May 2018
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As I sat doing research on the days before the Germans invaded the Netherlands, I came across a newspaper article about the murder of Gretha Melaard. Gretha Melaard was a 26-year-old student nurse who was killed on Friday, May 3rd, 1940. She had left Rotterdam that day at 8:30 pm to go to work in
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The word ‘Hero’ is branded way too easily nowadays, Recently I heard someone on a current affairs program saying he saw the Kardashians as his role models and heroes, that actually scared me. If people whose only contribution to society is self indulgence and self promotion are seen as heroes, then real heroes like Father Józef
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Theresienstadt was a 1944 Nazi propaganda film depicting Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps. The film intended to be viewed in “neutral” nations showing how “humane” conditions were at Theresienstadt. Nor only was it enough
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I have always been a great fan of the cop show Columbo with Peter Falk in the title role. However I did not know that Peter Falk and I had a few things in common. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk , owner of a clothing and dry
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I have mentioned this before in other blogs that the IOC(International Olympic Committee) has very little to do with sports but more with politics. But I have to admit they made the right decision on the 1940 Summer Olympics, although they didn’t really have much choice in the matter. The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known
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On 4 May 1940, the Vatican advised the Netherlands envoy to the Vatican that the Germans planned to invade France through the low countries. With the blessing of the Pope, the Vatican sent a coded radio message to its nuncios in Brussels and The Hague. The messages were intercepted by the Nazis On May 5
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You could have been my teacher You could have been the mother of my best friend You could have been the midwife who helped deliver me You could have been my dentist You could have been a waitress in my favourite restaurant You could have been a lady working in a shop who wraps my
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No movie buff could ignore this day’May the 4th’ or better known as “May the 4th be with you”. The day that is now widely accepted as Star Wars day. But why is that: The original movie “Star Wars -A New hope” opened on May 25th 1977. It would forever change the way movies were
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As the saying goes “A picture tells a thousand words” therefor rather then writing at length about WWII in the Netherlands, I have decided that this time I will let the pictures do the talking. The photograph on the top is a picture of American troops from the 82nd Airborne Division parachute into The Netherlands on
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The 4th of May is the day when the Dutch remember the dead—those who died because of war. At the start of World War II, my hometown had 37 Jewish citizens; by the 4th of May 1945, they had all perished. Here is a poem remembering those 37 innocent lives. You are not different than
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