tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post4187605638625594136..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Raoul Wallenberg: a great biography Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4162281847128945962017-12-07T09:28:07.388+11:002017-12-07T09:28:07.388+11:00Thank you Mira for your letter.
Degob said the sp...Thank you Mira for your letter.<br /><br />Degob said the speed with which the Hungarian authorities cast out Jews from society, then robbed, segregated and deported them was unprecedented in the entire history of the Holocaust. And although there were indeed massacres on Hungarian soil, the Arrow Cross did not build their own death camps. Instead they put Hungarian citizens on trains and told them they were going to Polish death camps - I know that from my late mother in law and her sister, my late aunt (as well as from the books written by historians).<br /><br />Nonetheless I will alter the wording in my post.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-64918337514157608392017-12-07T01:21:00.019+11:002017-12-07T01:21:00.019+11:00Dear Sir or Madame,
We are writing in order to dr...Dear Sir or Madame,<br /><br />We are writing in order to draw your attention to the fact that the gravely false and highly defamatory statement „Polish death camps" is still being used as in the following article: http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2017/12/raoul-wallenberg-great-biography.html <br /><br />There were only camps established by Germany in German-occupied Poland.<br /><br />The proper reference to the German camps therefore is as follows:<br />- German camps in German-occupied Poland<br />- German Nazi camps in German-occupied Poland<br />- German camps in Nazi-occupied Poland<br />- Nazi camps in German-occupied Poland<br /><br />We do call you for correction.<br />Sincerely,<br />Mira Wszelaka<br />Chairman of the Polish League Against Defamation<br /><br />Mira Wszelakahttp://rdi-plad.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-9115314898448421292017-12-06T11:25:38.352+11:002017-12-06T11:25:38.352+11:00Andrew
I don't think we will ever know where ...Andrew<br /><br />I don't think we will ever know where and when Wallenberg died, until the Russians open the files. And even then, the details may be lost. My question is why didn't the Swedish government and foreign service help Wallenberg's family in the 1950s? If an Australian citizen disappeared in another country, our embassies would be all over it like a rash. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-89691041751263606202017-12-06T11:09:52.432+11:002017-12-06T11:09:52.432+11:00It is puzzling as to why the Russians imprisoned W...It is puzzling as to why the Russians imprisoned Wallenberg. I note he died in 1947. I recently heard on the radio of how five friends in Budapest saved thousands of Jews by forging identity documents. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-87066854238997284912017-12-06T11:04:46.300+11:002017-12-06T11:04:46.300+11:00Joseph
what an irony. Head of State Miklós Horthy...Joseph<br /><br />what an irony. Head of State Miklós Horthy was an anti-Semite and bitterly anti Russian, so not exactly hero material. Yet in August 1944 when the Germans demanded the resumption of the deportations of Hungary's Jews, Horthy assembled loyal troops and cancelled the deportations for good. Horthy even dismissed the pro-Nazi Sztójay government and appointed anti-Nazi general Geza Lakatos as his new prime minister.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-14002421198938719152017-12-06T10:51:27.475+11:002017-12-06T10:51:27.475+11:00Parnassus
not just the Nazis in Germany. From 193...Parnassus<br /><br />not just the Nazis in Germany. From 1939 on, the Germans had to invade and enact extermination plans in many countries across Europe themselves. Because they wanted to protect their limited resources, the Germans found three nations where they totally trusted the local Fascists to efficiently do the massacres themselves, including Hungary. <br /><br />It was only when the Hungarian government attempted to pull out of the alliance with Germany in March 1944 that Germany had to send its troops to Hungary.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-6484402945998154852017-12-06T10:41:03.289+11:002017-12-06T10:41:03.289+11:00bazza
there were some truly wonderful people arou...bazza<br /><br />there were some truly wonderful people around. Private women who found a baby on their doorstep and raised it as if it were their own. And public men who used their official positions to save hundreds or even thousands of strangers' lives. Consider Varian Fry<br />http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/varian-fry-hero-and-rescuer-of.html,<br />Sir Nicholas Winton http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/sir-nicholas-winton-ordinary-man.html and Chiune Sugihara http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/jewish-shanghai-1850-1950-safe-haven.html<br /><br />But there was something very special about Raoul Wallenberg, extremely brave and driven to take endless risks, especially once the Arrow Cross fascists seized power in March 1944. I wish he could have been called to Budapest earlier than July 1944.<br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-51142465782054332262017-12-05T23:25:51.292+11:002017-12-05T23:25:51.292+11:00Excellent that Horthy showed some unexpected brave...Excellent that Horthy showed some unexpected bravery and independence. No wonder he lost power and was sent into exile by the Nazis.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07701188167981018244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-84420090377100016982017-12-05T21:36:11.656+11:002017-12-05T21:36:11.656+11:00Hello Hels, It is very depressing to read these s...Hello Hels, It is very depressing to read these stories of Nazi persecution. Even when we read the happy news of the saving of 30-40,000 Hungarian Jews, we still have to think of the horrible fate of the remainder. The Nazis continue to escape comprehensibility in the sheer scope of their inhumanity.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-53386580731890924672017-12-05T20:06:07.888+11:002017-12-05T20:06:07.888+11:00Such a moving story Hels. I have seen the Avenue o...Such a moving story Hels. I have seen the Avenue of the Righteous in Yad Vashem which was almost too heart-breaking to bear. Not only was Raoul Wallenberg an almost-impossible-to-comprehend hero but had to suffer an ignominious, if unknown, death.<br />I am currently trying to read the kind of history that will help me to understand the origin and continuing flourishing of antiSemitism; for the life of me I cannot begin to comprehend it.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s pervasive Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com