Daily Archives: February 14, 2009

Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: An American Soldier Removes One of the Few Survivors on the Dachau Death Train, April 29, 1945

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archives

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: An American Soldier Poses in Front of a Dachau Train Car with Corpses, 1945

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Corpses in an Open Rail Car, Dachau, 1945

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Dachau Death Train, May 1945

Alexander Zabin of Long Island took the below photo in May of 1945 (while “serving with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group in the US Third Army”).

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Corpses in a Dachau Train Car

Alexander Zabin of Long Island took the below photo in May of 1945 (while “serving with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group in the US Third Army”). Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive.

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Seven Economic Doomsayers

From Nouriel Roubini to Nassim Taleb, The Daily Beast lists the top seven super smart (and right so far) economic doomsayers here. A scary list. Very scary.

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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

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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.

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Walt Whitman and Barack Obama are Large and Contain Multitudes?

I saw Walt Whitman in Obama here. Today I discovered that novelist Zadie Smith made the same connection recently: Obama can do young Jewish male, black old lady from the South Side, white woman from Kansas, Kenyan elders, white Harvard … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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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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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Women Selected for Forced Labor, Auschwitz, 1944

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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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