Family
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I love to sing and I don’t care where I am or what I am doing, if I feel the urge to sing I just do it. However there is one song I can never sing along to, It is not that I don’t like the song, the opposite is true it is one of…
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Many will spend this Christmas without their best friend, wife, husband, father, mother, son, daughter, girlfriend, boyfriend, or other family members for the first time. It’s hard, especially the first Christmas, but that doesn’t mean you should feel guilty when you want to celebrate because that is what they would like you to do. This…
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I want to start by saying that I am not Jewish, though I may have some Jewish ancestry, which I am still exploring. However, the Jewish people of Geleen were my fellow citizens, just like anyone else, regardless of race or color. Tragically, the majority of Jews from Geleen were murdered during the Holocaust—a fate…
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My interview with Jackie Young, a Holocaust survivor: Jackie Young (born Jona Spiegel) was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but raised by adoptive parents in England. He talks about slowly learning about his own past, which his adoptive parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives.…
History of Sorts 