The story of The Boy by Dan Porat is a gripping story that examines a photograph of a boy, hands above his head with a machine gun pointed at him. The photograph stands as a living testament of the true horrors of the Nazi regime. The book tells the stories of five people; two Jewish and three Nazis, with the use of 60 photographs Dan Porat unravels the history of the people involved. Porat gives a personal account of the lives of the five people who lived through the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto 1943. Dan Porat examined Nazi soldier, Josef Blösche who was identified as the Nazi who aimed his gun at the boy in the photograph. Porat tells the story of the Nazi photographer, Franz Konrad a Nazi solider who could have been the person who took the picture of the boy. The person assigned to liquidate the ghetto was a man
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The first major case of Stroop’s brutality was with a local editor of a Social Democratic newspaper. Fechenbach was shot and killed under the command of Stroop.
In 1935, Stroop was promoted to commander of an SS unit in Hamburg. He was sent on a course to learn more about SS leadership. Within the course he developed a true understanding of the Nazi Party. Himmler trusted Stroop and placed him in command of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto.
On April 16th marked the first day of liquidating Jews from Warsaw ghetto. However, Jewish resistance grew strong and fought against the intruding German forces. Some Jews armed with guns and makeshift grenades, managed to hold off the German soldiers, ultimately, the liquidation of the ghetto failed.
Jews hid away beneath found making it challenging for Stroop to successfully liquidate the ghetto. One of the methods Stroop came up with in extracting Jews from their hideouts was setting the building/bunker on fire. The three-day deadline which he had set passed and still his men had not completed the
The first major case of Stroop’s brutality was with a local editor of a Social Democratic newspaper. Fechenbach was shot and killed under the command of Stroop.
In 1935, Stroop was promoted to commander of an SS unit in Hamburg. He was sent on a course to learn more about SS leadership. Within the course he developed a true understanding of the Nazi Party. Himmler trusted Stroop and placed him in command of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto.
On April 16th marked the first day of liquidating Jews from Warsaw ghetto. However, Jewish resistance grew strong and fought against the intruding German forces. Some Jews armed with guns and makeshift grenades, managed to hold off the German soldiers, ultimately, the liquidation of the ghetto failed.
Jews hid away beneath found making it challenging for Stroop to successfully liquidate the ghetto. One of the methods Stroop came up with in extracting Jews from their hideouts was setting the building/bunker on fire. The three-day deadline which he had set passed and still his men had not completed the