• Frieda Jungst

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: https://s-ssl.wordpress.com/i/spotify-badge.svg https://dirkdeklein.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/frieda.jpg Frieda Jungst just an ordinary name Frieda Jungst just an ordinary girl Frieda Jungst not a soldier or terrorist Frieda Jungst not someone being a risk to the population Frieda Jungst just a girl with a dress, socks, shoes and a teddy bear Frieda Jungst she should…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: https://dirkdeklein.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/moshe-hecht.jpg This little cheeky boy is called Moshe Hecht. I would like to tell you his story. When you Google his name you will see that Moshe Hecht is a singer in a band, the Moshe Hecht band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJI2hsptKg However the cheeky boy Moshe Hecht is not that Moshe…

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  • I would be lying if I would say that all Dutch opposed the Nazi occupiers because many were happy enough to follow the rules of the new lords of the land. However, many opposed the evil regime and especially opposed the way they treated their Jewish friends and neighbours. Organisations like Het Derde Front (The…

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  • Father’s Day

    This blog is about my Dad because it is Father’s Day. There is so much I could say about my Dad, and yet there is so little. For a long time, he had not been a part of my life—18 years, to be precise. Especially in the last years of those 18, I started to…

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  • Marijke Godschalk was born in Assen, the Netherlands, on June 18 1941. Less then 2 years later she would be dead. Not because she was ill or had been involved in an accident. She died because of someone’s idea of her. Although she looked like any other Dutch or even German girl, I would even…

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  • Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on the 16th of June in Ulverston, Lancashire in England, 1890. His father was a vaudeville performer and this led Stan to being a stage performer too. He didn’t get much schooling and this resulted to the joining of Fred Karno’s Troupe where Stan understudied the future star,…

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