Women and the Holocaust.
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View ArticleWojtek, the Polish bear.
I love learning something new…and today I found out about “Wojtek, the Polish bear soldier”: Wojtek’s greatest moment may have come when he voluntarily braved Nazi fire to help soldiers unload...
View ArticleWitness at the beginning of Warsaw’s destruction.
Also at the Smithsonian Magazine, you will meet Paul Bryan, the sole foreign correspondent left in Warsaw at the time of the German invasion of Poland. The author of the article, Mike Edwards, opens...
View ArticleIrena Sendlerowa and the Polish women of World War II.
PBS will be airing this Sunday a special program dedicated to the Polish Catholic women of World War II that fought against the Nazi Germans to save the Jewish children from annihilation. One of these...
View ArticleWarsaw: City of Ruins.
The marvel of technology that shows what human cruelty has wrought: destruction and devastation. ‘City of Ruins’, a five minute-long documentary which simulates an aircraft flight over the ruined...
View ArticleToday, 67 years ago, the Warsaw Uprising began.
This is what I wrote in May 2008: One of the most painful memories of Polish history is World War II. I cannot count the times I have had Poles say to me that they are baffled that the world … Continue...
View ArticleThe power of one: a Catholic priest’s life mission.
Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has a mission: Yahad – In Unum is the leading research organization investigating the mass executions of 1.5 million Jews and Roma/Gypsy people in...
View ArticleA horrific pictorial history of The Holocaust.
When a human life was labelled “life unworthy of life” (Lebensunwertes Leben): The Atlantic has the 18th installment of a 20 part pictorial history of World War II that must be seen to begin to...
View ArticleSir Nicholas Winton, a hero for the ages. (Continued)
Update:Â Sir Nicholas Winton turns 104 years old! I was working away listening to the Classical Music station, when I heard commentary that there was a new movie that had premiered in Prague (my ears...
View ArticleOn Holocaust Day, have you ever heard of Oswiecim?
Today is Holocaust Day and am reflecting on what I saw a few years ago. Auschwitz From Krakow (Poland), driving through beautiful fields, along country roads with fruit trees lining the sides of the...
View ArticleAn Anne Frank montage.
My short-lived theatrical career had me in a High School production of Anne Frank’s Diary, playing the role of Anne’s sister, Margot. It was a highlight of my life. I loved the experience, working with...
View ArticleMonte Cassino.
The Battle of Monte Cassino anniversary always reminds me of my Uncle-in-Law, who was an avid historian, and who, in just a couple of minutes of his powerful gift of story-telling transformed for me a...
View ArticleElusive Justice.
Reading about what is happening in Argentina about the murder of Prosecutor Nisman, I discovered the 2011 documentary, “Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals”, a PBS special. Below are an...
View ArticleThoughts on leaving Poland – Part 1 – Discovery
Moving in the Foreign Service. We are hitting the last leg of our unaccompanied tour in Warsaw. Only 6 weeks left before we depart to go home. Bitter-sweet thoughts come to mind. Poland is a beautiful...
View ArticleThe Power of One: Primo Levi.
“A monumental new edition of the Auschwitz survivor’s complete writings shows a humanist laboring in the darkBy Adam Kirsch.” But from his first book to his last, Primo Levi’s subject was not death but...
View Article“Music had soothed the savaged beast…”
Behind the horrors of war, a beautifully empathetic story: The post “Music had soothed the savaged beast…” appeared first on Dum Spiro Spero.
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