Suffering Did Not End For Holocaust Survivors

There is a must read story on yahoo news about the plight of the Jews who were “freed” from the concentration camps after World War II. The Associated Press has been access to the International Tracing Service in the central German town of Bad Arolsen, which is the repository of 16 miles of shelves, containing documents concerning the Jews and other displaced persons. There is also some 3.4 million names on its’ card index of persons who sought refugee relief.
The story reports that these people were treated just as bad by the liberators , as they had been by the Nazi’s, except as one presidential envoy stated “we are not exterminating them”.
I started reading this story as I like history and It is increasingly difficult to find accurate historical documents, and you cannot read approved history books, because they usually distort history to fit their political beliefs.
Many of these people had to stay in the same camps or other hastily set up camps for another brutal winter, with thousands dying daily from hunger, disease, and exhaustion. They were despairing of their situation and many had lost most or all of their families in the death camps.
The reports states that between 500,000 and a million Germans participated in the extermination of the concentration camp victims fewer than 15% were prosecuted and many received displaced person status and came to America among other countries, while many countries refused to allow them entry. Great Britain refused them entry into Palestine as there was a ban on Jewish immigration to the Israeli-state in waiting. Ireland would not allow unmarried mothers into their mostly Catholic country, others rightfully feared returning to the Soviet controlled nations they were from, many Nazi’s made it through with the truly displaced persons into America and no one really looked into it more closely until 1979 when the Justice Department created the Office of Special Investigations to chase former Nazi’s in this country and has successfully prosecuted 104 cases, but many more need to be resolved.
I hope that this huge archive will be digitized at some time so everyone can access it and see how bad these people were treated during the war and after.
I hope you will read the story and send comments to our elected representatives to perhaps provide funds so that this information can be made available. Just the other day I heard a man on the radio making the absurd comment that there was never a Holocaust and that it was a fairy tale made up to allow Jews to get special treatment when they were trying to form the state of Israel. It is morons like that who are particularly dangerous for they often find weak minded people who will believe this type of “truth”. Whether it be David Duke going to the summit on Holocaust myths in Iran to the skinheads defacing synagogues, or even some evangilist’s who preach that Jews will be punished for having killed Christ, even though he too was a Jew. I guess they missed that part of the bible.
Anyway the point of this is to make sure we do not allow this myth of the Holocaust to take hold. There are fewer and fewer people who fought in World War II and liberated the camps as advancing age and death takes these witnesses from us. The documentation must be protected and disseminated, lest as we see in Darfur, and other nations around the world where history is repeating itself and millions are dying as genocide occurs. There is definitely not enough news coverage of this type of story and hopefully as the AP digs into the archives more reporting will be done and more of that time in history can be understood.
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