BTD 1897, luthier Ignacio Fleta. Created the instruments of choice of many virtuosos including Segovia & John Williams. The Fleta sound lives on in the work of his descendants. This spruce top Fleta was made by his son. I also recorded on a cedar Fleta on 40 Degrees North.
Archive footage of the Krakow Ghetto during the Holocaust. Despite all the odds, there was a Jewish resistance movement here. I have tried to do it justice in my novel I AM JUDEN: UNDERCOVER IN THE SS, a dramatisation of the incredible life of Haim Michael Klar.
This day in 1945, Loa Kulu Massacre, Borneo, Japanese soldiers beheaded 144 Dutch prisoners, only after they had been forced to watch their wives being hacked to death with swords, and their children hurled down a mine shaft where all of the bodies were eventually dumped. #WW2
A big Happy Birthday to the wonderful Kate Bush, born #OnThisDay 1958.
“Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems …”
📷 Harvest / EMI
#Rock@NewWaveAndPunk#Pop#ArtRock
July 23, 1931 | Rabbi Meyer Kizelnik, a Romanian Jew, was born in Strâmtura.
In May 1944, he was deported to #Auschwitz. His parents and 7 of his siblings were murdered in the war.
Meyer survived, and today is his 91st birthday. Please join us in wishing him a wonderful day!