A blog about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in modern society
Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. “Don’t be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good” – Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Europe. The theme for HMD 2020 is Stand Together. Throughout centuries of… Continue reading Holocaust Memorial Day 2020
חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם Righteous Among the Nations ((Hebrew translation is above) Hebrew transliteration: khasidei umót ha'olám) is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. The term originates with the concept of "righteous gentiles", a term… Continue reading Righteous Among Nations
Early Nazi Persecution In the 1920s, most German Jews were fully integrated into German society as German citizens. They served in the German army and navy and contributed to every field of German business, science and culture. Conditions for the Jews began to change after the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany on… Continue reading Kristallnacht
I know I haven't posted in a while, I've been focusing on my work and I've also been working on a big article in the background. For now though, I'm finding some filler to put on here in the meantime. 1933 January 30: Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg. March 22:… Continue reading Anti-Semitic Timeline – 1933-1945
Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to a lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In… Continue reading The Eichmann Trial
“So for us even the hour of liberty rang out grave and muffled, and filled our souls with joy and yet with a painful sense of shame… and also with anguish, because we felt that this should never happen, that now nothing could ever happen good and pure enough to rub out our past, and… Continue reading The Final Stages of the War and the Aftermath
Only about 10% of Polish Jewry survived the Holocaust, the majority in the Soviet Union. The fate of the Jews of Western Europe varied depending upon the country. In some of the country’s, most of the Jews survived (in Italy and France about 25% of the Jews perished), in other countries the Jewish population was… Continue reading The Fate of the Jews Across Europe
"In those times, there was darkness everywhere. In heaven and on earth, all the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed. The killer killed and the Jews died and the outside world adopted an attitude either of complicity or of indifference. Only a few had the courage to care. These few men and women… Continue reading Rescue
Pesach, known in English as Passover, is one of the most commonly observed Jewish holidays, even by otherwise non-observant Jews. Pesach begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. It is the first time of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Shavu’ot and Sukkot).… Continue reading Pesach
Once reliable, substantiated evidence about the murder of the Jews began to emerge and after the deportations from the ghettos had taken place, the undergrounds began launching armed rebellions in the ghettos and camps. In addition, they organized escapes and smuggled Jews from the ghettos to the forests in order to fight in the partisan… Continue reading Combat and Resistance
Scapegoats 