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L O W L A N D S - L  -  27 January 2008 - Volume 12
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From: Marsha Wilson <marshatrue at mtangel.net>
Subject: LL-L "Remembrance" 2008.01.27 (09) [E]

Gael, you may be mostly silent, but when you speak, you do so exceedingly
well.  It is a pleasure to read you.  Thank you for giving me food for
thought in linking together our disparate conversations.

Marsha Wilson

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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Remembrance" 2008.01.27 (01) [E]

On 28/01/2008, at 12:35 AM,  R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com> wrote:

Subject: Remembrance

Thanks, dear Ingmar.
You're younger than I. I still have vivid memories of being quite young (*very,
very* young, as in little-child-young) and being shown concentration camp
liberation footage so horrendous that even these days it would not be
allowed to be shown on US TV.

Oh, Dear Ron !

I saw such material aged around 9 and it all remains firmly in my memory. I
knew an Auschwitz survivor with his 'passport' tatooed on his arm
and oin eof my dearest friends, still alive, was among British troops who
liberated Belsen and saw what had happened there.
Is it significant that no mention of this anniversary appeared in any
Australia media I accessed yesterday ?
It is tragic that one of humanity's greatest saviours, the Jew Dr Paul
Ehrlich, developed the vaccines that saved millions of children from
diseases such as diphtheria, having earlier developed the staining technique
for identification of TB bacilli. Many of the perpetrators of The Holocaust
and other Nazi atrocities only survived because of this Jew. Survived to
murder some at least of his descendants along with millions
of other innocents. If you can track it down watch the 1930's movie "Dr
Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" where the Doctor is played brilliantly by a most
unlikely actor.

Below is one of my older Low Saxon poems (respelled and with translation)
which I dedicated to Agathe Lasch

Truly beautiful in its tragedy, thanks Ron.

Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia

Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us

Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us

Robert Burns

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Remembrance

Thanks for the nice responses, everyone!

I just got off the phone with a dear friend who lives in New York. He's the
grandson of Tant Clara's (http://lowlands-l.net/clara/) "Frau Professor" (
http://lowlands-l.net/clara/fraenkel.html). Paul (
http://lowlands-l.net/clara/fraenkel-history.html) is a fascinating person
as well as an extremely sweet and kind one. His autobiography is finished
and ought to be available in print soon.

The Shoa Foundation (under the auspices of Steven Spielberg) included
interviews with him in a documentary about former Kindertransport children,
and the Kindertransport Association also features him at their website (
http://www.kindertransport.org/memoirs/memoir-kuttner-06.html) with just a
few "highlights" of his early life. Imagine this: Adolf Hitler himself had
posed with him holding him in his arms for the *Wochenschau* (weekly cinema
news) and just a bit later Paul had to hide from the Gestapo under a pile of
potatoes in Hamburg, and at the age of 16 he was transported to relative
safety in Britain, saying farewell to his relatives for the last time.

Besides that, Paul once was a Hollywood reporter and has tons of stories
about that.

Paul is the one for whom I wrote the poem about the towel (
http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/hahn_handdook.php) which is so hard to
translate that I haven't managed it so far. However, if you are patient and
also wish to learn Low Saxon you can place your cursor (without clicking) on
any word or phrase to see English and German glosses appear.

By the way, exhibited in a glass case in the Holocaust Wing (which is just
one small part) of Berlin's new Jewish museum (built by the great Daniel
Libeskind - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind), this simple
towel, next to the children's suitcase in which it had been stored without
having been touched ... ever ... tells so poignant a story that most press
reports about the museum's opening mentioned it as a highlight.

The museum:
http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/DE/homepage.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_Berlin

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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