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   This week's focus is in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day,   
   January 27,    
   the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.   
      
   Per wikitree.com I am:   
      
   27 degrees from Anne Frank   
   34 degrees from Hannah Arendt   
   22 degrees from Max Beckmann   
   32 degrees from Gustave Brunn   
   24 degrees from Robert Clary   
   30 degrees from Hermine Gies   
   22 degrees from Josef Kates   
   27 degrees from Felix Nussbaum   
   28 degrees from Edith Stein   
   28 degrees from Corrie ten Boom   
   23 degrees from Carl von Ossietzky   
   27 degrees from Ruth Westheimer   
      
   More about them:   
      
   Anne Frank, known for her diary that chronicled her family's persecution.   
      
   Hannah Arendt fled Germany in 1933 and helped others escape.    
   She is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of   
   the    
   20th century and known for her analysis of the Eichmann war crimes trial.   
      
   Max Beckmann, one of the most important painters of the 20th century.    
   During the 1930s, his art was declared "degenerate" and he was forced into    
   hiding in the Netherlands during the war years.   
      
   Gustav Brunn, creator of Old Bay Seasoning. His business suffered in Germany    
   with anti-Jewish laws, he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, and released when it    
   was still possible; emigrated to US in 1938.   
      
   Robert Clary, French-American actor well-known for his role on "Hogans Heroes"    
   as Corporal Louis LeBeau. He survived Buchenwald. Most of his family did not    
   survive the concentration camps.   
      
   Miep Gies, secretary who helped Otto Frank hide his family (including Anne),    
   the Van Pelts, and Dr. Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer.   
      
   Josef Kates, Canadian engineer whose achievements included the design of    
   the first digital game-playing machine, and the development of the world's   
   first    
   automated traffic signaling system. He fled to Italy before Kristallnacht,   
   then    
   enlisted in the military in England, where he was imprisoned as an "enemy   
   alien."   
      
   Felix Nussbaum, killed at Auschwitz, was a significant painter of the New    
   Objectivity movement. He created some of his most poignant works while in   
   hiding in    
   Belgium.   
      
   Edith Stein, killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. A German-Jewish philosopher,   
   Catholic    
   convert, and saint.   
      
   Corrie ten Boom, Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family    
   members, helped many Jews escape the Holocaust.    
      
   Carl von Ossietzky, Nobel Peace Prize winner and outspoken journalist who    
   exposed Germany's program of secret rearmament and was a prominent critic    
   of the Nazi regime.   
      
   Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and    
   Holocaust survivor.   
      
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   I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American,    
   authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust   
   survivors   
   Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters,   
   physicians,    
   politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes.  I guess that I am a   
   collection of    
   all of them, as we ALL are.   
      
   https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly    
   newsletters.  It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.   
      
   If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by    
   giving me some basic information by going to:   
      
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   I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family   
   history,    
   and I would love to see how WE are related.   
      
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