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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Two definitions of a Hero are :1. a person admired for achievements and noble qualities. 2. one who shows great courage. Both definitions apply to Józef Cebula and Sophie Scholl. The reason why I am remembering these 2 people is because of today’s date May 9. Sophie Scholl was…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: These are students and teachers of the Jewish Lyceum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, July 1942.More then 75% of the Dutch Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. There are about 60 or so people in that picture, all of them or most of them would have been murdered. Most of them young…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: State prosecutor Albert Rosenfelder, at the front of the picture Hitler had a vision for an empire that would last a thousand years. It only lasted 12, but in those 12 years, he and his Nazi party did more damage than any empire before. On 30 January 1933, Von…
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Who doesn’t know “Eye of the Tiger” that iconic song of Rocky 3? Today I had the privilege to talk with one of the co-writers Jim Peterick. Jim’s home base has always been The Ides Of March, where Jim wrote and sang the evergreen hit “Vehicle”. The Ides began their journey in 1964, and continue
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On September 3,1944 ,Anne Frank and her family were put on transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. It would be the last train to leave Westerbork.The train arrived 3 days later in Auschwitz. The women selected from this transport, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were marked with numbers between A-25060…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Who doesn’t know this classic song by Simon and Garfunkel? It is loved by music fans of all genres, basically because it is a great song. In an interview Paul Simon said that “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was influenced by the gospel music to which he was listening toat…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I was struggling to find a title for this piece. I was thinking of using words like testimonies or confessions, but neither of those words reflect the reality in my opinion. Testimony is too soft because it lessens the effect of the severity of the actions of the perpetrators.…
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: not us, but what we might look like if we were minions, as we share a similar level of excitement about being at the movies — how fun to meet my friend at 10am at the theater like skipping school on a sunday morning attending…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Roman Catholic church , especially the Vatican, still has a lot of questions to answer when it comes to the Holocaust. However there were some Catholic clergymen, even some high placed ones, who did not keep their mouth shut and defied the Nazis. Cardinal Johannes de Jong was…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA; “Resilience Department”) was the paramilitary arm of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist political party that collaborated with the Nazi ocupiers of the Netherlands during World War II. The organization, roughly equivalent to the German SA, was founded in 1932 by Anton…
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