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This blog describes my thoughts and experiences in visiting Auschwitz, Belzec, Majdanek and Sobibor and Anne Frank's House from 2014 to 2018

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They are Not Numbers They Are the Jewish People.

Uncategorised Posted on Mon, March 11, 2024 22:58:47

“..Auschwitz was ..turning point in my life ..end of my youth and my illusions. I hadn’t done anything special to deserve such a history lesson. I regret to say that I was one ..innocent.” Eva Tichauer.

There is a truth in everything, and the fact that some 11,293,300 Jews still faced annihilation, even after The Wannsee Conference was being convened. This fact, which secretes a huge loss still to be uncovered, also wishes to diminish the Jewish presence within the catastrophe. not wishing to acknowledge. we stood by and allowed this all to happen. That the Jewish lives were forfeit to the whim of a tyrant is as such a testimony to how destructive the capacity of inhuman behaviour from the  Nazi’s and their collaborators became.

“..Our transport was among ..last ones ..from Hungary July 8th. 1944 ..and due to ..unusual number of arrivals ..SS were forced to change their customary procedures. ..gas chambers ..crematoria could not accommodate everyone judged unfit for work ..so 100’s were piled along ..railroad tracks to be immolated. ..due to ..heartless haste ..clothed in rags ..marked with ..painted red cross ..hardly any food or water ..also due to this haste ..escaped tattooing.”  Judith Magyar Isaacson.

To have lived as a Jew at all during the period, and within this carefully nurtured and mechanised period of slaughter, is a resistance 6,000,000 Jews could not continually make. For us in history, can we then allow the unresolved issue over the numbers of Jewish Human Beings that were slaughtered at the Killing Sites and within each of the Death Camps in Poland. Can we so readily accept this failure of human tolerance to be centred around the decreasing narrative of diminishing these Jewish numbers further.

“..I am very different from how I was.  ..I carry with me after effects of my deportation ..as yet uncharted by medicine.” Eva Tichauer.

Can we all too easily ignore the very fact of all of these Jews being the same beings of the exact same Humanity applied to everyone. Can it be acceptable, ever, to allow for these Jews to become dismissed from life without a human a concern. How will history ever resolve the issue of the slaughter while ignoring the fact of the fact of humanity’s indifference to what progressed from The Final Solution to become The Holocaust resolve of The Jewish Question. It becomes all too easy to ignore, when we allow for numbers that can attempt to conceal the immense loss this presents to all of humanity.

“..First of all they were doing ..tatoos and then I was. ..sent to block C.” Barbara Stimler.

We stand before the mantle of such infamy, atop the pile of hatred’s which delivered the Jews to such spaces as Babi-Yar, Belzec and then as Birkenau industrially proposed. So we must press continuously to deter any suppression of this truth. History is being blocked from seeing the real devastation of a Jewish presence that was designed for that Jewish eviction from all existence and by all too many who do not wish to accept a World’s complicity. Make no mistake. Hitler is not the only guilty merchant of this hatred in what we recognise is his own design, a resolve which produced The Holocaust.

“..it wasn’t ..tatoo that bothered me as much as my thought ..What right do they have to do anything to me.” Eva Mozes Kor.

Wherever a Jew was taken out from the middle of a community, be that a Shtetl, Town or City, neighbours did what they always did, watched. With all they were to see, that information passed along the conduit of whispers and retelling which fed through to the Churches and their self serving organisation. There can be no reasoned debate, nor one single defence of The Holocaust, whatsoever, that can be entertained. For any of those deniers or distorters, who would seek to begin any defence with the suggestion that we look at what the Jews did 2,000 years ago, we cannot ignore them.

“..Zyklon B ..kills ..starting from ground level. ..Sonder kommando ..discovered human pyramids. ..dead at ..bottom ..succumbed first ..other ..more resilient ..stronger ..tried to hoist themselves ..to ..top where it was still possible to breathe. ..last to succumb ..after interminable minutes ..right at ..top.” Eva Tichauer.

If the statement is then followed by some failed accusation, with regard to what happened to the personage of  Jesus, we must confront this also. At the behest of these Churches, these bodies are not seeking the truth in favour of a flavour of a hatred which has served them for the 2,000 years of their existence. The Jews were so obviously a threat to the establishment of the christian churches, as Judaism and the god of the Jews stood before them, a link to where the Chosen People are not any other people but the Jewish People. 

“..tatooing was at ..end of our first day at Auschwitz. I was ..second to last person in our group of 26 people to get a tatoo. My twin sister Miriam was ..last.” Eva Mozes Kor.

For those others, who might then suggest we take a look at what that individual Jew, or that other Jew sought to achieve in either saving their Families or even themselves, we look to what else was the Jew to do but comply with a military enforced demand. The Jews might have held sticks and stones coming up against the weight of a Nazi Blitzkrieg which had devastated much of the European Continent. It is also true to this day that, and I include my self in this when I am asked, and this is consitently constant: What would I have done?

“..I hope that people nowadays here this story ..and realise that underneath we are all ..same. It could happen again and I hope that people learn from my story and see that every one person can make a difference.” Iboyla Violet Knill.

What I certainly know, and for a fact is this, I would not have betrayed my neighbour because they were Jews. What this Jew did in the Camps or what that Jew managed to do within the Ghetto setting, in a struggle to merely survive would have truly devoured me. For these people who ask such particular questions, reason dictates them. These other people have an other agenda which is biased and less than that which any historical integrity demands, honesty. When we do our research properly, we recognise that this Jewish civilian population could do little.

“.My Mother let’s go of me. We look at each other intently ..profoundly ..silently. We are separated ..I don’t see her climb into ..lorry. We did not say goodbye. ..We did not kiss. I never saw my Mother again.” Eva Tichauer.

The Jews could no more impede the ferocity of Hitler’s Reich than the countless armies of so many nations could. Certainly, and within those initial 4 years of progressing the victory celebrations, the end result was always looking ominous as Hitler’s Weltanschauung appeared unstoppable. The very fact though, that these Jews are continually assailed by the accusation that they should have done more is ridiculous when not even a World could constrain Hitler, and for a period of 6 years at War, 13 years confronting the World stage and for more than 26 years extolling the Jews toward Destruction.

“..In Stutthof ..became ..96211 ..unlike ..Auschwitz ..our numbers were not tatooed.”  Max Michelson.

For those many Jews who sought to take the fight to the Nazis, they too were limited by the choices they were never afforded by Hitler. Hitler’s Reich, and all of those who sought to emulate this genocidal hatred for the Jewish People stood between them and humanity. Despite the irrational assertion by many, it is clear, there was no tatooing of the Jews within the Camp system and anywhere else but within Auschwitz. This dehumanising tatooing effort gave rise to a Jewish hope that they were being physically saved for some future labour demand.

“..We didn’t know ..we would never again be totally like other people. ..an invisible ..intangible dividing line ..puts Survivors apart from ..rest of humanity and creates between us us indestructible bonds.” Eva Tichauer.

Though, and as we came to more fully realise in history, the tatooing of the Jewish People was only meant to catalogue those Jews who were to be retained. This was always but a temporary situation to add more deceit to the Nazi intention. True, and as Slave Labourers until their use no longer qualified them for life, they had a reprieve from annihilation. While the duty of this tatoo process, fell to an ostensibly Jewish personnel, they formed part of the administration of the Camp that was assigned to those many Jews who performed their duty, always enforced by the Nazi demands.

“..pushed in ..cattle cars like sardines. We were dirty ..buckets for ..urine ..bowel movements. ..a small ..window ..barbed wire over it ..no air except ..from that little window. ..we travelled like this ..3 ..4 days. ..dawn. ..I saw lights ..fire from far away. ..a chimney ..with fire going. ..thought they were factories. ..We will be able to work. ..told ..to leave ..luggage. packages ..we had to leave on ..ground. ..separated ..men ..from ..women. ..didn’t ..have time to say goodbye to my uncle ..my aunt. ..in front of the Germans ..guided us ..right or ..left. ..told me to go to ..right ..told my aunt to go ..left. I never saw her again. ..15 years old ..all alone in this hell. ..told us to undress ..that we were going to be showered ..that they were going to give us clothes. ..place was freezing cold. ..stayed there for hours to wait for our clothes. No towels to dry ..no food. ..finally ..gave us ..clothes ..put us in barracks. ..tatooed. ..My name is A5143.” Lily Appelbaum.

As such, there were innumerable Jews who were forced to brand their own People, according to the strictures of these Nazi irrational demands. We look more closely too and we see that these Jews who were given time to administer such Nazi demands, they too stood before time and they too were stood upon the motion toward destruction, as the expendable price of living under a Nazi threat to destroy them all them. All time, within the confines of Europe was logged by Hitler and his cohort, and in that, the Jewish People were spared but a moment in their time. Clearly, as Eva Tichauer makes us realise, the tattoo is more than a physical intrusion:

“..Auschwitz is tatooed into our bodies.” Eva Tichauer.

We take Birkenau, as the principle conductor in delivering the tattoo, was merely a status for those Jews before exterminating them. The possibility of doing so, and to all 6,000,000 Jews, even those Jews who stood before the killing sites, is worth the momentary thought, that barely saved any Jews whatsoever. The many who might use this as a criteria to suggest all Jews were being saved for some other, more fanciful ending, is both ridiculous, even laughable. Confusion was meant to reign, and we are well aware of this death dealing of this facility’s fuller capability.

“..February 1943 a new crematoria ..gas chamber ..inaugurated ..Birkenau. 9 ovens ..4 openings each ..allowing 3 corpses at a time. ..capacity of each oven ..2,000 corpses a day.” Leonardo De Benedetti.

Yet we shirk our responsibility when somehow the perhaps as many as 4,000,000 Jews beomes the suggestion for  those Jews being confined permanently within Birkenau. What we can always claim though is the very capacity of Birkenau, and from within the period of its entire existence that it could so easily have established itself at the destructive place for all the 6,000,000 Jews who were systematically destroyed. Of course there were other’s who died here too, and their story is a matter of concern, but for me, they remain outside The Holocaust remit.

“..we go back to ..registration ..tatooers are waiting for us. ..great speciality of Auschwitz ..our number ..indelible ..marked in ..flesh of our left forearm. ..I become ..20832 until ..end of my days. ..Auschwitz is tatooed into our bodies.” Eva Tichauer.

We simply cannot argue that fact of the human loss to so many who are not Jews, but for these others, who were all killed, who all died, even brutally, we cannot ignore them. For there were so many who were callously mistreated and who died wretched deaths and were even murdered, and all for various reasons, but not as Jews as fashioned by The Final Solution. Even within the other 5 Death Camps, there were those who did not fit the demands for The Jewish Question and were somehow caught up in another penchant for hatred which Hitler held for so many.

“..number tatooed on my left arm ..personal evidence from Auschwitz ..attracts ..attention of many people. ..an incomprehensible ..strange mark ..a painful souvenir of ..cruel times of Nazism ..for me ..a kind of certificate of maturity.” Halina Birenbaum.

Growing up however, within the exclusive nature of these facility’s, these were all combined and were always aimed toward the systematic and total slaughter of the Jewish People. Whether within Ghettos, Camps, Killing Sites, Death Camps, these were reserved exclusively for the Jews of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. Even though other’s got caught up in the massacres, they were not the candidates for the very specific nature of The Final Solution. All of which perhaps reminds us as to why so many would seek to decrease the Jewish Slaughter here, even in this one space.

“..Mother. ..probably felt more than I did ..transformation which ..occurred in me ..after ..Drancy. She forgave me for having neglected her and having become an independent Woman ..an adult. I never forgave myself ..I ..carry ..burden today.” Eva Tichauer.

To the 2,000,000 Jews, or even 1,600,000 Jews, and even daring to suggest all but 1,100,000 Jews were destroyed within its confines. Of course, not all of these figures can be correct and no truth of what is hidden under the Polish soil in and around any of the 6 Death Camps placed there. It is becoming explicitly understood, the truth will never be known in its fuller more brutal and truth giving detail. When we detail the loss to some 1,000,000 Jews already destroyed by the marauding bands of der Einsatzgruppe, we add that to what then emerged as the slaughter moved toward a more mechanised and industrious process.

“..camp clerk stamped a number on ..personnel form. ..my prisoner number ..my new name D5046.” Zev Birger.

As Zev Birger was registered at Dachau, and so many other Camps had simplified their logging in procedures but what we recognise is the same principle of dehumanisation of the Jews. In registering them, and in then delivering these Jews toward obscurity, the process of administration was achieved without tattooing them. However, the necessity to even register by any means all 4,000,000 Jews or even 5,000,000 Jewish People who entered the Death Camp system proved unecessary. As we begin to recognise and as such, and given the very capacity undertaken so as to destroy all Jews who entered these spaces,

“..My Parents had chosen France in ..nazi upheavel ..they swore never again to set foot in a Country which ..betrayed them and driven them out. I will keep their oath. Germany no longer means anything to me. Hitler has exterminated All my People. I chose France once more ..for ever.” Eva Tichauer.

Be assured, it was within the bounds of these 6 death dealing facility’s that the capability to wholly destroy enormous numbers of Jews and on a daily basis, is evident. In each and every one of these Death Camps, be it Chelmno, Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka or indeed Birkenau, they all could and did add multiples of Jewish lives to any of those figures of their destruction we have had so often suggested. So for the figures produced at The Wannsee Conference, we look back toward the decimation of as many as 1,000,000 Jews by der Einsatzgruppe.

“..I was tatooed at Auschwitz ..I was stunned. But it was a day when I had lost my whole family. I had lost everything I knew up to that point.” Eva Mozes Kor.

For all of those Jews who were still remaining alive, during January 1942, these now 11,293,300 Jews could have been handled, transported East, and resettled in just over 2 years. This is a clearer indication of how mass murder was to become produced to such a systematic and industrial scaled up level. When Otto Frank was admitted to the Birkenau Death Camp, and he received his tattooed number B-9174, he was entering upon a system so focused upon abolishing Jewish life, numbers became a blur within the pages of Nazi scrutiny.

“..I wasn’t allowed to sit on a bus seat for fear I would contaminate people.” Iboyla ‘Iby’ Violet Knill.

Here, it became evident that while Otto Frank was stood upon a conveyor belt toward that very same extinction, his realisation was facing toward his own Family, and their position. The faint hope, given all he had learned from the Nazi injection of pure hatred toward the Jews to make them feel alienated from the rest of society, the thought must have been persistent as to where they might be, either alive, or amongst the ashes of the space he now stood in. While he was now becoming a witness to the brutal fact that entire communities of Jews were being eviscerated at an alarming rate, he recognised too the dire position his whole Family was surely in.

“..population ..located nearby ..able to see ..chimneys of ..crematoria belching out ..smoke ..watching ..sky turn red ..impossible did not know what was happening in ..camps. ..they are all accomplices ..because of their indifference and tacit assent.” Eva Tichauer.

When Primo Levi too is admitted to Birkenau and is given tatoo number 17457, the entire Jewish presence had been so diminished in stature as to be wholly obliterated, and in ever increasing numbers. When Leonardo De Benedetti is finally admitted into the destructive realm of Birkenau, and he is given tattoo number 174489, the destruction of more than 1,000,000 Jews has been clearly defined. Within the Death Camp Birkenau itself, the capacity to do so was an achievable fact which could easily have taken but 3 months.

“..When I was about to be registered they ran out of ink and for reasons I will never understand nobody returned and I was never tatooed. I became known in ..camp as ..girl without a tatoo.” Iboyla Violet Knill.

For me, and I cannot simply write the titles to those Books by those Jewish Survivor’s who were given their numbers but I can write the sub text to those 6,000,000 Jews who are deprived of any chance to write their own Book in order to inform us of what was meant to impact them more deadly. No one should be forced to remind themselves of such branding, but we require them to remind us of its significance. For Eva Tichauer, whose Book ‘I Was No. 20832 at Auschwitz’, regales the World for such a contempt of all of humanity, but which impacts Jews in the main, as the disgn of the Death Camp system suggests.

“..human beings can become worse than beasts. Yet ..Nazi ..camp system ..unique in its kind ..failed. Humanity ..triumphed. 1,000,000’s ..died ..tortured ..assassinated ..exterminated. ..those ..lucky to survive ..Men ..Women have surpassed themselves ..thanks to ..spirit of solidarity and resistance. Today most of them are dead. A handful ..keep their memory alive and continue to demand ..human race remain for ever on guard.” Eva Tichauer.

With Felix Weinberg, his Book, ‘Boy 30529’ is a poignant reminder how far the civilisation of human society had descended. Given that the usage of numbers, within the Birkenau Death Camp system, was established to devalue their very existence. While profiteering out of all that was planned for the Jews, the killing process continued relentlessly, and without consideration of the military needs of Hitler’s collapsing Reich. We have to continually recognise, there are 6,000,000 Jews within the terms of The Holocaust, and it is reprehensible to simply see them as other than Human.

“..Murder of 6,000,000 Jews must never be reduced to a statistic.”  Simon Wiesenthal.

Others, more linked with the eloquence of Survivoral knowledge enable us appreciate that they are Not in the lease, a statistic. Those Jews, surviving Hitler’s herculean effort to destroy every one of them, bear more than their scars of memory. Some even have a Tattooed reminder that recognises the deeper sense of inhumanity that they were inflicted to enroute toward extinction. It is impossible for any human being to be given a number as an identifying symbol, as Eva Tischauer was, cannot be told without humanity failing in its principle duty.

“..not a priority train. ..ordinary passenger trains ..we shout ..most people avoid lifting their heads. Some ..a look full of pity. ..we need ..help ..there is no hope. ..going eastwards. ..I have ..idea of preparing ..notes with a message and address ..throwing them out.” Eva Tichauer.

Of course, not everything is explicable in the realm of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, but consistenly, the systematic and sought after Slaughter of the Jews of Europe is. The Jews were at the forefront of everything which brutalised them ahead of others for whom Hitler felt threatened his view of the World. The Jewish People, as a body of People would be discarded from life, capaulted into non-existence and destroyed totall, just as Hitler had sought. It is perfectly clear too that any choice, which might have been given to any Jew, was predicated upon them dying.

“..My head was shaved and ..number 69388 was tatooed on my left arm. Anita Sara Lasker no longer existed.” Anita Lasker Wallfisch.”

The rather basic fact was glaringly obvious, and that no Jew would be given any choice whatsoever, and that choice was not clear to those Jews thought they had made any choice at all. It is all too obvious, for those who wish to see this, that Jewish choice had been exactly the same choice given to every single Jew in Europe, and that was No Choice whatsoever. We should more understand the position for the Jews of Europe for we, as human beings too, cannot have the choice to act while outside the guards and dogs run the rule over our very existence.

“..We feel ..gentle warmth of ..Spring. ..filled with hope. ..no gas chambers at Leipzig.” Eva Tichauer.

The Hitlerite enclave, all those who inhabit it or swirl around the rim of its putrid hatred, are designated as opposition to even our own very unique existence. Of course, once the Jews who enter onto the sidings at Birkenau are branded, there is to be a stay of execution which existed only until the Jewish turmoil was ended. However, only that Land, afforded the Jews in antiquity, confirmed Biblically and endorsed Historically, would prove the saviour of the future for all of Jewish persistence in the World since The Holocaust was convened.

“..By removing my tatoo ..will that remove all ..tragedy that happened to me. ..answer is no. So why should I submit myself to additional pain just so I do not have to see that tatoo. It is kind of like my badge of courage.” Eva Mozes Kor.

I am not here to defend any nation, one way or another, but to speak for the right for every one of those 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews, is the State of Israel. For all of these Jews, who would have had a clearer choice, a better opportunity at survival, and a chance that the World did not give them, teir homeland should have been afforded them as soon as Hitler sought to remove even one Jew from this life. For what was then perpetrated, and by so many peoples who stood against the Jews, and even for what was to be denied to the Jewish People, we accuse them all.

“..At ..final nights halt our ss surround us ..in order not to lose us but also to save themselves from going to ..front.” Eva Tichauer.

The promised land as such, was to be a shelter from the storm, a State which would always provide the Jewish People a form of sanctuary, they could control. They would no longer live at the behest of guest nations, not involve themselves in pleading for tolerance in the midst of an intolerable hatred toward them. But this is more crucial, what was colluded in by those who also sought to deprive their own Jews, from homes and lands they had occupied for almost 2,000 years, is a reprehensible deed which mocks all that civilisation should stand for.

“..I will never forget what ..Vichy was responsible for. ..Petain ..Laval somany others. ..never ..called to account. ..guilty ..roaming free ..still await ..judgement of history. Indifference too ..a criminal act.” Eva Tichauer.

For what share of the spoils for any citizen or neighbour of the Jewish People, who sought to plunder what the Jews were forced to leave behind, is an abysmal crime in perpetuity. That indifference to the suffering of the Jews led so many to obtain their share of what 6,000,000 Jews, who were solely sought out from them, is a larceny beyond moral indignation. The sheer loss to all of humanity that is this Jewish extermination, is shed as so many bystanders stood aside as the Jewish People are marched toward a Slaughter they were designated for. 

“..convinced ..I wouldn’t have returned ..if ..Mother had come to ..camp. I wouldn’t have been able to bear seeing her deteriorate and die. My Love for her would have taken away all my strength ..I would have followed her. That too is one of my pieces of luck” Eva Tichauer.

The duty of any nation is to look after its own, who matter the status or definition of any labelling or classification. Society is pledged to look to itself and know what it did or did not do in protecting those of its People within its borders. There is no defence, and it is inadvisable and cannot ever become medicated by denial, obfuscation or in particular, lies. Of course, the passage of time allows for us to ask the very tired question as to what would we have done, and could we have done anything differently.

“..To be liberated on Easter Sunday 40 days after entering ..camp. Of all ..days and times to be told I would live. Easter Sunday? Well you just couldn’t make it up could you.” Iboyla Violet Knill.

My own position in this response is an assertive and obvious one, no one can be placed in that position which seeks to resolve an issue of past atrocities. But! I hold with the entire conviction that I know exactly what I would not do, nor what I would descend to. I would never have denied my neighbour consolation, support nor friendship and I would never have betrayed that position. To sit here and wite that I would have fought to the death in defence of 6,000,000 Jews, dismisses the other fact which should compel us not to act in anyway contrary to what humanity demands of us.

“..I come back richer in humanity and love of others. ..one has to struggle to change ..world .to struggle relentlessly.” Eva Tichauer.



The Final Solution of The Hungarian Jewish Question.

Uncategorised Posted on Wed, February 21, 2024 12:04:15

“..The Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in ..singular history of ..Final Solution of ..The Jewish question in Europe.” Randolph L. Braham.

I cannot take you the reader, all the way back 5,000 years to where Jewish persistence proved stronger than the eliminating demands placed upon them by all too many others. These others’, those whose wish to destroy the essence of a People, has since been built upon until its expression finally became demonstrable and deadly. From this, The Greatest Hatred, what has emerged has been known and recognised as antisemitism for far too long and by the so called enlightened in civilisation. Since Hungary joined Hitler’s Worldview, on November 20th. 1940, we cannot know how many of its Jewish community were Killed, Murdered or died in the Labour Battalions. All of this is some 3 years prior to the arrival of the killing operation for Hungarian Jewry arrived in amongst 900,000 Hungarian Jews. So I gained my own perspective of this hatred and from here, when my first Book was Published some 22 years ago, and it is an accusatory historical image of what the World allowed to happen, there is much more to learn. But this Book was written, it was edited time and again and was rehearsed way before the appreciation of the Jewish loss was gained. As a Student of World War II, I had previously touched upon the very graphic detail of an Einsatz kommanders aktionen who fully sought to present his defining moments to his masters.

“..Baltic countries ..would render harmless ..enemies left behind after ..retreat of ..Red Army. ..duty of ..Security Police to set in motion ..self-cleansing movements ..direct them ..to accomplish ..cleansing operations as quickly as possible. ..important ..to establish ..unshakeable ..provable fact ..liberated populations ..took ..most severe measures against Bolshevist ..Jewish enemy ..so that ..direction by German authorities could not be found out. In Lithuania this was achieved ..in Kowno. ..not easy ..set in motion ..extensive pogrom against Jews. ..no German order or ..instigation ..noticed from ..outside. ..pogrom ..June 25 to 26  ..Lithuanian partisans did away with more than 1,500 Jews ..set fire to several Synagogues or destroyed them by other means ..burned down a Jewish dwelling district consisting of about 60 houses. During ..following nights about 2,300 Jews ..made harmless in a similar way.” SS Brigadefuhrer Franz Stahlecker.

We are now in the midst of the gravest calamity for Baltic Jewry and this is where I altered all my emphasis, study and research. Typically it is with this graphic, illuminating the Stahlecker Report, that I garnered an insight into what levels of committal to the Jewish slaughter was aligned to and is running parallel the conquest of the World. The graphic itself, which emphasised the amassed Jewish Executions that were carried out by Stahlecker’s Einsatzgruppen A, has both troubled and captured me. The imagery of the coffins alone, listing the massacres of the Jewish People has stunned my inner workings and concentrated my further search for understanding ever since. With the sheer and callous disregard for human life, all emotion has been essential for me to focus such a statistical analysis into a personal emphasis. This has prompted me into suggesting that the necessary approach which humanity must demand has been lacking in terms of what we must be recognised. Along with my own disgust for what was this Genocidal undertaking, I was drawn into the necessary study that I would now engage with, and not as a Jew but on behalf of the Jewish People.

“..There was no way we could have foreseen Hitler’s Final Solution ..but my parents did sense ..situation would likely worsen, and they tried to get us out of Hungary.” Andrew Salamon.

It is from here that I will take you from where Hitler used his own rhetoric of hatred that was fully directed toward eliminating the Jewish People. We move relentlessly on, all the way toward the near total elimination of the Jewish presence within Europe, and finally culminating in an enactment which delivered its most gravest terms. Once Hitler sought to destroy the strength of World Jewry, he found the largest Jewish population of Europe was present on his doorstep, in Poland. Here Hitler became convinced that Poland’s historic Pogroms would create the exacting terms by which his route toward The Final Solution would be resolved. The germination of an eventual solution that was to resolve Hitler’s Jewish problem, might be more fully solved with such close collaboration as Poland, The Baltic States, Romania and Hungary might present.

“..June 22 1941 ..last night German warplanes ..carried out bombing raids on Alytus ..Kedainiai ..Siauliai ..Kovno ..Riga.” Avraham Tory.

Along with the camouflaging shield of World War II, Hitler brought European Jewry to the brink of extinction. The Collective loss suffered by both Polish and Hungarian Jewry is well amplified by now, recognising that both are an immense construct within the very narrative of The Holocaust term itself. With just Poland and Hungary presenting the loss account with close on 75% of all Jews Slaughtered within The Holocaust, both these countries represent a significant step in Hitler’s wishful demand for the solution to be resolved. Taken at differing stages of the emerging catastrophe, the common denominator in both would be Adolf Hitler and his demands for the complete annihilation of all Jewish presence within Europe, wherever they could be found. Of course 1939 and 1944 were poles apart in relation to how Hitler’s conduct of the War was proceeding and how desperate would be his required legacy be in destroying every Jew within his view. While earlier on Hitler saw within Poland a position he was assured would be both compliant and cooperative, Hungary drew a differing intervention, a strategy which converted the willing axis companion into a vassal state and a husk of human concern.

“..destruction of Hungarian Jewry constitutes ..last phase in ..Nazis’ War against ..Jews.” Randolph L. Braham.

This then is where we arrive at the steady progression of The Holocaust toward what remained of the last existing reservoir of Jewish greatness, and this was Hungary. It is clear too, and up till this point in time, that all anti-Jewish sentiment, by which antisemitism has been largely systemic, gravitates us toward it’s deadliest and most lethal consequences. Within the overall culture of Europe, Poland has been infected by interhuman relationships, and for over 2,000 years, by a Jewish presence which has guided it through its cultivating lessons of Education and Industriousness. All the while, this hatred of the Jewish People has been spreading further, wider than borders so as to infect all of civilised humanity. Such has been its infestation, all ethical morality, linked with such antisemitism joined forces here upon a European stage to deliver what we recognise is, The Holocaust of the Jews of Europe.

“..Through ..gaps in ..door ..I saw Arrow Cross members leading people to ..Danube bank to be shot to death. I also witnessed that those who could no longer walk were shot dead then and there ..on ..street.” Artur Koo.

As Hitler’s lust for power expanded, the presence of the Jewish People was assailed and along with State, and the Church’s design of its own models of response and non-response, this hatred for the Jewish People has been cradled in a systematic way. It is an evidently endemic expression as it shares its likeness with severe outbursts and deadly Pogroms. While the hatred also had a solid grounding in The Baltic States, Byelorussia and Ukraine, and it was maintained as a more than populist undertaking in Hungary, it was the Jews who would succumb to its reach. There is of course the aim to ensure other than the Jews were attacked and killed and this cannot and must never be doubted, suppressed nor denied. But, and in what Hitler demands in The Jewish Question, must be recognised in The Holocaust as The Final Solution. All of this was clearly assessed, and in what Hitler rightly witnessed, it all reflected his own view of what he could gain in cooperation and collaboration with all too many. In the progress of this, we recognise what Hitler’s much touted; ‘die Endlosung der Judenfrage’ demonstrates. It is with such expression that we are a witness to what was inevitably converted from mere bluster into an outrageous demonstration of exponential, brutal and deadly atrocities.

“..It dawned on me that this was my vocation ..to tell as many people as I could about Auschwitz. It’s ..least I can do. ” Eva Fahidi.

The fact of what must be learned, of what was certainly observed, and not just from within Poland, is at least recognised in what Hitler felt he could achieve against those he sought to remove from homes, lands, and life itself. As this murderous view of the Jewish People spread further, ever wider and more brutally adapted, and adopted, even more of what was presented as Jewish persistence was further diminished. Here, and against the largest population of Jews in Europe, their own 3,650,000 Polish Jews, their near total evisceration was realised. With their expected assistance, Poland set the seal upon their own perceived and deeply wounding hatred for all Jews. So what emerged from within Poland, with Polish Jewry in situ, to be Slaughtered in 6 Death Camps placed specifically within Poland to do so, Hungary Jews would survive a seeming reprieve from the now growing awareness of what Hitler’s final resolve would be for all Jews.

When, on January 22nd. 1942 Heydrich convened The Wannsee Conference, Eichmann had recognised the fact that some 742,800 Jews were present within Greater Hungary for presentation toward The Final Solution. We are conscious here that Eichmann had to hand the detail of what had been presented to the Jews within The Baltic States and to those Jews of Lodz resettled within Chelmno. Then, on April 17th. 1943, when the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Horthy visited Hitler at Klessheim Castle, he too was appraised of what was being formulated and conducted then in Belzec, Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka also. The deadly consequences for 6,000,000 Jewish People, and from all over Europe was then fully recognised. Within Hungary, that clear genocidal intention was to be eventually recognised within the borders of Hungary, and this would be conducted right up until the War was ending.

“..On that evening ..fate of ..Jews of Hungary was sealed.” Adolf Eichmann.

Hitler’s major efficiency administrator Eichmann is now in a race to ensure Hitler’s fuller demand, as he arrives in Hungary. On March 10th. 1944 Eichmann, who had gathered his top RSHA Section IV B4 resettlement officials together in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, is grounding all his lieutenants in what was to be expected of them. Here, the deadly groundwork for the forthcoming operation within Hungary was laid and formalised. Along with such larceny of intent, Hitler’s regime was clearly engaged with, and against the Jews of all of Europe, Hungary would prove lucrative to European monetary gains. This expectation grew proportionately greater, and with a more lucrative pursuance that was to the benefit of a Jewish detriment and deadly exercise.

“..On March 15th. 1944 ..Hitler also objected to ..fact that Hungary has not yet introduced ..steps necessary to settle ..Jewish Question. We are accused ..therefore ..of ..crime of not having carried out Hitler’s wishes ..and I as charged with not having permitted ..Jews to be massacred.” Miklos Horthy.

On March 19th. 1944, Hitler delivered an ultimatum to Admiral Horthy, so as to ensure all of Hungary’s Jews would be resettled. With German troops set to occupy all of Hungary, recognising too that these German forces were mere relics of the-all conquering and former state of the Wehrmacht, as a blitzkrieg fighting force, the pressure upon Jewish existence grew more deadly. This now also represented the changing and detrimental fortunes, and destructive fate for Hungarian Jewry. The terror changing event would now set the Jews of Hungary upon the same road to their specific realm in the overall disaster of The Holocaust. There was a combined force of 600 Einsatz and Auxiliary forces accompanying the annihilating move into Hungary. This particular Einsatz role was to be the elimination of as many of the 900,000 Hungarian Jews as would be possible. Amongst these Einsatz forces were 200 of the ablest killers from Eichmann’s Sondereinsatzkommando. This assembled grouping, of those exacting experts on The Jewish Question, who were already briefed on what was to come, Mauthausen progressed the move on to Hungary. These technicians upon the destructive Jewish processes would enact this particular, Entjudung for the Jewish People in Hungary at a more rapid and aggressive form.

It is these murderous master’s over Jewish existence and death, Franz Abromeit, Arthur Burger, Theodor Dannecker, Otto Hunsche, Hermann Krumey, Franz Novak, Siegfried Seidl, and Dieter Wisliceny, who would deliver to infamy the place of Hungary to be defined within The Holocaust. Hitler’s murder forces now occupy all of Hungary, and if there are still some 800,000 to 900,000 of Hungarian Jewry facing Hitler’s immediate and Final Solution, that immediacy is more certain. On April 29th. 1944 with a transport of 1,800 Jews from Budapest, Hungary, these Jews are deported toward Birkenau for resettlement there. The deportation of the Hungarian Jews now begins in earnest and we find ourselves further down that same road Hitler had set the catastrophe for the Jewish People upon. We have to recognise too that Hungarian Jews were being delivered to many holding centres and are shot without consideration. Local collaborators, Arrow Cross personnel were taking a lead from Hitler through their own anti-Jewish hatreds, and Hungarian leaders who cowed down to those like Eichmann and Veesenmeyer, Winklemann and Wisliceny, who were on hand to lend their expertise in removing Hungarian Jewry permanently, we more than grateful for the advice.

On March 20th. 1944 Eichmann wasted no time in mobilising his own particular intention for the coming transports. He settled well into the Astoria Hotel, regarding himself as an emperor in SS clothing, holding sway over those of his assembled legions and 900,000 Hungarian Jews. He would move his administrative empire from Pest to the Majestic Hotel in Buda, which appeared more suited to his grandiose newer and lording position. Ahead of Eichmann’s arrival though, Krumey met with the Budapest Jewish community leadership and both Wisliceny and Krumey appointed Samuel Stern, who formerly headed the Jewish Community of Pest, to lead the newly formed, and compliant, Budapest Jewish Council. These Jewish leaders, and it must always be stressed, they led in name only, as here in all of Hungary, Eichmann ruled over the Jews. The entire Jewish population was informed by Eichmann and his lieutenants that there would be:

I           German control over all Jewish affairs,

II          SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Alfred Trenker would take charge of the Budapest Jewish Community,

III         The Jewish Council must be formed by 12:00 the following day,

IV         These leaders would be certified exempt from All Jewish measures,

V          Travel restrictions would be placed upon all Jews, and

VI         Reassurances must be issued to calm all Jewish concerns.

The mitigating conditions for Hungarian Jewish ‘resettlement East’ was being surreptitiously installed and by underhand means, the euphemism for total destruction was conducted again. On March 21st. 1944, a further meeting, attended by some 200 Jewish Community Leaders was assured, life as normal would continue. Here too, the German approval for the composition of the Jewish Council was finally sanctioned.

On March 22nd. 1944, with Dome Sztojay as the Hungarian Premier, the Ghetto becomes the mainstay of Jewish concentration in the larger Towns. But these would be nothing like the Jewish Ghetto of Poland which was in situ for many years. The deadline for the wholesale destruction of the entire Community of Hungarian Jewry was being set by Russian advances upon previous Hitlerite gains in the East. Since Hitler’s failure to capture Staningrad, September 1943, the once mighty Wehrmacht was being rolled up, like a carpet and is being delivered toward Germany. This however, secured for all Jewish existence in Europe, particularly now, and here in Hungary, and explosive effort to annihilate ever more Jews ahead of an obvious and crushing defeat, militarily. Also, the Jewish Star is to become the identifier of Hungarian Jewry and this would become compulsory on April 5th. On March 23rd. 1944 Eichmann, Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Veesenmayer and Winklemann met in Budapest to finalise the planned removal of Hungarian Jewry towards Birkenau. Meanwhile, and on March 24th. 1944, Samu Stern issued a plea to the Jewish Community:

“..Germans placed great emphasis on .. country’s Jewish population to calmly .. continue ..it’s private life ..religious ..social ..and cultural activities.” Samuel ‘Samu’ Stern.

What we can never truly know is how taken in the Jewish leadership within Hungary was, and how unwittingly it received such news. While it is true that many of these, at the head of the entire community of Jews, were aware of both the rumours, the subterfuge of atrocity stories, the detail was detained to avoid alarming further the Jewish People. On March 26th. 1944 Kaltenbrunner left Hungary and has left the Jewish Question with Laszlo Baky, Laszlo Endre, Laszlo Ferencsy and Dome Sztojay, who are taking instructions from Eichmann’s team. By the time Himmler got back to Berchtesgaden, and he met with Hitler, on March 29th. 1944, he had already informed Goering that measures were in place to secure the final victory. While Himmler and Hitler had already discussed the final details related to the coming solution to the Jewish Question in Hungary. Himmler had fully appraised Hitler of what was now facing 900,000 Hungarian Jews, and who the executioners in charge would be, his SS. On March 31st. 1944, Eichmann confers his demands upon the Budapest Jewish Council, from his headquarters at the Majestic Hotel.

“..Jews were ordered to hand over all items of value ..jewels ..coins ..foreign currency. ..Jewish presence in any business or professional activity was forbidden. ..Jews were only allowed to be outside during certain hours of ..day. We were banned from all public places ..except stores. We couldn’t use streetcars or taxis ..we weren’t allowed to attend any public performances ..movies ..theatres ..concerts ..and we were forbidden to eat in restaurants. By April 3rd. every Jew was required to wear a yellow star. Jews had to leave their homes to go to ..ghetto or into designated ..yellow star buildings.” Andrew Salamon.

Of course, the cross fertilization of antisemitism, within different and then competing states, forged a recognisable malignancy that was identifiable across every nation. This had already formed a pathway, that was so discernible throughout Europe, it tarnished human World civilisation. In places like Poland, where the Pogrom was a feature of anti-Jewish hatred for centuries, inhumanity was escalated to newer levels of bitter conflict. In all that I aim to state, I would always demand that even one Murdered Jew was far too many, even within The Holocaust. But, and I state this without any reservation whatsoever, the World needs to come to terms with what it allowed to happen to the Jews of Europe. It is an unacceptable murderous account which is indeed, the unaccountable and incomprehensible recognition that 6,000,000 is the settled for accounting of the Slaughtered Jews of Europe.

“..one thing that has puzzled me and has puzzled ..World ..Germans dedicated manpower and trains and trucks and energy towards ..destruction of ..Jews to ..last day. Had they stopped six months before ..end of ..war and dedicated that energy towards strengthening themselves ..they may have carried on ..war a little longer ..but it was more important to them to kill ..Jews than even winning ..war.” Bill Basch.

Here too, as Hitler had clearly set a precedent, which established beyond All reasonable doubt, die Endlosung der Judenfrage, no other consideration was prioritised. The targeting of the Jews for destruction was fixed ahead of even Hitler’s supposed respect for the German People. It is certain then, that no other perspective, within his vocalised Weltanschauung, and as it was his own personal worldview, there was nothing that would distract him from it. Here, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question would maintain Hitler’s fullest attention as it had kept the transportation of Jews to the Death Camps in Poland was complimented by der Einsatzgruppe killing operations. Now, and for the vast majority of those Jews of Hungary, who had survived right up until the end of the War approached, all seemed certain for them to live. The only remaining Jewish Community of substance to still be standing became the target of every attention Hitler could now focus upon. As it became essential for any Jew of Hungary, who would survive, there were few from their own Community, even from their own Family who could remain to inform us.

“..I have ..figures only for ..months of May ..June ..July ..1944. Dr. Pasche ..a French doctor of ..Sonderkommando ..in ..crematory ..was in a position to gather statistics on rate of exterminations.. provided me with these

May ..1944                                  360,000

June ..1944                                 512,000

1st. to 26th. ..July 1944             442,000

                                                  1,314,000

In less than quarter of a year ..Germans had liquidated more than 1,300,000 .. Auschwitz-Birkenau.” Olga Lengyel.

In what those like Olga Lengyel seek to bring to the fore, those testimonies which open the portal to such savagery as History has Never known, they illuminate the darkness presented. I am in no position to refute any such broad an assessment as these within the History of the time have been able to leave to us. But, and while all too many wish to reduce the whole effect upon the entirety of European Jewry, we must deplore the attempt to diminish this Jewish presence and restore the balance of truth. It is inherently essential that we explore every such distorted reasoning for the callous limiting of the Jewish presence and the calculating efforts to limit their loss to 6,000,000. However, I do not question those experts who were present during the ravages they managed to survive and for those Jewish Historians who survived to present the integrity we seek, they have given us the rising and exponential consensus that we are prone to revisit and reassess.

“.. Germany’s system of ruling  in conquered Europe varied ..as did ..persecution of Jews. ..toil of Jewish lives .. determined by ..nature and extent of German control ..by .. Fuhrer’s postwar global aims ..and ..attitude of local population.” Livia Rothkirchen.

But I would question any resolve from some whose seeming wish is to salve, and somehow soothe a less portioned blame for states or nations of their choosing who acted against their Jewish Citizens. Such is a cowardly approach to history, by those who would see their own nations capacity to act against their own Jewish population, as either nullified or forcefully rejected, is against all principles by which History is best assured. The factual truth and through it, its veracity, is the only device open to those of us who seek to present the science of history. Precisely dealing with the Slaughter of these 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, all evidences must be positively assured.

“..A person who dies continues to live in ..memory of his or her relatives ..friends .. acquaintances. But when .. victims of The Holocaust died ..people nearest and dearest to them died with them ..their entire social world .. destroyed.” Bernhard Press.

These assessments, with Lengyel’s at Birkenau, with Press reminding us why too much from memory is so permanently lost and indeed the overall tragedy, and as such are not fully accounted. Indeed, they are not even as a maximum of the overall capacity Hitler envisaged or fully managed to secure for posterity what we recognise is The Holocaust. Such capacity itself, within establishments designed to eliminate even the minutiae of Jewish existence, exposes the reality of the very fabric of humanity which has been torn to shreds. So here, and while this all ties in accurately with the assessment of what we make of the deportation of 502,491 Hungarian Jews to Birkenau, we must deliver more of the fuller evidence’s that have either, so far evaded us or are being thwarted in order to distort the fuller truth. In this, we must not ignore what the transports from Hungary, which were even arriving at Birkenau prior to these dates, deliver further to the overall tragedy for Hungarian Jewry. I can certainly assert, that while each of the 6 Death Camps within Poland was fully capable of delivering above and beyond the capacity assessment assigned to them, Birkenau was without argument fully capable of destroying 6,000,000 Jewish lives within a timeframe it was suited to.

“..Although ..ultimate fate of ..Jews under Nazi rule ..was everywhere identical ..there were some local differences in ..process and tempo of persecution and extermination.” Isaiah Trunk.

We know full well that within The Final Solution, the Jews were met with extinction wherever they were confronted by Hitler’s legions. This is true wherever the Germans set foot and while we begin our assessment of the slaughter in 1932 and 1933, it is with the Hungarian travesty in mid-May 1944 that we are focused upon. As we know, there are 3,800 Hungarian Jews to arrive upon the ramparts of Birkenau, prior to this date of mid-May 1944. Amongst these are 2,698 arriving Jews from both Budapest and Topoly who are to be immediately gassed after the selection process. This is on May 2nd. 1944 and then on May 4th. 1944, at a conference which details the removal of some 310,000 Hungarian Jews from the Carpathia and the Siebenburgen areas, Eichmann is moving swiftly to ensure these Jews are set to commence their resettlement journey around the middle of May 1944. It is proposed too that some 110 individual transports should be arranged to accommodate these vast numbers. Also, and this criteria for removal would conceivably deliver more than 550,000 Hungarian Jews within that given timeframe. This would ensure for 5,500 Hungarian Jews on each and every transport, we are faced with, on average in the region of 5,000 to 5,500 Gassed Jews taken from these trains.

“..testimonies of survivors of ..mass liquidation operations. ..history of ..Jewish people in The Holocaust cannot rely only on .. documentation left behind by ..Murderers and their accomplices.” Jean Ancel.

We know too that testimony has emerged from those Jews who have survived to add to the documentation that somehow survived intact. While this amassed deportation will proceed at the rate of 4 Transports daily, we know Birkenau is geared up to receive them. Within each of these resettlement transports, there are to be some 3,000 to 5,500 Hungarian Jews. A total of in excess of 12,000 and 22,000 Jews from Hungary deported on a daily basis. This atrocity is to be on such a murderous scale, and as has never been evidenced in any of the other Death Camps in Poland, at such a rate, we are made certain that Hungary holds a particularly brutal space in The Holocaust of terms for all of European Jewry. The formative operations, the precursor to all that Hitler demands for the initial phase of the removal of Hungary’s Jews, will persist on each and every day until the more than 310,000 Jews of Hungary have been obliterated. The conclusion to this single detail of the Hungarian transports should be completed within 4 weeks and set the seal on what was still awaiting as many as 590,000 more Jews still living in Hungary.

“..Birkenau ..Greatest City of death. Selections ..set up to receive and enslave.” David Rousset.

Following on from this commencement date will be the concluding act ranged against the still remaining 590,000 Jews of Hungary as the great City of Death awaited them. When, on May 8th. 1944, Hoess is again placed back in command of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hoess is well placed to oversee the destructive capacity within Birkenau. To this end, he is charging Josef Kramer with authority over Birkenau, as the Reich’s remaining Extermination Centre. Hoess now speeds up the processes by which Hungarian Jewry will be handled, and resettled, and thus Destroyed. The Birkenau ramp is extended, and Krematoria V is back in operation and then, with the addition of 5 outside pits for corpse incineration, 900,000 Hungarian Jews are set for evisceration. We bear in mind also, and that Hoess himself admits to the capacity of the capability of destruction within Birkenau, which could be as many as 18,000 of these Hungarian Jews Slaughtered upon a daily basis, and that such deeds were indeed achieved. That the fate of 6 Transports every 4 hours is in the hands of a well-defined mass Murder system, and that the Jews assigned here are to be processed and their presence totally obliterated, from start to finish, this is a page in History we must Never fail to mention.

“..Hoess acknowledged ..he had been responsible for ..Slaughter of 2,500,000 ..plus another 500,000 to starvation and disease.” Otto Friedrich.

Here too, when we then look to those overall and precise dates for the coming assault upon all of Hungary’s Jews, and this is to be accomplished largely, between May 15th. 1944 and July 9th. 1944, the capacity to slaughter them is achievable for Hoess. Here, and over a period of 55 days, the presumed total annihilation of all the Jews within Hungary has to be realised or at least imagined. With these first arrivals already processed we are moved to May 16th. 1944, and we examine arrivals in Birkenau which are totalling of 3 full transports, and sometimes 4 such transports, and on a daily basis. We recognise too that each of these trains, pulling along with 40 to 50 cattle cars, are containing of some 4,000 to 5,500 Hungarian Jews upon each of them. That is consisting of on average some 70, 80 and even 150 Jewish People to each wagon. With certainty too we, are made aware that the system of annihilation is such an accomplished machinery of total destruction, no Jew can expect to live past what Hoess decrees is the necessary life span for their usefulness.

“..After we were tossed out of ..train to Auschwitz ..we tried to grab our luggage ..we were told not to bring anything ..that they would bring everything to us.” Klara Andorne-Molnar.

This destructive capacity will set the seal upon such an annihilation process of its People, that the Jewish World is still reeling from its very enactment. For each day, we can recognise or identify with 12,000 or as many as 15,500 of Hungarian Jewry who are specially treated, annihilated, and all of this is throughout this first day. We must never under estimate the very capacity for this machinery of mechanised destruction to deliver upon what ever it sought so as to ensure, in this particular component part of The Final Solution, all Jews were destroyed at Hitler’s convenience. It is true too that over capacity was made available as and when it was required and outdoor pits provided the additional capacity to not only eviscerate the remains of the Jewish People, but to murder many of them thrown alive headlong into the flames.

“..May 25th. 1944 ..number of Hungarian Jews killed already amounts to over 100,000 people.” Danuta Czech.

If we are to register with this particular kill rate assessment, detailed by Danuta Czech, we clearly realise the sonderbehandlung of in excess of 9,000 of these Hungarian Jews occurs upon a daily basis. At the same time, we have to recognise there is also arriving, and on the same daily basis, Jews from across the length and breadth of Europe, particularly Belgium, France, Greece, Holland, Italy and Yugoslavia. These Jews too are tabled for that same end result and that this final handling runs alongside their Hungarian Cousins. We must add to these dimensions the ability of Hitler’s forces and their auxiliaries to act with extreme malice and murder at will before, during and after these transports have delivered their human cargo for destruction.

“..June 13th. 1944 .. deportation ..Jews ..Carpathia ..Siebenburgen ..completed June 7th. A total of 289,357 Jews ..deported ..in 92 trains ..each of ..45 cars.” SS Brigadefuhrer Edmund Veesenmayer.

On average there were 70 of these Hungarian Jews, and in many instances, 100 or even 150 Jews assigned to each cattle car. What is also clear, is that the train timetable, is as deliberate as it has been calculated by those Eichmann has been charged with delivering to this annihilation centre at Birkenau. In a wish to avoid discussing in terms of statistical terms, we all too easily lose sight of the very human dimensions of the massacre. The Hungarian Jewish People are being consigned to the pages of history that are without the necessary concern for progressing their presence to us. We have great difficulty to this day attempting to extract the individual status of those Jews who now appear upon a spread sheet. The analysis of loss, which seeks to remove even the humanity of these Jewish People from us, has to be based upon what we know is ethical and certainly a moral way to treat People. Our ability to see beyond the details to be extracted from such calculations, as would render such Jewish lives to a balance sheet upon a ledger of annihilation which must be guarded against is an imperative.

“..procession started and we saw the line separate into two different directions. It later became clear that those who were on ..right were taken to ..gas chamber ..those who survived were taken to ..other side.” Klara Andorne-Molnar.

All the while Eichmann and his cohort are assigning Hungarian Jewry toward their eventual decimation within Birkenau. There are the trains, and the company’s which managed them, each of which are as accommodating of the very capacity to destroy these Hungarian Jews. Of course, the very detail of the arrival of these Jews within Birkenau, which Hoess has clearly outlined, and for which he has prepared for as programmed in Eichmann’s demand for the end result, is a machinery of industrial destruction never ever envisaged in all of history awaiting them. Nothing of this does anything to recognise the responsibility of Hitler in all of this and not to underscore the role Hitler plays in this very murderous detail, would be irresponsible. We assess the role of these administrators of Hitler’s annihilation, and both Eichmann and Hoess at the coal face of this murderous operation, took their orders from Heinrich Himmler. Himmler we recognise, who in turn would not have crossed the road unless he had been given permission to do so by Hitler himself adds Hitler’s signature to the edicts emanating the length and breadth of this final resolve to destroy what remained of European Jews from within Hungary.

“.. Hungarian mass transports. ..numerous ..gas chambers ..Krematoria V could not handle everyone. ..mostly shot. ..many cases ..living people into ..burning pits.” Henryk Tauber.

However, and whatever the assessment to be made, when it can be rounded down by consensus, Jewish losses can still be severely undermined, despite what Hitler clearly demanded. What is certain, and given the administrative model operated by Eichmann and Hoess within Hungary delivering Jews toward Birkenau, this had merely been an expanded, modernised and streamlined effort in destroying Jews as witnessed at Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. While I would fully choose to counter those scurrilous claims, which have sought to lessen the impact of the Jewish loss, I am mindful of its distraction to the certain Catastrophe history can ill afford to ignore. Also, any such effort, which would only distract from the memory we aim to restore, must furnish truth ahead of the speculative distraction seeking to subtract from the 6,000,000 Jewish losses.

“..June 30th. 1944 ..A total of 340,162 Jews ..deported from Zones I ..II ..III with 41,499 from Zone IV.” SS. Brigadefuhrer Edmund Veesenmayer.

All of this effort, so as to diminish the Jewish presence from within The Holocaust, would only more further sully a past we recognise as heinous. In terms of what the Jewish Catastrophe must remain so as to be maintained, we have to choose our own integrity more wisely. To do so, despite the many contentions demanding we accept lesser accounting, we look deeper to ensure No Jew is detained from Memory. It became clear to me, from my book on Hitler’s Belzec that attempts were being made to lessen such impact as the devastation of Jewish losses must present to us. We know that all, like Eichmann, Hoess and Veesenmayer had vested interests in producing heightened assessments of the killings but did Mayors or Head Teachers of Belzec have such a wish. With that in mind, we have to accept that there was a capacity which Birkenau could and would live up to in treating all Jews who disembarked from transports along its ramps.

“..July 2nd. 1944 ..400,000 Jews ..deported from Hungary ..killed in ..gas chambers. ..same fate awaits remaining 350,000 Hungarian Jews.” BBC.

It is clear that widening of information of the slaughter is reaching a broader audience in the World and can no longer be wilfully hidden from view. Here then, do we accept that the evidence the BBC Broadcasts assessed the Hungarian Jewish losses are from the reservoir of only 750,000 Jews of Hungary. The contention might then be placed twofold, and either 550,000 Hungarian Jews have already been lost or there are still 500,000 of Hungarian Jewry still to follow the same fate of their fellow Jews consumed within Birkenau. We must see the disparity reached between 750,000 and 900,000 Hungarian Jews would deliver 150,000 of these Jews to a forgetfulness we cannot afford to accept. If but one Jew is omitted from the detail of The Holocaust then we have failed in our recompense for such crimes as have been delivered to posterity which tarnishes our human consciousness.

“..scholars ..at .. Auschwitz Museum .. established ..total at 4,000,000.” Otto Friedrich.

This numbering failing would further weaken, with the need to prevent distortions, the ability of both deniers and distorters to act out their own bitter hatred toward the fact of the Jewish People. Anything denying such truths, as we acknowledge them with their factual integrity intact, would undermine all-purpose in truth and would be superfluous to all of our History together. History is a science which cannot be summoned to account which does not include all that matters to the very integrity of its scientific approach. History does not deny what Hoess assessed within Birkenau as its capacity to annihilate and should not doubt that this was indeed managed, be it 1,000,000, 2,000,000 or even 4,000,000 Jewish lives lost here.

“..world has .. learnt to know to its horror ..names of concentration and extermination camps .. Birkenau ..Belzec ..Chelmno ..Treblinka ..Sobibor ..Belsen ..Dachau. ..Yet it is not sufficiently comprehended that each and every operation of ..Nazi machinery for ..destruction of Jewish communities throughout Europe Involved .. deliberate massacre of untold numbers of Jews.” Yad Vashem.

It is more and more clear to me, and given the newer consensus all adding to this confusion, we simply cannot afford the assessment made. The World seems content upon accepting it as both accurate, even with untold numbers, and the fuller detail is constrained by just 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews. It is as if these 6,000,000 Jews, who have been ritually removed from all existence, can ever lessen their impact upon all of humanity. How much more damning then of societal civilization would it be if that assessment recognised that 7,000,000 were the destroyed Jews. From there we can only be certain of the immense loss, for it can even be far more than we recognise, and then we can suggest even more Jews are lost we can never find, and because we cannot know how many Jews were presented to Hitler’s killing and lucrative apparatus.

“..It has ..been established ..some 4,000,000 died in .. Auschwitz alone ..3,000,000 ..perished at Majdanek ” David Rousset.

While this disparity in numbers, it all reflects with certainty the exacting capacity within Birkenau to achieve a murder rate of over 15,000 Slaughtered Jews each and every day. Over this period of the Hungarian resettlement, it does not contradict the Kommandant Hoess’s overall assessment of the Catastrophe for the Jews that was played out here. We can so easily assess that as many as 825,000 Jews, many from across Europe amongst the Hungarian Jews were annihilated during just a 55 day period. It is also important that we side with those like Simon Wiesenthal in each and every assessment and that who would demand we look past the complacency in statistics to realise real People, real Jewish People have been catapulted into oblivion.

“..Amid ..confusion ..consensus ..seems to be 1,500,000. Thus more than 2,000,000 once mourned victims have mysteriously disappeared ..another illustration of ..general ignorance.” Otto Friedrich.

Contemporary consensus then would have us imagine, that we should restrict the confinement of Jewish losses to the 6,000,000. However, we must continually evaluate and ponder over why, if we cannot ever be certain, we are expected not to assess beyond the 6,000,000 figure. Also, and on all too many death totals, particularly as they relate to these Jewish losses, they are invariably wrong on more than a marginal scale. As Hitler’s Worldview is being condensed ever further, his gaze has not shifted from his major priority, The Jewish Question. We know for a fact that there were as many as 900,000 Hungarian Jews, who were still resident within Hungary’s borders by the end of 1943. We know too that many of these Jews would be shot during the intervening period right up until, and after Eichmann arrived to coordinate the Jewish removal. What we cannot then lose sight of is the total disappearance of at least 525,000 of them.

“..After ..war ..Jews would be free to do whatever they wanted. Everything ..on ..Jewish Question ..only for ..wartime ..with ..end of ..war ..Germans would again become good natured ..as in ..past.” Adolf Eichmann.

While many European Jews did not register as practicing Jews, and were not identified as such, there were all too many willing to point them out. This too is true for Polish Jewry, as it was for Hungarian Jews and for many Jews who were betrayed, and from many other European states. Where the Jewish People had sought to integrate, there were too many of those who were eagerly seeking to denounce them. I know too from the many evidence’s of testimony, that without such betrayal, many more Jews would have survived their neighbours treachery. Here too, and within Hungary, as we are now approaching the end of World War II, and it is less than a year after Hitler sought to resolve the issue of the Hungarian Jewish Question for himself, numbers vary as to how many Jews survived. While we fluctuate between what we know and what we surmise as to this survival rate, more Jewish People are being further lost to posterity. Though of these Hungarian Jewish People, such statistic as has been drawn, makes it doubly difficult to reach a reliable assessment which would, should and must bring them toward recollection. I take here from American sources which suggest, that of the approximately 825,000 Hungarian Jews who were identified in the census of 1941, there were barely 255,000 of Hungary’s Jews who survived. It is clear too that the birth rate might add a further 247,000 more Hungarian Jews for Eichmann to attend to. Then, if we align this to what we calculate are the losses to Hungarian Jewry, some 817,000 Jews from Hungary were destroyed, rising to 892,000 of these Jews if we accept the greater and growing assessment of the Jewish presence within Hungary.

The Final Solution is not final to The Jewish Question.

“..we were traveling criss-cross Poland looking for surviving Jews ..we found them. ..sometimes these meetings were so packed with emotion that ..I lack ..words to describe it. .idea that we are really survivors couldn’t sink in yet.” Leah Hammerstein-Silverstein

For me it is quite simple. The Jewish Survivor must speak up and out so that We know why the perpetrators should feel ashamed. For me also, I feel such shame that so many of these Survivors will be the first to be buried in a place their Family may eventually visit. This, while for all too many Survivors, there was nowhere for them to visit. That is certainly true for Jews from throughout Europe, and certainly not in Hungary and especially for those Hungarian Jews with no recognisable place to visit within Birkenau. Yes. The Jews have won. But at too high a cost to all of humanity. We recognise in these names below, the loss to Community which was Jewish from all of Hungary.

Abaujszanti, Albertirsa, Baja, Budapest, Debrecen, Dregelypalank, Eger, Ersekujvar, Gado-Tanya, Gyula, Hatvan, Hejocsaba, Heves, Kiskunhalas, Kisvarda, Kosice, Kunmadaras, Mad, Marmaros, Mezobereny, Mezocsat, Miskolc, Mosonmagyarovar, Munkacs, Nagykanizsa, Nagy-Kapos, Nagy Karoly, Nagy-Varad, Nyíregyhaza, Ozd, Pincehely, Sopron, Szegi, Szentes, Sziget, Szikszo, Tab, Tatabanya, Tiszafured, Trencin, Turkeve, Ujfeherto, and Ungvar.

“..It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging ..whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary’s past ..namely ..wartime Hungarian governments’ involvement in ..deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens.” Elie Wiesel.



Can Poland be Trusted with The Holocaust

Uncategorised Posted on Wed, January 17, 2024 23:12:53

“..Day in ..day out ..in hundreds of cities throughout Poland ..Russia 1,000’s upon 1,000’s  of Jews are ..systematically murdered according to a preconceived plan ..no one ..takes our part.” Emanuel Ringelblum.

There are places like Auschwitz, the Polin Museum in Warsaw, and the Marek Edelman Centre in Lodz, who are not autonomous. Is there a real champion for the Polish Jewish past if it is to accuse some in Poland of collaboration in the most unique, unparalleled, and unprecedented assault upon a People in all of History? This places ethical demands for the integrity of all of History, particularly with over 1,000 years of Polish Jewish History within Poland, upon institutions being seriously compromised. Any effort to restrain the truth, distort the facts or present a bias of any nature, especially where any Polish collaboration in Hitler’s aims for its Jews is being evidenced. This cannot be rejected, hidden or denied by want of any chosen distortion seeking to exonerate Polish guilt. As Hitler reached for power, Poland was becoming a state on its own, beckoning more and more assaults upon its Jewish population. Between 1918 and 1919, at the birth of the Polish nation, there were vicious Pogroms in Lvov, Pinsk and Vilna and over 100 smaller Jewish Community’s. all of these incidents, which dealt a deadly blow to the Jewish presence within this new Poland afforded Hitler a view which consoled his own hatred for the Jewish People.

“..All of Poland was rife with anti-Semitism.” Rubin Offenbach.

This fledgling State of Poland was founded on November 11th. 1918, with Gabriel Narutowicz as its first President. This leader was assassinated 2 days later. This, amidst the turmoil of the post World War I environment, ensured that the Polish rancour over the Jews grew proportionately greater. At this time there were some 31,900,000 People within Poland’s new borders, and there were approximately 2,500,000 Jews living there, or about 8 per cent of the population. All of these Jews gained Polish citizenship but were threatened immediately by Polish nationalist groups and the Catholic Church. It will be recalled that that Census figures taken throughout Poland in 1921 than recognised the integrity of 2,855,000 Jews present within Poland, a growth rate of 355,000 Jewish People in less than 3 years. All of this can be explained by Jews who saw themselves as Polish first and as non-practicing Jews secondly, and so never registered that heritage, ensuring the accuracy of numbers is misleading.

“..There is a difference between ..German orchestrated systems of terror against ..Poles and ..Jews. ..Germans want to ruin ..Polish state as a state. ..with regard to ..Jews ..they want to devastate ..biological substance of ..Jewish Nation. If ..Germans do not change their method of dealing with ..Jewish population ..if there is no effort at Allied intervention ..whether through reprisals or other action ..barring some unforeseen circumstance ..within 18 months of ..time I left ..Homeland ..Jewish People of Poland will cease to exist.” Jan Karski.

This same day, November 11th. 1918, in Kielce, 4 Jews were Murdered and 100’s were injured as looters tore though the Jewish quarter. Meanwhile, and as Hitler took hold of that version of aggressive, divisive power in German, Austria and Czechoslovakia, Poland looked to Hitler as an example of how it could promote itself as a European power. In that volatile mix, the Jewish People were to be completely torn from the very fabric of their Community’s within Poland, and then from the wider European Continent. As the Jewish People were gradually dispossessed from their homes and were brutally Slaughtered, what had begun as a rhetorical device to gain power turned into a blood thirsty purge of all Jewish presence from amongst its former neighbours. Also, and in Lvov on November 22nd. 1918 Polish Soldiers attacked the Jewish Citizens there.

“..power of ..nazis ..partly based on ..considerable support which anti-Jewish laws received among ..polish population. ..not by chance ..Poland ..chosen as ..place for ..extermination of ..Jews.” Joseph Schupack.

On November 24th. 1918, and by the time the unrest in Lvov had abated, 72 Jews of Lvov lay Dead, having been Murdered. A further 300 Jews were seriously wounded and 3 of Lvov’s Synagogues had been looted and destroyed. An international commission of inquiry was convened in the area. On April 5th. 1919 the Polish Army, under command of General Antoni Listowski Murdered 35 Pinsk Jews. On April 19th. 1919, and in a 3 day orgy of violence against the Jews of Vilna, the Polish Army succeeded in Murdering 67 Jewish Men, Women and Their Children. The looting from Jewish owned businesses continued for several weeks. During June 1919, a Pogrom took place against the Jews of Cracow where 2 Jews were Murdered in the City Market Place. On August 8th. 1919, with the Polish Army at odds with military discipline, it was responsible for the Murders of 37 Jews in Minsk and a further 160 Jews from the surrounding areas.

“..fatalist policy of ..Polish state ..led to such widespread judaization of ..country that ..Jewish population ..Poland exceeded that of ..entire rest of ..world.” Roman Stanislaw Dmowski.

There were people like Roman Stanislaw Dmowski, a founder of the right-wing Endecja, the National Democratic Party or ND, who made it very difficult, and sometimes impossible for Jews to be Polish Jews. His demand for Poland, an exclusively Polish ethnicity where Catholic’s, and only those of ethnic Polish descent were all that mattered. Dmowski looked very much to the example of Hitler to see the way forward, and this was evident in his view of Jewish lives being removed from the state. So it is clearly no exaggeration that some of these advocates of hatred for the Polish Jewish People, and within Poland, sought to administer for all of Polish antisemitism. Since the end of World War I in 1918, antisemitism had been in the ascendency across the globe.

“..I think right now they are not very well known ..mostly because they have been ..surpassed by The Holocaust. In ..interwar period ..they were very well known. 1,100 pogroms killed over 100,000 Jews in a 3 year period.” Jeffrey Veidlinger.

For some years, and even prior to Hitler’s rise to power, this formation took on the mantle of The Greatest Hatred and would provide a collaborative power base from which a total response to a final resolve could be gained. Amongst collaborative states,, armed with these two facets of hatred, antisemitism and the Pogroms that were conducted within Poland and Ukraine, all of this came together on the World stage. In a spectacle so horrifying to humanity, this Slaughter required its own title, and from within this Genocide, Hitler and Polish antisemitism were classified and tightly bound together. Clearly, with Hitler’s wish to fully and finally resolve the issue of the Jewish Question, Jewish life became a tenuous hold upon any future prospect.

On Wednesday April 12th. 1922 “..there can be no compromise ..either victory of the Aryan or annihilation of ..Aryan and ..victory of ..Jew.” Adolf Hitler.

With the removal of a Jewish presence within Germany, Austria, Poland and then all of Europe, the programme was set upon a collison course with the very life blood of Jewish existence. The crucible of hatred for the Jewish People was beginning to focus its central demand around Poland by virtue of the extent of the presence of Polish Jewry there. All of this would add weight to the solution of the final Jewish presence for any Jew within the border’s of Europe. When then added to the fact that Hitler merely saw in non-Jewish Poles a work horse, a sub-division of humanity only capable of serving the needs of the new German Reich, the Polish compliance in what was murderously intended for the Jews, did not save 3 million of these non-Jewish Poles. The tenets of Polish nationalism was bitterly proposed toward Polish Jewry, all of whom were to be seen as an existential threat to the Polish State.

“..it is easy to cope with ..Jewish problem when ..Jews are small in number ..but it is more difficult in Poland where their number is so much larger.” Jozef Pilsudski.

The Jew was to be an internal problem to so called Polish ethnic purity and would be considered for removal to Madagaskar. As such the Jews were designated the as the anti-Pole and faced eventual elimination from the Polish nation. This was being decreed as their physical removal from the state, and otherwise deported away from their former homeland. A series of Pogroms throughout Poland would not elicit any intervening response from government institutions. On September 19th. 1930 Joseph Goebbels threatens that any attempt upon Hitler s life will be met by a  pogrom  against the Jewish Population of Germany. In just these few instances of pogrom and dedications to hatred against Polish Jewry within Poland, and what was immensely troubling to Polish Jewry, all became deadly to too many of the Jews in Poland, Germany and Austria. The establishment of a clarion call to this anti-Jewish rabble was permeating back through the Polish borders and Hitler caught wind of the very deliberate nature of that exact same hatred for the Jews he had already endorsed.

“..Poles proved their deeply entrenched national tenacity ..rebelled frequently ..fought against ..conqueror in wars already lost before they began ..whereas from ..point of view of ..champions of social progress ..chaining of Poland was a sin oppressing ..conscience of Europe.” Yisrael Gutman.

Yisrael Gutman is a Polish Jewish Survivor who identified with Polish needs to raise themselves out of the oppressive demands of neighbours and former foes. However, while most Jews felt this disparity, their awareness within Poland itself was of a Polish Jewry that was an oppressed minority being ritually sanctioned, pogromed and killed. It has to be remembered from this stand point, that such is the integrity within History, its scientific significance must always be protected. We cannot allow untruths, either from bias or distortion to contaminate the arena of any History, an infection of history which will corrupt all of History. Yisrael Gutman here ensures the very soul of our search through The Holocaust is not tainted. This from a Jew, a Polish Jew, a Polish Jewish Survivor. Yisrael is fundamentally basing his place in history objectively, and while scientifically researching the correctness necessary.

“..struggle against ..Jews ..implacable  ..intensifying ..deportations ..mass executions. ..massacres of ..Jews in Ukraine ..nearly complete. In Poland and Germany they want to complete it ..with a system of mass murders.” Abbot Pirro Scavizzi.

It is clear that in all of World History, herr Hitler saw a closely held alignment with his own wishes and those of Poland’s with regards the Jewish People. Eventually, the heavily laden demands for Polish Jewry, and indeed for every Jew in Europe would prove decisive in the emergence of The Holocaust. On December 9th. 1931 Hitler reasserts his intention is a solution which will be final, die Endlosung, for the Jewish People and is revealed in The Munchener Post. Elsewhere, a welcome mat to Hitler was being layered to do all that he wanted to achieve against the Polish Jews, and from within Poland. Poland cannot own History. It must accept the good with the bad, and acknowledge the downright criminal acts conducted against its own Jewish Citizens. What emerges in The Holocaust recognises what was done to Polish Jewry by its non-Jewish citizens.

“..Jewish population in Poland is condemned to death in accordance with ..slogan ..Slaughter all Jews ..no matter how ..war ends.” General Wladyslaw Sikorski.

The act of diplomacy ensures the rights of ones own People and unfortunately Poland handed that right to Hitler to engage in how best he saw fit in destroying 3,650,000 to perhaps as many as 5,774,000 Polish Jews, given a previous assumption that 118,000 increased the growth rate per year in early 1920. On January 26th. 1934 Poland signs 10 year Hitler pact of non-Aggression and on April 14th. 1934 the Oboze Nardovo Radzykalny, a radical antisemitic group, or ONR, a strongly anti-Jewish political grouping in Poland is formed. Between 1935 -1938 Polish further measures against its Jewish Community more closely aligns itself to Hitler’s endlosung policy. However, and seemingly opposing such a nationalist anti-Jewish view was Marshal Josef Piludski, and the Second Polish Republic. This approach, which advocated a multi disciplined, diverse and tolerant society was dogged by widespread antisemitic incidences throughout Poland.

“..Polish youth ..armed with clubs ..sticks ..make pogroms against ..Jews. ..Jews ..beaten and wounded. ..Jewish quarter ..abandoned to toughs and killers.” Chaim Aron Kaplan.

It is clear though that Pilsudski was not as avid an antisemite as Dmowski but was much like all of Poland, antisemitic. On May 12th. 1935, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski died and as the defender of Jews in Poland, and a wider critic of antisemitism, it is clear after his death, the gloves of tolerance came off and Pogroms swept Poland like a torrent. Continued attacks upon Jewish integrity sweeps through Poland with State, Church coordinating their belligerence toward the Jewish Community. When Polish Church and State conform to antisemitic hatred, more than 3,450,000 Polish Jews will be forced into oblivion. The Polish Jews now felt that their major protector, who in many ways had been Pilsudski was taken from them. The military in charge then were to become complicit in all that raged against the Jews, and were unable, incapable or more accepting of the flow of virulent and violent hatred toward Polish Jewry.

“..when ..heads of ..major nations in ..world faced ..new Germany with cool reserve and considerable suspicion ..Catholic Church ..greatest moral power on earth ..through ..Concordat expressed its confidence in ..new German government.” Guenter Lewy.

The regime which emerged after Piludski, found favour with Hitler’s continuing amplification of anti-Jewish sentiment. Poland , for its part, enacted laws to refute any Jewish status within Poland and it activated statutes which limited the Jewish presence to mere subservience. Poland then restricted Jewish businesses to vassals of Polish interest and all manner of Laws, which could well have been adopted straight from the tenets of the Nuremberg Race Laws, were adapted and engineered to specifically deny any Jewish hegemony or reliance upon the state.

Polish Jewish Boycotts were as broad as they were widespread,

Polish Jewish Banks were sequestered?

Polish Jewish Students could be easily removed from Schools, Colleges, Universities,

Polish Jewish Rituals pertaining to Religious observances were outlawed,

Polish Jewish ritual slaughter was prohibited.

The corrupted values of human decency are evident wherever the Polish and European Jews are confronted by what Hitler pointed to. It is essential also to remember that what originated in Germany, was conducted throughout all of Europe, more particularly within Poland. This is all a confrontation with every fibre of humanity. That such an assault as has never been witnessed before, and in all of history, should warn us of confusing the hatred of national socialism. The strength of any Nation belongs to the body of the People and if it espouses an inward looking and selfish consideration, it goes beyond the bounds of moral efficacy. All of the People, and where this equates to the values of a Socialism which recognises an equanimity which belongs to All and not just to the few, we do not separate out any People by any measure or design.

“..more I think of it ..more it appears that ..intelligent ..just and ..really good people who come after us will find it hard to understand how this could have happened ..to comprehend how ..very idea of murder ..mass murder ..could begin in ..dark recesses and convulsions of ..brain of an ordinary human being like millions of others.” Anatoli Kuznetsov.

The Jewish People are no less a component part of any and all communities they remain equal within, and must be given their right to humanity’s civilising essential. We are all for each other and each of us uphold all the rights of the other so as not to engender a threat to anyone. We must always recognise what Hitler’s Nazism proposed for the Jewish People, and this just did not stop with the Jewish People. It did not cease with killing Jews. It recognised the removal of every facet of opposition to an elitism that served a corrupted model of what corrupts all of human nature. In line with this, and on June 8th. 1935 there was a Pogrom in Grodno, Poland against its Jewish Community. There were 3 Jews Murdered, amongst them were Gedaliah Becher and Yisrael Berzowski. Also, Shlomo Pozniak was severely injured and along with Leib Buchinsky, both were put into hospital.

“..we will destroy Jewish breed. They will disappear through hunger and want.  ..polish people will be grateful ..Jewish Question only a cemetery will remain.” Dr. Ludwig Fischer.

The future Nazi Warsaw Governor was assured by what Poland was achieving with its Jews and was confident it would be acceptable to all of Polish society what would be visited upon the Jewish People of Poland. All told, between 40 to 50 Grodno Jews were injured  and damage was done to some 300 Jewish properties. On February 29th. 1936, Cardinal Hlond, the Catholic primate of all Poland issued a pastoral letter calling for discriminatory measures against the Jewish People. This incites a series of coordinated assaults on Jews across Poland. On March 9th. 1936, a Pogrom in Przytyk sees 2 Jews Murdered and on April 30th. 1936 the ONR, the Oboze Nardovo Radzykalny, attacked 5 Jews returning from Warsaw to their homes in Minsk-Mazowiecki. Then, and on June 1st. 1936 in Minsk-Mazowiecki there was a Pogrom and on June 30th. 1936 the Pogrom in Myslenice when 2 Jews were Murdered. On March 3rd. 1937, as the Polish government seeks to revoke Citizenship of Polish Jews in Germany, on May 13th. 1937 the Jews of Brest-Litovsk were attacked by locals and police who looted, robbed and beat up the local Jews and the Jewish store owners and their workers.

On June 16th. 1937 “..No place for Jews in Poland.” General Lucjan Zieligowski.

During August 1937 there are 350 incidents of physical assaults against Jews recorded in this month within Poland. On December 14th. 1937 Poland considers its territorial solution for its Jewish Community and The Madagaskar Plan is first muted. At this time we perhaps recognise why, while in 1938 alone, 40% of all Property in Warsaw was Jewish owned with 40% of all non-Jewish Poles employed in Jewish owned industrial concerns. 80% of the skilled workforce in Poland was Jewish, and a certain non-Jewish resentment kept resurfacing.

“ ..at ..reunion ..Austria with ..German Reich ..Heydrich gave ..order ..set ..Jewish emigration in motion from Vienna.” Adolf Eichmann.

On March 5th. 1938, Adolf Eichmann, now in charge of forced Jewish emigration was given charge, by Reinhard Heydrich, of what both France and Poland had been negotiating. This concerted effort would amount to the physical removal of all Jews from both Countries and toward a foreign reservoir and this, the Madagascar Plan was given momentum. On April 5th. 1938 there were more anti-Jewish riots across Poland. On April 15th. 1938 in Dabrowa-Tarnowska, Poland sees Jews Murdered in an anti-Jewish Pogrom. On April 29th. 1938 in Vilna, again Poland’s Jews are Murdered in an anti-Jewish Pogrom. On October 6th. 1938 Poland now revokes Polish Passports for its Jews living in Germany and on October 28th. 1938 17,000 Polish Jews are placed in limbo, a stateless, pushed across the German border, and Zbaszyn becomes the holding pen for 8,000 Polish Jews in Poland, not wanted by Poland.

“..horrible sight ..I encountered during ..trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. ..things I saw beggar description. While I was touring ..camp I encountered ..3 men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. ..visual evidence and ..verbal testimony of starvation ..cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me ..sick. In one room ..where they were piled up 20 ..30 naked men ..killed by starvation ..George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made ..visit deliberately ..in order to be in a position to give first hand evidence of these things if ever ..in ..future ..there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda.” General Dwight David Eisenhower.

On November 9th. 1938, widespread damage, looting and Murder was delivered to the Jews of Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. These Kristallnacht Pogroms asserted themselves upon the Jewish People, and paved the way toward what the World would assent to. This Night of Broken Glass, which delivered the term ‘Kristallnacht’, was clearly orchestrated from within Hitler’s gaze, and with some 267 synagogues that are ransacked and destroyed, with 7,500 Jewish Shops looted, with over 50,000 Jews removed to Concentration Camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen and with over 240 Jews who are Murdered. By 1939 the Polish Jewish Community had ranged between 3,650,000 and any former assessment of 5,774,000 Jewish People.

“..Government and with it ..great majority of ..German people ..are very conscious of ..appalling suffering brought to ..Jews in Germany and ..occupied territories. ..German people in their overwhelming majority ..disgusted by ..crimes perpetrated against ..Jews. ..in ..name of ..German people appalling crimes were committed ..that demand from us moral and material reparation ..not only as far as damages to ..individual ..but ..with regard to Jewish property.” Konrad Adenauer.

As Poland first became a Republic, the Jewish People were unaware of their position to be in this new state. Then, and when in August 1939, there was a mass conscription, and mobilization of the Military, so such discriminatory effort was placed before the Polish Jews, who were already serving in the Polish Military. Those Jews who then enlisted or who were conscripted, it seems, were no different from non-Jewish Poles. Here too it becomes clear, and from within Poland, that it was easy to identify the Polish Jew as neighbours knew who they were, where they lived and where they worked. This would play neatly into the hands of Hitler’s killing machinery as identification was key to success within Poland. It is clear also that all which was Jewish owned would not be retained by Polish Jews. Everything which was jealously coveted and demanded by former neighbours would not be bargained over.

“..Relief work doesn’t solve ..problem ..it only keeps people going a little while. ..people have to die anyway. It lengthens suffering ..but cannot save them. It remains a proven fact that ..people fed in ..soup kitchens will all die if they eat nothing but ..soup supplied and ..dry rationed bread. ..question thus arises whether it would not serve ..purpose better to reserve ..available money for selected individuals ..for those who are socially productive ..for ..intellectual elite ..etc. But. ..why should one pronounce judgment on artisans ..labourers and other useful persons. Only ..ghetto and ..war have turned them into non people ..into scrap ..into human dregs ..candidates for mass graves. There is left a tragic dilemma. What shall one do. Shall one ..hand out ..food ..with little spoons to everybody ..and then no one will live ..or in generous handfuls to just a few.” Emanuel Ringelblum.

Bargains with living had to be made and for some Jews, the consideration of who those Jews should be was being made. Polish Pogroms though, secured much in the way of Jewish goods, livestock, even homes and lands for any of those Poles merely willing to steal them. Whereas within Hitler’s view, he saw all Jewish property, Wealth and even impoverished possessions as Germany’s right to acquire. As the German’s planned to invade Poland, their vision of the Hasidic Jew was the image Hitler projected and protested most vociferously about. But such was not his view of a cultured way of life, and it most certainly could not insulate them from the ravages to be inflicted upon all Polish Jews. Those most easily identified, or not as the case may be, were at the mercy of all Poles who knew them as Neighbours, Colleagues, Employers, Teachers, Tutors, Legal Advisers or Medics.

“..This report tells ..story of ..victims of Auschwitz ..not with ..purpose of opening old wounds ..but of passing it on as a legacy for us Jews and for all mankind. It will fulfil its purpose only if it helps teach us ..to become better human beings ..to truly love our neighbours ..and to work toward ..eradication of brutality from ..face of ..Earth.” Lucie Adelsberger.

With 3,650,000 or 5,774,000 Polish Jews added to an equation, which amounted to total annihilation of all of these Polish Jews, Poland would become the blood stained cemetery of as few as 4,500,000 Jews of Europe, and vastly more than this. This hate filled posture became a catalyst for World War II and within that, 6,000,000 and more Jews were Slaughtered. As it became conceived of, perceived as and enacted upon, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question was most dedicated to enactment within Poland. For Poland’s 3,650,000 to 5,774,000 Polish Jews, this sets the scene for a collaborative effort which colluded in Hitlers demand for those more than 3,450,000 Polish Jews who were eventually Slaughtered. Continually, and throughout Poland, there were Pogroms in 100’s of Shtetl, Villages and Towns, targeting those Jews displaced from home, country and then life.

“..Jews await death and ..you come across people lying at ..street corner ..frozen ..begging. Almost daily people are falling dead or unconscious in ..middle of ..street. It no longer makes so direct an impression. Child in arms ..a mother begs ..Child appears dead.” Emanuel Ringelblum.

In what has been often referred to, and by such as Emanuel Ringelblum, the Jews of Poland were the dead in waiting, as Hitler clearly knew. For Jews everywhere, they were surviving in the antechamber of the extermination process. In regions throughout Poland we can know that of the over 100 Pogroms, in which Jews were murdered, all of Poland were a witness to what would emerge once Hitler’s formative Einsatz grew into its stride. In effect also, the Jews in all of Europe were under direct threat and unsafe, and throughout Poland, Polish Jews were under constant fear of Pogroms and also their denouncing. The neighbourly essence of a supposedly christian Country was abandoned in favour of so much larceny.

“..For many parts of ..Polish society it is very difficult ..since for decades they were victims themselves ..of ..Nazis. ..countries around Poland ..Ukraine ..Baltic States ..same level of public debate about their relationship with their own Jewish minority.” Jan Grabowski.

Polish locals did not always even wait for the Jews to be murdered to remove everything of any worth from them. If then we are to use such thefts as a template for a national effort, no Jew anywhere within Poland, given no right to choose, also had no right to what was still theirs up till the doors of extinction swallowed them up. The consuming threat from Hitler’s legions was clearly exacerbated by the murderous and treacherous involvement of so many former neighbours and even associates who betrayed every facet of human compassion. This all resounds with such complicit a resolve as to suggest an adherence to Hitler’s fuller intention. But even if this was not a complicitly collusive approach, it met the criteria of what Hitler sought from collaboration.

“..convinced ..better in Germany than ..Poland ..prisoners ..transported to our Ghetto had come from Poland. They told us there were extermination camps there. ..did not want to believe such a thing.” Zev Birger.

Hitler considered the Polish people as slaves and as a lesser nation than those he considered were the Aryan peoples. As such, in the context of Hitler’s racial policy,  the Jews were the ultimate target which never allowed any others to rest upon their laurels. By the time Hitler invaded Poland, September 1st. 1939, 400,000 Polish Jews had escaped Poland, leaving behind either 3,250,000 or even 5,374,000 of Poland’s Jews. As the World became reconciled once more to a World War II, some 70,000 Polish Officers and Soldiers were dead and over 130,000 lay wounded. The German’s had captured over 300,000 Polish Prisoners of War and claimed Poland as part of Hitler’s World view.

“..I had worked for 2 months and then had to flee ..because one of ..foreigners ..a Pole who knew me ..had probably struck a deal with ..Gestapo and threatened to reveal my identity.” Alter Feinsilber.

Within Poland now, the immediate enforcement of rationing saw German entitlement halved for non-Jewish poles and halved again for Jewish Poles. 2,000 calories per day for Germans became 1,000 calories per day for non-Jewish poles and 500 calories per day for Polish Jews, if that. For non-Jewish Poles, they would be the Labour force of the Reich and subsequently they die from exposure to that demand, as a matter of course. As this was being realised, all of European Jewry would be Hitler’s target for complete annihilation. While non-Jewish Poles would be murdered selectively, all of Polish Jewry would be Murdered, collectively and totally. Nazi officials were quick to pronounce sentence and the Nazi Warsaw Governor, Ludwig Fischer would procure every possible condition that would deliver as many Jews as was possible toward oblivion. This was clearly attested to in the Polish press, with the Gazeta Polska detailing the bread rations specific to a deadly intention for the Jewish People.

“..Jews receive half ..food which ..poles receive. ..poles receive grams of bread daily ..Jews receive 100 grams ..every other day.” Dr. Witold Majewski.

In these days of struggle for Polish Jewry, the most destructive prewar Pogroms, which occurred in towns like Czestochowa, Minsk-Mazowiecki, and Przytyk, these Towns were all located in central, and not to Eastern Poland. The forced belief was that most of the Pogroms, and where some would credit them being outraged, was to remove such instances and carnage away from the vastly Polish controlled areas. Also, and for those Jewish Army personnel who were captured during the first phases of World War II, they were detained separately into German controlled areas. These areas would be formed into the Ghettos, Labour Camps and way stations for the future depositing of all Polish Jews into the Death Camps.

“..In ..uniform of ..Polish policeman I visited ..sorting camp near Belzec.” Jan Karski.

This truly is what the Jewish People must content with, with regard to the losses incurred in these established extermination centres for their People. In particular, this aspect of The Holocaust is open to the conjecture of degree, capacity and even totality of the destruction within. As the World will come to know the names of:

I. Belzec where between 500,000 and 1,800,000 Jews were Slaughtered;

II. Treblinka where between 700,000 and 1,500,000 Jews were Slaughtered;

III. Sobibor where between 225,000 and 350,000 Jews were Slaughtered;

IV. Majdanek where between 120,000 and 500,000 Jews were Slaughtered;

V. Birkenau where between 1,100,000 and 3,000,000 Jews were Slaughtered, and this is including Auschwitz; and

VI. Chelmno where between 152,000 and 1,300,097 Jews were Slaughtered.

“..Bitterness ..pain fill ..Children’s recollections of those poles who hunted them ..betrayed them ..handed them to ..common enemy ..of cruelties perpetrated by other children ..of every human ignominy. ..there are few such testimonies ..reason ..simple ..painful ..children ..are not here to record their stories.” Maria Hochberg-Marianska.

This allows for the capacity of these Death Camps, which extinguished the existence of at least 2,797,000 Jews Slaughtered amongst them or 8,450,097 if all assessments are agreed to. What this ensures though, is a fundamental loss to the very scientific approach to History we demand, and an empty space that is possibly filled with 5,653,097 Slaughtered Jews, betrayed by our failing oversight. to secure their loss to posterity. Also, and for Ghettos like Baranovichi, Bedzin, Czestochowa, Kielce, Lida, Lodz, Nowy-Sacz, Piaski, Pinsk, Radom, Rzeszow, Siedliscze, Slonim, Sosnowiec, Stryj, Tarnow, Tarnopol, Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Tuczyn, Warsaw, and Zdunska-Wola, these containment centres confined the vastness of Jewish existence within Poland. Once the Ghetto was recognised as the tool of Hitler’s grand plan, it was far too late for Jewish existence to ever fully appreciate its peril.

“..new death house provides for ..liquidation of 8,000 to 10,000 victims. If we consider ..right now 2,000,000 murdered Jews ..greater part of Polish Jewry  ..already buried in ..area of Treblinka ..disturbing question arises ..for whom do ..SS men intend that new house of death.” Jacob Apenszlak.

What we must always remember too, and from the many dozen’s of Ghettos that were in existence within Poland is the truth that the Polish People observed everything that was happening to the Jews in their vicinity. When Lodz became Poland s largest Jewish community, this is the case after Treblinka had resettled the Jewish Community of Warsaw, in such a short journey that was witnessed by all of Poland’s community’s between transportation and resettlement. This was largely true in all areas featured around all 6 Death Camps and this is whether Poland physically witnessed it or were informed through an acknowledgement made by those who had. In June 1941 the Szczuczyn Pogrom was conducted by non-Jewish Poles against their former neighbours. In Wasosz, a Pogrom was carried out by Poles on July 5th. 1941. On July 7th. 1941 in Radzilow, there was a Pogrom against local Jews made by local Poles.

“..Jews must adjust themselves to all conditions ..we shall endeavour to create such conditions for them as will make ..adjustment difficult.” Dr. Ludwig Fischer.

On July 10th. 1941, an anti-Jewish Pogrom took place in Jedwabne, and was amongst over 20 such local attacks upon Polish Jews by their Gentile neighbours. In Lvov, yet another Pogrom was instigated by the German security forces and was assisted by Ukrainians. This lasted from June 30th. until July 2nd. 1941, All told. More than 1,600 Jedwabne Jews were Murdered, most at the hands of an Einsatz kommando. Also, there were 340 Jewish Men, Women and Their Children who were Burned to Death in a local Barn at the hands of their non-Jewish neighbours. Then again a further Pogrom in Lvov was held from July 25th. until July 29th. 1941 and the Tykocin Pogrom was instigated by forces from Einsatzgruppe B on August 25th. 1941, and non-Jewish Poles were eager participants.

“..September 1941. ..most ..Jews in Romania ..knew about ..atrocities ..against Jews In Poland ..but ..no one believed anything would happen to us. ..Jews of Romania ..no different from ..Hungarian ..French ..Czechoslovak or other European Jews. Everyone was in denial.” Felicia Carmelly.

It was a sad fact that the evidences of what was being enacted within Poland was more widespread tat we imagined. True too was the very fact, which implicated all of those with Poland, Civilians, Church, those representing the Polih government in hiding, all knew of the progress of the assault upon the integrity of Polish Jewry. That the Pogrom was perpetually wielded against Polish Jews by non-Jewish Poles, all added to the efficiency of Hitler’s demands within Poland for 1,000,000’s of Polish Jewry.

“..In November and December 1941 began ..slaughter of Jews in ..Warthegau. ..slaughter ..by means of gas. ..a special gas chamber car ..used ..90 people ..loaded at one time. ..victims buried ..Lubartow Forest. ..1,000 ..gassed daily. In Chelmno ..November 1941  to March 1942 all ..Jews from Kolo ..Dab ..Bugaj  ..Izbica 5,000 in all ..with 35,000 from Lodz Ghetto and a number of Gypsies ..gassed.” Szmul Zygielbojm.

Now unless we are going to revise the words of such a distinguished witness, and a Polish scholar whose testimony is clear, Poland knew full well what places like Belzec meant for the Jews of Poland.

On Thursday October 15th. 1942 “..camp ..located near ..town ..Belzec ..well known all over Poland from ..tales of horror ..circulated about it.” Jan Karski.

On Friday November 5th. 1942 the peasants in within Siedliscze, would see to it that their Jews, still clinging to life would forfeit that effort. They gathered together and with scythes in hand, and in anticipation of the day’s roundup of their neighbours who were Jews, and for which they took their scythes to, they would be paid for each Jew caught and even Murdered. Of the many neighbours who saw in a Jewish return both surprise and incredulity, there was alarm too and even shock which bordered upon a substantial regret. For written into the refrain:

                              ‘we thought many yids would not survive’

Jews would not be allowed to survive.

Friday November 5th. 1942 “..Village of Siedliska. ..peasants were buying scythes. ..raid. ..against ..Jews.” Stanislaw Zeminski.

As 1942 faded, the majority of the Jews of the following Ghetto’s had been murdered, in excess of 80% of their Total, and that was even before all of the death camps had become fully operational:-

Cracow                37,000 Jews were transported to Belzec.

Lublin                   23,000 Jews were transported to Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.

Lvov                      161,500 Jews were transported to Belzec.

Radom                29,000 Jews were transported to Belzec and Treblinka.

Warsaw               50,000 Jews were transported to Treblinka.

“..I didn’t want to go back to Poland. Poles were killing a lot of Jews who returned to claim property ..homes ..other possessions. My Parents were dead. There was nothing to go back to.” Bianca Lerner.

Bianca’s Father was Murdered in a Ghetto while her Mother was transported to Treblinka and resettled there. On January 18th. 1943, and with the resumption of the resettlement of 6,000 of the Warsaw Ghetto s Jews, these are all murdered at Treblinka. However, as the Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded for the 2nd. Liquidation, the Jewish fight was brought to the Nazi’s at x4 Battle Group Barricades and Jewish Resistance plans to disrupt all future ‘resettlement’ operations begins. a further 4,500 Jews were deported and some 1,200 more Jews were Murdered in situ, after Resisting. This is the 1st. Jewish Fighting Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Resistance lasts for 4 days, till the very day it had earlier proposed for an Uprising.

On January 21st. 1943, the  January Aktion  Resistance of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto comes to a close.

“..Saturday March 13th. 1943 ..Dear Sirs ..coming days are likely to see ..end of ..Jews in Warsaw. Are we ready. From a material point of view it is very bad. Of ..49 weapons that have been allocated to us only 36 can be used ..for lack of ammunition. Our position as regards arms has worsened after ..many operations of ..past few weeks ..during which much ammunition was used. At ..present moment there are no more than 10 bullets for each weapon. This is a catastrophic situation. Please inform ..authorities in our name that if large scale help does not arrive immediately ..we shall look on it as indifference on ..part of ..representatives and ..authorities to ..fate of ..Jews of Warsaw. ..allocation of weapons without ammunition is a cynical mockery of our fate ..and confirms ..assumption that ..poison of antisemitism continues to pervade ..leading circles in Poland ..despite ..cruel and tragic experiences of ..past 3 years. It is not our intention to persuade anybody concerning our willingness and ability to fight. Since January 18th. Jews of Warsaw have been in a state of continuous struggle with ..invader and his servants. Anyone who denies this or casts doubt upon it ..is nothing but a deliberate antisemite. We do not expect only understanding from ..authorities and ..delegatura but also that they should consider ..murder of 1,000,000’s of Jews ..who are Polish Citizens ..to be ..main problem of our current life. We regret most deeply that it is not possible for us to make direct contact with ..Allied governments ..with ..Polish Government and ..Jewish organizations abroad in order to inform them about our situation and ..attitude towards us on ..part of ..Polish authorities and public. ..We request that you take ..necessary steps immediately with ..Army Authorities and Government Representatives. We request that you read them this letter and demand immediately at least 100 grenades ..50 revolvers ..10 rifles and several 1,000 bullets of various diameters. I am prepared to submit within two days accurate plans of our positions ..with maps ..so that there need be no doubt whatsoever concerning ..necessity of ..supply of arms. Commander ..Jewish Fighting Organization.” Mordechai Anielewicz.

It is an understatement for the Polish underground to not only conclude that over 3,200,000 of Poland’s Jews have been effectively Murdered, knowing too the order of that destruction in places like Auschwitz, Belzec, Birkenau, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka but who also was the Perpetrator, the Participator and the willing, complicit, duplicitous collaborator in the scale of the atrocity waged against their own Jewish Citizens.

Tuesday March 23rd. 1943 “..Insofar as ..can be ascertained ..fate of ..Jews has undergone a further deterioration. Considering barely several hundred thousand Jews have remained out of 3,500,000 one has a fair insight concerning ..scale of atrocities ..perpetrated.” Polish Underground. 

On April 17th. 1943 the fuller Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins with many of those remnants of Warsaw’s Jews, 70,000 Jews still alive. SS Obergruppenfuhrer Jurgen Stroop arrives in the Warsaw Ghetto and the eventual destruction of all Jewish Resistance here within the Ghetto is underway! Rabbi Zusia Friedman pleads his case that God would Not allow the Jews of Warsaw, Israel and indeed of Poland to be vanquished as he still urged restraint.

“..I believe in God and in miracles. God would not permit ..decimation of Israel ..his people. We must wait and ..miracle will come.” Rabbi Zusia Friedman.

On April 22nd. 1943 The Jewish Telegraphic Agency relays the news of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto  Revolt, it obtained from a report in Stockholm.

“..In April 1943 news reached us about ..Uprising in ..Warsaw Ghetto. How we rejoiced and how proud we were of them! How we longed to have ..opportunity to do ..same! But ..in ..Lodz Ghetto nothing could be done because of our total isolation from ..outside world ..although there was talk of it.” Esther Brunstein.

On Friday April 23rd. 1943, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising relaying the report from Stockholm with the headline:

Nazis Start Mass Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover. Victims Broadcast S.O.S.

On Thursday April 29th. 1943 “..strength of ..German military and police machine ..being weakened daily.  This strength broke near Stalingrad ..had to retreat from Tunis now stands powerless before a group of Jews who defend themselves in ..ghetto.” Polska Underground Newspaper.

On April 29th. 1943 it is clear from the Polish Underground Newspaper report that the struggle for the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is a stand being made by the Jews with little assistance delivered by the Poles outside.

Wednesday May 5th. 1943 “..In Poland there were ..about 4,500,000 Jews ..there remain ..only 100,000. ..Warsaw Ghetto containing ..650,000 ..only 20,000 ..25,000 Jews there. ..majority killed. ..Special death camps at Lublin (Majdanek) ..Treblinka near Brest-Litovsk. ..several hundred ..jammed into large rooms ..where they die by gassing.” Vatican Memo.

On May 5th. 1943 it is obvious that wen the Vatican produces a Memo, which clearly acknowledges what it knows of the fate of more than 4,400,000 Jews of Poland. The acknowledgement of at least two of th Death Camps in Poland is a certainty, the rabbit line from Church to the Vatican is in operation. Here, in its failure to act more decisively is a moral abandonment of one of its key components in Christian belief.

“..In Majdanek and everywhere in Poland. They gave what is ..best in humanity. I have it all ..in my soul ..letters written to me by many. Everything is possible ..in spite of other manifestations. I ..myself have never experienced any animosity toward me and what I represent. There is always ..goodwill and hope.” Halina Birenbaum.

On May 8th. 1943, in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Headquarters of Jewish Resistance, 18 Mila Street, is surrounded and liquidated. Mordechai Anielewicz and 97 Resistance Fighters Died that Day with their refusal to succumb to the Nazi brutality. This point in time will forever show the way toward all future Jewish Persistence and Resistance! Just 2 managed to Survive while more than 50,000 Warsaw Jews having been murdered in recent months. On May 10th, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Uprising came to an end and The Jewish Warsaw Ghetto was reduced to a pile of rubble which stood about 3 storey’s high. It would be week before Stroop could declare Warsaw was ‘Junderein’ and we will see 22,000 of these Jews being transported to Majdanek.

On Tuesday May 11th. 1943 “..responsibility for ..crime of ..murder of ..whole Jewish nationality in Poland rests first of all on those who are carrying it out ..but indirectly it falls also upon ..whole of humanity ..peoples of ..Allied nations and on their governments ..who up to this day have not taken any real steps to halt this crime. By looking on passively upon this murder of defenceless millions tortured children ..women and men they have become partners to ..responsibility…My friends in ..Warsaw ghetto fell. ..I did not succeed in dying ..same way or ..with them. ..I  belong to them and ..mass graves there.” Shmuel Zygielbojm.

In the meantime, what we are then to learn from the tenuous position of those Polish Jews striving to survive in, the presence of each of the 6 Death Camps in Poland, is to be  underscored by those within the Polish Foreign Affairs Office, as Roman Knoll articulates. It was clear that non-Jewish Poles held with the deepest of regret the fact that the Polish Jews, albeit barely too few of them, did indeed Survive.

In August 1943 “..return of ..Jews to their jobs and workshops is ..out of ..question ..even if ..number of Jews is greatly reduced. ..non-Jewish population has filled their places in ..towns ..cities ..in much of Poland this is a fundamental change ..final in character. ..return of masses of Jews would be perceived not as an act of restitution ..but as an invasion against which they would have to defend themselves ..even by physical means.” Roman Knoll.

Throughout the period of turmoil and desolation, when 1,000,000’s of Polish Jews were being extracted from life, no year gave pause to the terrors mounted upon these by non-Jewish Poles seeking to extend their own personal influence within Poland. In 1944, as Allied victory seemed all but assured, the shift of emphasis for Hitler’s murder programme shifted away from Poland and toward Hungary, the largest Jewish Community still in existence. In the meantime, the Death Camps were closed, except Birkenau, with Majdanek and even Chelmno opening to occasion mass Slaughters of Jews, but for Poland, it was still keen to settle its debt with Jewish existence. On January 25th. 1944 there were about 100,000 Polish Jews who still remained alive in Poland. This represents 3,400,000 of the lesser estimate of Polish Jews who have been Murdered within a 3 year period.

“..I spoke with my Cousin who survived ..massacre of ..Jews in Sokoly ..Poland ..that night that Tokele was murdered. My cousin was fortunate as having gone to get some hot water to wash ..Sabbath dishes. While out fetching hot water ..Yaffe ..my Cousin ..saw her nephew Shaikie go to visit ..Gritzik house to see ..rest of ..family and that’s ..last time she saw him alive.” Avigdor Ben-Dov.

On February 17th. 1945 in Sokoly, local poles murdered 7 Jewish Survivors in a localised Pogrom and secured for Hitler a further addition to his final aim. That said, is this not a collaboration with the spirit of Hitler’s Final Solution. On August 11th. 1945 the Cracow pogrom, with the Kupa Synagogue burned down, at which point there remained 50,000 hardy souls, Jewish Survivors who floundered between a wish for their home and a need for any home. On March 8th. 1946 Poland decreed Jewish Restitution claims for Property, Homes and Possessions was to be made by those Jews who had been Slaughtered, and all of this by the end of 1947. However, at the end of this period, a year’s extension is granted for the ashes of Polish Jewish to present themselves.

“..murders of Survivors right after ..War ..intimidated many who might have sought their property back. Fearing for their lives ..many made no attempt to retrieve their assets.” Naphtali Lavie.

On July 4th. 1946 polish soldiers, polish police officers and polish non-Jewish civilians Murdered 42 Polish Jews and more than 40 other Polish Jews were wounded in Kielce. There was still the proposition of acquiring all that once was owned by 3,650,000 Polish Jews or even 5,774,000 Polish Jews. Poland was acutely aware of Hitler’s final solution for the Jews, and at an early stage, but the greed that overcame the larceny of Polish intention, removed so many rights once taken away from Polish Jewry. Such too was the clamour to secure as much of this Polish Jewish acquisition, edicts were enacted and so written that only Surviving Polish Jews, who could prove their Polish status would reclaim what the Polish State was busy acquiring.

“..One can safely assume that all ..candlesticks ..quilts found anywhere in rural Poland today were once Jewish possessions.” Joseph Schupack.

After the War, much of Poland was filled with fear for the Polish Jews and the growing option opened to the vast majority of them was to stay and fight or flee from all they had endured. For all too long, the fight for survival had worn the Jewish Spirit and they were literally frazzled by their very existence. In truth, they saw no welcome within Poland to secure them, to anchor them to the former status which was forever denying them, or even to give them some form of hope that they could cling to. On December 31st. 1948 further Polish Measures are brought to bear to ensure that the Polish Jews cannot reclaim what Polish Jews have been deprived of.

“..We can have no doubt that here in Jedwabne Polish citizens were killed at  ..hands of fellow citizens.” President Aleksander Kwasniewski.

For me, to link all the detail of History to that History, we cannot deflect from what some would be unwilling to accept in their History. Within Poland, it would be better placed, evaluating what it failed to do to save 3,450,000 of its own Jews, all Murdered because they were Jews. For Poland, which has now sought to disown everything Hitler established in Poland, and for what Polish citizens engaged in with regard to the Slaughter of its Jewish Community, this will prove both disingenuous to their own History and toward all of History. It is clear though, that except for what has proved lucrative to the non-Jewish Poles, the Destruction of 3,450,000 of their own Polish Jews delivered for them riches they could never have gained with their previous efforts.

“..I ..never knew ..total number ..I have nothing to help me make an estimate. ..I ..remember ..figure in ..larger actions ..repeated to me by Eichmann or his deputies. ..I ..no longer remember ..figures for ..smaller actions ..insignificant in comparison with ..numbers given. I regard ..total of 2,500,000 ..far too high. ..Auschwitz had limits to its destructive possibilities ..Upper Silesia ..Polish territory under German rule 250,000 Germany ..Theresienstadt 100,000 Holland 95,000 Belgium 20,000 France 110,000 Greece 65,000 Hungary 400,000 Slovakia 90,000.” SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Rudolf Hoess.

In 1973 it is clear too, that when Lucjan Dobroszycki had compiled and analysed the records of anti-Jewish post War reports, anti-Jewish hatred had not ended with Hitler’s final resolve. From amongst the clutter of news reports Lucjan Dobroszycki assessed that in the 2 year period between September 1944 and September 1946 there were 115 differing communities where more than 300 Jews had been killed by their non-Jewish Neighbours. What is certain though, and for those like Hoess who knew all too well how many Jews he had processed through the extermination machinery in Birkenau, it is clear he sought to sway and connive in History, and away from the truth.

“..I wrote ..truth. There were Poles who were involved in The Holocaust. They betrayed their Jewish neighbours and sometimes even killed them. That s a fact. It s stupid that I should have to discuss this with ..police and that someone could be offended by it. How can one be offended by ..truth.”  Katarzyna Markusz.

In 2014 the problems for the Polish Jewish Survivor, and in a greater level of Polish betrayal, their descendants, these prewar Polish Jews, looking back became an obvious demand for so many. While many of the Survivors sought to leave this past behind, Poland became a wish to explore a past that had belonged to their Parents or Family members. There has been an almost nostalgic wish for investigating what had once been, what had been lost, what could be retrieved and the investigations of why their Parents resented, even hated their Polish pasts. In many respects, Polish Jewry was being reborn, albeit from many distances and only by descendants of Jews who did not want Poland. While it might still be true that much still belonged to a wronged Polish Jewry, Poland was certainly fixed on retaining whatever it had taken from Polish Jewry

October 2020  “..Will we live to see ..day when ..Polish authorities also admit that hostility toward Jews was widespread among Poles ..and that Polish complicity in The Holocaust is an historical fact.”  Katarzyna Markusz.

In reminiscences with their past, the ugly truth was always abandoned by Poland, always in favour of washing out the blame game and in place of suppressing the fullest truth. This seemingly allowed for The Holocaust itself to be shed from the integrity of History, fully detained in the past where Poland became the necessary repository for forgetfulness. I met with some of what had become of Cracow’s Jewish Community in Kazimierz, as I sought to discern whether Poland could in fact remain objective in what we sought to learn. It was abundantly clear that some of the past prejudices against the Jews, whether still living in Poland, those who left Poland and for those Jews eternally detained in the depths of its soil, this prejudice still manifested itself. The truth of antisemitism remained embedded within much of Poland, and still spilled over into my concern as to whether Polish institutions could or would refute the tenor of Poland’s new laws pertaining to The Holocaust and Polish participation.

“..Polish prosecution does not punish those for espousing anti-Semitic attitudes ..but is willing to punish a journalist. It s crazy.” Katarzyna Markusz.

While I found many individual Poles knowledgeable enough to appreciate the awful truth of the past of some of their own, fear ensured their stillness in the face of any response. Despite the horrendous fact of the loss of 3,450,000 or way more Polish Jews, no shame was to be attributed in all too many cases against those non-Jewish Poles who enacted some of the most egregious terrors against their own Jewish Communities. Even Jewish graves had been dug up by locals who still believed Jews had buried their valuables in the cemeteries of Poland. Of course, and so as to hide the ownership the Jews had gained was not merely to keep them from the Germans. For no other reason than such hatred, Jewish individual graves, and entire Jewish Cemeteries were desecrated. It is manifestly impossible to now deny what many Polish Survivor’s have clearly stated in their affirmation of their long held belief that they were hated, and in many instances, are still hated within Poland.

“..from June 1941 to January 1942 ..I was ..Commander of Sonderkommando 4 A. ..June 1942 ..entrusted by Gruppenfuhrer Mueller with ..task ..obliterating ..traces ..executions carried out by ..Einsatzgruppe ..East. ..orders ..report in person to ..commanders of ..Security Police ..SD ..pass on Mueller’s orders verbally ..supervise ..implementation. ..order ..top secret ..there was to be no correspondence in connection with ..task. ..September 1942 ..reported to Dr. Thomas ..Kiev ..passed ..order ..to him. ..May ..June 1943 ..made additional trips to Kiev ..after conversations with Dr. Thomas and ..SS Police Leader Hennecke ..order was carried out. During ..visit ..August ..observed ..burning of bodies in ..mass grave near Kiev. ..grave was about 55 meters long ..3 meters wide and 2.5 meters deep. ..top ..removed ..bodies ..covered with inflammable material ..ignited. ..about two days until ..grave burned ..to ..bottom. ..grave was filled in ..traces ..practically obliterated. Owing to ..moving up of ..front ..not possible to destroy ..mass graves further south and east which had resulted from executions by ..Einsatzgruppe. ..my orders ..should have extended ..duties over ..entire area occupied by ..Einsatzgruppe ..owing to ..retreat from Russia ..could not carry out my orders completely.” SS Standartenfuhrer Paul Blobel.

The sheer lack of respect for Polish Jews within Poland, even after their death or destruction, would never be allowed service the needs or beliefs of the dead. These atrocity’s also secured for an eternity that was to be no resting place for Polish Jewry within Poland. What is occurring now, ensures for Jews of Poland’s past, and for far too many Jewish Survivors, who were afraid of going back to their towns, and who only sought safety in numbers, Israel became their answer. Like all too many Polish Jewish Holocaust Survivors, they never wished to return to an unwelcome place and this is a manifest truth. 3,650,000, and even 5,774,000 Polish Jews were presented to Hitler, his cohort and even Polish collaborators for Slaughter. Poland saw in this no chance for Jewish survival and therefore no return for Polish Jews to all they had previously owned.

“..I know. ..never in ..history of mankind ..never anywhere in ..realm of human relations did anything occur to compare with what was inflicted on ..Jewish population of Poland.” Jan Karski.

It is clear too, from talking to Jewish Survivor’s that they clearly identified with their former homelands, and this was particularly evident from amongst Polish Survivor’s. Even for those Polish Survivor’s who clearly resented the Poland of their antisemitic past, their offspring created a desire to look back. But, while they clearly registered with their former status as Polish Jews, and this was as distinct as say an Israeli Jew would differentiate themselves from any other European or American Jews, a former homeland somehow anchored them to their past and detained them there. Polish Jews were part of the Polish soil, and not just because of the immense capacity of Jewish losses that are buried beneath its surface. But the fact clearly remains that all of Polish Jewry belongs to the Jewish folklore of so many Centuries of Polish persistence with this Polish Country.

“..I feel ..hunger again ..it bites your insides. Concentration Camp for Jews. 1,800 of us at Beaune-la-Rolande. Where are ..my unhappy comrades. What gruesome death awaited them in ..Extermination Camps ..Poland. ..first miracle is that I am not among their number.” Moriz Scheyer.

Though the Polish Jewish presence is shrouded in many examples of a hatred which surfaced from time to time, but does not remove the ingrained dust from Polish Summers nor the dirt from under their nails which was gained digging in the Earth now containing more than 4,500,000 Jewish lives, of many Nations, all torn from existence. Poland became the Cemetery for the Jewish People, who arrived from all over Europe to be exterminated there. Regardless of their age or status, the fact that they were Jews was the only demand placed upon their extermination. For many of those Polish Jews who did manage to survive, they instilled in their Children, who in their turn informed their Children that the descendants of Polish Jewry must never return to a Poland, which despoiled them, this sits upon a reserve of a Polish soil whose foundation is now undermined by Jewish Ash and Blood.

“..It is impossible to understand and fully appreciate Polish history without knowing ..history of Polish Jews ..not only because of ..many centuries Jews lived on our soil ..but also for ..contributions of Jews to many aspects of Polish life ..economy ..culture ..and science.” Bronislaw Komorowski.

Here, a Polish President recognises all that is owed to the Jewish pre-eminence that belonged to the state and its marginally diverse People. Sadly, what is evident in these days is how soon Poland forgets that 6,000,000 Jewish Citizens can be torn from society, 3,450,000 of them because they were Polish Jews. We recognise that Germany could not forget that with the thrust toward defeat, its resolve was in order to solve The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. Germans who fought for a fatherland were thus disposed of to ail a degenerative disease that defines an antisemitic resolution. Where ever Nazism meets opposition to its perversion of humanity, it greets it with a carnage of death and destruction. The World after a Second World War recognises that 50 or 70 million dead and within that is a Genocide of 6,000,000 Jews we recognise is, The Holocaust.

“..not possible to estimate ..exact numbers of Jews who have been exterminated in Poland since ..occupation of ..country by ..armed forces of ..German Reich. But all ..reports agree that ..total number of killed runs into many hundreds of thousands of innocent victims ..men ..women ..children ..and that of ..Jews in Poland before ..outbreak of war ..over ..third have perished during ..last three years.” Edward Raczynski.

Hitler had not only recognised that Poland was to be his future centre for the annihilation of the Jews, he was well aware of the Polish antisemitism as a preparatory condition for this. It is not simply from Polish antisemitism that Hitler ensured there was the placement of all 6 of The Death Camps within Poland and not just for that specific reason. Also, and for the non-Jewish Poles, it was to be the lucrative return that was for so many who were to have from the destruction of as many of 3,650,000 Polish Jews accepted or appreciated. The Houses, Lands, Premises, Valuables and other goods to be had, purloined and stolen, fully incentivised so many within Poland. Hitler drew upon such avarice and greed and there was no moral accounting as even the Catholic Church sought to gain from the loss.

“..It is terrifying and horrifying. It takes a toll on you to write ..testimony. It takes a toll on ..reader. ..difficult ..to hear ..and ..difficult for them to tell.” Jeffrey Veidlinger.

In order to dismiss Judaism, as even a remote challenge to the hierarchy of a supposed christian community of 33 million non-Jewish people, this religious order sought silence in favour of its ethical precedent. Such dedication to the Jewish Past is being unravelled with anti-Jewish sentiment filtering through to the same antisemitic mindset of earlier Poland. I am forever mindful that while I might balk at the very sounds which express such atrocity as the Jewish Survivor witnessed and even endured, how much more difficult must it be for those Jews of Poland whose experience is called to remind us. Controversially. The use of libel to ensure History dos not repeat the accusations of what non-Jewish Poles managed against their Jewish Neighbours, must sour the product of the science of all of History. The accusation must be clear. And while we are not in doubt, and that not all non-Jewish Poles can be guilty, we are also aware that not all non-Jewish Poles are innocent.

“..When I stand before you ..to lead ..Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann ..I am not standing alone. With me are 6,000,000 accusers. ..they cannot rise ..and point an accusing finger. ..For their ashes are piled up on ..hills of Auschwitz and ..fields of Treblinka ..and are strewn in ..forests of Poland. Their graves are scattered throughout ..length and breadth of Europe. Their blood cries out ..but their voice is not heard. ..I will be their spokesman and in their name I will unfold ..awesome indictment.” Gideon Hausner.



Golda Meir

Uncategorised Posted on Tue, December 12, 2023 14:07:50

Golda Meir

PD:- When the World awoke to the Catastrophe of The Holocaust. We are both slow to react to what happened and in accepting what we allowed to happen.

“..You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- The problem with the adversity faced by the Jewish Survivor was the realisation of loss and how it was arrived at and directed.

“..To be or not to be is not a question of compromise.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- That is certainly the truth. But the silence of too many of these Survivors has seen a compromise which has stolen points of evidence testimony which should have been more complete.

“..Either you be or you don’t be.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- Surely the problem for the 6,000,000 Jews was they were never allowed to be and as such, they were removed from being.

“..A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- It is a tragic fact that once Hitler gained power, he did not hesitate against sending his Einsatzgruppe toward diminishing all Jewish presence. It has become apparent, at least to me, that World War II was a covert screen by which he could disguise The Final Solution of The Jewish Question from open view.

“..We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with ..Arabs ..we have no place to go.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- Even before the Survivor of The Holocaust managed to swerve the British blockade of their arrival to Israel, the mufti of Jerusalem had delivered 20,000 Muslim recruits to join the Waffen SS. In the campaign against the Jewish presence in Europe, these haters of the Jewish People stand today as a parallel to the mufti’s call toward The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. So even before you had that homeland, as a place to go, Arabs were attempting to ensure no Jew would ever survive to even create the State of Israel.

“..Trust yourself. Create ..kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make ..most of yourself by fanning ..tiny ..inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- We recognise clearly that the potential of 6,000,000 Jews was snuffed out amidst the furnace sparks and flames within those 6 Death Camps in Poland designed to consume them. It is certainly the vilest achievement of anyone to ever confront humanity that The Holocaust appeared upon the horizon, stood before the Jews of Europe and catapulted them into oblivion.

“..One cannot and must not try to erase ..past merely because it does not fit ..present.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- The sad fact is that the very truth of what happened to 6,000,000 of your People has been denied, distorted and erased. There is now an attempt to consign such evidence of this atrocity to the past in order to fit with a growing narrative which both seeks to exculpate Hitler fom directing this major catastrophe for Jewish existence.

“..Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through ..desert in order to bring us to ..one spot in ..Middle East that has no oil.  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- Perhaps in this irony of oiled irony you will recognise the Arab demand for Jewish expulsion from the lands of Israel. Both Israel and Judah has housed Jews for more than 5,000 years and for some 75 years, Surviving Jews, and indigenous Jews have cultivated the sand and soil of Israel into a real-estate of confiscation. That developed land is now the envy of surrounding nations who insist that a stateless, homeless, refugee and formerly nomadic and even itinerant Bedouin Peoples should own what Israel has become. A refuge fo World Jewry. A Homeland for the Jewish People. A land that has prospered under Jewish direction. 

“ ..Above all ..this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in ..morning and worry what his neighbours think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- It is a certainty that the entire World, recognising what it did not do to save 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, sought to ensure the homeland of Israel would become a safe haven for Jewish persistence, a World Entire. I smell the stench of guilt here as the World was forced to awaken to what was allowed to happen to Your People. Much protest would now consume a World over what it could not be seen to allow to happen further to the Surviving Jews, ever again.

“..It is true that we have won all our wars ..but we have paid for them.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- Your People emerged from a War they were unaware had been fully declared against them and it is fair to say that for every loss, the pressure of Nazi conduct escalated. What you will now face is a future War which will take ever more Jews away from life and living, but with a Jewish People better placed to see it and repel its intention. I am troubld here though, can we be certain that the lessons of The Holocaust have not seriously seaped into the direction of all and any Arab response to the Jews of Israel. I make no comparison here with what still stands as the most unique genocide of a People because of who they are. But! I simply cannot so easily dismiss what is presented as a parallel to be drawn from the continued threat to the Jewish persistence. Current actions, seemingly derived from that meeting with Hitler in which the Mufti afforded Hitler an Arab resolve in The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, is of a similar genocidal resolution.

“..We can forgive ..Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with ..Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- I differ greatly with you here. I have often spoken to Survivor’s about this and I am adament that We cannot ever forgive anything that was done to the 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews. Only they have the power to forgive or even forget. But lamentably! They have been removed from such an ability as we cannot and must not choose for them. The same applies to those today who would wilfully Murder a Jew, and simply because they are a Jew. It is true however, that being drawn into conflict draws the graver pressure upon those who would kill for the sake of killing and allow for others to die in their stead.

“..We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- It is here that the causal effect of any conflict between Jews and Arabs reign. It is the very fact that cotton can be grown and strawberries can be fed to Jews in the World. They are commodity’s which are the source of revenues despised of Jewish ownership and coveted by the bigotry of hate which seeks to devour All Jews Worldwide. 

“..It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- History has been proven that you are you correct. For 5,000 years there has been Jews resident within Israel and Judah. Since christianity informally seconded Israel’s god to its own, and while Judaism was to be taken over by christianity, the profanity of belief has been sullied. 700 years later, the colonisation of the Mediterranean and Middle East has sought to remove both Judaism and christianity from its midst. This is neither belief nor what any supposed god should wish for. It id a divisive control harbouring a power to which to frame the lives of all People.

“..I guess we have no choice. Either we do everything that is possible ..and may seem to others as impossible ..and just give up. Or we do everything that is really impossible and we remain alive. There s one more basic thing that I think that people outside of Israel must realize ..and if they understand and accept that ..maybe other things will fall into place. For instance ..we re not ..only People in ..world who ve had difficulties with neighbours ..that has happened to many. We are ..only country in ..world whose neighbors do not say ..We are going to war because we want a certain piece of land from Israel ..or waterways or anything of that kind. We re ..only People in ..world where our neighbours openly announce they just won t have us here. And they will not give up fighting and they will not give up war as long as we remain alive. Here. So this is ..crux of ..problem ..it isn’t anything concrete that they want from us. That s why it doesn’t make sense when people say ..Give up this and give up ..other place. Give up ..Golan Heights ..for instance. What happened when we were not on ..Golan Heights. We were not on ..Golan Heights before 1967 ..and for 19 years ..Syria had guns up there and shot at our agricultural settlements below. We were not on ..Golan Heights. So what ..if we give up ..Golan Heights ..they will stop shooting? We were not in ..Suez Canal when ..war started. It s because Egypt and Syria and ..other Arab countries refuse to acquiesce to our existence. Therefore there can be no compromise. They say we must be dead. And we say we want to be alive. Between life and death ..I don t know of a compromise. And that s why we have no choice.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- I remember some time ago, as I began my journey toward attempting to comprehend what it was that The Holocaust became. I recall quite clearly the stated position of European Jewry, latterly, was to have no choice whatsoever in what Hitler demanded for them. It was a well worded concern for the lack of choice afforded any Jew, initially in Poland, but then throughout Eastern and Western Europe. 12,000,000 or 13,000,000 Jews stood no chance against the voracious hatred Hitler sought to employ so as to devour these European Jews. His choice of Weltanschauung, was a necessity so as to conceal from the World, for as long as possible, the very tenets of The Final Solution being resolved within The Jewish Question. World War II was raged toward Hitler’s world dominion over as many nations and states as he could consume. Within that, there is not mistaking the pressure who put to bear upon ensuring the Jewish People were deliberately targeted for elimination, annihilation, slaughter, evisceration.

“..don t look so sad ..we have a secret weapon in our battle against ..Arabs. ..we have no place else to go.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- I recognise that Golda. In fact! I have long identified the dire position of the Jews would have been more commensurately stable, even safer, had Israel been in place to afford these 6,000,000 Jews a Homeland. The security of tenure, and the safety of their own State protection might not have saved the 6,000,000 but even 1,000’s, a handful or maybe even ONE would have been a push back against Hitler. In all of this, I fully realise the precarious nature of the Jewish postion as it has presented itself now for more than 75 years. With their backs to the Sea, the Jews of Israel, with every arab state confronting them on every level of fear, terror and the horror that they have not quite escaped Hitler’s reach, compels ethics and a moral duty to support Israel’s Jews their hopes for life and living.

“..A story once went ..rounds of Israel to effect that Ben-Gurion described me as ..only man in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he or whoever invented ..story ..thought that this was ..greatest compliment that could be paid to a Woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was ..only woman in ..government!”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- Perhaps Mr. Ben-Gurion recognised your formidable capacity to lead and in his way failed to see the strength in Women in general. It is apparent from much that History fails to acknowledge and it is that Women have been cheated out of their 50% representation in the World, and by Men, whose intellect has shrunk its position to a subservience to a prejudice of long standing. Imagine though, if you had been the only Wo’Man’ to have confronted Hitler and urged him more forcefully to:

“..Let My People Go.”

you would have stood head and shoulders above those many men who sat back down so as to slink away from their moral duty to act compassionately. Back then, and while the scream of the Jews should have raised every piece of human decency from its low lying state, the World stood idly by and becam a witness to the most horrendous atrocity ever compliled and pitched against human beings. All of this because those human beings were your People Golda, a fact that has not escaped those who would hate with the same vehemence to this day.

“..Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- I am amazed to see you have seen a funnier side to the discourse around were Women are expected to reside. Under the weight of man’s incapacity to deal equally with both People and situations, we have had genocides to compel us toward change. It remains a fact that Women are equally aware of the needs for humanity to prosper, culture to reign and civilisation to master the singular effects that aggressors bring to bear. I se your words Golda to reason much that mankind has failed in.

“..Whether Women are better than men I cannot say ..but I can say they are certainly no worse.” Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- There is quite a famous lyrich which composes itself so well alongde this and if only we give Peace a Chance, Men and Women in this World will see a 50/50 benefit in securing all future hope. I can barely imagine how you must feel when so much of what my effort proposes can be so easily dismissed. Perhaps it is because I am not a Jew, and no-Jews see me interfering in things which only Jews should be concerned with. But Israel, the lands of your forefathers, The Promised Land stood between 6,000,000 Jews and safety. Do you wrestle with such a certainty.

“..separated from you by a sea of blood and continents heaped with corpses.”  Golda  Meir  Myerson.

PD:- That is all too true, and as the ash of 6,000,000 Jews has become the layer and strata of which we walk upon in Europe, we must never fail Always to Remember, Never to Forget. Of course the clamour for ever more effort upon the part of the allies to do more, resist more, save more fell upon deaf ears. Is there anything differently, specifically more targetted that you would have urged more resolutely than has been acceded to?

“..undertake bombing of Oswienzim and railway transporting Jews.”  Golda ‘Meir’ Myerson.

PD:- It has become very distasteful to negotiate through all that was progressed against the Jews and recognise that in such a request, all too many have been quick to suggest:

‘..The Jewish World Did Not Request They Bomb The Rail Lines To Auschwitz Nor Birkenau.’

We know that in such a blatant attempt to conceal the truth, they place further accusation upon the Jewish People, threatening that the onus is on them to save themselves. So let me concede in this, that as a Jew you have more of an insight into the trauma of Jewish existence. Even after The Holocaust the terrifying reality that sees abandonment and intolerance afforded these Jewish People is heavily matched by an indifference that is so rampant. As such, any of these accusations is a disgusting spectacle which confronts our very humanity still. I can do no more than any non-Jew can attempt, and no matter the years of struggle contemplating the impossibility of comprehending your loss, I will never conclude with a satisfactory understanding.



We Who Choose to Learn

Uncategorised Posted on Tue, November 07, 2023 12:37:16

On October 4th. 1943 “..I am referring to ..evacuation of ..Jews ..annihilation of ..Jewish people. ..Jewish people is going to be annihilated. ..our programme ..elimination of ..Jews ..annihilation ..we will take care of it. ..Most of you must know what it means to see 100 corpses ..500 ..1,000. To have stuck this out ..to have kept our integrity ..that is what has made us hard.”  Heinrich Himmler.

The Holocaust is not just about the Jewish People but as much about why WE allowed for such hatred toward them to persist and which penetrated every moral fibre of accultured states and civilised nations. When I first recalled reading this oration and listening to Himmler detailing exactly what Hitler had proposed, it is startling such language can be used by human against Beings of the Human Race. His recorded voice rose with ever such a level of hatred, its vehemence is calculated to violent extremes. For me today, having purposely written on Babi-Yar, it is relevant to all People who must matter when the nature of such hatred propels People toward extinction. It is patently obvious that without hatred there would have been no Babi-Yar and 33,771 more Kiev Jews. As a consequence of Hitler’s overall personal enmity and hatred toward the Jewish People, 6,000,000 Jews are no longer extending their lives alongside us. For those murderers like Blobel, who fully experimented with killing Jews, no extreme method was not considered, nor implemented. The horrors inflicted upon the Jewish People, simply for being Jews, amplifies Hitler’s own hate and enables those like Blobel, whose lust for vicious brutality, was realised.

On September 21st. 1939.  ..I refer to ..conference held in Berlin today and once more point out that ..planned overall measures final aim are to be kept strictly secret so as to facilitate subsequent measures.”  Reinhard Heydrich.

Let us be clear here and no Jew, who is Murdered as a consequence of Hitler’s hatred for them is to become exempted from the term, The Holocaust. The term itself, coined from the tenets of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, fully confines them. Here, and if we moved slightly back in time, and if we are to take The Wannsee Conference, January 20th. 1942 as merely the prelude to The Final Solution, then the Jewish Question will remain unanswered. The Massacre of 33,771 of Kiev’s Jews at Babi-Yar, between September 29th. 1941 and September 30th. 1941, are these Jews not just a constituent part of the overall atrocity as those to emerge post Wannsee. Prior to which the killing operations of der Einsatzgruppe, the founding bedrock upon which the Death Camp is built, cannot be outside the initial demand from Hitler. 

“..Leni Riefenstahl ..rushed into ..office of Major General Langhauser ..chief intelligence officer. She had seen 22 Jews shot and could not continue work.” Gerald Reitlinger.

The 3 month period prior to this Massacre at Babi-Yar, and indeed the subsequent 3 month period after these Jews were so ruthlessly destroyed, none of this can be bargained with. When Leni Riefenstahl filmed the mass Murder of 20 Jews on two separate occasions, on two dates at Konskie, September 4th. 1939 and September 12th. 1939, and she then had dinner later with Hitler in Konskie Castle, was the Film for them two only. Needless to say, their bedtime chat would not have failed to be a partial focus upon Hitler’s end game for Polish, European and World Jewry. Perhaps too, when we look to the conversation with Hitler back in 1922, and when this was related to Josef Hell, this was uttered with a very hopeful Hitler who would derive great satisfaction in delivering upon his forecast:

“..Once I really am in power ..my first ..foremost task will be ..annihilation of ..Jews. As soon as I have ..power to do so ..I will have gallows built in rows ..at ..Marienplatz in Munich ..as many as traffic allows. ..Jews will be hanged indiscriminately ..they will remain hanging until they stink ..they will hang there as long as ..principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied ..next batch will be strung up ..and so on down ..line ..until ..last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit ..precisely in this fashion ..until all Germany has been ..cleansed of Jews.” Adolf Hitler.

And going back further still, in the infamous letter to Herr Gemlich in 1919, Hitler must have been considering his own political platform on which to stand. It is clear that the use of a scapegoat to victimise, the Jewish People presented themselves. For more than 2,000 years, the Jews were centre stage with being labelled for hate, and the countless assaults upon them. In this, Hitler gaining power, and using that position to annihilate all of European Jewry would adopt and adapt this age old hatred, The Greatest Hatred, to deliver himself to power and then ensure that power confronted an enemy he had so deliberately engineered for targeting. Why then is all of this evidence not important enough to see Hitler for the rancid hater he truly was. It is ever so evident that Hitler did not shrink away from his particular brand of hatred, voiced his penchant for destroying the Jews and enacted his proposal.

“..An antisemitism based on reason ..however ..must lead to systematic legal combating and elimination of ..privileges of ..Jews ..that which distinguishes ..Jews from ..other aliens who live among us an Aliens Law. ..ultimate objective of such legislation must ..however ..be ..irrevocable removal of ..Jews in general.” Adolf Hitler.

For me, and during practically the whole of World War II, and while there is much to credit Churchill with, he too knew full well the very base nature of the Hitler beast. In that, there is also much that was servicing the demands of the Nazis as they did not shirk their adherence to Hitler’s demands, when it came to the Jews of Europe, inhuman behaviour was presented upon the World stage. The Jewish struggle and their eventual destruction became subordinated to Hitler’s political will and resolve. All of which was accepted, and what became The Holocaust Slaughter of 6,000,000 Jewish People was recognised by the political elite in the World, as it commenced. Time will present us with the deliberate effort of these leaders to leave Hitler to his plans for the Jewish People, a resolve which trashed the culture in civilisation into oblivion.

“..In wartime ..truth is so precious ..that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Winston Churchill.

The truth is, when the very role of these 6 Death Camps in Poland, and the mobile killing operation of der Einsatzgruppe was known to Churchill through Allied Intelligence, Heaven and Earth should have been moved to mitigate somehow such a destructive effort. The very abandonment of the Jews of Europe should not have been so clearly ignored, unless it was the fact that it was directed against the Jews. What Churchill, Roosevelt and even Stalin came to know, what they all chose to do was throw a ring around this truth, and thus prevent the burgeoning truth of the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jewish People, Men, Women and Their Children from more completely reaching the people of the World. This consensus then condemned 6,000,000 Jews of Europe to annihilation with the ring of lies and deceit, the obfuscation, the concentration on the war effort, all directly nullified the lives of the Jewish People to a spectator sport.

“..I fought with greater ardour when I learned what ..Germans were doing to ..Jews. ..I ..read somewhere ..Churchill ..Stalin ..Roosevelt warned ..Germans because of it. ..there is information that Germans are killing ..Jews in occupied territories. ..I knew it. ..I arrived ..in Kiev in 1944. I found our neighbour who told me how she saw them off ..told me everything to ..smallest detail. That is why I hate ..Germans to this day. I began hating ..Germans. I did everything against them. I was taking revenge on them. If I had ..opportunity I would drop ..atomic bomb on them ..and I would not have any pity. In Kiev ..in Babi Yar ..on September 29th. 1941 were shot ..my  Mother ..Father ..Grandfather ..my Mother s Sister in Law and many relations. When I came to Kiev I found out that our janitor and his son were arrested later for cooperating with ..Germans ..that my Cousin was turned in by this janitor and was shot. And there were many cases like that.” Abram Galko.

The ravages of the incumbent Nazi atrocity, as it became recognised as The Final Solution, gave the World the later term that we now know as The Holocaust of The Jewish Question. Prior to this monstrous event, which was not only a Catastrophe for 6,000,000 Jewish People, but it signalled a decline in World Humanity, a downward spiral which has not been halted since. Surely it is incumbent upon each of us, who seek to belong to the very humanity of the World race, to recognise in the grave wrongs done against the Jewish People, our own inhumanity. It is not just a contrived hatred, nor an intervention by us as non-Jews, who ensured this totality of disgrace for all of humanity, that we stand before the mantle of historical judgement accused of the evillest deeds ever imaged or enacted against innocent People.

“..As of August 1941 ..mass murder of Jewish Men ..Women ..Children in the Sixth Army area was organized increasingly in the form of a division-of-labor cooperation between ..Wehrmacht and ..SS.  Hans Safrian.

This fact, and purely because these happen to be Jewish People, acknowledges the search brought to bear to ensure it was the Jews who were sought out from us for oblivion. Even the very act of War, guided by Science, even described as an art form, governed by convention, descended deep into the pit, the trench and the abyss to assist in this human cull of Jewish life. In all of this, and the ramifications for human existence are widespread, the assault upon the integrity of the Jewish People has proven a learning ground for what Genocide is to become. We have allowed for excess, and the atrocity it brought to bear upon 6,000,000 Jews was to spill over into the everyday existence of people on this planet ever since.

“..January 1942 they resumed ..crusades against ..Jews. What is this persecuted ..pitiful tribe guilty of. Personally ..I always felt myself to be an internationalist ..I was always one. And now I am forced to realize that I am a Jew. When will all people be equal ..and everyone understand that he is a human being ..not an Aryan ..Slav ..or Jew.” Nehama Vaisman.

Within such parameters as I have, there is a timeline which guides me through the concerns for all of the Jews of The Holocaust. I remember back to when I started on this journey and realised, there can be no definitive figure which would allow us to appreciate the overall loss to the Jews of Europe. For that reason, I was careful never to omit from my own study of research that even one Jew omitted from the overall Catastrophe would negate every reason for ensuring Always to Remember, Never to Forget. So I have double checked the statistics afforded to History and recognised in the greater assessment, a need to ensure we remember every single Jew lost in this catastrophe. This too is very much a concern which begins even with Hitler’s birth, as any Jew murdered as a consequence of Hitler’s hatred, must be counted in the overall tally of destruction. I know this assertion has angered many, but it is essential we appreciate that:

“..first and foremost perpetrator was Adolf Hitler. ..without him it would have been inconceivable.” Raul Hilberg.

So for me, I am comfortable with every constituent part of The Holocaust which confronts both the intolerances and the indifference from all of us. During the full period until Hitler’s death, any Jew murdered should be included in those very terms which consumed in excess of 6,000,000 Jews of Europe. Though there are dates, which clearly occur after his precipitate demise, the destruction of any Jew remains a factor in the lessons which breech those boundaries. Do we simply then ignore these following dates because they remain outside what history so far recognises. These dates are adjacent to the very terms of The Holocaust, and we merely look to those who were absorbed in the perpetration of these crimes.

“..I just couldn’t sleep. I would hear cries as I lay in bed at night sometimes I was lying on ..ground and they were shooting straight at me ..in ..chest or in ..back of ..neck.  That nightmare pursued me ..something between dream and reality ..and I would jump up with ..cries of thousands of dying People ringing in my ears.” Anatoly Kuznetsov.

To then see the continued growth of The Greatest Hatred, that is being visited upon Jews to this very day, we must recognise our inadequate effort to have supported greater the Jews who had been living in Europe before they were exterminated. In 1946, and with the Jewish Massacre of 42 Polish Jewish Survivors in Kielce, Poland, this surely is a direct line back to when more than 3,000 Polish Jews were destroyed within Poland itself. Then when we arrive at 1948, and the Birth of Israel, the arab world was present to attempt the very eradication many of their own people attempted to ensure joining Hitler’s Waffen SS. Between 1960 and 1962, with the capture, trial and hanging of Adolf Eichmann, that detail of Jewish destruction now goes back to 1938. The evidence then, of the very destruction of the Jews, was opened to a far wider audience and that reality, which now began to dawn upon an awakened World, makes us more readily appreciate, and it should, what was allowed to happen.

“..at ..reunion ..Austria with ..German Reich ..Heydrich gave ..order ..set ..Jewish emigration in motion from Vienna.” Adolf Eichmann.

However we may and are conveyed to recognise that the rhetoric that lead to what Hitler considered for Jewish existence would lead to Jewish extermination. There has to be a fuller acceptance, that by the very hate for any or all Jewish existence during Hitler’s reign, this represents Hitler’s clear escalation of intention to the growing tenets for The Final Solution. This properly stated, we must always acknowledge that any implementation of the Jewish Question is the confinement of those Jews contained within what we now recognise is The Holocaust. We have no reason not to accept this and no reason whatsoever to allow the dilution of the term which has fully been devised to contain and detain 6,000,000 souls who are Jews.

“..strength of our own feeling ..it was necessary to underscore ..fact ..1,500,000 Jews waged war against Nazi Germany ..we intend to establish a monument commemorating ..Jewish soldiers who fought with ..Allied Forces’ armies.” Yitzhak Arad.

Though the murderous efforts raged against the Jews today do not attribute to the study of The Holocaust, they form a narrative that is consistent with all the intentions for distorting the facts of The Final Solution. In those distortions have been the deliberate attempts to pour scorn of the levels of destruction faced by all Jews everywhere they were assailed. For me, it is how best we must counter the levels of acceptance which leave countless 1,000’s of Jews behind. Such then is the Jewish loss, that dependent upon History is holding truthfully to all they were put through. Of course we cannot undo the lessons we must learn from so as to allow for the same levels of hatred against the Jews we are forever experiencing. I point to my 4th. Book, and just as there is no reliable evidence to prove my assertion that 884,700 Jews were Slaughtered at Hitler’s Belzec, I am concerned enough to ensure we explore every avenue of research to provide every evidence that is presented.

“..conclusion that 1,800,000 Jews had indeed been transported into Belzec and deposited there.” Eustachy Ukrainski. (Hitler’s Belzec)

All too often, the evidence based testimony of so many is being sidelined in such a way that the Jews who were Slaughtered are given a lesser status in their own destruction. All things are certainly slanted against the Jewish People and in every view which seeks to present the awful nature of this Catastrophe, the Jews pay for that annihilation more than 6,000,000 times over. There is no reason therefore, to accept such a baseless, arbitrary, and even those very conservative estimates which reside considerably lower than what should be the accepted assessment. Despite so many evidences, from the local Mayor and as here stated from the local Headteacher, there are as many as 1,800,000 Jews who are consigned to Kozielsk Hill. Fully established, and that this proof is to then be practically obliterated by the efforts of Blobel’s SK 1005, the obliteration of the crime does not conceal the facts of them.

“..Recognition of ..truth ..whole truth and opening ones heart and sharing ..experiences is necessary to stop ..evil ..to gel rid of ..aggression ..hate and ..prejudice. To convey ..Auschwitz truth is a great lesson. ”  Halina Birenbaum.

I aim to amplify my own objection to hatred using more words from far more credible sources than I am able to become. Halina Birenbaum knew all that it is I wish to glean from this past to present to today exactly what the future must hold tightest to. Halina forced herself to leave her home Country of Poland to escape the exacting nature of the hatred which had already consumed more than 3,000,000 of Polish Jewry. From all I have researched and learned, I use what lessons I have gained from The Holocaust to further my opposition to all and any form of hatred. I know exactly why the Jewish Survivor is entitled to use their vehemence to whatever degree gives them Peace. I would Never dream of suggesting the Jewish Survivor’s right, nor indeed any Jews right, to whatever feelings they direct toward any other people. There are communities, states and individual people who abjectly failed the Jews of Europe, and no suggestion as to condemnation should be other than their own.

“..Quiet, quiet my son, let us speak softly,

Here grow the graves

Which they that hate planted.

Here are the paths.

The roads lead to Ponar,

There is no way back.

Father has gone, never to return,

And with him the light.

Quiet my son, my treasure.

Let us not cry in pain.

In any case, we have wept;

The enemy does not understand.

The sea has limits and a shore –

This, our suffering

Is limitless,

Is endless.” Shmerke Kaczerginski.

So when I suggest any level of appeasing the call for any form of retribution, it is a personal declaration drawn from my own very limited hold upon the impact The Holocaust has upon Jewish persistence. It is an opinion that is mine and I hold back from imposing it upon any Survivor Jew, nor their descendants. I do try and restrain my own vehemence from impacting the necessary words I use toward Remembrance though. I decide whose opinion best fits the narrative of The Holocaust, and which I choose best Remembers the 6,000,000 Jews so ritually, habitually Slaughtered. This certainly does not allow for the demeaning of anyone, least of all those Jews I can call Friend. And to be clear on this fact, there are too many likeminded and Hitlerite antisemites who still seek the same level of hatred for the Jews. That which consumed, too readily, these 6,000,000 Jews of Europe could all too easily have consumed those of us who would not cow down to the barbarism of hatred that was obvious, and shown.

“..whole extent of ..Jewish persecutions ..number of 6,000,000 victims of ..extermination camps ..only ..verified after ..war.”  Father Robert Leiber.

It is pertinent too to recognise that during World War II, and within America, there were Japanese Americans who were incarcerated into detention camps. Whether it is chosen to call them camps for concentration of the detainees, it is not in the least a comparison to the Nazi Concentration Camps, and Never Ever The Death Camps erected in Poland. There is simply No comparison. But I will not fail to recognise such parallel’s as will affront, assail, and assault those of my Friends who are confronted by the same denigration of their person. I have spent 30 years writing my Books, affording the 6,000,000 Jews my unrelenting and personal demand to Remember them. My Books do Not belong to those who would choose to belittle anyone who suffered what was intended for them. Nor for those who could not endure what 6,000,000 Jews succumbed to, we must speak up for the intolerable indifference this displays.

“..Mine is a nation that remembers. However onerous ..burden of memory ..we may not avoid it ..without memory there can be neither culture nor conscience.” Ehud Barak.

We are here for Memory, drawn to it by the atrocious horror inflicted upon 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews. These Jews deserve nothing less than our recognition of the gravest wrong ever inflicted upon a People for being who they were born to be. There is also far too much that serviced the demands of the Nazis when it came to the Jews of Europe. The Jewish struggle and their eventual destruction became subordinate to a World’s political will which accepted what became The Holocaust Slaughter of 6,000,000 Jewish People. The truth is. The very role of these 6 Death Camps in Poland, and the mobile killing operation of der Einsatzgruppe was known to much of allied intelligence. What was chosen not to do, and whether that was the decision not to act against what The Final Solution meant, time has thrown a ring around this truth, and thus prevents it more completely from reaching the World stage.

“..decided that of 3,000 Einsatzgruppe they were aware of ..just 24 ..highest ranking commanders would be indicted simply because there was not enough room in ..dock.” Benjamin Berell Ferencz.

This silence, church, state, political representatives are thus complicit in the condemning of the 6,000,000 Jews of Europe to annihilation. The failure to measurably present the necessary form of Justice essential to reminding us all of the immensity of the catastrophe. The ring of lies and deceit, the obfuscation, the concentration on the war effort, all nullified the Jewish People to a spectator sport. As we travel throughout the period of what impacted the hate for the Jews, we realise that in all of Europe, no Country, barring Denmark, stood with any moral efficacy in standing in defence of their Jewish Community. From start to finish, and even beyond, the influence of Hitler’s hatred was allowed to emerge from the rhetoric of hate to the implementation of The Holocaust. The Greatest Hatred then went above and beyond what had ever impacted upon the Jewish People and in all of History, no such precedent had been established.

“ ..When I stand before you here ..Judges of Israel ..to lead ..Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann ..I am not standing alone. With me are 6,000,000 accusers. But they cannot rise to their feet and point an accusing finger towards him who sits in ..glass booth and cry ..I accuse. For their ashes are piled up on ..hills of Auschwitz and ..fields of Treblinka ..and are strewn in ..forests of Poland. Their graves are scattered throughout ..length and breadth of Europe. Their blood cries out ..but their voice is not heard. Therefore I will be their spokesman and in their name I will unfold ..awesome indictment.”  Gideon Hausner.



In Other Words

Uncategorised Posted on Thu, October 05, 2023 16:08:11

“..Those who have not lived through .. experience will never know ..those who have will never tell ..not really ..not completely.” Elie Wiesel.

I cannot even begin to comprehend what those like Elie Wiesel went through, and through our communication, I declined to ask him that question. For me, the depth of support necessary for me to broaden out the breadth of search for understanding is in my commitment in Always to Remember, Never to Forget. This search for me is more necessary for 6,000,000 very good reasons, all of whom are Jewish. It occurred to me, as I came away from each of the 6 Death Camps that Hitler had erected in Poland, that I had felt something strange, unknown, even spiritual, a belonging of sorts. By my last visit, I had not wished to return to Poland, for varying reasons, least of all the exhausting impact each visit had upon me.

“..We travelled by train in 3rd. class passenger coaches ..arrived early in ..morning at another camp ..Belsen. ..We had never heard this name before and had no idea what it was like.  ..as soon as we marched into ..camp ..we could see that it was even larger than Westerbork ..and much worse.  ..barbed wire ..guard towers ..electrified fences ..SS ..with bloodhounds ..machine guns ..searchlights. ..a real concentration camp.” Paul Oppenheimer.

But! I had fulfilled my promise to a Jewish Survivor who had simply suggested I visit, the Death Camp he had left, Belsen. I was disinclined to even suggest that I had seriously focused the need to present only 6 Camps, which exemplified the criteria set aside for the systematic, mechanised and industrial Slaughter each Death Camp was designed for. The ramifications for me have been immense, while attempting to hold true to this clear understanding. It then emerged that many Polish Survivor’s, communicated their strongly held belief that Poland, and the gentile Poles hated them. I could never accept in such sweeping terms, such generalisations that would condemn more people than necessary to the accusation of a hatred for their fellow man.

“..Bitterness ..pain fill ..Children’s recollections of those poles who hunted them ..betrayed them ..handed them to ..common enemy ..of cruelties perpetrated by other children ..of every human ignominy. ..there are few such testimonies ..reason ..simple ..painful ..children ..are not here to record their stories.” Maria Hochberg-Marianska.

In that, I could not in all honesty, accept that all Poles hated the Jews even when it was apparent many Polish Jewish Survivors felt this so profoundly, and expressed it coherently. I decided to go back to Poland to visit those Museum’s and their Curator’s to see for myself if such a profound bias, bigotry and hatred as antisemitism is, would the government of the day within Poland allow for the unvarnished truth to be on display within such institutions as were dependent upon Polish government sponsorship, and even tolerance. It was of little  consequence to the Polish Jewish Survivor that I was helped to get to Sobibor by a Polish Lady, a Lady who proved a great person. Also! I was assisted on my return from Belzec by another Polish Lady who proved equally a generous soul. Even though these were just two Polish People who sought to afford me assistance, and proved their human traits, this could not answer for what the Survivor truly held a belief in.

“..I didn’t want to go back to Poland. Poles were killing a lot of Jews who returned to claim property ..homes ..other possessions. My Parents were dead. There was nothing to go back to.”  Bianca Lerner.

Bianca’s Father had been Murdered in a Ghetto while her Mother was transported away from her and was Gassed within Treblinka, and quite literally, there was nothing to go back to. Nothing was left of Family, really. Nothing was to be allowed to be reclaimed from those who stole from the destroyed Jews, of their former Neighbours. Matched to what I was learning however, there were occasions where Poles either were being obstructive, once misdirecting me toward Treblinka, or were completely ignorant of the role they played within the Polish infrastructure of travel. On another occasion a coach driver, who left me stranded on the wrong side of Belzec, when his Coach clearly passed the front gates to this Death Camp, left me with a long trek through knee high snow and minus 18 degrees of cold. But all things considered, the Poles I spoke to and with proved friendly and listened to me about my work. Most of these Poles knew of the depth of Polish wrongs, which their government were seeking to set aside, and the level of anti-Jewish feeling that had permeated their Country, before, during and even after Hitler’s forces had relinquished their hold upon their Polish territory.

“..attitude of ..non Jewish population ..almost all Poles ..was hateful. They rejoiced at our misfortune ..enriched themselves with Jewish property.” Betzalel Papial.

The demand to hold tightly to what had not belonged to them, and deprive more than 3,000,000 Polish Jews a right to what should be passed down, leaves an indelible stain upon the morality and ethical well being of the state and its People. Bias, even antisemitic bigotry, could not dissuade many from this next generation away from the truth that hatred is so pervasive, it infects as it infests the well being of entire nations. I have found from certainty from what Elie Wiesel declares, and that while not all victims were Jews, All Jews Were Victims. For myself, I would add to that to ensure, and that remains a given in my search within my research, that while not all Poles are guilty, Not All Poles Are Innocent. Also, and we need not just insinuate our accusation to know of the persistence of the Polish Pogroms against Polish Jewry. It is unedifying to attempt to defend the indefensible. My journey began with 4 year old Tovah ‘Tokele’ Olshak, Murdered in Sokoly by gentile poles on February 17th. 1945, along with 6 other Jewish Survivors murdered by locals, Tokele, is included in these shameful murders.

 “..When ..Poles saw how ..soldiers were victimising us they piled on ..too. ..a German guard was marching me ..some other men to ..nail factory. ..a Polish boy ran up ..stabbed me in ..hand.” William Schiff.

Remember, this is even after the Reich’s killers had left and this situation for Polish Jewry was repeated all too often too followed on July 4th. 1946 when 42 of Kielce’s Surviving Jews were murdered by local Poles. Can this be considered post Holocaust, and not allowing for them to join with the more than 18,042 of their fellow Jews of Kielce who were murdered. In total, and so as to satiate the same Hitler hatred, these Jews of Kielce are as the other Jews of Kielce, Murdered within the same framework as Hitler demanded. I always bear this in mind when we think we know what we must need to know in relating facts to the integrity of those People we apply them to! In this, and while we cannot be certain that only 6,000,000 Jews were consumed, we can be practically be certain that such is their number, lost, concealed within the detail of such an account, human beings perpetrated the worst crimes ever contemplated upon an innocent People, purely because of their Jewish heritage. That all said, we must acknowledge that far in excess of that number of 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews is a more highly probable prospect. We deny this very fact at a cost to loss, and to all of those who have been consumed, particularly as we search for that rightful need for learning, the integrity of their truth binds us to them more certainly.

“..I was trying very hard to obtain statistical material about ..Jews ..found out that at ..beginning of ..War there had been about 15,000,000 Jews in ..whole world. ..6,000,000 Jews ..murdered ..meant a proportion of 40%.” SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl.

Clearly, while we know that, on Sunday December 7th. 1941 Chelmno opens its murderous operations, and some of Kolo’s Jews were first to be extinguished, they are murdered and are dead here. So on December 8th. 1941, when what remained of these 700 Kolo Jews, who were eventually gassed at Chelmno, this was all accomplished alongside 2,300 of their fellow Jews, also brought to the doors of the Schloss and murdered. This equates to more than 3,000 Jews Murdered on just that day alone. On subsequent days, like December 10th. 1941, we are also aware that 1,757 Jews of Turek were Murdered at Chelmno. On January 16th. 1942, and with the first resettlement of 10,000 Jews from Lodz brought to Chelmno for resettlement there, what now begins is the resettlement of all of Lodz Jews and those Jews from the areas surrounding this Polish City, and the Villages and Shtetl’s once vibrant with Polish Jewry.

“..Germans seized ..Vilna ..80,000 Jews lived there. ..Sonderkommando was set up at 12 Vilenskaia Street ..under ..Schweineberg and Martin Weiss. ..broke into ..Jewish houses ..dragged away ..men ..herded them into certain buildings near ..village of Panarai about eight kilometres from Vilna. ..hardly one returned.” Abram Gerzevitch Sutzkever.

When we arrive at an historic milestone in The Holocaust narrative, on January 20th. 1942, and The Wannsee Conference is convened, The Final Solution had already extinguished the lives of vast numbers of Jews. We simply travel back to September 29th. and 30th. 1941, and to 33,771 Jews of Kiev who are no more, to add implicitly to the terms of The Holocaust. Here too, we can be certain Hitler has already been fully appraised of The Final Solution of more than 1,000,000 Slaughtered Jews at the hands of der Einsatzgruppe. With that certainty, and with Chelmno feasting upon the Jews from the surrounding areas, that consumption rose to the tune of more than 300 Slaughtered Jews every hour, we can calculate a summary that rethinks what we are supposed to know. With this, we surely must mean that some 120,000 Polish Jews having already been gassed here at Chelmno, are additional to what Hitler’s conference was convened to complete.

“..When this black hell broke down on a bend ..they ran away on all fours ..yellow like smoked.”   Tadeusz Wojtczak.

Such testimony as can be verified, by those like Tadeusz Wojtczak concerning Chelmno, must be recognised for the pertinence. The inefficiency of many statements, regarding both the numerical atrocity, and their human implications, must ensure the stricter adherence to dates, which do not allow for all atrocity perpetrated against the Jews of Europe, must be corrected. When all of these killings, in the Black Gassing Vans of Chelmno, are added to the more voracious approach of the Einsatz aktion killing squads spreading out across the length and breadth of Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States, we can be both certain the starting point to The Holocaust is even prior to these, and even before The Wannsee Conference is allowed to stake a claim on its hold over the commencement of the Catastrophe for European Jewry.

“..At ..beginning of May 1942 SS Oberfuhrer Brack from ..Fuhrer’s chancellery suddenly came to Lublin. With Globocnik he discussed resuming ..extermination of ..Jews. Globocnik said he had too few people to carry out this programme. Brack stated that ..euthanasia programme had stopped and that ..people from T4 would from now on be detailed to him on a regular basis so that ..decisions taken at ..Wannsee conference could be implemented. As it appeared that it would not be possible for ..Einsatzgruppe to clear individual areas of Jews and ..people in ..large Ghettos of Warsaw and Lemberg by shooting them ..decision had been taken to set up 2 further extermination camps which would be ready by August 1st. 1942 ..Treblinka and Sobibor. ..large scale ‘Vernichtungsaktion’ extermination programme ..due to start on August 1st. 1942.” SS Untersturmfuhrer Josef Oberhauser.

When all assaults and destruction of the Jewish People, and I would include any Jew Murdered as a consequence of Hitler’s rabid hatred, even back to 1932, when these are all added together, we reach a far more formative figure than the World seemingly will allow for. With 11,293,300 Jews still be be progressed through the annihilation machinery, as the Wannsee Conference would suggest, all too many different assessments of how many Jews are present for Hitler to target are raised, and they ar in error of the facts. When we then arrive at how many Jews of Europe were still actually available to Hitler for The Final Solution at the beginning of 1942, and remained to be resettled after the auspices of Wannsee had consigned them, how many Jews are to be annihilated on top of those already consumed within the hatred.

“..groups from other towns converged in Budapest and joined forces . From among themselves they selected typically Aryan looking men who equipped themselves with false papers and ..joined .. Hungarian SS. These spies were then able to warn of impending persecution and raids.” Bruno Bettelheim.

When the tide had fully turned then, and Hitler’s 1,000 year Reich was to be consigned to History, but one Jewish Community remained intact, virtuall, Hungarian Jewry. When we look to what the World failed to achieve, and they could so easily have bombed the transports capability to deliver Hungarian Jewry to Birkenau, we recognise the futility in suggesting reasons other than apathy and indifference plagued the World. Then, as we are left with the impression of what humanity is capable of in the form of Count Folke Bernadotte, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Country of Denmark, Varian Fry, Carl Lutz, Oscar Schindler, Chiune Sugihara, Raoul Wallenberg and Nicholas Winton, the grief over 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews grows exponentially. While these are barely a few names of those who shame this World for its inactivity in saving just one more Jew from the Slaughter, if but 6 million individuals had but saved ONE Jew each, how many of those 6,000,000 Individual Jews would not be our loss.

“..wicked flee when no one pursues but ..righteous are bold as a lion.” Proverbs 28:1

I have learned from a past steeped in my catholic upbringing, and from learning how best to behave, and by virtue of that very fact, how not to misbehave. I hold not a single belief system. I do not adhere to any other credentials but what is moral and ethical. I know my failings. I know I have had to come through those to become what I consider, considerate. In her letter to Pope Pius XI, Edith Stein pleaded her case for saving the Jewish People from what she recognised was both immoral and unchristian. Her words fell upon deaf ears and the silence of the catholic church, while Catholics acted individually, is telling. Even as a collective in a Monastery or Convent suggests that such a mere depreciation of humanity’s values have proved an unethical response. To such an immense Catastrophe as The Holocaust has become, the church’s silence does not act in response to any christ like demand.

“..As a child of ..Jewish people who ..by ..grace of God ..for ..past 11 years has also been a child of ..Catholic Church ..I dare to speak to ..Father of Christianity about that which oppresses 1,000,000’s of Germans. For weeks we have seen deeds perpetrated in Germany which mock any sense of justice and humanity ..not to mention love of neighbour. For years ..leaders of National Socialism have been preaching hatred of ..Jews. But ..responsibility must fall ..after all ..on those who brought them to this point and it also falls on those who keep silent in ..face of such happenings. Everything that happened and continues to happen on a daily basis originates with a government that calls itself  ‘Christian.’ For weeks not only Jews but also 1,000’s of faithful Catholics in Germany ..and ..I believe ..all over ..world ..have been waiting and hoping for ..Church of Christ to raise its voice to put a stop to this abuse of Christ’s name.” Edith Stein.

So please forgive what may seem flippant in my commentary upon belief and their systems, and in response to some, I summarised my own refusal to belief as such. What did conversion achieve for any Jew, least of all  Edith Stein. Edit Stein pleaded with the then pope, pius xi, to at least intervene or issue a command to save the Jews. Edith Stein was Murdered, none the less, as a Jew but was still given a sainthood so as to reclaim her. Edith Stein was identified as a Jew but was an abandoned Jew by the church she professed to belong to. Her Murder remains confronting to a complicit church whose failure in The Final Solution, led an ever-increasing number of Jews to resolve for Hitler, The Jewish Question.

“..How abysmally asleep is a conscience when it must be aroused to be told there is something morally wrong about pressing candy upon a little boy to induce him to enter a gas chamber of death.” Michael Musmanno.

Even without the inducement of candy, without the sliver of hope which a slice of Bread can seduce, Jewish Children and Jewish Adults were force fed the Mobile and Static Gas Chambers at Belzec, Birkenau, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. Here, in both versions of the gassing apparatus, whether static or mobile gassing facilities, the Jewish People were forced to cling to the last ounce of oxygen they could. With sheer brutality at times, and without any sense conscience at all times, moral efficacies were sidelined in favour of the destruction of the Jewish People, no matter how it was achieved. While Poland looked on at such close quarters, and as the World stood by in a chosen isolation, so ended the lives of countless 1,000,000’s of Jewish People, 6,000,000 of which has become the representative number.

“.. It was perfectly clear to me that this order spelled death to 1,000,000 s of people. I said to Eichmann ..God grant that our enemies never have ..opportunity of doing ..same to ..German people ..Eichmann told me not to be sentimental ..it was an order of ..Fuhrer’s and would have to be carried out.” SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Dieter Wisliceny.

And this is the point of bargaining we reach with the Survivor, in asking them to accept their loss is but a number we cannot be certain of. We also ask them politely, and for our benefit, a demand that these Jews hear all too constantly, so as to tell us more of what terrors the horror of what they have been forced to live through can inform us. In essence, such was that life of existence, it was a death the Jewish Survivor emerged from so that a morsel of what they clearly knows and haunts them, should and must testify for us. These Jews, whose very Survival marks them as extraordinary human beings, does not always work in their favour. While they already cannot forget what we insist they remind us of, and the tragedy that befell their People stalks them, we allow for the horror to be ever present, without respite, even though their minds ability will not let go of their trauma. We, on the other hand, are always insisting there is more for us to know, and the truth is there is much more that we are set to become the witnesses to.

“..Those masses who were brought here from all over occupied Europe and were not annihilated upon arrival ..found themselves in a universe parallel to ours today ..with its scientists and laborers ..believers and non-believers ..theoreticians and artists ..poets and merchants ..rich and poor ..ignorant and learned ..speaking all languages and practicing all trades. In this place one witnessed an antinomian ingathering of ..exiled. Death in gas chambers replaced Redemption.” Elie Wiesel.

As you stand outside the Death Camps, or alongside these places of extinction, what the Jews encountered, those who entered these spaces, where intentionally they were met with what could not be endured, we seek their return to such memories. For those outside, who witnessed the very terms to what was the extermination they could not hide from, they remained passive, even unconcerned as these being Slaughtered were just Jews. For that reason of bias, bigotry or sheer hatred alone, each of the 6 Death Camps in Poland places a marker where conscience and concern was abandoned. In one place in particular, I stood on a ground were more than 1,100,000 Jews alone were consumed, and as I pointed out to a Survivor I had just become acquainted with, there still Was Smoke Over Birkenau. This though was from the forest of leaves and the detritus of Autumn, merely being set alight. But it was a pointer, a poignant moment which added to the disbelief that so much could have happened to so many Jews in such a small place of confinement. In comparison to such numbers as these, one cannot begin to imagine the relative size of any City which could be required to detain them all.

“ ..For a variety of reasons ..women s situation was a good deal worse than that of ..men ..physical endurance ..coupled with work more arduous and degrading ..agonies of disrupted families ..and ..haunting presence of ..crematoria ..located right in ..middle of ..women s camp ..inescapable ..undeniable ..ungodly smoke rising ..to contaminate every day ..every night ..every moment of respite or illusion ..every dream and timorous hope.”  Primo Levi.

Any human concern that was supposed to be Worldwide was abrogated to such silence as reached all of Polish Jewry. When the wider European Jewish Family was so comprehensively, loudly and more fully extinguished, this was not achieved in silence, it was not conducted in a vacuum. The ramparts where once 1,000,000’s of Jews stood, where emptiness filled the line which awaited ever more Jews, and with gasses or smoke billowing from the backs of Vans or tall towers, or from open pits, the congesting of the surrounding air billowed with the scent of Jewish decay. From the rotting corpses of discarded Jewish life, thrown so recklessly into pits to decompose the memory of what they suffered, no sense of outrage from Polish communities. However, quick was their response so as to exploit such savagery as these grave robbers of Poland became invested in tainting further the despoiled history of Poland.

“..1941  ..At 6:00 in ..morning ..awoken from a deep sleep. Report for an execution. Fine ..so I’ll just play executioner and then gravedigger ..why not? 23 had to be shot ..amongst them 2 women. ..We had to find a suitable spot to shoot and bury them. After a few minutes we found a place. ..death candidates assembled with shovels to dig their own graves. Two of them were weeping. ..others certainly have incredible courage. ..Strange ..I am completely unmoved. No pity ..nothing. That’s ..way it is and then it’s all over. ..Valuables ..watches ..money ..put into a pile. ..2 women are lined up at one end of ..grave ready to be shot first. ..As ..women walked to ..grave they were completely composed. They turned around. Six of us had to shoot them. ..job ..assigned thus ..three at ..heart ..three at ..head. I took ..heart. ..shots were fired and ..brains whizzed through ..air. Two in ..head is too much. They almost tear it off. ..a few bodies ..rearranged with a pickaxe. ..I came back dog tired.”  SS Hauptscharfuhrer Felix Landau.



The Child in The Holocaust

Uncategorised Posted on Wed, September 06, 2023 17:08:21
            The Child in The Holocaust.

“..If this Book should contain just 1,500,000 words ..it would never come close enough to ..form of our detestation to register for ..Jewish Children’s loss.” Patrick Dempsey.

This then is my latest Book on The Holocaust theme, and has been screaming out at me ever since I was introduced to Tovah Olshak.
For Tokele, this 4 year old Jewish Girl, whose life was so treacherously cut short, has cornered my attention for so long, it feels that I personally know her, and seemingly very well. To our utter shame, we People who acclaim our humanity, when Survival had all but been secured for this Child, amongst the Survivors of Sokoly, Tovah suffered from that same hatred Hitler witnessed from within Poland. For the grave loss that is these 1,500,000 Jewish Children, who are just like Tovah, their lives too were forfeit to Hitler’s rancid and febrile nature. Hitler’s mind was so warped by such a hatred, he would even abandon even those most ardent of his follower’s who were to suffer for doing so much he had demanded of them.

“..Children are not ..People of tomorrow ..but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect ..as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. ..unknown person inside each of them is ..Hope for ..Future.” Januscz Korczak.

Sadly, there was this persistent argument that was sought to distance the murderous act from the Jewish Children, but the slaughter itself all about the Jewish Child, and for whom we know:

“..rest of ..women ..children ..old people ..700 of them ..taken to ..wooden barn. ..forced inside. ..Nazis opened gasoline cans ..spread gas all around ..barn ..and set it on fire. Flames soon gutted ..entire structure.” Yehuda Adelman.

        They Should have been saved, 

“..After my Mother was Murdered ..I was deported together with my Father to Transnistria. We have spent many weeks on a penal trek of sorts. For days we have been slogging along roads deep in mud ..a lengthy convoy surrounded by Romanian and Ukrainian soldiers who flog and shoot at us. Father holds my hand tight ..my feet no longer touch ..ground. ..sound of ..water slices at my legs and my hips. It’s dark all around ..apart from Father’s hand I don’t feel a thing. Truth to tell ..I don’t feel his hand either ..since my hand is already partly numb. If I move just a little I’ll surely drown. Even Father won’t be able to pull me out. Lots of Children have already drowned this way. I fall asleep ..still clutching his hand. But not for long. While the sky is still dark ..soldiers light up ..convoy with sniping and gunfire. Father holds my hand and tugs me. ..mud is deep and I can’t feel ..bottom. I’m still half asleep and tremendously afraid. It hurts. I call out. Father hears my call and answers at once.” Aharon Appelfeld.

        They Could have been saved, and 

“..first victims were ..Jewish Children ..and I shall never forget ..harrowing scenes and ..blood curdling incidents when ..ss men ..cruelly attacked Children. ..Even today ..cries ..shrieking of those Children are clear in my mind.” Adolf Berman.

        The Final Solution ensured that they Would not be saved.

“..pure myth ..Jews ..merely passive. ..Jews fought back ..to a degree no other community anywhere ..would have been capable of. ..they fought against hunger ..starvation ..disease ..a deadly Nazi economic blockade. They fought against murderers and ..traitors within their own ranks ..and ..were utterly alone in their fight. ..forsaken by God and ..man ..surrounded by hatred or indifference. ..there was much heroism ..little beauty ..much toil ..suffering ..no glamour. We fought back on every front ..biological ..economic ..propaganda ..cultural ..with every weapon ..possessed. In ..end ..ruse ..deception ..cunning beyond anything ..world had ever ..seen ..accomplished what hunger ..disease ..terror ..treachery ..could not. What defeated us ..Jewry’s unconquerable optimism ..eternal faith in ..goodness of man ..even a German ..a Nazi ..could never have ..renounced ..own humanity as to murder women ..’children’ coldly ..systematically. ..when we finally took up arms ..we inscribed in ..book of history epic of ..Ghetto Uprising.” Michal Berg.

There is this continuing myth, that such were the protestations of the nazis and the nazi killers also, that the Jewish Children would be spared such as their Parents were delivered onto. Eventually though, the veil of such hypocrisy slipped and all of this, a mere proposition which such hatred, as was cancerous within Hitler’s very being, would not allow for any Jew, Young, Small, Tiny or a Babe in Arms, to survive. True, many Nazis and their collaborators balked at the thought of killing Children. But the very idea that the Jewish Child should not be treated as all Jews were to be discarded and with disdain, certainly with disregard and with total contempt, this was merely a feigned illusion of supposed human behaviour. Its inhumane outlet was to see both Parents, other Adults and all the Children crammed together and assailed and then murdered.

“.. Korczak’s Children did not romp ..on ..manicured lawns ..but languished in ..dark slums of Warsaw. He set up orphanages ..lived his life among Children in real life ..not just in imagination ..for he saw them as ..salvation of ..world.” Betty Jean Lifton.

All of which was etched into such a killer mindset, that all of this was to be easily dismissed by the perpetrators in favour of the total Slaughter of even the smallest Jewish Child . No Jew would ever escape both Hitler’s attention from their certain isolation, and inevitably their complete evisceration and destruction was guaranteed. This reality for the awakening Jews to such a prospect could not fail to see every effort Hitler’s legions made was including the mass murder of 1,500,000 of their Jewish Children. It has become all too evident, and recognised widely, that for so many Hitler apologists, the Jewish Child was to be somehow spared, if but initially. For these miscreants then, who continually sought to remove the Jewish Children of all of Europe from Hitler’s Worldview, it is as distasteful as it is completely untrue.

“..How calm was this Woman ..perhaps just a lit­tle younger than me in ..middle of unparalleled uproar and ..general anxiety in ..hospital. When it became clear ..heads would leave ..hospital ..Dr. Rotstein did not hesitate and took everything under her control. ..Children walked by themselves ..with only some of them being carried away in arms. Adult patients were usually transported on stretchers. This was horrible ..incomparably more horrible than a procession of healthy people walking towards their demise.” Dr. Henryk Makower.

It is evident that with Hitler’s Weltanschauung, he saw both a wide expanse of territory for his own realm and a broadening of his erstwhile goal. This multi layered effort, a Lebensraum that would run alongside The Final Solution, was to ensure all lands would become totally devoid of all and any Jewish presence. This most certainly did not preclude the Jewish Children from being considered an otherwise threatned body. So let me remind them, those with blinkered souls, biased and bigoted ideas and blinded minds, their defence of anything Hitler envisaged is savagely wrong. The very fact is certain, and that no Jew could be left alive who could, should and even would avenge what was done to the Jewish Hopes and Dreams of the Jewish People living freely amongst the nations and peoples of Europe they had previously adopted.

“..I was in Auschwitz. 1,000’s were killed there. ..a law and had to be done ..SS camp leader Schwartzhuber said at ..instructional session. ..They said there must be gassings. ..necessary to exterminate ..Jews. When we asked ..women ..children too. ..everything Hitler did was law.” SS Rottenfuhrer Stefan Baretzki.

It is a tragic reality that for all Jews, who were finally removed from the reality of civilised existence, and with their lineage and persistence wholly destroyed, there was no alternative view. Escape had never truly been an open door and as the noose tightened around them within Europe, the World was engaged in a spectacle that saw the birth of what Genocide fully came to mean. Even for those history seekers who measure this with the Madagaskar Plan, must see there was futility in Hitler even suggesting such an attempt. To move more than 11,000,000 or 12,000,000 Jewish People to this malaria infested island could never have been logistically managed while a Hitlerite Worldview was being anticipated. While the Jewish Family’s were set upon a path then, with their total life force being wasted on the whim of a lunatic, the Jews of Europe were summoned by law and decree, and they simply complied. Even as a killing operation was presented to them, which levied its extreme brutality upon every Jew, we see no variance in the vicious and vile treatment for any Jew, even despite their youthful age.

“..Perhaps I will be invited to participate in building a new order in ..world ..or in Poland.” Januscz Korczak.

Everyone of the Jews under attack, now lay beyond the bounds of a humanity being discarded, and the integrity of the entire Jewish Community was to be laid to waste. Sadly too, and for all of those just like Januscz, he was not allowed to live long enough to even see a World order, let alone a Poland that would invite those like him to remain or return, because he and they were Jews. Here though, while the Jewish Child would face the full force of what Hitler demanded for all of the Jews of Europe, any World order was being decapitated. I would take you back for an instant, and into the space of a few square kilometres that are The Warsaw Ghetto. Here, there were crammed, crushed, and essentially forcefully dying Jews, who were Jews who somehow thrived on all of this carnage with competing aims. For some of these, and like all the Jews ever to have existed, Family was a major focus that could be maintained right up to the gates of the Death Camps or even alongside the ridges of those Killing Sites reserved for them all. Despite having been immersed in such scenery as has been presented to us, it is impossible ever to come to terms with what these Jews and their Children became a witness to, and a testimony they could never bring forth.

“..Dr. Rotstein received called number of life and could attempt to rescue herself. Instead ..she voluntarily entered ..wagon with her patients considering it her duty to do so.” Dr. Adolf Polisiuk.

Here too, and not solely within this the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto, but in every single containment space registered as the Ghettos within Poland, there were many Jews who doggedly catered for many 1,000,000’s of their fellow Jews. For each Jew, who was isolated from the reality of their former existence, they fell back into the depths of a squalor they had not envisaged. But here in the Polish capitol, there was the largest congregation of Polish Jewry that was to be incarcerated. Here, as throughout Jewish existence, it was an essential concern as to how best to nurture and to protect the Child, and their Children. Now, more and more Jewish Children were placed in the care of those Elders, and Pedagogues like Januscz who would be charged with their protection. For the survival of any of these Jewish Children, we have much to be thankful for, with more than 5,000 years of Jewish dependence upon Family, and those values which bonded them so closely to each other. Sadly too, this had as its counter point, the very fact that the complete evisceration of the Jewish People, as Community from so many places, would be total and complete for all too many established Jewish enclaves throughout Eastern Europe especially.

“..Part of ..trolleys and rails originated from ..sawmill that bordered ..Sobibor camp. Additional trolleys and rails arrived by train from Trawniki. ..locomotive of this train came later ..about two months after ..trolley was in operation. At ..beginning horses pulled ..trolleys. ..trolley was ..to transport ..sick ..handicapped Jews from ..arriving trains to Camp lll. ..these people ..handicapped and sick children ..particularly infants ..taken to ..Lazarett ..were shot by those serving in Camp lll. ..known ..Lazarett was used ..for ..extermination of ..people.” SS Oberscharfuhrer Hermann Erich Bauer.

As Jewish Parents died, or were killed, as more and more Jews headed toward the ramparts for resettlement transports, many of their Children were left behind and filled the streets. It seemed necessary to heap more and more anguish upon the Jewish People by separating their Family line, though every effort was made to ensure the wholesale slaughter of all within the Family unit would ensure no legacy would be left behind. Even then, and after the Jewish Children’s Homes could literally take no more, and the Judenrate had no space left to allocate to them, the beseeching cries of beleaguered, starving and traumatized Jewish Children, rendered the air of this, and all other Ghettos with pleas, protestations and tears voluminous with the ravages of hunger and the mounting pain anguish of not knowing what was approaching but what was seemingly a disaster awaiting them around every corner. There was the hue of such an immense desperation, and which would only be fully quelled within the Gas Chambers of places like Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Birkenau. This was certainly true for the many 100’s of 1,000’s of those Jews being gradually removed away from the Warsaw Ghetto enroute toward Malkinia. For these Jews in the main, who took everything of value with them, and most especially for the Parents, it was to be their Children who would be alongside them and consigned to an eternity together.

“..We shot women as if they had been cattle. ..a large quarry where 10,000 men ..women ..children were shot. They were still lying in ..quarry. We drove out on purpose to see it. It was ..most bestial thing I ever saw.” Lieutenant General Fritz von Broich.

Here, like Januscz Korczak or Dr. Halina Rotstein, and I have no wish to exclude anyone from this roster of human compassion, we recognise all that civilisation presents is being eroded and then erased. For all of those Jews who did not allow for their charges to be abandoned, it is for us to reassure the world that not only should they be remembered, they should be recounted as the best of us. Indeed, for those Jews especially, who entered the wagons together with those they were charged to care for, and from the many places just like Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz, for these now enroute to Treblinka, or from the many places earmarked for the embarkation of Jews toward the Death Camps and the East, their heroism is exemplified. We sit in awe at what a human being can achieve knowing we too have an obligation to this past, so as to ensure their lesson is well taught, it is learned, and we must learn from it. It has never been enough for me to become a witness to what we allowed to happen to 6,000,000 Jews, and especially to all those 6,000,000 Jews who were Slaughtered, but we must assess the entire loss as it matters to us as it confronts our own humanity.

“..Each person carries an entire world within himself ..and everything exists twice: once ..way it is ..other ..way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.” Januscz Korczak.



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“..Each individual was a world in himself ..unique in his aspirations ..feelings ..hopes ..his past obliterated ..his future cut off at ..roots. Each and every one deserves his place in posterity ..just as he deserves a grave and a tombstone of his own. ..book mentions only a few and we pray that this book will serve as a communal monument for those who have been inadvertently passed over without mention.” Avraham Levite.

Memory is always important to that vibrancy in any History which links us to the past we seek to earn from. Everything I write is personal to me and matters more than 6,000,000 Jewish lives ever proved to matter to the World! As a writer on The Holocaust,  I have been enabled to process my own grief, through recognising the immensity of a grief I have yet to comprehend. In a World that proved so intolerable for 6,000,000 Jews who were removed from it. Also, and I’ve learned this from the sense of that very loss I have encountered time and time again, that to learn of the Jewish suffering is in part to own their loss. For me, and so as to add further to such an incomprehensible atrocity, I do not choose to write on that part of my own past which has so impacted me, personally. So I am here exclusively, to remember these 6,000,000 Jews and in particular within the pages of my work, words and Books.

“..In my opinion ..Jewish People were neglected by ..first requirement of their heritage ..their Religion ..and betrayed by ..racial intolerance and human indifference within Man.” Patrick Dempsey.

My latest Book couldn’t be more important to me as it relates such devastating a loss that rendered 1,500,000 of the Jewish Children superfluous to our own humanity. While there are others of my own Family to remind me of our combined loss, I am mindful of the deeper penetration of loss that reaches the Jews of this World. For these Jews, and more consequentially for Their Children written about here, who now is left to remember them. True! As a Jewish collective, the Jews remember there was once a great more Jewish People in the World and for whose grief we must share. The Jews of today must require from us to share with those who see in The Holocaust all that must matter to humanity. As a State too, Israel recalls the burden of that huge and immeasurable loss that has not weighted as heavily upon a world as it should have done. 

“..Someone who was not there could never really grasp how unreal ..situation was.” Benjamin Berell Ferencz.

In a  World which oversaw the dark shadow of such expressed hatred as has consumed these Jews, newer expression of our remorse is sought. For much that I acclaim, there are parts of my very being carefully written into each page of the words in all and any of these books, works and their effort. It is through each and every Book I have written that I truly consider that they are my works for the loss of the 6,000,000 Jews who were so cruelly taken. For that very reason, we are morally obliged to remember them all with more than a vague recollection of whay they were so lethally destroyed. I have detailed within each of my works what I consider is a sincere effort to deliver what I feel 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews have long deserved, apolgy in memory. That they are deprived of all that becomes necessary, in much of their memory that is forever lost to us, we must dig ever more deeply for the barest traces of who they are and what they must have left to us.

“..There are some works you have to return to ..to reprise ..essential necessity of what has been written and what requires an evidenced gain from a futures proof. For me ..to even to attempt to appreciate ..calm dignity of those who Survived ..I aim to ensure nothing I have said has caused such offence as to be somewhat spoiled in my effort.” Patrick Dempsey.

For me, there is also an anger, and though this has to be somewhat subdued, as it must and should not detract from that essential in remembering them all through their bitter strucggles with the rancid nature angered with hatred. What I aim to achieve, and what remains hidden beneath that more important effort, is in always allowing my effort to further add to their memory. This also sees in my own inner conflict a very grave need to know the why’s and the wherefores of how and why all of this was allowed to happen. While I attempt to barely conceal the rage, I am certain as I allow a prominent grief to inflict its loss upon me, upon more of us, I will not read other works without that sense of despair converting others thoughts into my own words. This all then adds to ensure that those destroyed Jews have a reminder for the future that is not removed from us entirely.

“..I built a physical site for visitors ..which tells and presents ..history of The Holocaust. I expanded ..education and research of ..subject and laid ..foundations for making ..place a world center for commemorating ..memory of The Holocaust and its heritage. ..Despite years of lack of diplomatic relations with ..countries of ..Communist bloc in Eastern Europe ..I have been able to establish working relations with archives in these countries and obtain 100’s of 1,000’s of documents relating to The Holocaust there.” Dr. Yitzhak Arad.

My major effort has always been, as I have researched, and as I have trawled so many other works, that intricate search is for more of what is still missing. There is still within me the hope that I can find even one more name that would be otherwise stay lost or be forgotten. So as to be added to what we may already know, to ensure some of what might yet be forgotten, this is a demand I place upon myself in my search that fills my World with images I cannot, not own. I have thought long and hard about this effort in my first Book’s title, and as I explored the Testimony and recognised there was approaching this Fading Memory in the Holocaust. I was talking to a Survivor at the beginning of my journey and recognised in his words, ‘We are fast approaching our own passing’, and knew we owed more to their importance and than just the recognition and urgent testimony to that fading memory they were facing.

“..my own first Book should have been forming merely ..initial chapter in ..delivery of my continuing and accusing narrative to ..Catastrophe.” Patrick Dempsey.

We are all too soon losing even more access to all of those Survivor’s we will never know, and even from all of those who knew them, there is this urgency to recall some if any of the lessons they left to us. What is certain too, and in any of my books, is the fact that they contain my words and they cannot be distorted. Nor can they be edited away from their intention to record the digust humanity must still show for what 6,000,000 Jews were forced to deal with. Not one iota of my effort for these Jewish People can be removed from an emphasis I have truly placed upon my own efforts for them. The words I have truthfully written into The Holocaust pages will remain forever to posterity as they were always intended. The words I will continue to write will then remain in truth as a catalyst to the integrity which history fully demands.  

“..pure myth ..Jews ..merely passive. ..Jews fought back ..to a degree no other community anywhere ..would have been capable of. ..they fought against hunger ..starvation ..disease ..a deadly Nazi economic blockade. They fought against murderers and ..traitors ..and ..were utterly alone in their fight. ..forsaken by God and ..man ..surrounded by hatred or indifference. ..there was much heroism ..little beauty ..much toil ..suffering ..no glamour. We fought back on every front ..biological ..economic ..propaganda ..cultural ..with every weapon ..possessed. In ..end ..ruse ..deception ..cunning beyond anything ..world had ever ..seen ..accomplished what hunger ..disease ..terror ..treachery ..could not. What defeated us ..Jewry’s unconquerable optimism ..eternal faith in ..goodness of man ..even a German ..a Nazi ..could never have ..renounced ..own humanity as to murder women ..’children’ coldly ..systematically. ..when we finally took up arms ..we inscribed in ..book of history epic of ..Ghetto Uprising.” Michal Berg.

Indeed, and nor can the intention of my works be lessened by others whose accusations rouse the neglect they infect all of history with. I understand the tenure and tenor of their often times vitriolic protestations of works solely dedicated to the Jewish loss. However, I do not deny the weight of a global loss, nor do I stand aside from those who might seek to distort even that. And for some, that effort I am deeply assigned to see’s so many to this day who are somehow fed by that same hatred which consigned the Jews toward oblivion. All of this mounts to my growing demand for those I accuse to bear witness to all truth which is neither tainted by denial nor distorted by bias or hatred. In fact, there is no room for such hatred as its invalid status has proven. The hatred has not yet been fully consumed destroying these Jews of Europe as it still flourishes amongst people and nations who seek to continually gain.

“..The Holocaust ..which ..World should clearly recognise is ..most unique ..unparalleled and unprecedented assault upon any People ..and that this World has ever known ..was waged on a People because they are a Jewish People.” Patrick Dempsey.

Tragically, genocide’s continue that have learned the wrong lessons of what 6,000,000 Jews could not survive. I have no personal axe to grind, other than in conducting myself with concern for all that humanity has lost. It quite amazes me that some, in a search for their own distortion, will accuse the very truth I bring to my own words. For some the truth is unnecessary so they accuse my words of being somehow contrived or in some way contrary to all that truthful intention must deliver. In particular, for those words I have given over to those Books I have already delivered, they stand in all honesty as a truth to a witnessed testimony to all of those who afforded us their vacant space for us to fill with words. My own accusations not withstanding, my words then are aimed first and foremost at those who are the culprits, the perpetrators and the participators in all that was achieved.

“..circumstances of my present life ..impossibility of reaching a large library ..loss of my own books have made me dependent upon notes and ..memory. Both ..supplementary reading and..research demanded by ..very laws of ..craft ..have been denied me.”  Marc Bloch.

For those, who stood along the wings of the gravest tragedy ever to be inflicted upon a group of People, and purely because they were a Jewish People, I add to the library of grief. For those who did nothing to prevent what was done, those of nations or corrupted states, they too are terminally damnable. It was always my essential, that for the 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews of The Holocaust I would raise my voice. That this is understood, realised and repeatedly conveyed forms the essential my words hope to deliver. I understand fully, that at times I am too easy to distract, more particularly when corresponding on media or internet platforms. In assuming those who ask the questions, that they suggest they are searching for exactly what I seek, the correct answers I deliver are not always what they want from my work.

“..I thought I had learned of what I needed to know ..so as to write this 1st. Book which would be on ..A Child of The Holocaust ..it should be based clearly on what I knew ..World knew.” Patrick Dempsey.

As I give the exact same truthful answers, and they are always truthfully delivered and are never untruthful, I will not sway from what matters. However, once the questions have been asked, and as I find myself responding to what does not matter to my search, let alone to these Jews I speak of and for, the Jewish Child required more and more of the time I would need to deliver for them. I know all too well that there are efforts to detract from what is my aim, to make 6,000,000 works or words possible to add to a missing evidence for 6,000,000 ritually Slaughtered Jews. These Jewish People, taken too liberally from all existence, have us as an accused for such a shameful indifference that is yet to be measured more fully. While it became evident that it was not yet possible for me to write on other than The Holocaust as a whole, the idea for that first book on the Child of The Holocaust would have to wait.

“..first victims were ..Jewish Children ..and I shall never forget ..harrowing scenes and ..blood curdling incidents when ..ss men ..cruelly attacked Children. ..Even today ..cries ..shrieking of those Children are clear in my mind.” Adolf Berman.

What I had earlier sought was only ever to deliver what is within me to write and that position remains a delivery upon the factual truth that is its very integrity. As I was first given the image of the 4 year old Tovah ‘Tokele’ Olshak, which presented itself to me in my search for a literary output, how could I then pass by and not relay my concerns through those exact same words I would use for her, and not for her own community of these 6,000,000 Jews. In that deep tragedy for Tovah, who was never allowed to live so as to thrive, my emerging words on her behalf will now have to suffice for her loss to all she might have been. So I set out to research all that could be learned, and I realised much of what has been done in our name is as intolerable of humanity and intolerant of Tovah as indifference of the 6,000,000 has allowed for.

“..fact too is ..testimony of my actual 1st. Book ..2nd. ..3rd. ..4th. Books for those Jews who stood as Jews and were separated out ..incarcerated and destroyed for that very certainty.” Patrick Dempsey.

When I was first introduced to the Survivor, who we are fast running out of, and as their first hand evidence will fade and disappear, we will lose ever more of the truth we seek. This too is the basis of my first book on the Testimony and Fading Memory in The Holocaust I realised was being lost. It was an undertaking then for me to ensure that what I presented was accurate, factually true and holding with the very testimony each and every Survivor would recognise. Tragically too, and running concurrent with the faded distance between then and now, there is an ever present intention by too many, to distance us from the entire truth. Fuller memory is essential, and in each of my books there is no opportunity for any forgetfulness in this search. Words make lines in paragraphs which add to chapters of meaning and that meaning has consistently resigned itself to the fact that not much is being learned from the words to teach.

“..That there has been and is being considered in Hitler’s headquarters a plan to exterminate all Jews from Germany and German controlled areas in Europe after they have been concentrated in ..East. ..numbers involved is said to be between 3,500,000 and 4,000,000 and ..object to permanently settle ..Jewish Question in Europe.” Dr. Gerhart Riegner.

Of course, there are the doubters, the deniers and the distorters who do not buy what it is I have to say. Nor in fact do they read my works and all the while they are criticising them continually. For 6,000,000 reasons, those who are thus critical without understanding the truth I deliver, they must first recognise what truth ensures. In not one of my books can distortion present itself and my works are not to be altered and they cannot be altered nor corrected for obvious reasons. The debt owed to 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews is the fixed notice which presents the reader with nothing other than that very certainty. I am sure I have often stated, and while I have presented many of the facts that are known to History, I have installed a resilience in the memory for 6,000,000 Jews that has me written across it.

“..The Holocaust strands of atrocity which was exacted in front of them ..there is an accusation which is not fully measured by ..sheer weight of loss of these 6,000,000 annihilated Jews of Europe.” Patrick Dempsey.

I have much to gain from my writing and it is with an understanding of what matters in all life and what must be accomplished to secure for all of that life which must matter. With this my second book, der Einsatzgruppe and The Destruction of European Jewry, this book emerged from some of the detail in my first book. Everyone who has studied the full tenets of The Holocaust knows full well its leading term is The Final Solution. However, all too conveniently we allow for all too many, who are ignoring that very fact, that this was Hitler’s resolve for The Jewish Question and his will to do so as completely as he could. Also, and the reason for this second book is in the emergence of that one single and murderous goal which was the single minded and determined effort of his tawdry  existence. 

“..Up to 3,000 bodies were burned at a time. About 70,000 corpses were dug up. ..gas vans brought more corpses.” Senya Borisovich Berland.

What Hitler conducted within the field of expansionism, his Weltanschauung, was clearly identifiable so that The Holocaust would more fully come into being. It is to be recognised also that this was a murderous rampage raged by specially focused killing groups, which were in aktionen well ahead of the creation of the Death Camp system. All too frequently though, and by the endorsement of some and the suggestion of others, these mass murders have become somewhat subjugated to the meaning given over to a more static effort. For the Jews in the Death Camps, we look to this premise of separation as it is suggested, to recognise details in The Holocaust. Though we must accept, and so as to allow for any untruthful suggestion that The Final Solution had not long commenced, even when Chelmno came into operation.

“..To hurt a fellow human being ..to have ..capacity to inflict pain upon another person is a terrible indictment which we have inflicted upon mankind.” Patrick Dempsey.

In the mean time, paper’s were filed and memos criss crossed the Reich filling Hitler and hundred’s of the higher echelons of his administration and military, with what was being achieved against the Jewish People. It is still true that other’s fell, who were killed and were murdered but these were outside the remit I seek to recognise as The Jewish Question. As the Wehrmacht drove deeper into neutral territories, nations betrayed their own Jewish Community and in no way ameliorated the treatment meted out to those not on der Einsatzgruppe’s kill list. Also, and there are still many who seek to signal, that with the gradual emergence of the Death Camp system, along with what Hitler’s Einsatz legions were achieving, that this too was a starting date for the overall atrocity that is The Holocaust.

“..I am awake to ..prospect that was denied ..Jews of The Holocaust to find sanctuary ..find allies or at least ..weapons necessary to fight ..common evil of Hitler’s Reich.” Patrick Dempsey.

Regrettably, with the emergence of the Chelmno Death Camp, this would exclude in excess of 1,000,000 already Destroyed Jews from the tentacles of the annihilation intended for them. In such a case, this would be excluding those numbers from being included in the overall assessment that is the overall tragedy that became The Holocaust, particularly prior to The Wannsee Conference. With  this lack of an incremental appreciation of the course of these events, is it not fair to be true, and even as Chelmno was now in operation gassing Kolo’s Jews, can we ever be irresponsible enough not to include such losses. Also, added to this burgeoning assessment is the huge losses of those Jews of the Ghetto, who had been assigned to death through starvation, assault and brutal murder. Each of these converging aktionen, adding always to the overall assessment still to be made, and even after that fact, we must ensure the inclusion of all Jews Slaughtered as a result of Hitler’s rabid hatred, are equally recorded. 

“..I also needed to inform those Jews who Survived ..that a non-Jew would spend ..time to inform ..accuse and research well what intolerable atrocity’s these 6,000,000 People faced ..simply for being Jews.” Patrick Dempsey.

An evidence which saw more than these 1,000,000 already executed Jews, in both Chelmno and by der Einsatzgruppe, all added to the emergence of Hitler’s resolve and the escalating terms of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question.  All other c onsiderations must add more deliberately to what becomes entered into this realm of The Holocaust period. The proposal, that with the conducting of The Wannsee Conference, this signalled the commencement of The Holocaust itself. However, this failed suggestion is incorrectly broached, and is a complete smoke screen to divert attention away from those Jews already being murdered, killed and allowed to die and by whom. This I suggest will only detract from the fuller truth which Slaughtered ever more Jews prior to such contentions, as themed at Wannsee, and even by der Einsatz operations. For me, this series of distractions is intentional, as I feel the presenting of this conference as the commencement date for The Final Solution, excludes ever more Jews from the terms of Hitler’s slaughter. This obfuscation, is also the premise by which too many seek to remove the very terms of The Final Solution away from Hitler’s Worldview.

“..after all these years ..Jewish Children would be clearly identified as from amongst ..1,500,000 Murdered Jewish Children of ..6,000,000 Jewish People ..who are The Holocaust.” Patrick Dempsey.

This aim of world domination, Hitler’s Weltanschauung, which began with Hitler’s deliberate  enactment of World War II, beginning on September 1st. 1939, ensured that Lebensraum, the necessary room to assail 3,650,000 Polish Jews became fully available to him. Initially, Poland was to prove the testing ground for this annihilation of Polish Jews, and eventually this would completely resolve, for the remainder of European Jewry, that this plan too would eventually follow them into extermination. There is always this confusing demand shrouding some elaborate search for a start date to Hitler’s plan for the Jewish People. Personally,  and I feel all of this is presented to disguise the fact that the massing of Murder toward the Jews of Europe was always in preparation, even prior to those initial steps with a gained power in 1932. That being the case however, and definitely since the Polish Invasion, perhaps more than 1,000,000 Jews are already brutally Murdered and Slaughtered even before World War II was fully in motion, in competing for that Worldview.

“..I do know that ..intention was to ensure NO Jew ..Male ..Female ..Child ..Infant or Baby would Survive ..tenets of die Endlosung der Judenfrage ..as Hitler had ordained them.” Patrick Dempsey.

This murderous effort against the Jews is all in accordance with Hitler’s parallel attempt in the World of war. This has all been linked by Hitler’s warped view of a World he demanded would be fully subjugated to his will. Then, and with a hatred for the Jews that would see both Jewish and World views as consequences to be crushed under foot of his design. With the formative Einsatz entering the field in 1939, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question was never to be limited to role to be played by the Death Camp System. The Wannsee Conference itself recognised this combined effort of mass destruction, and of its own role in adminsitering toward it. The Conference itself represents nothing other than the inveigling of all areas of the Reich in the full knowledge of what The Final Solution intended for all of European Jewry. In 1939, 1941 or even 1942 alone, and with each of  their corresponding dates, these alone cannot stand over The Holocaust as a de facto identification of the earliest role for Hitler’s resolve for the Jewish Question.

“..Perhaps I ought to go away from this Town which I loved above all else ..but which had become a tomb of all my memories ..from this country ..only one I knew ..which had turned into a vast cemetery inhabited by 1,000,000’s of unavenged ghosts.”  Janina Dawidowicz.

It is somewhat obvious that there is a contention in this, a seeming intention to then deny ever more Jews a space within the atrocity designated specifically for them. I recognise what those who intrude into World History appear all too keen to augment with obfuscation and confusion. Those who seek a distancing from ever more guilt cannot be allowed to deny the presence of the Jews who are resident within its troubling detail. But let us assure History, we will not forget what 3,000 mass Murderers of der Einsatzgruppe achieved, let alone the 10’s of 1,000’s who were the willing tools of the Camp system and the million’s of others whose pliability ensure 6,000,000 Jewish losses. But not just these, all of those with any ability that sponsored and promoted with the logistical assistance of the entire Reich, an assault upon the Jewish People which resulted in the carnage of a civilisation brought to its knees.

“..I want my work to have validity ..and I do not simply want to communicate ..condemnation ..of all that was done against ..Jewish People ..but I roundly condemn all those who perpetrated these crimes ..without us learning from ..process.” Patrick Dempsey.

We must include, alongside the bureaucracy of the Reich, the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS, Police Units and those locals in fullest collaboration, all of these who colluded in a combined killing force. Such force alone was totalling of over 90,000 or 100,000 personnel in all, who were detailed to commit the shootings, and killings, on the ground. So that my work does not stand alone as a connector between the rise of Hitler and the Destruction of over 6,000,000 Jewish People, I consider my accusation well. That said, it became clear, and from the midst of my 2nd. Book that there appeared an atrocity, within the fullest terms of The Holocaust itself, which stands out. From the depths of these deviant and apparent horrors, we venture toward the ravine that sits outside the Ukrainian City of Kiev. To my mind, the line toward destruction of 33,771 Kievan Jews marching towards their destruction is fixed firmly into my consciousness. 

“..On 7th. October.1941. In agreement with ..city military command ..all ..Jews of Kiev were ordered to appear at a certain place on Monday ..29 September ..by 6 o’clock. This order was publicized by posters all over ..town by members of ..newly organized Ukrainian militia. At ..same time ..oral information was passed that all ..Jews of Kiev would be moved to another place. In cooperations with ..HQ of EGC and 2 Kommandos of ..police regiment South ..Sonderkommando 4a executed 33,771 Jews on September 29 and 30.” Operational Situation Report.

That is what necessitated the essential need for me in the writing of my 3rd. Book, on Babi Yar-A Jewish Catastrophe. Such is the devastation that was evidenced here, with every affront to human decency and compassion delivered, a learning curve had become understood. In this singular atrocity, we are at once brought to the forefront of what other measures are sought for the overall horror soon to be inflicted upon the remainder of Jewish People and not just here in Kiev, or the Ukraine or the wider Russian Front, but throughout the whole of Europe. The sheer capacity to destroy an acknowledged 33,771 Jews of Kiev, and over a 2 day period, from September 29th. to September 30th. 1941, is the single most and concerted atrocity ever perpetrated during entirety of The Holocaust period. In its enactment alone, one man stands out as a mass murderer, and on such an industrial scale, that Paul Blobel is recorded as such and his role too is pivotal in leading and orchestrating the final effort to destroy what Jews there were that stood before him.

“..memory of what happened to 6,000,000 Jews ..1,500,000 of whom are Jewish Children ..has to resonate with purpose for everyone so as to ensure their loss is not forever in vain.” Patrick Dempsey.

Also, and toward the ending days of The Holocaust itself, as the realisation that Hitler’s Worldview would be shorter lived than his projected 1,000 year Reich, Blobel would return to seek to erase the evidences of what was a supposedly an idealistic undertaking. In that failed yet eventual endeavour of destroying every single Jew in Europe, the detailed assessment remains an atrocity that is beyond compare. Even though Blobel’s effort is etched into the destructive capacity of 33,771 Jews here at Babi Yar, and worse still, when we are at pains to consider what 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jewish lives must mean for all of humanity, we are confounded. There is a combined loss to civilisation too which has been gruesomely assigned to it, and that can never be measured by the human appreciation of what the societal norms must bring to civilisation.

“..From as early as 1933 ..with a view being gained to administer ..enemies of ..Reich ..and ..in 1935 ..Belsen came into view.” Patrick Dempsey.

Of course, and once the need then arrived, including here at Babi-Yar, and that the very effort to cover up the disgraceful deeds of a despicable crime were progressed, we unravel the criminality of such murderous deeds. When there then came the need to completely eviscerate all traces and evidences of what The Final Solution was, the subject Blobel arrived on the scene to disinter and cremate many 1,000,000’s of Jews from Killing Sites, and including the Death Camps. What is particularly specific here at Babi-Yar though is what Hitler was enabled to conceive of and would fully realise could be achieved. Given Hitler’s realm, and his oversight of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, it is astonishing at all that any of European Jewry finally managed to escape his hate filled intention. We surely owe credit to thsoe Jewish Survivors who not only managed to Survive, but they were clear in the need to deliver to all of History what can be achieved if hatred for our fellow man is not fully checked.

“..Belzec was born out of Kozielsk Hill and Hitler’s desperation to rid Europe of its Jews. This place was to be Hitler’s Endlosung.” Patrick Dempsey.

My 4th. Book is somewhat of an enigma, even to me as I had earlier sketched the outline of a book that was to be my fourth and sought out the advices of some in the arena of The Holocaust. The responses were mixed, though in earnest, and some even suggested I choose other routes. I looked deeply at what Elie Wiesel had remarked and put this work, an effort I had been engaged in for a couple of years on hold. It was only during my visits to The Death Camps, and Belzec in particular, that this eventual book appeared to me. When I finally sat down, especially after visiting Auschwitz and even Birkenau, and while there was a distaste for the promotion of both these Killing Centres as somewhat of a tourist attraction, I was confronted by Belzec as the forgotten sibling in the wilderness of the Death Camp apparel. Belzec alone, one of the smallest of these Death Camps by size, produced an astonishing destructive rate against Galician Jewry, and the wider European Jews, that its mention cannot be ever consigned to a mere footnote.

“..construction of ..6 Death Camps in Poland ..Belzec ..Birkenau ..Chelmno ..Majdanek ..Sobibor and Treblinka ..we recognise their spaces in ..fuller analysis of annihilation process.” Patrick Dempsey.

Alongside this concern, and while there was this ongoing debate raging in Poland, and concerning Poland’s position within The Holocaust, and with regard to these Death Camp’s in Poland, I sought to measure the Jewish loss and deliver it back to Hitler’s ownership. The established system of all 6 Death Camps, and with their very placement upon Polish soil, has irked the Polish consciousness toward a fundamental denial of what was achieved upon Polish soil. For all of these exacting reasons, my 4th. Book was conceived and full ownership to Hitler’s demand places Belzec, and with rightful ownership to Hitler himself. Belzec shines an illuminating light so as to try and pierce the greater darkness that is recognised in such an organised, mechanised and industrial scale operation toward Jewish annihilation. All too many distortions has sought to deny, doubt and even evacuate Hitler’s presence within The Holocaust, let alone The Death Camp system. While it is patently obvious, that Hitler was the director of his own calamity, the Death Camp system does not register Hitler alongside them, until now.

 “..destructive demand was on ..insistence of a decree we recognise is The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. As this played out across ..length and breadth of Continental Europe ..6,000,000 Jews were laid to waste.” Patrick Dempsey.

Hitler apparently, the dictator of all he surveyed it seemed was to remain but except that he would not appear to directing 6,000,000 Jews toward their eventual extermination. This was all very convenient, and in promoting the greatest mass murderer in all of history as an absentee, we were being forged toward a rehabilitation of Hitler’s position as the formative evil doer of all time. Then, and after my visit to Belzec, I was certain I had found a further recourse to serve the proper memory for even more Jews consigned to such inglorious places. I cannot forget here also, that the danger I was placed in, 40 minutes walking through 2 foot of snow, in minus 18 degrees, was a poignant reminder of the footsteps I was following in. I thought then of the Children being swallowed up, neck high by the Snow, and before being engulfed by the gas fumes awaiting them, that The Jewish Children in The Holocaust required my effort.

“..It is clear here that I speak highly of anyone who stands so much taller in ..midst of ..Catastrophe even when that personage is an SS ..as Kurt Gerstein was. In that assessment I have written of his position in my Book on Hitler’s Belzec.” Patrick Dempsey.

Belzec too consumed a part of me, and as I met its gates, this was as a ritual reminded me, and that I was somewhat relieved by a welcome knowledge that I would still walk back out of there. Tragically though, I knew that all too many Jews who had entered those gates, Their Children too, would never emerge again from such a space. Eventually then, and after piecing together my deep sense of their loss, the idea of marrying Hitler’s ownership of all he commanded to demand, and a near forgotten space steeped in the blood of 884,700 Jews and even more, this 4th. Book was brought forward. The evidence of the overall atrocity is unequivocal, and with it there is such an immense sense of loss, that there is a quite debilitating effort in recollecting the scale of the horror here. Nothing prepared me for what I met with at Belzec, and the huge sense of loss that is emotionally charged as it ust be, convinced me to find the words to add to the Jewish loss here.

“..Gerstein was a witness to and subsequently advanced to ..World what he knew of The Death Camp system ..particularly at Belzec and Treblinka.” Patrick Dempsey.

Here too, and what we must recognise in Hitler, and with his go forth and deliver motif, of what was a demand, Belzec is to paraphrase Hitler’s intention for the Jewish People, and all of this must be acknowledged. Then upon a World stage, Hitler required the industrialised processes of the extermination effort, to fully exact his total hatred for the Jewish People. All of these Hitler demands were driven on after 1939 and at Chelmno and then after with a more methodised, static and even standardised format in all the other 5 Death Camps. Hitler, it must be remembered, placed this effort against the duty he should have had for the German and Austrian people he sought to speak for. Toward the end of this organised and ritual slaughter, Hitler would waste the lives of countless other’s in achieving his ultimate aim in slaughterig as many Jews as was physically possible. Along with an escalated intensity for mass murder, in the form of places like Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka, the capacity too at the little killing space that is Belzec was erected, and all of these spaced added a greater record of the gassing of the Jewish People, and from within Poland.

“..My permanent motto stands for ..Jews of The Holocaust and for very good reason ..I ensure Always to Remember ..Never to Forget.” Patrick Dempsey.

While we begin to recognise today that at Auschwitz and even Birkenau, both these Camps now appear as somewhat vulgar reception centres for human visitor traffic. We see however, and in Belzec in particular, and even in all those other 4 Death Camps, an almost forgotten aspect of the slaughter that must never be minimised. We cannot become all too busy with certain aspects of The Holocaust so as to not know what had transpired elsewhere. Here at Belzec, for whose responsibility Hitler must be registered to it, these annihilation centres cannot become a forgotten arena in the dark gloom that surrounds the Death Camp system. After my visit to Belzec, I sought to return the entire killing apparatus for Jewish Destruction, and its rightful ownership, to the febrile mind of its original creator, Adolf Hitler. While the ink has not dried upon the legislation Hitler delivered to those who became his willing accomplices, no need of any written decree can excuriate Hitler from the midst of this huge undertaking.

“..We shall regain our health only by eliminating ..Jews.”  Adolf Hitler.

It was apparent too, that here at Belzec, History sought to diminish an ever larger presence for those Jews that were slaughtered there. Evidence and Testimony stand to deliver 1,300,000 Jews or as many as 1,500,000 Jews to the gates of Belzec. However, this accounting though speculated down, and whereas I have delivered my own assessment at 884,700 Jews slaughtered at Belzec, it still remains an under stated assessment we will never guarantee. The final accounting, which still records an evidential loss to humanity of 1,500,000 Jews, must not be discounted. The compassion for the value of loss then, cannot be expressed more accurately, and while loosening the hold we retain for those Jews we cannot account for, we must fully retain the local evidences and immediate testimonies that differ heavily from our own. All too easily, we set aside these specific accounts so as to submit to History what is a lessening account for the overall catastrophe that is to be charged against us.

“..while exclusivity exists in ..realm of The Holocaust ..by which all Jews were Victims ..it is clear that not all victims of ..War Hitler waged were Jewish. However ..The Holocaust was an exclusive effort ..and detailing as such for solely detailing Jews for their confinement within its grasp.” Patrick Dempsey.

As the media seldom works for other than what profits an agenda, my books, as with any Book written with a wished for integrity that is always searching for the fuller truth, my work must uphold its legitimacy. I make no comparison here, whatsoever. What I have sought to learn of, and what I have learned, cannot know in any remote sense of any knowledge, what exactly those like Rudolf Reder knew, intimately. What I have sought to deliver however, always looking back, are as many of the factual truths to have emerged from such a space as is Belzec. The Holocaust owes to History what it is we must learn from in order to not repeat what we must learn from. However, and in order to restore some balance to the commercialism swilling around Auschwitz, it is essential that Belzec, as with Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka are recognised equally as spaces of such devastation towards those Jews, ad many other’s deposited there. For Jews like Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman, who are recognised as only 2 of 3 Jews who Survived Belzec, we owe it to them to record what they have left behind to remind us of all that has been left behind.

“..criminal German monster spread lush vegitation over ..Jewish grave of 1,000,000 at Belzec.”  Rudolf Reder.

With the evidence that the Rabbi of Blazowa also survived, and this is clearly identified, his position does not afford us any further testimony for corroboration. It is extremely important though to recognise, that we do not allow anyone to ever exempt Hitler from the horror which is Hitler’s Belzec. With that all still resonating clearly in my mind, I was presented with an impression of what all of that means, and it is a shocking reality that so many Jews can be denied so much, and be afforded so little consideration in simply remembering them. While it is true that great strides have been made in recognising the enormous debt humanity owes to these 6,000,000 Jews, at places such as the gates to Hitler’s Belzec, let us not forget that there are at least 884,700 Jewish People who are confined here. The weight of words necessary therefore, to even attempt to clarify the depth of loss, will never be quantified in the words sought out to add o their memory.

“..negative aspects of ..frustrating effort for all of History ..which persuaded me to focus my intention where it belonged on The Holocaust and with 6,000,000 Jews whose extinguished voice called out for a chance to speak.” Patrick Dempsey.

Here then, and as I move on, and in the image I placed on this my 5th. Book, and as it features heavily on the discourse of The Holocaust, the Jewish Children are brought to mind. I again set forth my accusation for a memory that has clearly interrupted the lives of those most innocent and in need of protection, Children. The image I sought for this, of a small group of Jewish Children, is both harrowing and aware of what they could never expect in their tiny lives. But, for The Child in The Holocaust, who are clearly removed from the fabric of life, the word imagery is disguised by the colour of their blood which synthesises our responsibility toward them. What is almost obscured by the words the image must present, are not lost to those of us who seek to recall what no Child should ever experience. The loss of that hope they have invested in Older humans, who were placed before them to safeguard their futures. In the context of these words, Jewish Children were force fed into an apparatus of sheer destruction we can never excuse, nor forget. I am mindful too of those many Jewish Survivors who will choose not to forgive, but for me, We cannot ever forgive what was done to other’s, and here within these words, are the memory for these 1,500,000 Jewish Children specifically.

“..If this Book should contain just 1,500,000 words ..it would never come close enough to ..form of our detestation to register for ..Jewish Children’s loss.” Patrick Dempsey.

Here too I have used words that are no longer mine as they belong more appropriately to these 1,500,000 Jewish Children, lost from us and taken before they had decided to go. As my words are etched, they have sought to add to what was done to all 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, not allowed to object to their own annihilation. Here, and by a devastation that was always intended for the Jews of Europe, and eventually, World Jewry, I bring to bear my own lasting image of what remained of my two Sister’s, as they were borne away from us. This was of their tiny White Coffins as they were placed in a hearse, and such was this respect that was not made available to these Jewish Children. I am mindful too that there were once 1,500,000 Jewish Children, placed in Cattle Wagons, Gassing Vans or just deposited in Gas Chambers from which there was no release. These Children, nestled as they were alongside a supposed civilised society that was sworn to protect them, abandoned them, degraded them and suffocated them from existence. And of them, these destroyed Jewish Children, exterminated for being Jews, much of their entire Family line expired alongside them.  So the cover to this Book, is a stark White, and this is a reflection of innocent lives lost that were once Jewish Children as these Children themselves depict.

“..There is a picture which emerges still ..and it is with ..Jewish People as ..concerted effort for Hitler’s abject  hatred for ..Jews. With their systematic Slaughter ..which was Hitler’s focus since he first sought to articulate his enmity for ..Jewish People ..words could not conceal ..deeply held conviction of this hatred.” Patrick Dempsey.



Elie Wiesel and His Words to Guide us.

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“..Open your eyes ..visitor ..and gather your inner strength ..what you will see here may put your mental sanity and moral quest in peril. You will see here all that cannot be seen anywhere else ..infinite ability of tormentors and also their victims’ endless agony.” Elie Wiesel.

In terms of what The Holocaust must mean, and in certainty that those Jews who were the intended victims of this, we must educate the World into accepting that equality is the common goal for all people. This right of passage through this life is the only role to be expected for All People to enjoy and hold onto. For that reason, gaining control over the narrative of what secures for Jewish Memory the very facts of what The Final Solution was meant for, is important. What was perpetrated against and ensured for 6,000,000 of the Jewish People, was The Jewish Question as it became answered in its ferocity. It is both factually correct and binding to the narrative that is truthfully told, that we neither adjust to some alternative assessment nor lose sight of the very fact that the Jews of Europe were chosen for elimination. And unless we shed the bonds that the usurpation of Jewish loss, that some would seek for us to shelve, we will be tied to such distortion, and we will be perpetually bound by an historical disregard that is a corrupted history. We remain the slaves of those demands placed upon us, which must further the truth beyond the prejudice and bias of those who wish to circumvent all honesty. That what was perpetrated, and given all that was allowed to be ensured against 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, we must guard this fact as its integrity demands.

“..God of Auschwitz ..know that I must Remember Auschwitz. ..I must remind you of it. God of Treblinka ..let ..sound of that name make me ..and you ..tremble now and always. God of Belzec ..let me ..and you ..weep for ..victims of Belzec.” Elie Wiesel.

There are those who supposedly uphold some covenant with a god like entity, and so fundamentally, as to allow for the poorest to die from want and starvation, or the Jews from a form of indifference that is both callous and immoral. We must allow that to be a lesson, with all sense of moral probity affixed, and an ethical surety recognising within a humanity that is sacrosanct, these principles were disregarded when it came to the Jews of Europe in their historic moments of greatest need. As appallingly as this detail of humanity’s greater need is reflected, it is not true when it should have been delivered to 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews. Subsequently, and for and to those Jewish Survivor’s who sought to inform us of so much, in the lessons of toleration we have learned little. For the sheer brutality exhibited throughout the period we seem content to live with, we do not salvage much of human dignity from the betrayal of human compassion. Basically, in acknowledging what has been taken from the Jews, and even after their Slaughter, we see that there are still the gluttonous wealthy, who consistently gorge themselves upon the riches they have deprived these Jews of. It is essential that all facts must fit all truth’s, and this must not be given over to some facet of any governmental or political agenda seeking to hide, shieled or even deny these facts. It is essential today for us to allow the Jewish People, particularly those who survived all that was thrown at them, to repossess all that they had previously owned and was taken from them, and their People.

“..How could human beings first imagine then commit such inhuman actions against other human beings. Is it that here it was human to be inhuman.” Elie Wiesel.

For such need, as it is moral and equitable, the surviving Jew must be made capable of securing what had been divested of them. It is inhuman not to do so, and if that ethical response is to ensure the Jewish People secure the lands, businesses, property’s, goods and personal items stolen from their slaughtered community’s, then their vanquished voice will and must be heard. If there is to be a fairer distribution of what the World has detained, in any wealth not belonging to the Jewish losses, then progress can be made in making amends to those Survivor’s, for what was taken from those 6,000,000 Jewish lives taken. That certainty can only be secured for all of those Jews whose memory is not only fading, but it is being lost in the clamour to deny them ever having existed. In order to protect the looting from the Jewish People, which occurred as a consequence of The Final Solution, fuller restitution must be made. If the stolen resources of the Jewish World are to belong to the Jewish People of the World, greater significance must be given to what protects that right. Any morality that dissipates, as it is likely to from theft, and the deceit with which any Surviving Jew who seeks to re-own what has been taken from them, is bound by such efficacy, that even whole faith systems have been built upon.

“..In this place of ultimate malediction ..human condition entered its ultimate metamorphosis ..with ..enemy inventing new ways of torment ..torture and murder ..unprecedented in recorded history.” Elie Wiesel.

In such space in time, and we have now come to a fork in the road, one which leads in an criminal way toward ever more riches for the very few, we lose sight of the recognition owed to what we allowed to happen to 6,000,000 Jews. For a fairer acceptance of what is owed, and most certainly what is and was owned by 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews, it is a Justice so far denied them. Then, if we accept all moral responsibility, we will see fewer Jewish Survivor’s leaving this World behind them, as destitute as 6,000,000 Jewish Lives have been marked. The other less likely road we cannot afford to travel, will not see change in what has been taken from these Jews. For any people who profess any moral compass in this World, and in order to deliver back to those whose ownership has been denied, we cannot move forward anchored to such crimes as the past has secured and positively anchored us to. The wealth, peace and tranquillity in the World cannot be denied to the masses of these Jews, only to be owned by the few who deny them the lasting rights which Hitler too would have denied them.

“..Selections ..hunger ..humiliation ..crematoria ..in this place evil attained ..dimension of damned divinity ..its killers came from prestigious institutions and families whereas their victims were Sons and Daughters of an ancient People ..only one of Antiquity that survived Antiquity.” Elie Wiesel.

We must cease stop and decline, from within Society, any such acclaim for what civilisation seems to represent as a Justice for all while it cannot be gained by all, and for all. Within the framework of what the Nuremberg Trials focused our attention upon, Justice is neither fully addressed nor is it correctly achieved. While the military might, and industrial capacity of Hitler’s Reich was set aside for the destruction of in excess of 12,000,000 Jews, Hitler’s legions were ensuring anything and everything of worth was to be detained and brought back to the Reich. I do not need to enter into what remains of the plunder of Europe, what became the rape of Europa, but I am certain that 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews have delivered a bank roll worthy of any gangster or mobster has ever perceived. For half of that number of these 6,000,000 Jews of Europe alone, and even more, this is The Holocaust from within Poland, of 3,000,000 Slaughtered Polish Jews and it seems the Slaughter was not quite enough. The Poland after the loss of 3,000,000 of Polish Jewry was quick to ensure the Jewish People could not simply come back, and from near extinction, to reclaim all that Poland wished to hold onto and for which Poland still languishes upon.

“..Those masses who were brought here from all over occupied Europe and were not annihilated upon arrival ..found themselves in a universe parallel to ours today ..with its scientists and laborers ..believers and non-believers ..theoreticians and artists ..poets and merchants ..rich and poor ..ignorant and learned ..speaking all languages and practicing all trades. In this place one witnessed an antinomian ingathering of ..exiled. Death in gas chambers replaced Redemption.” Elie Wiesel.

For that which has enriched any national state, and for Poland itself, it has feasted upon much of what a further 1,500,000 of those Jews who were expelled from all over the Continent deposited into Polish soil and hands. These ill gotten gains, which have filtered through to a Polish state, and which it keeps in perpetuity, is bereft of any morality. Apology now becomes a benign word, so as to deny further rights to what was once Polish Jewish owned and can no longer be Polish Jewish claimed. For close on 4,500,000 Jews then, sent to be detained and decapitated in burial sites, Death Camps and Ghettos within Poland, what is the worth to be taken from such grievous acts of inhumanity, immorality and unethical delivery. From Elie I have gained a certain perspective which had been summarily grounded in what I assumed all religious belief engendered. I have since afforded only those words in any of these of my own Books, an offer to our great loss, that accuses many for which, 6,000,000 memories are being denied.

“..Open your heart ..visitor. And your mind. And your soul. As you walk through ..exhibition ..SHOAH and are enveloped by ..sights and sounds of ..past ..hear ..voices of ..victims ..see ..drawings of ..Children ..touch ..names of ..murdered. Be this place’s messenger. Take with you a message that only ..dead can still give ..living ..that of remembrance.” Elie Wiesel.

I am a visitor here though, and not as other than a human being speaking out against what we humans did to other humans simply because they were Jews and for what we continually fail to achieve in their name. I have no wish to deposit merely a few scant words which do not accurately identify the World’s shame for what it allowed to breech all of civilisation’s need. I have taken fully on board all that The Holocaust terms means, and while I fully appreciate the crisis those who might see in the Shoah a more representative image of what the Jewish loss means, The Holocaust is for me, my own resolve. As it was mentioned, and intended for assessing the steps leading from the Final Solution and what it sought to resolve, it is a most valuable term by which we commemorate such losses as history can barely comprehend. I am still one of this place’s messenger’s too, still seeking to add an ongoing memorial existence to any and all Jewish life. For me, in remembering all that has been taken from these 6,000,000 Jews, we owe way more than we can practically say. For these Jewish People, no longer allowed to persist, but who are a living memory as long as we all chose to recall them, we give further and future meaning to an expression of their loss.

“..We should never think that it is finished. With imagination ..with passion ..with fervour ..begin again. It’s up to you now ..that my past does not become your future”. Elie Wiesel.

For me then, and in order to abstain from the unreal effort to remove any trace of the Jews from what catapulted them into eternity, I persist with linking them all through the ramifications of The Holocaust. With direction, The Final Solution became a measure of what The Holocaust defines in The Jewish Question, and this surely does not only belong to a past we must never forget. There are of course the untruths still being told, and we must ensure that the veracity within the fact is sought out, so as to remove these blemishes to the very integrity which has consumed 6,000,000 Jewish People. I have written to some of the great Writers of our time, and given that I have chosen to write on The Holocaust, which delivered 6,000,000 Jews to an annihilation of humanity, it is not a coincidence that these Writer’s are both Jews and the Survivor’s of what was intended for them as Jews, and within Hitler’s role for The Final Solution of The Jewish Question.

“..Now everyone got into ..act. Novelists made free use of it in their work ..scholars used it to prove their theories ..politicians to win votes. In so doing they cheapened The Holocaust ..they drained it of its substance.” Elie Wiesel.

Even in the language which expressed it most profoundly, die Endlosung der Judenfrage, this is an undeniable affront to that vastness of humanity. As the Jewish People were assailed, broken and brutally tossed aside in favour of this The Greatest Hatred, I do not relent upon the term The Holocaust gives to them. For that which has been measured, and over 2,000 years, to somehow climax it reach toward The Holocaust, I stall at giving way to what The Holocaust has always meant since its term came into use. It has been my essential, borrowing where I can from those who brought forth their message from what was always meant to detin them, and I lend all that ?I have to say, and have been saying for more than 30 years now, The Holocaust is the Uniquely, Unprecedented and Unequalled Slaughter of any People, and this, merely because these were The Jewish People. In my research I remember writing to Elie Wiesel, after I remembered reading this, from October 31st. 1975, and asked him if my effort was in keeping with what he considered the substance of The Holocaust. The article was when Elie delivered a master class on what must be appropriate, and most certainly what remains inappropriate in the jurisdiction of The Holocaust.

                              Elie Wiesel – For Some Measure of Humility.

“..One generation later, it can still be said and must now be affirmed: There is no such thing as a literature of The Holocaust, nor can there be. The very expression is a contradiction in terms. Auschwitz negates any form of literature, as it defies all systems, all doctrines; to confine it to a philosophy is to minimize it, to distort it. Ask a survivor, any one of them, and he will bear me out. Those who have not lived through the experience will never know; those who have will never tell; not really, not completely. Here you will find books to be of little help; paltry commentaries, they merely serve as guides. Between the memories of a survivor and their portrayal in words, even his own, there exists an unbridgeable gulf. The past belongs to the dead and the survivor does not recognize himself in the images and ideas which presumably depict him.

                              A novel about Auschwitz is not a novel, or else it is not about Auschwitz.

The very attempt to write such a novel is blasphemy, as is any attempt to explain or justify, for any explanation is a form of justification. Here ignorance borders on falsehood and deceit. This you must know, if you haven’t understood it yet: Auschwitz means death, total, absolute death of man and of all people, of language and imagination, of time and of the spirit. Its mystery is doomed to remain intact. The survivor knows. He and no one else. And so he is obsessed by guilt and helplessness. Bearing true witness: a painful and fearful task. For the fact that he has survived commands him to bear witness. But how can he speak up without committing treason against himself and others? A dialectical trap from which there is no escape: the true witness must be silent.

Even if he succeeded in speaking the unspeakable, he would not be understood. And yet, in the beginning, in a world still in ruins, he forced himself to come forth, and at least partially to lift the veil, not in an attempt to free himself of the past, but rather out of loyalty to it. In his eyes, forgetting meant that the enemy had won. The executioner always kills twice, the second time to cover all traces and evidence of his crime. To forget is to become his accomplice. One had to testify, in order that there be no forgetting. A painful and thankless task, causing fear and remorse. The words which the witness strung together, the images he summoned up seemed all too pale compared with their substance.

The essence defied expression, resisted utterance, remained unspoken, on the other side; there was more intensity, more weight, more truth in what he left unsaid. The panic in the eyes of the old people, the whispers of children turned old in the face of death, the silent, solemn march of the victims as though drawn to the flames and to the night; the selections, the mass graves, those who said Kaddish for their own death and for the living: he couldn’t describe it and yet he had to. A special language and vocabulary should have been invented to say what no human being had ever said, nor ever will. Have you read, really read the stories told by the survivors? They seem as though written by the same man. Reluctant and fearful, he testifies quietly and says little; he speaks in a whisper, as though guilt ridden; he writes not with words, but almost against them.

Rather than communicating the experience itself, he reveals his inability to fully express it. The testimony of survivors inspired awe and humility. At first, the question was treated with a sort of sacred reverence. It was considered taboo, reserved exclusively for the initiated. The great novelists of our times, the likes of Camus, Mauriac, Faulkner, Silone, Agnon, were careful not to tackle the subject. They acted out of respect for the dead as well as the survivors. And they were also concerned about the truth. In this peculiar domain, truth is stranger than fiction, which they understood. Here, the imagination pales by the side of reality. Their artistic and intellectual integrity barred them from venturing on grounds haunted by so many ghosts and buried under ashes.

The stories which were published resembled documentaries. These real-life stories could engulf the reader like a nightmare, causing his heart to pound, instilling a feeling of poignant excitement. This, one felt, was not an artist’s creation, but rather something transcending art and literature; something altogether different. Following the protagonist in his delusion of expression, one was carried away by his voice, one tried to share his despair, but that was all. One remained outside and behind. No one passed judgment, no one dared, not yet. For want of a yardstick, a guideline, the survivor was granted the right to forge his own style, to choose his own form and mode of expression. A measure of humility still prevailed. But popularization and exploitation soon followed.

And then, with the passing of time, it all began to deteriorate. As the subject became popularized, so it ceased to be sacrosanct, or rather was stripped of its mystery. People lost their awe. The Holocaust became a literary “free-for-all,” the “no-man’s-land” of modern writing. Now everyone got into the act. Novelists made free use of it in their work, scholars used it to prove their theories, politicians to win votes. In so doing they cheapened The Holocaust; they drained it of its substance. The Holocaust was now a hot topic, fashionable, guaranteed to gain attention and to achieve instant success. To ward off survivors’ criticism, the exclusive right to that title was taken away from them. Suddenly, everyone began calling himself a survivor.

Having compared Harlem to the Warsaw Ghetto and Vietnam to Auschwitz, a further step has now been taken: some who had spent the war on a Kibbutz, or in a fancy apartment in Manhattan, now claim that they too have “survived” The Holocaust, probably by proxy. One consequence is that an international symposium on The Holocaust was held recently in New York without the participation of any Holocaust survivors. You are amazed? The survivors don’t count; they never did. They are best forgotten. Don’t you see? They are an embarrassment. If only they weren’t there, it would be so much easier.

Please understand: I am not saying that the event should not be studied, explored and commented upon; quite the contrary, it should be. Nor do I deny the fact that some writers and scholars, including close friends, have helped to sensitize the rising generation to its various implications: their encounter with The Holocaust has profoundly altered their thinking, heightened their awareness and made their personal outlook more genuine. Some have become more religious and others less; all have moved closer to our people. I have nothing but respect for them, and they know it. The profanity of facile and vulgar discussion; I am referring to the others, the majority, those in whom the theme inspires no humility.

I am referring to all those who in their all-knowing arrogance become its profaners. They bring vulgarity into this domain too. They remind one of Job’s false friends. Do you remember? Job suffers and it is they who speak. Worse yet: they explain his pain to him. Yes, it is true, the survivors will soon be unwelcome, intruders. No more do we listen to them. Their assassins are now in the limelight. They are shown in films, they are scrutinized, they are humanized. They are studied at first with objectivity, then with sympathy. One movie shows a young Jewish girl in love with a militiaman. Another tells of the loves of a Jewish woman and a former SS. Gone are the days when the dead had their special place and gone the days when their lives commanded respect.

People are more interested in their killers: so handsome and attractive, such a pleasure to watch. One forgets that there are still survivors among us. And that they remember. And that they know. But then who cares? Let their feelings be hurt. Their sensitivity is nobody’s problem but their own. This attitude exists among Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals alike. They say it openly in Journals and speeches. They blame the survivors for being obsessively attached to the past, for rubbing salt into their wounds, for engaging in self-pity, for exploiting their suffering. And to top it all, those who are so vulgar as to say this in public are the same ones who use the Holocaust in their own writings time and again. For today a book about the Holocaust is a book like any other, produced by literary technicians. Anyone can write it: words, words which are carefully weighed, measured, borrowed for their market value, words distorted to satisfy some sort of thirst for vanity, or intrigue, or revenge. It is as though the survivors no longer existed. And yet, they are there. And they hear you. And you are being judged by their despair.” Elie Wiesel.

I have read, in lengthy passages, how the attempt to diminish or even dissolve the Jewish presence from within The Holocaust is proceeding. I am unsure too whether the Shoah could be so liberally transfused as to become diluted in all its efficacy for what it surely stands for. There is also the khurbn, a term very rarely used, but which identifies with the Jewish loss to us all as human beings, or at least those human beings who identify with all People as being worthy of human concern. The Holocaust term though, that I too would contend is beyond being abandoned, and that I am always obliged to use, remembers well the position of the Jewish People as Hitler’s intended victims. Here we are at liberty to ensure what Elie has always insisted, and that while not all victims were Jews, All Jews Were Victims. Here too, the attempt for all too many, who would remove the Jews from the term which fully confined 6,000,000 of them, were All Jews. Also, and while I borrow from all of those I consider know all that I need to know of the struggle for Survival that the Jews of Europe were forced to effect, I seek to honour them in Memory. I also serve to deliver back, in my own words, a testimony to what all these Jewish suffered and failed to endure.

“..Rather than communicating ..experience itself ..he reveals his inability to fully express it. ..Testimony of survivors inspired awe and humility. At first ..question was treated with a sort of sacred reverence. It was considered taboo ..reserved exclusively for ..initiated.” Elie Wiesel.

Then there is the abiding question over these all too many, who could have done much to save even more of these Jews. From the vantage point of History, we are aware of what could have been achieved in saving the Jewish People, while knowing what should not have been achieved in securing for Hitler far in excess of what he could have mastered without cooperation, collaboration, complicity or duplicity in the most heinous crime to confront all of History, The Holocaust. I now take from Elie and add to what will add a further measure of my own resource to confront, confirm and console those Surviving Jews whose evidence, warmth, grace and their outstanding nature, which has allowed me room to manoeuvre my own words into the place of telling their story of that Survival.  

A novel about Babi-Yar is not a novel, or else it is not about Babi-Yar,

A novel about Belzec is not a novel, or else it is not about Belzec,

A novel about Birkenau is not a novel, or else it is not about Birkenau,

A novel about Borki is not a novel, or else it is not about Borki,

A novel about Chelmno is not a novel, or else it is not about Chelmno,

A novel about Delatyn is not a novel, or else it is not about Delatyn,

A novel about Liepaja is not a novel, or else it is not about Liepaja,

A novel about Majdanek is not a novel, or else it is not about Majdanek,

A novel about Ponary is not a novel, or else it is not about Ponary,

A novel about Sobibor is not a novel, or else it is not about Sobibor,

A novel about Treblinka is not a novel, or else it is not about Treblinka,

A novel about Tuchinka is not a novel, or else it is not about Tuchinka, and

A novel about The Warsaw Ghetto, let alone the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is not a novel, or else it is not about either nor any of these.

“..Having compared Harlem to ..Warsaw Ghetto and Vietnam to Auschwitz ..a further step has now been taken ..some who had spent ..war on a Kibbutz ..or in a fancy apartment in Manhattan ..now claim that they too have survived ..The Holocaust ..probably by proxy.” Elie Wiesel.

I have sought also to define who I would class as the Jewish Survivor, and exclusively  as those Jews who were extracted, or who somehow managed to remove themselves, or stayed hidden and out of harm’s way. As 1932 beckoned, the move away from the rhetoric of Hitler’s Jewish hate to the manifestation of Hitler’s demands for their mass slaughter, grew in intensity. It is essential to state that these are not the Jews of America, who were not present when Hitler set the seal upon The Finals Solution. Of the close on 12,293,300 Jews targeted at The Wannsee Conference, having assessed as already Slaughtered as many as 1,000,000 Jews at Chelmno or by design, and der Einsatzgruppe, these are the Survivors after the toll of the 6,000,000 has been reached. Here too, and we have all become a witness to the denigration of the term, The Holocaust, which I choose to cling onto, as a mark of respect for 6,000,000 very good reasons.

“..The Holocaust became a literary free for all ..no man’s land of modern writing.” Elie Wiesel.

The Holocaust is not an oil slick, nor is it the collapse of fish stocks or the wish to capitalise upon the term to secure further gains in an absorbed literary marketplace. We are not, at least we should not be presented with the failure of History to own its own terms in relation to the historical narrative they are approaching. I am weak and tired of seeing The Holocaust as an adjunct or prefix to historical works which cannot stand upon their own veracity in translating their route through history. All too often the term has been sought to detain the view of a catastrophe which is not defined by the term, and is not appropriate to what is sought to be defined. All atrocity is written with graven images and genocide marks the escalation of that mass of killing into a newer realm. But! And this is the imperative, The Holocaust supersedes all such references to mass murder and even newer genocides, and not merely by its magnitude, but by its unparalleled nature, its conformity to no structural morality or ethical encounter and by the very systematic nature of the People chosen for such an industrialised and mechanised Slaughter, The Jews!

“..For today a book about The Holocaust is a book like any other ..produced by literary technicians. Anyone can write it ..words which are carefully weighed ..measured ..borrowed for their market value ..words distorted to satisfy some sort of thirst for vanity ..or intrigue ..or revenge. It is as though ..survivors no longer existed. And yet ..they are there. And they hear you. And you are being judged by their despair.” Elie Wiesel.

My Books are exclusively about the Jews, who are The Holocaust! Alongside these books, and up to now I have blogged close on 1 million words. These words are all in memory of those Jews who were Slaughtered and whose loss confronts all of history. These words of course, are Not ever enough to compensate for even 1 Jewish Child victim, let alone the 1,500,000 Jewish Children who were totally eradicated. Though I add each word willingly and I seek to secure ever more books which will deliver even more to their memory, it is obvious, such work is an unfinished resolution I have need of. It would appear too, that in perhaps a further 30/40 years I will have afforded all 6,000,000 of these Jewish People a word apiece, so as to add further to a Memory for them we must hold onto. For me, there is no equivocation here, The Holocaust itself belongs solely to those Jews I have chosen to add my words toward remembering. This too, as a testimony that must fully secure such loss as has never before been achieved, this effort must ensure The Holocaust belongs to the Jewish People it was intended to destroy.

“..One day ..we saw 3 gallows ..3 black ravens ..erected on ..Applepaltz.  Roll call.  ..SS surrounding us ..machine guns aimed at us ..usual ritual.  3 prisoners in chains ..among them ..little pipel ..sad eyed angel. ..SS seem more preoccupied ..more worried than usual. To hang a child in front of 1,000’s of onlookers was not a small matter.  ..head of ..camp read ..verdict. All eyes were on ..child. He was pale ..almost calm ..but he was biting his lips as he stood in ..shadow of ..gallows. This time ..Lagerkapo refused to act as an executioner. 3 SS took his place. ..3 condemned prisoners together stepped onto ..chairs.  In unison ..nooses were placed around their necks. Long live liberty. ..Shouted 2 men. ..boy was silent. ..Where is merciful God ..where is He ..someone behind me was asking. At ..signal ..3 chairs were tipped over.  Total silence in ..camp. On ..horizon ..sun was setting. Caps off. Screamed ..Lageralteste. His voice quivered. As for ..rest of us ..we were weeping. Cover your heads. Then came ..march past ..victims. ..2 men were no longer alive.  Their tongues were hanging out ..swollen ..bluish. ..third rope was still moving ..Child ..too light ..was still breathing. And so he remained for more than half an hour ..lingering between life and death ..writhing before our eyes.  And we were forced to look at him at close range.  He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red ..his eyes not yet extinguished. Behind me ..I heard ..same man asking ..For God’s sake ..where is God. ..from within me ..I heard a voice answer ..Where is he. This is where ..hanging here from this gallows.” Elie Wiesel.

Sadly, and for all of those who are Survivor Jews, and who sought to bring the truth of such an abomination as The Holocaust is, not too many wanted to listen to their evidence’s in the immediate aftermath of the cruellest atrocity ever conceived. All too often too, this Survival Testimony these Jews brought to us, was compounded upon return, by objection and an aggressive rejection by so, so many who did not wish to hear such evidences as proved society so guilty of. Particularly, within Poland, in Hungary, The Baltic States and other Countries, the Jew was already an outcast in many ways. The Jewish Survivor was still an unwelcome claimant to anything they previously owned if they finally managed to survive what so many had wished or hoped for them. Death constantly awaited the Jews and further migration was imperative to save so much of their life that was being constantly eroded. So the very essence of what is now demanded from these still remaining Jewish Survivor’s, is to give hope to them liberally that we have more than learned from their past. For us, and to give memory an elongation of first hand evidence’s for their own 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews, we owe it to them to listen longer and more earnestly. For all of those Jewish People who were finally removed from the instancy of that direct and evidential testimony, while Survivor’s are fast passing from our demands we now place upon them, we must continually urge them to let us know ever more of the horror they endured!

” ..How is one to explain ..Hitler nor Himmler was ever excommunicated. ..Pius XII never thought ..to condemn Auschwitz ..Treblinka. ..among the SS a large portion ..remained faithful to their Christian ties. ..killers who went to confession.” Elie Wiesel.



My Books Are A Reason to Write.

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“..To contribute to an effective awareness of ..destructive forces of racism on nations ..it is necessary to combat bigotry ..prejudice ..intolerance ..its basic ingredients.” Maja Abramowitch.

It is essential to those who not only choose to write, but need to write, and who seek to select the words which must exemplify the genuine concerns they have, is to own their integrity. But not simply just to gift to posterity exactly what we learn of what is known, but to ensure we are learning the exactly truthful lessons of the past. With that intrinsic knowledge, and for that very need to share in this demand, so as to deliver a clarity of truth that is so obvious, we learn of what 6,000,000 Jews succumbed to. My whole body of work on The Holocaust, is drawn along by this essential integrity, which in all of History must ensure truth is what truly matters. All of this has seen my concern, and while all of this has all too often impacted upon my own person, this has brought sharply into focus what must have stunned, shocked and detained all Jewish understanding of what civilisation and society abandoned them to.

“..By clumping Jews together with Soviet citizens ..commemoration turned into empathy for ..Soviets at large rather than specifically for ..innocent Jews who were ..targets of ..majority of ..deliberate mass civilian killing.” Felicia Carmelly.

There is a 2,000 year old hatred that was levelled against the Jews of Europe, and is still being directed against the Jews to this day. But my concern lingers over the period during which its most fevered assault upon the integrity of the Jewish People, consigned 6,000,000 of them to eternity, this is The Holocaust. This expression though, and still existing to this day, which I will not disregard, but it must  not allow for The Holocaust narrative to veer away from its relationship to time and place. The very constraints in a period of that time, where enactment and cause sought to satiate Hitler’s demand in the blood of the Jewish People. As the lessons from a lost humanity are still being enacted, they are reverberating and being played out for other genocides to leech through and contaminate the future of us all. The pressure placed upon any and all further meaningful life has not derived from the sure lessons to be gained from the most despicable genocide ever to be perpetrated against a People. The human dignity of life, human persistence and even the very dignity to be afforded to all People must not be lost to the vagaries of a hatred for the Jewish People that still manages to troll the Earth.

“..no lack of love for German nationality or lack of a feeling of national dignity but also not to underestimate ..harmful Jewish influences upon German culture and national interests.”  Cardinal Adolf Bertram.

For all that we search through, for everything that remains that is pertinent to the study of such a human atrocity, and which signifies the presence of this oldest hatred, can no longer afford for us to continually look to religious intolerances, and as they are clearly expressed. With a continued antisemitism that is both vulgar and conforming to what The Final Solution of the Jewish Question did not fully accomplish for Hitler, we cannot ever allow for what denial and distortion seeks further to strip away from these Jewish People. What Hitler fully sought out, and in terms of the fullest magnitude of a genocidal achievement, this must not be the learned lesson we take forward. Of all of what must have any meaning to all of humanity, and toward the very expression of what the term Never Again must mean, we must learn positively. For us to override all primal considerations, and mean exactly that never again must never repeat atrocity on any scale at all, mass murder on such a scale as was experienced by the Jews, must never be allowed to happen again. Unfortunately, history has proved all too readily that the lesson of what can be gained from such Slaughter, has awakened a very brutal presence for mankind to occupy.

“..How abysmally asleep is a conscience when it must be aroused to be told there is there is something morally wrong about pressing candy upon a little boy to induce him to enter a gas chamber of death.” Judge Michael A. Musmanno.

For a man who stood before the alter of judicious propriety, so as to judge Adolf Eichmann, and for that very reason for all Justice to become a demand, I look to all of history before I let semantics arbitrarily form opinions based upon only a part of that History. The Holocaust is beyond the comparisons some seek to make, but as Michael Musmanno states, for those pressing the Child into extinction, for simply being a Jew, this is a criminal act beyond all moral or ethical efficacy and bears no comparison. For this very reason, I have adopted the much fuller and broader term of Always to Remember, Never to Forget to remind the World of such a descent of humanity toward as complete an inhumanity as has ever been recorded or recognised. This is for me, and so as to ensure we hold onto every single memory of the testimony to what 6,000,000 Jews could not endure, and that we add to their memory, my reason for adding to the words, works and even the books I produce. For us to ever become uncompromising in what we now demand for all future People, we must become apologetic over what happened in the past to those Jews of Europe who were massacred as we stood aside and allowed it to happen. 

“..whole complex had forty-six retorts ..each with ..capacity for three to five persons. ..burning in a retort lasted about half an hour. ..it was theoretically possible to cremate about 12,000 corpses in twenty four hours ..4,380,000 a year. ..well-constructed crematoria fell far behind at a number of camps ..especially at Auschwitz in 1944. In August ..total cremation reached a peak one day of 24,000 ..still a bottleneck occurred. Camp authorities needed an economic and fast method of corpse disposal ..dug six huge pits beside Krema V ..reopened old pits in ..wood. ..late 1944 ..pit burning became ..chief method of corpse disposal. ..pits had indentations at one end from which human fat drained off. To keep ..pits burning ..stokers poured oil ..alcohol ..large quantities of boiling human fat over ..bodies.” Filip Muller.

In this, and for what the civilised World allowed to happen to these innocent Jewish People, because they were Jews, drives this need I have, ever forward. The book deal I had initially made, did not take a fuller account of the personal investment my attention and involvement would demand, I gained an even greater impression of my own human concerns. In order then to be in some form of ethical and moral order, I prepared the words so as to gain publication. All of these words, would thus add to the works I have to deliver on the Jewish Holocaust, and this was quite clear to me. I would write at least 3 Books on the terms of The Holocaust, and so as to express my own accusation for what was allowed to happen to these Jews, I sought the truth all too often being hidden. For all of the Jewish People that were sought out for Slaughter, they require whatever memory we can provide to ensure they are Remembered more truthfully than some would allow. 

“..As long as we live ..they too will live ..for they are now a part of us. As we remember them.”  Felicia Carmelly.

This need for memory cannot ever be allowed to be remotely forgotten or somehow divested of its terrible legacy for society. We are in the grips of many attempts which seek to deny to Hitler any semblance of that demand for the complete evisceration of the Jews, as a People he is responsible for as he secured. For over 12,000,000 Jews of Europe, who were a live, vibrant and essential community, still yet to be recalled for posterity as Hitler sought the moment to act genocidally, we have a duty of concern to build upon. While it remains true, that in memory we cannot be so selective that we can choose to forget what is important in telling the truth of our search, we must place the signature of Hitler before the physical omission, and which is essential to honest study, we look to 6,000,000 destroyed Jews to give us the example we need to save all future existence. In essence then, any form of distortion is negating all of history’s scientific demands, and my own work is focused on attempting to ensure the maintenance of that truth.

“..Some ..commandants not ..interested in ..affairs of ..prisoners and gave full power to their deputies ..camp leaders. ..commandant Weiss out of gratitude and as a proof that among ..despots of ..concentration camp there were also some with human feelings. He introduced many pleasant changes in ..camp and checked personally if his regulations and orders were observed. He forbade ..deliberate beating of ..prisoners by ..Capos and camp seniors ..he personally inspected criminal reports ..he himself determined ..punishment and was present when it was carried out ..lest abuses were introduced. He also removed an abuse ..namely that ..prisoners had to be close-cropped and had to have a still shorter strip ..so called ..path in ..middle of ..head. To preserve ..prisoners strength for ..armaments industry ..Weiss permitted them to receive food parcels which made it possible for a large number of prisoners to keep alive in ..camp until the end. Often he also showed a fundamentally good heart to us ..special prisoners ..and procured manifold facilities for us. In ..last phase he became inspector of ..concentration camps”. Bishop Dr. Johannes Neuhausler.

What words I use, that would at least take us upon a positive journey, and toward an ever more comprehensive and fundamental surety of our understanding, these truths are always sought. This too is my reason to keep searching, and while this alone would not recognise the very nature of the incomprehensible details of this inhumanity, it would bring us closer to a comprehension we have yet to grasp. It is never my wish to be abusive, or indeed confrontational, but there is a monumental abuse which those of church and state sought to ameliorate. In the very terms of atrocity, which 6,000,000 Jews from everywhere in Europe could not finally endure, there is a church and states that stood aside and refrained from all moral responsibility in saving human life. While this truth of neglect of conscience remains, and is regardless of whether the abandoned People were Jews or even non-Jews, the fact remains that no much effort was focused upon saving any of the 6,000,000 Jews consumed in bullets, flames and the gassing they were never expected to survive. 

“..I was a member of ..hard labor groups called ..Hundertschaft ..because we worked in units of 100. Mostly cleaning ..with very little of ..standard equipment such as buckets ..brooms ..rags ..ad water was usually turned off centrally as added torture by ..sadistic ..Kommandant. I was also assigned to work for ..Czech farmers in ..surrounding area ..marching out early and marching back into ..camp late. Always under Czech police guard. These farmers who supposedly ..now ..knew nothing of what was going on ..had contracted for our cheap labor with ..SS commander.” Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann.

The sheer lack of morality, of seeing the extent to which slavery in the camp system did not impose its moral objection here, particularly upon those of faith, is both unethical and hypocritical. It is an imperative too that we realise and recognise in the meaning of all truthful research, that we appreciate all which must remain within our humanity so as to secure it. It is here, in that continuing search, where the not so civilising consequences for society are to be met, that we recognise more than just the lives of these Jews is lost. My initial work, Testimony and Fading Memory in The Holocaust, which sought for me to ensure my own appreciation of that needed search, leads me towards other works. Clearly, and for an understanding of the sheer lack of comprehension, that not even a Survivor’s testimony would properly secure, we recognise what all too many refuse now to acknowledge. We have barely moved further down the road than when we become a witness to what places like Babi-Yar, Tuchinka, Belzec or Treblinka resonates with.   

“..In order that we should succeed in our war against ..Jews ..it was essential that we should take possession of Poland ..since here ..in Poland ..there was a natural fertility of ..Jewish people. It existed only here and in no other place. Following ..extermination of ..Jews of Poland ..from ..point of view of ..essence of their blood ..future of ..Jewish people had been totally done away with ..for only here were there Jews who had children.” Governor General Hans Frank.

There is, and particularly from within Poland, the entirety of a nation which failed in its moral responsibility to act with compassion. For a nation to ensure the sanctity of all Jewish life, and that the Jews were going to be protected, it needed more of this nation to stand for the Jews of their own Community. Not just that, and from within Poland itself, the ability for hatred to engage liberally with delivering the Polish Jewish People into the Death Camps and oblivion, has been real. The formative in this need to deliver to posterity all testimonial evidence’s that ensure the truth is factually recorded, leans heavily upon a truth that proves distasteful to the accused. All of this unwillingness amongst some states to come to terms with such truths, has seen history being compromised, and in newer distortions, corrupted. Of course, the fading nature of that very evidence has recognised our mounting loss for all of those survivors who are the very witnesses to a systematic atrocity we look to delve into.

“..In Majdanek and everywhere in Poland. They gave what is ..best in humanity. I have it all ..in my soul ..letters written to me by many. Everything is possible ..in spite of other manifestations. I ..myself have never experienced any animosity toward me and what I represent. There is always ..goodwill and hope.”  Halina Birenbaum.

Also, and for all of those Jewish Survivor’s who finally came forward, who brought with their testimony, a reality so horrifying, we wonder at why so many sought a certain silence. For them was the searing text of what they have actually survived and have been continually asked to endure over and over in testimony. For these Jews, and for our search, they are those very people who must therefore step away from the security of a tenure of that safety existing in forgetfulness. The Jewish survivors are perpetually devastated by the oppressive nature of such a memory as we expect and demand they relay, and constantly. Tragically too, and for the Jewish survivor’s continuing passing from us, our drain upon their first hand resource is all too rapidly approaching. We can be certain too, and with our demands, what is placed upon what we needed to visit in The Holocaust of history, is a devastation the Jews have fought to escape. Thus recognised, their approaching loss is to us all, and as we seek to secure ever more truths and evidences we measure all future loss of such resource as ever more devastating.

“..This book has been difficult to research and to write. One does not wish to believe ..facts revealed by ..documents on which it is based. America ..land of refuge ..offered little succour. American christians forgot about ..Good Samaritan. Even American Jews lacked ..unquenchable sense of urgency ..crisis demanded. Nazis were ..murderers ..but we were ..all too passive accomplices.” David S. Wyman.

These Jewish losses must be the very detailed accounts of such is our condemnation, and delivered with our most compassionate concern, that all of history will finally resonate with the humanity these Jews were deprived of. There is always an urgent need to learn All that must Never be forgotten now, before the final passing of the Jewish survivor deprives us of any first hand evidence’s. The grief over their loss, that will then leave us with no first hand rendering and testifying of their truth, which we most surely need, is to be deeply regretted. My 2nd. Book then, der Ensatgruppe and The Destruction of European Jewry is a provocative assessment of how both this effort to destroy all of Jewish existence is met and exactly how it came into the historical domain. The very nature of the accounting, which led directly from the sites of Jewish destruction to Hitler’s table, became the immediate knowledge of a burgeoning horror for the allied powers to recognise. All of which will exemplify, in my own position taking us on a journey that takes us all the way through from book one till I will complete all the books I have yet to deliver.

“..Nazis were responsible for this tragedy it is they who murdered most of 3,000,000 Jews who lived in Poland before World War II.  ..Germans were able to mobilize segments of ..Polish society to take part in their plan to hunt down ..Jews and help them carry out their Final Solution.” Jan Grabowski.

For me, and this has seen in the position of two books by distinguished writers on the subject of the ‘Jews For Sale’ by Yehuda Bauer and the very fact that such a title like ‘The Abandonment of The Jews’, as asserted by David S. Wyman, can resonate so deeply with me. These books are both an accusation I seek to resolve and a remonstration with those who committed such acts of atrocity with an impunity and unconcern that is astonishing. For the debauchery of the perpetrator fully demands our damnation of these, and the participator in such culpability as is complicit, we recognise the depths to which so many descended. That role is examined in my 3rd. Book too, Babi Yar a Jewish Catastrophe, and as this is clearly a detail so well accounted for in Nazi documents, 33,771 atrocities are liberally recorded. It is apparent in all studies of The Holocaust itself that this is the single most and significant atrocity to be waged by Hitler’s echelons. For such an atrocity, whose enormity was waged over such a short period of time, just 2 days, the tragedy for the Jews of Kiev resonates alongside the name of one man, Paul Blobel.

“..Jews attempted to save Jews from ..Nazis through negotiations and for varying motives a few Nazis entered into such discussions. Most ..failed ..some succeeded. But considering them might be of importance ..because they raise a host of historical ..philosophical ..more issues.” Yehuda Bauer.

After my 3rd. Book had been written, I sought advice from Elie Wiesel, not knowing if my 4th. Book would be given the go ahead. Taking Elie’s advice, and having listened to the strongest of opinions forwarded by other Survivors, I instead sought to research The Death Camp Belzec. This space, an apparent obscenity obscured by focus placed upon Auschwitz, opened me to me to a physical link back, in part, to what some of the experience right up to the gates might have been like. For Belzec, this rather obscured Death Camp, is somewhat overlooked by all reference to Auschwitz. And that is certainly true for mention of Birkenau, Auschwitz’s fully established Death Camp factory. Both of these spaces are publicised above and beyond any focus upon any other of the 5 remaining Death Camps in Poland, including Belzec. After visiting Belzec, I realised there was this incentive to disclose such ans onerous place to further scrutiny and to the fuller rigours of informed research and study. I was quickly made aware that if no study of The Holocaust could be definitive, no such completion of that search could be reached without clearer definition of the space occupied by Belzec. Clearly, and as a Death Camp of such gravity, it is generally overlooked as some form of outpost of all that was achieved by such establishments.

“..Belzec was both a testing and proving ground in extermination ..The Holocaust was fully borne.” Patrick Dempsey.

To be certain, that we could be more than understanding of Belzec’s place within The Holocaust term, the space had to be more clearly defined than has been formerly recognised. It is clear too, that from within The Aktion Reinhard system for Jewish destruction, Belzec is supremely registering of atrocity beyond those previous records presented. Of course, alongside all of this, there was the abounding tragedy of Poland’s misguided wish to misrepresent even The Holocaust in their own history and from their own back yard. Given that the very nature of The Holocaust commenced with Hitler’s World View, and The Final Solution of the Jewish Question was Hitler’s abiding demand, Belzec came into view atop Kozielsk Hill. Also, and what emerges from Hitler’s fevered vision of this Weltanschauung, and that this is his derived essential in die Endlosung der Judenfrage, this is the very nature of The Holocaust that we recognise Hitler’s fingerprints upon and in every detail.

“..middle of January 1943 ..they woke us up. We saw that we were surrounded by SS men who were stationed around ..Sanok ghetto. They ordered us to line up in ..courtyard ..allowed each one to take a blanket ..and led us on foot to ..Zaslaw camp. At Zaslaw they put everyone into one hall and kept us there for 3 days and 2 nights. They didn’t give us any food or drink. They didn’t allow us to go outside for our personal needs. We relieved ourselves inside this hall. Everything. In front of each other ..women ..children and men together. On Friday morning they put us into railway wagons. In ..morning we heard that a train was arriving and we saw that there were 10 railway wagons. At ..railway entrance SS men stood with dogs ..they commanded us to get into them ..to crowd into these wagons. We didn’t resist and we boarded ..train. We no longer had any strength left. Very simply ..we wanted it to end quickly. After so many years we did not have ..strength to resist any more. We were 1,300 souls. And we were lucky. I counted ..people in our wagon ..there were 103 of us. This was a French freight wagon ..there was a notice on ..door 8 horses or 40 people. I read French. When they put us in all together into ..wagons ..there was no place to stand or sit. Some ..people sat on ..floor ..some stood ..then every hour we exchanged positions. We relieved ourselves in ..corner of this wagon. There were women and children and old people together. They closed ..door. ..windows were already shut ..and also secured with barbed wire. I was in that wagon from Friday morning until 2 o’clock ..next morning. They gave us neither food nor drink. They didn’t even allow us to bring snow into ..wagon. We wanted to quench our thirst with snow ..even this they forbade ..and they shot into ..wagon ahead of us because someone had brought a little snow into it. Towards noon ..train moved. We could notice through ..aperture in ..windows that ..train was travelling in ..direction of Przemysl ..after that in ..direction of Jaroslaw. We knew that they were exterminating ..Jews of ..surroundings in ..Belzec. We decided that if ..train turned to ..right in ..direction of Rawa Ruska ..we would try to burst out of ..train. To ..right was in ..direction of Belzec ..and left in ..direction of Krakow. We still had only a spark of hope that perhaps they were transferring us to Plaszow ..a labour camp near Krakow. We knew it because they announced ..day and night ..that they needed ..trains for their victory. We couldn’t understand that nevertheless they found ..time to transport ..Jews for extermination all the time and to use trains for them. On every train there was an inscription ..Wheels must roll for ..sake of victory. At that time I didn’t believe that ..programme was to destroy ..Jewish People ..despite ..fact that I had heard reports from Belzec. We received reports ..but ..spark of hope ..nevertheless ..still flickered in our hearts and we hoped that ..perhaps ..despite this ..some miracle would occur. They kept promising day and night that they were stopping ..deportations ..exterminations. For from ..moment that we saw that ..train was going in ..direction of Belzec ..it turned in ..direction of Rawa Ruska ..some spark was ignited. We managed to force ..window open and several of ..people in ..train jumped out. We saw someone jumping and some spark was kindled within people who wanted to save themselves. Each time a person jumped out ..we heard shots. On each wagon there was an SS man with a machine gun. At approximately 2 o’clock in ..morning ..this was beyond Jaroslaw ..my mother pushed me from ..wagon and told me to jump. I jumped from ..wagon. As I said ..we wanted to die more quickly. There nevertheless was an impulse. I wouldn’t have jumped ..if my mother hadn’t pushed me forcibly. I left behind ..my mother ..my brother. I hid in ..snow. They halted ..train and began to shoot in my direction. I crossed to ..other side of ..track and dug myself into ..snow ..I remained in ..snow for 2 hours until I heard ..train moving. I didn’t see my mother after this ..nor any members of my family.” Yakov Gurfein.

What is, and what cannot be definitive in any of this search, is the total loss to humanity that we recognise as far in excess of these 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews of Europe that is so often presented to us. Not even Belzec affords us the fuller records of what can only be suggested as to the total losses to be recognised here. What we are made aware of is that some 1,800,000 Jews were detained here at Belzec as the Head Teacher of the Belzec School, Eustachy Ukrainski suggests. Perhaps though we strike a differing accord with the Mayor of Belzec, Ludwik Obalak, who reasoned that some 1,500,000 Jews entered Belzec without ever leaving. Struggle as I might, I cannot ever come to terms with these figures becoming abandoned to a supposedly acceptable yet uncertain and under representative level. All too readily the World seems accepting of such a figure as 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews without properly identifying with this as a rather conservative estimate. 

“..midsummer ..early autumn 1942 ..arrived at Treblinka from Belzec. ..Malkinia station ..already dark by ..time I reached Treblinka. In ..camp there were bodies lying everywhere. ..they were all swollen. ..dragged through ..camp to ..upper section by Jews. ..working Jews were forced to keep moving by ..Ukrainian guards ..also ..Germans. ..saw them being beaten. ..tremendous confusion and a horrible din. ..went walking around ..camp. ..established ..some ..guard squads were with girls and ..put down their rifles. ..I established order. I reported to Wirth in ..dining room Wirth ..Stangl ..Oberhauser were there. ..next day ..no longer ..bodies lying around. ..about 9.00am ..transport arrived. ..men ..already standing naked in .. reception yard.” SS Untersturmfuhrer Kurt Franz.

I have found for myself, and what has been far in excess of what has been otherwise suggested, so as to add further to the overall assessment of loss here within Belzec. Though the relationship between the loss of 884,700 Jews here is conceivably made, and as these Jews remain within the pits dug in Belzec, and their ashes are interred for eternity, we stand over an estimate which is as unsure as it certainly is incomplete. The fact too that Hitler’s Belzec has recorded each and every estimate, will not allow the growing dissent within Poland to point us away from what happened to Polish Jewry on Polish lands and at whose behest. My own assessment, and this too is perhaps a rather conservative estimate, of the total contempt for Jewish existence here, it must stand above what we have been previously expected to accept. For Poland to come to terms with both its Jewish Community being sold and their physical abandonment, we might yet give rise to a more comprehensive study of the Jewish loss within the lands of Poland.

“..As always it was good to hear from you again. A major part of ..problem is that there were only two confirmed survivor of Belzec Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman. ..latter was killed in 1946 by an anti- Russian Polish militia. ..battle for memory gets harder year after year as ..survivors as well as others on ..scene fade away. Our task is to keep it alive. This battle will go on long after we’re gone too. Hoping you are well and ..as always ..best regards.” Aaron Breitbart.



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