Title:The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains
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The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains
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The
haunting words of George Santayana reminds us that the lessons of history
are invaluable in determining the course of the future: quot;Those who
forget the past are condemned to repeat it. quot;
The Holocaust was the
systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis during
World War 2.
In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of
Europe that would be military occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out
of every three European Jews had been killed.
1.5
million children
were murdered. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children,
tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children.
The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said: quot;There
were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million
times. quot;
The
Holocaust is a history of enduring horror and sorrow. It seems as though
there is no spark of human concern, no act of humanity, to lighten that
dark history. Read the story of Rivka
Yosselevska, the story of the
children of Bullenhuser Damm or the story the
children of Izieu.
You find gripping and horrifying stories of Adolf
Hitler and his most
ruthless henchmen - men often seen as the very personifications of
evil, like Rudolf
Hoess, the SS Commandant of Auschwitz, the Nazi butcher Amon
Goeth at Plaszow and Josef
Mengele, The Angel Of Death. You may read about Hitler's
wife, Eva Braun, or Admiral
Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of the German Military Intelligence who was a
dedicated anti-Nazi and held Hitler in utter contempt. He tried to put a
stop to the crimes of war and genocide committed by the Nazis.
Yet there were acts of courage and kindness during the Holocaust - stories
to bear witness to goodness, love and compassion. Let me
mention Men
Of Courage, Father
Kolbe, the good brother Albert
Goering, Wilm
Hosenfeld - a man of courage - and the story of Oscar
Schindler, who continually risked his life to protect and save his
Jewish workers.
To
more than 1200 Jews Schindler was all that stood between them and death at
the hands of the Nazis. But he remained true to his Jews, the workers he
referred to as my children. In the shadow of Auschwitz he kept the
SS out and everyone alive - his Jews miraculously survived the Nazi
Genocide ..
Oscar
Schindler's Legacy
Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of Schindler's Jews living in
US and Europe, many in Israel. Before the Second World War, the Jewish
population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and
4,000 left.
Oscar Schindler's name is known to millions as a household word for courage in a
world of brutality - a hero who saved hundreds of Jews from Hitler's gas
chambers. Schindler
died in Hildesheim in Germany October 9, 1974. He
wanted to be buried in Jerusalem. As he said: My children are here ..
His wife Emilie
Schindler was an inspiring evidence of human nobility. She was not
only a strong woman working alongside her husband but a heroine in her own
right. This remarkable woman worked indefatigably to save the
Schindler-Jews.
You find the stories of Irena
Sendler, who defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by
smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto .. Maria
von Maltzan, who risked everything to defy Hitler and the Nazi Régime
.. Miep
Gies, who risked her life daily to hide Anne Frank and her family .. the
Rescue of the Danish
Jews, Varian
Fry, the American Schindler, Kurt
Gerstein SS Officer, the site Courage
and Survival ..
And you find the story of an incredible man and his amazing gift to
mankind - the English stockbroker, Sir
Nicholas Winton. On holiday in Prague, he recognized the
advancing danger and courageously rescued 669 Czech children from their
doomed fate in the Nazi death camps - but his achievement went
unrecognized for over half a century.
The words of Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust
survivor, stand as a testament to why we must never forget this dark
period of human history:
quot;For
the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear
witness for the dead and the living. He has no right to deprive
future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To
forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would
be akin to killing them a second time. The witness has forced himself to
testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born
tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. quot; Elie
Wiesel, Night, Preface to the New Translation (New York: Hill and
Wang, c2006), page xv.
- Louis Bülow
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