Today is 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
One of the reasons we must remember the Holocaust and its details is to remember all the acts of valor amidst the evil. All the examples of people who, facing death for themselves, did not simply wallow helplessly in despair but gave thought for others around them and did whatever they could for them. God bless them.
Bless him and congrats.
Lied about his age?
That’s what Elie Wiesel did too, he said a “Trusty” helping unload the cattle cars told him to do that.
Everyone should read his book “Night”.
In high school I read Eugene Kogon’s ‘The Theory And Practice of Hell/ The German Concentration Camps And The System Behind Them''. A nightmare insight to a brutal state within a state and a society without law. Still beggars belief that within living memory that a nation of people, one of the cultured and advanced could establish as law the extermination of an entire race of human being as a matter of state policy. and there are still those living who survived the horror and those who fought so courageously to end it. Maybe God forbid it ever happening again.
Story is worth the read.
When I visited Auschwitz, the room filled with the 30,000 pairs of children’s shoes, left when they were executed, was the most sickening of the place.
It was even worse than standing in the gas chamber next to the cremation ovens.
Every human on earth should be shown that facility. It’s a life changer.
Is anyone representing the United States at the memorial today?
The BBC are interviewing survivors along with Sky News
Susan Pollack was on Sky:
Born Zsuzsanna Blau in 1930 in Hungary, Susan became aware of antisemitism around her from a young age. Her uncle was murdered by fascists. His attacker was sentenced to just two years in prison.
After Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators organised the deportation of Hungarian Jews, under the supervision of high-ranking SS officer Adolf Eichmann.
In May that year, Susan and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland by cattle truck. In less than two months, almost all of Hungary’s Jewish population, some 825,000, was deported.
Inside Auschwitz, she says she was “dehumanised” and survived by behaving as a robot.
She described having to stand in front of Dr Josef Mengele, the infamous camp physician, every morning, who would look at their naked bodies. Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls.
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Another account on how Mengele personally oversaw it.
When I hear some stupid person compare Trump to Hitler I think we should close our public schools immediately because they can’t teach the basics.