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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

When the world feels bleak and people in power are counting on our surrender, remember that #OTD 80 years ago, American commander Anthony McAuliffe, in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge, looked at the German demand and answered "Nuts!"

A pretty pixilated purple typed font from 1944 on cream colored paper. It is an excerpt from a Christmas message distributed by the 101st Airborne during World War II conveying a German demand for surrender and the American commander's reply of "Nuts!"

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Stolpersteine in Rome are mainly for the ca. 1,200 people picked up on the Oct. 16, 1943, razzia, but we found some as late as May 1944. Four weeks before the Allies liberated the city. Can you even imagine.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My husband @arecoleman.bsky.social is annoyed because I'm making him think about the Roman empire.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The rose window and arches over the American church in Rome, where American Friends Service Committee aid workers Roswell and Marjorie McClelland worked with Jewish refugees in 1940-1941. It's a refugee center today. They would have liked that. So glad I got to see it.

Red and white horizontal striped marble surrounds four arches containing painted religious scenes. Above the arches and below a darkened round rose window is carved "Gloria in Excelsis Deo in Terrra Pax"

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I got served this ad and immediately thought of @swordsjew.bsky.social 's important new book. One of these things is definitely not like the others, wtf.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

One house in my neighborhood put up Trump/Vance signs and I swear every other house immediately purchased and now prominently displace Harris/Walz signs.

a comparison in chart form of number of donors and money raised in the 20782 zip code; Biden/Harris has 983 donors and raised $200,000; Trump has 11 donors and raised $6,000

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

How is this in an actual peer reviewed book?

A typed bibliography page that credits Elie Wiesel with writing "Survival in Auschwitz"

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Behold, my last stalling exercise before I finally write this book.

An overhead view of more than two dozen printed calendar pages from 1944-1946 covered in tiny writing

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The Library of Congress has, hands down, some of the prettiest spaces in DC

A very elaborately painted grided ceiling at the Library of Congress

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

She looks so much like my Marnie!! Also the best.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

How many more will suffer before the medical establishment does something about this scourge?

1940s newspaper clipping with headline "Senator Moses of North Dakota is Victim of Death"

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Some news! I'm beyond thrilled and honored to be able to tell this important, heartwarming, and heartbreaking story. Coming to a shelf near you (hopefully in your house or local library!) in a few years

A Publishers Marketplace book announcement for "Holocaust history and author of Rescue Board Dr. Rebecca Erbelding's "Shelter on the Lake", the story of 982 people housed in the only shelter on US soil established for Holocaust refugees during World War II, and the upstate New York townspeople who came to love them, pitched as a wartime 'Come from Away' to Tzipora Chein at Simon & Schuster, in a pre-empt, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (world)."

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

A skeet about new tweets outside my office.

A photo taken from the attic window of a brick house. On the window sill is a small nest with two young chicks with mottled black feathers.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

My town's parade is 5 minutes' walk from my house, lasts 10 minutes, and is just kids in dressed-up strollers and bikes and dogs in costume. Then the town hands out Popsicles (bomb pops, which, no notes, nailed it, what a fitting end). The ideal parade.

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals. (I had very nice Twitter mutuals! Also, these are my cats and this is my first day here and I want you to like me. So I'm showing you my cats.)

Three cats are curled up on a bed. A gray and cream colored cat is curled up in a ball in the foreground, while an orange and black cat and a black and white cat are snuggled together behind the gray one. The black and white cat's green eyes are open.

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