Dublin

  • They weren’t numbers, they all had names—Children with dreams and lovers with flames,Mothers with lullabies soft on their lips,Fathers with hands roughened by gripsOn shovels, on hammers, on books worn with age,Each is bound to the world, each written on a page. They weren’t numbers; they all had lives,Some barely begun, some hardened by strife,Eyes

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  • Bridget Dowling was born on 3 July 1891 in Dublin. She grew up at Flemings Place, near Mespil Road. She was still in her teens when she attended the 1909 RDS Dublin Horse Show and met Adolf Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Hitler, Jr. Alois had pretended to be a wealthy hotelier who was touring Europe, but

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  • “Le Dernier Métro” (The Last Metro) is a 1980 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is a poignant drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. The film captures the struggles of a Jewish theater owner and his wife as they attempt to keep their theater running amidst the horrors of occupation and

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  • On the night of May 31, 1941, during the height of World War II, the city of Dublin, capital of neutral Ireland, was shaken by an unexpected and deadly event: a German Luftwaffe air raid that killed 28 people and left nearly 100 injured. This bombing, which occurred in the North Strand area, has remained

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  • Irish Holocaust History

    Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s national holiday—a time to reflect on Ireland’s complex Holocaust history On May 2, 1945, Taoiseach(prime minister) Éamon de Valera expressed condolences to the German ambassador following the death of Adolf Hitler. This gesture was met with widespread national and international criticism. Angela D. Walsh, a resident of East 44th

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  • William Robert Fitzgerald Collis (1900–1975) was an Irish doctor and writer. As an author, he was known as Robert Collis. As a doctor, he was commonly known as Dr Bob Collis. Maurice Collis was his elder brother, and John Stewart Collis was his twin brother.| He was born in Killiney, County Dublin. He joined the

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  • Heinz (Heinrich) Hitler, born on March 14, 1920, was Adolf Hitler’s nephew. His father, Alois Hitler Jr., was Adolf’s half-brother, making Heinz a direct relative of the infamous dictator. Unlike other members of the Hitler family who either distanced themselves or did not support Adolf Hitler’s regime, Heinz embraced his uncle’s ideology. Heinz joined the

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  • A troubled soul, a demon with an angel’s voice or an angel with demons haunting her. Often misunderstood, also by me, but always genuine and sincere. The world without you will go on, but it will be a bit more boring and a bit less beautiful. Nothing did compare to you and nothing ever will.

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  • I moved to Ireland in 1997 and have not regretted it one day. I love the place and the people. Does that mean it is a perfect place? Of course not. I would be lying if I said there is no antisemitism in Ireland, because there is. But compared to most other European countries, it

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  • A Stolpersteinplural Stolpersteine; literally means “stumbling stone”, metaphorically a “stumbling stone” is a sett-size, ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Created by the artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, Stolpersteine is brass-topped cobblestones embedded in the pavement outside a

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