Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
anns an toit is anns an lasair,
ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…
—Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)
a #Gaelic #poem for #VEDay
#ww2
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And aye the reik bleeds frae the warld’s rim
as it has duin frae Babylon and Troy,
London, Bonn, Edinbro, time eftir time…
—Robert Garioch Sutherland (1909–1987), “During a Music Festival”
a #Scots #poem for #VEDay
#Scottish #literature #poetry #WW2 #WarPoetry
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
Hump day, hunk day
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1943 Cannon Towels Advertisement
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#HumpdayHunkDay #Towels #Cannon #WW2 #Army #Advertisement #retro #vintage
“QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically”
– retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the #WW2 Burma campaign
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/
#Scottish #literature #history #memoir #war
2/5
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #History #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons
British Commandos undergo intensive training - Scotland 1940 #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #ww2 #worldatwar #secondworldwar #conflict #history #worldwartwopictures #war #worldwar2pictures #historyofwar #historyofwarfare #commandos #training #scotland
7 March 1925 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Lenczner, was born in Częstochowa.
In Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23597
He did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #otd
24 January 1932 | A Pole, Bogdan Bartnikowski, was born in Warsaw.
He arrived at Auschwitz in a transport from the Warsaw Uprising on 12 August 1944
No. 192731
He was evacuated from Auschwitz & survived the war.
Today he celebrates his 92nd birthday.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #otd #Warsaw
14 January 1910 | Pole Stefan Jurek was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. A teacher.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37719
He perished in the camp on 9 April 1943.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts
My review of the #BigFinish #DoctorWho Companion Chronicle, Resistance
https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/1944-resistance/
#ww2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #FrenchResistance #TheSecondDoctor #AnnekeWills #PatrickTroughton #MichaelCraze #FrazerHines #BenJackson #PollyWright #JamieMcCrimmon #history #AudioDrama #Audiobook
9 January 1932 | A Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Herzogová, was born in Miroslav.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #children #Czechia #Theresienstadt #Miroslav
8 January 1938 | A German Roma boy, Eduard Pohl, was born in Löwenberg.
On 17 March 1943 he was imprisoned in Auschwitz (camp no. Z-3715).
He perished in the camp on 19 August 1943 at the age of 5.
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Learn about the fate of some 23 thousand Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #Roma
8 January 1894 | A Polish man, Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, was born in Zduńska Wola.
As a prisoner of #Auschwitz at the end of July 1941, he sacrificed his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape. On 14 August 1941, he was murdered with a phenol injection.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #priest #saint #franciscans
4 January 1914 | Pole Stanislaw Szczepanik was born in Chybie. A football player, in 1929-37 a defender in Wisła Krakow football club.
In Auschwitz from 25 August 1943.
In 1944 he was transferred to Mauthausen, where he perished.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #sports #football
