Posted on 01/26/2015 7:41:52 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: The children of Auschwitz: On the eve of the 70th anniversary of its liberation, Jews who appeared as youngsters in photograph taken at the concentration camp join those revisiting their past
Too bewildered and dehumanised to show any emotion, a dozen young faces peer out from a world beyond comprehension.
Witnesses to unfathomable depths of human savagery, these are among the last occupants of history’s most infamous slaughterhouse.
To stand in the Arctic chill of Auschwitz today, it seems extraordinary that anyone survived what unfolded here.
Yet, astonishingly, most of the people in this photograph – taken exactly 70 years ago today – are still alive. What’s more, four of them – including a victim of the abominable human vivisectionist, Dr Josef Mengele – have returned to Auschwitz to mark the 70th anniversary of the day that Soviet troops liberated this place.
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Every Jew who didn’t die at Auschwitz, every Jew remaining alive today, represents a monumental failure to the illegal alien anti-Semite currently pretending to be “president” of the United States.
If there are any Jews alive in Israel, and if more than a scattered, starving remnant of former Americans are alive in January of 2017, Hussein will consider himself only a very partial success as “president.”
Obama will be golfing again and miss this one too.
I like Eva Kor. She was a Mengele twin who lost her sister to kidney disease or cancer. Don’t remember which one. Her kidneys stayed the size of a little girl and she was a grown woman when she died.
Auschwitz. Humanity first actual glimpse of Hell.
Good. He doesn't belong there, anymore than a member of the Aryan Brotherhood does.
I'm concerned about the deniers. Their numbers are building. So I've been reading what they are saying and what evidence exists since the Holocaust. I only have a little from personal experience, what has been told to me by survivors. I went to a Holocaust Memorial at a Jewish synagogue in about 1990. It was a lovely service. Various survivors would tell their stories and concluded with "it really happened."
I found myself getting angry that they had to be on the defensive about unspeakable horrors. The next day I went to my neighbor who had fought in Europe in WWII (may he rest in peace). I told him what people were saying and asked him if it really happened. He said he liberated one of the camps (and I wish I'd asked him more specific questions) and that (emphatically) "you could SMELL it from miles away". He was kind of a harsh, bitter person and maybe was incapable of having much affection toward anyone, just saying this to say he would have no particular ax to grind about the Jews.
All I have would be considered hearsay or second hand. It's just important that as much evidence is preserved as possible. I'm reading a wonderful series of books by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal, telling of amazing coincidences and how the very few were saved among many other indicents not all involving the Holocaust. One involved 911 and Jews who needed a quorum to pray before going to work in the towers. They needed 10, and finally an old man appeared. As he said the prayers too slowly, the others were late for work, they heard the first explosion. When the initial shock subsided, they looked for the tenth old man. He had disappeared and they never knew who he was or where he went.
These are Orthodox Jews but the books include stories of Christians or no faith at all. Anyway, they have prayers they say for certain occasions. I always thought God had abandoned the Jews but that is not so. They pray for their dead. Some amazing results have come as a result of the prayers of observant Jews. It's refreshing and inspiring.
One of the stories gives the details of how Steven Spielberg came to produce Schindler's List. With the proceeds he started a Shoah Foundation which may be worthwhile. He had to be cajoled and persuaded to make that movie as he had little knowledge of the Holocaust nor interest in it initially. An Oscar for his movies had eluded him. One of the Jewish man who persuaded him to produce the movie (a book had already been written) predicted he would win an Oscar for it and so he did. Multiple ones.
Good, Obama does not deserve to stand on hallowed ground
My father’s cousin dug into our past and so I came to find out my great 3x or whatever grandfather changed the surname when he arrived here from England (originally from Hungary.) Anyways, I tried to do some more research myself armed with the information cousin passed down and the original name is Jewish origins and there were some listed as having perished at concentration camps. Wish I could hear their stories.
Geddy Lee’s (of RUSH) mother was a child that survived the camps. The band wrote a song about the camps. “Are we the only human beings to survive?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7u31rG0Jek
One of my dad’s cousins was at one of the camps a few days after it was liberated, with soldiers trying to help the prisoners. He described the skin lamp shades and all.
One of my favorite Rush songs, and also one of my favorite songs of all time. God bless Geddy’s mother, but it is sad that Geddy does not even believe in God.
Of the survivors, there is a slideshow at ABC featuring survivors, all late eighties or early nineties. I meant to add somewhere that many transports were immediately gassed at Auschwitz but so many had been through a series of the camps.
I did read somewhere that all the extermination camps were located in occupied Poland. There were six with gas chambers. The deniers will say there were none. If they are wrong, and I firmly believe they are, there must be a special punishment waiting for that kind of lie; how evil to obliterate the suffering, torture, and hideous manner of death of millions, and not just Jews.
As to research, it is a daunting task. There is nothing like it in my family history (no known Jewish roots for generations). Anyway, Hungary is hard to research, knew a Hungarian genealogist (non-Jew).
Well, you could try praying for those you think perished and watch for some answer. Some rabbis are reputed to have extraordinary gifts. Maybe God will lead you to one. I was never aware of some of their gifts. Many believe their departed family members are watching over them.
Very occasionally, some are thought to have perished but escaped instead. Let us hope you will be led to other survivors of that line in your family. If they have remained faithful Jews, they could have a lot of information to impart to you. They are scrupulous about maintaining oral tradition of their family history.
In any case, we don't know what lies in the great beyond. Sooner or later you may find out. In the meantime, I wish you well, and thank you for sharing on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“...but it is sad that Geddy does not even believe in God.”
Agreed - for all three of them. Sometimes it seems their songs are reaching for something spiritual. And then others go the opposite way. I keep holding out hope for them.
I often use them as a jumping off point to disuss faith to my kids.
The Holocaust happened . It was not a ‘’Jewish hoax’’. The Wansee Conference happened. It was there, in January of 1942 that Reinhard Heydrich, acting on orders of his boss Heinrich Himmler organized all levels of the German government,, the military, including the Wehrmacht and of course the SS and Gestapo , the German railways, and the many levels of Nazi bureaucracy to begin concentrating Jews not only in Germany but Jews in the occupied territories to be put into central locations, ghettos, so as to begin their eventual ‘’resettlement’’ to the East to ‘’work camps’’. It’s certainly far easier to kill people if at first you can beguile them into believing they were going somewhere to be doing something useful. It was at this time that construction of gas chambers and crematoriums began at Auschwitz, Treblinka , Majdanek, Sobibor and other camps. This was done because the mass shooting of Jews had proved to be too time consuming, it was difficult because their victims knew right away what was happening and the German soldiers, the ‘’Einzatgruppen’’, mostly reservists , men in their late thirties and forties found this method of killing Jews, ‘’distressing’’.
Skin lampshades? Does that mean what I think it does? Ugh.
The Holocaust was such a weird thing to happen...I mean you wonder how in the world did so many Germans turn into such devils and devil-followers? (I also have German in me so no offense to anyone) but to be perfectly frank, that kind of thing is usually relegated to hordes of “other kind” of peoples.
Wow yeah any survivors left are so old now that in another 10 years there will be none left. That’s sad to me somehow.
Hungary has been very hard to try and research, plus that area has had a few territory/name changes in the past.
It was Nazism. Nazism was something straight out of Hell that occupied Germany. To be admitted to the SS, the most vicious of the Nazi organizations, a candidate was required to show proof of an act of cruelty committed against the German people. so it's not exactly fair to equate Germans with Nazism. And keep in mind that as the war was turning against him Hitler wanted the entire German people to perish alongside him. He blamed them for failing him and wanted them all to die.
This not meant as thread stealing, just that end of your comment below- nest thought was immediately in my mind.
“Hitler wanted the entire German people to perish alongside him. He blamed them for failing him and wanted them all to die. “
There is chilling realization that our ruler may want the same for us.
I watched an excellent series of videos on the history of the concentration camps at youtube a few months ago. It may have been a BBC production.
Whatever it was it had a more complete history than anything I’ve seen before. I tried looking for the videos just now but with the anniversary there’s suddenly too many hits and the links are lost in the crowd, otherwise I’d post them.
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