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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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 Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:20 am Post subject: Dancing in Auschwitz |
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I love this. An auschwitz survivor returns to the camp with his family 65 years later and dances to Gloria Gaynor..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUoanho82H4
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| Dancing with his grandchildren in the place where his mother was murdered was the greatest triumph of his life, Kohn says. "Since then, I am no longer a victim. I survived. I won." |
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-58098-8.html
Congratulations to him and his family...
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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This is one of the more badass Auschwitz accounts out there, a guy who snuck into the camp in 1944 in order to get information from the inside.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7039572.ece
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The operation was planned meticulously. Avey found a Dutch Jew with a similar physique and persuaded him to exchange places for a day. Avey knew that they marched past each other at the same time every week. �The Nazis were rigid, you see,� he says. �To them orders were orders, to be carried out exactly. That was what allowed me to find a way round them.�
Avey shaved his head and blackened his face. At the allocated time, he and the Dutch Jew sneaked into a disused shed. There they swapped uniforms and exchanged places. Avey affected a slouch and a cough, so that his English accent would be disguised should he be required to speak.
�I joined the Stripeys and marched into Monowitz, a predominantly Jewish camp. As we passed beneath the Arbeit Macht Frei [work makes you free] sign, everyone stood up straight and tried to look as healthy as they could. There was an SS officer there, weeding out the weaklings for the gas. Overhead was a gallows, which had a corpse hanging from it, as a deterrent. An orchestra was playing Wagner to accompany our march. It was chilling.�
They were herded through the camp, carrying the bodies of those who had died that day. �I saw the Frauenhaus � the Germans� brothel of Jewish girls � and the infirmary, which sent its patients to the gas after two weeks. I committed everything to memory. We were lined up in the Appellplatz for a roll call, which lasted almost two hours. Then we were given some rotten cabbage soup and went to sleep in lice-infested bunks, three to a bed.�
The night was even worse than the daytime. �As it grew dark, the place was filled with howls and shrieks. Many people had lost their minds. It was a living hell. Everyone was clutching their wooden bowls under their heads, to stop them getting stolen.� Lobethall had bribed Avey�s bedfellows with cigarettes. �They gave me all the details,� he says, �the names of the SS, the gas chambers, the crematoria, everything. After that, they fell asleep. But I lay awake all night.�
In the morning, Avey joined other prisoners for a roll call, followed by �breakfast� � a husk of black bread with a scrape of fetid margarine. �It wasn�t enough to sustain life. Everything was designed to make you waste away.� They were formed into groups and marched out of the camp, again to the accompaniment of an orchestra.
�When we passed the shed again, I slipped in to meet the Dutch Jew,� he says. �That was hair raising. Although I trusted him, I couldn�t be sure that he�d turn up. And if an SS officer had looked in the wrong direction at the wrong time, that would have been it.�
The changeover went smoothly, and Avey returned to the PoW camp. �The Dutch Jew perished, but I�m certain that this short reprieve prolonged his life by several weeks,� he says. �Whether that was a good thing, I don�t know.� |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| This is one of the more badass Auschwitz accounts out there, a guy who snuck into the camp in 1944 in order to get information from the inside. |
Fascinating...Another similar account here:
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Charles Coward ... managed to swap clothes with an inmate on a work detail and spent the night in the Jewish camp, seeing at first hand the horrific conditions in which they were held.
Determined to do something about it, he used Red Cross supplies, particularly chocolate, to "buy" corpses of dead prisoners, including Belgian and French civilian forced labourers, from the SS guards. Coward then directed healthy Jewish prisoners to join the nightly marches of Jews considered unfit for further work from Monowitz to the Birkenau gas chambers. During the course of the march the healthy men dropped out of procession to hide in ditches; Coward scattered the corpses he had purchased on the road to give the impression that they were members of the column who had died on the march. He then gave the documents and clothes taken from the non-Jewish corpses to the Jewish escapees, who adopted these new identities and were then smuggled out of the camp altogether. Coward carried out this scheme on numerous occasions and is estimated to have saved at least 400 Jewish slave labourers. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coward |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember visiting Dachau in 1998. Most sobering experience I've ever had. Literally, since I was drunk in Europe 21 days straight. |
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Alphabet_Stew
Joined: 13 Jun 2010
Location: Earth
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:26 am Post subject: |
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The current Pope - is a former Nazi and army deserter.
http://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2008/04/nazi-pope.html
Apparently he deserted when the ally forces were closing in.
As the pope today, he still associates with his former "Nazi" buddies and gives them high-up jobs in the vatican. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:57 am Post subject: |
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So you are holding it against him that he deserted the Nazi army?  |
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