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The Transport 64 from Westerbork in the Netherkands , was the designated transport number for the moving of 2511 people to Sobibor in Poland, on May 18th 1943.(The transport also had designated number 12, there would often be more numbers for 1 transport) Most of them were residents of the city of Nijmegen. In the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John’s Dance and, historically, St. Vitus’s Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. The mania affected men, women,…
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Why do you hate me? We have never met before. How can you look at me and feel a justification to kill me? Why do you follow orders of someone who doesn’t care about you? How can you still consider yourself a human being. Why do you hate me? We have never met before How…
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Operation Market Garden started on September 17 1944. It was supposed to end the war in the Netherlands.But the operation failed, as a result the war was prolonged for several months,compounded with one of the severest winters on record it resulted in a famine for the northern provinces. But there was more,as a form of…
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There is this funny riddle, it goes like “What’s Rembrandt’s first name?” Rembrandt of course is his first name, his last name is van Rijn. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn born 15 July 1606 Unlike the riddle, his life wasn’t funny. He suffered many tragedies in his life. He got married on June 22 1634 to…
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Secret recordings made by British intelligence during World War II War have laid bare the horrific atrocities carried out by everyday German soldiers.Not members of the SS, ‘regular’Wehrmacht soldiers. Following is the transcript of one of those recordings, The only name related to the recording is Reimbold, his position I don’t know but that is…
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It is not always a good thing to be a law-abiding citizen. Don’t worry; I am not encouraging anarchy, but it is a fact that many things that we now know were evil and vile were once laws. Like slavery once was legal and written into law. Combine that with a nation whose culture it…
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(updated February 15, 2024) Now that the we are only a few months away from the UEFA Euro 2024 and , it is a good opportunity to look at one of the sport’s legends. Ernest Erbstein, aka Ernest Egri-Erbstein was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and He was involved in football as a player and coach…
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It is often said that the death of a million is a statistic but the death of one is a tragedy, and unfortunately this is true. People just become desensitized when they see the pictures of a great number of corpses. It is just human nature, a defense mechanism because the brain just can’t fathom the…
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After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7 1941, there was a fear that Japan had plans to invade the US. This never happened, although there had been a few attacks on American soil by Japan, these did very little damage. The only military base ever to be attacked by Japan was Forts Stevens on the…
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