Love
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Getting married is one of the most wonderful things that can happen to you in life. It is a union of love which is quite powerful. However it can also be nerve wrecking, admittedly more so for the bride then the groom. You want to make sure the day goes well, you hope the weather
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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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Where some see shoes, I see a father desperately comforting his daughter telling her everything will be fine, where he knows it won’t be fine ever again. Where some see shoes, I see missed opportunities of getting to know the people who wore them. Where some see shoes, I see the sad face of a
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I don’t know how often I have seen this picture but it is today it finally broke my heart. I sat down and looked at it for a few minutes. Where before I only saw an woman, probably an elderly woman and 3 children walking towards the gas chambers. What is so utterly disturbing about
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++++courtesy of HSA-Holocaust Social Archive++++++++++++++++ She was the troubled daughter of the rabbi of Warsaw’s great synagogue; he was the son of a Polish Jewish leader. As neighbors they used to play together as children, but when they grew up, each went on their separate way. The leader’s son became a communist who fought in
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These human remains were unearthed in 1972 at the Teppe Hasanlu archaeological site, located in the Solduz Valley in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The site was burned after a military attack. People from both fighting sides were killed in the fire, which apparently spread quite unexpectedly and quickly through the town. The skeletons
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It wasn’t only death and destruction during WWII, sometimes there was time for a bit of romance and love. Whispering sweet nothings US Army Nurse kissing a Corporal. They were just married A daughter awaiting her father’s arrival home This “no, no, not yet” goodbye Welcome home, a family re-united. The kisses and tears
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