I cleaned out my parents house a couple years ago after they passed on and found this memorial card among my father’s possessions. It’s for the grandmother that I never knew- she died a few years before I was born.
Tonight I was staring at it and turned it over to read the text. As you [...]
Archive for May, 2008
More Angels
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, education, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Three American Soldiers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, concentration camps, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, May 21, was the 63rd anniversary of the burning to the ground of Bergen Belsen by the British Army.
“Three American soldiers, one of them named Max. who liberated the train.” This message was from the son of Dina Rubinstein of Israel. It came to me on the 63rd anniversary of the liberation. The guys [...]
Appel- the roll call at Belsen
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.saraatzmon.com/
Here is the very first website of a survivor that popped up when I did a random search of “holocaust survivor art” to find examples for students for a project we are doing. I read her bio, and put two and two together ( in Belsen, liberated by the American Army near Magdeburg in April [...]
“REMEMBER…”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scene #1: The morning of December 16, 1944. A lonely outpost on the Belgian frontier.
In subzero temperatures, the last German counteroffensive of World War II had begun. Nineteen thousand American lives would be lost in the Battle of the Bulge. “Hell came in like a freight train. I heard an explosion and went back to [...]
