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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12h

@support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app The 45 Aid Society has been suspended? Can you check this - it seems very unlikely they’ve done anything to warrant it. 45aid.org

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12h

I just saw the same 😕 @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app Why has the 45 Aid Society been suspended, please? Can you check this - it seems very unlikely they’ve done anything to warrant it. 45aid.org

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17h

These are brilliant! 👇 Well done Nationwide

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Off to see this exhibition👇🏻 My g-uncle Kurt Bloch & family were forcibly moved from their home in Mysłowice to Krenau ghetto, where they worked as slave labourers We have letters from Kurt describing conditions in winter 1942, and slave labour lists. Krenau was described as ‘Judenrein’ in Feb 43

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fascinating to commemorate where the community lived, not only the place of death. It looks stunning; I'd love to visit. I worked hard to locate records of life when researching my family history - a reaction to the fact that what was (relatively) readily available were records of death.

Documents from my father’s years at the university of Breslau enabled me to locate further information about his time there.

The K-C fraternity book assisted my search for people whose names I found in my father’s correspondence.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My dad was one of those refugee fighting-age men 👇🏻 Terrifying. Anyway - he enlisted as soon as the refugees were allowed to do so in autumn 1939, was sent to France in January 1940, and served in the British army for the remainder of the war

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The biggest group sent to Australia on the notorious Dunera voyage were refugees from Kitchener camp. They had largely been welcomed by the residents of Sandwich - many made good friends there, who helped the men learn English, and took them into their homes for meals. How we have fallen.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No contemporary news in mind, really…

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I like a Saturday morning challenge. See if I make it to 17.06!

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Funny place, Britain. You never know what round the next corner will hold.

Growler tank just outside a huge stable block, at Thoresby Park, Notts

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good mooooorning Bluesky! We have rain. We have some greening of the grass. We have drenched, bedraggled baby squirrels that don’t know what’s going on or how to stay dry. Things are … kind of normalising.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Art 116 citizenship 👇🏻 Germany - don’t be so shameful. This shouldn’t even be a risk.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If the bat doesn’t then fly off, it needs specialist medical help. Contact your local bat group and they will provide. It’s illegal to capture and keep a bat, and you need to know what you’re doing to rehydrate and feed - so get in the experts every time 🦇 www.bats.org.uk/advice/bats-...

A long-eared bat having a snooze upside down in our barn, 2018

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It rained a bit finally last night! And even the dawn sky looks relieved

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope” I can’t stand.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@hesselmann.bsky.social Fascinating - thank you When she complained she wasn’t getting letters from London 👇🏻 - do you know if any were being sent? I’ve seen similar complaints in family letters & often wonder if the refugees were not writing or if letters weren’t arriving in 🇩🇪 during the war.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s not heart attack worthy, for sure - which is what I damn near had - still racing. It’s to say there a high risk of fires

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It worked ok More impressive was the freaky sky and silence though Freaky-ky-ky-ky

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#eclipse With a late-to-the-party space scientist 😁

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

… Ruth and Ilse, specifically - we only know their names didn’t appear postwar in survivor lists, and my father’s searches in @arolsenarchives.bsky.social revealed no clues.

Myslowitz shul (left) and school on the town square

Ilse on her tricycle outside the school in Myslowitz, 1930s

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Apparently it’s #InternationalCaturday So here’s our elderly Bear rescue 🐈‍⬛ being stretchy & comfy on one of his many comfy places. As they get older, as with dogs, & as with people, cats need quiet warm comfy places, & little-and-often small amounts of favourite foods & water. A simple life.

Black Cat on a wool rug, next to his cat cave, which is on vet bedding, with more vet bedding inside.

Out of sight are various other comfy beds for when he needs to be comfy in a different light, or a different temperature.

Bear came to us as a rescue - so we’re not sure how old he is, but he’s been with us for 17 years. He’s never quite lost the stray crankiness, and isn’t a cuddly cat. He doesn’t like to be stroked. But he likes to sit on a knee of an evening, and likes to bump into legs, or a hand put down on the ground. It’s how he says hello. He has the zoomies down to an art form. And is incredibly chatty.

These days he’s an indoor cat mostly - by his choice.

He just does his thing.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Poor things - trying to find something green is making browse lines increasingly high. We’ve noticed this round our way as well. Our garden resident muntjac is going for the many many windfalls instead, clever girl.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Umm petrichor! First rain in months. Bliss.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I knew hospital waits were bad, because we’ve experienced them first hand, but this is genuinely shocking 👇🏻

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I never did get round this exhibition 👇🏻 I felt claustrophobic and couldn’t stay in the galleries. I’ve not yet been to the new ones, though hope to do so soon.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Downsizing is not all about which books to still keep, but which programmes - and the memories they represent. I saw this production a few years after my dad died, but he loved the movie and we’d watched it together as a family several times on TV.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Downsizing decisions… Joyful moments with younger family members

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Downsizing - and some of the trickiest decisions about what to still hold onto are the programmes of things we’ve seen and listened to. So many of the people I went with for these outings are no longer with us - so I’m not sure what I’m holding onto or why, in some cases. Sigh. Not sure…

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#FoodSky Prepping summer slaw👇🏻 yet it’s only weeks til I’ll be making what my mother called Nurse McGinty’s. Anyone else make this? Melt butter & black pepper in the bottom of a heavy pan; add grated carrot & swede; pop the lid on; shake it periodically = melting soft buttery winter veggies 😋

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I mean - better late than never, but also 😂 As our kids used to say, “Well, duh” 👇🏻

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Having a lovely day in Sandwich with the AJR, Kitchener refugee families, and local historians and supporters

Clare Ungerson speaking about Kitchener camp in the foyer of the Empire Cinema at Sandwich in Kent

An art deco door in the Empire Cinema, whose proprietor gave the Kitchener refugees 30 free tickets a week

The AJR plaque commemorating the Kitchener rescue on the wall of the Bell Hotel, where the refugee men often went for an ‘English beer’

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Warwickshire loveliness Wild swans and 6 (!) cygnets

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This place is gloriously lovely and we had it all to ourselves, it seems. A perfect English summer day. Sigh.

Green trees surrounding a long lake with blue skies and white clouds above

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Our reflecting pool is nicer than yours 😜

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“The Nobody Tells Me What To Do demographic” #Climate #heatwave

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Temporary and cheap passive cooling methods - inc shade sails; insulation wrap taped to outside of windows; bed sheets hung over outside of windows Article 👇🏻 “Is it always architecturally chic? No.” “Does it work? Yes.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian- Is it always architecturally chic? No,” she said in a viral social media post that advised clamping an extendable rod between window frames and hanging sheets outside. “Does it work? Yes.”

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Passive cooling works, people 👇🏻

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

To make folk feel better in this deadly heatwave, QRP with your cold winter snowy art or photo! ❄️ (All very Peter Sellers, The Smallest Show on Earth)

A field at our old farmhouse in winter. Grassland covered in snow in the foreground; trees behind. Winter’s low sunlight

The land had been quarried by previous owners and wrecked. We spent 20 years draining and planting different areas for different types of wildlife. This would have been about halfway through the project.
I loved that place and all the thousands of creatures that found a home there.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ocado does these (though may be out of stock atm)

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