These deportations and the intensification of anti-Semitic measures alarmed many Jews in the Netherlands, among whom were the Franks. Anne and her family decided to go into hiding in the first 15 days of July 1942. They were later joined by four other Jews: Hermann, Auguste and Peter van ...
NEAR AUSCHWITZ, JEWS RECLAIM A PLACE SYNAGOGUE REOPENS WHERE A COMMUNITY THRIVED BEFORE WWIIBrian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent
On at least two occasions, we have been confined to a single bed to share between the two of us after a night of some serious drinking. Anyways, the giggly-drunk version of my mother hates the idea of going to bed without one more drink. Most of the time it’s a mug of wine, bu...
Just like dreaming of that fantasy, a white Christmas, people drawn into the spider’s web of deception and distraction believe the time to show goodwill to all and beam sweetly as they exchange Merry Christmas at the once a year visit to Midnight Mass will suddenly clear the streets of th...
Yet, despite his debilitating illness, FDR would go on to become one of our country’s greatest presidents that ushered it through the Great Depression, WWII, and back to prosperity with his “New Deal” programs. Though spoken nearly a Century ago, these enduring words from FDR’s 1933 Ina...
It is good when terror precedes us that we are exterminating the Jews. We are writing history anew, from the racial standpoint.” The point about insecurity has indeed become a historical trait of modern genocide. Writes Malcolm Bull in the London Review of Books (“Ultimate Choice“, Vol....
“My father is not a household name like Siegel, partly because he wore a disguise, a veneer of respectability that fooled most. It did not fool the government. “When I was exposed to the truth by way of a book, I kept the secret, too. I was 13. My parents divorced, and five ...
trespassing on federal land who has been getting something for nothing for the past 20 years. It would seem cut and dried. Throw his ass in jail, take his property, sell it and recoup what he owes the American people. Isn’t this the treatment you’d expect if you did the same thing...
Back in the old days, white prosecutors would go after any black person who caused trouble. And using loaded language would get the larger population to view such with suspicion so that it was easier to railroad the target. Now in NYC we’ve got a white man who came to the defense of...
Hungary has a very difficult past. The country was under real communism after WWII, you couldn’t mention certain people’s names and if you did the special police would arrest you, no protests or speaking out against the government, no ownership of businesses…so of course the people revolt...