Remembrance
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In the quiet fields of northern Belgium, where red poppies bloom between rows of white crosses, a poem was born from the grief and valor of World War I. In Flanders Fields, written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, has become one of the most enduring war poems in the English language—a testament to loss, duty,
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On this day in 1945, Soviet troops walked through the gates of the Auschwitz complex, and I say complex—because Auschwitz was more than one camp. What they saw, they could not believe. Rather than going through all the horrors on this UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day, I have opted to show some art of those who
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May 4th is the designated day in the Netherlands to remember all those who died in WWII and other conflicts. At 8pm, two minutes of silence will be observed across the country. A few years ago, I saw a picture that really touched me. It was of a pizza delivery boy getting off his bike
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The 4th of May is the day when the Dutch remember the dead—those who died because of war. At the start of World War II, my hometown had 37 Jewish citizens; by the 4th of May 1945, they had all perished. Here is a poem remembering those 37 innocent lives. You are not different than
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On this day 72 years ago Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, the soldiers found 7,500 prisoners alive and over 600 corpses. Among items found by the Soviet soldiers were 370,000 men’s suits, 837,000 women’s garments, and 7.7 tonnes of human hair. Just imagine that 7.700 KG of
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