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Friday, January 21, 2022

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st Jan 2022

 


Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ have not one, but two great blogs for us this week..

Monday 10 January 2022    Going local can turn up interesting information  by Pauline Williams & Bobbie Edes


Monday 17 January 2022    Accentuate the Positive – 2021 (Jan 2022) by Bobbie Edes


* Queensland State Archives Reading Room reopening Feb 7th.

Bookings will still be required via EventbriteYou can also use ArchivesSearch catalogue to pre-book records before your visit.


NOTE.. new album : Outback Roadtrip     Over 680 images from the 1990s captured what Queensland looked like 30 years ago. 


*  Billion Graves 10 of the World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries


*  New edition of illustrated book capturing essence of Ireland released | The Irish Post


* The Pirate Kitty of Ferny Hills: How a thieving ginger cat brought joy to a Brisbane neighbourhood - ABC News


* Carol's Headstone Photographs A brilliant site and all free..never hurts to let Carol know that you appreciate her work.

Genealogy Tips: Finding lesser-known places for family history research - Santa Ynez Valley Star 

Transcription Tuesday 2022     Scottish Ancestral Research

* National Archives UK The 1920s: Beyond the Roar New edition of illustrated book capturing essence of Ireland released | The Irish Post

* When Can I Reuse This Calendar?

Outback Family History

The Prospector who dug his own grave-       50 Years With The Pan –

Mother Dead Finish:   New Book Review – Shooting Through by Katrina Kittel

Atlas Obscura

The Wonder of Mumbai’s Coastal Wildlife     Innis House Virginia 

The World’s Worst Sandwich      Fried Onion Burger

Lion Rock Mountain  Arachnophobes, Look Away

The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft   Killer Rice

The Prison Cell of Ludger Sylbaris   Bone Worms and Gators, Oh My

A Hilarious Victorian Lie     Whiskey Bottle Tombstone   

What Happened to Moon Trees?      Cisternerne  Sci-Fi Dystopias

Bluespring Caverns  Saving Pacific Newts  

Recreating Ancient Recipes  The Secret Lives of Kitchen Appliances

New Zealand’s Colossal Squid     Grandma Ida’s Nut Rolls Gravestone

How to Care for a Corpse Flower   Brauerei Hofstetten  World's End  

Protest Button Archive   A Historic Russian Recipe

Who’s Protecting Britain’s Medieval Churches?  Steens Mountain

Jug Bridge Monument   Uncovering Buried Buildings

Save the Hummingbirds    Places Frozen In Time     Alinjagala   

‘Food Grammar’  Georgia Guidestones

JSTOR Daily

Tchaikovsky's Patroness       The Age of the Birth Certificate

Freedom Libraries and the Fight for Library Equity  

We All “Scream” for the Metatextual Ski Resorts and Climate Change

Anglo -Celtic Connections

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine: February 2022


Smithsonian









* IRISH CENTRAL













ALWAYS INTERESTING

Please note .. there will be only one blog listed from each author, as there are so many great blogs. Please do read some of the other blogs as well as the one listed.

A Genealogist In The Archives     

Thumbing Through Your Ancestor's Books


jenealogyscrapbook


 The Gentle Author

 Brotmanblog: A Family Journey
 
 GeniAus

 Textile Ranger

 Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

 Genea-Musings

 Jennifer Jones

 historybylarzus

  Diary of an Australian Genealogist

  The Irish Story

  Humoring the Goddess

   Tales from the Grave

  Before Bernadette

  My Family Connection to a Well-Known Australian Artist.


   allenrizzi

   Thumbs Down


   The Legal Genealogist

  Mapping the ancestors

    

records-access-alerts


(United Kingdom) Wiener Library and Archive-World's Oldest Holocaust Archive Still Collecting Materials

reply to...records-access-alerts@iajgs.org

The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, England, United Kingdom, is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive collecting materials since the Library’s founder gathered evidence of German antisemitism from the 1920s—before Hitler came to power. The Archive has over one million documents.

 

Founded as the Jewish Central Information Office in 1933, which itself grew out of an earlier bureau that Alfred Wiener had operated in 1920s Berlin, the institute was established to monitor German antisemitism. Much of the collection was gathered before and during the Holocaust.

 

Wiener, a trained Arabist and decorated World War I veteran, had become concerned at the antisemitic conspiracies that were swirling around post-WWI Germany and threw himself into efforts to monitor and combat Germany’s far-right underground.

 

He began collecting pamphlets, books, and leaflets in an effort to track German ultranationalists and opened an office under the main representative body of German Jews. By the mid-1920s, he was publicly debating German nationalists — both in print and in public debates — and in 1925 authored a critique of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

 

By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, it was not safe for Wiener to remain in Germany. He moved his operations to Amsterdam, from where his staff established a network that could provide information on Jewish life across the Third Reich.

 

Kristallnacht was a turning point, and eyewitness accounts poured into Wiener’s Amsterdam office from Jews across Germany and Austria. Researchers, many of whom had fled with Wiener in 1933, began collecting testimonies — 305 of which remain in the museum’s collection — that were stored and fed into urgent reports that were sent to politicians and newspapers around the world.

 

In 1939, Wiener moved the archive to London where he had built close ties to the British Jewish community. Throughout the war, Wiener and his colleagues forensically gathered information from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. They published a fortnightly digest of information picked up from trusted informants, escapees and newspapers across Europe, which began to piece together the systematic destruction of Europe’s Jewish communities.

 

The information gathered by Wiener and his associates before and during World War II formed part of the evidence that was submitted at postwar trials, including Nuremberg and Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem in 1961.

 

Increasingly, however, the library has sought to become a center for both educating about the Holocaust and warning about antisemitism, genocide and fascism.

 

An affiliate website, The Holocaust Explained, (https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/)  received over 2 million unique views from 200 countries across the world in 2021, making it one of the most popular Holocaust education websites globally.

 

To read more see:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-london-the-worlds-oldest-holocaust-archive-is-still-collecting-material/

 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 

* INTERESTING BLOGS


The Fate of Caroline Blumenfeld Hoxter and Her Children: Final Chapter   Amy       Brotmanblog: A Final Chapter


Beryl Reading – A Baby on a Postcard historybylarzus


2022 – and a New Year Goal Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage


Reviews

Theresa Smith


Book Review: The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher


Book Review: Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham


Better Reading


Book of the Week: Burnt Out by Victoria Brookman


Looking After Country with Fire by Victor Steffensen, illustrated by Sandra Steffensen Kids


Podcast: Miriam Margolyes on Her Extraordinary Life Story


and from my blogs...


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jan 2022, Among the tombs, house histories, Qld State Archives, FREE Irish resources, Tinteán Magazine articles, Japan's ghost houses, great book reviews, interesting blogs, million Irish infected with COVID, help for using 1921 census, annual update to online records, pirate women, and a whole lot more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link..


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/01/friday-fossicking-14th-jan-2022.html


That Moment in Time


CEMETERY - COMMENTS & QUANDARIES additions to both Australian and International sections… Do use Reader where it is an option…far easier.

For those unsure as to what READER is… look for the bars before the URL .. click on that and you will be able to read the articles without all the ads.

The title of the page is the main link.. feel free to share..


Headlines of Old


CONVICT DAYS  TROVE TUESDAY 18th Jan 2022, Ann Rumsby, convict ship Mary Ann, convict oddities, Parramatta Female Factory..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/01/convict-days-trove-tuesday-18th-jan-2022.html


Stay safe and well.
This will pass.


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