We watched a film called 'Defiance' this evening. It's about a group of Jews who survived for several years in the forests of Belarus... somewhere in or near the Naliboki forest in the south.. which is just north of the now defunct Chernobyl nuclear reactor. I find myself very drawn into accounts of the genocide of the Jews by the Nazis or for that matter that kind of behaviour by any nation or group. So after the film, I found myself researching the story of the Bielski Brothers (who led the forest group until the end of the war) and as usually happens, found myself meandering until I ended up reading more about the concentration camps, the research by Stanley Milgram in the US which was prompted by the trial of Eichmann etc. Then in this process, I came to this page on the 'us-israel.org' site. I couldn't quite believe that they would put this page up... if only since it seems to me to desecrate the memory of all those who were murdered:
Here's the link:
http://www.us-israel.org/Concentration_Camps.cfm?fp=UOx5ni%2FBt1LSjwz1HlugyVbwOSb408i8VR4BIfBwFJTjTqBTeCVzxIOMbinjGFVekRluxvUEAiqIGotIYrWcXwyQG6J%2FR07EBA%2FJheiBNmlXOmdH9k3BGbJqRaKCc%2BF0XCeVQHAdMisHAe%2BhVOMON4qOJMiCeZtJcsnTZTGwRLGWWTuQr43gj4CxXmr6lRDj&yep=CB2UPUPPHGsq9tg2Y%2FmoD5HWXddNvd8L%2BsRph5V2kEiXMCTFRtwrpgZl0zdhuPdiNBlp2x8F0Dqun56BgMh8CoY%2Fn47cN0TEMxH2MtOEcrWFz8p1ThSzsf4%2Bsd2AHRmFHbWaCW9rvl6yijbyRmzwqfvv7BeabUfWSgpAqXUx5EHt5qlbwylnJ8%2BVOsLQn9UA9FqNP0eC7TwkorZi37kgnUVSlJa%2B7nfUYhrwMKovYeoggTRm3xg6CMox1H2jTYMjO5ILBBA7hKrDSi01bTJYUUxvPALy%2F3Legy94zSNy5kfwlzWHSuEuHgWFnF9f5kbcOEfrjPJgA2NOi%2FqQpf0qeBA1ssOOHuw1zqXxJtilIiMr4raJIDRurr4b5wi2twfbSVKp70oS%2B9Z2KVArB8xHHgxKUhCfQzftwRaVbmmH2XtnW0xMPf6gAzqVxn4rXbW0>np=0>pp=0&prvtof=S171PA0IwW7XALWFLCZ5NvzfLNCZQ9utrUp5Es%2B7CMGePCn7hvlBvrQHBoZs9llZiBW%2FbkrrO5EJ5GWZJ4DkJcYa%2BqUgwpSqFJc%2BKSEGW9k%3D&>np=0>pp=0&kt=113&&kp=5&bd=10%231050%231680%231%230%23568%23255%23596%23262
I followed a link originally from here:
http://www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=rudolf_Hoess
and that went to here:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Hoess.html
which went to the page i've pasted. That CAN'T be right!
It amazes me that people think the holocaust never happened. An interesting documentary on the Nazi thefts of art has some searing images and descriptions of how the Nazis tried to obliterate even the memory of a race! It is called the Rape of Europa.
ReplyDeleteOn the surface it seems to be an attempt - or a starting point - at rewriting history. For what reason I'm not sure just now. Perhaps to excuse certain present events. I'm going to try and dig a LOT deeper. Way back I met many who survived the nazi occupation - and even some who wore the prison tatoo.
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