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    Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
    Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
    Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
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    Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims

    By Terese Pencak Schwartz

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    Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?

    The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of children of these survivors who have been searching for a voice - an opportunity to finally be counted. This book defines the non-Jewish Holocaust victims with actual interviews and stories contributed by survivors

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerese Pencak Schwartz
    Release dateJul 8, 2012
    ISBN9781476256375
    Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
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    Terese Pencak Schwartz

    Born in Wildfecken, Germany - in a displaced persons camp after the Second World War, Ms. Schwartz emigrated to the U.S.A. with her parents and younger sister when she was two years old. She was raised in Michigan, and attended Michigan State University where she studied journalism and communication arts. She moved to California in her early twenties, where she married and raised a family. Schwartz began doing research on the subject of non-Jewish Holocaust victims after she converted to Judaism, and in 1997 she published a highly acclaimed website, www.holocaustforgotten.com. Ms. Schwartz is also an artist and fine art photographer, and a juried member of the Thousand Oaks Art Association. The history of the Holocaust - especially related to the non-Jewish victims, continues to be of great interest to her. She is currently working on a second and more expanded volume on the non-Jewish victims.

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      Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims - Terese Pencak Schwartz

      Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims

      By: Terese Pencak Schwartz

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      Copyright 2012 Terese Pencak Schwartz

      4607 Lakeview Canyon Rd., Suite 367

      Westlake Village, California 91361

      U.S.A.

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1 - Five Million Forgotten

      Chapter 2 - Who Were the Others - the Non-Jewish Victims?

      Polish Non-Jews - Hitler's First Target

      Jehovah Witnesses - For Their Religious Beliefs - They Stood Firm

      Rom Gypsies - Executed for Their Race

      Afro-Europeans - Sterilization and Humiliation

      Homosexuals - Tagged and Tortured

      The Disabled - Put to Death Like Cats and Dogs

      Nazi Resisters from All Nations - Men, Women and Children

      Chapter 3 - Resistance Fighter from the Underground

      Chapter 4 - Dutch Teenager in Holland

      Chapter 5 - The Diary of Number 1067

      Chapter 6 - American Citizen and Holocaust Survivor

      Chapter 7 - Kidnapped and Deported

      Chapter 8 - French Survivor of Nordhuesen

      Chapter 9 - Righteous Gentiles - Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust

      Chapter 10 - Jan Karski - Masterpiece of Courage

      Chapter 11 - Zegota: Polish Secret Organization

      Irena Sendler a.k.a, Irena Sendlerowa

      Chapter 12 - She Hid Jews in a German Officer's Mansion

      Chapter 13 - Fake Epidemic Saves a Village

      Chapter 14 - Dutch Doctor and Member of the Underground

      Chapter 15 - The Legacy for the Next Generation

      Bibliography

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      Foreword

      Every semester, I ask my university students, What was the first and last group of people the Nazis mass murdered? They are confident of their reply. The Jews, they say, without hesitation. Some, adopting an air that indicates that they imagine themselves privy to information others lack, report Homosexuals, or Communists. No one ever gets it correct. I ask others, as well, including the PhDs among my colleagues. They don't know, either. The first and last group that the Nazis murdered was handicapped people. When I tell my interlocutors this, they are shocked. They assume I am wrong. They promise me that they will Google this question. How could they be so misinformed about something so important?

      It makes perfect sense for the Nazis to have mass murdered handicapped people first and last. That mass murder is entirely in line with Nazi ideology. The Nazis, as Richard Weikart demonstrated in Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, founded their genocides on a consistent ethic. Their ethic was inspired by atheism, neo-Paganism, and Scientific Racism. Their ethic was voiced before Hitler ever rose to power, by the Scientific Racists in the U.S. who reacted with horror to new, undesirable, peasant immigrants from places like Poland and Italy.

      We need to understand Nazism, and we will not do so until as many people who know the number six million also know the number five million. We need to know that the five million were not killed by accident but very much in line with Nazi ideology. It is difficult to penetrate this thicket of hostility to the story of the Nazi victimization of non-Jews, but Terese Pencak Schwartz has done so, admirably. Terese Pencak Schwartz is a heroine in this battle for truth and understanding. Her success is to every one's benefit; without the kind of information that she insists on presenting, we cannot begin to understand what we do know of the Nazis, or of the Holocaust.

      Danusha V. Goska, PhD

      To my beloved mother, Ewa Pencak, whose legacy I inherited, and to my dearly loved daughter, Sophia Eve Schwartz, who will become heir to it.

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      Acknowledgements

      In addition to the contributors who have allowed me to include their stories in this book:

      John Millrany

      Grace de Ronde

      Susan Ost Perrone

      Zygfryd P. Baginski

      Joseph S. Wardzala

      Michel Depierre and Peter Branton

      Curtis M. Urness, Sr.

      Ryan Bank

      There have been many others whose efforts and encouragement made this work possible including: Prof. Dr. Zdzislaw P. Wesolowski, Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Edward Lucaire, Stefan

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