The Other Victims
"The following asocial elements are to be transferred from the prison to the Reichsfuehrer S.S. to be worked to death: persons under protective arrest, Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Ukrainians, Poles . . . Czechs, and Germans with sentences of more than eight years . . . quoted by Reichsfuehrer S. S. Himmler, on September 18, 1942". When author Ina R. Friedman wrote this book, by accumulating stories from people in various parts of Germany and the U. S., she unveiled hidden truths that not many people had ever had the opportunity to know, whether due to ignorance, sadness and sorrow, humiliation, secretes to be hidden, or just a desperate need to forget. There was a need for people to know the truth. In reading this book, we find out that sixty years after the Holocaust many people believe that only Jews were the victims of the Nazis. Today, more and more, the truth is being revealed in books like Friedman's and movies from producers like Speilburg. It is important for others to know not only the "harrowing" stories of the Jews persecution, but of the "others" that many never knew were being persecuted. In the book, THE OTHER VICTIMS, Friedman reveals true accounts of who these other victims were and why they were pers
Friedman states, "Rewards were offered for Gypsies, dead or alive". ) and German "defectives" which were the mentally and physically handicapped. It will come through educating people that everyone is different and by accepting that difference as long as our differences are not deadly to others. It was amazing! For instance, black entertainers were popular in Germany before Hitler ever came into power; they were boycotted when the Nazis took over. He came through "hell and back" and in January 1947, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Just as Hitler caused a world of hurts, it is important to believe that each person can make a difference in the world in which we live. As with Zbigniew Zawadzki who was one of the few among nineteen hundred students of the University of Warsaw Medical School who lived to recount the story of his education that was "under fire" in 1940. Things that had never been thought of before actually happened in the twentieth century. One incident most disturbing was the Nuremberg Laws that forbade marriages between Christians and Jews to prevent "race defilement". One of the stories told states that in the nineteenth-century Denmark, on hunt "bagged" 260 men, women, and children. This new religion was based on "Love thy neighbor", but only loyalty to the German Nazi ideals: the purity of German blood and a willingness to die for Hitler. Her reasoning behind her writings, "Like the young people whose stories are told in this book, each of us has a responsibility to safeguard the rights of others. As an educator, this book revealed the hardships of people just like you and me.
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