaust Memorial
Center
- Gay
Holocaust Memorial
Site
- A
Gallery of Holocaust
Images
- New
England Holocaust Memorial, Boston,
Massachusetts,
USA
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A
collection of over 4,300
videotaped interviews with
witnesses and survivors of
the Holocaust that is
part of
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Sterling
Memorial Library, Yale
University, New Haven,
Connecticut,
USA.
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- Florida
Holocaust
Museum
- United
States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
- House
of the Wannsee
Conference
- Sachsenhausen
Gypsy Museum (for Roma &
Sinti)
- Yad
Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes'
Remembrance
Authority
- The
Mechelen Shoah Museum of Deportation and the
Resistance
- Budapest
Holocaust Memorial
Center
- A
List of Holocaust Museum and
Memorials
- Global
Directory of Holocaust
Museums
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World
leaders at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
Museum
Jerusalem, March 16, 2005.
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6.
Notable Web sites Honoring the Memory of the
Holocaust
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PBS's
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3
women face the Holocaust
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- Sion
Soeters 's Holocaust
website
- The
Holocaust: Lest We
Forget
- The
Website of Volozhin, also known as Valozhyn,
Volozhy'N, Wolozyn, Volozine,
Wolozine
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United
States Holocaust Museum
Memorial:
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- "Wreath
of Memories"
-- Beloit College Students honor the enduring
spirit of children in A Nazi Ghetto
through
dance performing at the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum
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An
overview of the people and
events of the Holocaust
through photographs,
documents, art, music,
movies, and literature
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...
preserving the
past to protect
the
future
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Prisoners
on a death march
from Dachau move
towards the south
along the
Noerdliche
Muenchner Street
in Gruenwald,
Germany, April 29,
1945.
Photo
Credit: KZ
Gedenkstaette
Dachau
<nowpublic.com/nazi_death_marches_horror_story_released_0)
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- Beyond
the Pale: Russian Jews Exhibit
Guide
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"BEYOND
THE PALE" refers to the provinces in
Russia where Jews were forced to
live during the 18th and 19th
centuries,
called "The Pale of
Settlement."
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- Nazism
and the
Holocaust
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US
Holocaust Museum
Memorial
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Hidden
Children and
the Holocaust
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The
Holocaust School's
Webpage
St.
John's Preparatory School, Danvers,
Massachusetts, USA
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T h e
H o l o c a u s t
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- The
Ernest and Elisabeth Cassutto Memorial Page:
Dutch Survivors of the
Holocaust
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7.
Selected Photos, Photo Albums, and Posters
Related to the Holocaust
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Holocaust
Survivors and
Remembrance
Project:
"Forget You Not"™.
Churchill
and the
Holocaust
12 Selected Sets of Holocaust Pictures from
Yad Vashem
