My Books and Me.
“..Each individual was a world in himself ..unique in his aspirations ..feelings ..hopes ..his past obliterated ..his future cut off at ..roots. Each and every one deserves his place in posterity ..just as he deserves a grave and a tombstone of his own. ..book mentions only a few and we pray that this book will serve as a communal monument for those who have been inadvertently passed over without mention.” Avraham Levite.
Memory is always important to that vibrancy in any History which links us to the past we seek to learn and earn from. Everything I write is personal to me and matters more than 6,000,000 Jewish lives ever proved to matter to the World! As a writer on The Holocaust, I have been enabled to process my own grief, through recognising the immensity of a grief I have yet to comprehend. In a World that proved so intolerable for over 6,000,000 Jews who were removed from it. Also, and I’ve learned this from the sense of that very loss I have encountered time and time again, that to learn of the Jewish suffering is in part to own their particular loss. For me, and so as to add further to such an incomprehensible atrocity, I do not choose to write on that part of my own past which has so impacted me, personally. So I am here exclusively, to remember these over 6,000,000 Jews, and in particular adding as many of their names within the pages of my work, words and Books.
“..In my opinion ..Jewish People were neglected by ..first requirement of their heritage ..their Religion ..and betrayed by ..racial intolerance and human indifference within Man.” Patrick Dempsey.
One of my later Books couldn’t be more important to me as it relates such devastating a loss that rendered 1,500,000 of the Jewish Children superfluous to our own humanity. While there are others of my own Family to remind me of our combined loss, I am mindful of the deeper penetration of loss that reaches the Jews of this World. For these Jews, and more consequentially for Their Children written about here, it is for many to suggest, who now is left to remember them. True! As a Jewish collective, the Jews remember there was once a great more Jewish People in the World and for whose grief we must share. The Jews of today must require from us to share with those who see in The Holocaust all that must matter to humanity. As a State too, Israel recalls the burden of that huge and immeasurable loss that has not weighted as heavily upon a world as it should have done at a time when it could have made a significant difference.
“..Someone who was not there could never really grasp how unreal ..situation was.” Benjamin Berell Ferencz.
In a World which oversaw the dark shadow of such expressed hatred as has consumed these Jews, newer expression of our remorse is sought. For much that I acclaim, there are parts of my very being carefully written into each page of the words in all and any of these books, and works, and their effort is sacrosanct. It is through each and every Book I have written that I truly consider that they are my works for the loss of the over 6,000,000 Jews who were so cruelly taken from life. For that very reason, we are morally obliged to remember them all with more than a vague recollection of why they were so lethally and brutally destroyed. I have detailed within each of my works what I consider is a sincere effort to deliver what I feel over 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews have long deserved, an apology in memory. That they are deprived of all that becomes necessary, in much of their memory that is forever lost to us, we must dig ever more deeply for the barest traces of who they are and what they must have left to us.
“..There are some works you have to return to ..to reprise ..essential necessity of what has been written and what requires an evidenced gain from a futures proof. For me ..to even to attempt to appreciate ..calm dignity of those who Survived ..I aim to ensure nothing I have said has caused such offence as to be somewhat spoiled in my effort.” Patrick Dempsey.
For me, there is also an anger, and though this has to be somewhat subdued, as it must and should not detract from that essential in remembering these Jews, who all through their bitter struggles with the rancid nature angered with hatred, so consumed them. What I aim to achieve, and what remains hidden beneath that more important effort, is in always allowing my effort to further add to their memory. This also sees in my own inner conflict a very grave need to know the why’s and the wherefores of how and why all of this was allowed to happen. While I attempt to barely conceal the rage, I am certain as I allow a prominent grief to inflict its loss upon me, upon more of us, I will not read other works without that sense of despair converting other’s thoughts into my own words. This all then adds to ensure that those destroyed Jews have a reminder for the future that is not removed from us entirely.
“..I built a physical site for visitors ..which tells and presents ..history of The Holocaust. I expanded ..education and research of ..subject and laid ..foundations for making ..place a world center for commemorating ..memory of The Holocaust and its heritage. ..Despite years of lack of diplomatic relations with ..countries of ..Communist bloc in Eastern Europe ..I have been able to establish working relations with archives in these countries and obtain 100’s of 1,000’s of documents relating to The Holocaust there.” Dr. Yitzhak Arad.
My major effort has always been, as I have researched, and as I have trawled through so many other works, that such an intricate search is for more of what is still missing. There is still within me the hope that I can find even one more name that would be otherwise remain lost or heaven forbid, be forgotten. So as to be added to what we may already know, to ensure some of what might yet be forgotten, this is a demand I place upon myself in my search that fills my World with images I cannot maintain, and are not my own. I have thought long and hard about this effort in my first Book’s title, and as I explored the Testimony and recognised there was approaching this Fading Memory in the Holocaust, the title recommended itself. I was talking to a Survivor at the beginning of my journey and recognised in his words, ‘..We are fast approaching our own passing’, and knew full well we owed more to their importance than just the recognition and of their urgent testimony to that fading memory they were facing.
“..my own first Book should have been forming merely ..initial chapter in ..delivery of my continuing and accusing narrative to ..Catastrophe.” Patrick Dempsey.
We are all too soon losing even more access to all of those Survivor’s we will never know, and even from all of those who knew them, there is this urgency to recall some, if any of those lessons they have left to us. What is certain too, and in any of my books, is the fact that they contain my words and they cannot be distorted. Nor can they be edited away from their intention to record the digust humanity must still show for what over 6,000,000 Jews were forced to deal with and could not endure. Not one iota of my effort for these Jewish People can be removed from an emphasis I have truly placed upon my own efforts for them. The words I have truthfully written into The Holocaust pages will remain forever to a posterity that is truly owed to over 6,000,000 Jewish People, and as the pages were always intended. The words I will continue to write will then remain in truth as a catalyst to the very integrity which history must fully demand.
“..pure myth ..Jews ..merely passive. ..Jews fought back ..to a degree no other community anywhere ..would have been capable of. ..they fought against hunger ..starvation ..disease ..a deadly Nazi economic blockade. They fought against murderers and ..traitors ..and ..were utterly alone in their fight. ..forsaken by God and ..man ..surrounded by hatred or indifference. ..there was much heroism ..little beauty ..much toil ..suffering ..no glamour. We fought back on every front ..biological ..economic ..propaganda ..cultural ..with every weapon ..possessed. In ..end ..ruse ..deception ..cunning beyond anything ..world had ever ..seen ..accomplished what hunger ..disease ..terror ..treachery ..could not. What defeated us ..Jewry’s unconquerable optimism ..eternal faith in ..goodness of man ..even a German ..a Nazi ..could never have ..renounced ..own humanity as to murder women ..’children’ coldly ..systematically. ..when we finally took up arms ..we inscribed in ..book of history epic of ..Ghetto Uprising.” Michal Berg.
Indeed, and nor can the very intention of my works be lessened by others whose accusations rouse the neglect they infect all of history with. I understand the tenure, and tenor of their often times vitriolic protestations of works solely dedicated to the Jewish loss. However, I do not deny the weight of a global loss, nor do I stand aside from those who might seek to distort even that. And for some, that effort I am deeply assigned to see’s so many to this day who are somehow fed by that same hatred which consigned the Jews toward oblivion. All of this mounts to my growing demand for those I accuse to bear witness to all truth which is neither tainted by denial nor distorted by bias or hatred. In fact, there is no room for such hatred as its invalid status has proven to the conscience of humanity. The hatred has not yet been fully consumed with destroying these Jews of Europe, as it still flourishes amongst people and nations who seek to continually gain from the arbitrary nature of a hatred for a People, because they are Jews.
“..The Holocaust ..which ..World should clearly recognise is ..most unique ..unparalleled and unprecedented assault upon any People ..and that this World has ever known ..was waged on a People because they are a Jewish People.” Patrick Dempsey.
Tragically, genocide’s continue that have learned the wrong lessons of what over 6,000,000 Jews could not fully survive. I have no personal axe to grind, other than in conducting myself with concern for all that humanity has lost. It quite amazes me that some, in a search for their own distortion, will accuse the very truth I bring to my own words for their own failure to measure the loss to all of humanity. For some, the truth is unnecessary, and so they accuse my words of being somehow contrived or in some way contrary to all that their truthful intention must deliver. In particular, for those words I have given over to those Books I have already delivered, they stand in all honesty as a truth to a witnessed testimony to all of those who afforded us from their vacant space, for us to fill the emptiness with words. My own accusations not withstanding, my words then are aimed first and foremost at those who are the culprits, the perpetrators and the participators in all that was achieved against an innocence measured in over 6,000,000 ways.
“..circumstances of my present life ..impossibility of reaching a large library ..loss of my own books have made me dependent upon notes and ..memory. Both ..supplementary reading and..research demanded by ..very laws of ..craft ..have been denied me.” Marc Bloch.
For those, who stood along the fringes of the gravest tragedy ever to be inflicted upon a group of People, and purely because they were a Jewish People, I add to the terminal library of grief. For those who did nothing to prevent what was done, for all of those of nations or corrupted states, they too are terminally damnable. It was always my essential, that for the over 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews of The Holocaust, I would raise my voice in positive contention. That this reasoning is fully understood, realised and repeatedly conveyed, all forms the essential my words hope to deliver. I understand fully that at times I am too easy to distract, more particularly when corresponding on media or internet platforms. In assuming those who ask the questions, that they suggest they are searching for exactly what I seek, the correct answers I deliver are not always what they want from my work.
“..I thought I had learned of what I needed to know ..so as to write this 1st Book which would be on ..A Child of The Holocaust ..it should be based clearly on what I knew ..World knew.” Patrick Dempsey.
As I give the exact same truthful answers, and they are always truthfully delivered and are never dishonest, I will not sway from what matters. However, once the questions have been asked, and as I find myself responding to what does not matter to my search, let alone to these Jews I speak of and for, the Jewish Child required more and more of the time I would need to deliver for them. I know all too well that there are efforts to detract from what is my aim, to make over 6,000,000 works or words possible to add to a missing evidence for over 6,000,000 ritually Slaughtered Jews. These Jewish People, taken too liberally from all existence, have us as an accused society for such a shameful indifference that is yet to be measured more fully. While it became evident that it was not yet possible for me to write on other than The Holocaust as a whole, the idea for that first book on the Child of The Holocaust would have to wait.
“..first victims were ..Jewish Children ..and I shall never forget ..harrowing scenes and ..blood curdling incidents when ..ss men ..cruelly attacked Children. ..Even today ..cries ..shrieking of those Children are clear in my mind.” Adolf Berman.
What I had earlier sought out, which was only ever to deliver that which is within me to write, and in affording that position which remains to deliver upon the factual truth that is its very integrity. As I was first given the image of the Jewish Child, a 4 year old Tovah ‘Tokele’ Olshak, this presented itself to me in my search for a literary output, I found a way forward. I then garnered how I could not then pass by and not relay my concerns through those exact same words I would use for her, and not for her own community of these over 6,000,000 Jews. In that deep tragedy for Tovah, who was never allowed to live so as to thrive, my emerging words on her behalf will now have to suffice for her loss to all she might have been. So I set out to research all that could be learned, and I realised much of what has been done in our name is as intolerable of humanity and intolerant of Tovah as indifference of the over 6,000,000 has allowed for.
“..fact too is ..testimony of my actual 1st Book ..2nd ..3rd. ..4th Books for those Jews who stood as Jews and were separated out ..incarcerated and destroyed for that very certainty.” Patrick Dempsey.
When I was first introduced to the Survivor, who we are fast running out of, and as their first hand evidence will fade and disappear, we will lose ever more of the truth we seek. This too is the basis of my first book on the Testimony and Fading Memory in The Holocaust, as I realised what and who was being lost. It was an undertaking then for me to ensure that what I presented was accurate, factually true and holding with the very testimony each and every Survivor would recognise. Tragically too, and running concurrent with the faded distance between then and now, there is an ever present intention by too many, to distance us from the entire truth that sought to bury even them. Fuller memory is essential, and in each of my books there is no opportunity for any forgetfulness in this ever expanding search. Words make lines in paragraphs, which continually add to chapters of meaning to their presentation, and that meaning has consistently resigned itself to the very fact that not much is being learned from the words to teach those still unwilling to learn.
“..That there has been and is being considered in Hitler’s headquarters a plan to exterminate all Jews from Germany and German controlled areas in Europe after they have been concentrated in ..East. ..numbers involved is said to be between 3,500,000 and 4,000,000 and ..object to permanently settle ..Jewish Question in Europe.” Dr. Gerhart Riegner.
Of course, there are the doubters, the deniers and those distorters who seek to blend their narrative with a toe hold on the truth, and who do not buy into what it is I have to say. Nor in fact do they read my works, and yet, all the while they are criticising them continually for truth they are unwilling to accept. For over 6,000,000 reasons, those who are thus critical without understanding the truth I deliver, they must first recognise what all truth must ensure. In not one of my books can distortion present itself, and as my works are hard copied, they are not to be altered, and as they cannot be altered, nor can they be corrected for obvious reasons. The debt owed to over 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews therefore, is the fixed notice which presents the reader with nothing other than that very certainty of the factual truth, inherent in the integrity I wish to bring to light. I am sure I have often stated this, and while I have presented many of the facts that are known to History, I have installed a resilience in the memory for over 6,000,000 Jews that has me written across it.
“..The Holocaust strands of atrocity which was exacted in front of them ..there is an accusation which is not fully measured by ..sheer weight of loss of these 6,000,000 annihilated Jews of Europe.” Patrick Dempsey.
I have much to gain from my writing, in the essence of belief I hope to deliver toward them, and it is with an understanding of what matters in all life, and what must be accomplished to secure for all of that life, a formal entreaty with our past which must matter. With this my second book, der Einsatzgruppe and The Destruction of European Jewry, this book emerged from some of the very raw, and brutal detail in my first book. Everyone who has studied the full tenets of The Holocaust knows full well its leading term is The Final Solution, and within that is the pretext to secrete The Jewish Question. However, all too conveniently we allow for all too many, who are ignoring that very fact, that this was Hitler’s resolve for the Jewish problem, as he wished it declared, and his will to do so as completely as he could, that over 6,000,000 Jewish People were so diminished, they disappeared from in front of us. Also, and the very reason for this second book, is in the emergence of that one single and murderous goal which was the single minded and determined effort of Hitler’s tawdry existence, and his wish to become infamous in his existence.
“..Up to 3,000 bodies were burned at a time. About 70,000 corpses were dug up. ..gas vans brought more corpses.” Senya Borisovich Berland.
What Hitler conducted within the field of expansionism, his Weltanschauung, was clearly identifiable so that The Holocaust would more fully come into being, hidden more fully from view. It is to be recognised also that this incursion into multiple states within Europe was a murderous rampage, which was raged by specially focused killing groups. These were in aktionen against Jewish Communities and were well ahead of the creation of the Death Camp system. All too frequently though, and by the endorsement of some, and along with the suggestion of others, these mass murders have become somewhat subjugated to the meaning given over to a more static effort. For the Jews in the Death Camps, we look to this premise of separation as it is suggested, to recognise more precisely, the very details within The Holocaust we have come to recognise. Though we must accept, and so as to allow for any untruthful suggestion that The Final Solution had not long commenced, the Wannsee Conference came into being after these details were well known to the Allies, and even when the Death Camp at Chelmno had come into its operational effort.
“..To hurt a fellow human being ..to have ..capacity to inflict pain upon another person is a terrible indictment which we have inflicted upon mankind.” Patrick Dempsey.
In the mean time, paper’s were filed and memos criss-crossed the administrative Reich, while filling Hitler and hundred’s of the higher echelons of his administration and military, with what was being achieved against the Jewish People. It is still true that other people’s fell, and those many who were killed, and were murdered, they remain outside the remit I seek to recognise as The Jewish Question. Hitler fully formulated the very detail of die Endlosung der Judenfrage was the projected elimination of the Jews of Europe. Then, and as the Wehrmacht drove deeper into neutral territories, where nations betrayed their own Jewish Communities, this was in no way ameliorated by the vicious and brutal treatment meted out to even those not on der Einsatzgruppe’s kill list. Also, and there are still many who seek to signal, that with the gradual emergence of the Death Camp system, along with what Hitler’s Einsatz legions were achieving, that this too was a starting date for the overall atrocity that is to be recognised as containing or even detaining The Holocaust.
“..I am awake to ..prospect that was denied ..Jews of The Holocaust to find sanctuary ..find allies or at least ..weapons necessary to fight ..common evil of Hitler’s Reich.” Patrick Dempsey.
Regrettably, with the emergence of the Chelmno Death Camp, this would exclude in excess of 1,000,000 already Destroyed Jews from the tentacles of the annihilation intended for them. In such a case, this would also be excluding those numbers from being included in the overall assessment that is the overall tragedy that became The Holocaust, and this was particularly so, prior to The Wannsee Conference. With this lack of an incremental appreciation of the course of these events, is it not fair to be more fully truthful, and even as Chelmno was now in operation gassing Kolo’s Jews, can we ever be irresponsible enough not to include such losses. Also, added to this burgeoning assessment is the huge losses of those Jews of the Ghetto, who had been assigned to death through starvation, assault and brutal murder. Each of these converging aktionen, adding always to the overall assessment still to be made, and even after that fact, we must ensure the inclusion of all Jews Slaughtered as a result of Hitler’s rabid hatred, are equally recorded.
“..I also needed to inform those Jews who Survived ..that a non-Jew would spend ..time to inform ..accuse and research well what intolerable atrocity’s these 6,000,000 People faced ..simply for being Jews.” Patrick Dempsey.
An evidence which saw more than these 1,000,000 already executed Jews, in both Chelmno and by der Einsatzgruppe, all added to the emergence of Hitler’s resolve and the escalating terms of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. All other considerations must add more deliberately to what becomes entered into this realm of The Holocaust period. The proposal, that with the conducting of The Wannsee Conference, this signalled the commencement of The Holocaust itself is extremely harmful to the very truth we always wish to properly communicate. However, this failed Wannsee suggestion is incorrectly broached, and is a complete smoke screen to divert attention away from those Jews already being murdered, killed and allowed to die and by whom. This I suggest will only detract from the fuller truth which Slaughtered ever more Jews prior to such contentions, as themed at Wannsee, and even by der Einsatz operations. For me, this series of distractions is intentional, as I feel the presenting of this conference as the commencement date for The Final Solution, excludes ever more Jews from the terms of Hitler’s slaughter. This obfuscation is also the premise by which too many seek to remove the very terms of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question away from Hitler’s Worldview.
“..after all these years ..Jewish Children would be clearly identified as from amongst ..1,500,000 Murdered Jewish Children of ..6,000,000 Jewish People ..who are The Holocaust.” Patrick Dempsey.
This aim of world domination, which is Hitler’s proposed Weltanschauung, which began with Hitler’s deliberate enactment of World War II, beginning on September 1st 1939, ensured that Lebensraum, the necessary room to assail 3,650,000 Polish Jews became fully available to him. Initially, Poland was to prove the testing ground for this annihilation of Polish Jews, and eventually this would completely be a resolve, for the remainder of European Jewry, that this plan too would eventually follow them into extermination. There is always this confusing demand shrouding some elaborate search for a start date to Hitler’s plan for the Jewish People. Personally, and I feel all of this is presented to disguise the fact that the massing of Murder toward the Jews of Europe was always in preparation, even prior to those initial steps when Hitler gained power in 1932. That being the case however, and then definitely since the Polish Invasion, perhaps more than 1,000,000 Jews are already brutally Murdered and Slaughtered even before World War II was fully in motion, and is already competing for that deadly position with Hitler’s Worldview.
“..I do know that ..intention was to ensure NO Jew ..Male ..Female ..Child ..Infant or Baby would Survive ..tenets of die Endlosung der Judenfrage ..as Hitler had ordained them.” Patrick Dempsey.
This murderous effort against the Jews is all in accordance with Hitler’s parallel attempt in the despotic terms for a World of war. This has all been linked by Hitler’s warped view of a World he demanded would be fully subjugated to his will. Then, and with a hatred for the Jews that would see both Jewish and World views as consequences to be crushed under foot of his design, Jews would be destroyed. With the formative Einsatz entering the field in 1939, The Final Solution of The Jewish Question was never to be limited to the role to be played by the Death Camp System. The Wannsee Conference itself recognised this combined effort of mass destruction, and of its own role in adminsitering toward it. The Conference itself represents nothing other than the inveigling of all areas of the Reich in the full knowledge of what The Final Solution intended for all of European Jewry. In 1939, 1941 or even 1942 alone, and with each of their corresponding dates, these alone cannot stand over The Holocaust as a de facto identification of the earliest role for Hitler’s resolve for the Jewish Question.
“..Perhaps I ought to go away from this Town which I loved above all else ..but which had become a tomb of all my memories ..from this country ..only one I knew ..which had turned into a vast cemetery inhabited by 1,000,000’s of unavenged ghosts.” Janina Dawidowicz.
It is somewhat obvious that there is a contention in this, a seeming intention to then deny ever more Jews a space within the atrocity designated specifically for them. I recognise what those who intrude into World History appear all too keen to augment with obfuscation and confusion. Those who seek a distancing from ever more guilt cannot be allowed to deny the presence of the Jews who are resident within its troubling detail. But let us assure History, we will not forget what 3,000 mass Murderers of der Einsatzgruppe achieved, let alone the 10’s of 1,000’s who were the willing tools of the Camp system and the million’s of others whose pliability ensure over 6,000,000 Jewish losses. But not just these, all of those with any ability that sponsored and promoted with the logistical assistance of the entire Reich, there is an assault upon the Jewish People which resulted in the carnage of a civilisation brought to its knees.
“..I want my work to have validity ..and I do not simply want to communicate ..condemnation ..of all that was done against ..Jewish People ..but I roundly condemn all those who perpetrated these crimes ..without us learning from ..process.” Patrick Dempsey.
We must include, alongside the bureaucracy of the Reich, the Wehrmacht, Waffen SS, Police Units and those locals in fullest collaboration, we record that all of these colluded in a combined killing force. Such force alone was totalling of over 90,000 or 100,000 personnel in all, who were detailed to commit the shootings, and killings, on the ground. So that my work does not stand alone as a connector between the rise of Hitler and the Destruction of over 6,000,000 Jewish People, I consider my accusation well. That said, it became clear, and from the midst of my 2nd Book that there appeared an atrocity, within the fullest terms of The Holocaust itself, which stands out. From the depths of these deviant and apparent horrors, we venture toward the ravine that sits outside the Ukrainian City of Kiev. To my mind, the line toward destruction of 33,771 Kievan Jews marching towards their destruction is fixed firmly into my consciousness.
“..On 7th. October.1941. In agreement with ..city military command ..all ..Jews of Kiev were ordered to appear at a certain place on Monday ..29 September ..by 6 o’clock. This order was publicized by posters all over ..town by members of ..newly organized Ukrainian militia. At ..same time ..oral information was passed that all ..Jews of Kiev would be moved to another place. In cooperations with ..HQ of EGC and 2 Kommandos of ..police regiment South ..Sonderkommando 4a executed 33,771 Jews on September 29 and 30.” Operational Situation Report.
That is what necessitated the essential need for me in the writing of my 3rd Book, on Babi Yar-A Jewish Catastrophe. Such is the devastation that was evidenced here, with every affront to human decency and compassion delivered, a learning curve had become understood. In this singular atrocity, we are at once brought to the forefront of what other measures are sought for the overall horror soon to be inflicted upon the remaining Europe of Jewish People. It is not just here in Kiev, or even the Ukraine or from within the wider Russian Front, but throughout the whole of Europe that the weight of atrocity will befall the Jewish People. The sheer capacity though, to destroy an acknowledged 33,771 Jews of Kiev, and over a 2 day period, from September 29th 1941 and September 30th 1941, is the single most and concerted atrocity ever perpetrated against the Jewish People during the entirety of The Holocaust period. In its enactment alone, one man stands out as a mass murderer, and on such an industrial scale, that Paul Blobel is recorded as such and his role too is pivotal in leading and orchestrating the final effort to destroy what Jews there were that stood before him. On the cover of my 3rd Book you will see the Killers sifting through the debris of 33,771 Slaughtered Jews, seeking goods and valuables. What is to be depicted from within those pages, I continually add to a known fact that was spread across the airwaves toward Hitler’s desk. Hitler was not only set upon the Slaughter of every one of 11,293,300 Jews within Europe, but the theft also of every single item of Jewish worth available to him. What is to be wilfully stolen so as to build Hitler’s Reich, the subsequent larceny is not to be ignored by any study of the overall atrocity. As to its monetary scale, we recognise that such wealth as was diverted has filled the World of banking to this day, and has enriched the immoral idea of theft, larceny and greed.
“..memory of what happened to 6,000,000 Jews ..1,500,000 of whom are Jewish Children ..has to resonate with purpose for everyone so as to ensure their loss is not forever in vain.” Patrick Dempsey.
Also, and toward the ending days of The Holocaust itself, as the realisation that Hitler’s Worldview would be shorter lived than his projected 1,000 year Reich, Blobel would return to seek to erase the very evidence’s of what was a supposedly idealistic undertaking. In that failed yet eventual endeavour of destroying every single Jew in Europe, the detailed assessment remains an atrocity that is beyond compare. Even though Blobel’s effort is etched into the destructive capacity of 33,771 Jews here at Babi Yar, and worse still, when we are at pains to consider what over 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jewish lives must mean for all of humanity, we are to be eternally confounded. There is a combined loss to civilisation too which has been gruesomely assigned to it, and that can never be measured by the human appreciation of what the societal norms must bring to civilisation whilst ignoring the very tenets of that humanitarian understanding. Of course, and once the need then arrived, including here at Babi-Yar, and that the very effort to cover up the disgraceful deeds of a despicable crime were progressed, we blatantly unravel the criminality of such murderous deeds.
“..From as early as 1933 ..with a view being gained to administer ..enemies of ..Reich ..and ..in 1935 ..Belsen came into view.” Patrick Dempsey.
When there then came the need to completely eviscerate all traces and evidence’s of what The Final Solution of the Jewish Question was, Blobel arrived on the scene to disinter and cremate many 1,000,000’s of Jews from Killing Sites, and including the Death Camps. What is particularly specific here at Babi-Yar though is what Hitler was enabled to conceive of and would fully realise that could be achieved. Given Hitler’s realm, and his oversight of The Final Solution of The Jewish Question, it is astonishing at all that any of European Jewry finally managed to escape his hate filled intention. We surely owe credit to those Jewish Survivors who not only managed to Survive, but they were clear in the need to deliver to all of History what can be achieved if hatred for our fellow man is not fully checked. We recognise of course in this Survival, a World entire has been delivered back to the loss we measure in destroyed Jewish lives.
“..Belzec was born out of Kozielsk Hill and Hitler’s desperation to rid Europe of its Jews. This place was to be Hitler’s Endlosung.” Patrick Dempsey.
My 4th Book is somewhat of an enigma, even to me, as I had earlier sketched the outline of a book that was to be my fourth and sought out the advice’s of some in the arena of The Holocaust. The responses were mixed, though in earnest, and some even suggested I choose other routes. I looked deeply at what Elie Wiesel had remarked and put this work, an effort I had been engaged in for a couple of years on hold. It was only during my visits to The Death Camps, and Belzec in particular, that this eventual book Hitler’s Belzec appeared to me. When I finally sat down, especially after visiting Auschwitz and even Birkenau, and while there was a distaste for the promotion of both these Killing Centres as somewhat of a tourist attraction, I was confronted by Belzec as the forgotten sibling in the wilderness of the Death Camp apparel. Belzec alone, one of the smallest of these Death Camps by size, produced an astonishing destructive rate against Galician Jewry, and the wider European Jews, that its mention cannot be ever consigned to a mere footnote.
“..construction of ..6 Death Camps in Poland ..Belzec ..Birkenau ..Chelmno ..Majdanek ..Sobibor and Treblinka ..we recognise their spaces in ..fuller analysis of annihilation process.” Patrick Dempsey.
Alongside this concern, and while there was this ongoing debate raging in Poland, and concerning Poland’s position within The Holocaust, and with regard to these Death Camp’s in Poland, I sought to measure the Jewish loss and deliver it back to Hitler’s ownership. The established system of all 6 Death Camps, and with their very placement upon Polish soil, has irked the Polish consciousness toward a fundamental denial of what was achieved upon Polish soil. For all of these exacting reasons, my 4th Book was conceived of, and its full ownership was delivered back to Hitler’s own demand for such places as Belzec, and with a rightful ownership that truly belongs to Hitler himself. Belzec shines an illuminating light so as to try and pierce the greater darkness that is recognised in such an organised, mechanised and industrial scale operation toward Jewish annihilation. All too many distortions have sought to deny, doubt and even evacuate Hitler’s presence from within The Holocaust, let alone away from The Death Camp system. While it is patently obvious, that Hitler was the director of this barbarity, the Death Camp system does not register itself alongside Hitler, and seeks to even exonerate him from amongst them, until now.
“..destructive demand was on ..insistence of a decree we recognise is The Final Solution of The Jewish Question. As this played out across ..length and breadth of Continental Europe ..6,000,000 Jews were laid to waste.” Patrick Dempsey.
Hitler apparently, the dictator of all he surveyed, or so it seemed, was to remain at the pinnacle of this placement, except where that would appear to having him directing the over 6,000,000 Jews toward their eventual extermination. This was all very convenient, and in promoting the greatest mass murderer in all of history as an absentee, we were being forged toward even a rehabilitation of Hitler’s position as the formative evil doer of all time. Then, and after my visit to Belzec, I was certain I had found a further recourse to serve the proper memory for even more Jews consigned to such inglorious places. I cannot forget here also, that the danger I was placed in, 40 minutes walking through 2 foot of snow, in minus 18 degrees, was a poignant reminder of the footsteps I was following in. I thought then of the Children being swallowed up, neck high by the Snow, and even before they are being funnelled through to being engulfed by the gas fumes awaiting them
“..It is clear here that I speak highly of anyone who stands so much taller in ..midst of ..Catastrophe even when that personage is an SS ..as Kurt Gerstein was. In that assessment I have written of his position in my Book on Hitler’s Belzec.” Patrick Dempsey.
It is also here, that my 5th Book took a poignant shaping, and The Children in The Holocaust required my next effort to expand more fully upon the place the Jewish Child takes up, within the confines of this pernicious and overwhelming atrocity. Belzec though consumed a part of me, and as I met its gates, this was as a ritual reminded me, and that I was somewhat relieved by a welcome knowledge that I would still walk back out of there. Tragically though, I knew that all too many Jews who had entered those gates, Their Jewish Children too, would never emerge again from such a space. Eventually then, and after piecing together my deep sense of their loss, the idea of marrying Hitler’s ownership of all he commanded to demand, and a near forgotten space steeped in the blood of 884,700 Jews and even more, this 4th Book was thus brought forward. The evidence of the overall atrocity is unequivocal, and with it there is such an immense sense of loss, that there is a quite debilitating effort in recollecting the scale of the horror here. Nothing prepared me for what I met with at Belzec, and the huge sense of loss that is emotionally charged as it must be, convinced me to find the words to add to the Jewish loss here.
“..Gerstein was a witness to and subsequently advanced to ..World what he knew of The Death Camp system ..particularly at Belzec and Treblinka.” Patrick Dempsey.
Here too, and what we must recognise in Hitler, and with his go forth and deliver motif, of what was a demand, Belzec is to paraphrase Hitler’s intention for the Jewish People, and all of this must be acknowledged. Then upon a World stage, Hitler required the industrialised processes of the extermination effort, to fully exact his total hatred for the Jewish People. All of these Hitler demands were driven on after 1939, and at Chelmno, and then after with a more methodised, static and even standardised format in all the other 5 Death Camps. Hitler, it must be remembered, placed this very effort against the duty he should have had for the German and Austrian people he sought to speak for. Toward the end of this organised and ritual slaughter, Hitler would waste the lives of countless other’s in achieving his ultimate aim in slaughterig as many Jews as was physically possible. Along with an escalated intensity for mass murder, in the form of places like Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka, the capacity too at the little killing space that is Belzec was erected, and all of these spaces added a greater record of the gassing of the Jewish People, as could be resolved, and from within Poland, was made certain.
“..My permanent motto stands for ..Jews of The Holocaust and for very good reason ..I ensure Always to Remember ..Never to Forget.” Patrick Dempsey.
While we begin to recognise today that at Auschwitz, and even Birkenau, both these Camps now appear today as somewhat vulgar reception centres for human visitor traffic. We see however, and in Belzec in particular, and even in all those other 4 Death Camps, an almost forgotten aspect of the slaughter that must never be minimised. We cannot become all too busy with certain aspects of The Holocaust so as to not know what had transpired elsewhere. Here at Belzec, for whose responsibility Hitler must be registered to it, these annihilation centres cannot become a forgotten arena in the dark gloom that surrounds the Death Camp system. After my visit to Belzec, I sought to return the entire killing apparatus for Jewish Destruction, and its rightful ownership, to the febrile mind of its original creator, Adolf Hitler. While the ink has not dried upon the legislation Hitler delivered to those who became his willing accomplices, no need of any written decree can excuriate Hitler from the midst of this huge undertaking.
“..We shall regain our health only by eliminating ..Jews.” Adolf Hitler.
It was apparent too, that here at Belzec, History sought to diminish an ever larger presence for those Jews that were slaughtered there. Evidence and Testimony stand to deliver 1,300,000 Jews, or as many as 1,500,000 Jews through the gates of Belzec and toward oblivion. However, this accounting though speculated down, and whereas I have delivered my own assessment at 884,700 Jews slaughtered at Belzec, it still remains an under stated assessment we will never guarantee. The final accounting, which still records an evidential loss to humanity of 1,500,000 Jews, must not be discounted. The compassion for the value of loss then, cannot be expressed more accurately, and while loosening the hold we retain for those Jews we cannot account for, we must fully retain the local evidence’s, and immediate testimonies that differ heavily from our own, we must add more fully to the documented proofs that exist. All too easily, we set aside these specific accounts so as to submit to History what is a lessening account for the overall catastrophe that is to be charged against us for the more total extermination of the Jewish People.
“..while exclusivity exists in ..realm of The Holocaust ..by which all Jews were Victims ..it is clear that not all victims of ..War Hitler waged were Jewish. However ..The Holocaust was an exclusive effort ..and detailing as such for solely detailing Jews for their confinement within its grasp.” Patrick Dempsey.
As the media seldom works for other than what profits an agenda, my Books, as with any Book written with a wished for integrity that is always searching for the fuller truth, my work must uphold its legitimacy. I make no comparison here, whatsoever but what I have sought to learn of, and what I have learned from, cannot know in any remote sense of any knowledge, what exactly those like Rudolf Reder knew, intimately. What I have sought to deliver however, always looking back, are as many of the factual truths to have emerged from such a space as is the individual Death Camp. The Holocaust owes to History what it is we must learn from in order to not allow it to repeat what we must never repeat, and is essential that we learn from. However, and in order to restore some balance to the commercialism swilling around Auschwitz, it is essential that Belzec, as with Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka are recognised equally as spaces of such devastation towards those Jews, and many others deposited there, that we pay respects to their presence in the Jewish losses conceived of within all of them. For Jews like Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman, who are recognised as only 2 of 3 Jews who Survived Belzec, we owe it to them to record what they have left behind to remind us of all that has been left behind.
“..criminal German monster spread lush vegitation over ..Jewish grave of 1,000,000 at Belzec.” Rudolf Reder.
With the evidence that the Rabbi of Blazowa also survived, and this is clearly identified, his position does not afford us any further testimony for corroboration. It is extremely important though to recognise, that we do not allow anyone to ever exempt Hitler from the horror which is Hitler’s Belzec. With that all still resonating clearly in my mind, I was presented with an impression of what all of that means, and it is a shocking reality that so many Jews can be denied so much, and be afforded so little consideration in simply remembering them. While it is true that great strides have been made in recognising the enormous debt humanity owes to these over 6,000,000 Jews, we come to recognise that at places such as the gates to Hitler’s Belzec, let us not forget that there are at least 884,700 Jewish People who are confined here. The weight of words necessary therefore, to even attempt to clarify the depth of loss, will never be quantified in the words sought out to add to add emotively but factually to their entire memory.
“..negative aspects of ..frustrating effort for all of History ..which persuaded me to focus my intention where it belonged on The Holocaust and with 6,000,000 Jews whose extinguished voice called out for a chance to speak.” Patrick Dempsey.
Here then, and as I move on, and in the image I placed on this my 5th Book, and as it features heavily on the discourse of The Holocaust, the Jewish Children are brought to mind. I again set forth my accusation for a memory that has clearly interrupted the lives of those most innocent and in need of protection, the Jewish Children. The image I sought for this, of a small group of Jewish Children, is both harrowing and fully aware of what they could never expect to then achiever in their tiny lives. But, for The Child in The Holocaust, who are clearly removed from the fabric of life, the word imagery is disguised by the colour of their blood which synthesises our responsibility toward them. What is almost obscured by the words the image must present, are not lost to those of us who seek to recall what no Child should ever experience. The loss of that hope they have invested in reaching an older human status, civilised humanity was where we placed them so as to safeguard their prospective future. In the context of these words, Jewish Children were force fed into an apparatus of sheer destruction we can never excuse, nor forget. I am mindful too of those many Jewish Survivors who will choose not to forgive, but for me, We cannot ever forgive what was done to others, and here within these words, are the memory for these over 1,500,000 Jewish Children specifically.
“..If this Book should contain just 1,500,000 words ..it would never come close enough to ..form of our detestation to register for ..Jewish Children’s loss.” Patrick Dempsey.
Here too I have used words that are no longer mine as they belong more appropriately to these over 1,500,000 Jewish Children, now lost to us and taken from us before they had decided to go. As my words are etched, they have sought to add to what was done to all the over 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, who too were not allowed to object to their own annihilation. Here, and by a devastation that was always intended for the Jews of Europe, and eventually, World Jewry, I bring to bear my own lasting image of what remained of my two Sister’s, as they were borne away from us. This was of their tiny White Coffins as they were placed in a hearse, such was this last respect that was not made available to any of these Jewish Children. I am mindful too that there were once over 1,500,000 Jewish Children, placed in Cattle Wagons, Gassing Vans or just deposited in Gas Chambers from which there was no release. These Children, nestled as they were alongside a supposed civilised society that was sworn to protect them, then abandoned them, fully degraded them and suffocated them from existence. And of them, these destroyed Jewish Children, they were exterminated for being Jews, along with much of their entire Family line, which expired alongside them. So the cover to this Book, is a stark White, and this is a reflection of innocent lives lost that were once Jewish Children, as these Children themselves depict.
“..There is a picture which emerges still ..and it is with ..Jewish People as ..concerted effort for Hitler’s abject hatred for ..Jews. With their systematic Slaughter ..which was Hitler’s focus since he first sought to articulate his enmity for ..Jewish People ..words could not conceal ..deeply held conviction of this hatred.” Patrick Dempsey.
The temperature of the contusive elements of The Holocaust are seemingly measured by individual atrocities, whereas they should be tempered by the very loss of the individual lives they seek to communicate. So it appeared essential for me to continue the theme of the loss of the Jewish Children, and for my 6th Book, I also revisited the barbarous nature that is to be recognised within a uniquely murderous endeavour for a killing site. And so was borne The Jews of Babi-Yar, which has been delivered further to a posterity that must not ever diminish the overall loss, or in any way deplete the Jewish presence from within the Ravine of Babi-Yar, just outside Kiev. That detail, which not only confirms the status of its immense atrocity, but recognizes more closely, the individuality of 33,771 of Kiev’s Jewish People, amongst them Malvina Babat and her Sister, Polina Babat, who both add more further to the very meaning of the atrocity. Through their soulful depiction, which proved essential to the presentation of the Cover, their image alone is a searing indictment of what mankind was allowed to achieve against innocent and defenceless People, purely because of the nature of their Jewishness. So please remember, from amongst just these 33,771 Slaughtered Jews, Babi-Yar still resembles to History all that is wrong within it, and reflects poorly upon a supposedly civilised people steeped heavily in its commissioning. To have sunk so low as to exhibit the darkest atrocity ever to face all of humanity, accuses a silent World of loudly ignoring the Jewish plight. I do not tether myself to this stand-alone atrocity, and though its hold on my consciousness is ably written into 33,771 scenarios of sheer destruction, the devastation of its effect rolls through the entire systemic hatred that fills The Holocaust period.
“..All of these individual Jewish People ..all Men ..Women and Their Children are presented so as to remind us all of what can be achieved if we simply stand aside. For my second effort to deliver a more comprehensive study of what was detained within Babi-Yar ..33,771 Jews of Kiev have an enormous accusing voice that echoes through time.” Patrick Dempsey.
While lost in the commotion surrounding who must be presented, or who can never be found, and the startling realisation that within over 6,000,000 Jews of Europe who were Slaughtered, some 3,200,000 of these formed the Female cadre of Jewish existence. In recognising this fact, The Jewish Female in The Holocaust becomes my 7th Book and it is one which more than presents to the World, the utter devastation and loss to us all of these Jewish Females, and in need of a more infinite presentation:
Pessia Aharonowicz, Malka Alterman, Tosia Altman, Rachel Auerbach, Liba Augenfeld, Helena Balicka, Olga Bancic, Genia Barkan, Dvora Baron, Leah Bedzowski, Bashe Berman, Franka Berman, Tosia Berman, Sara Biderman, Chasia Bielicka, Marta Bindiger, Halina Birenbaum, Adina Blady-Szwajgier, Ruth Bondy, Cheyna Borowska, Fania Brantsovsky, Berl Braude, Surika Braverman, Esther Brunstein, Maria ‘Masha’ Bruskina, Margot Cohn, Marianne Cohn, Nesia Cukier, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Marissa Diena, Gusta ‘Justyna’ Dawidson-Draenger, Madeline Dreyfus, Anna Duracz, Lily Ebert, Eva Eger, Pola Elster, Sara Erenshtyen, Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Dr. Bronka ‘Marysia’ Feinmesser, Hella Fellenbaum-Weiss, Genia Fischer, Gisi Fleischman, Havka Folman-Raban, Sara ‘Sarika Yehoshua’ Fortis, Anne Frank, Inge Frank, Towa Frenkel, Regina Fuden, Mira Fuchrer, Reginka Funker, Denise Gamzon, Ina Gelberd, Irka Gelblum, Ala Gertner, Rivka Glanz, Gessia ‘Albina’ Glezer, Masha Glytman, Raizl Korczak, Cathy Gokkes, Mire Gola, Dorka Goldkorn, Chaika Grossman, Rose Grunapfel, Irene Gut-Opdyke, Ester Grynbaum, Miriam Hajnsdorf, Bella ‘Yaari’ Hazan, Ruth Hejman, Etty Hillesum, Roe Holm, Mira Izbicka, Lilly Jacob, Esther Jaffe, Leah Johnson, Sarka Kac, Hannah Karminski, Vitka Kempner-Kovner, Klara Klebanova, Bronia Klibanski-Winicki, Chajka Klinger, Regine-Ariane Knout, Sarah Kopinski, Ruzka Korczak-Marla, Szoszana ‘Marylka’ Kossower, Lonka Kozibrodska, Renia Kukielka, Rae Kushner, Zippora Lehrer, Shanan Lent, Eda Lichtman, Helka Lubartowska, Zivia ‘Cywia’ Lubetkin, Sonia Madeysker, Liza Magun, Alina Margolis, Zelda Mec, Vladka Meed, Aliza Melamed, Genia Meltzer, Gola ‘Lydka’ Mire, Dora Oltulski, Sonia Orbuch, Fredka Oxenhendler-Mazia, Rywka Pasamonik, Roza Papo, Dr. Gisella Perl, Chana Plotnicka, Frumka Plotnicka, Eugenie Polonski, Mila Racine, Jalda Rebling, Haviva Reik, Roza Robotka, Miriam Rotblat, Cesia Rozenberg, Rachel Rudnitki, Regina Safirsztajn, Andree Salomon, Ida Schloss, Tamara ‘Tama’ Schneiderman, Faye ‘Faigel Lazebnik’ Schulman, Hella Schupper-Rufeisen, Inka Schweiger, Faige Segal, Brenda Senders, Dr. Rozka Shabad-Gawronska, Mira Shelub, Hela Shipper, Mira Shelub, Inka Schweiger, Shifra Sokolka, Juliette Stern, Ulla Stern, Hanna Szenes-‘Senesh’, Tema ‘Tamar’ Sznajdermann, Niuta ‘Wanda’ Tejtelbaum, Zelda Nisanilevich Treger, Bronka ‘Boronia’ Vinizka, Ester Wajsblum, Hannaleh Wajsblum, Mala Weinstein, Eta Wrobel, Bluma Wyszogrodzka was shot, Rachela Wyszogrodzka a Fighter who did not Survive Majdanek, Zofia Yamaika, Sara Zagiel, Saba Zalc, Rushka Zilber, Sara Zilber, Malka Zdrojewicz was one of the 3 Hero’s of a positive Jewish Resistance who actually managed to Survive, Malka ‘Mila’ Zimetbaum, Rachel Zylberberg, and Hadassah Zlotnicka.
“..Jewish Female voice is largely omitted ..and even unwritten in ..annals of The Holocaust ..but surely their loss too underwrites it. I simply mean to add further to their missing narrative ..an inclusion which presents as many as 3,200,000 Jewish bodies to ..overall catastrophe.” Patrick Dempsey.
These are but a few of the many who are the very victims of The Holocaust we come to Remember, as they then became victims of their own need to inform us of what they had Survived. For all that these Jewish Females had survived to tell, so as to inform the humanity of the World of the gravest inhumanity ever perceived, the very suggestion that we are in need of learning the lessons they wish to convey, paves our way forward. For the Jewish Female of civilisation, as they provide the backbone of all of humanity, they are an enduring legacy of every restriction placed upon a Gender specific being, and always from a male dominated narrative. Written into the detail of the Jewish Resistance movement has been a Jewish Female who could circumvent all that the Germans could search for. Unlike the Male Jews, the Female Jewish resister’s, could pass all manner of inspections their Male counterparts could not. In contrast to this fact though, the Jewish Female underwent the very extremes of German, Collaborator attention, in a vile and demeaning assault upon the very integrity of their femininity, which is a part of their personality, masculine domination seeks to pursue.
“..While it is essential that no comparison be made between treatments of one gender over another ..it is certain that ..treatment of ..Jewish Female was unequalled. To all intents and purposes ..all Jews were destined for ..same conveyor belt toward their eventual destruction. Whether that was within ..overall Camp system ..designed for Hitler’s multifarious requirements ..or more systematically within ..Vernichtungslager ..The Death Camps, the ending was clear.” Patrick Dempsey.
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