History of Sorts

  • Rest in Peace Sonja Barend

    Sonja Barend (Amsterdam, February 29, 1940 –April 11, 2026), was a Dutch television presenter, who is also often referred to in the Netherlands as the “queen of the talk show.” She appeared on television for more than forty years. At the end of 2006, she stopped making television programs. The Sonja Barend Award is named…

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  • Torture Music

    Music has unfortunately been used in coercive interrogation and psychological torture contexts, especially in places like Guantánamo Bay detention camp and during the Iraq War. The method often involved prolonged exposure to loud, repetitive, or culturally disorienting music to induce stress, sleep deprivation, and disorientation. Here’s a well-documented list of songs and artists reported in…

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  • The Emphasis on Evidence Based Medicinal Approach after the French Revolution Part 3

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  • Kishinev Pogrom

    The Kishinev Pogrom was a violent anti-Semitic riot that occurred in Kishinev (now Chișinău), the capital of Bessarabia, in the Russian Empire (present-day Moldova), on April 19-20, 1903. The pogrom resulted in the massacre and persecution of the city’s Jewish population. The violence began on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1903, when false rumors spread accusing…

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  • The New Apostolic Church and the Holocaust

    (Originally posted in April 2024) Some people think I am Jewish, others think I am an atheist. In fact, I am neither, I am a New Apostolic Christian. But before I go into the main story, firstly a brief history and explanation of the church because it is not a well-known Christian faith. The church…

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  • The Long Peaceful War

    The ‘Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years’ War lasted from 30 March 1651 to 17 April 1986. The “war” between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly is one of those curious historical footnotes that often draw a few chuckles. This conflict, if it can even be called that, occurred in 1651 during the First Anglo-Dutch…

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  • 915 Euthanasias a month.

    I do mention  Euthanasias in the title but in reality they were murders. Euthanasia. Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic was in of the euthanasia centres of the T4 program. It operated between June 1940 and September 1941. Most of the victims  were suffering from psychological disorders and intellectual disability, but their number also included inmates from the…

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  • One lost shoe-One stolen life.

    There were several horrific events on March 27 1944 1,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, France, to Auschwitz. 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kovno Lithuania 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo Children’s Aktion-Nazis take all the Jewish children of Kovno,Lithuania.,and deport them One Father carves the date of the…

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  • Pure innocence

    I have literally seen thousands of graphic Holocaust pictures. At the start they really had an effect on me, physically they made me sick. However such is the human psyche that after a while you get desensitized by them. They still upset you but not to the same extend as they did before. But looking…

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  • The Pleasure Garden @ 100

    Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut, made at age 25, traces the intertwined love lives of two dancers at a London nightclub. At just 25, Alfred Hitchcock had already worked in nearly every role on the studio floor before being offered his first directing assignment by Gainsborough studio head Michael Balcon. He had designed title cards, written…

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