March 2023
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I wish I kept that last Birthday card I wish I could undelete that last voicemail I wish I hadn’t thrown away that last Christmas card I wish I saved and hadn’t deleted that final WhatsApp message I wish I could tell you one more time how much you mean to me I wish to
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: (originally posted March 22, 2020) I did do a blog on Marcel Marceau about 2 years ago but he would have been 100 today. Therefore I thought it to be appropriate to do another tribute to this silent Hero. He survived the Nazi occupation, and saved many children in…
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Ciaran was first elected to Dublin City Council in 1991. Back then he campaigned for a light rail system for Dublin, and for greater protection of Dublin’s heritage. Since then, He has served as a TD (Irish MP) for Dún Laoghaire, a Minister of State with responsibility for Climate Action, and a councillor for Dublin’s
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On 3 October 1934, George van den Bergh, one of the initiators of the Jewish Work Village, stated, “Then perhaps a simple stone will be placed here with the words ‘Here stood the Jewish Work Village Nieuwesluis.’ Then may all passers-by […] behold that stone with reverence,” after that, James McDonald, High Commissioner of the
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am a member of several history websites and I get daily notifications abut events that happened in history this day. Today I got the notification that on this day in 1945 Anne Frank died in Bergen Belsen I don’t know how they got to that conclusion because the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Sophie is the girl on the left in the above picture. It would have been her 90th birthday today. She was born on March 16, 1932 in Amersfoort. She was transferred via Kamp Vught to Camp Westerbork on 23 May 1943. There were another 1172 people on that transport.…
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Every time I see a picture of a sweet little angel like this, I feel like giving up on the research and reporting on the Holocaust I do. I get an overwhelming feeling of anguish, panic, anger and confusion, and I can feel physical pain. It feels like someone just ripped out my heart. Then
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Dear Gert Steinmann, I never met you, yet your story has moved me. I am not the only one who has never met you. How could they, you were murdered when you were 6 days old. There are no baby pictures. There are no baby footprints. There are no baby shoes. Six days were all
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Saint Patrick’s Day, a public holiday in Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is widely celebrated in the English-speaking world and to a lesser degree in other parts of the world. But who exactly was he? Early in the 5th Century, an Irish ship beat against the waves along the western
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Just to get you all ready for St Patrick’s day, I have compiled some of what I think is the best Irish music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3L1tM6OSh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3L1tM6OSh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLotIU2uM0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35CBWwy98nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty2V7yRPbCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADYmbVM6lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IocRCDWB5k
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