Election irregularities

… inter alia in El Papiol and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, where voters were apparently unable to exercise their right to vote Ciutadans. El Correo Gallego carries the Europa Press story on the former incident, which describes Ciutadans–sigh!–as a “nationalist formation.” Turnout is very low which in a screwed-up kind of way is probably good…

Turkish Jews in Westerbork transit camp

In early November 1943 a contingent of Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, Italian and South American Jews arrived in Westerbork. The popular journalist Philip Mechanicus records in his diary (bit of a dodgy English translation here) the “small colony of Turks” which made its home near his bed and whose “lively, agile children, quick as water” gabbled…