Ret Royal Air Force. Lift weights, rugby both codes Love the hills, books, music & history. Open season on racists, fundamentalists, haters and the far right.
Just updating my dating app. Not sure whether to go for “ looking for history buff soul mate for nights in, sipping wine by the fire and strolling hand in hand around museums” or something a little more adventurous
In January 1943, a transport of 1,210 Jews deported from Berlin arrived at Auschwitz. SS doctors selected 127 men to be registered in the camp.
The remaining 1,083 people were murdered in gas chambers.
Helmuth Press was among them. He was 13 years old.
Not only did Israel systematically hunt down and kill almost every journalist in Gaza, they murdered more than 700 of their family members also.
This slaughter went on while many of the world's most prominent journalists stayed quiet. It is an eternal stain on our profession.
Israeli forces are targeting journalists’ families in a war to silence Palestinian reporting. At least 706 family members have been killed, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate aje.io/pkapjm
40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they'd been raped & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
Kash Patel under oath: "There's no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors."
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
15 December 1913 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Rachel Cozijn-Rijne, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
ALT Vintage black and white portrait of a smiling woman with a stylish hairdo, wearing a buttoned outfit.
15 December 1926 | A Polish Jewish girl, Fruma Supe, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune-la-Rolande on 5 August 1942. She did not survive.
ALT A vintage black and white photo of a girl, looking directly at the camera. Another girl is partially visible in the background.
15 December 1925 | German Jewish boy, Fritz Herbert Israël Glaser, was born in Glogau (today Głogów in Poland). He emigrated to the Netherlands.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 19 August 1942.
ALT Black and white portrait photograph of a young boy with a subtle smile, wearing a striped shirt.
Coming back slowly. Anyone with any good knowledge of protein/creatine effect on a kidney.I had a cancerous kidney removed in June. I'm a power lifter but worried about about protein stress on my remaining kidney.DM if you wish
I am the son of a vicar.
I was raised in the church.
I have spent 55 years wrestling with my faith.
And this leaves me cold.
They said their event was not about politics or division, then they draped his name with a flag…
13 December 1933 | Dutch Jewish boy, Marc Lierens, was born in Haarlem.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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My name is Mietje Blok. I was born in The Hague in April 1942, 80 years ago.
I arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 14 December 1942 in a transport of 757 Jews deported from the occupied Netherlands. 636 of us were carried and led into the gas chamber and murdered.
#NeverForget
Just like to say that as a teenager at a strict Catholic grammar school, I never remember being taught that Jesus said love everybody as long as they are white, racist, lying hypocrites.
So called muscular Christianity is just white fascism masquerading as religion.
10 December 1926 | A Polish Jewish girl, Rosette Ejzenberg, was born in Łódź. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz on 3 August 1942 from Pithiviers. She did not survive.
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French Jewish boy Pierre Deutsch was born in Paris in January 1938. He arrived at Auschwitz #OTD 10 December 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #,Drancy. He was among 661 of them murdered after selection in a gas chamber.
10 December 1896 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Marianna van Rooijen, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz in December 1942. She did not survive.
ALT Black and white portrait of a woman smiling, wearing round glasses and a striped shirt.