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#PostWW2: “A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Mary Ann Glendon.📚📖🖋 #Goodreads review: “Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights.” “A World Made New” is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion.” “A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, “A World Made New” is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history. (Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award)”📖(#Goodreads review; my photo: #inknscroll)📖 (My Mom gave this special book to me last Christmas; the month of December is always #UniversalHumanRightsMonth. And I gave it to her for Mother's Day. We are thankful that the author thoughtfully researched and spent time writing this vital book on human rights.)📚📖🖋 #books #postww2 #America #history #Allies #worldwar2 #photography #nonfiction #memoirs #writer #ww2 #womenshistory #thankyouveterans #bookstagram ❤️📚📖🖋 https://www.instagram.com/p/CndfP75Oi2R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hope you are having a special Passover, my Jewish friends! May God bless & keep you always!💕 Passover seder in the Traunstein displaced persons camp.✡ (Date: 1948-1949. Locale: Traunstein, [Bavaria] Germany. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lucy Gliklich Breitbart. Source: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1118252) #postww2 #Jewish #Passover #history #1940s #postworldwar2 #bookstagram #writersofinstagram #amwriting #40s #vintage #HappyPassover ✡ https://www.instagram.com/p/CcbrWfhDlDr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#OTD: Jacqueline Kennedy was born July 28, 1929. Shortly after the end #WW2, "Bouvier enrolled as a student in Vassar College... &, then, spent her junior year (1949–1950) in France – at the University of Grenoble..., and at the Sorbonne in Paris – in a study-abroad program through Smith College. (When I think about that, it was brave of her to take classes in France only 4 years after WW2 & while the country was still rebuilding from the war.) "Upon returning home, she transferred to The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951. During the early years of her marriage to John F. Kennedy, she took continuing education classes in American History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C." ---- "She was the First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and was regarded then and afterward as an international icon of style and culture." As First Lady, “she dedicated her time to the promotion of American arts and preservation of its history. The restoration of the White House was her main contribution, but she also furthered the cause by hosting social events that brought together elite figures from politics and the arts. One of her unrealized goals was to found a Department of the Arts, but she did contribute to the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, established during (Pres.) Johnson's tenure.” ---- In her later years, "she worked for Viking Press as a consulting editor,... &, then, she worked Doubleday as an associate editor." (Wikipedia) Personally, what I've always loved about Jackie was not only her elegance & style, but also her love of learning & love of books.📚📖 📸(Jacqueline Bouvier as the 'Inquiring Camera Girl' of the Washington Times-Herald, 1952. Photo Source: Everett Collection in New York, NY - United States. Original news photo of Jacqueline Bouvier as a newspaper photographer - her job in the early 1950's before she married John F. Kennedy. Quoted text: Wikipedia) #WomensHistory #books #PostWW2 #American #French #Allies #history #1950s #1960s #JackieKennedy #HBD 📚🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0e-PHhh62E/?igshid=qyvnw3qq8b2p

Hope you're having a Happy Passover, my Jewish friends! May God bless & keep you always & forever!💕 #Postwar Passover seder in the Traunstein displaced persons camp.✡ #books #history (Date: 1948-1949. Locale: Traunstein, [Bavaria] Germany. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lucy Gliklich Breitbart. Photograph Number: 97206. Source: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1118252) #books #postww2 #Jews #Passover #history #writer #1940s #postworldwar2 #bookstagram #writersofinstagram #amwriting #vintage #photography #goodreads #nonfiction #biography #memoirs #thankyouveterans #HappyPassover 📚✡🌸 https://www.instagram.com/inknscroll/p/BwjwHKXnxFc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s6bsishgvhb0

I hope you are having a Happy Purim, my Jewish friends!🎉 Above photo: "A group of children dressed up for Purim in an orphanage in Brussels, Belgium, 1946... (After the Holocaust and #WW2), hundreds of thousands of survivors, including thousands of orphaned children, emerged from the ruins of Europe and sought a way to establish their lives anew. The Allies set up camps for displaced persons in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Concern for children's welfare was expressed in the establishment of orphanages, a search system for family members, and an education network. Many of the children who had been orphaned were eventually brought to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine)." 📷(Source: Yad Vashem Photo Archives, FA231/140; # 2: 2849)📖 #books #postww2 #Purim #writersofinstagram #postworldwar2 #Brussels #Belgium #Allies #American #history #writer #postwwii #thankyouveterans #amwriting #nonfiction #biography #memoirs #bookstagram #photography #children #HolocaustSurvivors #HappyPurim 📚🎉 https://www.instagram.com/inknscroll/p/BvRnNRRnEcY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l2rmxi85t7dq