למתחילים Mein Kampf

 Mein Kampf למתחילים

מאת צבי יוליאן רובין

rubin.tzvi@gmail.com

http://www.ernarubin.org/julian/mein_kampf.pdf
http://www.ernarubin.org/julian/mein_kampf.docx

פרקים נבחרים קצרים ממיין קאמפף של אדולף היטלר בצירוף הערות.

רבות נאמר ונכתב על דמותו המסקרנת והחריגה של אדולף היטלר אך סבורני שהדרך הטובה ביותר לתהות על קנקנו של האיש זה לגעת בדבר עצמו – ספרו האוטוביוגראפי Mein Kampf.

הכרך הראשון והשני פורסמו ב-1925 ו-1926, סך הכל 720 עמודים. את הכרך הראשון כתב היטלר בזמן ישיבתו בכלא לנדסברג בעקבות ניסיון ההפיכה הכושל של הפוטש במרתף הבירה, בשנת 1923, ואת השני לאחר שחרורו. את שני הכרכים הכתיב למזכירו רודולף הס. בספר פירט היטלר את משנתו הפוליטית ותוכניותיו לעתידה של גרמניה.

זיכרונות מהשואה בגרמנית

מאת ארנה אלה רובין

הסיפורים מתמקדים בשואת יהודי צ'רנוביץ

http://www.ernarubin.org/de/holocaust_erinnerungen.html

http://www.ernarubin.org/de/geheimsprache.html

http://www.ernarubin.org/de/onkel_hermann.html

http://www.ernarubin.org/de/mami.html

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Highlights from the Holocaust Voyage to Poland - Summer 2014

 On 25 and 26 August 1941, the Jews of Tykocin - men, women and children - were taken to the Lopuchowo forest near the town, required to sing under whip threats. The unfortunate victims were machine-gunned to death and dumped into large pits dug in advance. That day were killed over 1,400 Jews of Tykocin. Poles covering the pits told that the earth moved from death convulsions and that the earth got a red blood hue. 

http://www.ernarubin.org/family_history/poland_2014_en.html
 

Ella Rubin Art Gallery - The Holocaust Mood

About Ella Rubin:

Ella Rubin (Erna Bendit) (1927-2014) was born in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to a Jewish family. There she was grown up in a pre WWII Austro-Hungarian environment (her mother tongue was German).

In 1941, during the Holocaust period, Ella and her family were deported to a few ghettos in Transnistria (Mogilev, Shargorod, Slidy) and returned to Czernowitz in 1944.

In 1946 Ella and her family moved to Galati, Romania on their way to Israel. In 1948 Ella married there Israel Rubin and there their only son, Tzvi, was born.

In 1962 the Rubin family immigrated to Israel and since then they live in Dimona, Israel.

About Ella Rubin's Art:

Ella Rubin has never studied art in a formal way but nevertheless she has been always interested in it deeply. Her artistic interests range from photography, fimo sculpting and writing but she is mostly attracted to painting.

She prefers oil painting, her style is realistic mostly pastoral Romanian landscapes and people, flowers, Gypsy women, clowns and nudes.

Although she has a Holocaust background she has never painted holocaust themes directly but nevertheless all her works are composed of dark hues and colors which reflect a mild sadness and her portraits are to some degree lifeless and lost in thought and even her clowns never smile (Ella's son's evaluation).

More about Ella Rubin and her art:
http://www.art-3000.com/artist/ella_rubin/
http://www.sciencegumshoes.com/family_history/chernivtsi_ukraine.html
http://www.ernarubin.org

The following are a few links about short Holocaust stories from Czernowitz which Erna Rubin wrote in Romanian and her son translated into Hebrew and English:

http://www.ernarubin.org/family_history/secret_language_en.html
http://www.ernarubin.org/family_history/herman_en.html
http://www.ernarubin.org/family_history/mom_en.html
http://www.ernarubin.org/family_history/fundraising_en.html

The Jews of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz; Cernăuţi) in the Holocaust

When Austria-Hungary dissolved in 1918, the city and its surrounding area became a part of the Kingdom of Romania. In 1930, the city reached a population of 112,400 among them 26.8% Jews, the largest demographic group.

In 1940, the Red Army occupied the area and Chernivtsi was allotted to the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviet Union. This prompted Romania to switch from an ally of France and Britain to one of the Nazi Germany; in July 1941, Romanian Army re-took the city as part of the Axis attack on the Soviet Union during World War II.

In August 1941, Romanian military dictator Ion Antonescu ordered the creation of a ghetto in the lowland part of the city, where 50,000 Bukovina Jews were crammed; two thirds of which would be deported to Transnistria (WWII) in October 1941 and partly in early 1942, where the majority perished.

Chernivtsi once had a Jewish community of over 50,000, less than a third of whom survived World War II.

Romanian lawyer and reserve officer Theodor Criveanu, as well as the then city mayor Traian Popovici, supported by General Vasile Ionescu saved 19,689 Jewish people. Initially, Governor of Bukovina Calotescu allowed only 190 Jewish people to stay, but Traian Popovici, after an incredible effort, obtained from the then dictator of Romania Marshall Ion Antonescu an allowance of 20,000.

After World War II, the city was a key node in the Berihah net (Hebrew: Escape), which helped Jews to emigrate to the then Palestine from the difficult conditions after the War. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the majority of the remaining Jewish population emigrated to Israel and the United States.

Traian Popovici and Theodor Criveanu were honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, an honour given to non-Jews who behaved with heroism in trying to save Jewish persons from the genocide of the Holocaust.

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What is Antisemitism?

Yellow badge Star of David called "Judenstern". Part of the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Westphalia, Dorsten, Germany. The wording is the German word for Jew (Jude), written in mock-Hebrew script.

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Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, and/or religion. In its extreme form, it attributes to the Jews an exceptional position among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior group and denies their being part of the nations in which they reside. A person who practices antisemitism is called an antisemite.

Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from individual expressions of hatred and discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs or even state police or military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Extreme instances of persecution include the:

- first Crusade of 1096,

- the expulsion from England in 1290,

- the Spanish Inquisition,

- the expulsion from Spain in 1492,

- the expulsion from Portugal in 1497,

- various pogroms,

- the Dreyfus Affair, and perhaps the most infamous,

- the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"), and that has been its normal use since then.

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