Princip vermoorde Frans Fredinand niet op 28 januari maar op 28 juni.....

[Mus]

Idd, Vaclav. Bedankt Hilde en Henko voor de ISBN-nummers, ik zal beide boekn zeker gaan lezen.

Ik weet niet of de holocaust met iets van nu te vergelijken valt. (moorden gebeurt en gebeurde altijd, helaas). Ik heb eens een doc. gezien over een (gevluchtte) Noord-Koreaan, die tekeningen maakte over het kamp waar hij in had gezeten, dat leek wel heel veel op een concentratiekamp, met hoewel andere, even gruwelijke dingen.

[Erikita]

Ik ben van mening dat de Holocaust met niets anders van nu te vergelijken is. Natuurlijk gebeuren er nu in de wereld gruwelijke dingen, zoals dit in de hele geschiedenis van de mensheid het geval is. Wat er echter in WO2 gebeurd is, was geen geweld tegen een land, tegen een groep rebellen of onderdrukkers, maar tegen een volk, een cultuur, mensen zoals ieder ander, die om het simpele feit dat ze als Jood geboren waren, volgens anderen niet het recht hadden om te leven en vervolgens op de meest gruwelijke manieren om het leven zijn gebracht.
Het ging niet om land, om olie, om religie, maar om haat en macht.
Wat trouwens wel eens over het hoofd gezien wordt, was dat Hitler niet alleen de Joden uit wilde roeien, maar ook Slavische volkeren en zigeuners, omdat hij van mening was dat zij, op z´n aardigst gezegd, minderwaardige rassen waren en hij een zuiver blondharig, blauw ogig Arisch ras wilde.

[Erikita]

Dagboek van vermoorde Tsjechisch-Joodse jongen, 60 jaar na zijn dood gepubliceerd ( artikel in het Engels)

PRAGUE, Feb 9 (AFP) - A diary written by a 13-year-old Czech Jewish boy while living in the Prague ghetto under Nazi occupation was launched Wednesday, more than 60 years after his death at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
The two notebooks containing Petr Ginz's illustrated diary lay in a Prague attic until they were discovered in 2003 and passed to his sister, Chava Pressburger, who decided to publish them under the title "My Brother's Diary".
"This book will particularly help children understand what the Holocaust meant. It is very difficult for young people today to grasp what exactly Jews went through in a few history lessons," she said at the book's launch.
"It is seen through a child's eyes and shows how a child manages to lead his daily life in difficult conditions," added Pressburger, who survived the Holocaust and now lives in Israel.
Ginz's diary, written in 1941-1942 before his deportation to the Terezin transit camp, opens with the words: "The weather is foggy. The wearing of Jewish stars has become compulsory. On my way to school I counted 69 sheriffs."
A keen writer, Ginz was deported to the transit camp at Terezin from Prague in 1942, aged 14. Two years later he was sent to Auschwitz and gassed to death at the age of 16.
During his short life Ginz wrote a wealth of poems and essays and even two science-fiction novels, reflecting his fascination with science and space.
He also illustrated many of his works.
While incarcerated at the Terezin camp, he edited, wrote and illustrated 800 pages of a science magazine that was distributed to other prisoners.
Ginz rose to fame six decades later when a picture he drew of the Earth viewed from the moon was taken on board the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle, which disintegrated on re-entering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew.
Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, had taken the black and white sketch "Moonscape", which Ginz drew while imprisoned at Terezin, on board the flight.
Ginz became well-known as a result of the shuttle crash, leading the owner of the house where the notebooks had lain to realise their significance.
Last month Czech astronomers said they had named an teroid after Ginz and the Czech Post Office has also issued a stamp featuring his drawing.
"Petr was undoubtedly a very talented person. His death was not only a huge loss but it symbolises the lost next generations of millions of people who will never be born," said Leo Pavlat, director of the Jewish Museum in
Prague.
Pressburger said that her father Ota, who also survived the Holocaust, left Petr's writings with a family friend before emigrating to Israel.
She said she hoped the book, initially published in Czech, would soon be published in other languages too.
Interest had already been expressed from publishers in countries such as Japan, South Korea, Belgium, Poland and Romania, she said.

[Erikita]

Ik kreeg dit interessante artikel opgestuurd over een Engelse man die tijdens WO2 heel veel Tsjechische Joodse kinderen heeft gered. Geweldig wat sommige mensen voor anderen doen. Artikel is in het Engels:

PRAGUE, Feb 25 (AFP) - Czech pupils are to take part in a project to trace
around 400 Jewish children who were saved from Nazi death camps by a
British stockbroker, organisers said Friday.
In early 1939, during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Nicholas
Winton, then a 30-year-old stockbroker, filled eight trains with 669 Jewish
children bound from Prague to London.
But around 400 of them have never been traced.
Under the "Lottery of Life" project some 160,000 schoolchildren will see
filmmaker Matej Minac's film "Nicholas Winton - The Power of Good" and will
help to track down the former children.
"We believe that most of them are probably living in South America,
especially in Brazil or Argentina. We expect the Czech children to find
some of them," Minac said.
Those who are traced will be invited to Prague for a meeting with Winton,
who will be 96 this year, and their fates will also be documented.
Minac's film has already been watched by thousands of students who have
also taken part in discussions about the Holocaust.
The film is also to be shown to children in German and Austrian schools.
In order to persuade the British government to accept hundreds of children
back in 1939 Winton had to arrange foster parents for each child.
Winton, who became known as the Oskar Schindler of Britain, kept the secret
of how he had saved hundreds of children from his family, only revealing
what he had done 50 years later.
Winton, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2002 for his efforts,
insists he was not anything special.
"I just saw what was going on and did what I could to help," he said during
a visit to Prague in 2001 to meet some of the former children he had saved.
But survivor Vera Gissing said: "I owe him my life and those of my children
and grandchildren. I was lucky to get out when I did and having the chance
to thank Nicky was the most precious moment in my life."