Fish Auction ca 1904 in the Visbank at the Gouwe River in Gouda. Along the Gouwe canal flowing in Gouda town, Holland, on both quays are a covered gallery – a fish bank called ‘Visbank’ for the weekly fish market, since the 15th century.There was still a fish auction (Vischafslag) here until about 1904. Edit postcard ‘Vischafslag Gouda’ | publ. B. Gompers, Gouda | SAMH museum, Gouda .
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Visbank ca 1904 at Gouwe River in Gouda | 20231202 | 1-memo•com | Along the Gouwe canal flowing in Gouda town, Holland, on both quays a covered gallery – a fish bank called ‘Visbank’ for the weekly fish market, since the 15th century.There was still a fish auction (Vischafslag) here until about 1904. Edit postcard ‘de Vischafslag’ (posted 29 dec 1904) | publ. B. Gompers, Gouda | SAMH museum, Gouda .
Song sung by Isabella’s great-grandchild Ameet Kanon (aka Queen George) , who explained today – Friday , December 1, 2023 – at the premiere :
“The Abbey – it’s been so special and personal keeping you to myself, but your message was always too big for me not to share it …
… This is Isabella Weinreb Castegnier. She is my great-grandmother. On April 19th, 1943, pregnant with my grandmother, she jumped out of a moving train headed to Auschwitz. She was being sent to her death, simply because she was a Jew. She understood that it was now or never, die at the destination or die trying, so she jumped. In the years to follow this epic jump, the Abbeys of Brussels became a place of hiding, survival, and safety for them time and time again.”
Tulips of blooming life and survival in Holland | 20231103 | Miracles•Media | Screenshot (Arte.tv) from Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité / In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand
Excellent, to see the video work Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945 (Ref. 1) helping the ARTE European public service channel broadcasting next week all over Europe an excellent documentary about the cultural legacy of tulips in Holland , featured in the daily French/German TV show ‘Invitation au Voyage / Stadt Land Kunst.’
The French (FR) edition ‘Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité’ is broadcast on Arte Tuesday 7 Nov. 2023 at 17:20 , and 8 Nov. at 8:40. The German (DE) edition ‘In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand’ 7 Nov. 2023 at 13:25 and 8 Nov. at 08:10 .
The documentary is an Arte & Elephant Doc coproduction , directed by Anna-Gaëlle Brault. In collaboration with Victoria Dehaut, documentalist, researcher (Elephant Adventures).
ARTE is a channel specialized in culture and known for its quality documentaries.
Arte.tv is streaming the docu online from 31/10/2023 to 05/01/2024 (Ref. 2, 3)
Leiden University Exam 1979 Böttcher | Ocean Climate Motor | 20230916 | 1-memo•com
Finally , the ocean motor driving our climate is news – cover story by Jaap Tielbeke in the dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer #35 (31 aug 2023): ‘The blue machine is malfunctioning’.
With a changing climate, that machine may perhaps stop suddenly, and result in catastrofic snowball effects, I learned ca 50 years ago , but never before noticed in the news.
The ocean motor : with the Gulf Stream bringing warm ocean water at the surface from the Caribbean to Europe – resulting in a mild climate in Europe – continuing further north the now cooled – and heavier saltier – water sinks to the bottom of the ocean , and the stream cold water returns at the bottom to the South. With higher temperatures at the North Pole and less cooling of the surface water that circulation may stop abrupt.
Already in the 70s we – biology students at the Leiden university in Holland – were told about the danger of a greenhouse effect – the effects over the next 50-100 years : the global rising temperature by 2-5 degrees Celsius / 4-9 Fahrenheit , melting of polar ice caps , rise of the sea level …. and because people in the west part of Holland are living far below the sea level – some 50% of our country vanishing in the North Sea … with the now eastern Dutch town of ‘Amersfoort’ becoming a sea-side town .. “Amersfoort on Sea”. That’s at least the take-home-message I got late 1970s from professor Frits Böttcher’s fascinating , expert , lectures at the Leiden university “Our dependence on the natural resources” that I took for my master’s study Biochemistry (B4) – a ‘caput’ lecture series in ’77/’78 with the dutch title “Natuurlijke hulpbronnen en onze afhankelijkheid ervan”. Böttcher was a co-founder of the ‘Club of Rome’ (link http://www.clubofrome.org/Index.php?s=bottcher++ ) . The image shows my exam card and mark by Böttcher in ’79.
A hypothesis in the 70s…the ocean motor may stop…now the motor has slowed down.
Citation : Ocean Climate Motor | 20230916 | 1-memo•com
Rhythmus was a jazz orchestra in the Buchenwald concentration camp in which a total of 23 musicians from 9 different countries played together from 1943 until the liberation. Czech prisoners around Jiří Žák took the initiative to found this orchestra in the summer of 1943.
Among the French prisoners that later joined, were Yves Darriet – the bandleader , who wrote most arrangements , and Robert Widerman – the band’s singer , who made a career as Robert Clary on Broadway after the war.
Two programs are known to have been performed in November 1944 and April 19, 1945, i.e. 8 days after the liberation of the camp (Ref 1) , including compositions by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and pieces by Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong. In The Mood was performed even though this music was banned in Nazi Germany.
Ref. 3 – Jazz im KZ Buchenwald – das gab es wirrklich! | weimarer-rendezvous | Sep 25, 2022 https://youtu.be/HX4X7TJ19nQ
„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald
At the April 11, 2022 event ‘„Rhythmus“ – Jazz im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald’ — in the Notenbank in Weimar, Germany (Ref 2, 3) — the Big Band and a jazz ensemble of the Hochschule für Musik under the direction of Prof. Gero Schmidt-Oberländer performed 9 or 10 pieces from the programs. In addition biographies of the prisoners in the Buchenwald Jazz Orchestra were made visible using excerpts from their letters and reports.
The French singer Robert Widerman ( Robert Clary ) was shown in a clip (Ref 4) from the documentary film From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story (Ref 5). Robert Clary (March 1, 1926 – Nov 16, 2022) survived thanks to several prisoners, including Yves Darriet (pseudonym Jan Rolan, Jean Roland), Claude Francis-Boeuf, and Jiří Žák. (Ref 6)
5. From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story by Karen and Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg | 2023 Edition | 20230202 | URL https://youtu.be/0tKc5T-Sw-E
