November 2023
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of Aktion Erntefest. (German: for Operation Harvest Festival) a mass murder by the SS conducted at the Majdanek concentration camp and its subcamps, Poniatowa and Trawniki. The purpose was to liquidate the remaining Polish Jews in the Lublin reservation and the Lublin Ghetto, including its entire slave-labour camp workforce. After
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Before I go into the main story about Adriana Valkenburg, I have to explain something about prostitution in the Netherlands to put this into context. It has always been acceptable in the Netherlands. However, it was only in 1988 that prostitution was considered a legal profession—but in the year 2000, prostitution was legalized by the
History of Sorts 