Holocaust Tales in Thuppahi

 April 14, 1945 – Pile of ashes and bones found by U.S. soldiers at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

 

April 12, 1945 – Dwight D. Eisenhower views the charred bodies of prisoners at Ohrdruf concentration camp.

 Cameron Stewart: “The Maisel Twins: Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust reach Their 100th Birthday,” 7 August 2022, https://thuppahis.com/2022/08/07/the-maisel-twins-polish-jews-who-survived-the-holocaust-reach-their-100th-birthday/

Fiona Harari: “Profound Testimonies: Aged Holocaust Survivors in Their Last Testaments,” 27 January 2018, https://thuppahis.com/2018/01/27/profound-testimonies-aged-holocaust-survivors-in-their-last-testament/

  Zygmunt Swisrak:  “Overcoming Hate: A Lesson for Tamils and Sinhalese from A Holocaust Survivor,” 28 January 2018, …………………………………………………. https://thuppahis.com/2018/01/28/overcoming-hate-a-lesson-for-tamils-and-sinhalese-from-a-holocaust-survivor/

https://mhm.org.au/ …. the Melbourne Holocaust Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/ …. US HolocaustMemoriam Musuem

https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/about/photo-archives/world-war-ii-liberation-photography

PLUS ………………… Roughly Comparative Motifs

Michael Roberts: “Anguish as Empowerment …and A Path to Retribution,” 22 March 2017, https://thuppahis.com/?p=24595&preview=trueWalia

Michael Roberts: “Kill Any Sikh: The   Anti-Sikh Pogrom of 1981 in Delhi in Bilawan Singh’s Images,” 26 March 2017, https://thuppahis.com/2017/03/26/kill-any-sikh-the-anti-sikh-pogrom-of-1984-in-delhi-in-bhawan-singhs-images/

 

A Hindy Mob hunting Muslims at Bhagalpur in India in late October 1989 …. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Bhagalpur_violence#:~:text=The%20Bhagalpur%20riots%20of%201989,and%20250%20villages%20around%20it.

Michael Roberts: “The Agony and Ecstasy of a Pogrom: Southern Lanka, July 1983,” Nēthra, April-Sept 2003, 6: 199-213 …….

….. A violent mob at Borella Junction in Colombo 23/24 July 1983  … Pix by Chandragupta Amarasinghe