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I Wonder What They Felt
Watching the news nowadays, it can be helpful to remind ourselves that the predicament in which we find ourselves is not new. Last year i jotted down these lines, on how the lines of solidarity and alienation have been a part of modern history: I wonder what they feltWhen the aidworkers were called backWhen the…
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Fritz Robert Mankiewics, and the sole Stolpenstein of Hamar
The only stolpenstein in Hamar commemorates Fritz Robert Mankiewicz. Born in Posen, Prussia in 1872. On the night of his arrest, October 26th, he suicided in Hamar prison. A german jew, who was Oberamtmann and leader of the agricultural-union in Schleswig Holstein, during his career. Mankiewicz arrived a refugee in Norway from Berlin in 1939. The family had to pay bail…