The U.S. dropped an atom bomb called “Little Boy” Aug. 6, 1945, on the city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 people immediately. A second atomic bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped Aug. 9, 1945, on the city of Nagasaki, immediately killing about 40,000 people.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
June 28th, 2015 - 1:27 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald: 74: Pope Francis: ‘Great Powers’ Did Nothing When Jews Were Taken To Auschwitz
“The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians, and also the Roma, also the homosexuals,” Francis said, citing the death camp in Poland. “Tell me, why didn’t th[...]
June 5th, 2015 - 5:49 pm § in America
Buchenwald 73: Anniversary of my father’s death
Despite my brother Hugh and sister Stephanies’s sad efforts to destroy the collection of images my father made in Buchenwald and my brother in law’s efforts to demean my Dad’s memory by claiming he did not make the pictures, I have (poor) copies made of the images taken by my D[...]
June 1st, 2015 - 12:11 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 72: The Shoah was not only a German crime
StandWithUs Remember the Farhud: the Farhud was the Holocaust-era massacre committed by Arab nationalists, done in coordination with the Nazis. The Farhud took place June 1[...]
April 15th, 2015 - 10:51 am § in America, Israel/Palestine
SHANDA: Jews attacking Jews on Pesach
Dear Stephen,In the lead-up to this year’s Passover holiday, Americans for Peace Now launched a Facebook meme campaign inspired by the words of Peace Now co-founder Galia Golan. We asked that Jews who care about Israel spill some wine in acknowledgement of Israel’s “modern-day plagues”, as i[...]
April 12th, 2015 - 1:41 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 71: Why 71?
It is already April 12 today in Germany. I am writing this on the 11th of April in Seattle, but it is now April 12 in Germany. This 12th of April is 70 years after General Patten’s ceremonial entry into Buchenwald. The day is being celebrated .. if that term is acceptable .. by some of t[...]
April 11th, 2015 - 9:22 pm § in Misc.
Eight years ago, on 11 April 2007, this lady received the Order of the Smile, an award given by Polish children to honor heroic Poles. |
Known by her nom de guerre: Jolanta) Irene Sendler was nominated by Żegota (the underground organization also known as the Council to Aid Jews) to head its Jewish children’s section.[14]members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided th[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A message to my brother and sister
TALMUD: Love Prevents Jealousy by Rabbi Yisrael Kaniel – April 26, 2015 In the beginning of the Torah portion of Kedoshim, the renowned medieval commentator R. Moshe ben Nachman, a.k.a. Ramban or Nachmanides cites a statement of our Sages in Vayikra Rabbah in which they say that this Torah p[...]