Dark Days

  
Hello subscribers!
  

Yesterday was a dark anniversary, namely of the night of pogroms in the Nazi German Third Reich on 9 November 1938, when Jewish businesses were ransacked, Jews beaten and humiliated, and many synagogues torched. To mark this date I uploaded a new Blog Post yesterday that features various photos from my archives with a focus on synagogues, intact/refurbished or still in ruins. The photo above is an example from that set. It shows the ruins of a synagogue and Yeshiva (Jewish religious school) in Moldova’s capital Chisinau.
  

Like this Newsletter, the new Blog Post is entitled “Dark Days”, and this is a reference not only to 9 November 1938 but also a vague allusion to contemporary dark developments, of which there are worryingly many these days, including one this past week that means I won’t be travelling back to the USA any time soon now (it wouldn’t feel comfortable and safe for me). And that’s a shame, but rather negligible compared to other possible consequences (not least for Ukraine).
  

Coming back to the main topic of the new Blog Post, there is also a brand-new chapter on my main website that is about a site with a related wider subject matter: the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
  

Before that I uploaded the new chapter for lovely Brisbane, and also filled the last remaining gap for Nauru, namely with the chapter about the Naoero Museum (the ‘national museum’ of Nauru, and indeed the tiny nation’s only museum).
  

I still have lots to write up for Australia (e.g. all of Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra) and that will keep me busy for quite a while to come. I don’t know yet what I’ll do next on the DT Blog, but I’m thinking of possibly bringing back themed posts with readers’ polls … We’ll see.
  

But that’s all for this time.
  

All the best,
  

Peter