Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team: Recent Comments

Comment on Death March From Auschwitz!

Charles — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:38:29 GMT

We live with Holocaust deniers who poison vulnerable young minds with their venomous drivel. If we allow them to revise history, then the Holocaust can occur again in a future generation.

It is critical that we teach our children the truth about the Holocaust. Whether someone made a poor casting decision is virtually irrelevant.

I wrote about the Holocaust because I felt it critical to discount Holocaust deniers. These mendacious historical revisers desire only one thing - to finish that which Hitler began with the Jewish people. There are many vulnerable individuals whose weak minds can be turned into hatred of minorities. It happened in 20th Century Europe. It can happen again. If we had learned from the Holocaust, we would not have witnessed Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda or Darfur. Prejudice continues. Someone has to stop the blind hatred.

"Jacob's Courage" is a tender coming of age love story of two young adults living in Salzburg at the time when the Nazi war machine enters Austria. This historical novel presents accurate scenes and situations of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, with particular attention to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. It explores the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are murdered. From despair, to unforgettable moments of chaste beauty, "Jacob’s Courage" examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality.

I described the Auschwitz death march in great detail in "Jacob's Courage." AN Auschwitz survivor who read my book called me to ask how I knew exactly what it was like to live through the experience. That told me my description was accurate.

The worst characterization of the human experience is revealed through religious, ethnic, gender or racial prejudice. Only when we learn to value the differences among us will humankind move forward into a bright future. If we fail to learn this lesson, only darkness remains for our progeny.

You can learn more about the Holocuat here http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/. The book is available through all major retailers, as a Kindle book and a Smashwords download. Let's hope that our children will be more tolerant than our parents were.

Comment on The attempted escape from the Auschwitz Death Camp!

Ari Menschem — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:30:37 GMT

This story breaks my heart.

Comment on Images of the Majdanek Death Camp!

TT-Jones — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:43:12 GMT

Nice Blog!

Far superior to those cheesy Holocaust blogs where all they do is bicker back and forth with deniers and wackos!

TT-Jones

Comment on Images of the Majdanek Death Camp!

Ricardo Vega — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:41:05 GMT

Your website is routinely updated with very well documented text and photos.

I find myself browsing your site several times a week as I always learn something new about the Holocaust each time I visit.

In many ways you have opened my eyes to a part history that I know can never be forgotten or denied.

Thank you

Comment on Death March From Auschwitz!

Helmut Borger — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:54:42 GMT

I believe the HEART team has become the premier Holocaust Research group of our age.

Your materials are the best available on the Intenet.

Helmut Borger
Freilassing

Comment on Death March From Auschwitz!

Audrey Lanlarin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:18:36 GMT

I have always been perplexed by the reaction of the civilian onlookers who while able to deny knowledge of the camps, could hardly deny the fate of these poor souls dying on the streets as they passed through towns and villages.

Watching one of these death marches must have been a horrific experience!

I can't even fathom what it must have been to be a prisoner of one.

Comment on The Holocaust in Belgium - Breendonck

Alard Coen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:28:15 GMT

Your article on Breendonck is most impressive. You have all the details quite correct.

Alard

Comment on The destruction of the Austrian Jews

Paul von Bronner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:13:55 GMT

Your compendium of the Anschluss and the fate of European Jewry is well researched and well written.

I am a native born Austrian from Graz and I can attest to the quality dissertation you have produced.

PvB

Comment on The destruction of the Austrian Jews

Tina Ellis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:55:46 GMT

Quite an interesting subject and a plethora of information.

Comment on Treblinka Camp Restructure

Kal Mano — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:31:13 GMT

Your website articles are better than the Discovery channel!

I enjoy coming to this site and learning about the Holocaust.