Category Archives: Holocaust

Unthinking

Posted on September 30, 2017 by

Knew about Hannah Arendt, more by name and in terms of the phrase most associated with her: “the banality of evil”. Have not yet read the book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil (1963). Saw the 2012 film, starring … Continue reading →

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Alex The Tailor

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

Had small tailor shop on Dundas Street East, Toronto, 1970s. Alex, formerly of Hungary, hence not deported towards death until March of 1944. Survivor of Majdanek concentration camp, which was liberated in July of 1944. Good fortune of short time. … Continue reading →

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Need for Satan

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

She said, as an atheist: It is easier to address evil. No Devil to blame. One sees it in people. Nothing to fall back on. Maybe not. When faced with evil, and when opposing evil, one is guarding against one’s … Continue reading →

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Evian Conference, Dominican Republic

Posted on October 4, 2016 by

The Dominican Republic was one of the few countries that had declared itself willing to accept Jewish refugees at the Evian Conference in 1938. E/96: Fate Undecided, footnote 8.

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Split

Posted on August 24, 2016 by

Prior to the war, there had been very little anti-Jewish feeling expressed in either Brussels or Antwerp. Although Antwerp was a hotbed of the Flemish nationalist movement, the focus of this nationalism before 1930 was almost entirely anti-French. With the … Continue reading →

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Stranger Blame

Posted on August 7, 2016 by

From Ann Szedlecki (1925-2005), Album of My Life (2009), describing circumstances associated with her escape from Lodz to Russian-occupied eastern Poland, 1939, at the age of fourteen: On the trip we were subjected to a lot of antisemitic verbal abuse … Continue reading →

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Trip to Sarny

Posted on August 2, 2016 by

As the Wikipedia page then read: Sarny (Ukrainian: Сáрни, Russian: Сáрны, Polish: Sarny) translated as Does, is a small city in the Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Sarny Raion (district), and is … Continue reading →

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