"Wir wissen nichts und ahnen alles. Das ist der Tod! Nicht der schnell erlösende, sondern der quälende, langsame, der uns jeden Tag ein Stückchen sterben lassen wird " So beschreibt Edith Blau im Mai 1945 ihre Vorahnung, als sie 1944 aus Riga, wohin sie Ende 1941 deportiert worden war, in das KZ Stutthof verschleppt wurde.
Ihr Bericht spielt eine wichtige Rolle in meinem Buch über "nach Osten" verschleppte deutsche Jüdinnen und Juden, das im nächsten Frühjahr erscheint.
On this day in 1802, Mary Flinn died aged 72. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Killenard, Co. Laois (Queen's), in the Journals: https://bit.ly/finn1802
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1598, The Merchant of Venice by William #Shakespeare is entered into the Stationer's Register. While the play had been written and performed before this, paying for it to be put on the Register allowed for them to claim printing rights on the work.
Those rights were later transferred to Thomas Heyes, who printed the play in the First Quarto in 1600, providing some textual basis for the 1623 First Folio collection. https://stationersregister.online/ #OTD#histodons@histodons
Dohmen, Linda, Die Ursache allen Übels: Untersuchungen zu den Unzuchtsvorwürfen gegen die Gemahlinnen der Karolinger (Mittelalter-Forschungen 53), Ostfildern 2017.
#OTD in 1943; Italian prisoners waiting to be evacuated from Sicily with their regimental mascot, a lupine dog. You can see a variety of headgear; caschi coloniali (pith helmets), saharian hats (m42), a wool M35, some "adrians" (mod.16), and a few hankies! #WarInItaly#DogsAtWar @histodons @militaryhistory
#OnThisDay in #history - in 710, Dowager Empress Wei of Tang Dynasty #China was beheaded by a rival court faction. Wei had been a significant power behindher husband, Zhongzong's, throne, and after Zhongsong's death, attempted to assume regency powers on behalf of husband's young son, Emperor Shang. Then she attempted to take power for herself, like her mother-in-law Wu Zetian did. She was not as successful as Zetian, or for as long, and was overthrown. #histodons@histodons#OTD@royalhistory
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
Friday update: with the help of @kingsdigitallab we now have an update to our May release of 22 pages from Alice Thornton's Book of Remembrances (2 versions - semi-diplomatic and modernised). The two versions can now be viewed side-by-side. This is our work-in-progress #digital edition using TEI. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2023-07-21-partial-release-side-by-side-view/
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