Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Dear Merle, dear Jerome,

yes, you are right, I'm a very special person. But you, Merle, are a very special person as well; and you, Jerome, too. Like everybody else, all of us are unique and special. This is why all of us should take care of each other.

This is nothing I discovered, this thought is not even new. It is two and a half thousand years old. The ancient Greeks discovered the individual and logic and this dicovery was enriched by Jewish values. This is the base of the civilization we share; our brains are Greek and our hearts are Jewish. If we loose one of this roots we are lost. A lesson from history.

There is something I would like to add: I love your company. The Czernowitzers as a community and every individual enriched my life. I feel very comfortable with you.

Hugs
Christian

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> Datum: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:35:02 -0800
> Von: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>
> An: Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca>
> CC: Christian Herrmann <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>, czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
> Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

> Christian...
>
> I can only echo Merle's comments -- she said it better than I ever
> could. Your contributions and observations are very highly valued, a
> real 'mench'. Thanks for hanging in there with us!
> jerome
>
>
> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 08:44 -0500, Merle Kastner wrote:
> > Dear Christian,
> >
> > You a very special person.
> > And your contributions to this list and all that it stands for,
> > what we are all trying to accomplish, to share and to learn, are so
> > highly appreciated.
> >
> > Merle
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
> > To: <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>
> > Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 2:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience
> >
> >
> > > Good morning Mimi, Hardy and everybody else,
> > >
> > > yes, Hardy is right, about 50 percent of the German Jews survived
> because
> > > they left Germany early enough. From those who stayed only very few
> > > survived, either because they managed to stay alive in the camps or
> were
> > > hidden.
> > >
> > > Historians like Raul Hilberg doubt that there was a German plan from
> the
> > > very begining on. In his work "The Extermination of European Jews" he
> > > describes the dangerous dynamics and escalations within the huge
> number of
> > > people involved in persecution and the bureaucratic decisions to be
> made
> > > by them day by day. What started with rethorics ended with the
> > > assasination of millions. Hilberg identifies the knowledge that the
> > > "Jewish question" was of top priority for Hitler as the driving force
> > > behind those people's motivation. Every step of radicalization
> improved
> > > the chance to build a career under the conditions of dictatorship and
> war.
> > > Hilberg's work belonges to the very few books that helped me to
> understand
> > > why the holocaust happend and not only how.
> > >
> > > Those who don't like to read a comprehensive work in three volumes can
> > > listen to Raul Hilberg in Claude Lanzman's documentary Shoah.
> > >
> > > Christian
> >
>
>
>
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