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National Day of Remembrance for
Murder Victims
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For this year’s 2016 National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims,
Unit 1012 will remember 188 murdered victims + victims of war crimes
from the United States and around the world. Let us remember how they lived on
this earth and treasure their memories.
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."- Gates of Prayer
For this
observance, we will present murdered victims from 1900 to 1990:
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| William McKinley |
1. William McKinley
(January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901), the 25th President of
the United States.
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Paul Schneider as a student
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2. Paul Robert Schneider (August 29, 1897 – July 18, 1939) was
an Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union pastor who was the first
Protestant minister to be martyred by the Nazis. He was murdered with a
strophanthin injection at Buchenwald.
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Henio Zytomirski
(25 March 1933 to 9 November 1942)
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3. Henio Zytomirski
(Polish: Henio Żytomirski, Hebrew: הניו ז'יטומירסקי; 25 March 1933 – 9 November
1942) was a Polish Jew born in Lublin, Poland who was murdered at the age of 9
in a gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp, during the German Nazi
occupation of Poland. Henio became an icon of the Holocaust, not only in Lublin
but all over Poland. His life story became a part of the curriculum which
is learnt in the general education system in Poland. The "Letters to
Henio" project is held in Lublin since 2005. Henio Zytomirski is one of
the heroes of "The Primer" permanent exhibition at barrack 53 of the
Majdanek Museum, an exhibition which is dedicated to children who were in the
camp.
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Janusz Korczak and
the children,
memorial
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Children are not the people of tomorrow, but
people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be
treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be
allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside
each of them is the hope for the future. - Janusz
Korczak
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/779550]
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4. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – August 1942), was a
Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan
Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old
Doctor"). After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in
Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his orphans when the institution was
sent from the Ghetto to
the Treblinka extermination camp, during the Grossaktion
Warsaw of 1942.
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| Sophie Scholl |
5. Sophia Magdalena Scholl
(9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and Christian
anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent
resistance group in Nazi Germany.
She was
convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war
leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother Hans. As a result,
they were both executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been
extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.
She was the
daughter of the liberal politician Robert Scholl, an ardent critic of the
Nazis.
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Czesława
Kwoka as
an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp in late 1942 or early 1943 Photograph
credit: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Wilhelm Brasse
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6. Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 Wólka Złojecka – 12 March 1943
Auschwitz) was a Polish Catholic child who died in the Auschwitz concentration
camp at the age of 14. She was one of the thousands of child victims of German
World War II crimes against Poles. She died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland,
and is among those memorialized in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum indoor
exhibit called Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners.
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Helmut Hesse the
youngest martyr of the Confessing Church
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.ekir.de/www/service/6900.php]
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7. Pastor Helmut Hesse (May 11, 1916 to November
24, 1943). He was the youngest martyr of the Confessing Church during World War
II.
8. The Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg (3 December 1875 – 5 November 1943) was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian, who died while in the custody of forces of the Third Reich. He has been awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations, and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
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6-year-old Tanya Savicheva, 1936
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9. Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva
(Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya
Savicheva (January 23, 1930 – July 1, 1944) was a Russian child diarist who
endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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Claus
von Stauffenberg’s Quote
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/176861]
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10. Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs ˈʃɛŋk ˈɡʁaːf fɔn
ˈʃtaʊfənbɛɐ̯k]), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (15
November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was
one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf
Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster,
he was one of the central figures of the German
Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht.
For his involvement in the movement he was executed by firing squad shortly
after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.
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Anne Frank pictured in 1940
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11. Anne Frank
A.K.A Annelies Marie "Anne"
Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk], German
pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 – early
March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her
wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several
plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived
most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German
national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame
posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Do not forget the victims of the Holocaust during World War II:
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The Hall of Names containing Pages of Testimony commemorating the
millions of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust.
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Ghetto
Litzmannstadt: Children rounded up for deportation to the Kulmhof death camp
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12. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German
Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of the
Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world
have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of
Discipleship a modern classic.
Apart from
his theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to
the Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and
genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of
the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate
Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by
hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23
days before the German surrender.
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Solomon Mikhoels
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.kinoglaz.fr/u_fiche_person.php?lang=fr&num=5236]
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13. Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (16
March [O.S. 4 March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet Jewish
actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels
served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second
World War. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Semitic
line after the War, Mikhoels' position as a leader of the Jewish community
led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. In 1948, Mikhoels was
murdered on the orders of Stalin and his body was run over to create the
impression of a traffic accident.
14. to 26. On this date, August 12, 1952, 13 prominent Jewish
intellectuals were murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. This case is also
known as The Night of The Murdered Poets.
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Clockwise from top left: Peretz Markish, Itsik
Feffer, Leyb Kvitko, Dovid Hofshteyn and Dovid Bergelson
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Leib
Kvitko
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Leib Kvitko (Russian: Лейб
Квитко,
Yiddish: לייב קוויטקאָ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an
author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one
of the editors of Eynikayt (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine.
He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members
of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Kvitko was
rehabilitated in 1955.
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Emmett Till in a photograph taken by his
mother on Christmas Day 1954, about eight months before his murder. When the
photo ran in the Jackson Daily News Till and his mother were given
"a profound pathos in the flattering photograph", which
"humanized the Tills".
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27. Emmett Louis Till (July 25,
1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in
Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till
was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in
the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the
married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later,
Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's
house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of
his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the
Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied
around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's body was discovered
and retrieved from the river.
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JFK
on Forgiveness
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.pinterest.com/yslaso/kennedys/]
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28. John F. Kennedy A.K.A John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as
"Jack" or by his initials JFK,
was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 1961 until he
was assassinated in November 1963.
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Etan Patz
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29. Etan Kalil Patz (October 9, 1972 - declared
legally dead in 2001) was an American child who was six years old
when he disappeared in Lower Manhattan, New York City, on May 25, 1979. He is
the most famous missing child of New York City. His disappearance helped spark
the missing children's movement, including new legislation and various methods
for tracking down missing children, such as the milk-carton campaigns of the
mid-1980s. Etan was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of
a milk carton.
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| Terri Winchell |
30. Terri Winchell (April 10, 1963 to January 8,
1981)
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Photo of Adam John Walsh, late son of America's
Most Wanted host John Walsh.
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31. Adam John Walsh
(November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981) was an American boy who was abducted from a
Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27,
1981, and later found murdered and decapitated. Walsh's death earned national
publicity. His story was made into the 1983 television film Adam, seen by 38
million people in its original airing. Walsh's father, John Walsh, became an
advocate for victims of violent crimes and the host of the television program
America's Most Wanted.
Convicted serial killer Ottis Toole
confessed to the boy's murder but was never convicted for this specific crime
due to loss of evidence and a recanted confession. Toole died of liver failure
on September 15, 1996. Although no new evidence has come forth, on December 16,
2008, police announced that the Walsh case was now closed as they were
satisfied that Toole was the murderer.
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Officer Daniel Faulkner
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32. Daniel J. Faulkner (December
21, 1955 – December 9, 1981): Faulkner was the youngest of seven children in an
Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, who drove
a trolley car, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother
went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. Faulkner
dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate's degree in
criminal justice while serving in the United States Army. In 1975, he left the
army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia
Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in college
to earn his bachelor's degree in criminal justice. He married in 1979.
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Reserve
Deputy John Jamison
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33. Deputy Reserve John B. Jamison (END OF WATCH: September 6, 1982)
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In July
2009, Brian
Dugan pleaded guilty to the murder of Nicarico after having previously
confessed to the crime. Dugan is jailed on two unrelated murder charges, one of
a 27-year old woman and one which began with the abduction of two seven-year
old girls, one of whom escaped and the other of whom was raped and murdered by
Dugan. On November 11, 2009, after deliberating about 10 hours over two days, a
DuPage County jury sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the rape and murder of
Jeanine Nicarico 26 years earlier.
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Marsalee Ann Nicholas
(March 6, 1962 to November 30, 1983)
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35. Marsalee Ann Nicholas (March 6, 1962 to November
30, 1983)
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Leslie Shelley |
36. Leslie Shelley
(May 1969 to April 22, 1984)
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Donna Schnorr, a 27-year-old nurse from
Geneva.
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37. Nurse Donna Schnorr (March
30, 1957 to July 15, 1984)
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Reverend
Jean Ernest Darter
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39-42. Kermit Alexander’s mother, sister and two nephews, ages 8 and 13,
were murdered in South Central Los Angeles during
a home invasion by members of the Rollin 60’s Neighborhood Crips, whose
intended victims lived two doors away.
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Melvyn Otterstrom had joined a Green Beret
unit. (Otterstrom family photo)
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44. Anita Lorraine Cobby (2 November 1959 – 2 February
1986) was an Australian registered nurse and beauty pageant winner. At 26 years
old, she was abducted from Blacktown, and raped and murdered at nearby
Prospect, on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men, including three
brothers, were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment,
never to be released.
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Kevin
Swaney
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45. On this date, July 20, 1987, 16-year-old Kevin Swaney
and his friend, Carlos Froyan Cruz-Ramos were murdered by Daniel Wayne Cook in
Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Justice came 25 years later, when Daniel Cook was
put to death by lethal injection in Arizona on August 8, 2012.
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Janine Balding
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46. The murder of Janine Balding
was the killing of a woman in New South Wales, Australia by multiple
perpetrators. 20-year-old Janine Balding was raped and murdered by a gang of
five youths on 8 September 1988. Balding's murder is often compared to the 1986
murder of Sydney nurse Anita Cobby.
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Ann Marie Harrison
(February 22, 1974 to March 22, 1989)
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article33153267.html]
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47. Ann Marie Harrison (February 22, 1974 to March 22, 1989)
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Debra Dietz
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48. Debra Dietz and her
father, Eugene were murdered by Joseph Wood on August 7, 1989. The Killer was
executed in Arizona on July 23, 2014.
49. Officer Mark MacPhail (END OF WATCH: August 19, 1989)
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Victim: Special education teacher Jill Frey,
pictured, was brutally beaten and had her throat slit by Storey in 1990 at her
St Charles, Missouri home
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