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kspenmoll
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Beautiful tribute to these children, their parents who sent them to safety, & those in Britain who took them into their homes.

Suet624 💕💕💕 5d
TheBookHippie In case you didn‘t know Paddington is based on these children 💙 5d
dabbe 💙💙💙 5d
kspenmoll @TheBookHippie I had no idea! Just looked up the Bear‘s history! Thank you! 5d
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kspenmoll
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Sunday afternoon porch reading & a coffee. #porchlife #coffeeandbooks

Texreader Looks so lovely!! 6d
TheBookHippie 💙💙💙💙💙💙 5d
Cathythoughts Lovely 🩵 5d
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My library hold came in today. Sadly enough Ruth Hargrove wrote this in 2020 during the first Trump administration. She was trying to stop deportations of some Cameroonians because they would probably be killed” if returned to their country in the midst of a brutal evil conflict”(8). #ranttime

Susanita 😡😓 6d
dabbe 🥺😢🤬 6d
AnnCrystal
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Pickpick

“Every witness is unique,a living protest of sorts against the abject annihilation of the memory of his assassinated Jewish neighbors”(145).Why have I read this month 3 books addressing the holocaust,1 through a photograph,a 2nd,historical fiction following a real child,& this one, through bullets? I think I am seeing so many parallels to our president‘s attempt to turn this country into a dictatorship-I need the concrete.#MondayMood 🤬😡😢😭

Deblovestoread So important! Stacking. 2mo
Butterfinger Yes, and it is so easy to become depressed because you feel so impotent about the past. We can do something now. Keep sharing about the past and speaking up about today's injustices. I hope you read something light. The photograph still haunts me. I remember when Lisa Kudrow found out about her father's Jewish family. They had all been murdered in a mass grave. I can't remember if it was Ukraine or Poland. There was a memorial. 2mo
Butterfinger I never thought till today that these precious people should be exhumed and given a respectful burial. I need to read this book. We need to honor by reading about each soul. Do you follow The Beloved Children of the Holocaust? 2mo
kspenmoll @Butterfinger I will look into The Beloved Children. 2mo
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“The Nazis had taken away beauty from everything…”

dabbe 😢😪😭 2mo
AnnCrystal 😢. 2mo
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Father Patrick Desbois‘s passionate commitment to honoring the 1.5 million Jews who died by bullets.

Butterfinger That would be sucg a daunting task. This is all of Europe, correct? I know of communities who have built monuments with names who were lost. He's right. In death, they should be honored. 2mo
GingerAntics Oh my god, they are/have building monuments to the Nazis? That‘s gross! That‘s not any different in my mind than building monuments to confederate soldiers and the confederacy itself. This man is doing amazing, important work. 2mo
dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 2mo
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kspenmoll @Butterfinger @GingerAntics Yes,the Nazi monuments are all over Europe.These literal killing fields are located all over Ukraine-those were the villages he was visiting & recording elderly witnesses that were still alive.Most had never unburdened themselves of their stories. His grandfather,a French soldier was captured by the Germans & sent to Rawa-Ruska,a concentration camp in Ukraine 2mo
kspenmoll It was his grandfather who got him interested in Ukraine where 1.5 mil Jews were killed by bullets. 2mo
GingerAntics @kspenmoll wow! That is terrible! I‘m so glad he gave these survivors space to let these stories out. No one should carry any story, any trauma, but certainly such horrors alone. 2mo
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Early morning coffee, a book & my snuggly cats. What a satisfying way to start my day. ☕️📙😻😻
#MondayMood

Kitta I had both of mine on me last night 😆 2mo
kspenmoll @Kitta They are such warm soft blankets! 2mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 2mo
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Deblovestoread A perfect way to start your day! Wishing you a peaceful mood all day long! ❤️ 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 #emandpoe 2mo
RaeLovesToRead One of these kitties looks more happy for it to be morning than the other 😄❤️ Give them a snuggle from me! 2mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻🐾😻💝. 2mo
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kspenmoll
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This is a library book that was referred to in the book Ravine by Wendy Lower. Started it today. Like her book, it is a record of a holocaust by bullets rather than death camps, mostly in Eastern Europe. #toomanybookstoolittletime #libraryhold

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Pickpick

This novel is example of why libraries are so essential.I found this in the new book section,calling out my name. I‘m uncertain how to review this combination of facts & imaginative storytelling,centered on a young, Catholic, 14 yr old Polish girl,Czeslawz Kwoka.When the author read an obituary in the NYT of the Polish photographer,Wilhelm Brasse,who took 40,000 + photographs of the inmates in Auschwitz, Tuck clipped out 3 of Czeslawz. ⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ This novel centers on Czeslawz, but there are many stories of those who impacted her short life: the Nazi perpetrators in Poland & in the camp, her family, her village,fellow inmates,ordinary, & extraordinary people.All of these people & their stories are woven together to make a “kaleidoscope” of memories. Although quite different in context & presentation,this book like The Ravine,”…restore(s) some kind of life and dignity to its victims.” (edited) 2mo
Graywacke I like Lily Tuck, but this sounds amazing 2mo
Chrissyreadit Wow! this does sound amazing!! 2mo
tpixie This sounds like an excellent book! 2mo
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