SIX YEARS AGO, MY Father died.. His heritage remains locked away because of my brother Hugh’s anger. This story of another good soldier from WWII, made me think of my Dad. In 1907 Sir Winton was born Nickolas Wertheim in Hampstead, London, the son of Jewish parents. Like so many of us, the W[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
June 2nd, 2014 - 4:33 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 50: Anniversary of my Dad’s death and the birthday of Nicholas Winton
May 26th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 49: Robert’s Travels on Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day. I have been working through my Dad’s pictures to try and see where he was after coming onto Buchenwald on April 9. One important place may be Ettinghausen. He mentioned a town where he acted as Governor and my son thinks that town’s name began with an E. I ha[...]
May 23rd, 2014 - 7:24 pm § in Misc.
More Honors For British Holocaust Hero
Sir Nicholas Winton, who turned 105 last week, will receive additional state honors from the government of Czechoslovakia, where he is considered a national hero. Winton organized the Czech Kindertransport, which saved 699 mostly Jewish children from the Nazis in 1939. http://www.theguardian.com/w[...]
May 23rd, 2014 - 5:35 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 47: A sign in the camp after liberation
“my attention was drawn to the message painted on the wall of one of the buildings: “Hitler muss sterben, damit Deutschland lebt” pleaded the writer, “Hitler must die so that Germany may live”. Six days later Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker in Berl[...]
Buchenwald 45: “If I am not for myself, who is for me?”
The Shanda of Christians Who Abuse the Holocaust: In the Nazi Era it was Fundamentalist Christians who blocked Roosevelt’s efforts to bring the Jews here. Now, these same Christians support Israel, at a terrible price. I came across this ad on the web. What might $33 buy? A meal? [...]
April 30th, 2014 - 3:40 am § in Uncategorized
BUCHENWALD 43: a poem by an unknown author
Unpublished French Poem on The Liberation of Buchenwald (read the English translation) If you have any information about the author of this poem, please contact: Susan Perry Ferguson at [email protected] le 11 avril 1945 Buchenwald! C’est le noir de la foret profounde Où jamais les ois[...]
April 20th, 2014 - 2:37 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 40: The gentle harm done by bureaucrats
Student fought bureaucrats for Holocaust justiceAMSTERDAM (AP) – Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam’s city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the ci[...]
BUCHENWALD 39: Lost in the story of the resurrection, is a story of an insurrection.
How Christians Think About Jews at Easter There is a very strange understory associated with this video. Jay Michaelson at the Forward sees the video as a crude effort to desecrate the memory of Auschwitz and use the camps as a lever to convince Jews that Christianity is our salvation rather than[...]
BUCHENWALD 38: Ukraine events and Jewish memories of the early stages of WWII
Denials and Debates About the Facts In Europe Marked the Path to The Camps in the 1930s. (Donetsk, Ukraine) Once again the opponents in Europe are using their Jews as pawns. Fliers were distributed by masked men this week ordering Jews over the age of 16 to register with the new authorities (for[...]
Buchenwald 46: How Robert’s Pictures Were Made
A Mystery Is Solved Gotha Germany, Until recently I had no idea how my father had found the chemicals he used to develop the film. Then, reading about this town near Buchenwald, I found the answer. Gotha was liberated before Buchenwald. On April 4, 1945, elements of the United States Army’s [...]