By Aleksandra Kołeczek, Ostra Zieleń/Polish Young Greens There are hardly any Jews left in Poland nowadays, but the common past bounded us for good. The most painful and terrible event in that past – the Holocaust, dominates our relations. Around one hundred thousand Jews visit Poland every year to visit concentration camps and memorials commemorating…
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The Swedish Tongue and the Holocaust: A Swedish hindsight 70 years later
By Anna Tranberg, Swedish Young Greens In 1943 the Israeli poet Natan Alterman wrote a poem of gratitude to thank Sweden and the Swedes for opening their borders for Jewish refugees. “And while Sweden declared: ‘Let them in!’ while referring To the exiled Jews who were running away, The entire Swedish people couldn’t speak or…
Concentration Camp School Trips: A British hindsight 70 years later
I have never had the sheer awfulness of the Holocaust illustrated more vividly than when I visited the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany as part of a school history trip. Though the buildings of the camp are now empty and sanitised, their histories neatly explained on modern information placards, it was hard not to feel…