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Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17-year-old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belarus, since the German invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Masha Bruskina was born in Minsk, in the Soviet Union,
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The biggest group of Holocaust victims were the Jews, an estimated six million were murdered between 1933 and 1945. The second biggest group were the Gipsies (Roma and Sinti). During World War II, it is estimated that more than 500,000 Sinti and Roma from all over Europe were murdered by the Nazis in what has
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This post exposes the hypocrisy of several Irish left-wing political parties — including Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Social Democrats, and the Labour Party — as well as presidential candidate Catherine Connolly. Although Connolly claims she wants to be a president for all Irish citizens, she has nevertheless aligned herself with individuals associated with
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They weren’t numbers, they all had names—Children with dreams and lovers with flames,Mothers with lullabies soft on their lips,Fathers with hands roughened by gripsOn shovels, on hammers, on books worn with age,Each is bound to the world, each written on a page. They weren’t numbers; they all had lives,Some barely begun, some hardened by strife,Eyes
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It is difficult to determine which crimes committed during the Holocaust were the most horrific, but the Action T4 program and Action 14f13 stand out as particularly chilling. While not necessarily more appalling than other atrocities of that dark period, these programs are especially alarming because elements of their ideology and methods appear to be
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“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears as the final track on the Electric Ladyland album released that year. It contains improvised guitar and a vocal from Jimi Hendrix, backed by Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The song is one of
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I have to set this out at the start of this post. None of this has been investigated by me, it has all been done by other journalists. However all of this has been verified by me. All the relevant links are included in the post. It is also noteworthy to mention that I don’t
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The crow rests for a while. He is tired. He witnesses something strange. It is daytime, but yet, it is getting dark. Not too long ago, he would have been upset by this, but he has seen a lot more that recently he can’t explain. Following a train during one of his flights, hoping to
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Behind the star, a name, a face,A heart that beats in a hidden space,A soul that dreams, that laughs, that cries,But now wears pain in a thin disguise. The yellow cloth, a brand of shame,Imposed on lives who bear no blame.Once free to wander, speak, and stand,Now bound by hate’s unjust command. A thread of
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