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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: In 1939, a Boy Poses with His Grandparents before Leaving Poland for Australia
Both of his grandparents died in the Holocaust. The boy’s name: Jankiel Garbasz His grandparent’s names: Israel and Sara Garbasz Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz, January, 1945
This image was taken at the Tzebnia sub-camp at Auschwitz, AFTER its liberation. A physician is looking at a little girl. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Studio Portrait of a Jewish Family Living in Poland Before the Holocaust
Portrait of a Jewish family in Poland. 90% of Polish Jews died during the Holocaust.
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: American Major Frank Ankner Takes the Pulse of a Female Death March Survivor
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive. May 8, 1945 (in Czechoslovakia):
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Prisoners on a Death March from Dachau, April 29, 1945
More information on this photo can be found at the U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archives here.
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Tagged dachau, death, death march, death marches, horror, life, lines, marching, the Holocaust, walking
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Woman in an American Field Hospital in Czechoslavakia, May 1945
Name: Roszi Frank Age: 24 She was born in Hungary, and was deported to Auschwitz, where, after being moved again, she ended up at a subcamp of Gross Rosen. As the allies closed in on various camps (toward the end … Continue reading
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Tagged 24, Auschwitz, genocide, God, humanity, hungary, life, people, roszi frank, the book of Job, the Holocaust, the problem of suffering
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Emaciated Female Survivor of a Death March, Recovering at an American Field Hospital in Czechoslavakia, May 8, 1945
Her name: Marika Roth. She was 19 years old. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
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Tagged 19, death march, genocide, Holocaust, Judaism, marika roth
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: 280,000 to 380,000 Jews Dead or Deported from Romania
In December of 2008, Der Spiegel quoted a historian on Romania and the Holocaust: “Once they had gotten a taste of the license which prevailed in the first days of the war (among the Germans),” writes Avigdor Shachan, a witness … Continue reading
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Tagged der spiegel, genocide, Germany, history, Hitler, Holocaust, romania, the Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Women at Auschwitz-Birkenau, with Heads Shaved, Selected for Forced Labor, May, 1944
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archives
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Tagged genocide, Holocaust, inhumanity, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, religion, slavery, the Holocaust, the problem of suffering, women
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Women, Newly Arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Selected for Forced Labor, May, 1944
Source: US Holocaust Museum archives
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Tagged Auschwitz, auschwitz-birkenau, birkenau, Christianity, fascism, feminism, Islam, Judaism, Social Darwinism, women
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Toilet Facilities at Auschwitz
According to historians Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt, in their history of Auschwitz titled, Auschwitz (Norton 1996, p. 268), toilet facilities were minimal: The “privy” meant to serve 7,000 inmates was a shed with one concrete open sewer … Continue reading
Islam and Auschwitz
On January 27th, 2005, when others were commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Muslim Council of Britain abstained. At the time, George Mason University’s History News Network website posted this from writer Melanie Phillips: Countries around the … Continue reading
Geoffry Robinson Tells the Story of How He Hid Salmon Rushdie
At the Daily Beast, Geoffery Robertson tells how he hid Salmon Rushdie from the Ayatollah Khomeni here.
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Tagged agnosticism, Christianity, free speech, freedom of the press, humanism, Islam, James Dobson, philosophy, religion, secularism
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Johann Hari of the London Independent Exercises His Freedom of Speech with Regard to Religion, and It Results in Hysterical Protests, Intimidation, and Arrests in India
Once again, Islamic fundamentalists are trying to physically intimidate a writer, and his publishers, for exercising freedom of speech. Read Johann Hari’s original essay here, and the outbreak of protests, threats of violence, and actual arrests that resulted, here.
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Tagged Christianity, free speech, human rights, India, Islam, islamic fundamentalism, johann hari, Judaism, philosophy, Politics, religious persecution
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Propaganda Slide Depicting “Deformed” Children
Social Darwinism played a significant role in Hitler’s thinking, and it was part of the racialist ideology of the Nazis that the “unfit” (the physically or mentally disabled) should not devour the time and resources of the fit. Consequently, the fit … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, degenerate art, disabilities, equality, evolution, genocide, Holocaust, ideology, nazi ideology, philosophy, propaganda, Social Darwinism
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Children Lined up with Heads Shaved in a Croatian Concentration Camp
Source: US Holocaust Museum photo archive
