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Beyond Help. Soon World War II began, and the Germans marched into Holland. In the spring of 1942, Sister Benedicta and her sister Rosa were called before the SS police for questioning. Instead of the official "Heil Hitler!" Sister Benedicta greeted the Gestapo with "Praised be Jesus Christ...
...August German occupation authorities ordered the arrest of all non-Aryan Catholics in Holland, and Sister Benedicta and Rosa were herded into a van and taken to a concentration camp. Amidst the suffering and despair at the camp, "Sister Benedicta walked about among the women, comforting, helping, soothing like an angel," an escaped Jewish businessman wrote later...
...Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
VICKERS VISCOUNT, Britain's most successful postwar transport, will soon replace U.S. Convair 240s on short-haul routes on Holland's KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Vickers has sold nine Viscounts worth $11 million to KLM, landed orders for five planes from three U.S. corporations (U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of California, Hughes Tool Co.), thus breaking into the lucrative business-flying field for the first time. Total Viscounts sold to date...
...early 17th century, Puritans from Holland and England crossed to America, and when the first colonial confederation was formed for mutual safety in 1643 among Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven and Connecticut, Tower believes, a flag of four red stripes was adopted and flown from coastal trading vessels as shown in a 1647 view of New Amsterdam (opposite). From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes-for New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Jersey...