Berlin’s Litfaßsäule
Berlin is in mourning over the decision to remove the city’s iconic cylindrical advertising columns (known as Litfaßsäule after their philanthropic inventor, Ernst Litfaß). Used… Read More »Berlin’s Litfaßsäule
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Introducing: Rose Valland
This month, I am thinking of Rose Valland (1898-1980), art curator, who became one of the most highly-decorated women in European history. During Valland’s tenure… Read More »Introducing: Rose Valland
Book Recommendation: The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes under the Berlin Wall
I would like to recommend Greg Mitchell’s ‘The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes under the Berlin Wall.” Mitchell focuses on remarkable individuals living… Read More »Book Recommendation: The Tunnels: The Untold Story of the Escapes under the Berlin Wall
Picture Quiz #5: Rooftop
Picture quiz time and let’s make it a really tricky one: which Berlin building is topped with this gorgeous roof?
Introducing: Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum
Historian and social worker Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum was executed in 1944, and his Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto documented a wealth of Polish-Jewish history as… Read More »Introducing: Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum
Spring in Potsdam?
Already thinking of spring and the beauty of Potsdam! Are you coming to Berlin this spring?
Book Recommendation: One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Although it’s no longer January, and (as you know) certainly no longer freezing, I heartily recommend ‘One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of… Read More »Book Recommendation: One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Queer Tour
This fun group of queer history fans braved the cold on a January afternoon on my first open tour of 2019. Follow me on Instagram… Read More »Queer Tour
Introducing: Irene Sendler
Irene Sendler, Polish social worker and one of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ named at Yad Vashem. Sendler was a member of the Warsaw Underground… Read More »Introducing: Irene Sendler