Nazis

1870s, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine.

The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.

At Auschwitz children were often killed upon arrival. Children born in the camp were generally killed on the spot.

In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers.

experimental gassing

JANUARY 16, 1942

Some individuals killed themselves to escape their hopeless lives.

and human waste was thrown in the streets along with the garbage.

Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.

1936

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000

  Auschwitz   Bergen-Belsen   Belzec   Sobibor   Treblinka  

the kids were only a mere bag of bones, without muscles or fat, and the thin skin like pergament scrubbed through and through beyond the hard bones of the skeleton and ignited itself to ulcerated wounds

plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, they lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi regime ...

Anne Frank

children killed immediately after birth or in institutions

The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security.

children of Izieu were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz:

Sami Adelsheimer, 5  Hans Ament, 10  Nina Aronowicz, 12  Max-Marcel Balsam, 12  Jean-Paul Balsam, 10  Esther Benassayag, 12  Elie Benassayag, 10  Jacob Benassayag, 8  Jacques Benguigui, 12  Richard Benguigui, 7  Jean-Claude Benguigui, 5  Barouk-Raoul Bentitou, 12  Majer Bulka, -  Albert Bulka, 4  Lucienne Friedler, 5  Egon Gamiel, 9  Maurice Gerenstein, 13  Liliane Gerenstein, 11  Henri-Chaïm Goldberg, 13  Joseph Goldberg, 12  Mina Halaunbrenner, - Claudine Halaunbrenner, 5 Georges Halpern, 8  Arnold Hirsch, 17  Isidore Kargeman, 10  Renate Krochmal, 8  Liane Krochmal, 6  Max Leiner, 8  Claude Levan-Reifman, 10 Fritz Loebmann, 15  Alice-Jacqueline Luzgart, 10  Paula Mermelstein, 10  Marcel Mermelstein, 7  Theodor Reis, 16  Gilles Sadowski, 8  Martha Spiegel, 10  Senta Spiegel, 9  Sigmund Springer, 8  Sarah Szulklaper, -  Max Tetelbaum, 12  Herman Tetelbaum, 10  Charles Weltner, 9  Otto Wertheimer, -  Emile Zuckerberg, 5

full statistics for the tragic fate of the children will never be known.

they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another.

World War II.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options.

It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence.

and the meaning of his experience were somehow just hard-wired, like height or shoe-size; or automatically absorbed from the culture, like language.

banal

and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"

Blood can either be the gift of life or what comes out of you when you cut your wrists in the bathtub. Or, somewhat less drastically, if you spill your milk you’re left with a glass which is either half empty or half full.

“God only made a few perfect heads, and the rest lie covered with hair.”

where I was told that every meal should consist of a brown thing, a white thing, a yellow thing and a green thing; that it was not right to lick the spoon while cooking; and that the inside of a dress seam was as important as the outside.

A preparation-for-life curriculum would not consist of courses on Victorian Thought and French Romanticism, but of things like How to Cope With Marital Breakdown, Getting More for your Footwear Dollar, Dealing With Stress, and How To Keep Your Fingernails from Breaking Off by Always Filing Them Towards the Center; in other words, it would read like the contents page of Homemakers Magazine, which is why Homemakers Magazine is so widely read, even by me. Or, for boys, Forbes or The Economist , and Improving Your Place in the Power Hierarchy by Choosing the Right Suit. (Dark blue with a faint white pinstripe, not too far apart, in case you’re interested.)

As for your university degree, there are definitely going to be days when you will feel that you’ve been given a refrigerator and sent to the middle of a jungle, where there are no three-pronged grounded plugholes.

state of joblessness, angst and cosmic depression which everyone knows is indispensable for novelists and poets, although nobody has ever claimed the same for geologists, dentists or chartered accountants.

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