History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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I am not sure if this was a case of friendly fire. In my opinion, it should be considered a war crime by the Japanese Imperial Navy for not marking the ship accordingly as POW and civilian transport. The attack on the Dorish Maru occurred on the night of February 6, 1944. The ship, commanded…
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The photograph above is of a child-size violin that belonged to 13-year-old Boruch Golden, who the Nazis murdered in the massacres at Ponary in September 1943. Baruch began playing the violin when he was six years old. His sister, Niusia (Anna), saved the violin. She survived the war in hiding. Following the invasion of Soviet…
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“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.” —Ayn Rand Following are testimonies of some of the SS men who worked in the concentration camps. Willi Mentz: Willi Mentz was a member of the SS in World War II who worked at the…
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This may be a bit controversial in light of the current situation, but it is an important subject to be addressed. Nowadays there are those who would want you to believe that all Muslims want to kill all Jews, and vice versa. However, that is not the case, it isn’t the case now and it…
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I believe that the most effective way to keep the Holocaust in our memory is by remembering individuals—rather than talking about numbers, which are just so hard to comprehend. Ralph Blankenstein was born in Hamburg on September 29, 1922. His father, Isidor, lived in Hamburg, where he met his future wife Helene Blankenstein née Bluman,…
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Yesterday I interviewed Claire Sugden, a Northern Irish politician who was the Minister of Justice in the fourth Northern Ireland Executive from May 2016 to March 2017. She is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry, having been co-opted to the position after the death of David McClarty in 2014, and won election…
History of Sorts 