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Like all Israeli youth, Atalya was expected to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questioned the practices of her country's military, and was determined to challenge this rite of passage. She refused to do military duty and was imprisoned.
Editor’s note: This is part three of a six-part series on conscription (the draft).On Dec. 5, 1942, presidential Executive Order 9279 closed voluntar
Mennonites at War: From Curiosity to an Exhibit – Part 2 Andrea Klassen, Guest Author Senior Curator, MHV Some of MHV's artefacts relating to Dietrich Klassen's military service during the Second World War. As his family described him when they donated these artefacts, Dietrich was both a lifetime member of a Mennonite church in Waterloo, Ontario as well as a very proud military man. Mennonite Heritage Village’s (MHV) upcoming exhibit “Mennonites at War” explores the various responses Mennonites have had toward war and violence over their nearly five-hundred-year history. Las...
1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in this area had probably been Gilling West, but Count Alan needed to show that he was the new and only p...
1071 ALTHOUGH William, the Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 when he killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the north refused to submit – so he decided to force it, through a campaign of destruction known as “the Harrying of the North”. In 1071, with the north cowed and burned, he gave the land between the Ure and the Tees to Count Alan Rufus, who had led the Breton knights at Hastings and was one of William’s closest friends. The most important settlement in this area had probably been Gilling West, but Count Alan needed to show that he was the new and only pow...