January 2021
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Gottschalk, the son of a physician, was born in the small town of Calau, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on April 10 1904. He attended the Gymnasium high school in Cottbus and from 1924 worked for four years on seagoing vessels. He later began an theatrical education in…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the much more famous British statesman of the same name, with whom he was acquainted, but not related. Their lives…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a Friday the 13th story with a positive twist, on top of that it is one of those rare positive Holocaust events. On Friday, the 13th of April, 1945. A few miles northwest of Magdeburg there was a railroad siding in wooded ravine not far from the Elbe…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On January 12, 1948, two police officers from the Waseda precinct in Tokyo accidentally came upon the remains of five infants. While that shocking find was clearly suspect, it was affirmed by an autopsy that showed the infants’ deaths were not natural. An investigation led to the arrest of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is hard to say which crime committed during the Holocaust was the most gruesome, but along with the Action T4 program, the Action 14f13 is equally horrific. Not because they were worse then all the other atrocities but because elements of both programs are slowly sneaking in by…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There is one certainty in life and that is that history repeats itself, no matter how hard we try. Does this mean we have to stop highlighting history? No, of course not. Organisations like BDS are actively urging people to boycott Jewish businesses and businesses associated to Jewish businesses.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Rabbi Chaim Nussbaum was born in Lithuania, but grew up in Scheveningen in the Netherlands. His story in World War 2 is a remarkable, some people just have a very strong life force. After he got married he returned, together with his wife, to his country of origin, Lithuania.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Some people think of Auschwitz as 1 camp but it was a complex of over 40 camps operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland. It is estimated that at least at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, o which 1.1 million were murdered. But I do believe…
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On this day in 1945 the Soviet Troops liberated Auschwitz. January 27 is the allocated date by the UN to remember the Holocaust. But rather then remembering all those millions, who were murdered by an evil ideology and regime by the Nazis, I will focus on just one of those millions. Ralph Ronald Belinfante would
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