by | | Dr. Kokkonen Blogs, The Atrocities: Perpetrators, Onlookers, Victims
March 26, 2025, Dr. Susanna Kokkonen There is one story, one particular story for each period or each year. Usually, the story is accompanied by an image. And what would be the enduring image we have of the beginning of 2025? Among the many stories and images, there...
by | | Dr. Kokkonen Blogs, The Atrocities: Perpetrators, Onlookers, Victims
March 2025, Dr. Susanna Kokkonen Holocaust Remembrance Association strongly condemns all antisemitic incidents taking place daily all over the world. Some may have expected that 2025 would turn out to be better than the two previous years. Sadly, we are witnessing...
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December 2024 By: Dr. Susanna Kokkonen Christmas 2024 coincides with the time of Hanukkah – Hebrew month of Kislev, when the ancient war the Maccabees had to fight, ended. The Revolt There was strong Greek cultural and religious influence in the Land...
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by Dr. Susanna Kokkonen On December 15, 1944, eighty years ago, interesting things were happening on the warfront. A talented American conductor, trombone player and artist Glenn Miller flew toward France. He had already raised funds for US troops from October 1942...
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by Dr. Susanna Kokkonen November 1938 was a watershed moment in the history of the world. At the time it may have seemed that there was just a localized persecution of Jews going on in Germany. But we know now that in November 1938 things came to a dangerous point. I...
by | | Dr. Kokkonen Blogs, The Atrocities: Perpetrators, Onlookers, Victims, The Web of Deception: Politics and Propaganda
October 7, 1944, the Sonderkommando started a revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sonderkommando was a specific unit of prisoners. As transportations of Jews arrived at the platform, guards selected those they wanted in the Sonderkommando. The selected prisoners had to be...
