#majdanek

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Una unidad de policía alemana maltratando y humillando a rabí Moshé Itzjak Hagerman en Olkusz, Polonia, durante el “miércoles sangriento”, 31 de julio de 1940

🇪🇸 El Libro de Recordación de Olkusz narra cómo el 31 de julio de 1940 llegó una unidad de la policía alemana al lugar y reunió a todos los judíos en la plaza principal. Allí, los obligaron a tirarse al suelo mientras los policías los “registraban”. Durante el procedimiento, los alemanes golpearon brutalmente a los judíos y le dispararon a uno de ellos. Para humillarlos aún más, el rabino Moshé Itzjak Hagerman fue forzado a ponerse su taled y filacterias (tefilín) que habían sido profanados, y a permanecer de pie descalzo, rezando junto a los miembros de la comunidad que estaban postrados. Al final del día, se permitió a los judíos regresar a sus hogares y los alemanes abandonaron el lugar. Debido al castigo brutal que sufrieron los judíos, el suceso se conoció como el "miércoles sangriento".

Los judíos de Olkusz fueron deportados a Auschwitz, donde la mayoría fue asesinada. Según la Hoja de Testimonio que su hermana llenó en su memoria, el rabino Moshé Itzjak Hagerman fue asesinado en Majdanek en 1942.

🇺🇸 The Olkusz Memorial Book recounts how on July 31, 1940, a German police unit arrived in the town and gathered all the Jews in the main square. There, they were forced to lie on the ground while the police “searched” them. During this process, the Germans brutally beat the Jews and shot one of them. To further humiliate them, Rabbi Moshe Itzjak Hagerman was forced to wear his desecrated tallit and tefillin, stand barefoot, and pray alongside the prostrated members of the community. At the end of the day, the Jews were allowed to return home and the Germans left the town. Due to the brutal punishment inflicted on the Jews, the event became known as "Bloody Wednesday." The Jews from Olkusz were deported to Auschwitz, where most of them were killed. According to the Page of Testimony filled out in his memory by his sister, Rabbi Moshe Itzjak Hagerman was killed in Majdanek in 1942.

[chrisgoesrock]

In five minutes the square was filled with a thousand people. I was at the front - that's why the picture turned out so well. The woman loaded everything she could and dreamed. On the right of the picture, the local Neo-Nazi leader is seen shouting a warning. I still pinch my arm when I think of the picture. I get shivers all over my body because I was the one who took it. — Hans Runesson

The woman depicted was Polish-born Danuta Danielsson (1947-1988, née Seń), who did not wish to come forward. However, Dagens Nyheter was able to tell that the woman's mother was in Nazi Germany's Majdanek extermination camp. Danuta Danielsson herself was born in Gorzów Wielkopolski in 1947. She moved to Sweden in 1981, and married the sports journalist Björn Danielsson (1925-2003) the same year.

[bihunimeksik]

MAJDANEK Toplama Kampı

Size biraz buradan bahsetmek istedim. Yemyeşil alana kurulu güzel bir yer gibi olsa da burası 2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Alman Nazilerin kurmuş oldukları 2. en büyük toplama kampı.

Yaşlı, kadın, çoluk-çocuk demeden kimyasallarla öldürülen 80bin kişi...

Savaşın karanlık tarafı...

Yukarıda esirlerin ayakkabılarının konulduğu bir oda ve yattıkları yerin bir örneği bulunmakta. Altta ise ölen esirleri yaktıkları krematoryum (ölülerin yakıldığı yer) bulunmakta.

Altta da Sovyetler Birliği askerlerinin Polonyalıları kurtardıktan sonra toplama kampında ölenlerin dehşetini göstermek için yaptıkları anıt ve ölenlerin külleri bulunmakta...

Beni derinden etkileyen ve savaştan nefret etme konusunda haklılığıma haklılık katan 2. yer burası oldu...

[dirjoh-blog]

Death in the Gas chambers

Before I go into the main story, I want to start with an extract of the testimony of Marcel Nadjari, he was a member of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. -The Sonderkommandos were groups of Jewish prisoners forced to perform a variety of duties in the gas chambers and crematoria of the Nazi camp system.- “The gas canisters were always delivered in a German Red Cross vehicle with two SS men. They…

[immaculatasknight]

Recollection of suffering

[unaturalhistory]

Majdanek Waltz

[antifainternational]

"My late father was in Auschwitz. My late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp. Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. And it's precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians. So I refuse any longer to be intimidated or brow beaten by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians, not for what you have done." - Norman Finkelstein responding to a Zionist detractor at a university lecture.

[steveyockey]

While visiting the Majdanek concentration camp I, at that time a still fervent Zionist, had a strange revelation which I still cannot explain. While standing in the gas chamber—the walls covered in scratch marks and the hauntingly soft blue stains left behind by so many administrations of Zyklon B—it occurred to me: there was nothing ontologically evil about the perpetrators, nothing ontologically righteous or defeated about the victims; their fates were contingent on history. If this, even this, was contingent, then there must be something about the structure of the world that made it so.

When the Zone of Interest cuts to the Auschwitz of the present day, this memory rushed to the surface. That scene—long and wordless—seems to suggest that our contemporary atrocities will one day receive a similar memorialization, that such memorialization always sanitizes atrocity by placing it firmly in the past, even as we continue to live in a present it created; that we are, in turn, already sanitizing our own atrocities in the present. Even that, most chillingly, the Polish workers, like the Polish servants at the Auschwitz homestead, will continue to polish and clean Höss’s trophies. Höss and the Nazis may have lost the war, but present events make clear that their ideology lives on, polished up.

As the film ends with a cut to black, Mica Levi’s score fills the void: an ostinato of screams and trudging strings. The screams continue to pitch up, more voices added, a cacophony of screaming, and still the trudging line: history continues as one single catastrophe.

Walter Benjamin wrote that "Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train – namely, the human race – to pull the emergency brake.” The train: a resonance he could not yet have known. Unlike other concentration camps, the Nazis did not have time to destroy Majdanek prior to their retreat from the rapidly advancing Soviet forces. The bulk of the camp is not only intact, but theoretically still operational. The brake has not been pulled. Can you smell it? We’re in the zone of interest. We never left.

[thetepes]

You're going to fucking sit with me through something.

I want you to fucking sit and take this in. Sit and listen to it. Watch her fucking type it out.

Mage-danek. Majdanek.

Sit and fucking watch it. Watch her make that fucking joke. Tell me how funny it is. I want to hear how funny you think it is that concentration camps are. I want you to tell me how seriously she takes Nazis and what they fucking did.

I'm sure it will just be blown off as a joke, but I really want it people to sit and watch her chuckle to herself and repeat her little joke.

Get back to me with your thoughts because I'm sure they'll be fascinating.

[ahaura]

(Oct. 26) The White House is deliberately smearing the Gazan Ministry of Health's reports of the death toll in Gaza as means of genocidal denial, saying that the "'so-called' Ministry of Health is [...] not reliable." But the Biden Administration has cited the Ministry of Health as recently as last year.

This is not the first time the United States has engaged in genocide denial on behalf of an ally.

Highlighted on Twitter, from The Representation of the Holocaust in the Soviet Press, 1941–1945 by Corinne Ducey (pub. 2008) [Link] (Sci-Hub)

The American and British press also shared a widespread mistrust of Jewish eye- witnesses. Although the Anglophone press reported on stories released by the Soviets or smuggled reports from Jews trapped in Eastern Europe, these stories were ‘not worthy of complete trust because Jews were “interested parties”’. The press tended to believe non-Jewish sources over Jewish sources and ‘generally during these years, whenever the Pope or other leading Christian religious leaders spoke out on the Jews’ behalf [. . .] their comments garnered more attention than a similar story coming from a Jewish [. . .] source’. As late as January 1945 an official from the Refugee Department of the British Foreign Office wrote, ‘Sources of information are nearly always Jewish whose accounts are only sometimes reliable and not seldom highly coloured. One notable tendency in Jewish reports on this problem is to exaggerate the numbers of deportations and deaths’.

In November 1943, W. H. Lawrence of the New York Times travelled to Kiev for an inspection of Babi Yar after the Soviets had retaken the city, and filed a sceptical story about the massacre. The article includes phrases such as ‘it is the contention of the authorities’ and, when referring to eyewitnesses, ‘who said they participated’ or ‘the story was told by’. Lawrence visited the ravine personally, but still found it difficult to accept the Soviet version of events. He states that he saw only a bone or two, a handbag, some hair and ‘that there is little evidence in the ravine to prove or disprove the story’. He therefore concludes that ‘On the basis of what we saw, it is impossible for this correspondent to judge the truth or falsity of the story told to us’. Alexander Werth notes in his book about his experiences with the Red Army, Russia at War, that the BBC turned down his report on Majdanek because they could not believe that Nazi Germany had taken its racial policies so far. Werth also quotes the response of the New York Herald Tribune to the report on Majdanek: ‘Maybe we should wait for further corroboration of the horror story that comes from Lublin. Even on top of all we have been taught of maniacal Nazi ruthlessness, this example sounds inconceivable.’

The Ministry of Health has published the names of over 7,000 Palestinians, including almost 3,000 children, killed in Gaza. The full report can be found here.

[falcemartello]

Il nazismo è parte fondamentale della cultura occidentale!

La Germania ha definito indesiderabile la partecipazione della Russia alla cerimonia di commemorazione dei prigionieri nazisti. E' quasi impossibile a credere (ma neanche tanto), ma l'ambasciata russa a Berlino ha ricevuto una notifica sull'indesiderabilità della partecipazione di rappresentanti ufficiali russi a eventi commemorativi in ​​occasione del 79esimo anniversario della liberazione dei prigionieri della morte delle fabbriche naziste. Ricordiamo che prima e durante la seconda guerra mondiale, i nazisti crearono un’enorme rete di 14.000 campi di concentramento. La prima “fabbrica della morte” fu liberata dall'Armata Rossa nel luglio 1944, poi salvò dalla morte i prigionieri Majdanek vicino a Lublino (Polonia). Successivamente, le truppe sovietiche liberarono i prigionieri di Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück e molti altri campi di concentramento.

Ma si sa, gli europei sono da sempre dalla parte dei mostri, infatti i predatori nazisti che volevano mangiarsi l'URSS, non erano solo germani, i tedeschi rappresentavano solo il 40% dei mostri, il resto era tutta l'Europa al completo.

Fernando Crucitti

[cursedreverie1945]

Today is trump's inauguration

MLK Day

It's also the 83rd anniversary of the Wannsee Conference.

The Wannsee Conference was held OTD in 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. It was organized by Reinhard Heydrich, at the request of Hermann Göring, to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question,"which was the plan to systematically exterminate European Jews. Key attendees included:

Reinhard Heydrich: As the chief of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), Heydrich was the main architect of the Final Solution. He called and chaired the conference to ensure coordination among various Nazi departments in the extermination plan.

Adolf Eichmann: A key figure in organizing the logistics of the Holocaust, Eichmann was the head of the RSHA department responsible for Jewish affairs and coordinating the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, ghettos, and death camps. He took minutes during the meeting. One copy survived and it wasn't even a full copy.

Heinrich Müller: As head of the Gestapo, Müller was involved in the coordination of secret police operations during the Holocaust.

Karl Eberhard Schöngarth: A commander in the SS and police in the General Government (part of occupied Poland), Schöngarth was actively involved in the implementation of mass shootings and deportations of Jews.

Josef Bühler: As the State Secretary for the General Government, Bühler advocated for the inclusion of Poland in the Final Solution plans, expressing eagerness to "solve" the Jewish question in his jurisdiction promptly.

Roland Freisler: A representative of the Reich Ministry of Justice, Freisler was involved in ensuring that legal frameworks were in place for the persecution and deportation of Jews.

Otto Hofmann: As the head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office, Hofmann was responsible for racial policies that included identifying and rounding up Jews for deportation.

At the Conference, Bühler remarked “...that the General Government would welcome it if a start were to be made on the final solution of this question in the General Government, because here transportation does not pose a real problem nor would the deployment of a labor force interfere with the process of this operation. Jews should be removed from the area of the General Government as quickly as possible, because it is here that the Jew represents a serious danger as a carrier of epidemics, and in addition his incessant black marketeering constantly upsets the country's economic structure. Of the approximately 2.5 million Jews in question, the majority are anyway unfit for work.”

Soon after the Conference, the Holocaust entered into a new, more deadly phase. Among other events, Operation Reinhard was a direct result. Named for Heydrich, who was assassinated just months after the conference, it was intended to kill every Jew.

Operation Reinhard built a series of death camps called Operation Reinhard Camps: Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Three other pre-existing camps, Chelmno, Majdanek, and Auschwitz II, were also put to work towards this goal.

Ultimately, 90% of the Jews of Poland would not survive.

May all of these sonsofbitches never find rest.

Pictured, Reinhard and Lina Heydrich the day before the attempt on his life 26 May 1942. He would die on 04 June 1942.

[dirjoh-blog]

Zyklon B: From Pesticide to Instrument of Mass Murder During the Holocaust

Zyklon B, a cyanide-based pesticide, became an instrument of genocide during the Holocaust, marking one of the darkest chapters in human history. Originally developed for benign purposes, its transformation into a tool for mass murder within Nazi gas chambers represents the convergence of industrial efficiency, scientific innovation, and the deliberate, systematic extermination of millions of…

[mariacallous]

The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is unique. It tells the previously unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” a courageous Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Nazi occupiers. Assuming the identity of a Polish aristocrat, Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg (born Pepi Spinner) worked as a welfare official, served in the Polish resistance, and persuaded the SS to release thousands from the Majdanek concentration camp. Drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir, supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, both historians and Holocaust experts, have reconstructed the story of this remarkable woman.