27 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Exodus 1947 after British takeover © National Photo Collection – Frank Scherschel
🔊 Listen to this Post Exodus 1947 was a
packet steamship that was built in the
United States in 1928 as
President Warfield for the
Baltimore Steam Packet Company . From her completion in 1928 until 1942 she carried passengers and freight across
Chesapeake Bay between
Norfolk, Virginia and
Baltimore ,
Maryland .
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13 January 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Main Cathedral Street © Shyam peelery/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Vinnytsia is a
city in west-central
Ukraine , located on the banks of the
Southern Bug . It serves as the
administrative center of
Vinnytsia Oblast . It is the largest city in the historic region of
Podillia . It also serves as the administrative center of
Vinnytsia Raion , one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of 356 379 (2025).
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28 July 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Paris / Île-de-France
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Mémorial de la Shoah is the
Holocaust museum in
Paris ,
France . The memorial is in the
4th arrondissement of Paris , in the
Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of
World War II .
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27 January 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Miami / South Florida , Museums, Exhibitions
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The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a
Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in
Miami Beach ,
Florida .
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27 January 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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Anne Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding
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The Anne Frank House (
Dutch : Anne Frank Huis) is a
writer’s house and
biographical museum dedicated to
Jewish wartime diarist
Anne Frank . The building is located on a canal called the
Prinsengracht , close to the
Westerkerk , in
central Amsterdam in the
Netherlands .
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27 January 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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The NS-Dokumentationszentrum is a museum in the
Maxvorstadt area of
Munich ,
Germany , which focuses on the history and consequences of the
Nazi regime and the role of Munich as
Hauptstadt der Bewegung (?capital of the movement?).
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27 January 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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Szeroka Street © flickr.com – Ana Paula Hirama/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Kazimierz is a historical district of
Kraków and
Kraków Old Town ,
Poland . From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a
royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the
Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the
Krakow Ghetto just across the river in
Podgórze , and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city. The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the
Vistula river. The northern branch of the river (
Stara Wis?a – Old Vistula) was filled-in at the end of the 19th century during the
partitions of Poland and made into an extension of Stradomska Street connecting Kazimierz district with Kraków Old Town.
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30 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Babrujskaja street © Viktar Palstsiuk/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Minsk is the capital and the largest city of
Belarus , located on the
Svislach and the now subterranean
Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of
Minsk Region (
voblas? ) and
Minsk District (
rajon ). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the
11th most populous city in Europe . Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the
Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received
town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the
Minsk Voivodeship , an administrative division of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . It was part of a region annexed by the
Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the
Second Partition of Poland . From 1919 to 1991, after the
Russian Revolution , Minsk was the capital of the
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , in the
Soviet Union . In June 2019, Minsk hosted the
2019 European Games .
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11 March 2022 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General
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Xinjiang Internment Camps map © US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Xinjiang, officially the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (East Turkestan) and
formerly romanized as
Sinkiang , is a landlocked
autonomous region of the
People’s Republic of China (PRC), located in the
northwest of the country close to
Central Asia . Being the
largest province-level division of China and the
8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) and has about 25 million inhabitants. Xinjiang borders the countries of
Mongolia ,
Russia ,
Kazakhstan ,
Kyrgyzstan ,
Tajikistan ,
Afghanistan ,
Pakistan and
India . The rugged
Karakoram ,
Kunlun and
Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang’s borders, as well as its western and southern regions. The
Aksai Chin and
Trans-Karakoram Tract regions, both administered by China, are claimed by India. Xinjiang also borders the
Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of
Gansu and
Qinghai . The most well-known route of the historic
Silk Road ran through the territory from the east to its northwestern border. It is home to a number of ethnic groups, including the
Turkic Uyghur ,
Kazakhs and
Kyrgyz , the
Han ,
Tibetans ,
Hui ,
Chinese Tajiks (
Pamiris ),
Mongols ,
Russians and
Sibe . There are more than a dozen autonomous prefectures and counties for minorities in Xinjiang. Older English-language reference works often refer to the area as Chinese Turkestan, East Turkestan and East Turkistan. Xinjiang is divided into the
Dzungarian Basin in the north and the
Tarim Basin in the south by a mountain range, and only about 9.7% of Xinjiang’s land area is fit for human habitation. Capital und largest city by far is
Ürümqi .
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