Holocaust

  • Holocaust,  World War II

    Hitler’s Rise to Reign of Terror

    On January 30, 1933 Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Twelve years from his appointment Hitler committed  suicide on April 30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany, but not before using his power to enact the “Final Solution”. The Final Solution is a benign sounding name for an unspeakably evil contemplation. This “solution” as Hitler and the Nazis called it, based on Nazi ideology, resulted in the horrific elimination of millions upon millions of innocent, human lives who were helpless to defend themselves. We must remember this atrocity, the Holocaust,  lest we ever forget. “The genocide of the Jews  was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and…

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    Historical Heroics: Ten Boom Family

    Heroes are not born with super human powers or created from alien DNA, but are everyday people who rise to the occasion when needed.  Ben Levy, a passenger of Asiana Flight 214, during an interview with Anna Werner stated, “Heroism is not one person saving the world.  I think it is about every single action you can take together, combined to create this real heroic event . . . .”  The Ten Booms as a Family exemplified Mr. Levy’s definition of heroism.  When Hitler’s troops invaded the Netherlands, the Ten Boom’s door opened to anyone and everyone in need of shelter.  As the Reich began herding Jews and dissenters, the Ten Boom family took them in and hid…

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    Iron Man has Nothing on These Heroes

    We run to the theaters in mass to watch movies about larger than life fictional action heroes, yet we minimize the real life heroes in our midst.  Real people, whose heroics surpass the fake magnificence of those portrayed on the big screen.  We should be guiding our children toward the real heroes of history.  These are the men and women we want to teach our children to emulate, men and women who placed their lives in danger for others: stories of Corrie ten Boom and Oskar Schindler, real flesh and blood heroes, who stood against the villainous injustices and monstrous persecutions of dictators, Kings, and governments.  Some of our heroes…