On her death bed, “Zippi,” as she was known, confessed that five times she’d used her position as a privileged inmate and a graphic designer at Auschwitz to keep Wisnia from being shipped to a worse camp. Now he’s telling his Holocaust story to keep the memory of it alive — and hopefully help keep history from repeating itself.
Now, about once a month, he gives speeches where he tells war stories, usually to students and sometimes at libraries or congregations.
“There are few people left who know the details,” he said.
Today, the BBC News reported on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945. The overriding tone of the reports was a fear that people might forget what happened. One of the survivors commented that if you ask a young person what they know about Auschwitz, they might reply, “Who’s he?” […]
January 27th will mark the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Survivors of the camp, world leaders and thousands of visitors will be commemorating the event, this inspite the growing conflicts and issues of global warming that is at the foremost of the minds of the majority. Auschwitz was the worst of the concentration camps during the Third Reich. Between 1940 and 1945, up to 1.5 million people perished here. While the liberation occurred 75 years ago, many of us are starting to forget the event while worrying about the future. Yet as you can see in this guest column, one can never forget Auschwitz, the persecution of Jews and minorities by Hitler and his cronies, and the policies that created World War II. What we can learn from the past can help us understand ourselves in the present and prevent a conflict of similar nature in the future. It is up to our generation and those of the future to ensure that such an atrocity never happens again to anyone regardless of background.
It’s -30- for Jim Lehrer, co-founder of “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS.
Lehrer started out as a print guy, and maybe that’s why I liked him. He worked for papers in Dallas, where he covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and then shifted to TV, where he and Robert MacNeil were all over the Watergate hearings. He went on to moderate a dozen presidential debates.
MacNeil praised Lehrer for his “very direct manner of interviewing” and his “extraordinary ability to listen.”
“You know the hardest thing to do on TV is listen,” he added.
Sometimes the hardest thing is to watch, especially given the motley crew of talking heads that fills screens these days. Unlike the bulk of them, Jim Lehrer will be missed. You can read his obit in The New York Timeshere.
So, let me take you out of my belle France into our old neighbor of Germany. I have been here several times ,university alumni living there, and family ties by marriage. The country was not far from me while living in Versailles so easy trips there. Once moved to Bretagne we did went renting a house in the Saar region and traveling as base all over. It was a memorable trip.
I have taken those photos and updated the text to bring back these memories of family trips in Europe, in the Saar of Germany, and in Saarbrucken. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for reading.
We came down to a new city for all, Saarbrucken. I wanted to see it simply because there they build my FORD !!!(actually in Saarlouis but you see the factory on the road) and I am a FORD men!!! We…
Photo by Torsten Bolten [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5DAmerican Football: a national past time. Every year in the Fall, we would flock to the football stadiums and watch the two teams, each consisting of 11 men, dressed up in football uniforms and helmets, move the ball to each other’s end zone to score. There are spectacular catches by the wide receivers; just as many deep throws by the quarterbacks or pushing the linemen back by the running backs; just as many as clean tackles by the defensive linemen; but also just as many boos and cussing by penalties that are debateable, just to name a few. 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the first game of the sport of football. As it developed over the years, rules and regulations were refined and equipment was reshaped to make the game safer for everyone to play. The most popular foot league in the world is the National Football League, which celebrates its 100th year in the 2019/20 football season. The most popular game in the US celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017- the Super Bowl.
Despite all these facts, what do we know about the sport? This is where the Files has a cool activity series for you to try out. Consisting of a guessing quiz and some exercises in connection with English grammar, this guide will give you a chance to test your history of the sport. At the same time, it will also test your skills involving active and passive verb forms in English.
To better understand how they work, a table below shows you how they function:
A more detailed version can be found with some activities involving the history of street lamps, which you can click here.
So without further ado, have a seat and try these exercises out. Good luck! 🙂
EXERCISE 1: Use the verbs in parenthesis and complete the sentence in the lined blank. In the dotted blank, choose the correct answer in the multiple choice below.
EXERCISE 2:Look at the following sentences below and determine whether they are active or passive. Mark with an A or a P, respectively. The verbs have been marked in bold print.
In today’s game of football, only 11 players per team are allowed on the football field.
The team that has the ball is given four chances (downs) to gain 10 yards.
The offense (team that has the ball) gets another set of downs if they get 10 or more yards.
The defense tries to stop the offense from getting the downs.
If the offense fails to get 10 yards or more, they are forced to turn the ball over to the opponents. !: Two answers here.
If the offense gets the ball into the end zone of the opponent, it’s a touchdown and they are awarded six points.
Points can also be scored by a field goal (3 points), two-point conversion or an extra point kick after the touchdown, or when the defense stops the offense in their own end zone for a safety (2 points) !: Two answers here.
The team with the most points after four quarters wins the game.
EXERCISE 3: HYBRIDThis task has a combination multiple choice and verb formation. Complete the sentence by: A. choosing the correct word from the multiple choice and B. Formulating the sentence using passive or active.!: Please pay attention to the verb tense that is expected per task.
EXERCISE 4: GUESSING QUIZ
How many states did the original teams represent when the NFL was created in 1920?a. Four b. Six c. Eight
Which of the cities were NOT the founding fathers of the NFL?
a. Canton, OH b. Chicago c. Green Bay d. Cleveland e. Pittsburgh
Which NFL Team in the present-day is the oldest?
a. Arizona Cardinals b. Green Bay Packers
c. Cleveland Browns d. Chicago Bears
e. New York Giants f. Detroit Lions
Prior to the first Super Bowl, which NFL team won the most number of championships?
a. Cleveland Browns b. Green Bay Packers
c. New York Giants d. Chicago Bears
e. Minnesota Vikings f. Detroit Lions
Between 1920 and 1969, which NFL team did NOT relocate or fold?
a. Akron Bulldogs b. Buffalo All-Stars
c. Green Bay Packers d. Pittsburgh Steelers
e. Chicago Bears f. Cleveland Browns
What was the highest number of points scored ever in an NFL championship prior to the first Super Bowl?
And since the Super Bowl started?
Which NFL Team(s) has made the Super Bowl the most number of times?
Which NFL Team(s) has won the most number of Super Bowl Championships?
Which NFL Team(s) has attended the Super Bowl the most but has yet to win one?
From Potsdamer Platz we walked through the ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’, which is a controversial structure in terms of both concept and design – controversial mostly because no one really understands it.
The monument is composed of two thousand seven hundred and eleven rectangular concrete blocks laid out in a grid formation. No explanations, no names and no dedications, a sort of graveyard full of stones without inscriptions. I suppose it might be conceived as a memorial to lost people.
According to the architect the blocks are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly once orderly system that momentarily lost touch with human reason.
Several people have had a shot at trying to provide a more definitive explanation but I find none of them absolutely convincing. Personally I found the memorial rather bizarre and difficult to…
“Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.” – Voltaire
After a few stops we left the train and walked through the Tiergarten. This was once a Royal hunting forest but was cut down for firewood during the immediate post war period when fuel was in short supply and has now been replanted as a very fine public park.
Late afternoon and it was beginning to get dark. The park is nice but a bit edgy with little gangs of dangerous looking men and we witnessed at least two dodgy transactions – drugs we imagined. To be on the safe side we stayed on the well lit footpaths and didn’t risk the shadows of the woodland tracks.
Berlin was once the capital city of Prussia and then Germany after 1871.
Prussia had become a modern European State in 1701 and for the next one hundred and…
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