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torsdag, februari 03, 2022

VIKTIGT BUDSKAP FRÅN LILY (98)

 

 

Lily Ebert, now 98, survived the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. After liberation, Ebert promised herself she would tell people what had happened there. Now, living in London, Ebert is keeping that promise with the help of her 18-year-old great-grandson, telling her story to millions of people on TikTok. Since Feb. 9, 2021, they have posted more than 380 videos, drawing in 1.7 million followers and amassing 25 million likes.


    Ebert, born in Hungary, arrived with her family in Auschwitz when she was 20. Guards took her mother, brother and sister to the gas chambers the day they arrived. In total, more than 100 of Ebert's relatives died in the Holocaust. In her videos, Ebert talked about how the Nazis gave their captives so little food that some died of hunger. She told viewers about the smell of burning flesh and how, when she returned to the death camp years later, she felt like she was smelling it again. Female Nazis killed prisoners' babies. In a video viewed 25 million times, she shows the number Nazis tattooed into her left forearm. "My number is A-10572. That is what I was," she said.


In a video last week for International Holocaust Remembrance Day that was viewed 1.2 million times in five days, Ebert said, "The Holocaust was the biggest crime against humanity. Never before were factories - factories - built for killing people. I was there in Auschwitz-Birkenau. I am a witness."  (Washington Post)

torsdag, oktober 07, 2021

Den siste överlevande från Babi Yar

 מיכאל סידקו ואשתו

Michael Sidko, 85, är den siste överlevande från massakern i Babi Yar vid Kiev i september 1941.

Babi Yar var den största enskilda massakern under kriget då 33.771 ukrainska judar mördades på två dagar i en ravin i Kievs utkanter.

Han var bara sex år gammal vid massakern men minns fortfarande hur hans mor och syskon mördades inför hans ögon. I veckan berättade han för israeliska Ynet News om sina minnen.

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Michael Sidko was just six years old when he witnessed how the German forces and their Ukrainian collaborators murder in cold blood his infant bother Volodya, his baby sister Clara and his mother, who screamed in pain while the Nazi troops kept firing to make sure she is dead. 

Sidko, 85, is now the last living survivor of the massacre in the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv, which marked the start of the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet Ukraine. The massacre took place over the course of two days on September 29-30, 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews.

For 60 years Sidko kept his Jewish identity and what he had witnessed at Babi Yar a secret. Even his own kids didn't know their father's history, who continued to live in the country where his loved ones were murdered in cold blood.
"I remember everything, even the small details, but I don't want to, it hurts too much", says Sidko.
"They moved us through a checkpoint, took all our documents, all the jewelry and everything we had. Then the healthy men were sent to forced labor, the women and children were sent to two different places and the rest, both the old and the young, were sent to the pit", he says.
התיעוד ההיסטורי של באבי יאר
The Babi Yar ravine where the massacre took place

By pit, Sidko refers to the massive death pit on the outskirts of the city, in which in just two days the entire Jewish community of Kiev was wiped out. Among them were also Sidko's brother, sister and mother.
"My sister Clara was born in 1938, she was three and a half years old, and my brother Volodya was just four months old. My mom was holding my brother, and Clara stood next to her, holding her skirt. One of the Ukrainian collaborators took Clara, hit her in the head, and stepped on her chest until she suffocated to death.
 
"My mom saw the whole thing and fainted. Then my baby brother fell, and the collaborator approached him and killed him. Mom woke up, started to scream and he shot her, then they grabbed them all by the legs and threw them into the pit."
Michael Sidko, and his older brother Grisha, miraculously survived after the Nazis eventually decided to send them for experimentation or forced labor. "When we witnessed the murder, I screamed and my brother covered me, so I wouldn't see anything, and that's how we stood until nightfall," he says.
התיעוד ההיסטורי של באבי יאר
Babi Yar's Historical Record

After that, Sidko and his brother were moved to a basement, in which they were held for more than two weeks. "After being in that basement, they took us up to the second floor, and there we saw a German officer with his dog and a translator in the corner of the room. That translator was our neighbor Ivan Ivanovic, and he told the officer he knows us, so they threw us out of there and we managed to live."
 
The two brothers escaped death several times, mostly thanks to their Ukrainian neighbor Sofia Kondratieva. "We lived in a shared apartment, and in one of the rooms Sofia lived with her daughter, so every time someone came and asked who we were, she would say we were her sons, and that's how we survived until the war was over," Sidko adds.
Sofia was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, which is an honorific used by Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from the Nazis.
מיכאל סידקו ואשתו עם יו"ר הכנסת מיקי לוי
Michael Sidko with his wife, Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy and Natan Sharansky - chair of the Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel

Twenty years ago, Sidko, who currently lives in Beit Shemesh, finally found the courage to make aliyah to Israel following the rise of anti-Semitic incidents in Ukraine - which were also among the factors that led him finally breaking his silence.
 
Last month Sidko was visited by Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy and Natan Sharansky - chair of the Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, who awarded him The Knesset State Medal in honor of the 80th anniversary of the horrific massacre.
 
 

fredag, januari 27, 2017

Glimtar av ett liv som nästan utplånades


Steven Spielbergs fantastiska filmarkiv
har räddat levande bilder av ett judiskt
Centraleuropa, som nästan utplånades
under Förintelsen.
 

OBS ! Ännu så länge är det tydligen bara filmer
som har ett foto till vänster om texten som går
att se digitalt.
 




Och, liksom många gånger tidigare,
med anledning av Förintelsens Minnesdag:

"....och ordet var Folkmord"  










tisdag, juni 14, 2011

En ohygglig siffra....


De flesta normalt bildade människor
känner till de sex förintelselägren:
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Treblinka
Belzec
Sobibor
Chelmno
Majdanek
(ibland även Maly Trostinez)

Där mördades minst 2,7 miljoner judar.
Samtidigt vet de flesta att det fanns många
andra läger, där fångarna dödades genom
misshandel, svält och hårt arbete.
Men hur många sådana läger fanns det
spridda över Europa (och Nordafrika) ?
**
I början av året genomförde jag en helt
ovetenskaplig enkät. Jag frågade ett trettio-
tal personer i bekantskapskretsen hur många
 koncentrationsläger de trodde att det funnits
under Andra Världskriget bland Tyskland och
dess allierade.
Svaren blev från ca 30 till ett tusental.
De var inte särskilt okunniga, men
hamnade ändå långt ifrån verkligheten.
**
en lista över kz-läger redan 1967 och
kom fram till 1.632 st….
Det har sedan dess varit den officiella
förteckningen för det tyska rättsväsendet
i samband med utredningar om krigsför-
brytelser och skadestånd.
**
Centrum för antisemitismforskning i Berlin
anses väl vara bland de främsta experterna
på området.
Så sent som för några år sedan påstod de
att det funnits 24 större läger och ca 1.200
”aussenlager”.
Yad Vashem har såvitt jag kan finna undvikit
att spekulera i antalet läger.
På senare år har stora mängder nytt arkiv-
material från bl a Sovjet och Röda Korsets
gigantiska arkiv i Bad Arolsen blivit tillgängligt.
**
Det var först 2007 som det nystartade United
beslöt att noggrant dokumentera samtliga kz-
läger, ghetton och liknande läger i Nazityskland
och ockuperade/allierade länder samt publicera
ett bokverk om dem.
Efter ett års förberedande arkivarbete konstaterade
de att arbetet kommer att omfatta minst 20.000
läger…..
Förteckningarna beräknas omfatta sju volymer.
Hittills har enbart volymerna ett och två utkommit.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Volume I. Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps ... SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)







The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe v. 2

onsdag, januari 27, 2010

"....och ordet var Folkmord"

SHOAH
Med anledning av
Förintelsens Minnesdag
27 januari 2010
av Don Barnard
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In the beginning was the Word
and the word was Jew.
And the word said Other,
the word said Them.
Not Me, not You.
**
Then the ploughing of the minds
and the sowing of the lies
and the lies said Rapists
and the lies said Thieves
and the lies said Evil in disguise.
And the Word was Demonise.
**
Then the growing of the Weeds.
And the Weeds were Greed.
And the Weeds were Spite
and the Weeds were Schadenfreude
and folk passed by on the other side.
And the Word was Bleed.
**
Then the writing of the Laws.
And the Laws said Jews
are not as other men.
No loving of your neighbour.
No Jews as citizens.
And the Word was Cleanse.
**
Then the packing into trucks
and the tracks led east.
People carried like beasts
and harried like beasts
and herded like beasts into pens.
And the Word was Untermensch.
**
Then the Words became a sentence
and it sent them to their death
by burdening the strong,
who earned another breath
before they died, and murdering the rest,
who simply died.
And the Word was Genocide.
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Ett memento till oss alla:
“There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin
are alive today...
they are waiting for us to forget,
because this is what makes possible
the resurrection of these two monsters.”
(Simon Wiesenthal)
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och
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