"When your government and cultural authorities stop downplaying and denying the hard reality of the past, we can then come together for a better future." - Ron Riesenbach. August 19, 2023.
This is so painful. One of the most incredible people in the world, a Polish, Jew himself, was six at the time of the war. He, his mother and twin sister, were hidden in a convent in France. Remarkably, his father survived Auschwitz, partly due to purveying boot polish to the Nazis. He spoke of the antisemitism in Poland.
In 2001, in a ceremony in Paris, the mayor of that village of 300 people, who hit them, was recognized as righteous among the nations. Fernand Jouvencel and his wife.
Thank you for shining a light on hatred and bigotry. I am unsure we can heal when white washing persists.
It *is* painful. It's like the powers that be want to keep putting band-aids on untreated wounds. Instead of healing, the wounds fester and become infected and gangrene sets in.
We need to remove the band-aids, clean the wound - which will hurt like hell! - and apply ointment that will heal, not cover up.
I’m only beginning to allow myself to read your White Rose work, Denise. It’s just too painful to me, who lost half my family beyond my parents’ generation to the Nazis and Polish collaborators. I’ll do my best to pass on what you have researched.
Thank you, Marty. Sometimes I feel sorry for young scholars who are just getting started with research related to Shoah topics. The notion that stories of resistance and heroism are feel-good stories is misguided. Those stories took place in a cesspool and the heroes were flawed.
Makes the stories important, now more than ever. But it doesn’t mean the research is easy.
This is so painful. One of the most incredible people in the world, a Polish, Jew himself, was six at the time of the war. He, his mother and twin sister, were hidden in a convent in France. Remarkably, his father survived Auschwitz, partly due to purveying boot polish to the Nazis. He spoke of the antisemitism in Poland.
In 2001, in a ceremony in Paris, the mayor of that village of 300 people, who hit them, was recognized as righteous among the nations. Fernand Jouvencel and his wife.
Thank you for shining a light on hatred and bigotry. I am unsure we can heal when white washing persists.
It *is* painful. It's like the powers that be want to keep putting band-aids on untreated wounds. Instead of healing, the wounds fester and become infected and gangrene sets in.
We need to remove the band-aids, clean the wound - which will hurt like hell! - and apply ointment that will heal, not cover up.
I’m only beginning to allow myself to read your White Rose work, Denise. It’s just too painful to me, who lost half my family beyond my parents’ generation to the Nazis and Polish collaborators. I’ll do my best to pass on what you have researched.
Thank you, Marty. Sometimes I feel sorry for young scholars who are just getting started with research related to Shoah topics. The notion that stories of resistance and heroism are feel-good stories is misguided. Those stories took place in a cesspool and the heroes were flawed.
Makes the stories important, now more than ever. But it doesn’t mean the research is easy.