âNo one is coming to save you.â I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said theyâre proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being âsavedâ isnât about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, itâs about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.
Catherine Ostlerâs new book explores the fate of the children in the painterâs famous work Pink and Blue, one of whom was murdered at Auschw
The 1881 portrait of two little girls rendered in pink and blue silk by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is, at face value, a society portrait of the daughters of French aristocracy. But the story behind the painting â and what became of the Jewish girls it depicts â is much darker.
Alice and Elisabeth Cahen dâAnvers, the subjects of the Impressionist painterâs famous portrait Pink and Blue and the younger daughters of a French banking dynasty, were immortalised as youthful members of the âhaute Juiverieâ: glamorous, upper-class Jews of Europe at the height of the Belle Ăpoque. Their older sister IrĂšne was also the subject of a famous Renoir painting several years earlier, depicted with a ribbon in her flowing red hair against a lush green backdrop.
Nothing in the portraits of the young sisters gives any indication that, 60 years later, Alice would be hiding from German bombers in a ditch in Normandy and Elisabeth, the blonde child with a blue sash in Pink and Blue, would be boarding a one-way train to Auschwitz.
The Renoir Girls traces the path of the three Cahen dâAnvers sisters from their shimmering days in Belle Ăpoque  Paris â yachting on the CĂŽte dâAzur, trips to the opera, salons, summer retreats, and dancing the night away at opulent balls â to their little-known struggle to survive in Nazi-occupied France.
Ostler, former editor of Tatler magazine, first heard of the three Jewish sisters from Edmund de Waalâs memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which explores the once gilded lives of de Waalâs own Parisian Jewish banking family during the 19th and 20th centuries. His relative Charles Ephrussi, a Jewish art patron who had an affair with matriarch Louise Cahen dâAnvers - and who was rumoured to be the actual father of Alice â persuaded Louise to have her daughters painted by Renoir.
âImpressionism rises up after the Franco-Prussian War, and there's a whole new way of looking at art. Thereâs a lot of stuff to buy and a lot of stuff to commission and a market for it and the result is an incredibly creative period,â says Ostler, adding that Louise was an âextraordinaryâ art collector herself with âa hold over all the French writers and artists of the day.â
One line in de Waalâs book came as a punch to the stomach: Elisabeth was murdered at Auschwitz.
Despite the Cahen dâAnvers familyâs abiding love for France, their generous artistic patronage and sacrifices during the First World War â the sons fought for France, the women were nurses, with Alice winning the Croix de guerre for bravery at the front â they were of course not spared the growing antisemitism of France that culminated in the Vichy regime. As their family friend Marcel Proust wrote at the time, the âsocial kaleidoscope was in the act of turning⊠the Dreyfus case was shortly to relegate the Jews to the lowest rung of the social ladder.â
Elisabeth, in what may have been a bid for self-preservation, converted to Catholicism in 1895 and remained a practising Catholic for the rest of her life.  In 1944 at the age of 70, just months from the Allied liberation of Paris, she was betrayed by a local mayor and Vichy collaborator âwho insisted on reminding everybody that she was actually Jewish, even though she converted to Catholicism before she was 20 and had been married twice, both times to Catholic men,â Ostler says.
France's attitude to its Jews in this the era is illustrated by the Nazisâ seizure of the Cahen dâAnversâ Paris townhouse which they used as a place to hold and torture Jews awaiting deportation.
âAntisemitism is one of those things that I've always been aware of, but it is a shapeshifter,â said Ostler, who is not Jewish herself. âIt's this monstrosity, and I partly feel there is an enormous amount of ignorance about it. It overlaps with so many conspiracy theories and the darkest urges of human nature.â
She hopes The Renoir Girls will be received by British Jews as a book of support, a reminder of the immense contributions Jews have made to their societies over the past centuries.
"The Jewish community is incredibly important to this country,â Ostler said. âIt's written out of respect to their strengths and creativity and generosity and the whole beauty of the culture that Jewish community can create and encourage.â
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War and Betrayal by Catherine Ostler is published by Simon & Schuster. Ostler will be in conversation with James McAuley at Hatchards Bookshop in London on 14 AprilÂ
I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:
Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.
CBS News under its new editor-in-chief pulled the segment which was to run Sunday in the U.S., generating criticism â including from the cor
CBS News under its new editor-in-chief pulled the segment which was to run Sunday in the U.S., generating criticism â including from the correspondent who reported on it.
Dec. 23, 2025, 1:28 AM MST
By Phil Helsel and Daniel Arkin
While the furor over CBS Newsâ decision to delay a planned â60 Minutesâ report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison continued Monday, the intended segment was already circulating online, having been streamed in Canada.
The report, titled âInside CECOT,â was streamed by Canadaâs Global Television Network. In the U.S., its broadcast was postponed by CBS under its new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.
It includes interviews from people who were deported from the U.S. to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, under the Trump administration. The interviewees described torture and physical and sexual abuse at the complex.
âWhen we got there, the CECOT director was talking to us. The first thing he told us was that we would never see the light of day or night again,â Luis Munoz Pinto, a college student in Venezuela who went to the U.S. to seek asylum, told the TV news magazine.
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was
Here's the ~14 minutes someone managed to record before it was pulled
It's not a fun watch of course but I think it's important especially since what was done to these people was done in our name
I feel like it says a lot that this was pulled from ever airing in the States. The government doesn't want you to see this and doesn't want you to know what they're doing
This Christmas we can't gloss over what the US did to thousands of innocent people
non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc
Ok so. I recently started watching Star Trek (the original one) because my dad is a huge nerd and he likes the show, and I immediately noticed a chemistry between Spock and Captain Kirk, so, as one does, I opened Google to search about it and.
I.
I think I stumbled into something way bigger than I could've imagined.
Accidentally stumbling upon the OG of gay fanfic is fucking hilarious.
Kirk/Spock smut so old it used to be MAILED to people in secret fandom 'book clubs', before there was ever internet.
Truly like you curiously opened the attic door and stared directly into the event horizon đ
What What What What What. MIMEGRAPH?? BEFORE COPY MACHINES?? I thought that it was released at least after flip phones!!!!? With the communicators and all...? Wait did they predict flip phones or am I missing something
We are Flappy Happy! We are a small Canadian business run by two autistic women.
When searching for fidget items, weâve noticed that the vast majority are marketed towards children or the parents of children. We wanted to focus on adults that need fidgets. This partially comes from us wanting to say itâs okay to use fidgets (more than okay!), but also us wanting to include more discreet fidget items for those that may need or want them.
We carry a lot of your standard fidgets youâd expect like push pops, fidget spinners and similar.
But we also carry more discreet or adult focused fidgets. These might include things like calm strips (textured stickers), fidget earrings, fidget necklaces, and spinner rings.
Any signal boosting or help spreading the word is so beyond appreciated!
Our website is here.
Here are some photos of some of our products below!
These are some of our Calm Strips! These are textured stickers you can place on your phone, bag, etc. They can be very grounding and soothing to touch.
You can see our full calm strip collection here!
These are some of our chewables! These are safe to chew on fidget items!
We will be unable to sell a lot of our products to our US customers starting later this month, and I'd really appreciate any boosting of this post to try and help us move some of our inventory before then since our US customers make up the majority of our business.
(Also, if you're Canadian, we really, really appreciate you telling anyone about us. We are a Canadian business!)
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