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In The Gray Morning Light
In a few weeks it will be International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death-camp on January 27, 1945, by the Soviet army. There are many things that continue to disturb me when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Auschwitz, death-camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews, Nazi Germany, People & Culture Tags Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, The Final Solution, Wannsee Conference
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Death on the Amber Shore
Warning: This, sadly, is a true story of incredible cruelty that you will not be able to get easily out of your mind once you have read it. It is one of many similar acts of unimaginable savagery making up the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Grube, death march, East Prussia, Holocaust, Jews, Konigsberg, Maria Blitz, Martin Bergau, Massacre at Palmnicken, Nazi Germany
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She Saved The Anne Frank Diaries
Miep Gies has died at the age of 100 on January 11 in Hoorn, The Netherlands; she was born in 1909 in Vienna as Hermine Santrouschitz before moving to Amsterdam in the early 1920s and marrying Jan Gies in 1941. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Diaries, Holocaust, Jews, Miep Gies
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