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.
