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Grunewald station in Berlin is a small, unasuming train station that looks like thousands of such stations around the world. But it is at this spot that thousands of Jews were loaded onto trains to Auschwitz and other places, initially...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 11:57 AM • 1 Comments •
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe where, by design, concrete slabs that are initially perfectly aligned, due to sinking of the soil, adopt all sorts of different angles. Looking down the "aisles", one sees people, children playing hide-and-seek, and...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 11:46 AM • 2 Comments •
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on February 1, 2008 10:52 AM • 1 Comments •
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 31, 2008 10:52 AM • 1 Comments •
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 30, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 29, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 28, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
Alun Salt (of the Archaeoastronomy blog, sometimes known as "Clioaudio") recently wrote a post about the Portable Antiquities Scheme: The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and...
Posted on January 27, 2008 3:04 PM • 0 Comments •
Here is the fifth and final installment of my Mother's travelogue. Feel free to ask questions. I will try to copy and post her published chapter from the book "We Survived" in about a month from now. Family Tuesday, November...
Posted on December 28, 2007 9:55 AM • 1 Comments •
Here is the fourth installment in the series - the fifth is coming tomorrow. Please comment and my Mom will respond. Fulfilled lives of Dina and Jovan Rajs Sunday, November 11th The Hotel Dining room could accomodate all 800 participants....
Posted on December 27, 2007 9:59 AM • 1 Comments •
This is the third post in the series. I mentioned before that my Mom taped her story for the Shoah project. You can access the tapes through the RENCI site. Also, regulars here know that my Mom reads this blog...
Posted on December 26, 2007 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
This is the second part of my Mom's travelogue from Israel last month: Trauma of baptized Jews Friday, November 9th The Conference continues to work in groups. The topics are interesting but I had to choose one for the morning...
Posted on December 25, 2007 10:59 AM • 2 Comments •
A few weeks ago, my mother took a long trip to Israel to attend a conference of Holocaust Child Survivors. She wrote a diary of her trip and it was, in a slightly edited form (omitting most of the...
Posted on December 24, 2007 7:48 PM • 1 Comments •
I need to pick, buy and send a book on U.S. history to an old friend in Belgrade. It should be an objective, academic book, 600+ pages, not more than $50 used at Amazon. Is there such a thing and...
Posted on December 19, 2007 9:43 AM • 6 Comments •
Allan Stewart Konigsberg was born at Brooklyn, New York on this day in 1935. By age fifteen he was selling one-liners to New York gossip columnists. He dropped out of college and sold jokes to several prominent comics of the...
Posted on December 1, 2007 10:12 PM • 0 Comments •
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on this day in 1835. The picture is from his visit to Nikola Tesla's lab:...
Posted on November 30, 2007 8:53 AM • 1 Comments •
And to my Yugoslav readers: "Srecan Dan Borca!"...
Posted on July 4, 2007 1:17 AM • 3 Comments •
Skeptical Alchemist has the whole story. Sign the petition to prevent the drilling....
Posted on June 12, 2007 2:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Via Snarkmarket, I found this (probably incomplete) Wikipedia list of the oldest companies in the world that are still operating today under the same name. The oldest one, a construction company in Japan called Kongō Gumi, just went belly-up after...
Posted on May 21, 2007 12:07 AM • 1 Comments •
Two years ago today, I posted this. One year ago today, I only linked to it, though I should have reposted it instead to start a tradition. Well, I'll fix that this year on this day - under the fold:...
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Posted on May 11, 2007 9:15 AM • 13 Comments •
Survivor Testimonies Engage Students in Holocaust History: Through a program funded by the Claims Conference, a group of 8th graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who had never before learned of the Holocaust found themselves deeply affected by these first-person narratives during...
Posted on May 2, 2007 5:36 PM • 0 Comments •
Clarence Seward Darrow was born at Kinsman, Ohio on this day in 1857, the son of the town's undertaker. He joined the Ohio bar in 1878, moving on to Chicago in 1887 where he became counsel for the city and...
Posted on April 18, 2007 8:13 AM • 1 Comments •
See, how retouching history works. Retouching, as in 'photoshopping' a photo of a soldiers in Union uniforms into Confederate uniforms, then using the photo as a propaganda material. Hat-tip: Sally Greene...
Posted on April 3, 2007 3:32 PM • 12 Comments •
Osvaldo_Cavandoli aka Cava, the author of the amazing and hillarious cartoon La Linea, one of my childhood favourites, has died about two weeks ago. Here is the very first episode: There are several more available on YouTube (I just watched...
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Posted on March 17, 2007 3:46 AM • 2 Comments •
On this day in 1934 the US adopted the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act, commonly known as the Duck Stamp Act. Hunters are required to buy a stamp before bagging migratory birds like ducks and geese, with the...
Posted on March 16, 2007 12:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Back in May 21, 2006, Montenegro seceded from Serbia. Here is what I wrote:...
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Posted on February 20, 2007 1:27 PM • 6 Comments •
They are the last ones who should be playing with this fire: Croatia probes Hitler likeness, jokes on sugar packets: Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes...
Posted on February 20, 2007 1:15 PM • 3 Comments •
From today's Quotes Of The Day Sinclair Lewis was born at Sauk Centre, Minnesota on this day in 1885. He was an avid and somewhat romantic reader as a boy, he attempted to run away from home at age thirteen...
Posted on February 7, 2007 7:22 AM • 1 Comments •
I first saw about this on Pharyngula the other day and I think it is a majestic idea! A group of Brits are trying to build a replica of HMS "Beagle" and, on the Darwin Bicentennial in 2009, sail around...
Posted on February 1, 2007 2:20 PM • 9 Comments •
Carnival of Bad History #12 is up on Axis of Evel Knievel Carnivalesque #22 - the Early Modern edition - is up on Scribblingwoman....
Posted on December 22, 2006 5:15 PM • 0 Comments •
So, why do Creationists and other quacks try so hard to sound all 'scienc-y'?
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Posted on December 22, 2006 11:08 AM • 1 Comments •
The History Carnival's Annual Happy Holidays Party (as Reported by an Ignorant, Belligerent Lush) is up on Acephalous....
Posted on December 19, 2006 10:51 AM • 0 Comments •
From QOTD: The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel died at San Remo, Italy on this day in 1896. Under the terms of his will, his estate was arranged so as to grant prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, and...
Posted on December 10, 2006 9:58 AM • 1 Comments •
This post (from May 10, 2005) was deliberately written to provoke, by asserting that the "victors write history" rule gets into trouble when there are too many victors writing too many histories. Thus, it was written deliberately as an opposite...
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Posted on December 5, 2006 10:38 AM • 17 Comments •
From today's Quotes Of The Day: Jonathan Swift was born at Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1667, seven months after his father's death, and was raised primarily by an uncle. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin but...
Posted on November 30, 2006 7:25 AM • 0 Comments •
History Carnival XLIII is up on Axis of Evel Knievel...
Posted on November 16, 2006 11:44 AM • 0 Comments •
The History Carnival XLII is up on Holocaust Controversies....
Posted on November 2, 2006 12:51 PM • 0 Comments •
Carnival of Bad History #10 is up on Archy....
Posted on October 23, 2006 12:41 AM • 0 Comments •
History Carnival #41 is up at ClioWeb....
Posted on October 16, 2006 8:23 AM • 0 Comments •
John bemoans the state of science journalism, with some added history of the Atlantis hypothesis....
Posted on October 14, 2006 4:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Amazing history lesson from Archy: Nazis in Antarctica. * title totally stolen from Mustang Bobby, as there is no possible improvement on it....
Posted on October 14, 2006 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
