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  The Secret the Lithuanian Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About January 9, 2021 by Adam Leave a Comment Adam Frosh One of the Ponary Massacre pits. What is the Secret the Lithuanian Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About? The time was The Second World War, the setting Nazi occupied Europe. The question to be answered is: Why was the treatment of Jews during the early period of the German occupations worse in Eastern than Western European countries? Almost 95% of pre-war Lithuania’s 220,000 Jews perished in World War II. Moreover, they were almost all murdered within a 6 month period from the Summer of 1941. Horrifyingly, in June, 1941, a large proportion of the Lithuanian people welcomed the German invasion. For many, they saw the Germans as great liberators, saving them from the strict collectivist rule of Soviet occupation. The fate of Lithuania’s Jews during the early period of Nazi occupation is a tragedy beyond comprehension. ...
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  A Patient with a Number January 12, 2021 by Adam 4 Comments I was 26 years old when I was a junior doctor working in the Bart’s and Homerton Hospital Accident and Emergency Unit. The two units tended to have very different clientele presenting with a very different set of symptoms. The patient One morning shift at Homerton was particularly memorable for me. A man was ambulanced in unconscious. There was not much information on him available. While the exact circumstances of how he was found is lost to memory, he was an elderly man who was fairly thin and still wearing his pyjamas. One thing I did notice when I was inserting a venous catheter was a number that had been tattooed roughly on his forearm. The ink was a greenish blue. A quick check of his sugar levels indicated that he was almost certainly an insulin dependent diabetic in a hypoglycemic coma. I gave him a slug of intravenous glucose and, like magic, the man woke up. “Thank you,” he said....
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  The Unfairness of Fairness March 13, 2021 by Adam Leave a Comment Adam Frosh In this blog on the inclusivity of Holocaust Education, I argue that the modern-day tendency towards inclusivity has contributed to the Jewish nation becoming the forgotten victim of the Holocaust. Schoolboy discussions When I was a schoolboy, I had many discussions about the Second World War. A boys-only, predominantly Church of England school, there were just a handful of Jewish pupils and my school experience was very much culturally Christian. I lost count of the times when we discussed the evils of the Holocaust that I was “informed” that it wasn’t just the Jews who were murdered in concentration camps. There were just as many who died by an aggregation of other groups. The logic was simple: 6 million versus 6 million. Who Knows What In a recent survey of young American adults (18-39), almost 1 in 5 said they believed the holocaust was a myth, had been exagge...
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  The Trip I Always Dreaded December 18, 2021 by Adam 4 Comments A trip to Auschwitz – Birkenau For years, I dreaded it. For decades, I’ve spoken about it, yet tried to ignore it. I made my excuses. Maybe, I’m just not ready , I would say. I kept promising to go and hid it away in a mind box and compartmentalised it. It was finally my time to confront it, so I went with my two children to visit Auschwitz Birkenau. I’ve been writing an historical novel that’s set in Warsaw at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto. I needed to visit Auschwitz Birkenau to further my understanding of the place and what it would have meant for the prisoners. Planning the trip I went with my children to the camping shop for warm clothes. We’d talked about how cold Auschwitz was going to be (zero degrees predicted) in December, and that we’d be standing outside for many hours. As I rummaged through the array of thermal socks, woolly hats and warm hiking boots, I thought about the pr...
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