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Edith about the first time she heard the radio: “I knew I had heard something special, the force of the future, a god-to-be…..”the person who speaks can be very far away, Professor! But his voice flies through the air like a bird! Soon we will be able to hear the voices of people from everywhere!”
Also talks about being amazed by the Hoover vacuum “turned on her machine and like magic whisked dirt away”
— Apr 13, 2022 04:20PM
Also talks about being amazed by the Hoover vacuum “turned on her machine and like magic whisked dirt away”
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“It was not until our parents reached maturity that Jews were permitted to reside in Vienna proper.”
One day somebody wrote in their desks: “Jews, get out, go to Palestine!” It was 1930.
I guess I am ignorant but I didn’t realize that antisemitism was so prevalent for decades before the holocaust.
— Apr 13, 2022 04:53PM
One day somebody wrote in their desks: “Jews, get out, go to Palestine!” It was 1930.
I guess I am ignorant but I didn’t realize that antisemitism was so prevalent for decades before the holocaust.
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In 1920’s Austria: “often the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not so subtle way of discovering if we…were Jewish”
“My fathers insistence that we Jews must be better was based on our country’s firm belief that we were not as good.”
Philippe Halsmann case: “many Austrians were prepared to believe the Jews were murderers by inclination”
— Apr 13, 2022 04:46PM
“My fathers insistence that we Jews must be better was based on our country’s firm belief that we were not as good.”
Philippe Halsmann case: “many Austrians were prepared to believe the Jews were murderers by inclination”
