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Tribute to survivors of the
                                      Holocaust
Holocaust Survivors
and Remembrance Project:
"Forget You Not"™
 Holocaust-Shoah
Holocaust Remembrance, Sanctuary, and Beyond
A Tribute to Survivors of the Nazi's Holocaust
preserving the past to protect the future ...




 

Kristallnacht
                                                          --The Night of
                                                          Broken Glass

. Remembering Kristallnacht -- The Night Of Broken Glass
   November 9-10, 1938 --The Beginning of The Holocaust ...   
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Chelmno --first
                                                death camp
. Chelmno --the First Death Camp, operational from late 1941
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Transportation of
                                                  Jews to the
                                                  Auschwith-Birkenau
                                                  Camp
. Westerbork, Holland:
Jews boarding a deportation train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp.


Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau:
Disembarkation of Hungarian Jews in the summer of 1944.

Hungarian Jews at
                                                  arrival in Auschwitz
,
Selected for the
                                                  Gas Chamber
.Selected for the Gas Chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau:
Hungarian women and children waiting in line, upon their arrival,
unaware of their horrific fate awaiting them.

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Women and
                                                  children selected for
                                                  gas chamber
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The Holocaust
Holocaust
                                                    Remembrance and
                                                    Beyond
The Holocaust

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"Forget You Not"™
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Preamble
European Anti-Semitism.
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Holocaust
                                                          Remembrance
                                                          Day
January 27:

Yad Vashem
                                                    Photo Archive
.Yad Vashem Photo Archive

USHMM Project:
                                                    Remember Me?
Remember Me?
<rememberme.ushmm.org>
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Project on the Displaced Children of the Holocaust

Passover in the
                                                    Warsaw Ghetto
.1943 Passover in the Warsaw Ghetto

1945 Passover at
                                                      Buchenwald
.1945 Passover at Buchenwald.
Leading the prayer service is
Rabbi Herschel Schacter (1917-2013).


1943
                                                          Hannukah at
                                                          Westerbork
.1943 Hannukah at the Westerbork transit camp, The Netherlands.
Children crowd around the lighting of Hannukah candles.
The very next day, most of them, were deported to Auschwitz.

[In The Netherlands, more than in any other western European country, 70% of its entire Jewish population perished during the Holocaust years.]



The Prime Minister of Israel
Netanyahu wanted
                                                        for Palestinian
                                                        crimes
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Putin, the Butcher of Russia is Now
Putin is wanted
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Anne Frank




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.Honoring Anne Frank's Diary
and her unabated spirit of hope.

."I simply cannot build my hopes on
a foundation of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
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Benjamin Fondane
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.From Exodus
"Remember only
that I was innocent and,
just like you, mortal on that day,
I, too, had had a face marked by rage, by
pity and joy, quite simply, a human face!
"
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-born French poet,
murdered at Auschwitz in October 1944.

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The Holocaaust

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Holocaust survivorHolocaust survivor

I am my brother's
                                                keeper

... And To Them I will give, within my walls, a Memorial with an Everlasting name "Forget You Not"™ that shall not be cut off..
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Remembering the Holocaust



I Survived
For the dead and
                                                  living, we must bear
                                                  witness.
TOC Holocaust
                                                  Survinors Site
the 20th Century Holocaust
(and nothing is forgotten...)
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I survived the Nazi horrors and bestial oppression, and nothing is forgotten ...
And remember, forgiveness has its limits ...
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The evil face of
                                                          Holocaust

 

Holocaust faces

The Face of Holocaust:
Does human evil have limits?

Children
                                                          barely alive
                                                          at
                                                          Belsen-Bergen
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The evil face of
                                                          Holocaust



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D e u t s c h l a n d

Germany, a Country of Infamy with an Infamous Inhuman Bestial Murderous Nazi Past,
Blinded by the Ultimate Expression of Hate, Intolerance, Racism, and the Aryan Supremacy Doctrine:


Hitler, the face of evil
Forget-You-NotForget-You-Not

 

Auschwitz woman
Holocaust: Children
                                                          at liberation
Holocaust survivors
                                                          at Buchenwald
Women of the Holocaust
Holocaust survivors
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Holocaust: Children at
                                                          liberation
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May God have mercy and forgive Germany's monstrous and murderous deeds during its Third Reich, or nobody will.
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Holocaust
                                                          deportations
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Auschwitz's Main Gate

Holocaust
                                                          arrivals

Holocaust barrack for
                                                          women

Holocaust
                                                          crematoria

Auschwitz-Birkenau
                                                          Memorial
                                                          Plaque
Auschwitz-Birkenau
                                                          German
                                                          Memorial
                                                          Plaque


May God guide the New Germany towards peace, redemption and reconciliation with its horrendous Nazi past.
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Major German Nazi Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau | Bergen-Belsen | Buchenwald | Dachau | Majdanek | Treblinka

"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."
Hans Frank [Governor of occupied Poland], convicted of major Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg.
(October 16, 1946.)


Auschwitz
                                                          woman with
                                                          children
 Oliver Lustig's Text Presentation of the Auschwitz Album 
  Auschwitz, The Notorious Symbol of the Holocaust  
Auschwitz --the
                                                          symbol of the
                                                          Holocaust


   From Hell to Heaven: Bergen-Belsen Death Camp   
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Anti-Semitism in
                                                          Europe



Evil
                                                          triumphs in
                                                          indifference.

Anti-Semitism in
                                                          Europe

Facing the Dark Side of Europe: Its Appalling Anti-Semitism
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Poland's Continued Anti-Semitic Path of the Nazi Holocaust, Propelled by its Blinded Simmering Hate and Purported Nationalism:


Auschwitz
                                                          Memorial
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May God help Poland repent its post-Holocaust horrific Anti-Semitic sins
in being involved in the worst peacetime European Pogrom --
the 1946 Kielce Pogrom.
[All Jewish victims of the Polish pogrom were able to survive Auschwitz and other Holocaust camps, but not the Kielce Pogrom.]
And let not escape us for a minute, the cover of this purported nationalism and unmask the true naked fact:
All Jews that were murdered by the Christian Poles in Poland were, first and foremost, Poles...

Kielce
                                                          burial

The Kielce Pogrom triggered a massive westward migration of hundreds of thousands of Jews who had survived the Holocaust. The movement, known as the Brihah, brought Jews from Poland and other eastern European countries to Displaced Persons Camps (DPCs) located in the western zones of occupied Germany and Austria, and in Italy. [USHMM]

Jewish
                                                          children
                                                          fleeing
                                                          postwar
                                                          Poland

Some 200 Jewish children, fleeing postwar Anti-Semitic violence in Poland, arrive at the Prague railroad station.
<holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/restrictions&roles.html>



If additional proof is needed that Poland, in terms of its hatred
and willing persecution of Jews, was not too far behind of the Nazi's bestial regime,
then take a look at the other massacres and criminal acts committed by Poles in Poland
from Jedwabne to Radzilów and beyond...

Radzilow
                                                          monument

Monument where Jews from Radzilów were burned by Polish neighbors on July 7, 1941 does not say a word about the persons responsible nor the date of the crime.
(Photo: Rafal Guz)

And noting that
Under its worshiped purported God, the simmering deep Anti-Semitic feelings
of the current
Krakow Church of Poland are in full swing for everyone to see...



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He is looking at you...
Jewish boy in the 1930s from Krakow, Poland
murdered for the sole reason that he was a Jew.
[Yad Vashem Database.]
  
Krakow Church of Poland Holds Service Under the Posters Declaring  
."The Kikes Will Not Continue to Spit on Us."
February 2008
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Krakow, Poland.




And also noting of
The Odious Crime committed in today's Poland on the sacred grounds of the Holocaust:

In today's Poland
an Odious Crime of Vandalism
on the sacred grounds of the Holocaust ...
Auschwitz main
                                                          gate

In Poland, a sickening attack on history
at the sacred symbol of the Holocaust
(December 18, 2009)

Update: To the great relief of world's collective conscience, on December 20, 2009, the Polish Police recovered the stolen Auschwitz gate sign that was found cut in three and apprehended five (5) criminals responsible for the vandalism and theft.
.That odious despicable vandalism committed in Poland by Poles is indeed an utterly repugnant symbolic crime against all humanity.

Forgiveness has its limits ...

And of

The March 2010 Vandalization of the Plaszow Camp Holocaust Monument
  Vandals spray "Hitler Good" on the Polish Holocaust Monument  
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The August 31, 2011 Vandalization of the Jedwabne Jewish Monument
  Vandals spray Swastika with "Not sorry for Jedwabne" and "Jews are flamable..."

 

Anti_Semitic march
                                                          in Poland
Anti-semitic
                                                          graffiti on a
                                                          Krakow
                                                          monument.
Anti-Semitic graffiti seen in 2010 on a monument
dedicated to the victims of the Krakow ghetto.

A Growing Culture of Hate Mushrooming in Poland


HATE by Maya Angelou
Anti-semitic
                                                          graffiti from
                                                          Bialystok,
                                                          Poland.
"Gas the Jews" graffiti from Bialystok, Poland.
Anti-semitic
                                                          hate poster in
                                                          Poland
A 2017 sign posted outside a hostel in Dom Polski near Wroclaw, Poland reads:
"Entry forbidden to Jews, Commies, and all thieves and traitors of Poland."

In its totality, may God have mercy and redemption on
Poland's sickening nationalistic poisoned Anti-Semitic soul...

 


"Death to
                                                          the Hooked
                                                          Noses"
                                                          Polish
                                                          Anti-Semitic
                                                          banner.

Anti-Semitic soccer fans in today's 2010 Rzeszów, Poland:
"Death to the Hooked Noses"

posted under a large banner depicting a caricatured Jewish man
with a large hooked nose wearing a striped yarmulke in the blue-and-white colors.

.It is perhaps significant to note here that out of 15,000 Jews that lived in Rzeszów only a minute fraction of them (about 700) were able to survive the German Nazi concentration camps set in Poland.Holocaust remembrance
.In the Rzeszów Ghetto, that later transformed into a concentration camp, Jews were methodically starved and executed.



Polish
                                                          President
                                                          Duda
President Duda
ADDENDUM: To the Polish President Andrzej Duda's 2018 Holocaust Bill, now (February 6, 2018) signed into Law
Evidence on Poland's continued anti-Semitic path of the Nazis Holocaust is overwhelming and beyond dispute.
And speaking of a Holocaust Law, let us not forget for a minute that Poland is the only country in Europe that has not passed
legislation to compensate owners for properties seized under Nazi rule during the Holocaust years.
Time is long overdue to correct that injustice and make the necessary amends.
Poland's Holocaust Law needs to be directed to combat its Anti-Semitic past and present, and not to cover it.

By denying, and not confronting, its murderous anti-Semitic past and
its present nationalistic Anti-Semitism, Poland is denying in fact its history and its current reality.
In the end, what is at stake, is Poland's common human decency for the dead and for the living...
  
As such, Poland must face its Anti-Semitic past and present, and move forward to a more harmonious tomorrow...  


."Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you.
Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you.
Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth."

Yiddish poet and Polish Holocaust survivor Edward Yashinsky

An Appeal from the Christian Polish Righteous who saved Jews from the Holocaust:
"We ask you not to rewrite history."
Vandalization
                                                          of the
                                                          Jedwabne
                                                          Jewish
                                                          Monument
Jedwabne Monument
                                                          Desecrated
The August 31, 2011 Vandalization of
the Jedwabne Jewish Monument:
An inscription with a Nazi swastika that reads "They Were Flammable" is seen posted where the Jews of Jedwabne were burned to death by their Polish neighbors in the summer of 1941.
Yellow Star -Jude
Jedwabne
                                                          Sign
Yellow Star -Jude
Poland which buried its hard-won democracy on July 4, 2018 with the purging of its Supreme Court,
has first outlawed and criminalized those who dare of blaming Poles for their atrocities during the Holocaust years.
Then, on June 27, 2018, under massive international disgust and protest, Poland amended its Holocaust law with a decriminalization clause that in "essence" remained the same revolting law as noted by Yad Vashem.

Respectfully, what about the Jedwabne massacre?
Where is
Poland's conscience in this and other barbaric anti-Semitic acts committed by Poles during the Holocaust?
The current Polish Government effort to whitewash the crimes of Poles who collaborated and abetted with Nazis is an egregious assault on "the historical memory of the Holocaust" as noted by Yad Vashem.
"Our Jewish neighbors were murdered in a bestial way"
"Today Poland firmly denounces Anti-Semitism."
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka (2004)


Vandalization of
                                                          the Plaszow
                                                          Camp Holocaust
                                                          monument
 March 2010:
Plaszow Camp Holocaust Monument in Poland Vandalized 
 Vandals spray
'Hitler Good' on the Polish Holocaust Monument.
In 2012:
A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie, Poland
found desecrated with Anti-Semitic graffiti.

"Get history right. Respect the living. Honor the dead."
Art Abramson, Executive Director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, USA.

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Hungary:
A Country with Deep Historic Roots of Anti-Semitism
(Unlike Poland, which was under German Rule, Hungary was a willing participant and ally of Nazi Germany.)

In 2015, according to Medián, one of Hungary's top polling firms,
Half of Budapest's residents are estimated to be Anti-Semites.
The only remaining question has been in figuring out which half...

Horthy (the Hungarian head of State, 1920-1944) with Hitler in !938.
Horthy
                                                          with Hitler in
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An example of a defaced Holocaust monument in Hungary,
with graffiti from 2013.

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Britain's Darkest Hour in Modern Era Continues Unabated:
Its Current Staggering Large-Scale Rampant Anti-Semitism Looms Larger and Larger at Facing the Darkest Abyss
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In 2017 the number of Anti-Semitic attacks have reached a new record level in the United Kingdom.
A staggering 1,382 Anti-Semitic acts were recoded nationwide in 2017 with a 34% rise in violent assaults against Jewish people according to the CST watchdog and reported by The Guardian. What is even more staggering is that now, the Jewish community makes up only 0.5% of the entire UK's population!

In 2018, Anti-Semitic incidents in UK reached a new record high for the third year in a row. According to The Guardian, 1,652 Anti-Semitic incidents were reported which represent a 16% increase over 2017 as logged by the CST watchdog which has monitored the Anti-Semitism in UK for some 35 years and has been providing security to the UK Jewish community.
(Three-quarters of the total number of incidents were recorded in Greater London and Greater Manchester, home of the two largest Jewish communities in UK.)

May God save Great Britain from being swept into the vortex of an unfathomable Black Hole of the Abyss...

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Odious Diabolic Anti-Semitic Vandalism in UK at Jewish cemeteries in Manchester.
Diabolic Vandalism in
                                                          Manchester,
                                                          UK.
Forgiveness has its limits ...

Vandalism at the
                                                          Charlestown
                                                          Jewish
                                                          Cemetery,
                                                          Manchester,
                                                          UK.
.Smashed gravestones at the Charlestown Jewish Cemetery, Manchester, in May 2016
as reported by The Guardian.


Vandalized Jewish
                                                          Cemetery in
                                                          Blackley,
                                                          Manchester,
                                                          UK.
.Vandalized headstone at a Jewish Cemetery in Blackley, Manchester, during 2016.
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Anti-Semitic
                                                          vandalism in
                                                          Aldershot,
                                                          Hampshire,
                                                          UK.

.Anti-Semitic vandalism in full swing at a Jewish Cemetery in Aldershot, Hampshire.
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Solidarity with the "Enough is Enough" movement on the appalling Anti-Semitism in UK.
(Pictures from Parliament Square, London:
#1, #2, #3, #4, #4'-MACRO, #5-Zero_Tolerance)

 

 
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Romania:
Blinded by Its Lack of Conscience and Selected Memory Lapses

Iasi Pogrom,
                                                          Romania

May God help the Government of Romania to recognize that the October 8, 2009 Plaque
posted in its Holocaust Monument is an afront to all Holocaust victims of Romania and,
that it must be modified to acknowledge both the
victims and the regime responsible for it.

. Coupled With Its Lingering Anti-Semitism:
    Nearly 1 in 4 Romanians Want Their Country Be Free Of Jews

A 2015 survey, among 1,000 Romanian adults published by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Holocaust Studies in Romania (EW-INSHR), showed that nearly a quarter of them wanted their country to be free of Jewish residents.

Romania had a Jewish population in excess of 750,000 before its pro-Nazi regime led by Ion Antonescu who had collaborated in the murder of about half of them during the Holocaust years. Antonescu, called by many respondents "a patriot," also massacred, with his troops, some 120,000 Jews in the present-day Ukraine.

Majority of Romanians who survived the Holocaust left for Israel and now, Romania has only a few thousand Jews.


And in August 3, 2018 with the surface of
A Cynical and Appalling Attack on the Holocaust and its Victims:
Targeting Elie Wiesel's Childhood Home in Romania,
with Grotesque Anti-Semitic Graffiti.
Elie
                                                          Wiesel's
                                                          Childhood Home
                                                          Target of
                                                          Anti-Semitic
                                                          Graffiti

The Romanian text reads (in center): "Nazi Jew lying in Hell with Hitler,"
and (at left) "Public toilet, Anti-Semite pedophile."
[Also (at right), the last names of the leaders of Germany (Merkel), US (Trump) and Russia (Putin) are posted.]
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Holocaust-Era Mass Grave of Murdered Jews Found in Romania
~November 2010~

   

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Russia:
Seeds of a New Anti-Semitism on Display

At Victory Day Parade
                                                          in Moscow, May
                                                          9, 2002.
At the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2002.

Nazi salute
                                                          parade,
                                                          Moscow, Nov.
                                                          4, 2113
.Far-Right Nationalist demonstrators carry their flag with a Nazi-salute
during a march to mark Russia's National Unity Day in Moscow on Nov. 4, 2013.
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Ukraine:
The Anti-Semitism is Alive and Well Preserved Here ...

Anti-Semitic marking in
                                                          Ukraine

 

Anti-Semitic marking in
                                                          Ukraine
Anti-Semitic posting
                                                          Brodsky
                                                          synagogue,
                                                          Kiev
On the gates (above) and on the outer border (below)
of the massive Brodsky Synagogue in Kiev (Kyiv), these
markings read:
"K*kes out. Ukraine is for Ukrainians."
Anti-Semitic posting
                                                          Brodsky
                                                          synagogue,
                                                          Kiev
Anti-Semitic marking
                                                          in Ukraine
The SS Wolfsangel symbol is visible at left.
This symbol was widely used in Nazi Germany
and became quite popular with Ukrainians.

 

Anti-Semitic posting
                                                          Brodsky
                                                          synagogue,
                                                          Kiev
Anti-Semitic marking in
                                                          Odessa.
"First Toast to the Holocaust"
This appalling greeting was posted in a number places in
Odessa.
This is a city in Ukraine where the Holocaust placed a heavy toll
and it is being associated with the notorious
1941 Odessa Massacre.
On top of the above marking is the popular
SS Wolfsangel symbol.

 

Astonishingly, Ukraine, from all countries, has observed in April 2018,
Hitler's Birthday with these Anti-Semitic Markings:



In Poltava of eastern Ukraine,
on the "Grieving Mother" Monument,
"Heil Hitler" and the swastika were posted where
the 8,000 of the city's Jews murdered by the Nazi in 1941 were being remembered.

and,
not far away, also in Poltava, we have

On a mass grave of Holocaust victims,
"Death to Jews" that has been posted,
some 77 years after their extermination...

Last, but not least, we mention again Odessa
where on a large beachfront wall, this Anti-Semitic graffiti was posted:

Odess
                                                          Anti-semitic
                                                          wall
"A world without Jews.
Kill the Kike."

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Annti-Semitic posting at
                                                          Beit-Grand
                                                          Jewish
                                                          Cultural
                                                          Center
AT Christmas Eve 2017
TO Beit-Grand Jewish Cultural Center,
this message of Anti-Semitic love was posted:

"Aunt Sonya won't help --the boss is Ukrainian here."
(adorned on top with the customary SS Wolfsangel symbol)

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                                                          Babi Yar
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Forgiveness has its limits ...

Defaced stone painted with a swastika at Babi Yar monument in Kiev (Kyiv) seen in September 2014.
(In September 1941, some 34,000 Jews were gunned down by Nazis and local Ukrainian police and collaborators in a Kiev ravine.)

Babi-Yar massacre
Holocaust remembranceHolocaust remembrance
The Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine is one of the largest massacre of the Holocaust.
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 A Country with Renewed Anti-Semitic Implants: 

In a place of learning and education for youngsters, at a school near Brussels (at Braine-Le-Comte), on its walls,
these abominable Anti-Semitic graffiti were seen in March 2016:


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Italy:
A Fertile Terrain for the New Anti-Semitism to Thrive and Grow


A research study released by the Italian Parliament on October 17, 2011
reveals that forty-four percent (44%) of Italians
are prejudiced or hostile to Jews.

The report titled "Final Document: Investigation on Anti-Semitism" was commisioned by the Committee for the Inquiry into Anti-Semitism of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. The 50-page document is the culmination of more than two (2) years of research and parliamentary hearings.

According to the report, there has been an exponential proliferation of Anti-Semitic Internet websites and social networks in Italy.

The Italian MP, Fiamma Nirenstein, who chaired this study noted,

"We have been attempting to understand the new aspect of this phenomenon, which is as aggressive and genocidal as it always was, but it is presently hiding itself by assuming new forms."


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Stop Hate!
The Shame of France: Infested with Lethal Anti-Semitic Hate
In 2018, as the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe put it,
the Anti-Semitism in France is a phenomenon
"that remains, that transforms, that reappears, and that mutates."
On February 11, 2019, the Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, noted that
today, in France, the "Anti-Semitism is spreading like a poison,"
as episodes of Anti-Semitism have risen sharply, jumping by 74% in 2018 over the 2017.
2020: A New Wave Of Anti-Semitic Vandalism in France.
Anti-Semitic
                                                          sign in
                                                          France
A 2018 graffiti that reads "Jews Out" with a swastika painted
at the entrance of a Jewish Cemetery In Herrlisheim, France.
 According to CRIF, recently in 2018 numerous serious Jew-hatred incidens have been occurring in the Paris region: 
The scrawling of swastikas and arson in Creteil, the slashing of a young girl's face in Sarcelles,
the anonymous letter with threats against the synagogue in Saint-Maur that reads in part:
"After Creteil, it is you, you bastards, who are going to burn in this neighborhood."
referenced to the torching earlier in the month of two kosher shops
in Creteil (which is a Paris suburb adjacent to Saint-Maur),
are samples of the toxic Anti-Semitic climate in France.
Ilan Halimi
                                                          Memorial
                                                          Garden Plaque
Ilan Halimi, 23, tortured and murdered in Paris
for the sole reason that he was a Jew ...


Miireille Knoll


On March 23, 2018, Mireille Knoll, 85, Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust
murdered in her home in Paris, being stabbed 11 times...


Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron Vows to Tackle the "Shame of France"

On March 7, 2018, in a speech before one of the country's largest Jewish advocacy groups, known by its French initials CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France), President Macron noted:

"We collectively and wrongly believed that Anti-Semitism had definitely gone away in our country" adding
"Anti-Semitism is the opposite of the Republic, it is the
shame of France, and we fight every day for a Republic of honor and fraternity."
CRIF of France


In 2019 the "Shame of France" is very much alive and well entrenched...


President Macron visiting in February 2019 a vandalized Jewish cemetery in today's France.


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Also we may want to note this appalling and shameful
Anti-Semitic Odious Act on the 65th Holocaust Memorial Day


France's Brice Hortefeux (then the Interior Minister),
walks next to a desecrated tombstone with a Nazi swastika
and the slogan "Jews Out" in the Jewish Cemetery of
Cronenbourg (near Strasbourg), France in 2010.

Francis
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Forgiveness has its limits ...


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With much pain and distress, we could eventually forgive (within the evolving limits of tolerability), but never ever forget ...

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PROLOGUE
."We Have All Become Orphans" -- Elie Wiesel

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To Holocaust Survivors
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To Holocaust Survivors

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This statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller, has become a legendary expression of the Holocaust. Ironically, Niemöller had delivered Anti-Semitic sermons early in the Nazi regime. He later opposed Hitler and was sent to Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. Near the end of the war, he narrowly escaped execution.

Niemoeller

 

Martin Niemöller
Bavaria-Verlag
After the war, Niemöller emerged from prison to preach the words that began this post, that all of us know... He was instrumental in producing the "Stuttgart Confession of Guilt", in which the German Protestant churches formally accepted guilt for their complicity in allowing the suffering which Hitler's reign caused to occur. In 1961, he was elected as one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches, the ecumenical body of the Protestant faiths.

Niemöller emerged also as an adamant pacifist and advocate of reconciliation. He actively sought out contacts in Eastern Europe, and traveled to Moscow in 1952 and North Vietnam in 1967. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967, and the West German Grand Cross of Merit in 1971. Martin Niemöller died in Wiesbaden, West Germany on March 6, 1984, at the age of 92. [EB]

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Entering the Sacred Grounds of the Holocaust...
(with a solemn and reflective state of mind)

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The Holocaust:
                                                    A tragic legacy
. INTRODUCTION
.The Holocaust's Tragic Legacy:
The Ultimate Expression of Man's Inhumanity to Man

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Holocaust defined
                                                  -

- What was the
                                                    Nazi Holocaust? -

-Holocaust
                                                  definition


Hitler

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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate,  
but paved with indifference.  

Sir Ian Kershaw  

Nazi Hell

World War II (WWII), initiated by Hitler's Nazi Germany in 1939, killed some 67 million people (according to the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute) out of which some 27 million were Soviet citizens with some 16 million of them civilians.
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Preamble to the Holocaust

 

Nazi Anti-Jewish
                                                          Campaign

Nazi
                                                          Anti-Jewish
                                                          Campaign


Nazi's Holocaust emerged from a Persecutory Campaign initiated by Hitler's Nazi Germany against the ethnically undesirable people with the primary focus on the Jews. That persecutory campaign, during the war years, evolved and transformed into a distinctive genocidal component of WWII whose objective was the total annihilation of Hitler's perceived "undesirables" that were targeted for what they were rather than for what they did or believed in. The so-called "world Jewry," in Nazis' parlance, became Nazis' primary fixation towards total eradication.
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Male Jewish
                                                          victim  

The emerging
                                                          Holocaust
[
Lódz Ghetto]

  Female Jewish
                                                          victim

Children of the
                                                          Holocaust

 

In the prewar years (1933-1939), the unfolding Jewish Persecutory Program (that was to become the starting point of the emerging Holocaust) began markedly noticeable to the outside world after Adolph Hitler became the German Chancellor (in January 1933) with the systematic and planned persecution of Jews and their businesses (through the passing of various Anti-Jewish Laws and with the implementation of the so-called Aryanization/Arisierung program), and which evolved with their deprivation of liberty (by round up, forced evacuation and eventual deportation).

 

Kristallnacht

The poster on the shop window reads:
"Germans beware! Don't buy from Jews.
"
Kristallnacht


One of the most noticeable and dramatic action taken against the Jewish citizens of Germany and Austria during that time (that for many observers was also the first hint of what was yet to come) was the nationwide
pogrom in the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938 known as the Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass" pogrom.


Kristallnacht

A Jewish shop in Berlin on Nov.10, 1938.
Kristallnacht,
                                                          1938.

(German Federal Archive.)

That tumultuous period of massive hostility towards Jews was the prelude of what would come (to be known as the Holocaust) and,
it can be said to be characterized by oppressive, non-genocidal suffering and by sporadic, non-genocidal murders.

Women in the
                                                          Lvov/Lemberg
                                                          Ghetto 1942
.Women in the Lvov/Lemberg Ghetto, Poland 1942
(From HolocaustResearchProject.org)

From Warsaw Ghetto.

Jews line up in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(From Archives of American Jewish Joint Distribution Center.)

The Jewish Holocaust -- The Shoah

Polish boy with
                                                  the hands up

During the War years (1939-1945) that had followed, the Jewish Persecutory Program developed and transformed into a genocidal Persecutory and Victimization Program --the Holocaust, with a machinery set in place primarily for the complete destruction of the entire European Jewry.

Mass murders --the
                                                          Holocaust

  

Now, during that period of time,
  
.a) the non-genocidal suffering has reached a new level of intensity --a peak in human suffering that could be called the genocidal (or mass suffocating) suffering and,
  
.b) the non-genocidal murders have been transformed into a genocidal (or mass-murder) machinery.
..In 1942, following the notorious Wannsee Conference, the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution" to the Jewish Problem began, full speed, in Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps. As trainloads of Jews arrived from all over Europe, many were gassed to death in specially designed chambers (disguised as shower facilities), or shot by firing squads. The rest were forced to work under the most terrible conditions, which ultimately led to death by starvation or execution.

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During those genocidal years, in Nazi-occupied Europe of some nine (9) million Jews (as derived from the population census of the Wannsee Protocol)***, some six (6) million of them were murdered with the rest being deprived of liberty, human dignity and forced evacuation from their homes and businesses.


Auschwitz-Holocaust


By 1945, in Nazi-occupied Europe, 2/3 of its Jewish population
--men, women and children-- were murdered
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To death camps

Jews deported to death camps
That is, by 1945, two out of every three Jews had been murdered...

Jude,
                                                          Holocaust


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NOTE: The Wannsee Conference census estimating the existence of eleven (11) million European Jews included all of the neutral countries (Spain, Portugal, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey --the European part, and Switzerland) and, as well, the unoccupied territories of France and Soviet Union. The combined Jewish population of those parts of Europe was estimated to be at some two (2) million and thus, it needs to be subtracted from the total Wannsee figure.


The Holocaust ended with the end of WWII when Hitler's Nazi Germany was defeated by the three major campaigns of the Allies in their finest and most costly triumphs of modern History.
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At Yalta in
                                                          1945
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
at Yalta Conference in February 1945.

(Primary credit goes to the Great Britain --under the incomparable Winston Churchill,
the
Soviet Union --under the ruthless and larger than life dictator Joseph Stalin, and
the
United States --under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only U.S. President to be reelected three times).

Survivors at
                                                          the end of the
                                                          Holocaust
Survivors at the
                                                          end of the
                                                          Holocaust
Survivors of the Holocaust at the liberation.
(Click on photos to )

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The Romanies ("Gypsies") Holocaust -- The Porajmos ("Devouring or Destruction")
 

Rounding up of
                                                  the Romanies
                                                  (Gypsies)

Rounding up the Romanies ("Gypsies") women and children.

Romani/Gypsy
                                                  Holocaust

Asides from the Nazis' primary fixation --that of total eradication of the Jews, another ethnically undesirable people set by the Nazi machine for total annihilation were the European Romanies (Roma/Sinti) better known by their derogatory name as "Gypsies." It is estimated that some one-half million of them were murdered during the same genocidal period representing some 50% of their total European population.

By 1945, one out of every two European Romanies ("Gypsies") had been murdered...

Apart from their primary targets --the Jews and the Romanies ("Gypsies"), Hitler's Nazi regime had also envisioned the elimination of all Poles and eventually all Slavs (under the so-called General Plan Ost that called for the removal of native populations from the Eastern Europe and resettlement with Germans) if the Nazi's Third Reich would have lasted, as envisioned, 1000 years. However, that never materialized as the Third Reich lasted only 12 horrendous years (1933-1945).

Gypsy child,
                                                  Holocaust

 



P O L A N D


Poland's Extreme Victimization Outside the Boundaries of the Holocaust ...
During the War years (1939-1945) that constituted also the Holocaust murderous years, some three (3) million non-Jewish Poles were also murdered, but they were murdered not because of their ethnicity, religion or creed, but rather because they were viewed as subversive, threatening, or particularly dangerous to the Nazi regime.

Nazi execution
                                                          of Poles
.Polish Victims of the War, but Not of the Holocaust:

.The SS German execution in April 1941 of Polish hostages in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi Police Station by the underground organization "White Eagle."

<historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-tasks.htm>
(Examples of such Poles that were murdered by the Nazis were the elite of the Polish people, their political, civic, and spiritual leaders, members of the intelligentsia, cultural and scientific figures, as well as members of the resistance movement, officers, and so on.) Thus, in this respect, that Polish victimization campaign was a campaign of the War and not of the Holocaust and, as such, those Polish victims need be considered as casualties of the War and not of the Holocaust.
.(And speaking of the Polish casualties of War, it needs to be noted that Poland --unlike any other European country-- was battling for its survival not only from Hitler's Nazi Germany on the West, but also on the East from Stalin's Soviet Union. The Soviet invasion of Poland took place on September 17, 1939 through the secured non-aggression pact with Germany, called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed on August 23, 1939 by foreign ministers Molotov and von Ribbentrop, on behalf of the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany, respectively.


German and Soviet officers shaking hands following the invasion.


Polish prisoners of war captured by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion.

Poland thus, during the War years, was savaged by two formidable foes from two opposite fronts: one from the West by the Nazi Germans and, the other one from the East by the Soviet Russians. See, in this respect, the Yad Vashem's
entry on the 1940 Katyn [Forest] Massacre by the Soviets. And speaking of that 1940 Massacre, only on November 26, 2010 --after so many decades of denial-- the Russian Parliament finally acknowledged that the Katyn Massacre was indeed ordered and orchestrated by the Soviet Russian dictator Joseph Stalin.)

Katyn Forest 1940
                                              Massacre

 

Of course, as already noted, all that Polish victimization resulted from the two campaigns of the War has had nothing to do with the Nazi Holocaust (written always with capital letter to be distinguished from any other genocidal event or holocaust parlance).
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HolocaustHolocaust

The Holocaust's Center Stage: Solving the Jewish Problem

Shoah

The Holocaust should never ever be confused with the totality of killings of World War II that was a part of, nor be blurred with other atrocities and brutalities of the War. The Holocaust was a distinct, massive, persevering, persecutory and victimization genocidal event of World War II, prosecuted by the Nazi Germany, that was based primarily on race and ethnicity with the sole purpose and goal of "purifying" the European races from the perceived "undesirables," and as such, it needs to be separated from all other killings and brutalities associated with the War.

From immemorial times, each society had their own "undesirables" (most notable, the hard-core criminals, and those holding a particular creed, belief, or political view deemed to pose a threat to the society) and, that component clearly existed within the Nazi Germany. But those particular types of victims of the Nazi Germany (such as the Communists, religious and political opponents, or Jehovah's Witnesses) should never ever be associated nor incorporated with the true victims and survivors of the Holocaust. That is because those groups of people became victims of the Nazi Germany not because of who they were, but because of what they did or believed in. It is therefore important to note that not all victims of the Nazi Germany were victims of the Holocust and, that the Nazi victimization program extended well outside the boundaries of the Holocaust.

1935 Nazi Germany: Jews Are
                                      Not Wanted Here
.1935 Nazi Germany: Jews Are Not Wanted Here.

Nazi Germany arresting
                                        Jews
.1938 Nazi Germany:
Jews arrested in Baden-Baden, November 10, 1938.

Anti-Jewish banner
                                                      in the Nazi
                                                      Germany of 1938.
Anti-Jewish
                                                      banner in the Naxi
                                                      Germany of 1938.
.An anti-Jewish banner that reads "The Jews are our misfortune"
hangs over a busy, commercial street in Treptow, Germany 1938.
[Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, Strürmer Archiv, E39, Nr. 2261/4]

The cleansing of Europe from racially and ethnically "inferior or degenerate breeds" was an essential ingredient in the formulation of a new Europe as envisioned by the Nazi regime. In the so-called "Final Solution" to the Jewish Problem, the rapid extermination of all European Jewry was at the core and center stage of the entire Nazi mass murder process. After all it was argued, this unprecedented "solution" was needed --as a public health campaign-- for the betterment of the world in the pursuit of creating a new "pure" (aka Aryan) "super" race.

What is the
                                                    Holocaust?

The Holocaust of the Disabled




Disabled
                                                    victims

Consistent with the creation of a "pure" superior race, the Nazi regime had targeted in addition those with various incurable mental and physical disabilities murdering some 300,000 patients in various hospitals and asylums under the so-called T-4 Euthanasia program. That race "purification" program must also be included as part of the Holocaust.

T4 victim


The Holocaust of the Homosexuals


In the name of perceived race "purification," the homosexuals were also targeted for complete annihilation and thus, they need to be included into what we call the Holocaust. (It is important to stress in here, for that complex category of Holocaust victims, that even if the Genetic Biology ultimately will determine that the homosexuality is not derived from a genetic condition but rather from a lifestyle condition, the Nazis --for sure-- considered them as "carrying" hereditary genes of homosexuality that needed to be rooted out. Indeed, in their campaign against the homosexuals, Nazis relentlessly pursued not only their current homosexuals, but also their family hereditary traits. That Nazi pursuit was directed primarily towards the male homosexuals as the female homosexuals were, by in large, ignored and tolerated. That duality in the Nazi policy between the male and female homosexuality has had its primary roots in the Christian religion where the sodomy has always been regarded as an absolute sin.)

Gay victim


Summary of The Holocaust Line ...

To recapitulate, the Jewish Holocaust (known also as the Shoah), the Romani (Roma/Sinti) or the "Gypsy" Holocaust (known also as the Porajmos), the Psychiatric/Eugenic Holocaust (known also as the so-called T4 Holocaust of the disabled), and the Gay Holocaust, were the only components of what is known as the Nazi Holocaust.
Any other victims during the Holocaust years need to be considered as being part of the casualties of war and not of Holocaust. This explicit distinction and demarcation is, as already noted, essential in the precise, unambiguous definition and formulation of the Nazi Holocaust.
In a nutshell thus, the Holocaust (that developed from its prewar Nazi Persecutory Campaign of the "undesirables") was a machinery set in place by the Nazi regime of cleansing the European races from all the perceived "inferior and degenerate breeds" that the Jews, the Romanies/Gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, and the Homosexuals were considered to be. That was the "line" of the Holocaust that was a clear and unmistakable "line" that needs not be confused or blurred with any other murderous "line" of World War II.
Another way of looking at the Holocaust "line" is how the Texas University Professor, Dr. Ian Hancock sees it, as a genetic "purification" line designed to eradicate the perceived genetic "contaminants" from the European gene pool in pursuit of creating a "pure" superior "master race."


At Birkenau
Jewish women and children at Birkenau marching towards the gas chambers.
[Yad Vashem -- The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.]
+ ENLARGE THIS IMAGE

Epilogue

Germans
                                                    embracing Hitler

Hitler and
                                                    Church
Church of Germany transformed into the Nazi Church.
Hitler's mass
                                                      support. 
Hitler's overwhelming mass enthusiasm.

As a historic event, the Nazi Holocaust is of enormous complexity:

  • How could such an event ever take place, in the first place?
  • How such an absolute breakdown in humanity, moral judgments, and faith in God could have taken place in one of the most cultured country of Europe?
  • How could a most cultured nation in the center of Europe be responsible for such mass atrocities that are defying human comprehension?
  • How could the Church of Germany with all its various denominations close its eyes to humanity and surrender its morality, its soul, and its teachings to the Nazi ideology?
  • How could the average mass German population embraced and supported with such zeal Hitler, the Nazis, Nazism, and the Third Reich?
  • How and Why was democracy lost in Germany in 1933?
Nazi euphoria

Nazi Euphoria in Full Swing ...

How a mighty country such as The United States of America that was founded through its July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence that begins with this fundamental proposition,

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
  that all men are created equal,
  that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
  that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"


Statue of Liberty
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could have closed its eyes on the Holocaust for so long, is a perplexing question for the ages, as the deprivation of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" were at the core and center stage of the entire machinery of the Holocaust. Arguably, the simple answer to this is that no national security interest was involved and thus, no compelling interest existed to intervene. That may be so, if only we could divorce ourselves from the conscience of humanity...

Killing of Jews by
                                                          civilians in
                                                          Kovno

Murdering of Jews in Kovno by Lithuanian nationalists under the eyes of the SS in June 1941. When the SS mobile killing units reached Kovno in the first few days of the war against the Soviet Union, they persuaded the anti-communist partisan leader Klimatis to turn his forces against the Jews, to demonstrate that "the liberated population had resorted to the most severe measures against the ... Jewish enemy."

SS Photo - <friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/55-1.html>

   

How the great majority of ordinary European people stood by --at best-- in apathy during the Nazi's racial and ethnical cleansing, and --at worst-- taking an active role in it, is a most profound and troublesome question that cannot escape our attention when looking at the present or at the future. The humanity should never ever be allowed to be buried by evil forces and blind ambitions.

Next time --if not on guard-- another mass group or groups of people could be targeted for their complete annihilation. As the late Simon Wiesenthal so eloquently put it, "It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews."

Let this be the great lesson of the Nazi Holocaust that humanity, at all cost, must always be present, preserved, and remain within us. Hate and blind ambitions should never ever be allowed to overcome and poison our judgments and deeds.

Never Again

Never again the humanity should be absent from a society's deeds and moral judgments. The Creator endowed us with a most precious commodity --the humanity, vested in compassion and tolerance towards others, and this is --in fact-- what separates us, humans, from the rest, in the vast Kingdom of the Living.


Anne Frank

The massive human, spiritual, and intellectual destruction that the Nazi Holocaust has brought is beyond quantification. The human talent lost during the Holocaust is impossible to be quantified as we can only ponder how many of the caliber of Jonas Salk were lost and thus, how many cures of various deadly diseases could have been found long time ago. To this if we add the potential loses in other sciences and the arts, the total loss could be staggering and arguably irreplaceable. And this is indeed a sobering reflection that cannot escape our thoughts.

Petr Ginz

NOTE 1:  

  

An extraordinary set of pictures from the Auschwitz Album with text commentary by Oliver Lustig of Bucharest, Romania, who is a Birkenau-Auschwitz and Dachau Holocaust survivor, has been posted with corresponding Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Russian translations from the original Romanian text received.

  

NOTE 2:  

In January 2007, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a mysterious anonymous donation (from a retired US military man) of a photograph album with the inscription "Auschwitz 21.6.1944" containing 116 photographs of SS guardians from Auschwitz. This stunning new photo album, (believed to have been created and belonged to Karl Höcker, the adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz) provides a rare insider's view of Auschwitz camp staff enjoying leisure time at a facility adjacent to the notorious death camp where thousands were been murdered every day. (See also this New York Times article and the USHMM presentation.)

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Nazi HellNazi Hell

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Remember the Holocaust

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.SCOPE, PURPOSE, AND MISSION OF THE SITE
Holocaust
                                      March
The "Forget You Not"™ Project:
not forgetting the past to protect the future ...




Auschwitz Memorial Museum, Poland

Auschwitz Memorial
                                              Plaque
George Santayana (1863-1952), American Atheist Philosopher,
Harvard University Ph.D and Professor therein.
Jewish boy at
                                              liberation in Buchenwald
A little Jewish boy, age 4, Joseph Schleifstein, sits on a United Nations
Refugee Relief Agency truck in the KZ camp Buchenwald, May, 1945.
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Prisoners at
                                                liberation of
                                                Bergen-Belsen Camp
.Prisoners at liberation of Bergen-Belsen Camp
National Army Museum, London, UK
<national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/shortVisits/iconic/page19.shtml>
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Pile of corpses
                                                from the Holocaust

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.Holocaust SurvivorThe Age of the Survivors is drawing to a close. 
Before long no one will be left to say, "I was there, I saw, I remember what happened." 
All that will be left, will be books of literature and research, pictures and films, and multitudinous testimony.
 

Zvi Gill -- Holocaust survivor, author, and journalist. 

 

Jews displaced to Kovno Ghetto
.Jewish families being moved into the Kovno ghetto.
Photo Credit: George Kadish. Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, Israel.
<shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kovno/kovno.html>

Nazi fun during the Holocaust
                                  years in Poland
.Nazis having some fun
at the expense of a tormented Jew in 1942 Rzeszów, Poland.

Rounding up of Jews in Amsterdam,
                                  The Netherlands
.Following anti-Nazi violence,
Jews are being rounded up in the Jewish quarter
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 22, 1941.
(Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie)

Prior to WW II, there were approximately 140,000 Jews living in The Netherlands, but by war's end, over 100,000 Dutch Jews had been murdered ... most by the Nazis ... but some by Dutch collaborators. Seventy five percent (75%) of Dutch Jews perished during the Holocaust, the highest percentage in any country in Nazi-occupied Europe, except for Poland.

<jewishwebindex.com/holland.htm>
70% of the Jews in The Netherlands perished in the Holocaust.
This 70% figure represents the highest loss in any country
occupied by the Germans in western Europe.
The deportation of Dutch Jewry was a
"pitch-black" chapter in Dutch history.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, at Yad Vashem, March 2005.

 1942 deportations from The
                                  Netherlands
Anxious faces peer through a train window as they await deportation
from Westerbork, Holland (1942).
Photo Credit: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
<holocaustchronicle.org/StaticPages/293.html>
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Jewish starJewish star
"Go, my children, save your lives, but remember always to remain Jews
and tell the world what the German murderers did to us."
.Reb Emmanuel Grossman


 

Liberating US Army at
                                              Dachau


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The Liberating US Army at Dachau
[United States Photo Archives]
 


Holocaust
                                                          Remembrance
                                                          and Beyond
Holocaust
                                                          remembrance
Holocaust
                                                          children
Holocaust
                                                          children
Holocaust killing
Pile of corpses
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"Forget You Not"
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"Those of you who may survive, bear witness, let the world know what has happened here."
Aleksander Aronowich Pechersky
leader of the Sobibor revolt, seconds before the outbreak
<sobibor.info>

 
Emaciated
                                                  prisoners from the
                                                  Mauthausen
                                                  Concentration Camp
..Emaciated prisoners, survivors of
the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Photo Credit: By Kurt Zalud -- Associated Press

Fate has placed upon the survivors of the Holocaust an unprecedented painful burden --that of revealing to the world the excruciating and most humiliating experiences of their lives.

It is our goal to present herein --through our "Forget You Not" Project-- a balanced and considerate view of the Holocaust, of the unspeakable monstrosity, brutality, cruelty, and evil displayed, of the total breakdown and collapse of humanity and faith in God, as well as, to reveal some faces and voices of those that were able to overcome the ghettos and the concentration camps of that incredible dark period in human history.

The spirit of survival and defiance of many ordinary people was poignant beyond words transforming them, by their circumstances, from ordinary into extraordinary human beings.
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Jews captured
                                                during the Warsaw Ghetto
                                                Uprising.
An SS sergeant interrogating Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
United States National Archives
Buchenwald
                                                prisoners with Elie
                                                Wiesel
Buchenwald at Liberation, April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel is in 2nd row, last from left.



"Forget You
                                                Not" Project
A word from the Editor
on the "
Forget You Not" Project

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Forget-You-NotForget-You-NotTABLE OF CONTENTS 
[ T O C ]
Front Gate
decal-iSurvived.org
.About "Forget You Not" Holocaust Project

0. 

What is the Holocaust?

I. 

Holocaust Background Information

II. 

Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust

III. 

Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors

IV. 

Holocaust Studies, Anti-Semitism and Related Topics

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V. 

The Holocaust Combative Page

VI. 

Holocaust Selected Readings, Photos, and Items of Interest

VII. 

Holocaust Selected Books

VIII. 

Descendants of the Holocaust

IX. 

Holocaust Related News

X. 

Holocaust Memorial Drives

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"Dead men will have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them."
Legacy of the
                                                  Holocaust

A Detailed Definition of the Holocaust and its Tragic Legacy
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And to Them I will give, within my walls, a Memorial with an everlasting name "Forget You Not" that shall not be cut off.
{Inspired from Isaiah 56:5 }.

  

"Cries from Earth to Heaven
by Romanian Composer Serban Nichifor

  


 
"Forget You Not"™ Project  www

Yad Vashem Photo Archive


HOLOCAUST EDUCATION
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 For the dead and the
                                        living, we must bear witness.
Survivors of the Holocaust
USHMM Database

There are 350,000 survivors of the Holocaust alive today...
There are 350,000 experts who just want to be useful with the remainder of their lives.
Please listen to the words and the echoes and the ghosts.
And please teach this in your schools.

Steven Spielberg  

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ADDENDUM 



Where was God?
.God and the Holocaust
Where was God when millions were murdered?
Over the last few decades this question has haunted
both Jewish and Christian theologians:
If God is all-good and all-powerful,
HOW could he have permitted the Holocaust to take place?
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Genesis and the
                                                          Holocaust
{From The First Book of Moses}


The
                                                          Holocaust
                                                          under God
.Shoah Painting by David Olère (1902 - 1985), Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor
<shoah.freeservers.com/photo.html>

      For Jews, the central theological question posed by the Holocaust is theodicy --the question of divine justice, or whatever it is possible to speak of a just God working in history after the Holocaust. The question for Christianity arises from Christian culpability for almost two millennia of Anti-Semitism, which fed the hatred and indifference that made the Holocaust in "Christian" Europe possible.

      If Jews, or some Jews, ask about the silence of God, the failure of God to act to save his people, Christians must ask about the silence of "man," specifically Christians, who not only failed to act to save their Jewish neighbors, but, in many cases, aided and abetted the violence.

Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether 

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.Cries from Earth to Heaven:™
Reaching for
                                                          the Star of
                                                          David during
                                                          the Holocaust
.Searching for the elusive God
through the Star of David
during the Holocaust

© by Mikhail Onanov,
Chicago area artist.



"Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries." 

-- Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, p. 20
.

"The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with gun butts or shoved into sacks and gassed to death."

-- 1943 Diary of a 14-year-old Polish Jewish girl, Rutka Laskier, who perished at Auschwitz.

 


Where was
                                                          God?:
                                                          Lightening of
                                                          the Christmas
                                                          Tree,
                                                          Auschwitz,
                                                          1944
Where Was God During the Lighting of That Christmas Tree?
Lighting of the Christmas Tree, December 1944,
by
Karl Höcker, the adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz.
.Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

See also this contrasting background:

Christmas Eve in Auschwitz as Recalled by Polish Prisoners
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The God We Never Knew ...
Where was God during the Holocaust?*
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"T
he element that distinguishes the Holocaust was the search for God.
From morning till night we cried out for a sign that God was still with us...
We sought Him, but we did not find Him.
We were always accompanied by the crushing and unsettling feeling
that God had disappeared from our midst.
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From Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor 
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* Rabbi Emeritus Laszlo Berkowits didn't ask "Where was God?" after his time in the German death camps,
but asked
"Where was man?"

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