In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic threatened the Arctic village of Nome, Alaska, a crisis too terrible to imagine. An outbreak could kill most of the region’s population of 10.000. They needed antitoxin and the dog sled race from Nenana to Nome that brought medicine became the founding of Iditarod. In January 1925, […]
90 and still shining
18/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
I was born in 1923 in Luxembourg. My father was Nicolas Joseph Cito from Bascharage. Everybody called him Claus. Claus met a model in Brussels, where he was studying art. When he came back to Luxembourg, wanting me to get solid roots in Luxembourgish ground, he was alone. He was already quite a famous sculptor […]
Simone Veil
08/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
This is a day to talk about strong women. CLEW has picked Simone Veil. When we came to Birkenau, my mother, my sister Milou and I, we were like cattle. They touched us, stared at us and talked about us, and ever since I can’t stand random touching, we were hungry, thirsty, and ever since […]
Pernilla’s perspective
25/01/2013 by 4 Comments
Sometimes expat life can be your chance to do what you’ve always wanted to do. After she moved to – and fell in love with – Luxembourg, Swedish Pernilla Linder found time and space to write. Today, she is a published author. “High hills and deep valleys, vines, beech forests and rivers, steel industry, banks […]
Tidbits of history
11/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
Did you know that in January 1889, around 300 Luxembourgers emigrated to Argentina? Luxemburger Wort thought it was heartbreaking to see the little children being taken away from their homes. Or that when an emigrant returned to Luxembourg from the USA to visit, the same newspaper reports that the news spread like wildfire in the village […]
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