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JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. VERNICHTUNGSLAGER TREBLINKA. TREBLINKA/POLAND.

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Sunday, Kislev 29, 5778. December 17, 2017. Shalom! World. The Vernichtungslager ( extermination camp )  in Treblinka was built in the spring of 1942 near na existing penal labor on na área of 17 hectares. The camp was surrounded by a high barbed wire fence camouflaged with interwoven vegetation in order to hide what was going on inside. Anti-tank obstacles and rolls of barbed wire were placed outside the fence. Watch towers were also placed in various parts  of the camp. The staff consisted of  25-30 Germans and Austrians who supervised the camp, and of guards company of some 100 men, mostly Ukrainian orygin, Dr Irmfried Eberl was appointed the first commanding officer of  the camp, later replaced by Franz Stangl. Kurt Franz was the deputy commanding officer. The first transports of people, consisting of Jews deported from the Warszawa ghetto, 22 July 1942. From that day onwards, Jews were transported t...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. MORGENBERNHORN. SPIEZ/SWITZERLAND

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Sunday, Kislev 22, 5778. December 10, 2017. Shalom! World. The Morgenberghorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland. It lies at the northern end of  the chain between the valleys of Frutigen and Lauterbrunnen, north of the Schwalmere. Shalom! Aleichem. Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. GREEN CAFFÉ NERO. WARSZAWA/POLAND

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Sunday, Kislev 15, 5778. December 3, 2017. Shalom! World. Green Caffè Nero, Nowy Swiat, 53. Warszawa/Poland. The blend ot Green Caffé Nero has remained the same unique since the year that the founder and owner, Gerry Ford, spent months working and crafting with John Ritzy, a master coffee roaster, and his Probat in a smal room beneath London Bridge. He knew exactly what he was looking for to start Green Caffé Nero: that rich, persistent roast that spoke of his time living in Italy and that has now became so familiar to us all. It was 1997, 20-years ago. The beans required to achieve this distictive flavour, however, aren't easy to find. G.C.N. source handpicked beans from higher altitudes and rich soils across a variety of origins to get the kind the quality that will complement the meticulous methods, providing the richness and flavour that G.C.N. simply won't compromisse on. After all these years, G.C.N. come to think of it as an art. There's no rushin...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. CHARLOTTE SALOMON.

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Thrusday, Kislev 12, 5778. November 30, 2017. Shalom! World. The details of  Charlotte Salomon's extraordinary life tend to overshadow her work. Often likened to Anne Frank, the Jewish artist was shaped by the Nazis' rise to power and by a suppressed Family history  of suicide, before her life was cut short at Auschwitz in 1943. She has inspired plays, an opera, a movie and an award-winning French novel, and is the subject of a forthcoming animated film.  Salomon was born in Berlin 1917, came from na upper-middle-class Jewshi Family and watched as the world she had known as  a child disintegrated when Hitler came to  power. She was a  reserved child, but she clearly had a turbulent and  passionate inner life with na astute visual memory, "imprinting  everything for future  use," according to her  biographer Mary L. Felstiner. Images she later  painted of this period reveal a wry, bitter humor. Hitler...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THUN CASTLE. THUN/SWITZERLAND

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The amazing night view of the Thun Castle!!!!!!!! Sunday, Kislev 8, 5778. November 26, 2017. Shalom! World. The present day castle with its adjoining buildings was originally a fortress. There was a stately home with a residential building and a curtain wall already in the 12th century. This is confirmed by archeeological research, which took place during the bug reconstruction in 2013. It can be presumed that the Duke of Zähringen did not take over the compound quite peacefully. Berchtold V had the up to the presente day well-preserved monumental donjon integrated in the compound. The Zähriger never intended to live here as  they had  a residence built in Burgdorf. Yet, it is with this imposing tower that they could leave a sign of their power over the region and the local trading paths. The donjon is unsuitable as a permanente residence as it is actually a single 14-metre high room, which is now called the Grand Hall. In its time na imposing pla...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. GAMBERO ROSSO, PASTA AND CAFÉ. PRAHA/CZECH REPUBLIC.

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Sunday, Kislev 1, 5778. November 19, 2017. Shalom! World. Gambero Rosso, situated at Jakubská 744/4, Praha 1 - Stare Mesto.    Gambero Rosso is  modern non-smoking restaurant for people on the move who love sports, music, good food and who want to eat healthy and live healthy. Gmabero Rosso is simply a synonym for a healthy llifestyle. Cook good but healthy food is not a rocket Science. It just takes a fair amount of  work as well as freshingredients, and most importantly a love passion  for cooking. At Gambero Rosso prepare all disshes exclusicvely with fresh high quality ingredientes. GR would like to invite you to come and tasty Italian dishes. Gambero Rosso works as a "gas station", where you can recharge your physical and mental energy. Eat, drink, regain your  strength and go over again, whether you're headed to the office or city sightseeing. Shalom! Aleichem. Suporte cultural:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C...