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Pregnant in Auschwitz
« on: November 14, 2013, 09:01:55 AM »
Pregnant in Auschwitz: Toronto Holocaust survivor recalls split-second decision that saved her and unborn son

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Miriam Rosenthal was four-months pregnant, starving, bone-tired, cold, filthy and afraid when an SS officer in big black boots and a crisp uniform appeared before the barracks in Auschwitz with a loudspeaker in hand.

All pregnant women line up, he barked. Line up, line up — your food portions are being doubled.

“Can you imagine?” Miriam asks. “Even women who were not pregnant stepped forward. I was standing with my younger cousin, but I wouldn’t go. She says, ‘Miriam, what are you doing?’ ”

“Something was holding me back. Someone was watching over me. I feel maybe my mother, maybe God. Two hundred women stepped forward and 200 women went to the gas chamber. And I don’t know why I didn’t step forward.

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Not stepping forward at Auschwitz was a beginning, not an end. There were other mysteries of fate that, in the dying months of the Second World War in the deadened landscape of Nazi Germany, brought seven pregnant Jewish women together in Kaufering I, a sub-camp of Dachau, where seven Jewish babies would be born.

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The Germans murdered over a million Jewish children. Like the sick and the old, they were viewed as useless mouths to feed and often among the first killed. Some were used in medical experiments, but newborns were typically murdered at birth.

Almost seven decades after the war, the seven Jewish babies of Kaufering — three boys, four girls — are still alive, scattered about the globe, the youngest living survivors of the Holocaust.


I read stuff like this and wonder how can people deny the holocaust.
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Re: Pregnant in Auschwitz
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 09:17:39 AM »
Pregnant in Auschwitz: Toronto Holocaust survivor recalls split-second decision that saved her and unborn son

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Miriam Rosenthal was four-months pregnant, starving, bone-tired, cold, filthy and afraid when an SS officer in big black boots and a crisp uniform appeared before the barracks in Auschwitz with a loudspeaker in hand.

All pregnant women line up, he barked. Line up, line up — your food portions are being doubled.

“Can you imagine?” Miriam asks. “Even women who were not pregnant stepped forward. I was standing with my younger cousin, but I wouldn’t go. She says, ‘Miriam, what are you doing?’ ”

“Something was holding me back. Someone was watching over me. I feel maybe my mother, maybe God. Two hundred women stepped forward and 200 women went to the gas chamber. And I don’t know why I didn’t step forward.

***

Not stepping forward at Auschwitz was a beginning, not an end. There were other mysteries of fate that, in the dying months of the Second World War in the deadened landscape of Nazi Germany, brought seven pregnant Jewish women together in Kaufering I, a sub-camp of Dachau, where seven Jewish babies would be born.

***

The Germans murdered over a million Jewish children. Like the sick and the old, they were viewed as useless mouths to feed and often among the first killed. Some were used in medical experiments, but newborns were typically murdered at birth.

Almost seven decades after the war, the seven Jewish babies of Kaufering — three boys, four girls — are still alive, scattered about the globe, the youngest living survivors of the Holocaust.


I read stuff like this and wonder how can people deny the holocaust.

Because it doesn't fit their agenda.
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Re: Pregnant in Auschwitz
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2013, 12:08:03 PM »
And never forget, the links between progressives and Nazis are clear!
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Re: Pregnant in Auschwitz
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2013, 12:17:00 PM »
And never forget, the links between progressives and Nazis are clear!

I'm still amused by the left's claim that Hitler was right wing.  Why it's as if they don't know what NAZI stands for.  I think they believe Hitler to be right wing because he attacked the Soviets, and only a right wing crazy would attack such a perfect example of good governance as Soviet Russia.

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Re: Pregnant in Auschwitz
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2013, 06:57:32 AM »
And never forget, the links between progressives and Nazis are clear!

I'm still amused by the left's claim that Hitler was right wing.  Why it's as if they don't know what NAZI stands for.  I think they believe Hitler to be right wing because he attacked the Soviets, and only a right wing crazy would attack such a perfect example of good governance as Soviet Russia.

Something so stunningly simple and retarded probably is the answer for many in the rank-and-file Left, the elitists and agitators herding them though damn well know better but choose to spread disinformation to keep the herd moving as directed.

In practical effect to the individual there really is little difference between the tyranny of National (Fascist) Socialism and Totalitarian (Communist) Socialism...but I have to think an honest objective observer would see that the Fascists actually think themselves superior because they don't destroy capitalism but control it (much like the crony capitalism favored by Statists in the US today) and because as long as you know your place in the state you have a certain appearance of freedom of movement...whereas the Communists think themselves superior because of the destruction of all capitalist pretensions and the phoney egalitarianism of collectivist ideals.  Both end up with power in the hands of one strongman who parcels out fiefdoms within the bureaucracy one layer at a time.  That and the fact that Nazis were still nominally religious and communism is militantly anti-religious explains why they hated each other.
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Re: Pregnant in Auschwitz
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2013, 10:21:01 AM »
Both were born out of class struggles, and agitation to take from the rich.