Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
This Would Not Be the First Time the Olympics Were Cancelled or Delayed-- Part 1: Berlin (1916)
I am hearing that Japan will be delaying the 2020 Olympics until next year. However, this will not be the first time that this has happened. It has happened three times in history, all because of war.
One time it was because of World War I in 1916 and twice during World War II in 1940 and 1944.
I will be writing about the World War I cancellation here and the two times in World War II in my Tattooed On Your Soul: World War II blog.
From the March 22, 2020, Chicago Tribune "Olympics: Groundswell build" by Eddie Pells, AP.
Berlin was set to host the 1916 Summer Olympics (the Winter Games weren't founded until 1924), beating bids by Alexandria, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest and Cleveland.
--CootPics
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Dead Page: Anne Frank's Protector
MIEP GIES, 100
She was one of six non-Jews who provide Anne Frank and her family with supplies from July 1941 to August 1944 at a secret warehouse annex in Amsterdam during German occupation.
All she ever had to say about herself was, "There is nothing special about me."
After the Germans capture the Franks family, she gathered up scattered papers of Anne's diary and stored them away unread until Anne's father Otto returned, the only survivor of the family. She said she didn't read them because a teenagers privacy is scared.
Otto Franks published the diary in 1947.
Miep Gies was born in Austria in 1909 and moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to escape food shortages. Her host family gave her the name Miep. In 1933, she got a job as an office assistant in Otto Frank's spice business.
She refused to join the Nazis and in 1941, to avoid deportation, married her Dutch boyfriend Jan Gies.
In July 1942, Otto asked her to help hide his family in the annex above the company's canal-side warehouse at Prinsengracht 263. She also had to bring food and supplies along her husband and four other employees.
From the Jan. 12 US Today.
A Job Well Done.
She was one of six non-Jews who provide Anne Frank and her family with supplies from July 1941 to August 1944 at a secret warehouse annex in Amsterdam during German occupation.
All she ever had to say about herself was, "There is nothing special about me."
After the Germans capture the Franks family, she gathered up scattered papers of Anne's diary and stored them away unread until Anne's father Otto returned, the only survivor of the family. She said she didn't read them because a teenagers privacy is scared.
Otto Franks published the diary in 1947.
Miep Gies was born in Austria in 1909 and moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to escape food shortages. Her host family gave her the name Miep. In 1933, she got a job as an office assistant in Otto Frank's spice business.
She refused to join the Nazis and in 1941, to avoid deportation, married her Dutch boyfriend Jan Gies.
In July 1942, Otto asked her to help hide his family in the annex above the company's canal-side warehouse at Prinsengracht 263. She also had to bring food and supplies along her husband and four other employees.
From the Jan. 12 US Today.
A Job Well Done.
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