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Happy Birthday Willem Belinfante. You would have been 87 today. You were born on May 30 1934. in Amsterdam. Your parents were Esther Pais Belinfante, your mother, and Wolf Belinfante, your Father. Both born in Amsterdam. Your Father was a butcher, nowadays in this Covid 19 era he would have been considered an essential worker.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: 2,335 service men & 68 civilians killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Those two numbers,2,335 & 68, are just statistics and mean nothing without the stories behind them. For none of these casualties were just numbers. They were someone’s son,father,husband,wife, daughter and sister each of them heroes. These…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is probably one of the most disturbing murder cases in history. The fact that the victim was a toddler is awful enough but knowing that two 10-year-old’s, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson from England, who killed and mutilated the body of the 2-year-old James Bulger, makes it nearly unfathomable.Even more disturbing…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It would of course be unfair to say that all Germans and Austrians were guilty of the atrocities carried out by their leaders. But it is also unfair to believe that no one of the ordinary citizenship knew what was happening. The excuse of “we didn’t know” should not…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It has always been a puzzle to me why Ireland stayed ‘neutral’ during WWII. Aside from the German attacks on Irish merchants ships. The country was also bombed several times in deliberate acts of war against the republic. https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/05/10/forgotten-history-irish-wwii-losses/ ? On 26 August 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed Campile…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Walter Süskind (29 October 1906 – 28 February 1945) was a German Jew who helped about 600 Jewish children escape the Holocaust. He was a member of the Dutch Jewish council (Dutch: Joodsche Raad) during the Second World War. Süskind was born in Lüdenscheid in Germany as the first…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: As so often before Varian Fry is the prove that one man can make a difference. Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is the line in the Hippocratic oath which was so often ignored by the Nazi physicians. “Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief” Nazi doctors such as Josef Mengele…
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