Dorian de Wind is a columnist for The Moderate Voice, with which San Diego Jewish World trades stories under auspices of the San Diego Online News Association.
By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — During the Holocaust, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS (the Dutch national railway company), on behalf of the Nazi occupiers, operated the trains that transported more than 100,000 Dutch Jews, first to “transit camps” and then to the Dutch border. There, the Dutch Jews were transferred to […]
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USABy Dorian DeWind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — It has been nearly 75 years since the last train crammed with Dutch Jews destined for the Auschwitz death camp left Westerbork, a camp situated in the northeastern part of the Netherlands that served as a transit camp for Dutch Jews before they were deported to
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryBy Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas (SDONA)– We are all painfully aware of how the unrelenting and inexorable process of aging is taking from us hundreds of members of that Greatest Generation each and every day. The latest sad statistic provided by the Veterans Administration is that our World War II veterans are dying
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USABy Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — It was many years ago when I first heard about a Nazi death camp named Sobibór, nestled deep in the forests of the Lublin district of southeastern Poland. Sobibór was one of three Nazi extermination camps — the other two were Belzek and Treblinka — that had received
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Dorian de Wind, Jewish HistoryBy Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas — Dutch Jews suffered immensely and disproportionately so under the Nazis in World War II. Out of 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands at the outbreak of the war, some 107,000 Jews were deported to death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. At the
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By Dorian De Wind It has been mentioned before, sometimes in passing, sometimes at length. However, the grotesque, cruel irony — the perverse senselessness of it all — did not fully register with me until I read a short, eye-opening column in TIME Magazine. As had been quite apparent from his past actions and diatribe
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