by finn ballard | May 30, 2019 | Blog
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 throughout Germany and Austria since 1855, plans to incorporate urinals (!) within many of...
by finn ballard | May 23, 2019 | Blog
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 at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, the German occupying forces began to use the building to store...
by finn ballard | May 16, 2019 | Blog
What a great project, making women’s history visible on Berlin’s streets!
by finn ballard | May 9, 2019 | Blog
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 in the divided capital: the cyclist who became the most wanted man in the DDR, the...
by finn ballard | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog
Picture quiz time and let’s make it a really tricky one: which Berlin building is topped with this gorgeous roof?
by finn ballard | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog
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 well as everyday life under Nazi occupation and its atrocities. Ringelblum assisted Polish Jews who were...
