July 2022
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The plan of the Nazis was to eradicate anyone who they deemed not worthy. This didn’t mean only killing but also ensuring that not one person, who the Nazis considered subhuman, would be born. On July 14,1933 the Nazi regime fulfilled the long-held dreams of eugenics proponents by enacting…
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These are just some of my favourite World War II movies, in no particular order. Tora Tora ToraThe photo above is a still from the 1970 movie Tora Tora Tora. The 1970 war epic received widespread praise from both critics and film fans for its detailed depiction of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Universally considered
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: remove glitter with play dough! — i have been told, more than once, but less than a million times that people in my presence inexplicably end up with glitter stuck to them or on their food or in unexpectedly odd places or see traces of…
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Originally posted on Thrills, Spills, and just a dash of Romance: This wouldn’t be so apt if it didn’t bring back a raft of bad memories, those days I used to go to the races, and back all of the wrong horses. I had a knack, you see, of picking horses that fell over, or…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I have to be honest but “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” would not be one of my favourite Rock songs. However it is a classic Rock song nonetheless. A friend once asked me if I knew the song “In the Garden of Eden” . He had heard it in the 1986 film “Manhunter”…
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Jerry Himmelfarb was a GI from Buffalo, New York. He wrote this letter to his Rabbi about his experiences. It is one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever read. Jerry, serving with the U.S. Army in Germany, wrote to Rev. Harry H. Kaufman, Cantor of Temple Beth El, telling of what the J.D.C.
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For a brief period Kiss wore no make up. In my humble opinion that is also the time when they produced their best music. “Unholy” was written by Gene Simmons and Vinnie Vincent. Featured on their 1992 album Revenge, the song is one of the three Vincent co-writes to appear on the album despite the
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Meir Levison was born in Westerbork on 19 November 1943.He was murdered in Bergen-Belsen on 21 March 1945. He was 1 year old when he was murdered. There are no pictures of Meir. The opportunity for his proud parents to take pictures was taken away from them. Because Meir…
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According to the Joods Monument (Jewish Monument) website, 210 Dutch Jews were murdered on this day 80 years ago in Auschwitz. I could write a piece on each person, but I decided to stick with only one of the victims because it symbolises the pure evil of the Nazi regime. The photograph above is of
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