Everyday we read new holocaust stories
please post them here for a <lol>
Inside the Nazis' infamous Mauthausen concentration camps where Jews were forced to climb the Stairs Of Death while carrying 50kg stone blocks
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4135848/Inside-Nazis-infamous-Mauthausen-concentration-camps.html#ixzz4WDtflYMF
QuoteChristian Bernadac, a French resistance fighter who was imprisoned at Mauthausen, and later wrote a book titled The 186 Steps, recalled how the steps 'were simply cut with a pick into the clay and rock, held in place by logs, unequal in height and tread, and therefore extremely difficult, not only for climbing but also for the descent.
Stupid fuckers should have done a better job on the steps.
QuoteStairs of Death
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Funny, just the other day they floated some shit about a "Pathway to Heaven."
http://theinfounderground.com/smf/index.php?topic=23006.msg85934#msg85934
Seems to be a theme they are developing.
YD there will be a new story tomorrow :D:D
Selfies to Honor Jew Soap:
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Would someone please take a dump and share it.
More Oy Vey at - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4137716/Israeli-shames-visitors-Berlin-s-Holocaust-memorial.html#comments
'After Auschwitz, every single day is a bonus': A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust
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Yesterday's Swill
Author and retired Northwestern professor speaks on Holocaust (NOT A. Butz) - http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glencoe/news/ct-gln-holocaust-talk-tl-0202-20170125-story.html
Holocaust survivor told story to thousands of students - https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/1e2b0a7c-fa9c-33a4-9148-f87d1788ce90/ss_holocaust-survivor-told-story.html
Long Lines at the Auschwitz Outhouse:
Elderly survivors visit Auschwitz 72 years after liberation - https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/cdee93de-824d-37e8-9f40-ef1ce0b3598a/ss_elderly-survivors-visit.html
The story of an Englishman in Auschwitz - https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/5bd3246d-b581-310e-ab17-c62895661646/ss_the-story-of-an-englishman-in.html
Seems to be an increase in the volume of sewage. Trump must have them reliving the horrors.
Today, 27 January, is holohoax memorial day, which means that we should all open out wallets for the poor holohoax survivors who are destitute. <:^0 <lol>
We better hurry, because they're dying out. <:^0 <lol>
Quote"We're dying out. In another 10 years there won't be a Holocaust survivor left,
On Holocaust Remembrance Day: A third of survivors in the US are poor http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/us/holocaust-survivor-poverty/index.html
That article is from CNN.
Here's one from The Hill, for the folks on Capitol Hill who just don't give enough money to the jews.
Why the time to help Holocaust survivors is now http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/316506-why-the-time-to-help-holocaust-survivors-is-now
And, the Russians want everybody to know about the the poor old dears, also. They actually report that the
Majority of Holocaust survivors in US live in poverty, charity says http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/316506-why-the-time-to-help-holocaust-survivors-is-now
'The last shower will await you': Sick Holocaust escape game hit with scathing criticism for 'preying on the suffering of millions for money'
Prague-based Dostaň Se Ven specialises in the puzzle games popular in the UK
They involve teams completing challenges to escape rooms against the clock
When they decided to use Auschwitz as a theme it was hit with fierce opposition
The Czech company was accused of 'preying on the suffering of millions of Jews'
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Oh, no. He's long dead, but, people still enjoy his music, so we better find out. <:^0
Was J.S. Bach anti-Semitic?
Johann Sebastian Bach was not only one of the 18th century's greatest composers, he was one of the most prolific.
He wrote more than 300 cantatas for Sunday church services — sadly, almost a third of these works have been lost to posterity.
But as beautiful as his music is, the texts of some of Bach's masterpieces are tinged with the anti-Semitism of the time.
A new novel imagines what would happen if a previously unknown manuscript for a Bach cantata were discovered today — and if the text Bach had chosen for that cantata, was not just casually but deeply anti-Semitic.
The novel is called And After the Fire. Its author is Lauren Belfer, whose debut novel City of Light was a New York Times bestseller.
Her husband, Michael Marissen, has also published a new book — a collection of essays called Bach and God. He is an emeritus professor of music at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania who has studied the anti-Semitism in Bach's sacred music.
Audio at this link:
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If the Jews are going to ban music from Johann Sebastian Bach,
i warn them : hands off of Bach's music
LOL Get to work, Goys. Holocaust Survivors are waiting on your reparation payments!
The 'innocent' who took shorthand from a Nazi monster: As Goebbels' secretary dies aged 106 how Brunhilde Pomsel was an unrepentant witness to the regime's evil
Brunhilde Pomsel was a natural choice to work for the Third Reich in 1942
She said 'only disease would have stopped' her working for Joseph Goebbels
But Pomsel said she was 'apolitical' and not interested in Nazi Germany's evil
She died last week at the age of 106, leaving an ever dwindling number of witnesses at the heart of Hitler's years in power
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4174234/The-innocent-took-shorthand-Nazi-monster.html
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Hitler's monsters: Faces of Nazi guards who helped oversee the death of more than a million Jews at Auschwitz revealed as Poland publishes details of 10,000 of Adolf's men
Poland's Institute of National Remembrance has published details of 9,686 guards who worked at Auschwitz
Nearly all of them are German and the INR is seeking to dispel claims that Auschwitz was staffed by Poles
Auschwitz-Birkenau held Polish prisoners from 1940 but 1.1 million Jews died there between 1942 and 1945
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Hitler's phone used to order death of millions up for auction
https://www.rt.com/uk/375916-hitler-phone-auction-nazi/
Adolf Hitler's phone, which the Nazi leader used to demand the deaths of millions of Jews and scream his last instructions as the Russians closed in on his bunker, is set to fetch £400,000 at auction.
Hitler is said to have travelled everywhere with the red telephone.
The item, described as "virtually unequalled in historical importance," was recovered from the 'Fuhrerbunker' beneath Berlin.
Among the last calls he made on the phone was one in which he ordered the execution of his brother-in-law, General Hermann Fegelein, for treason. Another was made to instruct his aides to torch his apartments once he and his wife, Eva Braun, had committed suicide.
The phone was recovered by a British officer, Brigadier Sir Ralph Rayner, who arrived at the hidden bunker shortly after Hitler's suicide in April of 1945 as Russian forces approached.
After the war, he brought the phone, engraved with a swastika and Hitler's name, back to the UK hidden in a suitcase, as he was afraid he'd be accused of 'looting,' from which British troops were forbidden under penalty of court martial.
Before his death in 1977, Rayner passed the phone on to his son, Ranulf Rayner, who has now decided to sell it in the hope it is put on display as a reminder of the terrible crimes carried out by the Nazis.
Auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's have a policy of not dealing in Nazi memorabilia. Rayner said the phone has been rejected by British museums, including the Imperial War Museum.
The phone is being sold in the US by Alexander Historical Auctions of Maryland later this month.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017
On Feb. 2, 1933, two days after becoming chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered dissolution of the Parliament.
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Who would live in a house like this? Schindler's List 'House of Horrors' where Nazi butcher Amon Göth shot Jews from the balcony and his dogs ripped victims apart is being turned into a LUXURY VILLA
Nazi beast Amon Göth tortured and murdered Jews at his villa in Kraków, Poland
Göth was Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp commander in Schindler's List
Played by Ralph Feinnes in the film, evil Göth was executed for genocide in 1946
He held luxurious parties for SS Nazi guards at the villa, where he kept a mistress
Two Jewish maids held prisoner in the cellar told of the horrors inside Göth's villa
In a haunting adaptation for Schindler's list, Feinnes shot Jews from the balcony
Göth's two dogs tore victims to pieces on the twisted Nazi commander's orders
Young Jewish boy was shot dead by Göth when he left room without permission
One maid was stabbed in the leg because she didn't set enough places for dinner
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Auschwitz survivor, 92, and the Scottish soldier, 96, who saved her as she was being marched to her DEATH celebrate their 71st Valentine's Day together
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4221108/Soldier-rescued-Jew-celebrate-Valentine-s-Day.html
From Nazi labor camp to sausage factory: Austrian locals outraged by legal ruling
https://www.rt.com/news/377689-sausage-factory-nazi-camp/
Plans to build a sausage factory on the site of a World War II Nazi camp has caused outrage in Austria. Locals had made legal arguments that permission had only ever been granted for the land to host a power plant.
The 25-acre (10 hectare) site in Haiming, near the city of Innsbruck, housed hundreds of prisoners forced by Nazis to build a planned hydroelectric power plant during the war.
The camp was demolished after the war and acquired by power company Tiwag, who have now sold it to the country's largest bacon and sausage producers, Handl Tyrol, according to local publication Tiroler Tageszeitung.
The sale to the meat manufacturer has sparked outrage among locals who argued that the original land deal was made at a low rate under Nazi coercion. Locals also stipulated that the site was only to be used as a power plant.
A commission formed after the war, however, found the land was obtained legally and that former landowners should not receive compensation.
Christian Handl, managing director of Handl Tyrol told Tiroler Tageszeitung that the argument by locals "are not relevant to us."
"We have acquired the area lawfully," Handl said, insisting that, as of last week, they are now the legal owners of the site.
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OH, NO!!! Yes, friends, it's true: according to this Radio New Zealand International report, the Nazis are responsible for the meth epidemic. <:^0 :lmao:
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Norman Ohler: Methamphetamine and the Nazis
Norman Ohler's latest book Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany tells "the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich's relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines", according to The Guardian.
The German journalist, author and playwright talks with Kim Hill.
Listen, at your own risk, at this link: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201834602/norman-ohler-methamphetamine-and-the-nazis
Swastika-covered photo album found in Eva Braun's bedroom drawer reveals never-before-seen shots of Adolf Hitler relaxing and greeting fellow Nazi chiefs
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Poland says 98yo Minnesota carpenter was Nazi officer, demands extradition
https://www.rt.com/usa/380570-poland-confirms-nazi-living-us/
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'The Devil's Mercedes' investigates a pair of notorious Nazi limos
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/0308/The-Devil-s-Mercedes-investigates-a-pair-of-notorious-Nazi-limos
Irish radio wants to sell the book, too.
http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/Moncrieff/Highlights_from_Moncrieff/183550/Hitlers_Limo
A mother's fatal sacrifice: New film tells how one brave woman was sent to the gas chambers after taking in a Russian PoW who had escaped the Nazis in occupied Jersey
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The last witness: Bodyguard who found Hitler and Eva Braun's dead bodies and once walked in on Fuhrer's mistress in a flimsy nightie reveals intimate details of their private lives in candid photos
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In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem's mufti help against 'Jewish intruders'
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rediscovered-telegram-himmler-offers-jerusalems-mufti-help-against-jewish-intruders/
Holohoax "stumbling blocks" <:^0 <:^0 :lmao: :lmao:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/14/germany.stumbling.blocks.irpt/index.html
http://newzsentinel.com/amsterdam-residents-cite-privacy-concerns-for-removal-of-holocaust-victim-tribute/
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UN docs show 'allies knew of Holocaust years before' finding concentration camps
https://www.rt.com/news/385155-holocaust-un-war-crime-files/
Just put "london highest antisemitic rate" into a search engine, after seeing a report on RT, and, just look at what came up. One person, in a lifetime, couldn't read all of the shit they are putting out. They have an absolute ARMY of jews and jew-stooges generating propaganda. <:^0
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=london+highest+antisemitic+rate&t=hb&ia=images
Straight out of central casting.
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Anti-Semitism dramatically increases across US, says ADL
https://www.rt.com/usa/419979-adl-anti-semitism-increase-report/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
The US witnessed an unprecedented spike in anti-Semitism in 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation League, with vandalism and school incidents leading the list. Some of the incidents, however, were fake.
There were almost 2000 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the US in 2017, including physical assaults, bomb threats, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions, according to a report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday.
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 increased by 57 percent compared to 2016, the single largest increase on record and the second-highest number reported since ADL started keeping track in 1979, the organization said. Incidents of vandalism increased 86 percent from 2016, with 952 incidents recorded.
"These incidents came at a time when we saw a rising climate of incivility, the emboldening of hate groups and widening divisions in society," said ADL's CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt.
The report reveals that the number of anti-Semitic incidents soared in schools and on college campuses, nearly doubling for the second year in a row. College campuses witnessed a total of 204 incidents in 2017, compared to 108 incidents in 2016.
The vast majority of the incidents fell under the category of "harassment," which the ADL defines as "where a Jewish person or group of people feel harassed by the perceived anti-Semitic words, spoken or written, or actions of someone else."
This category includes the 163 bomb threats against Jewish community centers. However, the vast majority of those were actually made by a Jewish teenager living in Israel who was eventually arrested. US federal authorities also believe that the teenager was selling his services on the dark web.
Another half-dozen bomb scares directed at the Jewish community were made by an American journalist, who was imprisoned after he admitted to sending Jewish groups bomb threats in order to intimidate his ex-girlfriend.
Without these threats, the total number of harassment cases would be 852, which is still an 18 percent increase over the 2016 figure, the ADL said. Yet the cases were included in the total count "because, regardless of the motivation of any specific perpetrator, Jewish communities were repeatedly traumatised by these assaults on their institutions and threats to their safety," ADL said, noting that they "meet the textbook definition of hate crimes."
The League says that it "is careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with anti-Semitism." It does include "cases of picketing of Jewish religious or cultural institutions for purported support for Israel" as incidents of anti-Semitism, however.
The ADL is a US-based, Jewish, pro-Israel organization that is dedicated to eradicating anti-Semitic hate crime. The organization previously attacked the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement designed to put pressure on Israel over its 50-year military occupation of the West Bank.
"At its core BDS is an anti-Semitic movement." Greenblatt argued at the UN in May 2016.
It is unclear whether the ADL includes pressure from BDS in its definition of anti-Semitism. Given the fact that the BDS movement is frequently active on college campuses, this could significantly alter the number of recorded harassment incidents.
The FBI's latest data on hate crimes, released in November 2017, showed a three percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crime from 2015 to 2016. Anti-Semitic incidents accounted for just over half of religious hate crimes and about 11 percent of all hate crimes, according to 2016 FBI figures.
Holocaust survivor subjected to 'demeaning' body search by TSA agents
https://www.rt.com/usa/420538-auschwitz-survivor-demeaning-tsa-screening/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
A Holocaust survivor claims she was subjected to a "very demeaning body search" by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The ordeal took place after she gave a lecture on her experiences in Auschwitz.
Eva Mozes Kor was forced to undergo an extremely intrusive body search before she was allowed to board her flight home after she gave a lecture in Albuquerque, New Mexico over the weekend. According to CBS News, the 84-year-old Kor stands at four feet nine inches tall and uses a walker to get around; hardly the kind of person that presents a clear threat to national security.
Another very demeaning body search by the TSA - there has to be some way that at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS of Government from this procedure. As I lecture about surviving Auschwitz I barely survive the TSA body search I detest it. That ruined my experience
"There has to be some way that at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS of government from this procedure," she tweeted. "As I lecture about surviving Auschwitz, I barely survive the TSA body search. I detest it."
Kor had just delivered a lecture on her experiences during the Holocaust, where she endured inhumane scientific human experiments conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also known as the 'Angel of Death.' She was just 10 years old at the time.
Kor and her family were taken from their home in Romania and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her parents didn't survive, but Kor and her twin sister Miriam managed to survive both the brutal conditions and the inhumane experiments. Kos would later donate a kidney to her sister.
Kor later moved Indiana in the US where she became famous as an activist and established the Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors (CANDLES) Holocaust Museum. A documentary film about her life and how she came to terms with her ordeal and ultimately learned to forgive her Nazi captors is due to be released in April.
The TSA is notorious for its heavy-handed security procedures and it has often come under intense public scrutiny and criticism since its inception in November 2001, as a response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
These images from the Holocaust are even more chilling in color
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Artist Marina Amaral restored this heartbreaking photo of Auschwitz prisoner Czesława Kwoka.
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These harrowing pictures of a teenage girl awaiting her torture and death at the hands of Nazi torture specialists lay bare the tragic human toll of the Holocaust.
The gaunt face of 14-year-old prisoner Czesława Kwoka stares back through time in a haunting Auschwitz mugshot restored this year by Brazilian artist Marina Amaral.
Taken just minutes after she was beaten to within an inch of her life, the images give a human face to one of the concentration camp's 1.1 million victims.
The painstakingly recolored photos show the teenager trying to hold back tears after being repeatedly struck by a guard's club.
Kwoka was dragged away from her home in southeastern Poland to create living space for ethnic Germans at the height of Nazi domination.
She had the number 26947 tattooed on her arm on arrival, before being savagely beaten by guards as she was dragged off to have her photo taken.
She died 67 days later after Auschwitz scientists injected deadly phenol directly into her heart without using an anesthetic.
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"When we see the photos in black and white, we get the feeling that those events happened only in the history books," Amaral said.
"By restoring the colors on her face, I was able to show the colors of the blood and the bruises, which made everything even more real.
"These people were human beings who had dreams, ambitions, fears, friends, family, and had all this taken from them.
"Unfortunately, Czeslawa was just one among millions of others, but the expression on her face – so much fear, and at the same time so much courage, will stay with me forever."
Damn those Deutschlanders, they won't surrender a seat on the UN Security Council to Israhell. <:^0
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QuoteRemember when the new Germany was keen to put its historical baggage behind it and be Israel's best friend in Europe?
That was then. Now Berlin is set to block a historic chance for raising the Jewish state's international profile.
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But Germany is unlikely to withdraw. So, unless Belgium yields, Israel's hopes for UN respect seem doomed for now — and maybe for the foreseeable future.
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...Thus, Israel's petition to join the most prestigious UN club will likely be rejected, thanks to a late entry by a shameless, clueless, cynical German power play against the Jewish state.
Israeli teen arrested & fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial
https://www.rt.com/news/422073-israel-teen-auschwitz-urination/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
An Israeli teenager was reportedly arrested at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for urinating on a victims' memorial in the former Nazi concentration camp. The unidentified 19-year-old was taken into custody on Wednesday.
At around 1pm local time the student, who was part of a visiting tour, was spotted by a guide at the former death camp urinating on the steps of a monument. He was subsequently detained and questioned by police before paying a fine of more than €1,100 for the act, according to TVP Polonia.
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp built by Germany's Nazi Party as part of their effort to exterminate prisoners following the outbreak of World War II. The network of camps was a major cog in the Holocaust and Hitler's plan to murder Jews.
It's estimated that more than 1.1 million men, women and children were gassed and killed at the camp. Under Polish law anyone who "insults a monument or public place decorated to commemorate a historical event... shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment."
According to local media, the teenager was released after being questioned by investigators. The site in Oswiecim has previously been subject to bizarre and disrespectful behavior; in March 2017 a group of so-called artists slaughtered a sheep at the camp.
The offence occurred at the entrance to the infamous Nazi concentration camp, when a dozen young people in their 20s undressed and chained themselves to the gates. They killed the sheep by stabbing it over a dozen times in the heart. The incident resulted in fines and prison terms for those found to have staged the performance.
Austrian diplomat recalled from Israel for wearing 'Nazi' shirt
https://www.rt.com/news/422080-austria-diplomat-nazi-shirt/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Austria's Foreign Ministry has recalled an employee from its embassy in Israel after he posted a photo of himself on Facebook wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of a Nazi tank division.
Weekly news magazine Falter published screengrabs of Jürgen-Michael Kleppich wearing a green shirt bearing the words "Stand your ground" and "Frundsberg". Frundsberg is a reference to the 10th SS Panzer Division during World War II. The division was named after the 16th century German commander Georg von Frundsberg. Kleppich's Facebook account has since been deleted.
The controversial shirt is sold by Phalanx Europa, a clothing brand that specializes in "patriotic" apparel and markets itself as an online store for the identitarian, white nationalist, movement. Falter also reported that Kleppich previously posted a photo of his grandfather in a Nazi uniform.
Kleppich has been summoned to Vienna to "clarify all circumstances" surrounding his wearing of the shirt, Austria's foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, told the ORF radio station. "If there is a disciplinary cause, a disciplinary procedure will be initiated," she said.
The attaché is also reportedly a member of the right wing Freedom Party which is a junior partner in Austria's coalition government. The party has been at the center of several Nazi-related allegations in recent years. Earlier this year a party official was forced to resign after it emerged that his fraternity published a songbook praising the Holocaust.
The state of Israel has said it will not have any direct contact with politicians from the party, which controls Austria's foreign, interior and defense ministries as part of its government formation pact with the larger People's Party.
Coco Chanel was Definitely a Nazihttp://www.messynessychic.com/2012/04/03/coco-chanel-was-definitely-a-nazi/
QuoteBut I don't think we've really heard enough about it. I don't really think we got a firm grip on the fact that today's most coveted handbags, perfumes and tweed jackets are the creations of a confirmed Nazi spy who cavorted with SS officers at the Hotel Ritz throughout the war and became the richest woman in the world thanks to the Nazi seizure of all Jewish-owned property and business enterprises.
Let's think a little: now, according to this, she designed the "most coveted" items for wealthy women, but, she didn't earn her wealth through talent and skill and effort. No, of course not: the Nazis stole it from the jews, and gave it to her. <:^0 :lmao:
Recently discovered journal reveals tragic story of Poland's Anne Frankhttps://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2018/03/25/recently-discovered-journal-gives-harrowing-insight-into-nazi-occupied-poland/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1
Quote"My dear diary, my dear beloved friend!" she wrote in her florid, schoolgirl script in one of the lined notebooks where she recorded her daily thoughts. "We went through such terrible times together and now the most terrible moment is upon us."
Renia, a Jewish student, had been separated from her parents and younger sister and secreted in an attic on the outskirts of the Jewish ghetto as the Nazis began their death-camp roundups.
"God, protect us all," wrote Renia. "Into your hands I commit myself. You will help me."
By the time she wrote those desperate words, Renia's diary — a journal of school exercise books that she had bound together with thread — was almost 700 pages long. She had started writing it when she was 15 at the end of January 1939, eight months before the German invasion of Poland led to the Second World War.
She kept writing as the chaos unfolded, and days after she recorded her last entry — July 25, 1942 — the diary disappeared.
Holocaust survivor's body found charred, stabbed 11 times in Paris apartment
https://www.rt.com/news/422381-holocaust-survivor-stabbed-paris/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
A man was arrested after the body of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was found in her incinerated Paris apartment with 11 stab wounds. French-Jewish groups are calling on police to find out if the crime was anti-Semitic.
The incident took place at the woman's home on Avenue Philippe Auguste in 11th arrondissement, Le Parisien reported, adding that suicide has been ruled out. The body was discovered on Friday.
The suspect in the attack, who was born in 1989, has been placed in custody, AFP reported, citing a judicial source. According to a source close to the investigation, the first autopsy found stab wounds on the victim's body.
In a public statement on Sunday, the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) said "up to 11 stab wounds" were found on the charred body of the woman, identified only as Mireille K.
The watchdog called for authorities to "make every effort to find and bring the perpetrator to justice," and to determine "whether it was an anti-Semitic crime as everything suggests."
French-Jewish representative group Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF) also called for "total transparency in the current investigation, so that the motives for this barbaric crime are known to all as fast as possible." The group's president, Francis Kalifat, said that he expressed the "emotion and the deep concern of the Jewish population of France."
However, French-Jewish politician Meyer Habib noted in a Facebook post on Sunday that the French authorities are "very careful about linking the murder to an anti-Semitic motive." He added that the Holocaust survivor's family has "no doubt about the anti-Semitic background of the incident."
Recalling the murder of 65-year-old retired school teacher Sarah Halimi, which shook the French Jewish community in April 2017, Habib said in his post that "for the Jews of France, the nightmare continues."
A Franco-Malian assailant beat Halimi to death in her before throwing her from a third-story window. The man, identified as Kada Traore, shouted religious slogans while murdering the woman. The apartment was also located in the 11th arrondissement.
Following months of debate, a French court finally ruled in February that the Halimi case would be prosecuted as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
"For Sarah, it took almost 10 months for the legal authorities to recognize the obvious reality. What about Mireille? The investigation has begun, but I am afraid that after Sarah, Mireille also fell victim to the hatred of Jews, which is increasingly seen in the suburbs, against the backdrop of Islamic radicalization, hatred of Israel but also hatred of France," Habib wrote.
A wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France began in January 2015, after 29 people were taken hostage in a kosher supermarket. By the end of the terrorist's siege, four people had been executed. Ricard Abitbol, president of the Confederation of Jews in France and Friends of Israel told RT in January that anti-Semitic sentiment has been recently on the rise.
"Every day we have people who are hurt, every day we have people who are insulted. We can be hurt by words but we don't mind, but when we are hurt by a knife, a gun, you can't say I don't mind."
In December, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe acknowledged the problem, noting that "In our country, anti-Semitism is alive. It is not new, it is ancient. It is not superficial, it is well-rooted and it is alive."
Discovery of Nazi graffiti in Italian parliament sparks outrage
https://www.rt.com/news/424493-nazi-graffiti-italy-parliament/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
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A Nazi slogan and swastika graffiti found on a bathroom door in the Italian houses of parliament has sparked outrage among politicians and on social media.
The discovery of a verse from one of the Wehrmacht's hymns 'Es braust unser panzer,' translated as 'Our tank roars,' triggered dismay among the deputies of the lower house of the Italian parliament at the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome.
The verse was followed by a second engraving, possibly added as a response, which translates from Italian as 'go to hell...'.
The Nazi-linked etchings were reported to the newly-elected President of the Lower House of Parliament Roberto Fico. However, parliamentary dismay was nothing compared to the public outrage that followed as news of the Nazi graffiti went viral.
Twitter commentators were outraged, slamming the fascist engraving and calling for the culprit to be traced. "Swastika engraved in the Montecitorio bathrooms. It's a known fact that, just like cavemen, fascists communicate with graffiti," one Italian tweeted.
"Swastika in the bathrooms of our Parliament. Please have everyone who had access to that bathroom participate in a calligraphic expertise [handwriting analysis]. Everyone. And if there were external visitors, then they should take part in it as well. It should not end up like this. [We need] the name and the last name of who did this," said another.
Others on social media said the graffiti was unfit for somewhere like Palazzo Montecitorio, which should be "a sacred place for democracy and freedom and instead it is disgraced with such filth."
However, given the sheer number of visitors to the site – from parliamentary staff to journalists, and even students on guided tours – it would likely be impossible to trace who might be responsible for the engravings.
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Infowars never misses an opportunity to give us a daily reminder of holocaust hysteria
Hogg Angers HOLOCAUST Survivors & Relatives With Anti-Gun Book Title '#Never Again' (https://www.infowars.com/hogg-angers-holocaust-survivors-relatives-with-anti-gun-book-title-never-again/)
"You need to educate yourself on what that term was used for, what it means, and the people it represents"QuoteIn the few weeks since the Parkland shooting, anti-Second Amendment activist David Hogg, along with his sister, has written a book about "the foundation of this movement," promising that the proceeds will "help heal the community."
However, Hogg has angered survivors of the Holocaust, and the relatives, by using the term 'Never Again' as the book's title, a phrase that has been historically associated with the genocide committed by Nazis during World War Two.
The Hoggs sent out the following tweets Wednesday:
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It turns out, according to publisher Random House, that the rather vague promise of using the proceeds to "help heal the community," actually means that the money will be donated to anti-Second Amendment Bloomberg group Everytown for Gun Safety, which also had a large hand in organizing the March for Our Lives rally.
"This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America–with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed," the description reads.
The 'Never Again' phrase regarding Parkland was forced into the public consciousness predominantly by CNN and a handful of anti-gun Parkland students.
Now it is being committed to print in book form, many more are unhappy about it.
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Missing Nazi Submarine Found Near Denmark; Spoiler: Hitler Is Probably Not Onboard
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/604169042/missing-nazi-submarine-found-near-denmark-spoiler-hitler-is-probably-not-on-boar
For more than 70 years historians have wondered what happened to a Nazi U-boat that disappeared after going "on the run" following the German surrender to Danish and Dutch forces at the end of World War II. And now there is an answer.
Researchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland, in northern Denmark, say they found the wrecked submarine earlier this month. Apparently, the U-3523, the most advanced sub of its day, has been partially buried in the seabed off the north coast of the country all along.
The discovery has put an end to decades of speculation that upon their defeat a crew of Nazis had used it to flee to South America. CBS reported some conspiracy theorists contended Adolf Hitler was with the officers who had been aboard and allegedly made it safely to Colombia.
"After the war, there were many rumors about top Nazis who fled in U-boats and brought Nazi gold to safety, and the U-3523 fed the rumors," the museum said in a statement published on its website.
"The Type XXI was the first genuine submarine that could sail submerged for a prolonged time, and the U-3523 had a range that would have allowed it to sail nonstop all the way to South America," officials said.
Researchers said no one knows what the intended destination of those onboard the submarine might have been. Nor is it currently evident whether it carries any valuables or additional passengers. What is certain is that all 58 crew members perished.
The museum reported the submarine was struck by British bombers on May 6, 1945, but the location given by the pilot at the time was off by 9 nautical miles. That explains how it went undiscovered for so long.
The museum used scanning technology to locate the sub, which was found 123 meters (404 feet) deep.
In the statement, the museum said: U-3523 appeared on the screen during the museum's scan of the seabed ten nautical miles north of Skagen, and the picture was very surprising. Most unusual the whole fore part of the U-boat lies buried in the seabed, while the stern is standing 20 meters [66 feet] above the bottom.
If you have a crock pot, or just any old pot that you throw stuff into to cook, you can blame Hitler. <lol>
QuoteON OCTOBER 1, 1933, GERMANS sat down to an unusually frugal Sunday lunch. For decades, even centuries, the norm had been a roast dinner, usually characterized by a great, bronzed hunk of animal, flanked by potatoes. This was the crowning glory of the week—a meal to be savored and celebrated. But that day, nine months after the Nazis first came to power, Germans ate simple, inexpensive food. Some ate Irish stew; others steaming pots of pea soup, made with Speck and dried beans. Another common dish was macaroni Milanese, a stodgy predecessor to mac and cheese flecked with a confetti of rosy ham. All these dishes had three important things in common: They were inexpensive; they were made in a single pot; and they had been officially sanctioned by the Nazis.
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The Forgotten Nazi History of 'One-Pot Meals'
Officials believed the stews and soups had the power to unite Germany.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-pot-meals-nazi-germany-eintopf
ON OCTOBER 1, 1933, GERMANS sat down to an unusually frugal Sunday lunch. For decades, even centuries, the norm had been a roast dinner, usually characterized by a great, bronzed hunk of animal, flanked by potatoes. This was the crowning glory of the week—a meal to be savored and celebrated. But that day, nine months after the Nazis first came to power, Germans ate simple, inexpensive food. Some ate Irish stew; others steaming pots of pea soup, made with Speck and dried beans. Another common dish was macaroni Milanese, a stodgy predecessor to mac and cheese flecked with a confetti of rosy ham. All these dishes had three important things in common: They were inexpensive; they were made in a single pot; and they had been officially sanctioned by the Nazis.
This was the Eintopfsonntag campaign—a Nazi push to make German families eat one-pot meals. Eventually, it would endure well into the Second World War and popularize these stews, soups, and pilafs in Germany for generations to come.
The impetus was an annual charity drive, the Winterhilfswerk, run by the Nazis to feed and clothe veterans and the poor throughout the winter. Wealthier Germans were expected to pitch in as much as they could, but actually getting people to cough up cash had proven challenging. So, in October 1933, the Nazis developed a new campaign centered around these one-pot meals.
A public Eintopf, in Worms, Germany, held to raise funds for the charity campaign. BUNDESARCHIV/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
On the first Sunday of every month, they decreed, every German family should replace their traditional roast with a thriftier one-pot meal—an Eintopf, from the German ein Topf, or "one pot"—and set aside the savings for the charity drive. On those Sunday afternoons, collectors around the country knocked on doors to recuperate the money. Even families who didn't want to cook were expected to join in: Restaurants were legally obligated to offer appropriately inexpensive Eintopf meals at a reduced rate on the designated Sundays.
At least initially, Eintopfsonntagen were quite popular. People seem to have enjoyed the challenge of finding meals that fit the bill, and the campaign raised hundreds of thousands of Reichsmarks for charity.
Its popularity was aided by extensive government efforts. As gatekeepers to the German kitchen, housewives and mothers were especially targeted. In time, a whole genre of cookbooks for these kinds of recipes appeared, bolstered by suggestions in magazines and newspapers for one-pot meals. Sauerkraut with lard and broad beans was a classic example—traditional, inexpensive German food that used scraps of meat to canny effect. The government even released children's books about Eintopf and promotional photos of Adolf Hitler sitting down to a steaming pot of stew. The message was clear: Everyone is doing this, and participation is a national obligation.
The Blogger Quietly Preserving Maryland's Culinary History
In fact, while Hitler officially supported the campaign, he probably did not participate privately. By 1937, he was known internationally as a vegetarian, and had likely been eating a mostly plant-based diet for some time. While Eintopf meals were occasionally meatless, they often featured some bacon or beef. On top of that, Hitler vacillated between preferring a raw diet—he blamed cooked foods for cancer—or extravagant vegetarian meals, occasionally set off with spoonfuls of caviar. Eintopf recipes, on the other hand, were plain, stodgy, and always served hot.
But charity and thrift do not fully explain the Nazis' zeal for one-pot meals. There was an equally important allegorical element: A single pot meal was democratic and accessible, blurring class lines and undermining bourgeois eating culture. All across the country, Nazi propaganda materials theorized, people of the same race would eat the same diet at the same time: common sacrifice for a common purpose. More than that, writes Alice Weinreb in Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, "Cooking in 'one pot' (ein Topf) was supposed to symbolize the Nazi creation of 'one people' (ein Volk), the crafting of a delicious casserole by combining diverse ingredients analogous to the uniting of the various native German peoples into a single and self-sustaining whole." (Of course, this so-called diversity—Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon—was as limited and homogenous as many of the suggested dishes.)
To take part in Eintopfsonntag, Germans had to experience deprivation for the good of the collective—a common, unifying Nazi theme. In a 1935 speech, Hitler castigated those who did not take part or give as much as they could to the Wintershilfswerk: "You have never known hunger yourself or you would know what a burden hunger is," he said. "Whoever does not participate is a characterless parasite of the German people." Those who greedily refused a day's abstinence were said to be "stealing" from the collective. As one regional report put it, "Just as faithful Christians unite in the holy sacrament of the Last Supper in service of their lord and master, so too does the National Socialist Germany celebrate this sacrificial meal as a solemn vow to the unshakeable people's community."
What went into the country's pots was equally symbolic. Eintopf recipes favored indigenous ingredients—root vegetables, dried fruit, German pork—and Nazi nutritionists claimed that the best way to nourish the Aryan body was through a racially appropriate diet. In practice, this meant German-grown potatoes and produce. One officially sanctioned cookbook was entitled: "Housewives, Now You Must Use What the Field Gives You! Healthy, Nourishing Meals from Native Soil."
The aesthetic of Eintopfsonntag similarly drew from a kind of manufactured nationalist nostalgia. Outside of certain northern regions, Eintopf meals had not been popular before the campaign, and the word was unheard of before 1930. Yet publicity campaigns included sentimental images of one-pot meals, eaten in the trenches of the First World War, and rosy-cheeked peasant families tucking into bowls of stew. In the simplicity of an Eintopf meal, Nazis presented a romantic, bourgeois view of some radical, agrarian future.
Over time, however, people grew disillusioned with the campaign. The rich wanted their lavish roasts back, and the poor resented the loss of income. In the underground press, countercultural cartoons criticized the Eintopf obligation. "Which Eintopf dish is the most widespread in Germany?" asked one. The answer: Gedämpfte Zungen. Zungen means "tongues," and Gedämpfte means both "steamed" and "silenced." Eventually, amid the chaos of the Second World War, the campaign petered out.
In the end, however, Eintopfsonntagen proved more consequential than the Nazis likely anticipated. More than 80 years later, Eintopf dishes remain popular in modern Germany, and the word is still commonly used—though with scarcely a thought to its strange, racially charged origins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGoDgRO2B0
Kippah and the city: German Jews urged to avoid wearing skull caps after Berlin attack
https://www.rt.com/news/425038-germany-kippah-danger-attack/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
A Jewish community leader in Germany has advised Jews to not publicly wear kippahs in parts of big cities in the wake of a recent anti-Semitic assault on a man wearing one in Berlin.
Germany is becoming increasingly unsafe for Jews to publicly identify themselves amid a wave of anti-Semitic incidents, Josef Schuster, the head of Germany's Central Council of Jews, said in an interview with local radio RBB24. The comment follows the April 16 attack on Jewish man Adam Armush and his friend in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. Armush, who was wearing a kippah – a traditional Jewish head garment – filmed and shared the assault online, provoking a massive reaction. In response, the local Jewish community has planned a protest dubbed "Berlin wears a kippah," which has since been supported in other cities.
However, while Schuster believes that defiantly wearing a kippah would be the right response "in principle," he advised Jews to stay on the safe side in big cities, and maybe settle for a baseball cap instead. In "problem neighborhoods with large Muslim populations... it might be better to choose a different head covering," he said.
When directly asked if he links the rise in anti-Semitic incidents to the recent influx of migrants and refugees from Muslim-majority countries, Schuster insisted that it contributed to it, but was not the only factor. He believes that racist and xenophobic sentiments still linger within a sizeable portion of the German population, Muslims included. At the same time, he called to avoid "casting suspicion on all Muslims."
The assault on Armush, who was confronted by a young man swinging his belt and shouting "Yahudi," which is Arabic for "Jew," became all the more controversial after it was uncovered that the attacker was a 19-year-old Syrian refugee.
The problem of Muslim immigrants bringing anti-Semitism into Germany has since been publicly acknowledged, even by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose unchanging course for an open-door policy has cost her a chunk of her former ratings and boosted her right-wing opponents.
"We have a new phenomenon, as we have many refugees among who there are, for example, people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country," Merkel said an interview with Israeli Channel 10. While she was reacting to the assault on Armush, it was only the latest case of anti-Semitism in German media's spotlight.
In March, a report emerged, claiming a Jewish Girl was verbally assaulted by her Muslim classmate, who threatened to beat and even kill her because of her religion. Another case took place in Berlin where a Jewish student was forced to change schools, following violent bullying by classmates.
Merkel's party CDU and the sister Bavarian party CSU have been trying to score some points with frustrated voters ever since CDU showed the worst election result since 1949 at the 2017 polls. Earlier, CDU/CSU announced that they were preparing legislation that could see migrants expressing anti-Semitic views deported from the country. The conservative CSU has recently symbolically introduced Christian crosses in public institutions to strengthen the display of Bavarian "cultural identity and Christian-western influence."
They've got Hitler's teeth. :lmao:
French Researchers: Hitler Really Did Die In The Bunker In 1945
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/612932451/french-researchers-hitler-really-did-die-in-the-bunker-in-1945
A new forensic study of remains jealously guarded by Russian intelligence for seven decades has determined with certainty what historians have always assumed — with World War II irredeemably lost by Germany, Adolf Hitler did in fact kill himself at his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.
However, the history books have not satisfied everyone. Alternative notions have abounded in the tabloid press and even in some mainstream publications — most involving the Fuhrer's escape from Germany at the end of the war.
A team of French pathologists, publishing in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Internal Medicine, were recently allowed to study a set of teeth kept in Moscow since the end of the war.
The researchers explain that Hitler had notoriously bad teeth and by the time he died, at age 56, only a few of his own remained. According to Deutsche Welle, "The teeth matched descriptions provided by Hitler's dentist and revealed no trace of meat — consistent with the fact that the Führer was vegetarian."
The teeth were also readily identifiable because of "conspicuous and unusual prostheses and bridgework" described by Hitler's personal dentist, Hugo Blaschke, and his assistant, Kathe Heusermann, according to DW.
"The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt," lead pathologist Philippe Charlier was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying. "Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945."
"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler," Charlier was further quoted by AFP as saying. "He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine; he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon."
That's right, the moon. As The Telegraph wrote in 2009: "The Nazis' development late in the war of high-technology weapons – including the V2, an early ballistic missile, and the Me 262 jet fighter – inspired some to believe that Germany had secretly won the space race.
It was also suggested that the Nazis had made contact with UFOs and that they had made it to the Moon as early as 1942."
UFOs and moon bases aside, several prominent Nazis did escape after the war, many of them finding refuge in South America, where right-wing regimes, such as Argentina, welcomed or tolerated them.
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Some of Hitler's last relatives are living secret lives on Long Island
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives-are-living-secret-lives-on-long-island/
They're the Hitlers next door.
Some of Adolf Hitler's last surviving relatives have been living under the radar on Long Island for decades, according to a new report.
Hitler's great-nephews Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston — the only living descendants of the dictator's paternal side — live quiet lives in the New York suburbs and fly American flags in their yards, according to Germany's Bild newspaper, which came knocking at their doors recently.
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The three men are the sons of Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK to the Fuehrer's half-brother, Alois Hitler Jr.
Alois, who left home at 14 and wound up working as a waiter in Dublin, split when "Willy" Hitler was young, according to the New Yorker.
But Willy wound up visiting his estranged dad in Germany in 1929, where he attended a Nuremberg rally. He then returned to the UK and began giving interviews to the press as Hitler's "English nephew" — until he was summoned to Berlin to face a furious Fuehrer, the magazine reports.
"What did you tell the newspaper? Who gave you permission to appoint yourself an authority on my private affairs?" he fumed, according to Willy's mom, Brigid.
"No one must drag my private affairs into the newspapers. I have never said one word they can use. And now there is a 'nephew' to tell them all the miserable little details they want to know."
Willy later traveled to New York, where he continued to give lectures on his infamous family, and eventually registered for military service — joining the US Navy to fight in World War II
After the war, he moved to Patchogue with his German wife and changed the family's name — first to Hiller and then Stuart-Houston, according to Bild.
He died in 1987 at the age of 76, and his now-middle-aged sons have resolutely refused to speak with the media when reporters have come knocking over the years — but Alexander finally broke his silence when Bild showed up recently asking for his opinion on German politics.
The 60-something revealed that he likes German Chancellor Angela Merkel and would vote for her if he could.
"I like her. She's good. She seems to be an intelligent and smart person," said Alexander, whose middle name is Adolf, according to Bild.
But although he and his brothers are all staunch Republicans, Alexander said he doesn't care for the current president.
"The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites," he told the newspaper.
"Some things that Trump says are all right. Most of them are ...," he added, trailing off, when asked what he doesn't like about Trump. "It's the way he does it that annoys me. And I just don't like liars."
Brian and Louis, who live together nearby, wouldn't talk to the reporter. One of their neighbors said she knew their family history, but said they're "excellent people."
"You can't be blamed for your relatives," she told the paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRfdXvyUoY
This German group renovates Holocaust survivors' homes in Israel for free (https://www.jta.org/2018/10/12/news-opinion/the-telegraph/german-group-renovates-holocaust-survivors-homes-israel-free)
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Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski had an unexpected encounter on a recent flight to Israel.
Wishedski, who was flying on Monday from Basel, Switzerland, where he works as a Chabad emissary, was praying when a man seated next to him handed him a piece of paper.
The note was from an organization called the Saxon Friends of Israel and described how the group brings volunteers from Germany to Israel to renovate Holocaust survivors' apartments for free.
The two started talking and the man, a house painter named Roland, said that he had been traveling to Israel twice a year for around five years from his home in the south German state of Baden-Wurttemberg to do the volunteer work.
"I cannot change or repair the whole world, I cannot repair all my people did 70 years ago,'" the rabbi recalled 54-year-old Roland telling him. "All I can do is painting. It's what I'm doing, bringing a little bit of good to the world."
Wishedski, who was born in Israel but has been living in Basel for 16 years, was touched by the selfless story.
"This was very, very good because sometimes we give up because we can't change the entire world, and he told me that if you can change the house of one woman, it's worth it," the rabbi told JTA.
Wishedski snapped a selfie with Roland and shared it on his Facebook profile. The post, which he wrote in Hebrew, received over two thousand likes. Writer and public speaker Emanuel Miller translated it into English in a post that received over three thousand likes.
This promotional video from 2013 gives a little more information on the Saxon Friends of Israel and shows them in action fixing Holocaust survivors' houses. One volunteer explains that both of his parents were avid Nazis and that he is the only one in his family who wants to "deal with the issue."
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Taiwanese Salon Finally Covers Swastika Logo
https://tendaily.com.au/news/world/a180920jne/taiwanese-salon-finally-covers-swastika-logo-20180920
A Tawainese business, named 'Berlin Hair Salon', has finally covered swastika signs out the front of the store.
Owner Hsu Chen-yang originally defended the logo, and told EBC they were simply four razor blades and had no connection to the Nazi party.
He claimed people had urinated and defecated out the front of his store, and had been widely condemned by German and Jewish groups in the area.
"We are shocked and disgusted to hear that a barber shop in Hsinchu is openly displaying the Nazi symbol on its door sign," the German Institute Taipei wrote on its official Facebook on Tueaday.
"Displaying Nazi symbols for commercial use is an insult to the victims of the Holocaust! This institute appeals to the store manager to remove the Nazi symbols immediately."
Bowing to public pressure, Hsu covered the logo with black marker, and said he had contacted a designer about a new logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=pSjzWQVUfoY
This boxer survived the Holocaust by winning fights in Auschwitzhttps://www.wearethemighty.com/history/boxer-survived-auchwitz-salamo-arouch
Salamo Arouch literally fought for survival during World War II. But he wasn't a soldier, he was a boxer of Jewish-Greek descent. That means the All-Balkans Middleweight Champ ended up in Auschwitz when the Nazis rolled into his home city of Thessalonica, Greece, in 1943.
That's where he started fighting for his life.
Before his internment in the Nazi death camp, Arouch's boxing record was an undefeated 24-0. He likely never imagined how high that number would climb during his life — or what was in stakes throughout the 200-plus bouts he would have to fight. When the Nazis captured Thessalonica, they rounded up the city's 47,000 Jewish citizens and shipped them away. A young Salamo and his family ended up at Auschwitz.
Almost the moment he arrived, a car drove up and out stepped the commandant, who asked if any of the new prisoners were boxers or wrestlers. Dutifully, the young Arouch rose his hand. He had been coached by his father and won his first fight at age 14. But the Nazis didn't take the young fighter at his word. They drew a circle in the dirt and gave him gloves before ordering he and another Jewish boy to fight on the spot.
Arouch squared off with boy. Both were exhausted and frightened, but the Greek came out on top, knocking out his opponent within minutes. Immediately, the guards presented him with another opponent. This time, it was a six-foot-tall Czech man. Arouch knocked him cold, too.
This was the first of hundreds of fights that Salamo Arouch would have to endure in the coming years. He would be led to a smoky warehouse two or three times a week and forced to fight anyone they could pit him against in a cockfight-like ring.
"We fought until one went down or they got sick of watching. They wouldn't leave until they saw blood," he recalled. For his part, Arouch managed to keep his strength up because he was given light duties as an office clerk and was fed more and better food than the other prisoners. He managed to eke a win out of every battle, with only two draws due to suffering from dysentery. Soon, he began to realize he was leading each defeated opponent to their fate.
"The loser would be badly weakened," Arouch told People magazine in 1990, "and the Nazis shot the weak."
As he fought for his life, his brother and father perished at the hands of the Nazis. His father was gassed because he grew weak. His brother was shot because he refused to remove gold teeth from the bodies of corpses. The young Salamo continued to box, but soon found himself at Bergen-Belson, a camp that killed some 50,000 people. He would not be among those.
The British 11th Armoured Division liberated the camp on Apr. 15, 1945, one year and 11 months to the day after he and his family were first shipped to Auschwitz. It was there he met Marta Yechiel, who would become his wife. The two moved to Palestine to start a new life, but war came quickly and the onetime member of the Greek Army joined the armed forces of a new country, Israel, and fought to keep it a free and safe homeland for Jewish people — especially those like himself, scarred by the Holocaust.
He came to run a successful shipping business out of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. When his life's story was made into a movie, Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe in 1989, he served as an advisor to the film. Since it was shot at Auchwitz itself, it was not a good experience for the old survivor.
"It was a terrible experience," he said of returning to the ruined camp. "In my mind, I saw my parents and began weeping. I cried and cried and could not sleep."
Arouch suffered from a stroke in 1994, one from which he never fully recovered. He died on Apr. 26, 2009 at age 86.
The long-lost Holocaust diary of a Polish Jewish teen is bittersweet
https://qz.com/1457821/the-lost-holocaust-diary-of-a-polish-jewish-teen-is-bittersweet/
You might imagine that life for a Jewish teenager in Poland during World War II, under Soviet Communist and Nazi German rule, would be gloomy. And you'd be right, mostly.
But the long-hidden holocaust diary of Renia Springer—to be published in English by St. Martin's Press in 2019, and excerpted by the Smithsonian—reveals that, even as the world burns around her, a teenage girl remains concerned with boys and school and muses about whether it's better to be famous or happy.
The night of shattered glass
Eighty years ago today—on the night of November 9, 1938—violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and then Czechoslovakia after a 17-year old Polish Jew shot a German foreign official over the deportation of his family. For 48 hours, violent mobs destroyed hundreds of synagogues, Jewish businesses, schools, and homes, murdered 91 Jews, and rounded up 30,000 men to be sent to concentration camps. Nazi officials called the events Kristallnacht, meaning "Crystal Night" or "The Night of Broken Glass."
Renia Spiegel's diary begins on January 31, 1939, just a few months later. At the time, she is a 15-year-old in Przemysl, Poland. The nation is divided between German and Soviet rule. Renia is living with her grandparents in the rural town while her mother is stuck in Warsaw, which is Nazi territory, and her father guards the family farm. Her first journal entry describes her old life: I used to live in a beautiful manor house on the Dniester River. I loved it there. There were storks on old linden trees. Apples glistened in the orchard, and I had a garden with neat, charming rows of flowers. But those days will never return...Now I live in Przemysl, at my grandmother's house. But the truth is, I have no real home. That's why sometimes I get so sad that I have to cry...But I also have joyous moments, and there are so many of them. So many!
Unlike Anne Frank, who documented her life in hiding in Amsterdam, Renia, for three years until her death at 18, lives aboveground, observing the war firsthand. That first winter, she attends school and plans parties, discussing her best friend and their mutual crush on a teacher in the diary. She documents her sister's hopes to become a movie star and her own everyday observations. Renia writes: It's raining today. On rainy days, I stand by the window and count the tears trickling down the windowpane...People might laugh at me, but sometimes I think inanimate objects can talk. Actually, they're not inanimate at all. They have souls, just like people. Sometimes I think the water in the drainpipes giggles. Other people call this giggle different names, but it never even crosses their minds that it's just that: a giggle.
The spring is more grim for Renia and for Europe. The diary takes a more serious turn. On April 2, 1939, she writes, "I'm learning French now and if there's no war I might go to France. I was supposed to go before, but Hitler took over Austria, then Czechoslovakia, and who knows what he'll do next. In a way, he's affecting my life, too."
By the fall, there's no more question that Hitler is a force in Renia's life. She writes on Sept. 6, "War has broken out! Since last week, Poland has been fighting with Germany. England and France also declared war on Hitler and surrounded him on three sides. But he isn't sitting idly."
Renia's journal describes the local war efforts. She helps dig air-raid trenches, sews gas masks, takes shifts serving tea to soldiers and collecting food for them. "In a word, I'm fighting alongside the rest of the Polish nation," she writes. "I'm fighting and I'll win!"
Four days later, she is much less hopeful. Przemysl is attacked and Renia, her sister, and grandfather flee the burning city in the middle of the night on foot. They escape to Lwow, which is soon invaded by Russian soldiers. In Lwow, Renia waits in long lines for bread and wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of air-raid sirens.
By October, she's back in Przemsyl and writes, "Those Russians are such cute boys (though not all of them). One of them was determined to marry me." The following month, Renia starts having a crush on a schoolmate and the journal is full of teenage angst. She worries that she doesn't know how to flirt.
One year after the journal begins, in January 1940, Renia declares that she hates everything and lives in fear of violence and searches. By springtime, life takes an even more terrifying turn. She writes: Terrible things have been happening. There were unexpected nighttime raids that lasted three days. People were rounded up and sent somewhere deep inside Russia. So many acquaintances of ours were taken away. There was terrible screaming at school. Girls were crying. They say 50 people were packed into one cargo train car. You could only stand or lie on bunks. Everybody was singing "Poland has not yet perished."
Despite this, she confides to her journal, "About that Holender boy I mentioned: I fell in love, I chased him like a madwoman, but he was interested in some girl named Basia."
On love and war
Renia's journal is full of these seeming contradictions. She alternates seamlessly between the political and personal because that is the story of her life. One moment, she's a smitten teen, on the other, an endangered species.
On June 26, 1941, Renia admits, "I'm weak with fear. War again, war between Russia and Germany. The Germans were here, then they retreated...I want to live so badly...You saved me before, save me now. God, thank you for saving me."
Ultimately, her prayers go unanswered. On July 14, 1942, Renia is forced to move to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl. She writes: Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world.
On the last day of her life, July 30, 1942, just after her 18th birthday, Renia repeats her prayer, writing, "Hear, O, Israel, save us, help us." She is executed that night. The last lines in the journal are written by her boyfriend, Zygmunt Schwarzer, who writes of Renia's death and that of his parents, "Three shots! Three lives lost! All I can hear are shots, shots."
Schwarzer survived concentration camps and the war and eventually moved to the US. He gave Renia's journal to her mother and sister, who also survived and emigrated to the US, in the 1950s. They refused to read it.
But Renia's niece finally convinced her mother a few years ago that the 700-page diary is an important record, all the more so in a time when few survivors of that war remain. Soon, the diary will be released in English. It is a simultaneously harrowing and heartening account, a timely and poignant reminder to never forget.
France rocked by 69-percent rise in anti-Semitism as acts become 'relentless', PM warns
https://www.rt.com/news/443553-antisemitism-rise-france-prime-minister/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
After a two-year drop, France has been hit by a staggering 69-percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the past nine months, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday.
The French prime minister used the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of November 9, 1938, when Jews were "systematically" targeted by the Nazis, to warn about the "relentless" acts of anti-Semitism taking place in his country.
"We are very far from being finished with anti-Semitism," Philippe said on his Facebook page, branding the number of acts perpetrated against Jews "relentless."
Despite seeing a drop in offences in the past two years, France has in the past nine months been hit by a 69-percent increase, he said. Although the PM failed to specify how many anti-Semitic acts were recorded in the period, French newspaper Le Monde previously said that 311 incidents were reported last year.
"Every aggression perpetrated against one of our citizens because they are Jewish echoes like the breaking of new crystal," Philippe said, before outlining government plans to crack down on the rise in anti-Jewish sentiment.
He said the government will be testing a group of magistrates and investigators to help tackle the issue. A national team will also be mobilized in schools from mid-November to aid teachers in fending off growing anti-Semitism, while there will also be a legislative process aimed at the withdrawal of hateful content online.
According to French news outlet France24, Jews in France make up less than one percent of the population, and yet they were victims of 40 percent of crime registered as racially or religiously motivated in 2017.
In March France was shocked when the body of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was found incinerated in her apartment in Paris and with 11 stab wounds. A man was arrested over what is suspected to have been an anti-Semitic attack.
Less than a year before that, 65-year-old teacher Sarah Halimi was beaten to death by a Franco-Malian man before he threw her from a third-story window. The case was prosecuted as an anti-Semitic crime.
Amazing. Let's see...the war ended in 1945, and now it's 2018, so any holohoax "survivor" would be at least 74 years old, even if they were a tiny infant. These people, on average, must be 85 years old, so, it sounds like that time in the concentration camp was good for their health.
Hundreds Of Holocaust Survivors Speak Up About Anti-Semitism At Global Hanukkah Event
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/international-holocaust-survivors-night-2018_us_5c06f5e1e4b0680a7ec9d41f
Holocaust survivors gathered in four cities around the world on Tuesday to mark the third night of Hanukkah ― and to speak up about the horrors of anti-Semitism.
Menorah-lighting ceremonies brought hundreds of survivors together in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow and South Orange, New Jersey. It's a sight that is becoming increasingly rare, as the survivors advance in age.
Roman Kent, an 89-year-old Polish-born Jew who survived three Nazi-run concentration camps, told a gathering of more than 100 survivors at South Orange's Oheb Shalom Congregation that he hoped their presence would serve as a "beacon to future generations."
Kent said that for years his "horrific memories" of the Holocaust made it difficult for him to celebrate Jewish holidays and tradition. Now he thinks there are many similarities between the story of Hanukkah and the stories of Holocaust survivors.
"Both are instances of the few surviving oppression by the many, the mighty persecuting the powerless and, ultimately, the light banishing the darkness as a symbol of Jewish survival," Kent said in his speech. "Everyone here today is a testimony to this."
The second annual International Holocaust Survivors Night was organized by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a New York-based organization that helps survivors negotiate compensation claims.
In Berlin, about 400 survivors gathered at a Jewish community center to light the menorah and eat dinner together, according to the Claims Conference. Dozens of survivors and relatives gathered at a community center in Moscow, The Associated Press reported, marking the first year this event took place in Russia. In Jerusalem, more than 250 survivors participated in a celebration at the Western Wall.
Shlomo Gur, vice president of the organization's Israel branch, told the AP that reports of rising anti-Semitism in Europe have given the event an increased sense of urgency.
"We need to make sure more and more people remember," Gewirtz said. "This event gives us hope — it's an expression of overcoming the tragedy, bringing people from darkness into light."
Anti-Semitism has also been on the rise in the U.S., where the Anti-Defamation League has recorded a recent spike in reports of vandalism and cemetery desecration.
Hanna Keselman, an 87-year-old survivor who spoke at the New Jersey event, told HuffPost that she felt it was important for people to listen to stories about the Holocaust because "anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head all over again."
"It's frightening, having gone through this before, even though I was a child," Keselman said. "It's something I didn't want to live through again."
German politicians, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors light a menorah at a Jewish community center in Berlin.
Keselman was born in Germany in 1930 but spent a large portion of her childhood moving around Europe, separated from her parents, in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother survived the war, but her father died in the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. Keselman and her mother immigrated to the U.S. in 1947.
Keselman said that she felt "terribly frightened" after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, which left 11 people dead and is believed to be the deadliest attack on a Jewish community in American history.
"It was bad enough to be insulted and to have people marching and screaming against the Jews," Keselman said, referring to last year's white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. "[The shooting] was absolutely taking another step that should never have happened."
Keselman said she thinks Holocaust survivors should continue to speak up as long as they can ― but worries that it may be too late already.
"I don't know what the future will bring," she said. "Our children and grandchildren will have to live through these frightening times."
Holocaust Survivor Reunites with the Family That Helped Hide Her from the Nazis After 73 Years
https://people.com/human-interest/holocaust-survivor-reunites-family-hid-her-nazis-after-73-years/
In November 2014, Charlotte Adelman received a message 70 years in the making — through Facebook. The young boy whose family had hid her from the Nazis in a cellar for nine months during the Holocaust wanted to reconnect.
But the French-born Adelman, who now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, had "never forgotten" Alain Quatreville.
Adelman, 86, was only 11 in 1943 when her Jewish family was separated, and her father orchestrated a daring escape to Eastern France, where she lived in hiding with the Quatrevilles for nearly two years.
Quatreville's message, Adelman says, left her "enthusiastic."
"How a boy could put so much effort into finding me again?" she says of Quatreville, adding, "I was pinching myself."
Adelman spent her early years in Paris, the daughter of a tailor, Herszle Rozencwajg. "We had hot water and a shower," she says, "so we were very, very fortunate." But in 1940, when Germany occupied France during World War II, Adelman says "everything changed."
"We weren't supposed to be walking with the Germans on the same pavement," she explains.
Two years after the occupation, Adelman's mother, Rajzla Rozencwajg, took the children to an orphanage, while she and her husband were placed on a truck to be taken to a "camp" with other Jews.
Adelman's father escaped, but her mother was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Herszle worked quick to negotiate his daughter's rescue to Eastern France, where he had been promised safe stay for Adelman if he worked for the Germans.
For more on Charlotte Adelman's incredible story, pick up the new issue of People on newsstands Friday.
The Quartevilles — with no connection to Adelman or her family — agreed to take her in, and she was smuggled out of Paris in a noodle truck. "Everything was clandestine," she details.
"I never knew what was going to happen to me," she recounts of her escape. "I was always the lookout."
At first, Adelman spent several months attending school alongside the Quartrevilles' two children — Ginette, then 18, and Alain, only 4.
With German presence looming, the Quatrevilles moved Adelman to the cellar of the bombed out home next door.
"[They] put me there with a mattress, a bucket of water to wash myself, and a basin, and a kerosene lamp, and a bucket to make," she recounts. "It had no window, it was dark, I only knew the time of the day was, when [Ginette] brought me breakfast, lunch, and dinner. "
The threat was all too real, Adelman recalls.
"One night I said, 'Please, I cannot stay here. Let me go upstairs, and sleep in a regular bed,' " she recounts. "Well, that night the Germans came."
She says, "I heard them coming in the front door, so I slid under the bed, against the wall. I put my little hands in my mouth, because I was afraid to scream."
Ultimately escaping detection, Adelman spent six months with the Quatrevilles after the war ended, before her father (who joined the resistance) was able to return. Adelman's mother died in Auschwitz in January 1943, while her brother Max had been taken in by another family.
"It was a miracle I survived," she says. "It was like something was looking over me."
Adelman relocated to the United States in 1957, after meeting her husband Alex Adelman in Canada. The couple — and parents of 2 — were married for 50 years before his death in 2011.
"I never forgot the Quatrevilles," Adelman says, though.
After reconnecting online through Facebook Messenger, a plan was hatched to reunite. "He really wanted my mom to come to his little town," Adelman's daughter, Roz Goldberg, 55, says. "I knew it was going to be emotional, and I didn't know if she was capable of that."
With the help of Facebook Messenger, Adelman's community and a GoFundMe campaign, her and her family were able to travel to France in July.
Adelman reconnected with Alain, now 78, at the Wall of Names in Paris at the Mémorial de la Shoah — where her mother is memorialized.
Says Quatreville, a retired math professor who's married with three children and lives in the French Ardennes, "This meeting made Charlotte real to me. Until that day it was a very distant childhood memory, and she was almost unreal."
He adds, "My mother waited all her life to see Charlotte again."
"We met at the Shoah, and I lit a candle for my mom, and he came to help me to light the candle," Adelman says.
Then, they traveled to Beaumont-en-Argonne and revisited the home where Adelman spent many months — and Quatreville's sister Ginette, now 93.
Says Goldberg, "All the stories that my mom's been telling for years and years and years, all of it came to life."
"It brought it all back," says Adelman, who has kept in touch with Quatreville since. "It was very emotional. It reminded me I never knew how I was going to get out."
Adelman tells her story now to youth groups and beyond, but once didn't even utter a word of her experience to her own children.
"When I lost [my husband] seven years ago, I felt, for me to be strong again, I have to tell the story to other kids, and to other people," Adelman says. "I don't want my story to vanish. It should be always around for people to know what happened."
Saved by a faulty gas chamber: Holocaust survivor, 91, reveals the 'miracle' that kept her alive in Auschwitz and her determination to start a new life in Australia - as far away from the horrors of Europe as possible
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6407765/Czech-Holocaust-survivor-Auschwitz-start-new-life-family-Australia.html
He survived the Holocaust, only to be struck and killed by a car in Oregon
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/12/us/holocaust-survivor-alter-wiener-killed-trnd/index.html?no-st=1544716196
A Holocaust survivor who was trying to make sure the world never forgot what happened fell short of finishing his life's work.
Alter Wiener, a 92-year-old from outside Portland, Oregon, was struck and killed by a car on Tuesday evening, Hillsboro Police said.
Wiener had been walking just before 5 p.m. when a driver hit him, Hillsboro Police Sergeant Eric Bunday said Wednesday.
He was walking outside the crosswalk and wearing dark clothing on the rainy night and the driver didn't see him. The driver will not be charged or cited, Bunday said.
"I'm just very sorry. He was an incredible man with one impressive legacy," Bunday said.
A life of struggle turned into a legacy
Wiener had been the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.
His father was killed when he was 13, according to his autobiography. He spent three years in concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz camp. When he was liberated in 1945, he weighed only 80 pounds.
Wiener detailed his experiences in a 2007 memoir, titled "From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography."
Wiener was one of the last remaining survivors in the Portland area, where he had lived since 2000. He shared his life story with nearly 1,000 groups at schools, churches, synagogues and more.
He was working to persuade Oregon state legislators to create and pass a bill that would mandate educators teach students about the Holocaust and genocide. It was dubbed the Genocide Curriculum bill.
Wiener recently shared his desire to educate, inspire and spread love throughout America with the Oregon State Senate Education Committee.
"Be better, rather than bitter," Wiener told the committee in September.
A community in mourning
Cynthia Peterson, an outreach librarian in Hillsboro, said she had the pleasure of knowing Wiener for the past decade. She brought books to him at his home.
"I'm devastated. It's hard when we lose any of our patrons, but Alter was an author and he has a huge story to tell and he wanted it told," Peterson said. "It meant the world to him to educate all of Oregon. We all adored him, and this is a huge loss."
"To me he's immortal because he has left these pieces for us and we must use them to educate the next generation," she added.
The Hillsboro Public Library also shared a tribute to Wiener, who spoke at the library many times, most recently in May 2016.
"His story is at once moving, heartbreaking, and hopeful, and should be watched and shared by everyone. Rest in peace, Alter," the library wrote on Facebook.
The Jewish Family & Child Service of Portland said Wiener was a beloved member of its Holocaust survivor community.
"His passing is a great loss to the Jewish community. Alter was one of only a small number of lasting Holocaust survivors in the greater Portland area," the group wrote on Facebook.
"At 92 and with so many ailments we did not expect dad to be immortal but are still reeling from the shock of the way that he did leave this earth," his son wrote. "His reputation in the community preceded him; the officers who called me from the Hillsboro PD were very compassionate and one even commented 'it's hard to believe he survived the concentration camps only to die in this way.'"
A memorial service for Wiener has been set for Friday at Congregation Neveh Shalom in Portland.
Oh, boy, this is a good one! All you need is the title "The Girl Who Lived" and the first paragraph. Children are told "don't run with the scissors," but yet, our most wonderful brave little "heroine" in this holohoax hogwash defied death by going on the run from the Nazis, and she LIVED! Yes, she ran with scissors, and she LIVED! Ain't that amazing?! Ain't that little jewish girl wonderful?!
:lmao: :lmao:
QuoteThere were the scissors that my grandmother somehow remembered to bring with her as she fled. She could hear the rumble of destruction in the distance. She could see the cloud of smoke that was the Nazi murder of her family and neighbors. Without forethought, she made the decision to run ahead, carrying with her the scissors and, despite the blossoms of spring, a winter coat.
The Girl Who Lived
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/escaping-nazis-story-girl-who-lived/579139/
Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be given unprecedented Jewish funeral in UK
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/10/uk/holocaust-victims-burial-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
London (CNN)The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims are to be given a formal Jewish burial after being stored at London's Imperial War Museum (IWM) for decades.
The victims will be laid to rest in a Jewish cemetery in Hertfordshire on January 20, just one week before Holocaust Memorial Day. It is believed to be the first time that victims of the Holocaust will be buried in the UK.
Melvyn Hartog, Head of United Synagogue Burial -- the burial society overseeing the ceremony -- told CNN that burying the remains of the victims is a "unique and holy responsibility."
He said that following the funeral service the remains will be taken to their final resting place, and Holocaust survivors will be invited to fill the graves with earth.
The ash and bone fragments, believed to be from five adults and a child, have been stored at the IWM since January 1997, when a private donor bequeathed a number of Holocaust-related items to the museum.
The museum, which has a license to hold human tissue, will soon hand over the remains to the Office of the Chief Rabbi and the United Synagogue -- a union of British Orthodox Jewish synagogues -- having consulted the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis and the Auschwitz museum in Poland.
The IWM told CNN the museum decided to relinquish the remains after conducting a review of all the items in its archives relating to the Holocaust, ahead of the construction of new World War II and Holocaust Galleries at the museum, which are due to open in 2021.
The museum said that while they had originally expressed interest in acquiring a selection of items from the donor, they had explicitly expressed that they did not wish to acquire the human remains.
They were nevertheless sent to the museum, it said. Testing carried out at the English Heritage Centre for Archaeology confirmed that the remains were likely to be from five adults and one child.
IWM consequently contacted the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland -- which confirmed that the remains did indeed originate from their site -- but both organizations concluded that "it was not appropriate" for the remains to be returned there.
The museum was instead advised on burial as the most appropriate way forward by the Office of the Chief Rabbi, and the remains will be laid to rest at Bushey New Cemetery in Hertfordshire.
"It is hoped that the burial, which will be attended by members of Jewish and non-Jewish communities, will afford these individuals the respect and dignity they were denied in both life and death," Diane Lees, director-general of IWM, said in a statement.
Michael Goldstein, United Synagogue president, described the upcoming ceremony as the "final act of kindness" and an opportunity to provide the victims with a "dignified and appropriate Jewish burial."
Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust -- a charity which supports Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK -- said the burial is a "deeply moving, rare moment."
"Although the symbolic significance of the funeral is clear, particularly for so many survivors of the Holocaust who were not able to hold funerals for their own relatives, we must not forget that these remains are of six individuals, who lived distinct and unique lives," she said.
And Karen Pollock MBE, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust -- a UK charity which aims to educate people on the history of the Holocaust -- said: "Today, our hearts go out to everyone who had to endure the pain of losing loved ones during the Holocaust, the unique and unprecedented genocide of the Jewish people, and we pledge to continue our effort that the memories of those who were murdered live on."
Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that the remains of the Holocaust victims are still being stored by the Imperial War Museum. A previous version of the story misstated the location of the remains.
How a Holocaust survivor narrowly escaped the Nazis — twice
https://nypost.com/2019/01/12/how-a-holocaust-survivor-narrowly-escaped-the-nazis-twice/
At 5-foot-11, Dave Hersch weighed just 77 pounds. The 19-year-old from Dej, Hungary, had been whipped, starved and forced to move 50-pound rocks for a dozen hours per day, all at the hands of the Nazis.
"The concentration camp he was in, Mauthausen, was designed to work you to death," said his son Jack J. Hersch, a 60-year-old businessman living on the Upper East Side. And yet, Dave still summoned the strength and willpower to escape the Holocaust — twice.
As chronicled in Jack's book, "Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust" (Frontline Books), out Saturday, it was April 1945 when Dave was sent on his first death march. It was a 34-mile trek from the Mauthausen camp in Austria to one called Gunskirchen. The hike was so strenuous that a good number of the 750 prisoners were expected to perish.
"Knowing the war was ending, Nazis wanted the Jews dead," said Jack. "But killing 20,000 people in gas chambers is not trivial. It was easier to put them on the road and have them die while marching."
At an intersection, the prisoners were pushed straight through. But Dave, who was lagging behind, turned right instead. He picked up a raincoat left on the ground and used it to blend in with the crowd.
"He must have done a calculus where there was a lower risk to go right than to go straight," said Jack.
But freedom proved fleeting after the very woman who seemed poised to save Dave's life — he knocked on her door and she fed him before letting him lie on the grass behind her home — turned him in to SS troops.
Dave was returned to Mauthausen, where he miraculously eluded punishment. Around 10 days later, he was sent on a second march to Gunskirchen. About a mile past the same intersection, he felt too weak to go farther. Dave ventured to the side of the road, all too aware that it could be the death of him. An SS trooper saw him and put a pistol to the back of his neck.
But the shock of cold, wet steel jolted him into standing. Perhaps impressed by this resilience, the trooper showed mercy and walked away. Dave then saw a small path that served as a shortcut to the town's train station.
Reinvigorated by his near-death experience, "My father bolted down the path. Nobody saw him," said Jack. "He spotted a dead man in civilian clothes and took his clothing. Then he slept under the cover of bushes."
The next morning, Dave encountered an Austrian couple who hid him in their house. Three weeks later, "they told my father, 'the war is over. You're free to go,' " Jack said. Dave walked to town, where he found American medics.
He soon left Europe, making it to America in 1958 after a decade in Israel. Having lost his mother and four of his siblings in the Holocaust, he married wife Rachel in 1955 and they raised two sons on Long Island. Dave, who died in 2001 at age 76, owned assisted-living homes there.
In the course of researching his book, Jack visited what had once been the Mauthausen camp's administrative office and is now, bizarrely, a family home. ("That people enjoy nice lives there made me angry," Jack admitted.)
He also retraced his father's marches and both escapes. "It's one thing to hear the story. It's another thing to walk it and to realize that if he had stopped five feet sooner, he would not have seen the path," said Jack. "The degree of luck he needed . . . is mind-boggling."
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Hitler-themed pony in school assignment shocks parents in Illinois
https://www.rt.com/usa/412840-nazi-pony-school-task-illinois/
Eighth-grade students in northeastern Illinois were given a task involving a pony with a Nazi swastika, along with a Hitler-style haircut and moustache. Parents were not impressed with the school's methods, forcing it to apologize.
The bizarre in-class activity was handed to pupils of the Woodland Middle School in Gurnee by their language, arts and social studies teachers. Titled "If You Give a Hitler a Country" – an allusion to the classic children's book 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' – the assignment asked the children "to create a comic strip for little kids" to tell them about "Europe's appeasement towards Hitler."
Seemingly showing an example, the paper had a picture of a My Little Pony-like cartoon character giving a Nazi salute and brandishing a swastika on its right leg.
The assignment was posted on Facebook by the mother of one of the students, Kelly Masterson, raising eyebrows among many other parents online. Masterson said she was taken aback when she found her son Michael's work, in which SpongeBob SquarePants was pictured looking like Hitler, according to Daily Herald.
"There's got to be a better way to teach our kids about the horrific things Hitler did," another district parent, Dan Umansky, told the outlet, adding that he is eager to hear the school's explanation.
One of Michael's Jewish classmates refused to complete the task, asking to be given him another one, NBC reported, citing the boy.
"All of us were shocked and then some kids were being a bit immature and trying to make this assignment a little bit funny and it's disgusting," Michael said.
The Facebook post has provoked many concerned comments. In a letter, the school responded that the activity "was to help students understand the complex issues leading up to World War II," but not to minimize the atrocities. It also said "the 'fun' and 'cartoonish' elements of the activity that students were asked to complete did not fully represent the intent of the teachers" and apologized for "any concern" the incident had caused.
However, the parents do not seem to be satisfied with the response, with one attaching a screenshot of the letter and saying that the school decided to "do nothing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51XfXKehig
Hitler's paintings go on sale in online auction, including possible self-portrait
https://www.rt.com/news/449628-hitler-paintings-auction-berlin/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
A series of watercolor paintings, dated between 1910 and 1911, are going under the hammer at a digital auction in Berlin on Thursday, each signed by one "A. Hitler."
"Rheinlandschaft," "Alpenlandschaft" and "Niederthal, Vent" are believed to be authentic Hitler originals, from a time predating his reign of terror as the dictator of Nazi Germany, when he was instead a 21-year-old art-school reject struggling to make ends meet.
Each painting boasts an estimated price of between €4,000 and €6,000 though only one painting, "Alpenlandschaft," has received a bid so far in the ongoing online auction at time of writing. Some believe the character in the painting may, in fact, be the future dictator and scourge of Europe himself.
The signatures on the paintings match authenticated versions of the German dictator's handwriting.
"The specimens have been thoroughly examined and compared to real, verified pieces," handwriting expert Frank Garo told the Daily Mail.
In October 1907, a young Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Arts to study painting but was ultimately rejected. He would later earn a living by making copies of watercolours for use on Viennese postcards.
Hitler's pre-Nazi artworks are periodically sold at auction though Nazi-era symbols and artworks are forbidden from sale under German law. A watercolor of Neuschwanstein Castle, also initialed "A. Hitler" sold for €100,000 at auction in 2014.
The paintings are being sold by Auktionshaus Kloss having been consigned for sale from a private collection, previously purchased from an Austrian estate.
Fox News guest compares Ocasio-Cortez to Stalin, Hitler & Mao
"I'm surprised that these paintings are going on sale in Germany as I understood Germans understandably don't look favourably on people benefiting from that kind of material," Michael Liversidge, Emeritus Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol said.
Hitler-owned book hints at plans for North American Holocaust
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/americas/holocaust-canada-north-america-blueprint-scli-intl/index.html
A rare book owned by Adolf Hitler, which is believed to detail the blueprint for a North American Holocaust, has been acquired by Canada's national archive.
Library and Archives Canada purchased the document last year for $4,500, and it was unveiled for the first time Wednesday, just days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.
The 137-page report -- titled "Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" -- was compiled in 1944 by German linguist and researcher Heinz Kloss. He was responsible for conducting key research for the Nazi regime on issues such as nationality, with a particular focus on the United States.
Kloss -- who visited the United States in 1936-7 and maintained a network of Nazi sympathizers -- used 1930s population data to produce a personalized census of the Jewish population in North America, along with information about Jewish organizations and newspapers.
Michael Kent, curator of the Jacob M. Lowy Collection, which is preserving the book, told CNN that the report would have likely played "an important role" in any implementation of the Final Solution -- the term used by Nazi leaders to describe the extermination of the Jewish population -- had the Third Reich successfully invaded the United States and Canada.
Kent described the report as "quite shocking," and noted that it included detailed analysis not only of cities with large Jewish populations such as Toronto and Winnipeg, Manitoba, but also of small urban areas.
While other Holocaust memorial organizations have opted not to acquire or display any Nazi memorabilia, Kent told CNN that it was important for the archive to do so due to the "rise in xenophobia, dwindling knowledge of the Holocaust, and rise of Holocaust denial."
The book will go on public display Saturday before portions of it are made available online.
Rebecca Margolis of the University of Ottawa noted in a statement that the report offers a "documented confirmation of the fears felt so acutely" by Canadian Jews during World War II -- that the Nazis intended to invade North America.
Experts believe the report was part of a confidential series of research commissioned by Hitler and stored at his mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. The bookplate bears a stylized eagle, swastika and the words "ex libris Adolf Hitler," which suggest that it came from the Nazi leader's personal library.
The report, along with other books owned by Hitler, is believed to have been brought to the United States as a souvenir by American soldiers after they raided his property at the end of the war in the spring of 1945.
The Holocaust Education Trust expressed shock over the finding. "This story highlights Hitler's obsessive anti-Semitism and the chilling Nazi ambition to murder Jewish people wherever they were in the world," a representative for the trust told CNN.
"It reminds us of the need to remain resolute in standing up to anti-Semitism, defending historical truth and educating the next generation."
Steven Wilson, chief executive of the UK's United Synagogue, told CNN: "Last Sunday the British Jewish community carried out an extraordinary funeral as we buried the remains of six Holocaust victims murdered at Auschwitz. It was a stark reminder the Holocaust is not ancient history but still in living memory. This ... is a reminder of the continued importance of the fight against anti-Semitism ... and the ongoing importance of Holocaust education, particularly for younger generations."
The book will be stored in the Jacob M. Lowy Collection at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. Other libraries in North America to store books owned by Hitler include the Library of Congress and Brown University Library.
How a box of forgotten letters became a Holocaust jazz operahttps://nypost.com/2019/01/10/how-a-box-of-forgotten-letters-became-a-holocaust-jazz-opera/
After their widowed father died in 1995, jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal and his sister packed up the family home in Great Neck, LI. They didn't know what that box of letters, all written in German, was doing in the attic, but Rosenthal took them home, anyway.
The letters stayed, nearly forgotten, until some three and a half years ago, when Rosenthal was invited to his grandmother's hometown in Germany, where the local historical society rebuilt a Jewish school destroyed by the Nazis. Rosenthal asked a historian if he'd mind translating some of the letters. "Send them," he was told.
The contents, once translated, blew his mind.
"It was unbelievable," the Upper West Sider tells The Post. "I heard my grandmother's voice, my aunt's . . . I didn't know any of those people!"
Rosenthal's father, Erich, never spoke of them. In those 200 letters, written from 1938 to 1941, Erich's mother, Herta, poured her heart out to him, her only child, who left Germany to study at the University of Chicago.
He was the only one in his immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
Now that family history is an opera. Rosenthal's "Dear Erich" — scored for a string quartet, jazz trio, woodwinds, brass and the New York City Opera — plays through Sunday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
"I view it as a crossover piece," says its 59-year-old composer. Not only is it a mix of genres — think soaring arias and bluesy horn solos — but it describes the journey taken by his father, who crossed the Atlantic toward freedom and a new life as a sociologist, Queens College professor and family man.
Rosenthal suspects that survivor's guilt kept his father from speaking of the past. "He never knew what happened to his mother," he says. "I'm sure that contributed to the pain he felt, but never discussed."
The opera flits between past and present, Chicago and Germany. Some of the letters are typically motherly: Despite her hardships, Herta worries that her son isn't eating enough.
One of the most heartbreaking missives followed the Nazi rampage Kristallnacht. Aware that her letters could be read by the authorities, Herta chose her words carefully.
"Your father had to take a trip with many friends and relatives," she wrote. That was code, Rosenthal says, for "they were herded up and taken away." There were no concentration camps yet, but Theodor Rosenthal eventually returned to his wife so broken, he died days later.
And Herta? Rosenthal's wife, Lesley — an "internet research wiz," who co-wrote the opera's libretto — found records showing a train from Herta's town left on June 12, 1942, six months after her last letter. It went to the Sobibor death camp.
"In the opera, we can do a few things we can't in real life," says Rosenthal. "There's a lost letter we made up where Erich does learn [about] his mother — and that she really wanted him to go forth with his life."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=jFXKmhBIiz4
You can't say anything about jew and their "holocaust," and, now, it seems, you can't say anything about a pathetic movie about their fucking holohoax. <:^0
'Schindler's List' waffle fries cause outrage at Aussie diner
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A Jewish patron was shocked and disgusted when she saw the menu at a Gold Coast diner which advertised "Schindler's List" waffle fries for $15 a pop. The woman lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Defamation Commission.
"I cannot express how disturbed, uncomfortable and in plain shock we were both in after reading the menu," said the customer, named only as 'Lisa,' as cited by the Daily Mail.
The management at The Arc at Nobbys, located on Australia's east coast, has since removed the Holocaust-themed item and apologized for its insensitive menu, explaining that, "Fries are popular menu item so we named our four fries after four movies that are popular classics," and that any offense caused was unintentional.
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The diner also featured dishes named after popular classics such as 'Pulp Fiction,' 'The Terminator,' and 'The Godfather.'
"This hurtful and insensitive incident would leave most gasping, and is the latest example of a trend that only seems to be getting worse as we move further in time and people forget what actually happened in World War II," Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairman of Australia's Anti-Defamation Commission said in a statement.
"The ignorance is so sad!!!!!(& scary)!!!!" wrote one social media user in response to the incident.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has previously reported that 2018 saw a staggering 59 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents across Australia.
Finland helped Nazis murder Jews during WWII: report
https://nypost.com/2019/02/10/finland-helped-nazis-murder-jews-during-wwii-report/
Finnish military volunteers helped the Nazis carry out the mass killing of Jews during World War II, according to a new report.
Authorities in the Scandinavian nation revealed the findings Friday in a 248-page government-commissioned independent report, which showed that 1,408 Finnish volunteers — many between the ages of 17 and 20 — served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking from 1941 to 1943.
"It is very likely that they participated in the killing of Jews, other civilians and prisoners of war as part of the German SS troops," said Jussi Nuorteva, director-general of Finland's National Archives.
Finland proved an "example of unique and exemplary civic courage" by owning up to its dark past, Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Sunday. Finland undertook the study at Zuroff's request in 2018.
After losing several territories to a Soviet invasion in 1939, Finland entered a deal with Nazi Germany for material support against Moscow. But the agreement also required the Nordic country provide some 400 volunteers for the SS Wiking division — a pact it reluctantly honored, the report concluded.
"At the beginning of the attack (on the Soviet Union), Finns were unaware of the Germans' goal of eradicating the Jews. Finns were, above all, interested in fighting against the Soviet Union," Nuorteva said, adding that "the starting point for Finns' involvement was different compared to most other countries joining SS foreign volunteers."
The investigation was based on the diaries of 76 such Finns — eight of whom are still alive today.
By mid-1943, the Finnish government sensed Germany was losing the war, and called home its SS volunteers — many of whom served out the remainder of the war in the Finnish military.
"We share the responsibility for ensuring that such atrocities will never be repeated," said Finnish state secretary Paula Lehtomaki.
Got a good one here. jew says that he has laid 70,000 - yes, 70,000 - little individually-engraved plaques on roads and paths all over the world, but, look, he says that he started by laying plaques for the Sinti and Roma. Isn't he thoughtful? One for the Sinti and one for the Roma, and 69,998 for the jews, and only 5,930,002 to go!
QuoteThe project began in 1992, when Cologne-based artist Gunter Demnig first laid plaques in this format for Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust, who during that time were commonly referred to as 'Gypsies'. He called the plaques 'stumbling stones' as a metaphor. "You won't fall," he recently told CNN. "But if you stumble and look, you must bow down with your head and your heart."
The Holocaust memorial of 70,000 stonesMichael Friedrichs-Friedländer hand-engraves individual Holocaust fates onto small plaques called Stolpersteine, which constitute the world's largest decentralised memorial.
There's a big long article, with must-see pictures, at this link:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190328-the-holocaust-memorial-of-70000-stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpVkJlDSdWg
Hitler's vegetable garden discovered at his secret headquarters
https://www.foxnews.com/science/hitlers-vegetable-garden-discovered-secret-headquarters
A garden that once provided Adolf Hitler with fresh vegetables has been discovered at his infamous Wolf's Lair headquarters.
Hitler spent much of his time in the final years of the war at the Wolf's Lair, which is located in what is now Poland. The top-secret, heavily guarded bunker complex was used by the Nazis until January 1945, when it was abandoned and partly destroyed ahead of advancing Soviet forces.
The garden was found on the grounds of Mazurolandia, a nearby theme park museum, and excavations took place during the summer.
"We discovered Hitler's Garden in the 4th Zone of the Wolf's Lair," said Mazurolandia, in a translated statement, adding that experts from the Mazurian Military Museum were brought in to investigate the site.
The First News reports that the garden was found 2,953 feet from Hitler's bunker. An excavation uncovered the foundations of the gardener's house, two greenhouses and an underground boiler room that provided water and warm air to grow fresh produce all year round. Wartime ceramics, porcelain and glassware were also found.
A vegetarian, teetotaler and non-smoker, Hitler enjoyed plenty of green produce at the Wolf's Lair. Paranoid about being poisoned, the Nazi leader also ensured that a number of food tasters worked at the Wolf's Lair to sample his meals.
"The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta," Margot Woelk, one of the food tasters, told the Associated Press in 2013.
Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent 2 1/2 years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair.
The Wolf's Lair was also the scene of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the evil German leader on July 20, 1944, when trusted colonel Claus von Stauffenberg detonated a bomb in a conference room at the headquarters. Hitler survived, but nearly 5,000 people were executed following the assassination attempt, including von Stauffenberg.
In 2017, a painted red telephone that belonged to Hitler and was used at the Wolf's Lair — sold at an auction for $243,000. The phone was described by Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md. as "arguably the most destructive 'weapon' of all time."
The phone was "used in vehicles, trains, his field headquarters, at the Wolf's Lair...and in the last desperate days deep beneath Berlin," according to the auction house.
Experts are also looking to unlock the sinister secrets of hidden Nazi bases dotted across Europe. Other sites include the vast base of Dag Bromberg, which, like the Wolf's Lair, is hidden in a Polish forest, and the V-2 rocket base Kraftwerk Nord West in France.
A number of Nazi sites from World War II have been unearthed in recent years. In 2016, scientists at the Russian Arctic National Park discovered the remains of a secret Nazi base on the remote island of Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
Earlier this year, local government officials announced the discovery of hundreds of chilling items at Nazi massacre sites in northwestern Germany.
GERMAN AUCTION HOUSE DEFENDS SELLING NAZI ITEMS, INCLUDING COPY OF HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF WITH $4,000 STARTING PRICE
https://www.newsweek.com/german-auction-house-nazi-items-hitler-mein-kampf-1472185
An auction house in Germany which has sparked outrage for selling hundreds of Nazi items—including clothing owned by Adolf Hitler—has defended its decision.
Hermann Historica auction house is due to sell 842 items linked to the Nazis in the German city of Munich on Wednesday.
In its description of the "German Historical Collectibles from 1919 Onwards" collection, the company states: "Connoisseurs of edged weapons, decorations or uniforms will be spoilt for choice in this section."
The lot includes a leather-bound edition of Hitler's antisemitic manifesto Mein Kampf, with a starting price of $3,868 (€3,500), as well as a top hat the Nazi dictator owned, and a cocktail dress worn by his wife Eva Braun.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association, wrote to the auction house last week urging it to rethink the sale. He penned the letter almost exactly 81 years after Kristallnacht, when Nazis attacked Jewish people and buildings.
"This is not a legal appeal to you, but very much a moral one. What you are doing is not illegal, but it is wrong," the rabbi wrote.
Margolin highlighted six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust and "today, across Europe and including Germany (which now has the highest recorded cases in Europe), antisemitism in on the rise [sic], and we believe the sale of such memorabilia has little intrinsic historical value but instead will be bought by those who glorify and seek to justify the actions of the greatest evil to affect Europe. The trade therefore in such items should simply not take place."
Margolin cited the recent case of a letter written by a child murdered in the Holocaust which was withdrawn from sale following a court case.
"The ensuing public pressure resulted in the cancelling of the sale. The message from society was clear and unambiguous: some things simply cannot be traded," Margolin said.
Bernhard Pacher, managing director of Hermann Historica told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency the company is handling the sale with care, and is attempting to control who can bid on the items. Potential buyers—who can bid in person, online and over the phone—must register beforehand, he said.
Pacher said: "It's our job to prevent the wrong people from getting these things."
However, the auctioneer said: "But it's practically unavoidable to ensure that one person or another with the wrong ideology doesn't get into the mix."
"By far, the great majority of the customers who shop with us are museums, state-owned collections and private collectors, all of which meticulously deal with these issue," he said.
Pacher admitted the auction house can't control what clients do with the items once they are bought. He also said his business had been sent a number of letters since Margolin's plea, including some which were insulting.
What took them so long?
VIDEO showcases artifacts recovered from Hitler's 'Wolf's Lair' bunker
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Dozens of items have been recovered after a weeks-long excavation of Adolf Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters located in Poland. The infamous Nazi compound has remained largely untouched since Hitler left it in 1944.
Ruptly footage shows combs, razors, toothbrushes, plates, signboards and other objects found in the 'Wolf's Lair', an extensive complex tucked away in a remote Polish forest.
The cache of artifacts also includes a still-functioning lighter. Many of the items are stamped with swastikas and other Nazi insignia. Zenon Piotrowicz, managing director of the historic site, said that any new discovery is important as it shows how the compound functioned during the war. For example, historians found a plate reading "Barbershop."
It was the 'Wolf's Lair' where Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg committed a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. The bunker was completely abandoned by the Nazis in 1945, as the Soviet Army advanced on Berlin in the final months of the war. The site has been open to the public since the beginning of 1990s.
Extremely rare Nazi Enigma code transmitter tops $100k at auction (VIDEO)
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A fabled device used by Nazi Germany to transmit coded messages during the Second World War has been sold at an auction for more than $100,000.
The cipher device, weighing nearly 30 pounds, was bought by an internet buyer for $106,000, according to the auction house, Heritage Auctions. The machine – which resembles a modified typewriter – comes with operating instructions and a case with an engraved Third Reich emblem.
The device stumped the Allies for years, until British mathematician Alan Turing managed to crack its code. Most of the machines were destroyed by the Germans during the war so they could not fall into enemy hands – making them a much sought-after collectible.
Enigmas are apparently going up in value. In 2017, one of the machines put up for auction raked in a mere $51,500.
Washington Post tweet from today just as Jews are being called out for violating stay at home order.
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I keep saving my sh-t ... hoping to find some diamonds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Zisblatt