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Holocaust Survivors
and Remembrance Project:
"Forget
You Not"™
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Holocaust
Remembrance, Sanctuary,
and Beyond
A
Tribute to Survivors
of the Nazi's
Holocaust
preserving the past
to protect the future
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. Chelmno
--the First Death Camp,
operational from late 1941
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. 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.
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.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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"Forget
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Project Presentation
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Preamble
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European
Anti-Semitism.
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January 27:
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.Yad
Vashem Photo Archive
Remember
Me?
<rememberme.ushmm.org>
United
States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Project on the Displaced
Children of the
Holocaust
.1943
Passover in the Warsaw
Ghetto
.1945
Passover at
Buchenwald.
Leading the prayer
service is
Rabbi
Herschel Schacter
(1917-2013).
.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.
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[In
The
Netherlands,
more than in
any other
western
European
country, 70%
of its entire
Jewish
population
perished
during the
Holocaust
years.]
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The
Prime Minister of
Israel
Is Now being called
to answer...
Putin,
the Butcher of Russia
is Now
As
a Dangerous SOB War
Criminal.
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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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.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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... 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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I
survived the Nazi
horrors and bestial
oppression, and
nothing is
forgotten ...
And remember,
forgiveness has its
limits ...
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The Face of Holocaust:
Does human
evil have
limits?
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D e u t s c h l a n d
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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:
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(All
the above 7
pictures can
be enlarged by
clicking on
them.)
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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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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
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Bergen-Belsen
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Majdanek |
Treblinka
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"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.)
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Poland's Continued Anti-Semitic Path of the Nazi
Holocaust,
Propelled by
its
Blinded Simmering Hate
and
Purported Nationalism:
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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...
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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]
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Some
200 Jewish
children,
fleeing
postwar
Anti-Semitic
violence in
Poland, arrive
at the Prague
railroad
station.
<holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/restrictions&roles.html>
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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...
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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)
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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.]
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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.
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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 ...
In Poland, a sickening attack on history
at the sacred symbol of the Holocaust
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(December
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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.
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Forgiveness
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And of
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The March 2010 Vandalization of the Plaszow Camp
Holocaust
Monument
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Vandals
spray "Hitler
Good" on the
Polish
Holocaust
Monument
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The August 31, 2011 Vandalization of the Jedwabne
Jewish
Monument
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Vandals
spray Swastika
with "Not
sorry for
Jedwabne" and
"Jews are
flamable..."
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Anti-Semitic
graffiti seen
in 2010 on a
monument
dedicated to
the victims of
the Krakow
ghetto.
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A
Growing
Culture of
Hate
Mushrooming in
Poland
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"Gas
the Jews"
graffiti from
Bialystok,
Poland.
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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."
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In its totality, may God have mercy and redemption on
Poland's
sickening
nationalistic
poisoned
Anti-Semitic
soul...
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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.
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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.
.In the
Rzeszów Ghetto,
that later
transformed
into a
concentration
camp, Jews
were
methodically
starved and
executed.
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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...
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."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
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An Appeal from the Christian Polish Righteous who
saved Jews
from the
Holocaust:
"We ask you
not to rewrite
history."
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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.
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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.
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"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...
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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!
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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.)
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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.
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Forgiveness has its limits ...
.Smashed
gravestones at
the
Charlestown
Jewish
Cemetery,
Manchester, in
May 2016
as reported by
The
Guardian.
.Vandalized
headstone at a
Jewish
Cemetery in
Blackley,
Manchester,
during 2016.
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.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
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.
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Coupled With Its Lingering Anti-Semitism:
Nearly
1 in 4
Romanians Want
Their Country
Be Free Of
Jews
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 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.
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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.
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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Russia:
Seeds of a New
Anti-Semitism
on Display
At the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2002.
.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 ...
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."
The SS
Wolfsangel symbol is visible at left.
This symbol
was widely
used in Nazi
Germany
and became
quite popular
with
Ukrainians.
"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:
"A world
without Jews.
Kill the
Kike."
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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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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.)
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:
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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.
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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,
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"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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The Shame of France: Infested with Lethal
Anti-Semitic
Hate
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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."
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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.
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2020: A New Wave Of Anti-Semitic Vandalism in France.
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A
2018 graffiti
that reads
"Jews Out"
with a
swastika
painted
at the
entrance of a
Jewish
Cemetery In
Herrlisheim,
France.
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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.
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Ilan
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tortured and
murdered in
Paris
for the sole
reason that he
was a Jew ...
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On
March 23,
2018, Mireille
Knoll, 85,
Jewish woman
who survived
the Holocaust
murdered in
her home in
Paris, being
stabbed 11
times...
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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.
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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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p r e s e
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p a s t t o
p r o t e c t
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PROLOGUE
."We Have
All Become
Orphans"
-- Elie Wiesel
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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.
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Martin
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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's Tragic
Legacy:
The Ultimate Expression of Man's
Inhumanity to Man
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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
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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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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).
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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, Poland 1942
(From HolocaustResearchProject.org)
Jews line up in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(From Archives of American Jewish Joint Distribution
Center.)
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The Shoah
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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.
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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.
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By 1945, in
Nazi-occupied
Europe, 2/3 of
its Jewish
population
--men, women
and children--
were murdered.
Jews
deported to
death camps
That is, by 1945, two out of every three Jews had
been
murdered...
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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.
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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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The
Romanies ("Gypsies")
Holocaust -- The Porajmos
("Devouring or
Destruction")
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Rounding
up the Romanies
("Gypsies") women and
children.
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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).
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Poland's
Extreme
Victimization
Outside the
Boundaries of
the Holocaust
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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.
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Victims of the
War, but Not
of the Holocaust:
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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."
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(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.
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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.
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German
and Soviet
officers
shaking hands
following the
invasion.
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Polish
prisoners of
war captured
by the Red
Army during
the Soviet
invasion.
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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.)
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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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The
Holocaust's Center
Stage: Solving the
Jewish Problem
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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.
.1938 Nazi
Germany:
Jews arrested in Baden-Baden,
November 10, 1938.
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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]
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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.
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Holocaust of the
Disabled
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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.
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The
Holocaust of the
Homosexuals
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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.)
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Summary
of The Holocaust Line
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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.
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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."
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Jewish
women and children at
Birkenau marching
towards the gas
chambers.
[Yad Vashem -- The
Holocaust Martyrs' and
Heroes' Remembrance
Authority.]
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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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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"
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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...
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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."
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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 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.
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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.
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NOTE 1:
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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.
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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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The "Forget You Not"™
Project:
not forgetting the past to protect
the future ...
Auschwitz Memorial Museum,
Poland
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George
Santayana (1863-1952),
American Atheist
Philosopher,
Harvard University Ph.D and
Professor therein.
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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
National Army Museum,
London, UK
<national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/shortVisits/iconic/page19.shtml>
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. The 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.
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families being moved into the Kovno
ghetto.
Photo Credit: George
Kadish. Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv,
Israel.
<shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kovno/kovno.html>
.Nazis
having some fun
at the expense of a tormented Jew in
1942 Rzeszów, Poland.
.Following anti-Nazi
violence,
Jews are being rounded up in the Jewish
quarter
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February
22, 1941.
(Nederlands Instituut
voor Oorlogsdocumentatie)
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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.
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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.
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The
deportation of Dutch Jewry
was a
"pitch-black" chapter
in Dutch history.
Prime
Minister Jan Peter
Balkenende, at Yad Vashem,
March 2005.
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Anxious faces peer through a train
window as they await deportation
from Westerbork, Holland (1942).
Photo Credit: Bildarchiv
Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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"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
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The
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"Those of
you who may survive, bear
witness, let the world know
what has happened here."
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Aleksander
Aronowich Pechersky
leader of the
Sobibor revolt, seconds before
the outbreak
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..Emaciated
prisoners, survivors
of
the Mauthausen
Concentration Camp.
Photo
Credit: By Kurt Zalud
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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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An SS
sergeant interrogating
Jews captured during the
suppression of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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United
States National Archives
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Buchenwald
at Liberation, April 16,
1945. Elie Wiesel is in
2nd row, last from left.
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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 }.
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HOLOCAUST
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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.
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Steven Spielberg
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.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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{From The First Book of Moses}
.Shoah
Painting by
David Olère
(1902 - 1985),
Auschwitz
Holocaust
Survivor
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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.
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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.
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Rosemary
Radford
Ruether and
Herman J.
Ruether
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.Cries
from Earth to
Heaven:™
.Searching
for the
elusive God
through the
Star of David
during the
Holocaust
©
by Mikhail
Onanov,
Chicago area
artist.
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"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."
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Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, p. 20
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"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."
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-- 1943 Diary of a 14-year-old Polish Jewish girl,
Rutka Laskier, who perished at Auschwitz.
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The
God We Never
Knew ...
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Where
was God
during
the Holocaust?*
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"The 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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