Riley herndon by Riley Herndon https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf Made with a wish on a star en-us 2018-12-04 21:07:26 UTC 2023-05-18 13:45:33 UTC hello@padlet.com herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312038612 2018-12-06 20:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312038612 herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312043486  ]]> 2018-12-06 21:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312043486 herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312044892 2018-12-06 21:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/312044892 Christian Wirth herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313167158 Christian Wirth’s constant problem at Belzec and the other Aktion Reinhard camps was the wild, undisciplined and often drunken behaviour of the Russian volunteers sent to him from the SS- Trawniki camp as guards.
 
In the early days at Belzec they habitually fraternised with the local villagers, bargained with them on the black market for food, alcohol and even women and on occasions indulged in orgies.
 
Even when on duty at the camps these renegades were mostly drunk which made their behaviour – usually violently anti-Semitic, anyway – even more sadistic towards their victims, and insubordinate to the SS – all of which greatly hindered the smooth running of the extermination operation.
]]> 2018-12-10 20:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313167158 herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313168325 2018-12-10 20:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313168325 Last escape herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313169315 The last escape from among the prisoners in Belzec was Chaim Hirszman. He escaped from the last train out of Belzec after the camp was dismantled. The remaining Jews were being taken to the Sobibor death camp for liquidation in July 1943.]]> 2018-12-10 20:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313169315 herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313170123 2018-12-10 20:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313170123 Bavarian herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313632643 In 1926 a Bavarian law called for the registration of all Gypsies in order to prohibit them from roaming about or camping in bands. The law also noted that they could be sent to labor camps for up to two years if they could not "prove regular employment." As Hitler rose to power, the Gypsies, like the Jews, were officially identified as non-Aryan by the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.]]> 2018-12-11 21:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313632643 Arriving at Hamburg herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313633622 Many had arrived with us from Hamburg, but also from Bremen and Kiel. I think we had to sleep on the straw on the floor. There were no toilets and we could not properly wash. There was only a barrel of water.” ]]> 2018-12-11 21:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313633622 One evening, the company commander Jirmann ordered me to go with him to a copse near the Kommandantur where a bunker was located. I did not know what he intended doing there, but on the way I learned from him that two Ukrainians were locked up there who, during their guard duty had broken into the valuables room. herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313635308 As was the case for the Jews, the outbreak of war in September 1939 radicalized the Nazi regime's policies towards the Romani. Their "resettlement to the East" and their mass murder closely parallel the systematic deportations and killings of the Jews.]]> 2018-12-11 21:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/313635308 One evening, the company commander Jirmann ordered me to go with him to a copse near the Kommandantur where a bunker was located. I did not know what he intended doing there, but on the way I learned from him that two Ukrainians were locked up there who, during their guard duty had broken into the valuables room. herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314044703 2018-12-12 20:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314044703 Revolt camp herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314045114 The revolt in the camp, probably the first one, took place on June 13th when Jews were summoned to remove the corpses of murdered women and children, at the horrible sight – they were standing in the gas chambers holding each others waists and necks, presumably in the pre-natal reflexes – they attacked the Wachmannschaft (the guards) which resulted in a struggle in which 4-6 Germans and nearly all the Jews died, several Jews managed to escape.]]> 2018-12-12 20:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314045114 herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314045396 2018-12-12 20:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314045396 Lost family herndonr https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314049337 My mother did not tell me about her lost family and lost years anymore than my father did about his. Eventually, in my late teens, I started asking, and she told me something. It wasn't until she was in her late seventies that she told me more. I recorded it.]]> 2018-12-12 20:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/herndonr/28nz07ufykgf/wish/314049337