Survivor Micha and his wife Louise recently returned from a trip to Bergen Belsen, Farsleben and Hilersleben. In 2006 Micha contacted me and has since met me and his fellow survivors and liberators many times, being one of our featured speakers for the first reunion here at the school. I’m including some photos above, and [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Return to Farsleben
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, Farsleben, Hillersleben, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Survivor Art II- the liberation of the train.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, Farsleben, Hillersleben, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In recent correspondence with Christian Wolpers of the Bergen Belsen Memorial in Germany, he brought my attention to “the drawings of the Hungarian artist Ervin Abadi ,who was also on the train and made some watercolour drawings of the train, , the village of Zielitz (the rear end of the train was closer to Zielitz [...]
A woman and two children rest next to a stopped train.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Found this photo while in Washington at the USHMM searching their photo archives. It’s our train, and the Museum was not aware that it was
the train liberated near Farsleben. The photographer is identified as Harry E. Boll. I’m going to try to track him down.
Normally I don’t respond to the Holocaust deniers who have attacked [...]
Teaching the Holocaust
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, Farsleben, Hillersleben, Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II on August 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m back from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
As promised, it was a very intense 6 day workshop with 13 other teachers from across the US, wonderfully moving and at times tough to fathom but always engrossing and enlightening. I met some friends for life here- these educators and I share a bond that runs [...]
