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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:

https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm
and click on the 'Request Form' link.

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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