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Photo of The Day - May 2023
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Photo: Westerbork transit camp
Today, May 4th, is memorial day in The Netherlands, where I was born. My family lived a few blocks from a (former) NAZI prison/transit camp (Camp Amersfoort) that was used to torture and execute prisoners of different backgrounds and as transit (mainly jewish, sinti and roma) to a larger camp in The Netherlands (Westerbork) from where people were send on to camps like Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Bergen Belsen and Theresienstadt.
Concentration Camp Amersfoort was a brutal place to be a prisoner at and was summed up by Elie Cohen who said: "transfer from Amersfoort to Westerbork was like going from hell to heaven".
Elie Cohen had been a general practitioner in Aduard, a village west of Groningen, in The Netherlands, from 1935 until 1 May 1941, when Jews were forbidden by the Germans to practice medicine. Arrested on 13 August 1942, he was taken first to the Amersfoort prison and concentration camp in Holland, then to the Westerbork transit camp, and finally to Auschwitz. He worked as a doctor in these camps until 18 January 1945, when he, along with the other prisoners, was forced to evacuate Auschwitz and proceed on the death march to Mauthausen. From there he was taken to two labor camps in Austria, Melk and then Ebensee, where he was freed by American forces on 6 May 1945.
When I started my path into medicine I worked with many jewish survivors of multiple of these camps and will carry their stories with me for always as I do with the stories from my own parents who lived with the constant threat and human misery watching prisoners having to march from the train station to the camp and witnessing the dehumanizing treatment of people. This has put a mark on my family and many families for generations. I hope that days like today help people in making the right choices in life that lead to kindness.
Today, May 4th, is memorial day in The Netherlands, where I was born. My family lived a few blocks from a (former) NAZI prison/transit camp (Camp Amersfoort) that was used to torture and execute prisoners of different backgrounds and as transit (mainly jewish, sinti and roma) to a larger camp in The Netherlands (Westerbork) from where people were send on to camps like Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Bergen Belsen and Theresienstadt.
Concentration Camp Amersfoort was a brutal place to be a prisoner at and was summed up by Elie Cohen who said: "transfer from Amersfoort to Westerbork was like going from hell to heaven".
Elie Cohen had been a general practitioner in Aduard, a village west of Groningen, in The Netherlands, from 1935 until 1 May 1941, when Jews were forbidden by the Germans to practice medicine. Arrested on 13 August 1942, he was taken first to the Amersfoort prison and concentration camp in Holland, then to the Westerbork transit camp, and finally to Auschwitz. He worked as a doctor in these camps until 18 January 1945, when he, along with the other prisoners, was forced to evacuate Auschwitz and proceed on the death march to Mauthausen. From there he was taken to two labor camps in Austria, Melk and then Ebensee, where he was freed by American forces on 6 May 1945.
When I started my path into medicine I worked with many jewish survivors of multiple of these camps and will carry their stories with me for always as I do with the stories from my own parents who lived with the constant threat and human misery watching prisoners having to march from the train station to the camp and witnessing the dehumanizing treatment of people. This has put a mark on my family and many families for generations. I hope that days like today help people in making the right choices in life that lead to kindness.
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Is this a stray? It's eyes don't look so good
Yes it is a stray. Spotted this tiny kitten between the bushes and tall grass in deserted land. As I crouched to look at it and clicked this one shot, it backed off into the bushes and I could not see it again.
Used an iPhone 12 Pro Max
I feel those who have not experienced such events can only imagine. Your story has brought that imagination to feeling in me.
If a feral kitten doesn't get socialized in the first 6 months, it is going to suffer. If there is a volunteer TNR (trap, neuter, release) agency in your area, give them a call and they will try to catch and provide help. Feral cats are normally small groups in an area. The best way is to neuter the cats and return them to their group, otherwise another cat will move in and take it's place.
These two boys live outside, Fat Orange Cat has been here about 10 years. Started out as a very shy feral, but now is very lovable. He doesn't like to come in for very long. The other guy just showed up about about six months ago, he chased another cat out of the group and he lives down the street now. He likes to come in and play with the kitten, but lives outside too.
.. a grouping of tree trunks and stumps that caught my eye on a walk this morning .. I was especially fascinated with the large stump on the left ... a fine example of natural decay and nature's art in the process.
I don't feel he is being disrespectful, he is simply pointing out the those extremists in the USA that have revived that horrible cause for their own anti-semantic conspiracies. Like I said in a previous post, I spent an entire day at the Holocaust Museum in DC. It makes my blood boil to hear the idiots that deny that it ever happened and have become misguided copy cats.
If anyone is ever in DC, visit the Vietnam War Memorial. When ever our group of consultants I worked with on the design of military hospitals had meetings at the Army Corps of Engineers, we would all stop and pay our respects at the Wall. I remember when we lived CA in the 1980's, I saw the National Geographic article about the young Asian girl who won the design of the Memorial and I vowed that no matter how, I had to see that beautifully simple design. Little did I know I would get to see it 5 or 6 times.
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From east coast of Sweden late August 2022.
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Not sure when you took that photo but I took one in nearly the same spot in January 2011. Posting next.
January 2011 taken with my Sony Cybershot. I think we know the building as did monke. The big big monke.
Heartbreaking story but one that needs telling and retelling. Thank you.
This photo has a huge message 😢, beside your personal story.
Humanity doesn’t learn from its own mistakes alas.
The best thing we can do is to remind others what happened and do our best that it will never happen again. 🌷❤️
Someone's boot decided this was a good place to quit
This was taken on 33rd St just west of Madison Avenue.
Houston Street, just east of Russ & Daughters?
On Boot Hill of course
Playa Jaco, Costa Rica. May 2021
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Been updating the website. Created a section - Photo booth. Based on the days of pulling the curtain on a phonebooth sized space and snapping pictures. This goes outside the box, to the outside world. Here is the link;
photo booth. images - imagesmagical
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