Jews were forced to sing on their way to the gas chamber

http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/05/01/hundreds-gather-to-remember-holocaust-in-augusta/

The following quote is from the news article, cited above:

Begin quote

AUGUSTA — The Messalonskee High School Mastersingers performed for more than 200 people as part of the Holocaust Remembrance Day program at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine Sunday afternoon.

The group of nearly 40 singers performed eight “Songs of Darkness and Hope” which were sung by Jews during the Holocaust, including Ani Ma’amin, known to have been sung by dozens of Jews as they were marched to the gas chambers in Nazi death camps. The students worked on the project for nearly a year in preparation for their Yom HaShoah performances.

End quote

According to the official guide book for the Dachau camp, which I purchased on my first visit to the camp, the Jews were forced to sing on their way to work.

Begin quote from guidebook:

“Nevertheless, in the first years the concentration camps offered to the outside world a picture of diligence, order and cleanliness. Terror and oppression were not immediately noticeable. When official visitors were conducted around the camp, they saw sparkling clean barracks, well-tended flower beds, and – from a distance – prisoners marching to work singing.”

End quote

Did those evil Nazis really force the Jews to sing on their way to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, or were they singing on their way to work?

I wrote about the Jews singing on their way to the gas chamber on this previous blog post:

https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/the-jews-were-forced-to-sing-as-they-marched-to-the-gas-chamber-in-the-auschwitz-main-camp/

The following quote is from the same news article, cited above:

Begin quote

Yom HaShoah, as it is known in Israel and colloquially, commemorates the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies. [the American] Congress designated an eight-day period of remembrance from May 1-May 8 in 1980.

The next exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, “Children’s Reactions to the Holocaust,” opens May 16 and runs until August 12.

End quote

What ever happened to separation of church and state in America? Apparently this doesn’t apply to the Holocaust religion.

“selected for the gas chamber at roll call”

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Sara Cain

Today I am commenting on a news article which you can read in full at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4798208,00.html

The following quote is from the news article:

Begin quote

Sara Kain was born in 1919 in Kassa (Košice), Czechoslovakia, to a religiously traditional family of eight. In April 1944, a month after the Germans occupied Hungary, the Jews of Kassa and the neighboring towns were concentrated into a ghetto. In May, they were transferred to a brick factory. Sara, her sister Ethel and her parents were deported to Auschwitz [Birkenau] in early June 1944. […]

On arrival at Auschwitz, Sara’s parents were led to the gas chambers. The girls were processed as inmates at the camp.

Sara suffered from numerous sicknesses in the camp. At one roll call, [her sister] Ethel was selected for the gas chambers. With help from acquaintances, Sara managed to get Ethel back.

In April 1945, the camp was liberated by the US Army. After a period of recuperation, she and Ethel decided to make their way to Eretz Israel, where their brother and sister lived.

End quote

What do we learn from this story, dear readers? We learn that the Jews knew about the gas chambers from the moment that they arrived at Auschwitz. If any young people were separated from their parents, they knew instantly that the parents had been taken immediately to the gas chamber and killed. Yet the Nazis were nice enough to take photos of the old people before gassing them.

Elderly Jews waiting for a truck to take them to the gas chamber

Elderly Jewish men before they were gassed to death

But, not to worry. Young girls were saved, from the gas chamber, by the other prisoners in the camp.

What a sloppy way to conduct a Holocaust! No wonder there are so many survivors still alive today, and able to tell us what really happened.

Auschwitz prisoners celebrate after being liberated by soldiers in the Soviet Union

The Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp were liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev, on January 27, 1945.

The photo above shows a few of the survivors in the main Auschwitz camp, standing near the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate. One prisoner has his arms around the neck of a Soviet soldier who is wearing a fur hat. This photo was staged in early February, 1945 after the liberation, as the liberators did not have cameras with them.

As far as I know, there were no photos taken by the American soldiers, who liberated Auschwitz, according to Sara Cain.