Hello from below and work out into a new week of euro max before we get started lets have a look at whats coming up in today show. Sugary sweet a trip to the biggest gingerbread town in the world in norway. Good humor guides and entertaining to our exhibition in switzerland. And Winter Wonderland a visit to the polish the result of that. For many begging in norway is known as the capital of rain because it rains more than two hundred days a year but when the winter season starts theres nothing sweeter than this city for a few weeks bagging hosts the worlds biggest gingerbread city every year since this christmas tradition began in one thousand nine hundred schools kindergartens and local businesses come together to create a miniature version of it with sweet little houses trains cars and much more lets find out more about this yummy winter we wanted to let. To mark the onset of the Festive Season a miniature town made up of the sounds and delectable buildings has been unveiled in berge
Seeing the president , two exr president s, all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people, very important people, that really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us, and that is all she ever wanted to be to us. 3, 1942. N in january my father was elliott, and elliott was the second oldest of the sons and third oldest of the children, so my dad kind of fell right in the middle. I think he always felt that he was the middle child, but you claimmy uncles used to that he was my grandmothers favorite. I am not sure that was true, but that is what they claimed anyway. My mother and father were divorced when i was only two, and my time with my father was really quite limited and as a consequence, you know the rememberg that i can was howim talking about he almost felt somewhat estranged from my grandmother because i mean, he loved her she was so busy that it was almost he fel
In the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. And so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. And so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. It began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the United States. Poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. When you come into the National World war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, theres a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this glass bridge is a beautiful field of poppies, red poppies of flanders field. There are 9,000 blooms, each representing 1,000 combatant deaths. Its really an architectural masterpiece, i think, of the museum, very striking for visitors. Whats interesting is to see how Different Countries respond to that. Americans, theyre moved by the poem, theyre moved by the experience. Europeans or people from t
Germany entering into world war i. More than 100,000 americans died in the conflict. The influx of u. S. Resources changed the tides of the global war bringing it to a close 18 months later on november 11th, 1918. To mark the 100th anniversary of what was then known as the great war, American History tv is live from the museum in kansas city, missouri. Well be here for the next two and a half hours. Well take you on a tour of some of the exhibits and involve you in conversations with top world war i historians. As we open our program were joined in the museum by the president and ceo of museum matthew naylor. You have a lot of resources to preserving the memory. Why is it important for people in 2017 to know this story . I dont think you can think of the last 100 years, particularly in the United States, without understanding the impact of world war i. Thats true of countries right across the globe. Im an australian. Im an american as well. For australia its the defining moment rather
Market meissner spends much of her time at the Holocaust Memorial museum in washington d. C. She and about eighty other survivors of the holocaust were here on a volunteer basis. She guides visitors through the museum tells the story of her life and helps other survivors search for information about family members in the museums archives. This is my favorite the exhibit of this new thing and it came through really quite accidentally because this is. Three thousand people in this more power on the border between. Were. When poor and lithuania where the germans came one married and shrub took the men the jewish men out and shot them and the next day they came and took the women and the children put them in salem and torture and this entire community was killed only because of their religion. This girl survived the night the rest of the village was wiped out she became a historian and now works in the United States. For eleven years she collected fresh grass from her village because. She