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The secret librarian of Auschwitz remembers helping children before they were murdered
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For 100 years, they stayed hidden in family albums. Now amateur photographer Horace Warner’s intimate portraits of London’s poorest children are being printed for the first time, giving a glimpse into a forgotten world
City dweller, successful fella, worked in a bank as a clerk but he thought to himself, “I want to live a life that’s a lot less monetary.” So he taught himself to paint and draw and all his friends who saw his work said “Cor! You ought to take this up, seriously.” And that, in the musical stylings of Blur, is a brief introduction to Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938), the quiet little white collar worker who gave up his career as a pencil-pushing, number-cruncher at the Financial General in Prague, to become one of Bohemia’s most successful artists and who produced a phenomenal amount of work during his seventy-five years. Yet, for such an industrious and commercially successful artist, there is, perhaps surprisingly, little written, well, in English at least, about Scheiner other than he lived, he worked and he died, which is really quite fine as it means we get to concentrate solely on the work he produced. In his twenties, Scheiner started selling comic illustrations to the local newspapers and magazines. He had taught himself how to draw and paint but kept his passion a secret in fear he would be ridiculed for having such high...
The Blitz (short for Blitzkrieg, German for "lightning war") began on 7 September 1940, with more than 300 bombers involved. The attacks started on the East End before moving to central London. In total, 430 were killed and 1,600 badly injured that day...
Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, sociologist Lewis Hine documented the working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924.
Hush Little Baby Lullaby Sheet Music With Chords, Lyrics And Video: Hush little Baby don't say a word, papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird...
If you are looking for something to do with your children this weekend, then you should click this printable ‘20 questions to ask your child
Never did I expect to be covering a mass grave from modern times on my doorstep. That is exactly what I came across in Tuam,' writes MARTIN SIXSMITH.
Goodbye childhood, hello juvenile humour.
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not.. @NickyMorgan01 @arneduncan
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Brigitte Höss, now 80, has avoided talking about her shameful family secret for almost her entire life and maintains that her father 'was the nicest man in the world.'
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The statue will be unveiled in the Capitol rotunda on Oct. 7. It will be permanently displayed in the new Capitol visitor center.
These are the faces of the children of Victorian Britain who found their final resting place in unmarked graves. Today they are being remembered to mark the 150th anniversary of the charity, Barnardo's.
Bad Little Children’s Books is new book by illustrator Arthur Gackley featuring dark, yet hilarious parodies of classic children's book covers. Many of
In 1901-2, Horace Warner took photos of East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. Here's a selection of the rare ones that have survived to this day
Students work in pairs, take turns and debate on the given statements. They must contradict each other, one of them agrees another disagrees. They express their opinions by giving arguments for or against the statement. - ESL worksheets
“The Child’s Treasury” edited by May Hill. Literature for the child as part of the Foundation Desk Co. series. Copyrighted by W.F. Quarrie & Co, 1924. Illustrator unknown.
Elisabeth Hartnagel-Scholl is the last surviving sibling of Hans and Sophie Scholl, two anti-Nazi activists who were caught distributing anti-regime propaganda in Munich
Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), who wrote under the pseudonym of Charivarius, was a Dutch writer, traveler and teacher. In 1922 he wrote The Chaos (also often known by its opening l
Haunting images of Auschwitz prisoners taken as they entered the camp have been rendered in colour in time for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by Soviet troops.
America's bread basket has gone to rot. Over 100,000 acres of farmland have been lost to the worst drought in living memory, leaving families destitute.
1. Gay male victims of the Holocaust, who wore the downward-facing pink triangle, were still considered to be criminals when they were freed from concentration camps. They were often sent back to prison to serve out their terms.
“Childcraft, Volume One. Poems of Early Childhood.” Published by the Quarrie Corp in Chicago. Copyright 1923, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1939. Edited by S. Edgar Farquhar and Patty Smith Hill. Art editor Milo Winter. 38 artists listed in addition to the work of Milo Winter.
Either I had a really short attention span as a kid and never made it past the first verse of a song (which is entirely possible), or there are some obscure lyrics to the songs we all know and love. Here are a few of them.
I am having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in Trumpland as hate crimes escalate and the youth in the Muslim community react to a President they feel they had no choice in electing. In a reflection of its diversity, the Muslim community has shown a variety of responses to the election. Some think we have elected […]
