November 2023
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Although I have literally written hundreds of posts on World War II and the Holocaust, I hadn’t heard about the great bank robbery. The bank robbery at Almelo 1944, is a bank robbery was committed by the Dutch resistance on November 15, in which 46.1 million guilders (value in 2023: €354 million) was taken. It
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On behalf of and with permission from Rosa DeVries, one of the many citizens in Israel who want peace. A daily impression of life after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Titled: Day 39, the text is in Dutch. Dag 39 Elke avond neem ik de tijd om dit blog te schrijven. Ik vind het
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No parent should ever have to bury any of their children,unfortunately it does happen, During war time it just happens too much as was the case during WWII Michael James “Mike” Fenton was the son of Colonel Francis Fenton. While Colonel Fenton advanced to higher command, his younger son, Michael, enlisted in the Marine Corps
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Ruth Westheimer (born 4 June 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. The New York Times described her as a “Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s.… She ushered in the new age of a freer, franker talk about sex on radio
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The fact that so many were murdered during the Holocaust is hard to fathom, and it is often compounded by personal stories. None so sad as that of Heinz Felix Geiringer. It is not clear if he died just before the end of the war in Europe or shortly after the end. Several databases list
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First of all, let me explain the term “neck of the woods,” and what it means for those of you who have never heard it. Basically, it is the place or area where someone lives or originates from. I was born in the Dutch province of Limburg, but now, I live in Limerick—hence the title.
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Before I go into the main story about the holocaust in Limber, I have to explain the geographical situation of Limburg. There are two provinces called Limburg. One is in Belgium, the other in the Netherlands. The Dutch Limburg is the most Southern province of the Netherlands. To the West, it borders Belgium, and to
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