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Hello Friends,

With the close of Yom Hashoah - The Holocaust Remembrance Day I thought it fitting to end with the below article by Jeff Dunitz from The Lid.

The truth of the matter is that I was planning to search for the video he included but with the many different articles and shows I watched and read it slipped my mind.

In the previous post the "Auschwitz Album" the main point is the system used by the Nazis with incoming Jewish prisoners. They were still reasonably healthy and fit but the majority of each incoming train was dead by days end. In the below article and video you'll read and hear witness of American soldiers who liberated many concentration camps (the Russians also liberated many). The camp in the video is Ohrdruf Concentration Camp and amongst the people you'll see in the video aside from the dead and emaciated Jewish prisoners are Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. George Patton and Gen Omar Bradley. This was how the majority of the survivors looked when liberated and it is not a pretty sight. The three Generals were horrified to say the least and their personal feelings are expressed in the below article.

Ohrdruf was a relatively small concentration camp yet the horrors were no less then in the bigger and better known camps. Eisenhower forced all the civilian population surrounding the camp to march through and see what their fellow Germans did. In addition he had all the American soldiers not at the front go through the liberated camps to see what the Nazis did to fellow human beings.

Shalom,

Peter

Holocaust Remembrance Day Visions Of Horror-Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Tonight at sunset begins a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. It is observed on the 27th day of the month of Nisan, which marks the day when Allied troops liberated the first Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, in 1945. The full name of the day is Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, which means the "Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism."

On the morning of April 12th, 1945 General Eisenhower met Generals Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Afterwards Eisenhower also ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to visit Ohrdruf and Buchenwald. He wanted them to see for themselves what they were fighting against. On this Yom HaShoah their words are much more moving then anything I could say :

During the camp inspections with his top commanders Eisenhower said that the atrocities were “beyond the American mind to comprehend.” He ordered that every citizen of the town of Gotha personally tour the camp and, after having done so, the mayor and his wife went home and hanged themselves. Later on Ike wrote to Mamie, “I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality, and savagery could really exist in this world.” He cabled General Marshall to suggest that he come to Germany and see these camps for himself. He encouraged Marshall to bring Congressmen and journalists with him. It would be many months before the world would know the full scope of the Holocaust — many months before they knew that the Nazi murder apparatus that was being discovered at Buchenwald and dozens of other death camps had slaughtered millions of innocent people.

General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable. For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”

His prediction proved correct. When some groups, even today, attempt to deny that the Holocaust ever happened they are must confront the massive official record, including both written evidence and thousands of pictures, that Eisenhower ordered to be assembled when he saw what the Nazis had done. Source

General Patton wrote the following in his diary after he toured the Camp:

It was the most appalling sight imaginable. In a shed . . . was a pile of about 40 completely naked human bodies in the last stages of emaciation. These bodies were lightly sprinkled with lime, not for the purposes of destroying them, but for the purpose of removing the stench.

When the shed was full--I presume its capacity to be about 200, the bodies were taken to a pit a mile from the camp where they were buried. The inmates claimed that 3,000 men, who had been either shot in the head or who had died of starvation, had been so buried since the 1st of January (Source

General Omar Bradley said of the atrocities at Ohrdruf:

"The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. Lice crawled over the yellowed skin of their sharp, bony frames."

May the Memories of those who suffered through the Shoah always be for a blessing. And may we never forget what evil men can do when they are appeased by the rest of the world.

Below is a clip of the news video taken of that day. It is graphic, but it should be watched nevertheless. (If you cannot see video: click here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbWQmgVlfI&feature=player_embedded

Hi Peter, first I want to say thanks for furnishing me the link yesterday so I could watch the memorial service live. As most of it was in Hebrew the only part I could really understand was when the 6 survivors were speaking and the subtitles were furnished in English but I could understand enough to know it was a very moving and emotional service. Thanks too for posting Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech today in English as it too was given in Hebrew.
Going through the album and now watching this videos makes me wonder how anyone can ever default the US military in all the times they have stepped in and tried to stop human rights violations over the years but my main concern is how can anyone deny the Holocaust ever happened. I pray that those who doubt it ever happened will now see that this is just the tip of the iceberg of these unspeakable horrors shown here in these videos and photos and I am so thankful for President Eisenhower's intervention and his foresight in seeing that much of it was preserved in photos and videos, as horrible as they are to watch. What made it so hard for me to watch this last video was because it's hard to watch or read anything when your eyes are full of tears.
Thanks for these posts and especially the videos, as hard as they are to watch. I now have a much better understanding of the fortitude of the Jewish people, especially the survivors, as I'm sure they're haunted every waking moment by their memories of heinous, unspeakable horrors against a people who's only "sin" was being born Jewish.
Shalom

Quote:
Hello Friends,

With the close of Yom Hashoah - The Holocaust Remembrance Day I thought it fitting to end with the below article by Jeff Dunitz from The Lid.

The truth of the matter is that I was planning to search for the video he included but with the many different articles and shows I watched and read it slipped my mind.

In the previous post the "Auschwitz Album" the main point is the system used by the Nazis with incoming Jewish prisoners. They were still reasonably healthy and fit but the majority of each incoming train was dead by days end. In the below article and video you'll read and hear witness of American soldiers who liberated many concentration camps (the Russians also liberated many). The camp in the video is Ohrdruf Concentration Camp and amongst the people you'll see in the video aside from the dead and emaciated Jewish prisoners are Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. George Patton and Gen Omar Bradley. This was how the majority of the survivors looked when liberated and it is not a pretty sight. The three Generals were horrified to say the least and their personal feelings are expressed in the below article.

Ohrdruf was a relatively small concentration camp yet the horrors were no less then in the bigger and better known camps. Eisenhower forced all the civilian population surrounding the camp to march through and see what their fellow Germans did. In addition he had all the American soldiers not at the front go through the liberated camps to see what the Nazis did to fellow human beings.

Shalom,

Peter

Holocaust Remembrance Day Visions Of Horror-Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Tonight at sunset begins a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. It is observed on the 27th day of the month of Nisan, which marks the day when Allied troops liberated the first Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, in 1945. The full name of the day is Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, which means the "Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism."

On the morning of April 12th, 1945 General Eisenhower met Generals Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Afterwards Eisenhower also ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to visit Ohrdruf and Buchenwald. He wanted them to see for themselves what they were fighting against. On this Yom HaShoah their words are much more moving then anything I could say :

During the camp inspections with his top commanders Eisenhower said that the atrocities were “beyond the American mind to comprehend.” He ordered that every citizen of the town of Gotha personally tour the camp and, after having done so, the mayor and his wife went home and hanged themselves. Later on Ike wrote to Mamie, “I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality, and savagery could really exist in this world.” He cabled General Marshall to suggest that he come to Germany and see these camps for himself. He encouraged Marshall to bring Congressmen and journalists with him. It would be many months before the world would know the full scope of the Holocaust — many months before they knew that the Nazi murder apparatus that was being discovered at Buchenwald and dozens of other death camps had slaughtered millions of innocent people.

General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable. For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”

His prediction proved correct. When some groups, even today, attempt to deny that the Holocaust ever happened they are must confront the massive official record, including both written evidence and thousands of pictures, that Eisenhower ordered to be assembled when he saw what the Nazis had done. Source

General Patton wrote the following in his diary after he toured the Camp:

It was the most appalling sight imaginable. In a shed . . . was a pile of about 40 completely naked human bodies in the last stages of emaciation. These bodies were lightly sprinkled with lime, not for the purposes of destroying them, but for the purpose of removing the stench.

When the shed was full--I presume its capacity to be about 200, the bodies were taken to a pit a mile from the camp where they were buried. The inmates claimed that 3,000 men, who had been either shot in the head or who had died of starvation, had been so buried since the 1st of January (Source

General Omar Bradley said of the atrocities at Ohrdruf:

"The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. Lice crawled over the yellowed skin of their sharp, bony frames."

May the Memories of those who suffered through the Shoah always be for a blessing. And may we never forget what evil men can do when they are appeased by the rest of the world.

Below is a clip of the news video taken of that day. It is graphic, but it should be watched nevertheless. (If you cannot see video: click here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbWQmgVlfI&feature=player_embedded

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Hi Peter, first I want to say thanks for furnishing me the link yesterday so I could watch the memorial service live. As most of it was in Hebrew the only part I could really understand was when the 6 survivors were speaking and the subtitles were furnished in English but I could understand enough to know it was a very moving and emotional service. Thanks too for posting Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech today in English as it too was given in Hebrew.
Going through the album and now watching this videos makes me wonder how anyone can ever default the US military in all the times they have stepped in and tried to stop human rights violations over the years but my main concern is how can anyone deny the Holocaust ever happened. I pray that those who doubt it ever happened will now see that this is just the tip of the iceberg of these unspeakable horrors shown here in these videos and photos and I am so thankful for President Eisenhower's intervention and his foresight in seeing that much of it was preserved in photos and videos, as horrible as they are to watch. What made it so hard for me to watch this last video was because it's hard to watch or read anything when your eyes are full of tears.
Thanks for these posts and especially the videos, as hard as they are to watch. I now have a much better understanding of the fortitude of the Jewish people, especially the survivors, as I'm sure they're haunted every waking moment by their memories of heinous, unspeakable horrors against a people who's only "sin" was being born Jewish.
Shalom

Quote:
Hello Friends,

With the close of Yom Hashoah - The Holocaust Remembrance Day I thought it fitting to end with the below article by Jeff Dunitz from The Lid.

The truth of the matter is that I was planning to search for the video he included but with the many different articles and shows I watched and read it slipped my mind.

In the previous post the "Auschwitz Album" the main point is the system used by the Nazis with incoming Jewish prisoners. They were still reasonably healthy and fit but the majority of each incoming train was dead by days end. In the below article and video you'll read and hear witness of American soldiers who liberated many concentration camps (the Russians also liberated many). The camp in the video is Ohrdruf Concentration Camp and amongst the people you'll see in the video aside from the dead and emaciated Jewish prisoners are Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. George Patton and Gen Omar Bradley. This was how the majority of the survivors looked when liberated and it is not a pretty sight. The three Generals were horrified to say the least and their personal feelings are expressed in the below article.

Ohrdruf was a relatively small concentration camp yet the horrors were no less then in the bigger and better known camps. Eisenhower forced all the civilian population surrounding the camp to march through and see what their fellow Germans did. In addition he had all the American soldiers not at the front go through the liberated camps to see what the Nazis did to fellow human beings.

Shalom,

Peter

Holocaust Remembrance Day Visions Of Horror-Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Tonight at sunset begins a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. It is observed on the 27th day of the month of Nisan, which marks the day when Allied troops liberated the first Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, in 1945. The full name of the day is Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, which means the "Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism."

On the morning of April 12th, 1945 General Eisenhower met Generals Bradley and Patton at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Afterwards Eisenhower also ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to visit Ohrdruf and Buchenwald. He wanted them to see for themselves what they were fighting against. On this Yom HaShoah their words are much more moving then anything I could say :

During the camp inspections with his top commanders Eisenhower said that the atrocities were “beyond the American mind to comprehend.” He ordered that every citizen of the town of Gotha personally tour the camp and, after having done so, the mayor and his wife went home and hanged themselves. Later on Ike wrote to Mamie, “I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality, and savagery could really exist in this world.” He cabled General Marshall to suggest that he come to Germany and see these camps for himself. He encouraged Marshall to bring Congressmen and journalists with him. It would be many months before the world would know the full scope of the Holocaust — many months before they knew that the Nazi murder apparatus that was being discovered at Buchenwald and dozens of other death camps had slaughtered millions of innocent people.

General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable. For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”

His prediction proved correct. When some groups, even today, attempt to deny that the Holocaust ever happened they are must confront the massive official record, including both written evidence and thousands of pictures, that Eisenhower ordered to be assembled when he saw what the Nazis had done. Source

General Patton wrote the following in his diary after he toured the Camp:

It was the most appalling sight imaginable. In a shed . . . was a pile of about 40 completely naked human bodies in the last stages of emaciation. These bodies were lightly sprinkled with lime, not for the purposes of destroying them, but for the purpose of removing the stench.

When the shed was full--I presume its capacity to be about 200, the bodies were taken to a pit a mile from the camp where they were buried. The inmates claimed that 3,000 men, who had been either shot in the head or who had died of starvation, had been so buried since the 1st of January (Source

General Omar Bradley said of the atrocities at Ohrdruf:

"The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. Lice crawled over the yellowed skin of their sharp, bony frames."

May the Memories of those who suffered through the Shoah always be for a blessing. And may we never forget what evil men can do when they are appeased by the rest of the world.

Below is a clip of the news video taken of that day. It is graphic, but it should be watched nevertheless. (If you cannot see video: click here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbWQmgVlfI&feature=player_embedded