California Holocaust Education & Resource Center

01/25/2025

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Holocaust Education continues~

25 January 1942 | Reichsführer SS Himmler informed the concentration camp inspector Richard Glücks:

"As it is not to be expected that Russian prisoners of war will be obtained in the near future, I order that from among the Jewish men and women emigrating [sic!] from Germany, a large number of them be sent to the camps.

Be prepared, therefore, to transfer 100,000 male Jews and up to 50,000 female Jews to concentration camps in the next four weeks. In the coming weeks, the concentration camps will be entrusted with great economic orders and tasks. SS-Gruppenführer Pohl will inform you of the details".

This was an order which probably had the greatest impact on the entire future of Auschwitz, as it led to the mass deportation of Jews to the camp and the subsequent killing of Jewish children, the sick and the elderly in the gas chambers.

Our podcast explains why, in March 1942, the Auschwitz concentration camp became - at the same time - an extermination center for Jews. Listen here: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2

11/21/2024

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11/20/2024

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The restoration of Hebrew was a forerunner for the revitalisation of other Indigenous languages.

Israel is the only nation where Hebrew is a national language. Jews returning to their ancient homeland were not, and are not, colonizers. They did not impose a foreign language on other peoples in the land, but successfully restored their native tongue to general use.

Their determined effort resulted in something similar to the sacred tongue of the ancient Hebrew prophets being used on Israeli streets, in homes and supermarkets.

Once again, the charges of Israel's critics are shown to be a full-bodied inversion of reality.

Modern Hebrew’s vitality is a product of decolonization, and an example of Indigenous revival and self-determination.

11/20/2024

Anti Israel protestors REMOVED from Capitol Building for disrupting the People’s Business!
THAT’S HOW ITS DONE.

11/17/2024

Holocaust survivor and author Eva Perlman presents her story of survival at College of the Sequoias

11/09/2024

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11/09/2024

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11/05/2024

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Mazal Tov to Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer on her 103rd birthday! ❤️

Friedländer tirelessly educates young people in Germany about the Holocaust, setting an incredible example of determination and commitment to civic responsibility.

10/16/2024

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Varian Fry (1907-67) was born on this day!
He was an American journalist who helped ~4,000 anti-N**i and Jewish refugees to escape the N**i regime and the Holocaust.
Among them were the great artists Andre Masson, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Egon Adler, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Arp, Oscar Dominguez, Fred Stein, Marc Chagall.
Thank you, Varian!

10/15/2024

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15 October 1943 | A transport of 74 Jews deported from Berlin arrived at . 36 people were murdered in a gas chamber after selection. Most of the people in the transport were German Jews - men and women - deported from Otto Weidt workshop in Berlin.

Otto Weidt (b. 1883 - in the picture) was the owner of a workshop for the blind and deaf. During the Holocaust, he fought to protect his Jewish workers against deportation.

A group of blind and deaf Jews was employed at his shop between the years of 1941 and 1943. When the Gestapo began to arrest and deport his Jewish employees, he fought to secure their safety by falsifying documents, bribing officers and hiding them in the back of his shop. Though Weidt, forewarned, kept his shop closed on the day of the Fabrikaktion in February 1943, many of his employees were deported.

After the war, Otto Weidt established an orphanage for survivors of the concentration camps. He died of heart failure in 1947. On September 7, 1971, Yad Vashem recognized Weidt as a Righteous Among the Nations.

07/29/2024

Yes the Button Memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of Adolf Hi**er is completed and open at the Chabad Center of Bakersfield. Our non profit: the California Holocaust Education & Resource Center is again collecting buttons .. Our goal is 1 1/2 million buttons to build a traveling memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by N**i Germany… please contact me if you’d like to help.