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Betsy Roberts Miller ⁂

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, The National (US) WWII Museum presents 1945, a new 6-part podcast series.
Hear from experts like Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Frank, John McManus, Rebecca Erbelding, and Stephanie Hinnershitz.
Series homepage includes links to Reading List and various podcast platforms.

#Podcast #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #Nuremberg #Tokyo #AtomicBomb

nationalww2museum.org/war/podc

The National WWII Museum | New Orleans1945To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, The National WWII Museum presents 1945, a new six-part podcast series that tells the story of one of the most consequential years in modern history.
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נאריש זשלאָב מענטש

"To read about #American #Jews this summer, you only need to open the newspaper. For better or worse, and probably for worse, Jews have been all too much in the news of late.

Seventy years ago, the situation was quite different. With #WorldWarII moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable #immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed Amer­i­can #reli­gion, reflected in a mid­dle­brow #literary #cul­ture that reached a main­stream audience. That was true at the end of the 1955 beach #reading season when an unlikely pair of popular #novels made a splash on the #NewYorkTimes #Bestsellers list.

Patrick Dennis (the pen name of Edward Everett Tanner III) published his first #novel, “Auntie Mame,” in August of 1955. “Mame” quickly reached number one on the fiction #bestseller list. A few weeks later, Dennis’s novel ceded the top spot to Herman Wouk’s “Marjorie Morningstar.”

jta.org/2025/06/12/ideas/70-ye

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · 70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to AmericaBy Rachel Gordan
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1295233/an-imperi An Imperial Week in Photos: The Emperor Visits Okinawa #BattleOfOkinawa #EmperorNaruhito #EmpressMasako #ImperialFamily #JapaneseImperialFamily #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #PrincessAiko #WorldWarIi #沖縄 このページを 日本語 で読む On June 4, Their Majesties Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, along with their daughter Princess Aiko, visited Okinawa Prefecture. More than 200,000 people lost their lives there during World War II. It was Princess Aiko’s firs…

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Einen schönen #Mohntag allerseits with a throwback to the 2014 #artInstallation 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘥 that "planted" 888,246 ceramic red #poppies in the moat of the #TowerOfLondon to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Each #poppy represented one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the War.

This year, another poppy-based installation, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴, with almost 30,000 ceramic poppies from the original installation, was put in place at the Tower to mark 80 years since VE Day and the end of World War II in Europe. You can visit it until #Armistice Day on 11 November 2025.

(Edit: The last one is a panoramic shot which probably won't be displayed properly in the Pixelfed app, but should be alright on desktop)

#Mohn #Mohnblumen #Mohnliebe #Kunstinstallation #publicArt #öffentlicheKunst #WorldWarI #FirstWorldWar #ErsterWeltkrieg #ZweiterWeltkrieg #WorldWarII #SecondWorldWar #NieWiederIstJetzt #NieWiederKrieg #NieWieder #neverAgain #neverAgainIsNow #Shard #London #England #UK
A striking high-angle shot captures the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" poppy installation at the Tower of London. Thousands of ceramic poppies flood the dry moat around the historic stone fortress, creating a vibrant red sea that contrasts with the grey walls of the Tower. A large crowd of people stands at the foreground and along the perimeter, observing the poppies. In the background, the modern, tapering glass facade of The Shard pierces the cloudy, overcast sky.
A vibrant, eye-level shot captures the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" poppy installation at the Tower of London. Thousands of ceramic poppies, symbolising fallen soldiers, form a striking cascade into the dry moat and filling the foreground with a sea of intense red. The historical stone walls and towers of the Tower of London stand prominently under a cloudy sky. In the upper left, a crowd of onlookers observes the installation, and in the distance, modern city buildings and a construction crane are visible, juxtaposing the historic site with contemporary London.
A wide panoramic shot captures the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" poppy installation at the Tower of London. Thousands of vibrant red ceramic poppies fill the expansive dry moat, creating a striking field of colour that curves around the ancient stone walls of the Tower. Large crowds of visitors are visible on both the left and right sides of the image, observing the poignant display. The sky above is overcast, and in the distance, parts of the London skyline with modern buildings can be seen.
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