May 2025
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Introduction When Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back premiered in 1980, audiences in the United Kingdom were treated to an unusual and haunting short film titled Black Angel, shown before the main feature. Directed by Roger Christian—an Oscar-winning art director who helped define the look of Star Wars—Black Angel emerged as a brief but resonant
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Voor de Nederlandse slachtoffers van de Tweede Wereldoorlog Beneath the bells that softly toll,In hush of dusk, we bare our soul.Two minutes still, the world stands shy,As tears fall slow from silent sky. We speak no names — yet all are near,The brave, the lost, the ones held dear.From city square to windswept dune,Their memory
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On April 29, 1942, the Nazis announced a new humiliation for Jewish Dutch citizens. Starting on May 3, they were required to wear an identifying mark: a six-pointed yellow Star of David with the word “Jew” in the center. This star made it possible to recognize Jews in public. The German occupiers intended this to
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On this day in music, May 3, 1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” a track that would become one of Hendrix’s most iconic songs. Featured as the final track on the group’s third and final album, Electric Ladyland, the song was released as a single in the UK shortly after Hendrix’s
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Neuengamme concentration camp was a significant and harrowing part of the Nazi concentration camp system during World War II. Located near Hamburg, Germany, Neuengamme was established December 13, 1938, and initially served as a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen. By 1940, it became an independent main camp (Hauptlager), and it was the largest concentration camp in
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In the quiet fields of northern Belgium, where red poppies bloom between rows of white crosses, a poem was born from the grief and valor of World War I. In Flanders Fields, written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, has become one of the most enduring war poems in the English language—a testament to loss, duty,
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You will never know how it feels to fall in love and wake up every morning next to the love of your life. You will never know the anxiety of school exams. You will never know that nervousness of a first working day. You will never know how it feels like to have your teenage
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s Allied forces closed in on Germany in early 1945, the SS began evacuating inmates from camps like Dachau in a series of forced marches, hoping to hide evidence of atrocities and prevent liberation by the Allies. Prisoners, already debilitated by starvation and disease, were forced to march dozens of miles in the brutal cold
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(Update from the November 2016 blog) One aspect of history I find particularly difficult to grasp is the collaboration of some Jews with the Nazis. On the one hand, I understand that self-preservation is a powerful human instinct—survival at any cost can drive people to make unimaginable choices. Yet, conversely, it’s hard to reconcile how
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