Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany were persecuted between 1870 and 1936. They went by the name Ernste Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Students) at that time. Because Jehovah's Witnesses would not give allegiance to the Nazi party, and refused to serve in the military, they were put in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Unlike Jews and Gypsies who were persecuted for racial reasons, the Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted on political and ideological grounds. If they were to submit to the state authority, serve in the military and renounce the Bible as "false doctrine" they would be free to go. Nevertheless, approximately 2500 Jehovah's Witnessess (about 10% of the pre-War total in Germany) were sent to concentration camps where they were forced to wear a purple triangle.
Hellenic Holocaust - Hellenic Holocaust The Hellenic Holocaust (also known as the Pontian Greek Genocide) refers to the genocide on and deportation of ethnic Greeks by the Young Turks government in 1914-1922. Before the first World War, an estimated five million ethnic Greeks and Armenians lived throughout the territories that constitute modern-day Turkey. By 1923, at least 2.5 million had been massacred, with the rest fleeing for their lives to Greece and the then-USSR, or had been converted to Islam by force. The term "Pontus" comes from the Greek word for coast, and was applied to the Greek civilization which had lived on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea. It had been an area populated by ethnic Greeks since at least the days of Alexander the Great, once forming.
Holocaust - Holocaust The word Holocaust (Greek, "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering") was introduced in the late 20th century to refer to the attempt of Nazi-ruled Germany to exterminate those groups of people it found "undesirable". Concentration camp inmates during the Shoah Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Terminology and definition 2 Overview 3 Concentration and Extermination Camps 3.1 Jews 3.2 Homosexuals 3.3 Gypsies 3.4 Others 3.5 Extent of the Holocaust 3.6 The Triangles 4 Historical Interpretations 4.7 Functionalism versus Intentionalism 4.8 Revisionists and Deniers 5 Holocaust theology 6 Origin and use of the term 6.9 Political ramifications 7 See also: 8 Further reading 9 External Links Terminology and definition The term is primarily used to refer to the systematic extermination of the approximately 6 million of.
Holocaust denial - Holocaust denial Holocaust denial or Holocaust revisionism is the rejection of some or all of the conventional history of the Holocaust, whereby Nazi Germany and its associates committed genocide against millions of Jews during World War II, according to the specific order of Adolf Hitler. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Terminology 2 Beliefs of Holocaust revisionist 3 Evidence of the Holocaust 3.1 Evidence for Hitler's complicity in the Holocaust 3.2 Evidence that gas chambers were used for killing 3.3 Evidence for the death toll 4 Holocaust revisionism examined 5 The Zündel trial 6 Ken McVay and alt.revisionism 7 The Irving affair 8 References 8.4 Scholarly 8.5 Works by Holocaust deniers 9.
Holocaust theology - Holocaust theology Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditionally have taught that God is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing) and omnibenevolent (all good). Yet, these claims are in jarring contrast with the fact that there is much evil in the world. Perhaps the most difficult question that monotheists have confronted is how can we reconcile the existence of this view of God with the existence of evil? This is the problem of evil. Within all the monotheistic faiths many answers (theodicies) have been proposed. However, in light of the magnitude of evil seen in the Holocaust, many people have re-examined classical views on this subject. How can people still have any kind of faith after the Holocaust? Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jewish theological responses 1.1 Ultra-Orthodox.
Holocaust memorials - Holocaust memorials A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Holocaust and its millions of victims. They include: The Anne Frank museum The Cybrary of the Holocaust The Holocaust History Project The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous The Museum of Tolerance The Nizkor Project The Shoah Memorial Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority and many more... please add to this list.
Endorian Holocaust - Endorian Holocaust The Endorian Holocaust is the devastation of the destruction of the second Death Star. At the end of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the rebels destroyed the second Death Star in orbit around the Forest-Moon of Endor. The Endorian Holocaust may have lead to the extinction of Ewoks on the Forest-Moon of Endor. See also'': Star wars External Links: Endorian Holocaust.
The Holocaust Industry - The Holocaust Industry The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a book by Norman G. Finkelstein which argues that the history of the Holocaust has been corrupted by an "industry" which exploits the memory of the Holocaust to further Jewish and Israeli interests. Many of the book's specific charges are hotly debated: that various parties are exploiting of the tragedy of the Holocaust for political and financial gain. that some attempts to redress the grievances of Jewish Holocaust victims as dishonest that some agencies claiming to represent Holocaust survivors in reparations suitss have kept cash payments due the survivors. that many American Jews are not practicing Judaism but have replaced it with fund-raising for Jewish causes Critical response In response, the book's.
Ka-tzetnik - refer to Jews imprisoned in camps during the Holocaust. It was followed by a number, and this designation was tattooed on the forearm of Jews processed into the camps. Some survivors today still bear the mark, (written K.Z.000000), and one survivor, writer-historian Yehiel Dinur, wrote his books under a penname Ka-Tzetnik 135633, after his Nazi designation. His work documents the history of Nazi atrocities..
Katyn Massacre - States and the United Kingdom refused to support it and German lawyers mounted an embarrassing defense. Katyn is not mentioned in any of the Nuremberg judgements. The question of responsibility remained controversial in the West as well as behind the Iron Curtain. For example, in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, plans for a memorial to the victims bearing the date 1940 (rather 1941) were condemned as provocative in the political climate of the Cold War. In 1989 Soviet scholars revealed that Joseph Stalin had indeed ordered the massacre, and in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD) had executed the Poles, confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn. In 1992, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian officials released the.
Karl Eberhard Schongarth - (1903 - 1946) was a Nazi German associated with the Holocaust during World War II. Schongarth was born in 1903 in the town of Leipzig. He became a member of the SD Sicherheitdienst Intelligence Service of the SS Schutzstaffel in 1933. He later became the SIPO Sicherheitspolizei Security Police head in Government General. He was then appointed Commander of the Gestapo in the Netherlands. During the time he was stationed in Krakow, Poland, he formed an Einsatzgrupen Special Action Group. He was responsible for the murder of up to 4,000 Jewish citizens between July and September of 1941. He was an Attendee to the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, along with Dr Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppen A) who also had participated in genocide. Schongarth was captured at the end of the.
Kafka's language - an interesting Jewish literary tradition: the oldest Jewish prayers (e.g. Mourner's Kaddish) and literature (e.g. The Old Testament's Song of Songs, aka the Song of Solomon) are written in Aramaic-- a trade language older than Hebrew. The vast bulk of the Jewish contribution to World Literature and Art, prior to WWII and Shoa (aka the Holocaust), was in Yiddish-- a pidgin composed of German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, etc. and rendered in the Hebrew character set (just as Aramaic is.) Yiddish was primarily a trade language. What's this all mean? Uncertain-- but certainly an interesting tidbit..
Ken McVay - is one of the Internet's foremost experts on the subject of Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first (and largest) World Wide Web sites dedicated to exposing the truth about Holocaust revisionism and the hate groups that promote it. One of the most active participants on the newsgroup alt.revisionism, McVay describes himself as a person who found himself moved to action by the efforts of Holocaust revisionists on the newsgroup to promote "factual evidence" that he found to be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the revisionists, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did. A former United.
Kinky Friedman - and maudlin ballads (Western Union Wire) with raucously politically incorrect humour (Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In Bed), whilst his "Ride'em Jewboy" was a remarkably effective extended tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. After his music career stalled in the 1980s Friedman found a new lease of life as a detective novelist. His books have many similarities to the music, featuring a fictionalised version of himself solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, Texan charm and Jameson's whiskey in equal measure, written in a straightforward style which owes a debt to Raymond Chandler. Albums (partial list): Sold American Kinky Friedman Lasso From El Paso From One Good American To Another Under the Double Ego Novels: Greenwich Killing Time A Case Of Lone Star.
Kollel - (decisors of Jewish law), or teachers. Links Orthodox Kollels in the USA List of Kollels in the USA Jewish Learning in the Diaspora - List of places to learn A liberal Jewish Kollel in Ontario, Canada A Reform Jewish Kollel for liberal Jews Conservative Judaism's online adult-ed program Torah.org Orthodox Jewish internet education - Learn what they learn in the Kollels Books "The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry" William B. Helmreich, KTAV Publishing House; ISBN 0881256412; Augmented edition (February 2000) "The way we were before our destruction : Lives of Jewish students from Vilna who perished during the Holocaust" Yulian I. Rafes, VIA Press ; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; ISBN 188556306X; (July 1, 1998).
Jacques Verges - He has defended the nazi criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), Ilich Ramirez Sanchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994), the Kekal faction (1995), the Holocaust-denier Roger Gaurady (1996) and Slobodan Milosevic (2002). Born in Thailand and brought up on the Réunion island, he was the son of Raymond Vergès, a French diplomat, and a Vietnamese woman. He joined the Communist party on Reunion and in 1942 he became part of the Free French Forces under Charles de Gaulle. After the war, while his brother Paul was imprisoned for murdering a political rival to their father, Jacques went to the Sorbonne to study law. In 1949 he became president of the AEC (Association for Colonial Students), where he met and befriended Pol Pot. In 1950 at the request of his Communist mentors he went.
Jack Tramiel - 1929 in Lodz, Poland, as Idek Tramielski. He survived the Holocaust. First he worked in the Jewish ghetto in a pants factory only to be transported to Auschwitz. He was separated from his mother who survived the camp. He was examined by Dr. Mengele and sent to Hanover to build another concentration camp (his father died of a gasoline injection when he got sick). Tramiel was rescued in April 1945 by the US liberation army. In 1947, Tramiel emigrated to the United States and soon joined the American Army. In the army he learned how to repair office equipment. In 1953, he bought a shop in Bronx to repair office machinery, and named it Commodore Portable Typewriter. Then he engaged in import of typewriters. In 1955, to circumvent import restrictions, he.
Jasenovac - throats of 1,360 prisoners with a especially designed butcher's knife (called "srbosjek" or Serb-cutter). Having been proclaimed the prize-winner of the competition, he was elected King of the Cut-throats. A gold watch, a silver service, and a roasted sucking pig and wine were his other rewards. At the last moment, in January, 1945, more than 50,000 prisoners who were able to walk were led from the camp. In April 1945 the partisan army approached the camp. The Ustasha attempted to erase traces of the atrocities. The Ustasha camp of death Jasenovac, worked at full capacity all the way to the end of April, 1945. Before leaving the camp, the Ustasha killed the remaining prisoners, blasted and destroyed the buildings, guard-houses, torture rooms, the "Picili Furnace" and the other structures. Upon entering.
James Woods - Mississippi (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Against All Odds, Best Seller, Salvador (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), True Believer, Holocaust, My Name Is Bill W, Citizen Cohn, The Way We Were, The Choirboys, Eyewitness, Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America, Cat's Eye, Chaplin, Curse of the Starving Class, Vampires, The Virgin Suicides, Casino, and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within..
James Hetfield - recorded all rhythm tracks, most harmony tracks, and the occasional solo (the first solos heard in "Master of Puppets" and "Orion," "To Live is to Die," and "Nothing Else Matters"), as well as writing the lyrics, vocal melodies, and co-arranging the songs with Ulrich. He has been involved in many accidents onstage, the most well-known being an incident with pyrotechnics while on the Guns N' Roses/Metallica tour in 1992: Hetfield suffered severe burns to his left arm during the opening of "Fade to Black" and was unable to play guitar for the last two-thirds of the tour (former Metallica roadie and Metal Church guitarist John Marshall filled in while Hetfield continued to sing). He has tattooed his left arm with a picture of flames encasing four cards, - 1963 -, representing.
