Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
My father arrived in America from Germany in 1939, 75 years ago. It was March 17, St. Patrick’s Day—a holiday my father had never heard of—and New York City’s marching bands and colorful parade amazed him. If this was how America welcomed immigrants, it was truly fantastic. St. Patrick’s Day would become my family’s special … Read more
My father arrived in America from Germany in 1939, 75 years ago. It was March 17, St. Patrick’s Day—a holiday my father had never heard of—and New York City’s marching bands and colorful parade amazed him. If this was how America welcomed immigrants, it was truly fantastic. St. Patrick’s Day would become my family’s special … Read more
The West is experiencing a mysterious phenomenon in which Muslims living there alternate between stabbing people and running them over with cars. Germany had a bout of Muslims stabbing people, including a recent stabbing by an Afghan migrant, so another Afghan refugee decided to run over some people in Munich. 30 people have been reported … Read more
Memorializing the Holocaust’s unmarked mass graves in Poland If there were to be only one symbol of the Holocaust, it would be of a concentration camp dedicated solely to industrialized killing. A total of 2.7 million Jews were murdered at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, and, within the Auschwitz complex, Birkenau. The extermination camps were the … Read more