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Daily Archives: February 13, 2009
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image of Auschwitz Prisoners Unloading Confiscated Clothing
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Tagged Auschwitz, clothing, forced labor, genocide, slave labor, World War II
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Jewish Man with a Wicker Chair Arrives at the “Judenramp” (Auschwitz-Birkenau, May, 1944)
Source: US Holocaust Museum archive
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Tagged auschwitz-birkenau, disabilities, fascism, handicapped, Judaism, judenramp, poland, Social Darwinism
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Walled Entrance to an Area Used as a Gas Chamber, and Later in the War as a Bomb Shelter, Auschwitz Main Camp (Auschwitz 1). The Building in the Background was a Regional Headquarters for the Gestapo
Source: US Holocaust Museum archives
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Men Selected for Forced Labor, Auschwitz, May, 1944
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Tagged albert speer, concentration camps, genocide, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Judaism, Nazism, religion
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The ‘Canada’ Warehouses Behind Barbed Wire, Auschwitz
The Auschwitz storehouses where German soldiers collected clothes and other items confiscated from prisoners were nicknamed by them “Canada” (perhaps because they associated Canada with material abundance).
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image of a Column of Auschwitz Prisoners Walking to (or from) a Work Assignment (1942-1944)
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Jewish Men from Carpatho-Ukraine Arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944
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Tagged 1944, Auschwitz, auschwitz-birkenau, authoritarianism, fascism, Hitler, Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Carpatho-Ukrainian Jews at the “Judenramp” (Receiving Area) Await Selection for Labor or Immediate Extermination, Auschwitz-Birkenau, May, 1944
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Tagged auschwitz-birkenau, genocide, Hitler, Judaism, Russia, trains
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image of Three Carpatho-Ukrainian Jews Awaiting Selection, Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944
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Tagged 1944, antisemitism, Auschwitz, death, Holocaust, life
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Story of German Senior Officer, Albert Battel
In one segment of the PBS DVD, Auschwitz, is the story of Albert Battel, a German senior officer who took great risks to protect Jews (in the Polish city of Przemysl) from deportation and the death camps: At the German … Continue reading
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Tagged albert battel, gandhi, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Politics, religion
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Stacked Corpses
The above photograph, according to the U.S. Holocaust Museum website, was taken at Ohrdruf on April 6, 1945. More “Bearing Witness to the Holocaust” photos here and here and here.
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Tagged eastern europe, hegelianism, Hitler, Holocaust, Job, poland, the problem of evil, World War II, yad vashem
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image of a Ukrainian Jew on the Heel of a Mass Grave
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Contemplating His Pole
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Tagged fashion, fishing, Freud, nostalgia, psychoanalysis, psychology, sex
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Howard Nemerov and Learning from History
Howard Nemerov served in both the Canadian and American armed forces during World War II, and as a pilot flew combat missions over the North Sea against the Germans. His poem, “Ultima Ratio Reagan,” is a warning against historical ignorance … Continue reading
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Tagged history, howard nemerov, literature, Nazi Germany, patriotism, pilot, poems, poetry, reading, Vietnam, World War II
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Two Nations Squabble over the BUST of a WOMAN
According to Der Spiegel, Egypt is making a renewed attempt to get Germany to give the ancient bust of Nefertiti back: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has possession of the bust and rejects any charge of cheating. The idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhenaten, archeology, bust of Nefertiti, Camille Paglia, Egypt, Germany, history, Nefertiti
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Holocaust Denial v. Young Earth Creationism?
In terms of a perversity of soul, Holocaust denial says something far darker about a person than young earth creationism. Young earth creationism is incorrect about the age of the earth and the fixity of species, but it is not … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, evangelicalism, Genesis, Holocaust denial, philosophy, Politics, psychology, religion, sociology, young earth creationism
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