Israel

  • Today, I had the privilege to interview Aziz Abu Sarah. Aziz Abu Sarah is a peace builder, cultural educator, entrepreneur, author, and international speaker. He is a Palestinian peace activist, journalist, and tourism entrepreneur who founded MEJDI Tours and is a resident of East Jerusalem. When Aziz was nine years old, his older brother Taiseer

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  • In my interview with Rosa DeVries, Rosa is an Israeli Jewish woman, originally from Amsterdam and a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She lives in Rishon LeZion (Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain eight kilometres (5 mi) south of Tel Aviv, and about 55 km away from Gaza.

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  • Day 39

    On behalf of and with permission from Rosa DeVries, one of the many citizens in Israel who want peace. A daily impression of life after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Titled: Day 39, the text is in Dutch. Dag 39 Elke avond neem ik de tijd om dit blog te schrijven. Ik vind het

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  • During my interview with Liz Elsby, Holocaust Educator at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem, we discussed freelance illustration, design and art direction. We also talked a bit about her work with Yad Vashem, but mainly about the current situation in Israel and her experience.

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  • Yesterday I had the privilege to interview Madene Shachar, Museum Educator at The Ghetto Fighters Museum. The Ghetto Fighters’ House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum– known as the “House” – is not only the first Holocaust museum in the world but also the first of its kind to be founded by

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  • Martin Haas was born Martijn Haas, at the end of 1936 in Breda, a small city in the south of the Netherlands. Just before the war started, about two hundred Jews lived in Breda. Martin survived because his parents kept him safe in hiding. His parents and 2 of his siblings did not survive. His

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  • Adolf Eichmann

    December 15th marks the 61st anniversary of Adolf Eichmann’s death sentence. I am not going too much in the history of Eichmann, there is not that much I can add to the narrative. On December 11–12, 1961, Eichmann was convicted of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and membership in a

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  • On may 26,1992,Israel’s President Chaim Herzog unveiled a rock from Jerusalem, at Auschwitz. The rock serves as a permanent memorial to the 1.65 million Jews who were murdered there. Visibly anguished and tearful, President Herzog said the following words during the unveiling. “In this dread place, I stand here brokenhearted. This ground on which we

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  • A world without heroes, Is like a world without sun, you can’t look up to anyone, without heroes

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