by Hanna Miley | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning to Britain from Munich September 1938 | Public Domain Indelible words spoken by Neville Chamberlain as he landed in Britain after his meeting with Hitler, September 29-30, 1938, where they had signed the Munich agreement...
by Hanna Miley | Aug 6, 2025 | Blog
Shirley Temple | Image Source: Good Housekeeping/Bettman/Getty Images What Really Happened in Coventry, that Summer of 1939? Sifting through the past, connecting the dots, looking for substance among the shadows, comparing two children’s memories of the same events,...
by Hanna Miley | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
The invitation to Zoom with students at St Mary’s Ecumenical Institute, Baltimore and speak on the topic: Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust, sparked my interest but mingled with thoughts of inadequacy. And there I was, yesterday the 15th July sitting in...
by Hanna Miley | Jun 27, 2025 | Blog
Graduating Class Nuneaton High School, July 1948. Sheila is second from the left on the second row and I am third from the left on the front row. I remember my complaint from all those years ago. Laying in bed late one night, it was summer time in Coventry, England,...
by Hanna Miley | Jun 9, 2025 | Blog
Schultütte | First day of school Germany in the 1930’s It’s June here in Phoenix, time to relax and begin to enjoy the lazy days of summer ….. but my mind is occupied with an invitation to share my story with a group of teachers attending a day focused on Holocaust...
by Hanna Miley | May 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Team Behind the Scenes of i was 8814 The line up. Who brought us together? How did we find each other? Why are we all smiling in Arizona except for Laura back in the UK preparing for an art exhibition? Manessa stands on the far left. She is our accountant,...
by Hanna Miley | May 9, 2025 | Blog
May is a month for remembering Last week Amy Williams landed in Phoenix with a tin of Chocolate Chip Shortbread biscuits from London, with a Spitfire on the lid and the words, To Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, 1945 -2025. I was 13 years old, living in...
by Hanna Miley | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog
Another blog about seeing. I open my iPad and the headline lures me in but it disappears before I can click and is instantly replaced by other filtered stories. Curiosity peaked, I Google, Amazing Grace in the White House, and immediately two articles appear. Fox...
by Hanna Miley | Apr 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Leni Riefenstahl Filming, 1936 | Source: Wikipedia Source: Jarould (Public domain) Leni Riefenstahl was Hitler’s favorite film maker. Multi talented, director, producer, writer, editor, photographer, even starring in her own drama, Tiefland, (Lowlands). Film Poster |...
by Hanna Miley | Mar 18, 2025 | Blog
2 Advertisements The Tellers and the Zacks were good friends, well known, respected citizens with thriving businesses in the center of Gemünd, a small market town, in the Eifel region, Germany. The Tellers made and sold hats. To go out in public hatless was...
