Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive (WW2, German, Germany)
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Throughout the bitter days of the Warsaw Ghetto, a clandestine group of researchers compiled a vast archive detailing every aspect of life in this prison city built and then obliterated by the Nazis. Led by a historian, Emanuel Ringelblum, the group then buried the archive for for future generations.
Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the UK dedicated to the remembrance of Holocaust victims, I know that it is also recognised in many other countries so this seemed to me to be worth posting on today of all days.
My father was a soldier in the US Army during WW2. He was in the army signal corps and arrived in Normandy 2 days after D-Day. Serving under Gen. Omar Bradley, he won some sort of minor medal for fighting in the Ardennes Forest, but entered Germany and was with some troops who liberated one of the concentration camps ... which one I do not know.
To my Dad, the Holocaust was very real. If anyone would even hint that it wasn't as horrific as it was he would literally go ballistic.
Fantastic story, thanks for sharing. There are many books and compilations written from the material that was found and some of it is available online via Google Books if anyone is interested in reading the accounts or seeing the material.
I hope the OP doesn't mind me diverting his thread slightly. I read an interesting fictionalized account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recently. It claimed that only a very small handful of residents were actually armed or participated in the uprising, and that they managed to hold out from the Nazis longer than the entire country of Poland did. Can anyone recommend any good books or sources about the uprising? THanks.
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