Deborah Cole

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AFP correspondent, Berlin-based since 1995. 🚦watcher, feature writer, film festival sprinter, city walker. #memoryculture
The last surviving member of the White Rose resistance group movement, which urged Germans to stand up against Nazi tyranny, has died aged 103 - @AFP via @guardian. I was fortunate to exchange a few letters with #TrauteLafrenz. May her memory be a blessing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/traute-lafrenz-the-last-of-the-white-rose-anti-nazi-resistance-dies-aged-103
Traute Lafrenz, the last of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies aged 103

Lafrenz was arrested twice by the Gestapo and eventually liberated in April 1945 and settled in the US

The Guardian
Café Moskau becomes Café Kyiv, at least for 4 days
@Labruunt Teutoburger Platz
Mural for Iran's fallen protesters, Berlin
They're not wrong
Sure you've known urban beefs but are you familiar with the Great Quedlinburg Cheesecake Wars
Let no one say Berlin skimped on the skies this 1st week of 2023
Packed house for the final day of the harrowing THREE DOORS exhibition at @HKW_Berlin about the racist murders in Hanau in Feb 2020 & Oury Jalloh's highly suspicious death in a jail cell in 2005. Spotlights tireless grassroots efforts for truth, justice & reform in 🇩🇪
This one made me schmunzeln 👑
Last Christmas present bought, these gorgeous earrings from Afghanistan to benefit a refugee project here in Berlin. The salesman from Kabul & his sister are studying here & commented on the "awful" week for women & girls back home