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    Voices From The Silence
    Voices From The Silence
    Voices From The Silence
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    Voices From The Silence

    By Deslee Campbell

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    An analysis of the diaries of four European Jewish teenagers who perished in the Holocaust by Dr. Deslee Campbell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeslee Campbell
    Release dateMay 23, 2024
    ISBN9798224103362
    Voices From The Silence
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    Deslee Campbell

    About the Author Dr Deslee Campbell, a retired educational psychologist and teacher, is a prolific writer of both fiction and works concerned with history, religion and archaeology. She is particularly interested in art, artefacts and architecture as pathways towards understanding the past. Her doctoral thesis from the University of Sydney is entitled "The Iconography of Women: A Study of Byzantium and the Byzantine-influenced Mediterranean, A.D. 395-1204."  

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      Voices From The Silence - Deslee Campbell

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 1

      What Holocaust?

      ON THE FIRST OF VERY many visits to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem I was accompanied by a Australian woman I had just met. When I told her that this place was a memorial to the Holocaust she said What Holocaust? She was a tourist in Israel, yet she had only the most minimal perception of what Hitler had done, in decimating the World's Jewish population, in exterminating, by various means, two thirds of the Jews of Europe and one fifth of the Jews of the entire world. 

      Despite the claims of the vocal few who say that the Holocaust never happened, (but is a Jewish invention to deceive the world, extract compensation payments from Germany, and legitimise the State of Israel) serious scholars continue to amass the evidence. The six years of the Second World War, of which the Holocaust is a vital part, is the most thoroughly documented and critically researched period of world history, in the annals of humankind. Even after 75 years this painstaking research continues; given new impetus with the release of the vast mass of documentation from former Soviet archives, kept hidden for so many years.

      A representative list of facts and dates are critical as background to an understanding of the Jewish Holocaust. This list shows how early in the Third Reich the concentration camps were established, that anti-Jewish laws preceded the outbreak of War, and that an extermination camp was built and trialled before the `Final Solution of the Jewish Problem' was approved as official policy.

      Jan '33 Adolf Hitler was elected German Chancellor

      Mar '33 Dachau camp established

      Aug '34 Hitler became dictator of Germany, legally

      Sep '35 Nuremberg Laws: Jews civil rights denied

      Jul '37 Buchenwald Camp established

      Mar '38 Hitler annexed Austria

      Aug '38 Attacks on synagogues & against Jews

      Nov '38 Kristallnacht pogroms in Germany

      Mar '39 Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia & Lithuania

      Sep '39 Poland invaded. Allies declared war 

      Oct '39 Jews property seized, Ghettoisation begun

      Jun '41 Shooting squads scour captured Soviet lands

      Oct '41 Birkenau (Auschwitz II) built

      Nov '41 Belzec Extermination Camp built & used

      Jan '42 Final Solution formulated, Nazi leaders agree

      Sep '42 Battle of Stalingrad, the tide turns

      Dec '42 Allies condemn cold blooded extermination

      Feb '43 Gipsy Camp at Auschwitz opened

      Oct '43 Rescue of Danish Jews to Sweden

      May '44 Mass murder of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz

      Jun '44 D-Day Allied Landing in France

      Jul '44 First death march, from Warsaw

      Sep '44 Soviets liberate Klooga camp, 85 Jews alive

      Jan '45 Soviets liberate Auschwitz, 7,650 Jews alive

      Apr '45 Allies liberate Buchenwald & Bergen-Belsen

      Apr '45 Hitler suicides

      May '45 Victory in Europe Day

      Sep '45 Japanese surrender. Victory in the Pacific

      A NUMBER OF ITEMS AT the Yad Vashem Memorial illustrate the significance of these world-shattering events. The Valley of the Destroyed Communities  commemorates the villages and shtetles of Europe, whose entire populations were obliterated without trace. The Hall of Names records as many of the personal details of those who died as surviving friends or relatives can remember: two million names have been recorded so far. The huge six branch Memorial Candelabra, lit each year on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, represents the estimated six million victims. The darkness of the powerfully moving Children’s Memorial, lit by a million tiny reflections of one candle, is a tribute to the children who were lost for all their generations to come. The museum houses Torah Scrolls and religious memorabilia, rescued from destroyed synagogues; and survivor Elsa Pollock's sculpture, a large pile of assorted shoes, reminds us all of the human dimensions: baby shoes, fashion shoes, men’s old work boots, right feet, left feet, broken shoelaces....

      Chapter 2

      Two Girls, Two Boys

      This is the story of four teenagers. It does not begin once upon a time because it is not make believe. It is not fiction. No fiction could be as bizarre, or as tragic, as this story. It is beyond the power of human imagination, of human comprehension: and yet it is true, it is fact, it is history.

      There is no happily ever after ending, no fairy princess or handsome prince to marry them, nor even to take them to the ball. None of the four lived to see their eighteenth birthday, let alone their twenty-first. The Great Silence overtook them in the midst of youth - Hitler's gigantic and insane plan to destroy every Jewish man, woman and child from off the face of Europe.

      Death hath climbed in through our windows

      This is the story of four exceptionally gifted young people, two girls: Eva Heyman and Anne Frank; and two boys: Moshe Flinker and Yitskhok Rudashevski. They were overtaken by the silence of death, all four teenagers perished in the great Nazi Holocaust, yet, through their diaries, they still speak to us across the years. Their pens were mightier than the swords, and the guns of death.

      Three of these teenagers are virtually unknown, but the name of one has become a household word. Anne Frank is widely featured in movies and writings and her former hiding place has become a mecca for tourists, perhaps even a shrine. Anne Frank's diary has become a set textbook for school examinations, and Anne has become a symbol of moral fortitude, upheld before children throughout the westernised world as an example of youthful human virtue and courage.

      Anne's enigmatic `Mona Lisa smile' is a well-known image, but she is not more worthy of our respect than the

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