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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on January 27th commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews and 11 million others, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January 2005 during which the United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army.
"For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women and children, mainly jews from various countries of Europe Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940 - 1945."
La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas proclamó oficialmente que se designe el 27 de enero el Día Internacional de Conmemoración en Memoria de las Víctimas del Holocausto. Se conmemora la liberación por las tropas soviéticas del campo de concentración y exterminio nazi de Auschwitz-Birkenau cuando fue liberado por el ejército soviético el 27 de enero de 1945, hoy hace 75 años.
La placa conmemorativa a la entrada del campo de exterminio dice: "Por siempre deja que este lugar sea un llanto de desamparo, una advertencia a la humanidad, donde los nazis asesinaron alrededor de 1 millón y medio de hombres, mujeres y niños, en su mayoría judíos de distintos países de Europa. Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940 - 1945".
Albinoni's Adagio G in minor: youtu.be/vb6va1KXzHU
Das Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas - etwas versteckt, aber gleich neben dem Reichstag gelegen, ist ein schlichter, schöner und berührender Ort. Eine eigens für diesen Ort komponierte Melodie schwebt sanft über der Stille.
Auf dem Rand des Brunnens ist auf Englisch, Deutsch und Romanes das Gedicht "Auschwitz" von Santino Spinelli zu lesen: "Eingefallenes Gesicht/ erloschene Augen/ kalte Lippen/ Stille/ ein zerrissenes Herz/ ohne Atem/ ohne Worte/ keine Tränen".
The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism is located close to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the 220,000 – 500,000 people murdered in the Porajmos – the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma peoples. It was designed by Dani Karavan and was officially opened on 24 October 2012.
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg:
Miniatur-Keramikküche von Anneliese Dreifuss, die sie ins Exil mitnahm.
Anneliese Dreifuss lebte mit ihrer Schwester Helga und ihren Eltern in der Gerokstrasse in Stuutgart. Vater Max Dreifuss besaß ein Geschäft für Herrenbekleidung. Die Familie gehörte der reformierten jüdischen Gemeinde an.
1930 starb Mutter Elsa. Nach dem Machtantritt der Nationalsozialisten musste Anneliese ihre Schule verlassen. 1938 wurde Max Dreifuss in Buchenwald inhaftiert. Unter der Bedingung, dass er Deutschland verlassen würde, kam er frei.
Im April 1939 konnte er mit seinen Töchtern Anneliese und Helga in die Vereinigten Staaten auswandern.
Zu den wenigen Spielsachen, die Anneliese mit ins Exil nahm, gehörte die Puppenküche.
Ihre Tochter Agnes Hartstein übergab die Küche später an Yad Vashem.
Saarbrücken, Saarland:
Poesiealbum von Lilo Ermann, die in Auschwitz ermordet wurde .
"Lieselotte (Lilo) Ermann (1926-1943) wuchs in Saarbrücken in wohlhabenden, behüteten Verhältnissen auf.
Das dokumentieren die vielen Fotos, die von ihr erhalten sind.
Lilos Großvater Gustav Ermann war Inhaber einer Textilfabrik, für die ihr Vater Willi (1897-1943) und sein Bruder Leo als Vertreter arbeiteten. Willi hatte im ersten Weltkrieg als Soldat gedient. Nach dem Krieg heiratete er Else Mayer (1903-1943).
Als die Repressionen gegen Jüdinnen und Juden zunahmen, flüchtete Lilo mit ihren Eltern 1938 nach Paris , die Großeltern gingen nach Luxemburg. Im Exil arbeitete Willi Ermann weiterhin als Vertreter. Mit der Besetzung Frankreichs ab 1940 wuchs die Bedrohung für die kleine Familie. Zunächst konnten Willi und Else wegen ihrer Arbeitsverpflichtungen als "Nutzjuden" den Deportationen noch entgehen. Doch im März 1943 wurde Willi aus dem Sammellager Drancy nach Auschwitz deportiert, zwei Monate später auch Lilo und ihre Mutter.
Alle drei wurden in Auschwitz ermordet.
Lilo hat ihr Poesiealbum noch mit nach Paris genommen.Danach geriet es in den Besitz ihres Großvaters Gustav Ermann, der den Krieg versteckt in einem Kloster außerhalb von Paris überlebte.
Er wanderte nach dem Krieg nach Eretz Israel aus und übergab das Album an Yad Vashem."
"Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine tat und deine Kunstwerke, mach es einigen recht;vielen gefallen ist schlimm. Deine Mutter"
Eintrag von Lilos Mutter in ihrem Poesiealbum
EXPLORE #97 on Tuesday, September 11, 2007.
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May Terrorism go away worldwide for Hope is on the rise with Barrack Obama's election.
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Where were you when another undeclared WAR changed the World and lives?
All World Citizens join and pray fervently for those left to deal with the Disasters and their Loved Ones' Souls gone too soon.
These remembering prayers make so many world-wide "blue", for citizens of over 30 nations died in the Towers as firemen and policemen were very brave and ....
Blued, saturation etc. by Picasa2 manipulations.
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Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Remembrance Day, in Canada, a national holiday for federal and many provincial government workers, and the largest ceremonies are attended in major cities by tens of thousands.
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TESTIMONY:
My father devoted his life to telling what happened during WWII,in schools and other institutions in the belief that only education and knowledge could prevent other human beings from going through the horrors he had to endure.
In his loving memory I am now sharing his testimony.
Though it is in spanish,YouTube does the translation:
WE REMEMBER
MY WHOLE FAMILY KILLED
The horror of Auschwitz is part of my family history...
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This beautiful view is part of small village in Podlasie region (Poland). Small river call Kołodziejka, village - Szczeglacin. In II WW till fall of 1942 there was labour camp for Jews. They regulated this river in
in extremely difficult conditions. Most of them were murdered in mass execution in fall of 1942. Now there is any information about what hapenned there during war time. #weremember
Hannover, Niedersachsen:
Brief von Sigi Rapaport an seine Mutter, die mit ihm im KZ Stutthof inhaftiert war.
Mit elf Jahren schrieb Siegfried (Sigi) Rapaport 1944 im KZ Stutthof einen Brief an seine Mutter Miriam. Der Brief offenbart die Persönlichkeit eines Kindes, das unter den Bedingungen des Konzentrationslagers zum Ernährer und zur Stütze wurde, erwachsen vor der Zeit.
Der Brief ist auf einen langen, schmalen Papierstreifen geschrieben.
Sigis Schwester Resi hat später berichtet, dass zu desinfizierende Gebäude im KZ Stutthof mit Papierstreifen versiegelt wurden. Es zeugt von Sigis Findigkeit und Mut, dass er einen solchen Streifen nahm, um einen Brief zu schreiben.
Die Familie Rapaport wohnte bis 1938 in der Escherstraße in Hannover. Vater Moritz-Moses Rapaport wurde nach Polen deportiert, wo sich seine Spuren verlieren.
Sigis Schwester Resi (später Varda) entkam 1939 mit einem Kindertransport nach England. Miriam Rapaport und ihre Kinder Paula, Sigi und Paul wurden 1941 in das Ghetto Riga in Lettland deportiert. 1944 wurde Paul in das Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau verlegt, Miriam mit Paula und Sigi in das KZ Stutthof. Sigi starb 1945 auf einem der Todesmärsche, seine Mutter zwei Wochen nach ihrer Befreiung an Typhus. Nur Paula und Resi überlebten und übergaben den Brief später an Yad Vashem.
"Liebe Mutti, wie geht es Dir? Ich habe deine 2 Briefe erhalten. Gesund bin ich. Du hast doch kein Bauchwemer. Mutti, ich glaube das du Brot brauchst. Ich gehe nach Block 3. Ich habe für mich grade genug. Also mach dir über mich keine sorge.(...) Hoffentlich sind wier bald zusammen. wenn ich Brot habe, schicke ich dier, das weist du doch, Mutti"
Auszug aus dem Brief von Sigi Rapaport an seine Mutter.
Remembrance Day - 11:11:11
Honouring the bravery and sacrifice of all the women and men whose lives have been lost or forever changed while fighting for our freedom and serving our country.
“Lest We Forget.”
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Zagreb - Fri, Jan 27, 2023
Tomislav Tomašević, Mayor of Zagreb
Joško Klisović, Zagreb City Assembly President
I was driving to work listening to Stephen King's The Dark Tower audiobook when I pulled up to a red light, I hear someone yelling NO NO NO in the car next to me, rolled down my window and heard the news about the towers from his radio........ a very vivid memory although the rest of the day was just a blur.
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On January 27th 1945 concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland was liberated, where at least 1.1 million people were killed. And I remember summer of 2019, when I found a dead swallow in the women's barracks at these death camp.
In many cultures, a swallow is a symbol of hope. What if the bird is dead? Perhaps it symbolizes the dead hope of the victims? Or maybe it was the soul of the dead, as dead swallows were called in ancient Greece?
Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin
Kassel, Hessen:
Puppe namens Inge von Lore Stern,bekleidet mit dem Schlafanzug , den Lore in der Nacht des Novemberprogroms trug.
Lore Stern (geb.1937) lebte mit ihren Eltern Markus und Käthchen in der Großen Rosenstrasse in Kassel.
Ihr Vater war Kaufmann und wollte Deutschland schon Mitte der 1930er Jahre verlassen.Trotz verzweifelter Bemühungen gelang es ihm lediglich, ein Visum für sich selbst in die USA zu organisieren.
Während des Novemberprogroms 1938 nahm ihn die Gestapo fest und brachte ihn in das KZ Buchenwald. Lore und Käthchen fanden Zuflucht bei ihren Nachbarn.
Dank des Visums kam Markus aus Buchenwald frei und flüchtete in die USA. Erst im Juni 1941 erhielten Käthchen und Lore Visa. Mit dem letzten Schiff aus Portugal trafen sie im August in den USA ein.
Puppe Inge, ein Geschenk von ihrer Großmutter, begleitete Lore während der Zeit der Verfolgung und der Flucht. Als Lore größer wurde, kleidete sie die Puppe mit dem Schlafanzug, den sie in der Nacht des Novemberprogroms getragen hatte.
1991 wanderte Lore nach Israel aus. Dort lebt sie in Jerusalem.
2018 übergab Lore ihre Puppe an Yad Vashem.
Anlässlich dieser Ausstellung besuchte der Deutsche Botschafter in Israel, Steffen Seibert, Lore Mayerfeld, geb. Stern in Jerusalem für ein Interview
"Diese Puppe bedeutet mir so viel. Sie war ein Geschenk meiner Großmutter, und ich hatte sie aus Deutschland mitgebracht. als ich schon selbst Kinder hatte, war es ihnen nicht erlaubt, mit der Puppe zu spielen.
Der Pyjama erinnerte mich immer daran, was in der Progromnacht geschehen war!"
Lore Mayerfeld, geb. Stern
Mainz, Rheinland -Pfalz:
Matza Ständer, den Karoline Süss als Abschiedsgeschenk gestaltete
Der Weinhändler Hermann Süss (1865-1943) und seine Frau Karoline (1876-1944) lebten seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Gonsenheimer Straße in Mainz.
Zwei ihrer insgesamt fünf Kinder starben noch im Kindesalter. Mina, Friedrich und Sigmund wanderten vor Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs nach Eretz Israel aus. Freunde des Paares, Julius und Claire Picard, emigierten 1938 in die USA. Als Abschiedsgeschenk gestaltete Karoline Süss zwei Gegenstände nach dem Brauch deutscher Jüdinnen und Juden für das Pessach Fest : Einen Ständer für Matza ( ungesäuerte Brote) mit der gestickten Inschrift:"Und sie backten ungesäuerte Kuchen vor dem Teig, den sie aus Ägypten herausbrachten" sowie ein Tuch zur Bedeckung der Matza mit der Inschrift:" Sieben Tage sollst Du Matza essen".
Im September 1942 wurde das Ehepaar Süss in das Ghetto Theresienstadt deportiert.
Hermann Süss starb im Januar 1943. Karoline Süss wurde im Mai 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet.
Bei einem Besuch in den USA übergaben die Picards in den 1950er Jahren die Gegenstände an Michael Süss zur Erinnerung an seine Großeltern, die er nie kennengelernt hatte.
Später schenkte er Yad Vashem den Matza Ständer und das Tuch.
To honour the memory of the six million Jewish children, women, and men murdered by the Nazis, the United Nations designated January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. So we can collectively mark this important occasion, the World Jewish Congress launched the We Remember campaign. Join millions around the world and photograph yourself holding a sign that says #WeRemember and post it social media. Many of the images will be projected on a screen at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Explored Sep 10, 2009 #239
REMEMBERING 9/11
Houston, TX
Galleria Mall, Westin Hotel
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8
Heute möchte ich auf den Internationalen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust aufmerksam machen. Das was damals geschah, war das wohl schlimmste Verbrechen an der Menschheit und sowas darf nie wieder geschehen!
Ein Tag der mich immer wieder schockiert, mein Besuch im Jad Vaschem. Alles was mir hier vor Augen geführt wurde schockiert und erschüttert mich immer wieder. So auch dieser Anblick, denn dieser Wagen wurde Teil des Verbrechens. Voll mit jüdischen Mensch fuhr dieser Wagen im 2. Weltkrieg in die Konzentrationslager, die wohl letzte Fahrt für diese Menschen...
I am a bit late with my post, but I did want to take the time to remember all of those who sacrificed everything so that we can be free from oppression. Let’s hope that we respect their sacrifice and preserve those freedoms for everyone. As we celebrate and take the day off, let us pause and spare a thought for those brave men and women. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers as you enjoy your Memorial Day.
Photos were taken at the Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. We respect those who died here, but we include everyone from all the Armed Services and honor their sacrifice.
Have a safe and Happy Memorial Day.
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1917AD, 1st December, The Cottage, Middle Street, Nazeing, Essex. Alfred and Sarah Pegrum having been anxiously living the last year waiting for bad news, all the time grateful that it hasn't come.
Today their greatest fear came. Wilfred had died. Alfred and Sarah's small family of three children would never be the same. The future in that one moment changed.
More over on our blog www.bricktothepast.com/blog-to-the-past
Wilfred Pegrum (Service nos. 47675) served with 25th Coy. Machine gun corps during World War I and is buried at Tyne Cot, Belgium.
We remember.
To honour the memory of the six million Jewish children, women, and men murdered by the Nazis, the United Nations designated January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. So we can collectively mark this important occasion, the World Jewish Congress launched the We Remember campaign. Join millions around the world and photograph yourself holding a sign that says #WeRemember and post it social media. Many of the images will be projected on a screen at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS—Here is America's only soldier to ever receive Israel’s highest honor conferred on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. On this day 77 years ago, facing the threat of immediate execution, he and his men displayed an act of courage and character that exemplifies what it means to take a stand against evil.
US Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, the “Golden Lions”, was captured by German forces at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. A native of Knoxville, TN, Edmonds was 25 years old. He had only been on the front line for five days when his unit was overrun.
Edmonds' captors marched him east where he was transferred to Stalag IX-A, a camp for enlisted personnel just east of Bonn, Germany. As the senior noncommissioned officer at the camp, Edmonds found himself responsible for 1,275 American POWs.
On January 27, 1945, the Camp Commandant ordered Edmonds to assemble all the Jewish-American soldiers so they could be separated from the other prisoners.
Defiantly, Edmonds assembled all 1,275 American POWs.
Furious, the German commandant walked quickly up to Edmonds, placed a pistol against Edmonds' forehead, and demanded that he identify the Jewish soldiers within the ranks.
Edmonds, a keen and dedicated Baptist, responded sternly, "We are all Jews here."
Edmonds then warned the commandant that if he wanted to shoot the Jews, he'd have to shoot everyone, and that if he harmed any of Edmonds' men, the commandant would be prosecuted for war crimes when Germany lost. Edmonds then recited that the Geneva Conventions required POWs to give only their name, rank, and serial number, not their religion.
The commandant backed down.
Edmonds' actions are credited with saving 200 Jewish-American soldiers from being murdered. He survived 100 days of captivity, and returned home after the war, but kept the event at the POW camp to himself. He never told anyone. Edmonds later served in Korea.
It was only after Edmonds’ death in 1985 and the review of his diaries by his son that his story came to light. Jewish-American POWs, including Sonny Fox who after the war became an executive with NBC. He verified the story as did other POWs who were glad to share. The State of Israel declared Edmonds “Righteous Among the Nations” in 2015.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As we pause to remember the 6 million Jews and 11 million others murdered at the hand of their captors, we also commend all Allied Veterans who helped bring the tyranny of the Third Reich to an end. Master Sergeant Edmonds and the 1,275 American soldiers who stood defiantly with him on this day were a part of that story. We are the benefactors, and we pause to give our thanks. All The Way and more.
Photo, courtesy of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and The Rev. Chris Edmonds. #WeRemember #WeShareToRemember #holocaust #onthisday #neveragain #HolocaustMemorialDay #HolocaustRemembranceDay
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A tribute to the 9/11 Attack on America and the World, to the many lives lost on that day of infamy and to the loved ones they left. Five years had passed but the memories and the pictures are all too clear in my mind.
'the day the world stood still' On Black
Highest position: 13 on Sunday, September 17, 2006
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September 11 or 911 By Numbers
The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.
* Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02): 2,819 (KK: Originally reported as high as 5,000)
* Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
* Number of NYPD officers: 23
* Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
* Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60
* Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
* Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614
* Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
* Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 22
* Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115 (KK: The World)
* Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1
* Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
* Bodies found "intact": 289
* Body parts found: 19,858
* Number of families who got no remains: 1,717
* Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000
* Total units of donated blood actually used: 258
* Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609
* Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
* Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20 (KK: This number is unbelievable. I suspect this number is faulty.)
* FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274
* FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661
* Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300
* Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200
* Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98
* Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124
* Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99
* Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 (KK: One of the biggest blow)
* Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6
* Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81
* Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26
* Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714
* Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion
* Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million
* Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million
* Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
* Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion
* Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion
* Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion
* Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million
* Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
* Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million
* Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
* Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
* Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
* Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150
* Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26
* Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000
* Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110
* Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million
* Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000
Source: Sept 11 by Numbers
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27.01.1945 Liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.
The day commemorates the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews, representing two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, alongside the deaths of millions of others perpetrated by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005.
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of the senseless events of nine years ago. But today especially I remember the tremendous loss of innocent life, and how many lives world wide have been, and continue to be destroyed.
Last week while strolling through the park near my home I met a gentleman who introduced himself as Mark. I was struck by the ease of which Mark fed the chickadees from his open hand.
Perhaps worldwide what we now need is for everyone to extend a friendly open hand!!