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Recently I learned about The Rescued Film Project, an online archive gallery of images captured on film between the 1930’s and late 1990’s. Each image was recovered from film found in sites all over the world, and came to the project in the form of undeveloped rolls of film. This organization has the capability to process film from all eras regardless of its condition or age. I was truly fascinated by this group and what they are doing. It made me wish I still had my father’s WWII camera which was sold as part of an estate sale. However, I […]

Seventy-four years ago, the most famous Jewish resistance attempt began in Warsaw, Poland. German troops had entered the ghetto to resume deportation of the remaining Jewish residents to the Treblinka Concentration Camp, a designated killing center. A small but determined group of seven hundred fifty resistance fighters, armed with a few smuggled rifles and hand-made grenades, held off a large contingent of heavily armed German troops for almost a month. The uprising ended on May 16, 1943 with the bombing of the Great Synagogue and destruction of the ghetto. Of the 56,000 Jews captured, 7,000 were sent to Treblinka.

Recently a colleague sent me a link about a soldier’s son trying to locate WWII veterans his father had sketched while serving with the 27th Infantry Division, 105th Infantry Regiment in the Central Pacific. Do you recognize any of these men? His son, Ira Dube found these prints after his father passed away in 2009 and believes that these men served alongside his father during the Battle of Saipan. His son wants to make sure that these never-before-seen sketches are returned to their family members. Read the full story at  http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/soldiers-son-mission-track-down-wwii-vets-his-father-sketched-during-war Photo Above: Ira Dube, who believes that most of […]

When was the last time you were really inspired? Was it an event, a person, a story, or perhaps powerful music? For me, it was all of these coming together in one surprising event. That event was this past Sunday, when I attended the VHP Community Reception and the release of their annual publication, Since You Asked. It started with the helpful, smiling faces of students directing us toward the reception area. Then it was followed by other eager students guiding us to the displays and seating. There were so many people coming together…students, parents, teachers and even seasoned veterans […]