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
historical heroes
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
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
Introducing: Karlrobert Kreiten
This month, let’s meet Karlrobert Kreiten, a German-born pianist who held Dutch citizenship. Considered one of the most promising young musicians in Europe in the… Read More »Introducing: Karlrobert Kreiten
Introducing: Hans Litten
This month’s hero is the lawyer Hans Litten, who represented political dissenters during the Nazi dictatorship. In 1931, Litten subpoeanaed Adolf Hitler as a witness… Read More »Introducing: Hans Litten
Introducing Rosa Luxemburg
This month, let’s discuss Rosa Luxemburg, whose life was cut short by right-wing troops in early 1919. Born in 1871 into a Polish Jewish family,… Read More »Introducing Rosa Luxemburg
Introducing Gail Halvorsen
Since this month heralds the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift (more on that below), the hero has to be Colonel Gail… Read More »Introducing Gail Halvorsen
Introducing Otto and Else Weidt
Otto Weidt (born on May 2nd, 1883) and his wife Else operated a factory employing blind and deaf craftspeople, many of whom were Jewish, in the… Read More »Introducing Otto and Else Weidt
Introducing Georg Elster
Georg Elster was a master craftsman living in the village of Königsbronn, who travelled to Munich in 1938 in order to attend the annual commemoration of… Read More »Introducing Georg Elster
Introducing: Willem Arondeus
Dutch citizen, Willem Arondeus was gay man, painter, novelist and art historian, who did all he could to impede the Nazis in their occupation of… Read More »Introducing: Willem Arondeus