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James Roderick Burns retweeted
Billionaires in California are spending $333 million to wage a war.
Against what?
Homelessness? No.
Cancer? No.
Child poverty? No.
They’re waging war against a 5% billionaire wealth tax.
They’d rather poor kids with cancer die than pay a little more in taxes. That is obscene.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
Energy companies and oil companies are making insane profits and yet we will swallow another 27% increase in our energy bills and never ending increases at the pumps to pay for US imperialism because too many Brits buy the bullshit and bellyache about benefits and small boats.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
I am looking forward to returning to the continent where I’ve experienced so many moments of my life. May this journey be an occasion for us to open our hearts to one another, strengthen our communion as brothers and sisters, and renew our commitment to proclaiming the Gospel with joy. #Uruguay #Argentina #Peru
James Roderick Burns retweeted
The first Zionist Congress was planned for Munich in 1897. Local Jewish leaders, Orthodox and Reform, opposed it, so it moved to Basel.
Jews were saying "Judaism is not Zionism" before the movement held its first meeting.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
16 October 1925 | French Jew, Charles Gottllieb, was born in Nancy to Jacob and Dvora, who had emigrated from Poland.
During the war, he joined the resistance at just 16. In 1944, he was arrested in Lyon, interrogated, and then tortured by Klaus Barbie. Charles Gottlieb was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 19, on convoy no. 78, dated August 11, 1944, from the Drancy camp.
Camp no. B-9664
On 17/18 January 1945, he was taken on the death march to Mauthausen. He was liberated on 7 May 1945 in Ebensee.
After a convalescence in Nice, he returned to Nancy. He worked in various professions, including second-hand goods, ready-to-wear clothing, and jersey dress manufacturing. Since 2004, he has regularly spoken to middle school students about the horrors of Auschwitz as part of their duty of remembrance.
He passed away in 2015.
(Photo: Éric Goldinger)
ALT An older man, Auschwitz survivor in front of Block 14 at the site of the former Auschwitz I camp, wearing a tan coat and black gloves.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt
James Roderick Burns retweeted
25 October 1923 | A Polish Jewish woman, Lina Blitz, was born in Nowy Sącz. During the war, she lived in Antwerp.
In 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_ko…
Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
ALT Black and white photograph of a woman with short, wavy hair wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark collar, posing against a brick background.
James Roderick Burns retweeted
Just a reminder that Mamdani and El-Sayed are NOT in the Epstein files, but Trump appeared 38,000 times!
James Roderick Burns retweeted
26 October 1913 | A Czech Jewish woman, Jana Friedlerová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS: artsandculture.google.com/ex…
ALT Black and white portrait of a woman. The image includes a handwritten signature and a round, red stamp .
James Roderick Burns retweeted
How many narcissists does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They all use gas lighting.
