Creative with pictures and stories
We are regularly asked whether you notice the situation in Ukraine on the street and in daily life in Poland… We let the photos speak for themselves, with some photos of a normal street scene. These are therefore no exceptions, on the contrary.
In Mimoyecques are the remains of a launch installation for the V3 that was used in the 2nd World War.
Anyone who has delved into the history around the 2nd World War knows the V1 "flying bomb" and the V2 rockets. But…. there was also a V3. And it's a lot less known.
There is a very nice and special exhibition in Pruszków (Poland)! Scrap… but different… When you arrive, the first impression is a scrapyard. And that's right, in part…
Oskar Shindler was a German industrialist who saved (approximately) 1100 Jews from death by making them work in his factories around Krakow (Poland)
In Leipzig, in the old building of the Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) now houses a museum that recalls the history of this building and the (dark side of) Stasi in the GDR.
During the (1st) Cold War, Berlin was divided into 4 parts. British, American, French and Russian. Between the Russian zone and the other zones was the border (the Berlin wall), but also around the...
So then…. 2021 is almost over… and that went fast! On this side of the globe, we (mostly) enjoyed it. No, we have not been able to travel as much as we would have liked, that trip to Russia was canceled once again, but we are healthy, do (in our opinion) useful things
The old Stasi prison of Berlin still stands in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin. Built in 1938 as a factory and inaugurated in May 1945 by the Russian NKWD as a camp for “political prisoners”.
The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (the Stasi or MfS) was the internal security service in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its headquarters was in the Lichtenberg district on Normannenstraße. Today it is used as a Stasi Museum.
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