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The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, and Other Things

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 19 May 21

I’m trying to think or something to write about, but there’s not much going on here, I watched The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas earlier with Little Miss, I want her to have an awareness of what the Holocaust was and sadly that’s...

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Book Recommendation: The White Rose Resists

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 20 Apr 20

Despite this book not releasing until May.26 I have had the pleasure of reviewing it, and therefore feel it's worth a recommendation. The White Rose Resists A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler by Amanda...

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Lessons in History: Anne Frank

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 18 Apr 20

I think it's extremely important that Little Miss learn about history, and on that end we are watching a documentary on Anne Frank on Prime Video. I want her to understand what history is, what really happened! I want her to...

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Ohh, what a mistake.

Aleskys Cardozo @Aleskys (5879) • Venezuela 12 Apr 20

Yesterday's news from the president was to extend the state of alarm for 30 more days, I was mistaken I thought I had listened for 16 days, but no, that is, we are in quarantine until May 10! That discourages me a lot, it is...

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That Man Was A Monster

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 21 Mar 20

As some of you may know, I’m an Author, and I’m working on a novel about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, so on that end I am reading Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death, and ugh I think this is one of the hardest...

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TV Review The Windermere Children

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Jan 20

2020 – BBC – Spoiler alerts A very moving drama based on real events, made specially to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. (27th January). After the liberation of Auschwitz a group of three hundred Polish children were flown...

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When Time Stopped: A Recommendation

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 17 Jan 20

This book releases February. O4, I was grated an arc copy in exchange for reviewing it prerelease and I just finished it yesterday. This is the story of Ariana Neumann’s Father a Czech Holocaust survivor who survived the...

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Book Review Primo Levi The Drowned And The Saved

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Oct 19

Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. 1986 Abacus Press. Harrowing essays by one of the most literary of all Auschwitz survivors, penned shortly before his own suicide. Levi felt enormous guilt at having survived, as that meant...

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Movie Review Fog In August

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Aug 19

Spoiler alerts – 2016 A very harrowing German movie about one of the less well known tragic aspects of the World War Two Holocaust, the involuntary Euthanasia program A Yenish Gypsy boy, Ernst Lossa finds himself sent to a...

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Broken Beginnings: Prologue: Rewrites (Not posted Elsewhere)

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 23 May 19

First of all this is only my first rounds of rewrites, and no I haven’t posted them elsewhere! I will be leaving them up for a short period of time! So I hope you enjoy Prologue: “Naomi. Naomi Elizabeth!” The voice...

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The Philippines: Refuge From The Holocaust

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 8 Apr 19

When I was little, I heard stories from my parents that there were some Jewish people taken refuge by the Philippine government during the dark days of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Thousands of Jews...

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Movie Review Son Of Saul

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 27 Jan 19

Spoiler alerts – 2015 A harrowing, deeply moving Hungarian movie about the role of the Sondercommandos at the Concentration Camps (Auschwitz in the movie). Sondercommandos were forced to escort inmates to the gas chambers,...

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Auschwitz

John Murphree @JWMILLER (3275) • Westmoreland, Tennessee 24 Jan 19

I learned about the Holocaust after World War II when I was a teenager. I really never expected to visit the place, but I have, twice. It was a gut wrenching experience, both times, just unbelievable in its presentation of pure...

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Facts Matter

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40845) • Laguna Woods, California 28 Dec 18

I didn't think I would write another post until the beginning of next year, but today I was shocked to the core by the following post on Twitter: ********* "Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein When I saw that 30% of Americans...

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Holocaust Survivors

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 1 Jan 18

Indonesia consists of many an island, which used to be one big island. It is said that holocaust of volcano eruptions seperated the island into many thousand islands of today. The Holocaust survivors were swept away to many parts...

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When comedy makes me think Part 1

N.B. Yomi @Hanyouyomi (2186) • Dallas, Texas 9 Feb 17

Nazi Doctor:"The Holocaust Museum...?" The Major:"Leave that be. No one will deny what we did."-- Hellsing Abridged Episode 5. Before I begin I'll summarize what "Hellsing Abridged" is for the uninitiated. It's an online parody...

Operation 1005 - Trying To Erase History

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 25 Dec 16

For two years German troops systematically backtracked the regions that they'd previously pilaged. Word had been leaked that there were mass graves but it wasn't until the Nuremberg Trials started that people saw the whole scope...

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Compared himself to Adolf Hitler

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 1 Oct 16

What on earth he was thinking when he compared his plan to eradicate three million drug addicts to Hitlers attempt to wipe the Jewish people? Let me tell you this, there's a huge gap and little similarities to what he was...

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Auschwitz: The Nazis And the Final Solution

freak369 @freak369 (5112) • United States 8 Sep 16

This originally started out as a BBC mini series shown once a week for six weeks; they combined it into an omnibus then released it on DVD. Most public libraries have his set to lend but you can set your DVR's to record the...

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Elie Wiesel Passed Away

Timea @tzwrites (4835) • Romania 3 Jul 16

Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winning author and Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to educating people about the horrific events of the Holocaust. He was born in my home country of Romania, then he was taken to...

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