I will not call this "Aligator anything", no this is Donald's Dachau...the 1st concentration camp established by the Nazi's. They were so proud of their 1st concentration camp that they would have sold merch if they could have too.
If you're feeling hopeless, overwhelmed and like you have no control over any of this...remember calling it what it is , a concentration camp is resistance. Joy is resistance, knowledge is resistance. Resist
pickThis novel is example of why libraries are so essential.I found this in the new book section,calling out my name. I‘m uncertain how to review this combination of facts & imaginative storytelling,centered on a young, Catholic, 14 yr old Polish girl,Czeslawz Kwoka.When the author read an obituary in the NYT of the Polish photographer,Wilhelm Brasse,who took 40,000 + photographs of the inmates in Auschwitz, Tuck clipped out 3 of Czeslawz. ⬇️
The author explains her commitment to unpacking the found photograph detailing the murder (at first glance) of a young boy & a woman,both Jewish in Miropol, Ukraine, 10/13/1941. @Amiable Thank you so much for reviewing this! Once I read your review I knew i had to read it. #blameitonlitsy #antifabookclub #readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires
In 2009,the author was searching in the archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for Nazi documentation that might result in the prosecution of the notorious Bernhard Frank,(Himmler protege)known to be alive in Germany.Two Prague journalists interrupted her to show her this photograph taken on 10/13/1941, in Miropol,Ukraine.This find prompted her to undertake a quest to answer the questions this photograph seemed to be asking of her.
pickIn 2009, historian Wendy Lower discovered this photo in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It depicts the actual moment of the murder of a Jewish family in 1941. Over a 10-year period, Lower conducted extensive research to identify the location and date of the mass executions, the German and Ukrainian soldiers who pulled the triggers, the Slovakian photographer who snapped the photo —and the identities of the woman and her children. #antifabookclub
pickHard to type through my emotions. This is a middle grade nonfiction of Gerta and Rudi's heartwrenching escapes from Slovakia. Rudi's escape from Auschwitz resulted in FDR demanding Hungary to stop transports to the death camp. They may have saved a 1/3 of the JewishHungarians. Gerta and her mother crossed Hungary's and Slovakia's borders several times to keep ahead of imprisonment. When asked how to make sure it won't happen again, BE VIGILANT.
I'm in the middle of two incredible books that are equally tearing me apart.
Promise Me Tomorrow needs to be added to the database. I'm reading it, thanks to LibraryThing.
pick#JuneSpecials Day 29: As a young child, Yaffa loved playing and spending time with her friends and also helping out Grandma Alte who was considered to be one of the town‘s photographers, after bringing home a #camera during one of her trips to America. A lovely picturebook biography of how Eishyshok was rebuilt through photographs and memories of precious lives cherished and lived. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pMY
pickOver the last few years I have stopped reading about WWII because it‘s been so overwhelming. This one was interesting but a hard read. The author discusses some of the early history that lead to the Holocaust, the propaganda, the acceptance of many as the Nazi party pushed its agenda forward. He discusses that it‘s impossible for any one person to be an expert in the Holocaust because it covers so many areas, regions, counties of Europe.
