November 2020
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The question who betrayed Anne Frank and the others hiding in the annex, has never really been conclusively answered. There are plenty of well founded speculations but there has not been a 100% certainty yet to who betrayed them. There is also still a possibility that no one betrayed…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am not saying I agree with Executive Order 9066, in fact I strongly disagree with it. It was a breach of basic human rights.However it is also very easy for people nowadays to judge about things retrospectively and for people who never found themselves in the unprecedented times…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The biblical verse Genesis 37-30 has several translation from “the boy is not there” to “And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?” But for te title of this blog I used the literal translation of the version of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Just a happy girl without a care in the world. Nor should she have any cares or worries. Her job is to be a child, go to school, do homework but most of all to be a child. At a desk with a peaceful picture of grazing Frisian cows…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In any war or crisis there are companies that make a profit, To some people this may sound disgusting but unfortunately it is a fact. Abraham Puls owned a removal company in Amsterdam. He had been a member of of the NSB , the Dutch Nazis, since 1934. His…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Usually when I write a blog which contains the word ‘teenager’ it refers to somene who was murdered during the Holocaust.,Meyer Abramczyk wasn’t. In fact he sadly passed away when he was aged 87. Metaphorically speaking the teenager Meyer was killed during the Holocaust. He was born on July…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In the 1930 we had the Nazis burning and banning books which were not complying to Nazi ideology. They were not only books by Jewish authors but also books like “the Hunchback of the Notre Dame” and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Or “the Time machine” and “War of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: More and more people are getting blocked by Facebook. I was blocked today for posting a blog on the evils of Joseph Mengele. I notified Facebook explaining to them they were in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and specifically articles 18 and 19. Article 18 Everyone…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: A phrase often used by Hitler was “whoever has the youth has the future” the scary thing about this is that there are elements of truth in that statement. I often come across pictures of young Holocaust victims and each one of them without exception are heartbreaking. For all…
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