January 2024

  • “Perfect Strangers” is a song by the British rock band Deep Purple. It is the title track of their 1984 comeback album Perfect Strangers. It is one of the few Deep Purple compositions not to feature a guitar solo. Nevertheless, founding band member and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has called it his favourite Deep Purple song.

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  • On 27 January 1945, the Russians entered the gates of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp complex and liberated the remaining prisoners. Let me show you what led up to the day before—26 January 1945. On 20 January, shortly after the evacuation, the remaining SS functionaries blew up crematoria and gas chambers II and III. The next

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  • Murdered Athlete

    The year 2024 will be a busy year sports-wise. We’ll have the UEFA Euro 2024 starting on June 14, and just over a month later on July 26—the Paris Olympic Games will start. That’s why I wanted to remember Jewish athletes murdered during the Holocaust. However, I have done several blogs on that already, and

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  • Frank Farian, the man behind Boney M and Milli Vanilli, and many others died yesterday, aged 82. Rather then going tonto details of his life and sometimes controversial career, lets focus more on some of his music. Staring of with the good man singing himself. Boney M Eruption In 1986, Farian produced and mixed the

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  • “Why Can’t This Be Love” is a song by Van Halen for their seventh studio album, 5150 The song was released as the lead single from 5150 through Warner Bros. Records. It was the group’s first single with lead vocalist Sammy Hagar, who replaced founding member David Lee Roth. The band, and especially Eddie van

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  • Agents of Evil

    The photograph above is a collage of the faces of the female SS guards in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Like their male counterparts, they were also agents of evil. They had subscribed to the Nazi ideology. Ravensbrück was a purpose-built concentration camp to imprison predominantly women. It housed around 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men, and

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  • The Ghettos

    One aspect of the Holocaust, which often is overlooked, is the life in the ghettos. The Nazis created at least 1,143 ghettos in the occupied eastern territories. There were three kinds of ghettos. Closed ghettos were set apart by walls or fences with barbed wire. The Nazis compelled Jews living in the surrounding areas to

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