March 2023
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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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There is an Iron Maiden song that has the line, “Only the good die young, all the evil seem to live forever.” There was a time when I thought this to be true, but luckily this is not the case. Sometimes the good ones live a long time. Traute Lafrenz Page died ten days ago,
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She was a maid and came from an NSB family. At the age of 18, she started working as a guard in Camp Vught. She was involved in the Bunker drama that took place on the night of 15 to 16 January 1944. From the end of 1944 to March 1945 she worked as a
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The Dutch word for superstition is bijgeloof and, in a literal sense, translates into side belief or side religion. This sort of religion was the cause of the murder of Bridget Cleary on 15 March 1895. Bridget Cleary was an Irish woman who was murdered by her husband. She was either burned alive or immediately
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The Holodomor comes from the term moryty holodom which translates as “death inflicted by starvation.” A man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet Republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, peaking in the late spring of 1933. Millions of Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor, engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. The primary victims
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I recently interviewed Eddy Boas and his son Phil. Here are some of the subjects we touched on. Eddy Boas is a Holocaust survivor and author of the book I’m Not a Victim— I Am a Survivor. He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1940. Eddy was just three months old when the
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The above photograph sent shivers down my spine. Not because it is a horrific image but because the opposite is true. Three young girls walk into town, pushing a pram. Why I find it so disturbing is—I know that street very well. I have walked the same route many times. In fact, all my Dutch
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