Author: michelvanderburg

First Stolperstein | 20240520

First Stolperstein. Installed on 16 Dec 1992 in front of the City Hall in Cologne , Germany.

Over the past 30 years the team of German artist Gunter Demnig installed over 100,000 Stumbling Stones – ‘Stolpersteine’ – across 26 countries in Europe – the world’s largest memorial.

Demnig’s Stolpersteine are small, cobblestone-sized brass memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Set into the pavement of sidewalks in front of the buildings where Nazi victims once lived or worked, they call attention both to the individual victim and the scope of the Nazi war crimes.

The very first Stolperstein, was installed on 16 December 1992 in front of Cologne City Hall , with Heinrich Himmler’s order for the initiation of deportations of all Roma (Gypsies) :

„Auf Befehl des Reichsführers SS vom 16.12.42 – Tgb. Nr. I 2652/42 Ad./RF/V. – sind Zigeunermischlinge, Rom-Zigeuner und nicht deutschblütige Angehörige zigeunerischer Sippen balkanischer Herkunft nach bestimmten Richtlinien auszuwählen und in einer Aktion von wenigen Wochen in ein Konzentrationslager einzuweisen. Dieser Personenkreis wird im nachstehenden kurz als ‚zigeunerische Personen‘ bezeichnet. Die Einweisung erfolgt ohne Rücksicht auf den Mischlingsgrad familienweise in das Konzentrationslager (Zigeunerlager) Auschwitz.“

Notes

Photo : First Stolperstein at the Cologne City Hall, Germany. Photo Jan. 1, 2008, by Willy Horsch, CC-BY .

Citation info : First Stolperstein | 20240520 | michelvanderburg•com

NOS News Photo | 20240517

NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517_1

NOS News • today, 10:09
French police shot dead man who wanted to set fire to Rouen synagogue…

The visible caption on this photo here is ‘ANP’, the in Holland well known almost 100 year old press agency (similar to eg Reuters) distributing news to other professional media like newspapers and our national tv broadcaster .

Annoying … (knowing) you now need to check every news item image (photo/still) of the Dutch national news broadcaster NOS to find out whether that image really is a news photo or actually fake … just an illustration from some archive.

Archive image – ANP | https://www.anp.nl | NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517_2

You need to click this image in the post to be able to read the small print additional caption, this is just an archive image (dutch: archiefbeeld) … no news.

I appreciate the excellent NOS public national news broadcaster in the Netherlands. And, using archive footage may help storytelling in documentary work. However, here, watching the NOS site on an iPad or desktop PC, it’s obvious the design of the site creates a problem , since posting a news item requires using at least one image. With no news photo available , the best alternative here appears to be using text for the featured image.

Else, best, show the notice ‘Archive image’ clearly visible at first glance in the post’s image… (?)

Citation info : NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517 | michelvanderburg.com

Update

Update 20240517 – 1543 CET minor text changes

Update 20240517 – 2217 CET : Noticed that (i) NOS site post has been updated last at 16:18 CET ; and image has been replaced with actual news image (caption : Police investigations at the Rouen synagogue | dutch : Politie doet onderzoek bij de synagoge in Rouen )

Update 20240517 _ 2237 CET : screenshot new image 

Transport XX DVD | 20240501

DVD-Video edition of Transport XX – Installation Brussels included in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance / Kazerne Dossin in 2009. Screenshot of the DVD Menu film.
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Transport XX DVD | 20240501

Transport XX DVD | Miracles•Media | 20240501

DVD-Video edition of Transport XX – Installation Brussels included in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance / Kazerne Dossin in 2009. Screenshot of the DVD Menu film.
Citation info : Transport XX DVD | Miracles•Media | 20240501 | TakeNode 040db4ed-2f59-4041-ae6c-88ed794cdfc9

Construction Kazerne Dossin | 20240424

Citation info : Construction Kazerne Dossin | Miracles•Media | 20240424

Construction of the new Kazerne Dossin museum, across the Dossin barracks – transit camp during WWII – housing both the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, as well as apartments, April 20, 2011, Mechelen, Belgium.
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