Tag: People
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Not to forget
Not to forget At the beginning of the 2nd World War there were 17.000 Jewish residents in the part of Amsterdam where I live. During the war 13.000 of them were deported and murdered in the concentration camps. When I walk through my neighbourhood I can ‘stumble’ sometimes upon little brass plates in the pavement.…
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Anne Frank
Anne Frank There she stands, Anne Frank, on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam where she lived 9 years of her short life till 1942. On 6 July of that year she went with her family into hiding on the Prinsengracht in what now is known as the Anne Frank House. Sculptor Jet Schepp has portrayed her all…
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Liberation Day
Liberation Day For the 75th time this year. Every year on the 5th of May we celebrate the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany. On the 7th of May 1945 the allied forces drove through this street, then called the Noorder Amstellaan, into Amsterdam, cheered and applauded by its inhabitants. A year later the…
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Oswiecim
Oswiecim Having come into being at the end of the war and been born in a Netherlands that had regained its freedom, the horrors of the Second World War have been etched into my consciousness through harrowing images and stories.One morning in 2007, on the train from Kraków to Prague, we made a stopover in…
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz (…) Er ruft spielt süßer den Tod der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland er ruft streicht dunkler die Geigen dann steigt ihr als Rauch in die Luft dann habt ihr ein Grab in den Wolken da liegt man nicht eng (…) (…) he yells play sweeter for death Death is a German-born master…
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Turquoise beauty
Turquoise beauty She helps out at the Jokhang – or at least, she did in 1996 when I visited the temple. I loved her sweet face and her rosy cheeks, framed by a traditional string of Tibetan turquoise stones. Her two gold-capped front teeth make her smile even more beautiful. Photo of the week: Jokhang,…
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Jokhang
Jokhang The clouds of smoke from the burning of incense block the view of the entrance to the Jokhang, the most important sanctuary of Tibet in the heart of Lhasa. The oldest parts of the temple date from the 7th century. And still the place is buzzing with religious and social activity. Photo of the…
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Sunset at Sunset Beach
Sunset at Sunset Beach With the promise of a new dawn. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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Love, playfully
Love, playfully The answer to the wave of hatred: LOVE, playfully. Photos of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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Kissing crows
Kissing crows The imminent danger suspected in the picture of last week’s post was after all only an ominous streak of imagination. The birds and humans are enjoying a moment of innocent play on an idyllic Goan beach. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
