Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Incredible moment Jewish boys who shared unimaginable hell in concentrations camps are liberated
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt’s a friendship in the making, captured in black and white. Before they even knew each other, Sam Laskier and Ike Alterman were pictured together in the most extraordinary photograph.
Squashed among dozens of men, the boys can be seen sitting atop a wagon that was taking them to a concentration camp as they were liberated by the Russian army. READ MORE: Despite having lived such similar lives during the war, it would be months before Ike and Sam met properly, and decades before they realised they had been side-by-side that day.
They were just boys when they witnessed unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the Nazis in Jewish ghettos and concentration camps.
Both were treated with utter cruelty as they laboured and starved at Auschwitz-Birkenau. And both were terrified as they endured the freezing-cold journey in an open wagon to Theresienstadt - where they were being sent to die.
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