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My number three daughter, Lisa, is an editor and sent me this for it's interest:
HIDDEN IN BERLIN
A Holocaust Memoir
By Evelyn Joseph Grossman
222 pp. Amsterdam Publishers. 2020.
Hidden in Berlin is a rare Holocaust memoir. Ernst Joseph and Lilo Jacoby (author Evelyn Grossman's parents) are on the cusp of adulthood, and with the help of defiant Germans, go underground in Berlin's urban sprawl. Of the 160,000 Jews in the city in 1933, about 7,000 "ceased to exist" (25) by living illegally. The Josephs hid for twenty-seven months; the patriarch did not survive. The elder Jacobys were deported in 1942. With false papers, Lilo worked as a live-in maid in the posh Grunewald villa of a former classmate. Grossman tells the intergenerational story from the perspectives of grand/daughter, first-generation American, wife, and grand/mother. Having perfected her German, she retraces her ancestors' steps and scours archives in the multiple roles of protector, investigative reporter, and historian. Grossman places historical events in context of the personal. For example, she explains the exempted position of Jews of mixed religious heritage, as was Lilo's host. With strength, courage, luck, and grace, Ernst, his mother Betty, and Lilo were among the 1,400 formerly hidden Jews who survived (94). Betty sailed for America in 1947. Ernst and Lilo, now married, arrived in 1948, settled in New Jersey, and initially found factory work. They successfully petitioned the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous to award the title Righteous Among the Nations to the Germans who had hid them. Ernst wrote, "What these few Germans did was so great, . . . their deeds should . . . not [be] forgotten" (186). —Lisa Thaler, 2 August 2021
Lisa Thaler
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I will see my oldest granddaughter this weekend. She works as a graphic editor for a major national magazine company. Go to: Emma Darvick and click on illustration to see some of her creativity.
Her husband, Scott Penkava, is a recognized designer of art and sculpture installation sets and a true craftsman.
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Sent to me by a dear friend and fellow memo reader (edited.)
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
On August 3, 1857, in a speech at Canandaigua, New York, abolitionist Frederick Douglass reminded his fellow Americans of the costs of freedom. His words, which foreshadowed the coming Civil War, are among the most famous of his many orations:
The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others, or put himself to any inconvenience to gain it for others. . . .
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
This content is courtesy of The American Patriot's Almanac
© 2008, 2010 by William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb
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Seattle and Democrats seem to have a love affair going with the criminal element:Seattle Democrats Cannot Come to Terms with Rampant Homeless Crime
There was a stabbing attack, a vicious attack on a senior citizen strolling his dog happen. A woman who was seven months pregnant was raped. Over 200 times, garbage, stones, and steel were thrown at drivers traveling to work from motorway walkways…and then there are the brawls and overdose cases.
The impoverished in Seattle has become increasingly hostile, violent, and lethal in recent months. They’ve not only taken over municipal parks and roads, but they’ve also terrorized Seattle residents.
The Silence From Liberal Leadership is Shocking
Local liberal leaders are also deafeningly quiet. This climate was fostered by their inactivity on the homeless and philosophical resistance to sweeps.
The destitute have taken over City Hall Park, which is situated near the courthouse in downtown Seattle. It’s a makeshift encampment that looks like a refugee center or something else out of a third world nation.
The area has been overrun by dozens of camps; there is rubbish underfoot and the odor of human waste pervades the atmosphere for city blocks. It’s the most deadly park in Seattle. However, courthouse authorities’ demands and pleas to clear the area have gone unnoticed.
City Leaders Have Made No Effort to Fix the Issue
Sweeps, according to the Seattle Town Council and community politicians, lack empathy. Local politicians have just about totally stopped sweeps, citing the COVID outbreak as justification. The destitute, on the other hand, aren’t just harming themselves; they’re also hurting the locals.
Clint James Jory, a destitute 35-year-old male, was freed from prison on July 23rd after completing a 21-month term for a bunch of unrelated crimes against women. He went back at it six days later.
Prosecutors claim Jory decided to enter the courthouse through the 4th Street entrance because the main gate on 3rd has been shut due to the proximity to the homeless camp, which is considered too dangerous. He crept into the women’s restroom, stripped down to his underwear, and searched for a target.
According to legal documents, Jory viciously beat a pregnant mother who entered the house. Jory allegedly put his hands around her face and neck while wearing his pants about his ankles and tried to assault her.
Despite this, the woman continued to yell for assistance. Fortunately, a King County Sheriff’s Deputy who happened to be passing by the lavatory came to the woman’s rescue, yanking Jory away from her.
During the course of the inquiry, police say Jory admitted but maintained it was consenting, claiming that ladies couldn’t withstand his “meth energy.” He approached a policewoman for sex at the police precinct.
Since Jory is destitute, the event brought attention to the hazards posed by the homeless community that congregates near and around the courts.
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If the Durham Report is ever finished the next issue is will it be released so the public is informed? I would not hold your breath to either but perhaps the truth will be allowed to waft over the land. The swamp is deep and powerful and "we the people" have become basically powerless and that is why America is sinking.A thorough investigation takes a long time since, I am sure, those Durham is investigating are stonewalling. That said, what good is completing the fixing of a cavity after the patient is dead?
DOJ Wants John Durham’s Report To Be Allowed To Be Read Publicly
(JustPatriots.com)- President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice revealed its political bias and obsession with the false accusations made against former President Donald Trump – namely, the claims that he colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
The Department of Justice announced that the report being compiled by Special Counsel John Durham into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, which are expected to reveal how corruption led to the demonization of President Trump and how evidence was manufactured to warrant the investigation, must be released in a way that allows it to be published for the public to see.
It’s presumably an effort to find areas of the report that Democrats can twist and make it appear as though their extensive investigations into Trump – which turned up no evidence that he colluded with Russian – were justified.
When pressed by Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley on the progress of the Durham inquiry, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta said that they could not comment on the investigation nor when it would be completed as it is still ongoing. However, Gaeta also said that Durham will be required “to the maximum extent possible and consistent with the law” to submit the final report to the Attorney General “in a form that will permit public dissemination.”
Hopefully, if Durham has done a good job, the report will be clear enough on the origins of the investigation and will establish who exactly is responsible for the fabrication of evidence in the Steele Dossier that led to the entire investigation.
Durham was quietly appointed by former Attorney General William Barr as Special Counsel in an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia witch hunt. However, the investigation could be at risk after far-left Attorney General Merrick Garland, appointed by President Joe Biden, refused to commit to protecting the investigation…or even making the report public.
So let’s see what happens.
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