History
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is often believed that the allied forces were not aware of the mass killings. The fact is they were aware but chose to ignore it. Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. In late 1942, Karski was smuggled in and out of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Theresienstadt, also known as Terezín, was a town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), it was used from 1941 to 1945 by the Nazis as a walled ghetto and concentration camp, and was also used as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: (originally posted March 22, 2020) I did do a blog on Marcel Marceau about 2 years ago but he would have been 100 today. Therefore I thought it to be appropriate to do another tribute to this silent Hero. He survived the Nazi occupation, and saved many children in…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am a member of several history websites and I get daily notifications abut events that happened in history this day. Today I got the notification that on this day in 1945 Anne Frank died in Bergen Belsen I don’t know how they got to that conclusion because the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Sophie is the girl on the left in the above picture. It would have been her 90th birthday today. She was born on March 16, 1932 in Amersfoort. She was transferred via Kamp Vught to Camp Westerbork on 23 May 1943. There were another 1172 people on that transport.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Just to get you all ready for St Patrick’s day, I have compiled some of what I think is the best Irish music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3L1tM6OSh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3L1tM6OSh0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLotIU2uM0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35CBWwy98nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty2V7yRPbCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADYmbVM6lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IocRCDWB5k
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She was a maid and came from an NSB family. At the age of 18, she started working as a guard in Camp Vught. She was involved in the Bunker drama that took place on the night of 15 to 16 January 1944. From the end of 1944 to March 1945 she worked as a
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An estimated 1,800 Dutch citizens attempted to escape to England during World War II. The majority chose to travel via neighbouring countries, while a minority went straight across the North Sea. Many different vessels were used and at least 204 people made the crossing successfully. Most of the attempts were made in 1941 when the
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