| Jordan |
| January 05, 2010 05:07 PM |
I'm in eighth grade, and we are doing a Holocaust project, so I want to say thank you very much for this website because with out if the project would be very hard to do. When the project is done my school has one of the Holocaust survivers come in and talk to us. We are very lucky to have him around to share his story. Thank you once again. :) |
| Charles McCullough |
| January 05, 2010 08:47 AM |
Hello, I am an 8th grader learning about this interesting piece of history. Thank you for the time you spend researching this, as it helps us realize the bad things that happened to the Jewish people, and what we did, as a world, to stop the persecution. |
| Laura Pardue |
| December 30, 2009 12:03 PM |
My father, although a Dutch citizen at the time, was a member of the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) during WWII and was one of the first people to come across the bodies at Gardelegen. At age 85, the images and smells of that day are still seared in his mind. His comments to me are below: If you go to Google and search on "Gardelegen Massacre", you'll see all the things I told you about. I was part of everything you see there. I told my fellow CIC guys that the smelly Russians who had wandered into our "office" seemed to be saying " many dead comrades -- come, come" So Charlie Clift (I think I recall) and I put the Russians in our jeep and went to what turned out to be the barn you see in all the pictures. John Zolty, who used to be a Life photographer took many pictures that day, but I haven't been able to find any. I also don't recognize any of our guys in the pictures, but I am sure we were there before anybody else. The charred bodies of the dead were still smoldering. I worked in and around that barn for many days because there were rumors that there were GI's among the dead. To the best of my knowledge, none were found. (Charlie Clift, by the way, was a newsman who worked for the Reporter magazine as a civilian.) |
| castel jean pierre |
| December 28, 2009 12:15 PM |
mon grand pere etait a bremen farge.Il faisait partie des ffis arretés en 1944,je sais deja un peu plus sur ce qu il a subit. Mille mercis |
| Dave |
| December 27, 2009 02:51 AM |
From a young man in High School I saw the images of the Holocaust in the pages of Life magazines that were in the library of my High School. As a grown man I have seen time and again the persecution of Jewish peoples. I am without answers to this phenomenom. Why is this so persuasive? What is to be achieved by this? Are we not all children of God? What is to become of us? God, forgive these people . . I have not the solution to this problem. Give us strength and understanding. |
| Clare |
| December 23, 2009 04:48 AM |
I'm in year 11 doing GCSE coursework on Nazi Germany and this website is really useful for me, it's very concise! Yes, it is just beyond our understanding to know what it must have felt like to have lived during that time, to fear constantly for your life and your family's life and your friends' lives. It makes me sick to think that people have such hatred in them and are capable of such cruelty and I just thank God that my grandmother who is Jewish and was living in Paris during the war was one of the lucky people who escaped an awful fate. God bless all those who were unlucky enough to be caught and murdered by those barbaric people. |
| Rae |
| December 19, 2009 09:50 PM |
Thank you so much for this site. There is so much information presented in a logical, easy to follow manner, and the in-article links make it simple to explore a topic further. As a 'life long learner', I have a special interest in WWII and eagerly seek out any information about that period. I look forward to exploring this website in depth, and hope to make a visit to the museum in the future. |
| James Curtis |
| December 19, 2009 01:30 PM |
I was stationed in Berlin,Germany from 72-75. I pulled guard duty over Prisoner #7 (Rudolf Hess) at Spandau. I also visited Dauchau and saw via pictures the atrosities those pour souls had to endure. We as a whole world that believes in precious life must never forget! The lives that were taken must not be in vain,we must continue to ecucate the children of this world so that this must not and will not happen ever again. |
| Lawrence Phillips |
| December 17, 2009 09:09 AM |
I'm a 9th grader, and I think this is a very helpful website for the students that have World History class. Keep information on here, so when I have my next project I will come on this wonderful website! (: |
| Nikki |
| December 16, 2009 09:16 PM |
I am currently in the seventh grade and looking up information for my Humanities project. No sites that I have found have given me this much information. I find these articles finely fascinating and I wish to learn more about it. Thank you for having this site up, it has helped me so very much. |
