Anna Klein EN

pixelsalat@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:19:36 +0200

"Lady, I don't know what you are doing, I don't know what house numbers are, but I'm a good dog, you set foot into the neighbour's yard, I bark to let everyone know you are here."

It was just one foot... Your home, your rules, of course.

#dog #OSM #OpenStreetMap #myphoto

Anna Klein EN

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:27:57 +0200

This #eScoooter looks comfortable and classy, doesn't it?

#eMobility #vehicle #myphoto #mywork

ꂵꄲ꒤ꋊ꓄ꋬ꒐ꋊ ꃳ꒐ꀘꏂ 𝔸𝕕𝕕𝕚𝕔𝕥≈⁴²⁰≈

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:20:14 +0200 from Diaspora

Probably sounds a lot better than those annoying gas powered ones.

Anna Klein EN

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:25:25 +0200

There is a small electric car in my neighbourhood, one can barely hear it approaching. Just a soft humming noise and the sound of tyres on pavement.

Anna Klein EN

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 13:08:57 +0200

The Romans didn't foresee this, when they planned the street.

#photography #mywork #OldCity

Manuel

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:05:31 +0200

Indeed!

Anna Klein EN

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:29:18 +0200

Privacy, when framed as something a single individual consents to, obscures a bleak fact of life: You can’t always opt out of other people’s choices. The FaceApp backlash exposes the fallacy at the core of climate change, technology, and most of life. We have much less control than we think we do, especially when it comes to how other people behave.

Interesting text:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/07/faceapp-mess/594361/

#privacy #FaceApp #surveilance

Anna Klein EN

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:17:15 +0200

I had been walking through the city doing errands and taking pictures of about a dozen "Stolpersteine", small memorials for victims of National Socialistic prosecution, so I can add or check information to #OpenStreetMap when I became tired and hungry and headed toward the Vietnamese restaurant which was praised for good vegetarian food in an article I had read. As I approached I realized the restaurant was in a house that was an "external camp", a small branch of a concentration camp. There is a memorial nearby.

I hesitated, before I sat down to eat, deciding the past needs to be remembered while living in the present. The food was good. I will add information about the building and the restaurant to #OSM as well.

#history #food #Germany

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shigella@pluspora.com

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:06:37 +0200 from Diaspora

I had to develop thicker skin, because I had to spend some time at my aunts place, which was built on the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. It doesn't help when you know, They are still there, buried without Kadish, matzevas - nobody cared so new houses are built on the top of little hills. Anyway, I don't like to be there, it seems somehow inappropriate. Stolpersteine - I read about man who is making them - one by one, using his hands and heart to create Memory

Anna Klein EN

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:42:46 +0200

Earlier this year I decided to map all the Stolpersteine in my city so anyone could find them. They are small and the brass turns stone grey with patina quickly. They actually are hard to spot even when you know where to look.

It's not a big city, but it has a good research group. They have put together over 200 names of victims, most of them Jews, of course, but there is also a group of political opponents against the regime, all men, who were murdered, there are disabled people who were killed, a Jehova's Witness and three Sinti sisters. One of the girls survived fleeing from a death march from Auschwitz before it was liberated.

The research group wrote biographies of most of them with whatever information they could find and posted them on a website. Very soon I realized I had to stop reading the biographies. I can't walk around with over 200 hundred stories of people who were persecuted and murdered on my mind. At least not if I read them all within a rather short time.

It's quite an experience to map all these memorials. It's not like I didn't know much about the holocaust before. But it becomes more personal. There is a beautiful old town house overlooking riverbanks on one side, the old city on the other. I have walked past it many times wondering what it would be like to live there. Now I know what happened to some of its occupants. Two fled to the US, one was dragged out of his house at the age of 77 and left to die in Theresienstadt. I look at that house and others differently now.

shigella@pluspora.com

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:14:17 +0200 from Diaspora

Yeah. You see this little beautiful street in Frankfurt / Mein, with flowers and little gardens and than there is Stolpersteine telling the story of the little baby taken with her or his parents to the death camp. One thing which surprises me is that there are no Stolpersteines in Poland - and there were hundreds of thousands Polish Jews who died. It looks like they became unwanted ghosts, old kirkuts changed into parking lots, synagogues being stores or magazines, traces of Jewish presence erased or changed into folklore, picture of the Jew with coin for good luck on the wall, strange candle holder. We don't want you here, reminding us you lived and died here.

Alexander Goeres

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:19:45 +0200

there are no stolpersteine in poland because the polish were no nazis and didn't commit any crimes during the german occupation. and in addition it is illegal in poland to insinuate that there were polish crimes related to the holocaust ...

Anna Klein EN

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:21:14 +0200

There are Stolpersteine in Poland

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Stolpersteine_in_Polen

The list is probably as incomplete as all the other Stolpersteine lists on Wikipedia, because no one can keep up with the speed of them being installed. Gunter Demnig wanted to do a few hundred, maybe. There are over 70,000 now and the number keeps growing.

I think the point of having memorials, big and small, is keeping the facts straight. Knowing the truth helps a lot when making decisions. We all need to know the Holocaust happened. We need to know about the victims, the perpetrators, the bystanders, the heroes who saved others risking their own lives. We better try to understand humans, if we want to keep the world from getting worse.

Disinformation is dangerous. Disinformation contributed to the Holocaust happening in the first place. That's why not having memorials is, at the very least, unwise. The Polish goverment has already taken it a step further by making it illegal to tell the truth.

Alexander Goeres

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:03:37 +0200

hmm, ok, learnt something new. but how can this be when it is illegal in poland to talk about guilt?

Anna Klein EN

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:10:50 +0200

I take it the Stolpersteine were installed before it became illegal. They also don't accuse Polish citizens of wrongdoing. Officials can still claim only Germans were bad people. I wonder, if they do something about all the memoirs of survivors that tell another story.

shigella@pluspora.com

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:51:49 +0200 from Diaspora

@Alexander Goeres @Anna Klein EN Polish "historical politics" is something I shouldn't discuss without a lot of vodka, but let me try to explain. It is not forbidden to commemorate victims of Holocaust, so Stolpersteine are legal as long as setting them is agreed with owner of the space (ie city or road council). There is in example monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes, Umschlagplatz in Warsaw Umschlagplatz, plaques, and so on. I don't follow proceedings about this idiotic bill, which made illegal "Libelling Poland" by i.e. mentioning that Poles weren't angels or "Polish concentration camps", but I think it was revoked when USA slap Poland in the face. But. There is all the official propaganda, which makes Poles martyrs, helping Jews, risking their lives to save neighbours, bla, bla, blah, we never did something wrong, it was all Germans. If there was "szmalcownik" ("lard trader", person who blackmailed hiding Jews or simply denouncing them to Germans), he or she was immediately killed by underground army executors.

Jan Tomasz Gross Jan T. Gross caused nationwide hysteria, when he published his book "Neighbors" about Jedwabne Massacre. There was everything - denying that it happened, accusing Germans, accusing victims for being traitors and communists, saying that there were worst things around, whatever you want. Now IPN (horribly incompetent "historical investigators") is planning to exhume victims, to show there was nothing and Gross was lying. Of course this makes Jews mad, because it is not allowed to exhume dead bodies according to Judaism. Nationalists are praised, Jewish victims of war and post-war massacres (Pogrom Kielecki) are moved out of the scope. Paint everything white, nothing to see here, move along, there is Polish nation which suffered most

Anna Klein EN

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:15:52 +0200

Thank you for your comment.

Now IPN (horribly incompetent "historical investigators") is planning to exhume victims, to show there was nothing and Gross was lying.

This is horrible.

Anna Klein EN

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:32:08 +0200

Some people really know how to enjoy summer!

#myphoto #photography #summer

Alexander Goeres

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:43:46 +0200

ist das sekt, der da in der sonne steht? der wird ja warm ... :)

Anna Klein EN

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:52:16 +0200

Ich kann nicht klar erkennen, was es ist, würde aber auch auf Prosecco tippen. Den darf man da wirklich nicht zu lange stehen lassen.

Mutilated Trees

Anna Klein EN

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 15:23:17 +0200

What kind of gardener* trims trees like this? And what kind of book store owner hangs books from them afterwards? The bookstore is to the left, just out of view.

#myphoto #photography #fail #tree #city #book

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Anna Klein EN

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 15:55:25 +0200

This type of pruning is common for Platanus trees.

I hadn't seen that before and I think it's ugly. I was wondering about it though, because our city gardeners are generally doing a very good job.

I'm wondering about the metal grills around the trunks as well. Do they serve a purpose?

Dotti Treehugger

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 15:58:03 +0200 from Diaspora

Stability and protection from animals and stupid humans.

Anna Klein EN

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 16:01:16 +0200

Protection from stupid humans makes a lot of sense there.

Red Roses

Anna Klein EN

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 18:52:16 +0200

This bush is growing near a big, noisy crossroad surrounded by ugly buildings. I walk along that street often and the roses in bloom make me smile every time. I cannot imagine how the bush got there in the first place. I'm pretty certain no one planted it. Now whoever mows the grass from time to time leaves it alone. It doesn't get trimmed or watered, yet it thrives.

(The odd wooden boxes are storage for grit that's scattered over ice and snow to keep the path safe in winter.)

#rose #flower #myphoto

Ravioli Al Limone

Anna Klein EN

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:40:52 +0200

in a Bavarian beer garden by an Italian chef on a warm summer evening. They tasted much better than they look.

Life is good!

#food #Bavaria #foodporn

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°Anthepa

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 22:31:48 +0200 from Diaspora

Mmmh! Mit dazu passendem Wein offenbar :)

Anna Klein EN

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 22:35:57 +0200

Man gönnt sich ja sonst nichts.

Manuel

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:24:43 +0200

Ñam-ñam!

Anna Klein EN

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:11:13 +0200

lotfi (ZAP) wrote the following post Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:16:32 +0200

“If conditions are good, birds can negotiate temperature up to 46 degrees C. Only when greenery and shade are missing, they die of exhaustion,”
Birds fall from the sky as temperatures soar in Hyderabad

Lack of spaces to perch and rest causing them to collapse or, worse, drop down dead

#birds #heat #ClimateChange #India

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Anna Klein EN

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:33:15 +0200

Das würde helfen, aber die Rekordhitze macht natürlich auch den Pflanzen zu schaffen.

°Anthepa

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:27:43 +0200 from Diaspora

Ein Teufelskreis

Baba Doodlius

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 04:17:17 +0200 from Diaspora

Poor birdies. :(