Showing posts with label Genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genocide. Show all posts
Friday, June 10, 2016

Lidice Shall Live: Anniversary Postal Covers Commemorating the 1942 Massacre.

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One of the most notorious of the many Nazi crimes of World War II was the liquidation of the (innocent) village of Lidice, on 9-10 1942, in ...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Bomber that Delivered the Heydrich Assassins

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I've been posting a lot lately about the anniversary of the assassination of Nazi Security Office head and Reichsprotektor of Bohem...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Commemorations of Lidice on Medals and Stamps

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The previous post described the Nazi massacre of the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice and the powerful emotional and historical e...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

1990-2015: Massachusetts Commemorates the Armenian Genocide

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I'm willing to bet that few of my readers are aware of the presence of a plaque in the Massachusetts State House honoring our Armenian c...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Memorial Day 2015/5775

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Haaretz today ran an article, " A dozen reasons why Israel should do away with Holocaust Remembrance Day ." It was no doubt supp...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Commemorations and Lessons of the Srebrenica Massacre (11 July 1995-11 July 2010)

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Last year, the European Union decreed 11 July, the anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians in 1995, a day of commemora...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Breaking news: Polish police locate stolen Auschwitz sign

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AP 20 minutes ago: Police located the stolen Auschwitz gate sign in northern Poland. Press conference scheduled for 3 a.m. Eastern Time. Se...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Auschwitz I Sign Theft Update

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According to the Auschwitz administration and Reuters , Polish authorities are offering a reward of 115,000 PLN (about $ 39,000) "for i...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Infamous "Arbeit macht frei" Sign Over Auschwitz Entrance Stolen Last Night

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I had already been planning a new posting with updates on the status of historic preservation efforts at Auschwitz (including some recent g...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

11 July 1995: Srebrenica Massacre by Serbian Forces, UN Indifference to Butchery

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Although the United Nations, in the course of the Yugoslav Civil War, declared the Bosnian town of Srebrenica a UN safe area under its prote...
Friday, May 29, 2009

27 May 1942: Assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich by Czech Paratroopers

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On this day in 1942, paratroopers sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the ruler of the ...
Friday, August 1, 2008

Karadzic Update

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In my elation at the news that Radovan Karadzic had been captured and would soon be brought to justice, my immediate reaction was to ask ho...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Breaking News: Bosnian Serb Leader Arrested

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Good news, in the sense of better late than never! Few details yet, aside from the fact that former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic-...