Monthly Archives: May 2018

This group is Scandinavian. I sat here for a while and watched groups of tourists – men, women, different nationalities – take photos with the statue. Some people just walk over the bridge. The metal is very slippery, posing a … Continue reading →

The entrance to the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park is through a synagogue after one pays 13 €. I think the only time I paid that much was for a combination ticket, for instance in Wien 15 € allowed you entrance … Continue reading →

What did it mean to be halfway between serfdom and a middle-class way of life? Were peasants, agricultural and industrial workers happy? Was this what caused them to emigrate? Were did the new phenomena of the workers’ movement come from? … Continue reading →

I liked the physical design of the museum, with slanting walls, a lack of right angles, the entrance through a dark basement, long sloping ramps all emphasizing the disorientation of deported Hungarian Jews and Roma. There was a noticeable and … Continue reading →

Citadella Budapest from the Citadel

Karlskirche. The thing about this view for me is that I remember taking this picture in 1997. It’s very strange to be here again 21 years later. Petra and her urban garden. With Rainer and Christian.

This is now a residential neighborhood. I was standing directly in front of someone’s home taking this picture.

When I was a kid my parents had the American Heritage photographic history of WW II on a bookshelf in our living room. I remember poring over the thick blue volume with my dad, asking questions. Where is Ploesti? Who … Continue reading →

Prague Castle from the Charles Bridge Karel Boromějský Orthodox Church At 30 Gabčík was the oldest of the parachutists.

This [US] is a unique, exceptional country. Russia is unique, but not exceptional. —Mike Pompeo, Senate confirmation hearing A few minutes ago I was in the Markgräfliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth, one of the last all-wood 18th Century opera houses in … Continue reading →