1941 June – German offensive against the Soviet Union and the start of politically and racially motivated mass murders just behind the front line. Einsatzgruppen. Alfreda Markowska is the only survivor of a mass execution of her family’s Roma stock near Biała Podlaska.
1942 – January Wannsee Conference and political sealing of the decision to exterminate European Jews and Jewish women. Deportation of Rosa Robota from the Ciechanów ghetto to Auschwitz.
Persecution
In this stage, victims are forced to live in ghettos, deported to concentration camps, or detained in restricted areas, and are consequently sentenced to starvation as they are deliberately deprived of access to resources such as water, food, and medicine. Victims are also subjected to forced sterilizations or abortions; children are forcibly taken from their parents. A group of victims are systematically stripped of all rights, tortured and deported. Mass murders begin. The perpetrators watch closely to see if their actions elicit a strong reaction from international public opinion. If there is no such reaction, the perpetrators know they can continue their plan in front of passive witnesses.
To prevent this stage from occurring, international military intervention is necessary if support can be mobilized from superpowers, regional alliances, the UN Security Council, or the UN General Assembly. Humanitarian assistance from the UN or other organizations is also necessary.
Do not let anyone, dear God, live at war. In the worst poverty, in tears of blood how much did those hearts have to bear - a Jewish child, Gypsy children with their poor mother! [...] Maybe my song can teach people something? Let them not desire war, let their hearts start softening! Let them know what we have survived, those who haven't seen it in their lives, those who don't believe us gypsies, when we say, how many of us had to die in wartime days... Papusza “Tears of blood”
Peter Hein was born in February 1939 in the Netherlands. His parents, Netta and Paul Hein were German Jews who fled to the Netherlands in 1933, a few months after Hitler’s rise to power...
“It is better for the kids to have dead parents than cowards” Eberhard Helmrich