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It is nearly impossible to quantify the number of people being killed during the Holocaust, I personally think the estimated number of 1.5 million children is too low. The one thing that can be quantified accurately is the value put on life. For a family of 5 it would be 37.50 guilders ,or the 2022…
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This is an article written by Eddy Boas, Eddy and his family survived Bergen Belsen. I had the privilege to interview him 2 years ago. In the article he poses a few interesting question in relation to the investigation to who betrayed Anne Frank. “Who really betrayed Anne Frank?The real betrayal – no investigation necessary…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On December 7,1941, 80 years ago today, a hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, was sent to all major navy commands and fleet units provided the first official word of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I remember the celebration in 2016 when Ireland was commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising. There had already been events months beforehand. On 20 January 2016. Ireland’s first ever commemorative €2 coin went into circulation to mark the centenary year of the Easter Rising. The Easter Rising ,…
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It is strange how things can turn sometimes. I was going to do some research on Eva Braun. When I typed in the name, another name first came up, The name of Eva Brandon. When I looked into her details, I discovered that Eva Brandon was born in Amsterdam, on 26 July 1929. She was…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The picture above is an arrest card of Meijer Barmhartigheid. He was one of the 389 young Jewish man who were arrested during raid in Amsterdam on February 22 and 23 ,1941. Of those 389 only 2 survived the Holocaust. 100 of them were murdered in the Hartheim clinic,…
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Originally posted on The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱: A limerick Two little ghosts who had long since died Came down to Earth for a bicycle ride; But the tykes, bodiless & small, Could not work the pedals at all; Thus fantasy and real life did collide ‘What do you see’ Prompt #146 For Sadje’s weekly #WDYS…
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The Holocaust wasn’t only the mass murder of Jews and others, it was preceded by other crimes. Although many people would not have perceived them as crimes, because they were legalised by Nazi laws. The rapacity of the Nazis was expressed in a large number of measures, orders and ordinances (VO) with the force of…
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This episode of Epic Rock ballads, you will get 2 for the price of one. The original by the Who and the cover version by Limp Bizkit. “Behind Blue Eyes” is a song by the English rock band the Who, recorded in 1971. It was the second single from their fifth album Who’s Next and…
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Little Boy was the name of the atomic bomb which was dropped from Enola Gay , over Hiroshima on August 6,1945. at 8.15 AM.The bomb explodedabout 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT.The name of the plane was Enola Gay, named after the pilot’s mother.The pilot, attached to the…
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