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Holocaust - Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims - Pictures and Stories
It was only after I moved to the Los Angeles area several years ago that I realized that many people were not aware that millions of victims of the Holocaust were NOT Jewish. Outside the Polish community, I heard very little mention about the five million non-Jewish victims -- usually referred to as "the others". Whenever
I mentioned that my parents were survivors of the Holocaust, people
would look at me oddly and say, "Oh, I didn't know you were
Jewish?" I realized that most people were not aware of any other Holocaust victims except Jews. I am Jewish. I converted in 1978 after studying at the University of Judaism one year before marrying a Jewish man. I belong to a temple where my daughter attends religious school. I love the Jewish religion and I admire the Jewish community. In no way do I want to diminish the enormous magnitude of the victimization and murder of the 5,860,000 Jewish people. The Jews were singled out by the Nazis for total extermination -- a significant fact that I do not repudiate, nor want to diminish in any way. The Jewish people have done an extraordinary job of making the younger generation around the world aware of their persecution and the immense tragedy of the Holocaust. But what about "the others"? There were five million of them. Who were they? Whose children, whose mothers and fathers were they? How could five million human beings have been killed and forgotten? After
studying carefully-documented books, and interviewing non-Jewish survivors,
I found more information about the five million forgotten than I had
ever imagined -- information that most people are not aware of. Polish
citizens suffered enormously during the Holocaust -- Jews and non-Jews.
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