History

  • One Teardrop

    One teardrop rolls down my face when I see your smile. I don’t know why because I have never met you. Yet I feel a profound sadness to know that this smile will never be seen again. One tear rolls down my face when I read you were murdered aged 4 or 5. Then I…

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  • Harriëtte Zeeman

    Harriëtte Zeeman just another teenager. But she was more then that. She was someones’s daughter. She was someone’s sister. She was someone’s friend. She was someone’s student. She was someone’s neighbor. She was someone who annoyed people. She was someone who made people laugh. She was someone born in Amsterdam. She was someone’s enemy. She…

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  • Dora Gerstein was a Jewish actress and singer  born  on 23 March 1899  in Berlin. She was murdered on February 14,1943 in Auschwitz. On one of the sites I used to do the research on Dora I noticed the line ‘Body lost or destroyed’. Not only her body was destroyed but also her talent and…

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  • I know some people will criticize me for this article. Because they cannot fathom why anyone would harm a nine-month-old baby, leave alone murder her. Seeing the face of a baby, knowing the child was killed by an evil regime, hits them hard in the gut. But I don’t care, truth is I want people…

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  • It is easy for me to be judgmental about Stella Goldschlag, but the fact is I don’t know what I would have done. However Stella did go beyond anything I would have done. Stella was boen in Berlin on July 10,1922 as the only child to a middle class Jewish family. Although the family did…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: This a complete deviation from my usual heavy historical blogs. Every once in a while it is important to have something lighthearted to absorb. This list is completely based on my own choice , there is no science behind it. They are just 5 guitar tracks that I think…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: I have already done a blog on how Hedy Lamarr was imvolved in developing and patenting a technology which was a front runner of something we now commonly call WiFi. That on its own makes her a remarkable woman, but there is so much more to her. In 1933…

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