Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Final Solution BBC


I find it absolutely astonishing how many people are unaware or take for granted "Oh well, it was a war" attitude when confronted with the Holocaust. Like many I had heard about it but never really looked into it or studied it until recently, and ashamed now i waited. Once i began studying it and watching videos from everyplace I could get one I could not obtain enough. Netflix, youtube, frontline, google just to name a few places that occupy me now..
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/ Is the main memorial where most of the horrors occurred and should never be forgotten and preserved. If in your ability please donate what you can from their page.
Also if you get a chance buy or rent I have never forgotten you. http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=10394 About a man like none I have never believed could exist with such a compassion in his heart for his entire life, since he also was a prisoner in the death camps. His name is
Simon Wiesenthal and a true example of what one man can do to keep the memories alive.
Most people assume I am Jewish because of my obsession i have in the Holocaust and Auschwitz but though it matters not, i am catholic and not even a very good one at that. Myself I have no idea why I became so intrigued in this, it just happened after watching those 30 episodes of the video i also have posted on here. Even has me buying Holocaust items from ebay and collectors. Just to touch an item that came from that horrific place sends chill down my spine. My family jokes that I must have died there in a prior life to be so obsessed with it...lol But whatever it is, it is nothing i am sorry about. I feel we should all have empathy for this. It matters not what religion you are or color of your skin. I am quite sure when God made man he didn't say "well these are my favorites, these not so much, and I'll just make these for fun". We all come from one creator, and what a world we would all have if everybody just realized that.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Auschwitz Remembered

Gate to Hell pic is a video, please click start button to play.



The direct reason for the establishment of the camp was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" prisons. Initially, Auschwitz was to be one more concentration camp of the type that the Nazis had been setting up since the early 1930s. It functioned in this role throughout its existence, even when, beginning in 1942, it also became the largest of the death camps.
Division of the camp

The first and oldest was the so-called "main camp," later also known as "Auschwitz I" (the number of prisoners fluctuated around 15,000, sometimes rising above 20,000), which was established on the grounds and in the buildings of prewar Polish barracks;

The second part was the Birkenau camp (which held over 90,000 prisoners in 1944), also known as "Auschwitz II" This was the largest part of the Auschwitz complex. The Nazis began building it in 1941 on the site of the village of Brzezinka, three kilometers from Oswiecim. The Polish civilian population was
ere evicted and their houses confiscated and demolished. The greater part of the apparatus of mass extermination was built in Birkenau and the majority of the victims were murdered here. I take no credit whatsoever for the content in this posting. It has been copied from a memorial i donate to as much as i can and once more people get the empathy that i obtained for it wish they could help also any way they can. http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=1 My mind finds it hard to grasp how a nation could be so brainwashed as the German people were into following the madman Hitler. Even though I do understand how when your taught something by who you consider a leader (so they must know what they are talking about), you have no second thoughts about right or wrong. However no matter how much I research the subject i still fail to understand any foundation why the Jewish population was looked at as a lower class race. I myself am a Catholic and yet am mind boggled as to why ever since the days when Moses led them out of Egypt they have been so persecuted, hated and have to fight so hard to survive. My heart really goes out to them.

















they cared not in the least





These are but a few from the archive I have. Unbelievable
stories of how the SS would take infants from mothers and
two of them would literally tear the child in half in front of
the parents.
And no these are not just stories made up to gather sympathy, many well documented along with stories of how most were just taken from the cattle cars straight to the furnace as wailing parents watched disbelieving what was happening. It is the children that haunt and bother me so much. Can you even imagine watching your child being murdered in front of you ?
Well so ends my very first blog. I hope it enlightens if but only a few. For as long as the memory of those that perished lives on and humanity remembers, they did not die in vain.
Thank you for spending time on by blog.