Office by Alex Penny
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Though the holocaust took place in Europe it effected the whole world. Six million Jews were slaughtered because of who they were. The total increased to eleven million when adding the murdered Gypsies, Homosexuals, and the disabled.
Concentration camps covered the European continent with some 20,000 camps work or extermination camps. Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Treblinka are some of the most well known camps. It is estimated that 1.1 million were killed in Auschwitz alone. The death machine killed two or three thousand people a day. The Nazis tried many methods of killing. This included death by firing squad, Carbon monoxide poison, and Zyklon B. The disposal process: crematoria.
The holocaust was very real. It happened because of an immense hate. Let us love one another. Let us accept others as they are. Do not persecute someone based on religion, race, or gender. As people of the world we can never let this happen again. And we can never forget.
For more information on the various camps visit:
Theodore Roosevelt painting. He created over 600 painting throughout his life time.
Newberry lunch counter. Tampa, FL (1941)
A Soldier’s Boot from Gettysburg- They were so valuable they were even pulled from the feet of dead men on the bloodstained battlefields and were used by prisoners to barter for supplies such as food or tobacco.
If the Union or Confederate soldier was not a horse-mounted cavalryman or officer, he was a foot soldier. Throughout the war, they marched long and hard, sometimes up to 30 or 40 miles a day. As a result, shoes became sorely needed by both sides.
There are many accounts of Rebels marching for miles barefoot during the winter. Often, Rebel foot soldiers with no shoes or poorly fitted ones were organized into separate commands to march apart from the rest of the troops on the soft grassy roadsides. Photo Credit Cowan’s Auctions. sold for 805.00$
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The shirt President Kennedy wore when he was assassinated on November 22nd.
January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Today is the 99th birthday of the Detroit Central train station.
The Statue of Liberty in the making, 1884.
