tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916177104211836432024-02-07T06:03:22.516-05:00Czech Republic Road Ways . Two on the loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.Two people, heading out, an improvised road trip. May open travel resume. Itinerary: Prague, Cesky Budevojice, Trebon, Trebic, Slavkov Brna (Austerlitz), Mikulov, Hradec Kralove, Kutna Hora, Liberec, Terezin (Theresienstadt), Cheb, Plzen. Trips hub: europeroadways.comCarol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-63181166541413515922014-05-27T10:32:00.000-04:002020-05-25T06:45:36.152-04:00Jan Hus, Reformer - Heretical Views Sound Modern<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintdX2CcAkDYBmpgPA4TJuac13JthULLet7sHAJM44EZJGT_IRIDzXrwbtp2irs-h2IKAxuDjeDGvCswDzVE7VbbKV9fMt7_lPIH1HNdg72jpOJYCCCNpyoHrbAl0xhMrxQ6J8uGeD1ZXW/s1600-h/TerezJanHus.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094549893769887666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintdX2CcAkDYBmpgPA4TJuac13JthULLet7sHAJM44EZJGT_IRIDzXrwbtp2irs-h2IKAxuDjeDGvCswDzVE7VbbKV9fMt7_lPIH1HNdg72jpOJYCCCNpyoHrbAl0xhMrxQ6J8uGeD1ZXW/s320/TerezJanHus.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" />Jan Hus, religious reformer, statue at Terezin, Theresienstadt transit camp, CZ</a><br />
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Here is Jan Hus, a religious statue in an unlikely place: Terezin, or Theresienstadt -- the Nazi-created ghetto / concentration camp-that was staged for purposes of Red Cross inspections as an ideal settlement place for Jews. In reality, it was a holding pen, a way station to Auschwitz-Birkenau.<br />
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Jan Hus: his more famous statue is in Prague Square, see <a href="https://www.blogger.com/://www.prague.cz/jan-hus-monument/">https:://www.prague.cz/jan-hus-monument</a>, Jan Hus: Why here? Unanswered. Is it the theme of martyrdom, persecution? See photos of Terezin at <a href="http://www.scrapbookpages.com/CzechRepublic/Theresienstadt/TheresienstadtGhetto/GhettoTour/Tour02.html">http://www.scrapbookpages.com/CzechRepublic/Theresienstadt/TheresienstadtGhetto/GhettoTour/Tour02.html</a><br />
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Jan Hus: Any who challenged the driven compulsory church teaching was a heretic. Hus was burned. See <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hussites </span>at <a href="http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/hussites.htm/">http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/hussites.htm/</a><br />
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<li>He and his followers saw themselves as Christian, and devout. Their disagreement was not with the theology of the Church, but with its implementation of authority. His thought preceded the reform movement of Martin Luther. Some of his followers fled to Germany and Poland.</li>
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Hus favored these things:<br />
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1. People should be able to read the Bible in their own language; people are well able to interpret scripture for themselves; this same issue was fought and lost in Croatia, at Nin, by Bishop Gregory, Gregor of Nin, in the 10th Century. See <a href="http://croatiaroadways.blogspot.com/2006/09/nin-and-zadar-on-easter-morning.html">Croatia Road Ways, Nin</a><br />
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2. Priests should stop engaging in sexual immorality and financial abuses;<br />
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3. All Christians should be allowed to receive full communion (only priests took the wine apparently in those days);<br />
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4. The Pope should not sell "indulgences" (buy your way out of sin?)<br />
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5. The Bible itself supersedes all the councils and authorities' views of it;<br />
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6. When accused of heresy, undermining the authority of the church, he said he would obey the Church if the Church could prove that what he said was <span style="font-style: italic;">error</span>.<br />
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That did it. He put his own ability to interpret scripture ahead of the Church power to do so, and in 1418 he was executed.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-22766781236052945322014-05-21T07:36:00.000-04:002020-05-25T06:35:28.530-04:00Terezin On Stage - "Way to Heaven".. Theresienstadt.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2013 update: A death camp masguerade: That was Terezin, CZ in WWII, the description included in a review in 2013 as to the play, "Way to Heaven," that showed the process of deception of the Red Cross about its function, see <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/death-camp-masquerade-the-very-model-of-propaganda-20120614-20ct0.html">https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/death-camp-masquerade-the-very-model-of-propaganda-20120614-20ct0.html</a>.<br />
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Juan Mayorga had devised a play, to depict life at Terezin detention camp, Theresienstadt, CZ, in WWII. "Way to Heaven" had been billed for the Red Cross and others as a "settlement" where Red Cross officials visited and saw only well-fed little children and happily working adults in fine conditions. And music, even. A New York Times calls it "a fake utopia," and notes the "synthetic contentment." See <a href="https://www:theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/theater/reviews/20heav.html/">https://www:theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/theater/reviews/20heav.html/.</a><br />
The deception workes: <a href="http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/World-Without-Genocide-Terezin-Concentration-Camp-Bibliography.pdf">http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/World-Without-Genocide-Terezin-Concentration-Camp-Bibliography.pdf</a><br />
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The playwright is Spanish. The play is offered in Spanish on alternate nights, adding to a universality concept in the issues, if not as to the actual nationality of persons kept, and shipped to Auschwitz and death camps from there. "[A]n audacious play about a monstrous wrong," at Classical Voice of North Carolina. See <a href="https://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2009/012009/Way.html/">https:///www.cvnc.org/reviews/2009/012009/Way.html/</a></div>
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Emerging themes: how we are duped, how we fail to act on hunches while being duped - liking the duping - and the clash of public view vs. concealed reality. Subtlety and daring prevail over the right. </div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-54409818635688044662014-03-02T08:27:00.000-05:002020-05-25T06:33:29.231-04:00Terezin, Theresienstadt: Alice Herz-Sommer, Musician, Survivor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li>Meet Alice Herz-Sommer, who lived to 107 and was still a musician: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLadyInNumberSix">http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLadyInNumberSix</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLadyInNumberSix"> </a> </li>
<li>She was among the survivors of Terezin, Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic. She died on February 23, 2014, in London. </li>
<li>Find her obituary at New York Times p.B9, Friday, February 29, 2014, see NYT obituary<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/alice-herz-sommer-pianist-who-survived-holocaust-dies-at-110.html?_r=0"> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/world/europe/alice-herz-sommer-pianist-who-survived-holocaust-dies-at-110.html?_r=0</a></li>
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What was her role at Terezin-Theresienstadt in WWII? Musicians at this transit camp, also death camp in effect, had some special but bizarre treatment. The musicians among the prisoners at Terezin were allowed to live, some of them, and they performed brilliantly under circumstances where death waited for so many. <br />
She and they played the music while the transport trains moved in and out, day after day, including to the place where the tracks simply ended, That train to be backedup, turned, and sent out again.<br />
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Even now, shadows at day's end show a Terezin still largely abandoned, a view from the little restaurant open for talk and basic food. These are barracks in this old garrison town, where Germans faked good treatment of Jews.Alice Herz-Sommer would have stayed, most likely, in one of these garrison blocks. Now, she is the Lady in Number Six. Is this the number 6 her current residence in London? Or does it possibly refer to a Theresienstadt location? That not likely. Will listen-watch the video again.<br />
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During our stay, the town was beginning a restoration, see <a href="http://www.terezin.cz/en/index.asp">https://www.terezin.cz/en/index.asp</a>, with many vacant buildings and old ammunition dug-outs occupied by persons in need. Other areas already boasted good housing, but we found only one restaurant so far. <br />
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Survivors were interviewed in 2010 regarding the music. See <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/terezin-ghetto-jews-holocaust-vulliamy">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/terezin-ghetto-jews-holocaust-vulliamy</a></div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-40259236396968742492014-01-28T11:23:00.000-05:002020-05-25T14:28:08.392-04:00Holocaust. Perished in the Shoah. The Loss of a Czech Family 1941-45. These Individuals Lived.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Holocaust. A Family Accounting of another's Family.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Auschwitz. So many from Terezin, Theresienstadt, ended here. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Genocide is individualized; not a mere matter of "group." Terezin (Theresienstadt) examplifies a step in the process, the sorting and transit, the deaths. Follow this European branch of one Czech Family. All perished in the Holocaust, except one: The Survivor. Information here:</span></div>
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I. Yad Vashem - Follow the database, <a href="https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy5fA9OvO6QIVkorICh0ccAc0EAAYASAAEgKbyPD_BwE" style="text-align: center;">https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy5fA9OvO6QIVkorICh0ccAc0EAAYASAAEgKbyPD_BwE</a></div>
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II. The Family A - Grandfather</div>
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III. The Family B - Grandmother</div>
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1. Read<i> The Final Solution, a</i>rchitect: Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrict, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, see new novel <i>HHhH</i> (English translation of HHhH -- Himmler's brain was Heydrich) by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor, at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/hhhh-a-novel-by-laurent-binet.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/hhhh-a-novel-by-laurent-binet.html</a>.<br />
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2. Delve into the mindsets that enabled the Shoah, the courses of action and inaction.<br />
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3. What is the role of outside attention and focus on whether genocides gather steam. In 1946, at Nuremberg, German Chief of Staff, Keitel, said that in 1938 the Reich would not have attacked Czechoslovakia if the West had supported Prague. <i>HHhH</i> at p.80.<br />
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4. The members of the European branch of an entire Czech family, perished in the Holocaust, the Shoah, according to records and the testimonial source laid out here.<br />
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This accounting is not offered with the precision of a geneology, but to demonstrate this other truth: That horrendous events presented as crowds can fade. Families instead are personal. To value Yad Vashem, use your own family as an example. This one, mine, the McConaghys at the shore plus friends, could all be researched at, if this were the Holocaust, Yad Vashem. See FN 1<br />
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<b>I. Yad Vashem</b><br />
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<b>A. Source and process: </b> Yad Vashem Central Database. This is part of an ongoing memorial and historical documentation effort by a large institution-complex dedicated to that purpose. Yad Vashem collects records and other evidence of the Holocaust, known as the <i>Shoah</i> in Hebrew. Victims' names are part of that work, and are coming online. Yad Vashem receives information, coordinates, and publishes. See ://www.yadvashem.com.<br />
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<b>B. Clearinghouse and coordinator.</b> This is one source among others. Information may be as a Testimonial from someone who knew or had a relationship with the missing person. Yad Vashem provides a form; and then cross-references to lists from the Third Reich:<br />
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1. prisoners on the transports to the camps or a ghetto; <br />
2. inmates at the camps.<br />
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There may be no cross-reference at all. The person is just lost, no conclusion as to death. Or, remote as it may be, the person indeed got out, found money, passage to somewhere, and went, without leaving a trace, or contacting anyone thereafter. People still hope.<br />
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<b>C. Testimonials: </b> This is personal good faith information, by identified people. At least, if there is no Nazi record, the Testimonial is there to say that this individual lived.<br />
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If the last Holocaust record had been that the person had been on a transport or inmate list, there will be an entry by Yad Vashem of presumed death in the summary paragraph as you do the search. The entry will speak with the person's first name. That, in effect, personalizes the entry and lifts it out of mere objective administration detail. Then come the words, most of the time: "Perished in the Shoah;" or "Perished;" where the camp list at liberation did not include the person's name. Jana perished in the Shoah. Karel perished in Majdanek, Camp.<br />
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<b>D. Survivors</b>. Victims who lived are not included in the database. Their history in the Shoah is their story to tell, if they so choose; and is not the focus of Yad Vashem's database. Yad Vashem welcomes those stories, and evidence, however. The entire memorial effort is ongoing, and huge.<br />
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<b>E. Memorials and historical record.</b> First, do a Testimonial if you know of someone, and do not see it in the database. Second, keep looking for a person's records at Yad Vashem. New data comes online.<br />
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Records also vary in spellings and data - a German making notes of a person speaking in Czech, when there are hundreds in that line, may vary widely. The listing may be under something not anticipated. Yad Vashem. See ://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/ See also ://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Vashem.html; and http://www.youtube.com/user/YadVashem#p/a<br />
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<b>II. THE FAMILY A</b><br />
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<b>A. Other spellings:</b> Records vary. Germans recording Czech; Mis-hearings, Typos.</div>
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<b>B. Dates:</b> Listed, as in Europe -- Day, Month, Year</div>
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<b>C. Members of the Families A and B were in these Concentration, Labor Camps; Ghettoes </b><br />
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Izbica, Lublin PL a transit ghetto, see ://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/transit%20ghettos.html)<br />
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Kaufering, DE - subcamp of Dachau, near Munich, see ://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachauscrapbook/DachauLiberation/KauferingIVLiberation.html <br />
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Litzmannstadt, Lodz PL - see http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=lodz_ghetto (American Holocaust Museum material. Did they get it right?). The annual commemoration of the liquidation of the infamous Lodz Ghetto us pending: the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, in Poland. See ://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3606390.stm/ and http://auschwitztourguide.com/andrzej-strzelecki-the-deportation-of-jews-from-the-lodz-ghetto-2/ <br />
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Majdanek, Ujazdow, Lublin PL ://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/majdanek/Majdanek.html <br />
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Maly Trostonets, Minsk, Belorussia (USSR) ://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/malytrostenets.html<br />
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Ossowa, PL (labor camp) see transport record, ://holocaustresearchproject.blogspot.com/2010/03/theresienstad-concentration-camp.html <br />
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Raasika, Harjumaa, Estonia. Raasiku is a Parish, Harju is a county, see ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raasiku_Parish. Is the identification here as a hub in Estonia, with further transports elsewhere, such as Vaivara, the largest Estonian concentration camp, at ://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Vaivara.html; or elsewhere in Estonia<br />
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Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia, ://www.ccg.org/_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Latvia/Latvian_Holocaust.htm<br />
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Sobibor PL, see ://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibor.html<br />
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Theresienstadt: Ghetto, Terezin (former garrison town) CZ - see ://history1900s.about.com/od/theresienstadt/a/terezin.htm<br />
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<b>II. FAMILY A</b><br />
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<b>A Grandfather's family </b></div>
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<b>Adolf A: Two marriages</b></div>
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<b>A. ADOLF A FIRST MARRIAGE;</b></div>
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<b>1. Adolf A</b><br />
Married Ema? See see entry, Hanna C (C here signifies a name by marriage), name comes up in later search for Eva A*)<br />
Probably deceased before the Holocaust?<br />
Nothing found in Yad Vashem,<br />
Adolph or Adolf<br />
Not in Prague of Pilsen databases<br />
No Testimonial form<br />
No record listings.<br />
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<b>Ema A</b><br />
Nothing found (probably deceased at the time, since Adolf had married Jana B, and both were probably deceased by the time of the Holocaust?)<br />
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<b>2. Children of Adolf A and first wife Ema: </b><br />
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<b>2.1 * Hanna C</b>, a/k/a Khana, a/k/a C<br />
Born 27/04/1894 in Lipa <br />
Married Ludvig<br />
Father Adolf A<br />
Mother Ema [a search for Eva A produces this reference to Ema]<br />
Prague base<br />
15/03/1945<br />
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To Auschwitz PL<br />
Testimony of Ema Pik, daughter of Hanna<b></b><br />
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<b>2.2 Josef A </b><br />
<b>Married Frieda (</b>see 3 children of Josef and Frieda below: Gerald, Karl, Julia)<br />
<br />
Multiple entries for a Josef A - someone can sort out the generations, which may be other families<br />
<ul>
<li>Josef A born 26/06/1872 </li>
</ul>
Prague base <br />
03/06/1941 <br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Josef A born 28/11/1891</li>
</ul>
Prague base<br />
12/10/1942<br />
To Theresienstadt<br />
To Auschwitz PL<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Josef A born 24/09/1898 in Hungary</li>
</ul>
Prague base<br />
Testimony form by uncle, Milos Kaspari:<br />
Spouse maiden name Fialova (no first name given)<br />
Merchant<br />
09/05/1942 <br />
To Sobibor PL<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Josef A born 1898 (no date given) in Kolin CZ<i> [looks like same person as 1898 above]</i></li>
</ul>
Testimony form by daughter Hanna Seckel:<br />
Father's first name Karel<br />
Mother's first name Rose<br />
Spouse name Emilie Fialova <br />
1942<br />
To Sobibor PL<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<b>2.3 Hans</b><br />
<br />
"Hanus"A<br />
Born 03/05/1934 (that is May 3, 1934)<br />
Prague base<br />
13/07/1943<br />
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To Theresienstadt<br />
To Auschwitz PL<br />
Perished<br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b> 3. Children of Josef and Frieda A</b><br />
<br />
<b>3.1 Gerald A - no information yet</b><br />
<br />
<b>3.2 Karl A - several entries</b><br />
<ul>
<li>Karel A</li>
</ul>
Born 23/10/1917<br />
Prague base<br />
10/06/1942<br />
<br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Majdanek, Ujazdow<br />
Perished <br />
<ul>
<li>Karel A -- Not in same line?<br />
</li>
</ul>
Born 16/04/1918 <br />
<br />
Prague base<br />
Testimonial from Cousin Marta: <i>parents</i> Moritz A and Franciska Chitz<br />
Testimonial destination -<i>Auschwitz</i><br />
Testimonial occupation - Student <br />
08/10/1942<br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Treblinka, Lublin PL (records)<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Karel A</li>
</ul>
Born 09/12/1923<br />
Prague base<br />
17/12/1941<br />
To Theresienstadt<br />
To Riga, Vidzeme Latvia<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Karel A</li>
</ul>
Born 01/04/1926<br />
Prague base<br />
28/09/1944<br />
To Theresienstadt<br />
To Auschwitz<br />
Perished<br />
<b></b><br />
<br />
<b>3.4 Robert A</b><br />
Married Irma - (see children of Robert and Irma below)<br />
<br />
There are two Robert A's<br />
<ul>
<li>Robert A</li>
</ul>
Birthdate suggests he is husband of Irma? *<br />
Prague base <br />
Born 21/12/1890<br />
17/12/1941<br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Raasika, Harjumaa, Estonia<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Robert A - this is a much younger one. </li>
</ul>
Born 1/2/1931<br />
Prague base <br />
24/10/1942 <br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Auschwitz PL<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<b>3. * Irma A, wife of Robert </b><br />
<br />
Born 2/2/1885<br />
Austria<br />
11/1/1942<br />
From Vienna to Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia<br />
Perished<b><br />
</b><br />
<br />
<b>4. Children of Robert and Irma A</b><br />
<ul>
<li><b> Willi A</b></li>
</ul>
No information<br />
But see: <br />
<ul>
<li><b>Vilem A</b></li>
</ul>
Born 19/11/1883<br />
Prague base<br />
To Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Auschwitz PL<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
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<b><br />
</b><br />
<b> </b><br />
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<b>B. ADOLF A, SECOND MARRIAGE</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>JANA B A </b></div>
<br />
<b>1. Jana B A </b><br />
Probably deceased by the time of the Holocaust?<br />
No record in Yad Vashem for that spelling<br />
A/k/a Yana, see 3.2<br />
No record<br />
With son Ernest born 1896, she would be born, say,<br />
1876?<br />
No Testimonial form<br />
No listings. <br />
<br />
Alternates: Is she one of the following:<br />
<ul>
<li> Jana <i>B'</i></li>
</ul>
Born 1871 - Possible birthdate if Ernest born 1896<br />
Prague base <br />
To Theresienstadt<br />
To Treblinka<br />
15/10./1942 <br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li>Jana <i>B''</i></li>
</ul>
Born 1872 - Possible birthdate if Ernest born 1896<br />
Prague base <br />
To Theresienstadt<br />
To Treblinka<br />
22/10/1942<br />
Perished<br />
<ul>
<li><i>Jana </i><i>B '''</i></li>
</ul>
<i>Born 1899 - not a possible birthdate if Ernest born 1896</i><br />
<i>Prague base</i><br />
<i>To Theresienstadt</i><br />
<i>To Maly Trostenets, Minsk</i><br />
<i>Perished</i><br />
<ul>
<li><i> Jana </i><i>B ''''</i></li>
</ul>
<i>Born 1920 - not a possible founding grandparent</i><br />
<i>Prague base</i><br />
<i>To Theresienstadt</i><br />
<i>To Izbica, Lublin PL</i><br />
<i>Perished </i><br />
<br />
<b>2. Children of Jana and Adolf A</b><br />
<br />
<b>2.1 Otto A</b><br />
<br />
<i>Had earlier emigrated to the US</i><br />
Would not be in the Holocaust database <br />
Married later, No children<br />
Born 1894<br />
Pilsen <br />
Died in US<br />
<br />
Remaining in Europe:<br />
<br />
<b>2.2 Ernest A</b><br />
a/k/a Ernst; a/k/a A'<br />
Testimony plus two Records<br />
Spouse Melania C a/k/a Melanie a/k/a C' a/k/a C''<br />
Mother Jana a/k/a Yana<br />
Father Adolf <br />
Born 1896<br />
Age 48 <br />
Prague base<br />
Banker <br />
To Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Lodz PL<br />
Perished 1942<br />
<ul>
<li><b>Wife Melania C </b></li>
</ul>
A/k/a A, a/k/a A' <br />
Testimonal form:<br />
Born 1897<br />
Housewife<br />
To Litzmannstadt, Lodz PL<br />
Perished 1942<br />
<br />
<b>3. </b> <b>Children of Ernst and Melania A </b><br />
<ul></ul>
<b>3.1 . Edith A C</b><br />
a/k/a Edit; a/k/a A'<br />
<b> </b><br />
Married Siegfried a/k/a Sigi C a/k/a C' <br />
Born 23/2/1920<br />
Age 24<br />
Prague base<br />
Housewife<br />
To Auschwitz CZ<br />
Perished 1944<br />
<br />
<b>3.2 . Herbert A</b><br />
Born 11/3/1929<br />
Prague base<br />
16/10/1941 <br />
Prague To Lodz Ghetto, Sulzfelder Strasse 23, Flat 35<br />
(Litzmannstadt) <br />
Testimony from Alfred:<br />
Pupil <br />
Herbert to Auschwitz CZ<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
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<br />
<b>3.3 . Kathy A</b><br />
Katerina<br />
Testimony from Alfred <br />
Born 2/7/1933<br />
Marital status: Child<br />
To Auschwitz PL<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<b>3.4 . Alfred A (survivor) (emigrated to US)</b><br />
<br />
<b>3.5. Martha A</b><br />
See a Marta C a/k/a C' a/k/a A'<br />
Prague base<br />
Housewife<br />
No birthdate <br />
Testimony page by Alfred<br />
But he identifies her as his niece <br />
(is this a daughter of Martha, his sister?)<br />
Conclusion of Yad Vashem:<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<b>3.6. Helena A</b> <br />
Married Richard C (see children below)<br />
Born 1898<br />
Prague base<br />
Testimony by Alfred<br />
Conclusion of Yad Vashem:<br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<b>3.7. Julia A</b><br />
<b>No information so far </b> <br />
Married ____________C (see children, below at 3)<br />
<br />
<b>4</b>. <b>Children of Julia A C</b><br />
<ul>
<li>Is there a Robert A as a child as well? See earlier Robert A entries and check for generations. </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Jirka C <b><br />
</b></li>
</ul>
No information<br />
Jirka, Jitka<br />
<ul>
<li><b>Husband: Jirka Married Karel C </b></li>
</ul>
Karel C, husband of Jirka C (daughter of Julia A)<br />
Born 18/12/1905<br />
18/05/1942<br />
From Trebic CZ to Theresienstadt CZ<br />
To Lublin PL<br />
Perished<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9HiSj_dk-vydGUQ-T7ddX0etuwLPdDdRCumYRiPmoPnVSytZEBPnh3PDAyRHTfpYGUv7bgVLwlPKxT2s09_SOsvjpFdoikkpg1y8fHuQEKyqEax3DHSYoQW_CUA1Jzq5IiQvRm5qMYNa/s1600/TrebicJewishqrtrmodel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9HiSj_dk-vydGUQ-T7ddX0etuwLPdDdRCumYRiPmoPnVSytZEBPnh3PDAyRHTfpYGUv7bgVLwlPKxT2s09_SOsvjpFdoikkpg1y8fHuQEKyqEax3DHSYoQW_CUA1Jzq5IiQvRm5qMYNa/s320/TrebicJewishqrtrmodel.jpg" width="320" />Trebic, CZ. Model of pre-Holocaust old Jewish Quarter, set up in synagogue that is now a museum. Part of World Heritage site. See ://www.czechtourism.com/eng/uk/docs/what-to-see/unesco/all/trebic/</a></div>
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<b>5. Children of Helena A a/k/a A', and Richard C</b>, a/k/a Rikhard, a/ka C<br />
<ul></ul>
5.1 Hanna C a/k/a Khana<br />
Niece of Alfred A<br />
Testimony of Alfred:<br />
Born 1938<br />
Marital status: Child<br />
Conclusion of Yad Vashem: <br />
Perished<br />
<br />
<i>There are many other C's, various spellings, numerous years. See yadvashem.org</i><br />
<br />
5.2 Paul C<br />
Nephew of Alfred A<br />
No information<br />
<br />
5.3 Greta C - Stepchild<br />
Born 1920<br />
No information <br />
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<b>B. FAMILY B</b><br />
<b>A Grandmother's Family </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Jana B A and Adolf A</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>1. William B</b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
No information.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Alternates</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<ul>
<li>Vilem B</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Born 1880 </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
(could be brother of Jana ?)</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Pilsen base</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
To Theresienstadt CZ</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
To Izbica, Lublin PL</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
1942 </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Perished</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<ul>
<li>Vilem B</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
This looks like the <i>same person</i> as 1a, from other data,</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Despite the <i>birthdates</i> recorded (different)</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Born <i>1897</i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Prague base</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
To Theresienstadt CZ</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
To Izbica, Lublin PL</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
1942 </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Perished</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>2. Philip B, a/k/a Phillip</b><br />
Two separate Testimonies - is one an update?<br />
<ul>
<li>Philip B</li>
</ul>
Several first names given on same testimonial </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Doctor<br />
Ewald Philip B? a/k/a Evald<br />
Testimony John Henry C, cousin </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Born in Most 28/07/1913 in Most CZ </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Parents Leopold and Suzanne<br />
Spouse first name Valie</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Prague base<br />
1/10/1944 </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
To Auschwitz CZ</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Perished</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<ul>
<li>Phillip B</li>
</ul>
Second testimony, same person John Henry C </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Born same date, 28/07/1913 but in Ceske Budojovice<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFHokc9SlzqLA7Gt9ByPJfG9zbMUXhwW1UxAoc7CdQ1K53Fr536J70WubJG6REpH1HczQ-NrfGoNa2TEUjEtLflcEbs9oJt87JD2HWGJYRIuzIJV5WMTqIvsXvKjnjtClEhRSm135kjsDM/s1600-h/hlubokaflowers.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176589380655970338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFHokc9SlzqLA7Gt9ByPJfG9zbMUXhwW1UxAoc7CdQ1K53Fr536J70WubJG6REpH1HczQ-NrfGoNa2TEUjEtLflcEbs9oJt87JD2HWGJYRIuzIJV5WMTqIvsXvKjnjtClEhRSm135kjsDM/s320/hlubokaflowers.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" />Ceske Budojovice CZ, Hluboka Castle gardens</a> <br />
<br />
Mother is Valie C </div>
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Place of death, Kaufering, Munich DE<br />
1945<br />
Perished</div>
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<b>PERSONS WITH UNCLEAR CONNECTION</b></div>
<br />
<b>1. Eva A</b><br />
<br />
An Eva A comes up, not in her own name, but under Steiner, Hanna, nee A; and the name there is Ema, not Eva<br />
<br />
No other information.<br />
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Microcosm:<br />
<br />
The Jewish population in Trebic was decimated. It never recovered.<br />
<br />
Of 1371 persons deported from the region, including Jihlava, 285 were from the centuries-old Jewish Quarter, Zamosti in Trebic.<br />
<br />
There had been two synagogues.<br />
<br />
Other Jews were harassed, persecuted, left.<br />
<br />
Only 10 Jews survived and returned. See://www.trebic.cz/en/article.asp?article_id=2558/<br />
<br />
Now? No more Jews. See ://www.radio.cz/en/article/43039/. One synagogue, the Front Synagogue, is now used by the Hussites, a protestant reformer-origins religious group. The other, the Rear Synagogue, was used as a storehouse by the Germans, still has Jewish writing on the walls from earlier years, some talk of rehab, but the conversation moves quickly to the big basilica now also World Heritage.<br />
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FN 1<br />
<b>The Lodz Ghetto. Litzmannstadt Ghetto.</b> <br />
<br />
Issue: Do the extremes of that generation's groups in power recur: Are there resurgences of those who target other religious and ethnic and distinguishable groups as "Other".<br />
<br />
Mindset. At that time, it was Jews, Gypsies, the handicapped, the Orthodox in some places, etc. Does that exclusion mindset make the "Other" so "Not One of Us" that they must be against us. If they are against us, then we can conduct killing and recriminations, justified by our projections of "evil", the Other as expendable. Do Inclusives need watchfulness in every country, every day. Look around at a family gathering this year. This tracking-site is your family in Year-Future, perhaps, if those whose sense of self requires exclusion, denigration, and removal of others from their path. It depends on who exerts what power, and succeeds. Is that so.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-39820210338798653232014-01-10T20:19:00.000-05:002020-05-25T06:36:03.097-04:00Terezin, Theresienstadt. Brundibar and The Music of Terezin - Josa Karas; Hans Krasa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Terezin - a/k/a Theresienstadt.</b></div>
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<b>A Ghetto, A Concentration Camp</b></div>
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<b>A Place of Death, Deceit, and <i>Music?</i></b><br />
<b><i>. <br />
</i></b></div>
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Sometimes it takes an obituary to fill in history not told elsewhere. And about a neighbor. And opera and symphonic works in a concentration camp.<br />
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<b>Josa Karas.</b><br />
<br />
Here, we learn from the New York Times in 2008 (October 7, we think) that one Josa Karas died.<br />
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He was born in 1926 in Warsaw, and apparently lived in Czechoslovakia. He collected the music of those imprisoned, many killed, at Terezein 1941-1941. He was 82, not a Jew, and apparently lived in nearby Bloomfield, here in the US. He began teaching at the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music in 1955.<br />
<br />
We never knew. Obituary by Douglas Martin.<br />
. <br />
Karas wrote the book, "Music in Terezin 1941-1945."<br />
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The work of the composers was actually done in Terezin, that we visited and saw as a converted old army garrison with barracks with substantial brick walls and a grid of streets intersecting in orderly ways, in service in different capacities for several centuries.<br />
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He collected 50 compositions, and those have been performed often. There were four concert orchestras there, many chamber groups, and an opera group - fodder for the Nazi propaganda about the fine conditions for living there.<br />
<br />
<b>Terezin.</b><br />
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When the Red Cross came to inspect, see "The Red Cross Visit to Theresienstadt," photos and text at ://www.scrapbookpages.com/czechrepublic/theresienstadt/theresienstadtghetto/history/redcrossvisit.html/, the old and sick were gassed. Flowers appeared in boxes, and there was a new "chocolate shop." The Red Cross was duly impressed and wrote a report of good conditions there for temporary housing for Jews.<br />
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See a propaganda film itself, at YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIMAJF3kic, a "documentary" -"Theresienstadt: Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem judischen Seidlun." This may be a portion of a larger film on Auschwitz?<br />
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Read at that site the history of Theresienstadt, its early history, and death statistics. <br />
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But it was a place of execution, death by disease, suffering, for some 140,000 Jews over time, including Petr Ginz, see <a href="http://www.petrginzplaces.blogspot.com/">Petr Ginz, Lens, Places, Lens and Legacy</a>. See a photo of some of the children there at the time of the Red Cross visit, and an orchestra performing there, from the US Holocaust Museum Exhibit at ://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007463/<br />
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Name names:<br />
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<li> Composer Viktor Ullman, studied under Schoenberg; </li>
<li>also Hans Krasa, </li>
<li>Gideon Klein, </li>
<li>Pavel Haas. </li>
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<b>Hans Krasa and "Brundibar." <br />
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Krasa had begun work on a children's opera in Prague with another musician, Adolf Hoffmeister, librettist; and it found its way to the ghetto-concentration camp at Terezin. See WNYC at ://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/22122He oversaw its performance, and it became a particular favorite at the camp (performed 55 times) - a children's opera, "Brundibar." See also "Welcome to Brundibar," at http://www.brundibar.ca/; and from PBS at http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/brundibar.html<br />
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Mr. Karas did a revision for performances, and presented it in Czech in 1975, and in English in 1977. The story: two children, thwarted in getting milk for their ailing mother by an evil organ grinder.<br />
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The obituary ends with a quotation from Mr. Karas: "When I started my research, I used to have nighmares. And guilt. I'd pick up a piece of chocolate and couldn't eat it." Then he got over it, saying that Czechs can get used to anything, even the gallows. </div>
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<b>Victorian, Edwardian Prague and Rainer Maria Rilke</b><br />
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Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875, a poet whose parents' conflicts and choices for his education not his choice, put his poet-mind, into court-achievement-status settings, and the military. See bio at <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/503783/Rainer-Maria-Rilke">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/503783/Rainer-Maria-Rilke</a><br />
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Rilke resurfaces today in an unlikely place: The <u>National Geographic, May 2012</u>, where a traveler with supposedly terminal disease, travels nonetheless and so, keeps himself alive. The traveler recalls lines of Rilke, see issue at <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/cheating-death/">http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/cheating-death/</a>. These lines must be in the public domain:<br />
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"Ah the ball that we dared, that we hurled into infinite space, doesn't it fill our hands differently with its return: heavier by the weight of where it has been." </blockquote>
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That, from<i> Cheating Death</i>, by Edward Raedicker-Henderson. Article begins at page 105.</blockquote>
Today, post-Victorian, post-Edwardian, we would leave out the Ah.<br />
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What substitutes today for that poetic Ah? <br />
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Go back to Beowulf. Hwaet! No, too authoritarian. How about Ommmmm. Better, but too esoteric. How about silence and simple hands clasped with straight fingers mated up, to get attention. Better. Do we need sound? Focus. What does it.<br />
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<li>The thought that follows, is what is the feeling when the ball hurled out, does not come back. Must the hurler yearn for it, in order for it to come back? What of mere curiosity: I hurled that entity, that ball of whatever, off on its own into infinite space, for reasons that made sense at the time, balanced values at the time, but what happened to it. There is a yearning. Victorian-Edwardian concepts live in modern lives. Poetry: its own non-language.</li>
<li>Prague. What if the parents had not been so divided in Prague, the one heading for the glory places, the other into stolid, dependable officer-school for the child. What if the child had come to fruition early and recognized. Or did the experience of being hurled, as a poetry-child, into the military, and rejected by mother, create the genius. Ask.</li>
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Hurling. Field hockey in the air -- a Celtic, Irish sport -- brutal, demanding. See <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-kB1e96CA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-kB1e96CA</a>. Is that the experience of, say, the idea, the child, the ball hurled out there that does not come back.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-22227613996117756902012-10-16T08:34:00.000-04:002020-05-25T01:35:23.895-04:00Disposition of Kafka Papers. Prague: Be a Contender<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Prague: Why Not Intervene to Claim Kafka's Papers</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fetch! It Is Getting Late!</span><br />
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Whose property now? Who owns Kafka. Update October 15, 2012. "Woman must relinquish Kafka papers, judge says." NYT at A9, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/woman-must-relinquish-kafka-papers-judge-says.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/woman-must-relinquish-kafka-papers-judge-says.html</a> See also <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/woman-must-relinquish-kafka-papers-judge-says-657669">http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/woman-must-relinquish-kafka-papers-judge-says-657669</a></div>
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1. October 15, 2012. Summary: Israel's national library shall receive the documents written by Franz Kafka and friend Max Brod. Mr. Brod's former secretary had possession, had sold some. Mr. Brod had bequeathed them to her. Her daughter, in turn after the mother's death, sought to retain. Issue: were the documents bequeathed in trust, or as gift. Trust, so far. Ms. Hoffe may appea.<br />
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2. Earlier overview:<br />
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Kafka's papers, what remains, are the subject of heavy litigation in Israel. The relevant will apparently leaves open the possibility of the papers placed in a public archive not necessarily in Israel. As quoted in the NYT Mag at 37, Max Brod's will from 1961 (Max Brod as the friend of Kafka who received the papers) apparently provides that the papers are to be deposited<br />
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"with the library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the municipal library in Tel Aviv, <span style="font-style: italic;">or another public archive in Israel or abroad (emphasis added)."</span> </blockquote>
3. Kafka is a Son of Prague. Prague. Is anybody home? Prague? Prague? Do it! Intervene! Prague - intervene to get the papers back. You have lawyers. The man is buried in your Jewish Quarter. There is a heritage to reclaim. Go! The unforgettable visuals -- in the Jewish Quarter -- the wall bug, and the empty suit - see <a href="http://czechrepublicroadways.blogspot.com/2007/08/prague-franz-kafka-empty-suit-giant.html">Prague, Franz Kafka, Empty Suit, Giant Bug</a>.<br />
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The point here is not only to educate people about Prague's Franz Kafka. It is to show that this life, manic in a way, interesting, sad, neurotic, magnetic, exciting, tragic, odd and should be part of Prague's heritage -- not in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or Germany, for heaven's sake.<br />
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4. Who? Franz Kafka.<br />
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Franz Kafka: prodigious novelist, diarist, sketch writer, manuscript producer, and a vaguely-practicing Jew, was born in 1883 in Wossack, south of Prague, to a dry-goods merchant father and more well-to-do mother. He was well-educated in German schools, German being the cultured area language of the day. He wrote and wrote, destroyed most of his own work, died of TB in 1924. Some works remain, the subject of the Israeli litigation.<br />
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Details of his life are known, see rough summary at FN 1<br />
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5. Litigation story about the remnants of Kafka's work.<br />
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Find a fine review of events in the September 20, 2010, in the New York Times Magazine article: <span style="font-style: italic;">Kafka's Last Trial. </span><br />
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Basic issue: Who is executor of what, as to which will, and who is beneficiary of what? Rights flow from that determination.<br />
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<li> The Beneficiary argument:</li>
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The sisters are now claiming the papers as their private property. Are they beneficiaries or mere executors of a far earlier will, in which case the papers revert.<br />
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Although Kafka incinerated some 90% of his own writing, some 2/3 of what remained ended up in the Bodleian Library at Cambridge *; the last 1/3 of that 10% remnant of a total unknown (herein The Batch) stayed in his friend's possession, Max Brod. Max moved to Israel with it, and died in 1968.<br />
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The Batch then ostensibly passed to his secretary and amour-likely, Esther Hoffe. In 1988, she auctioned <span style="font-style: italic;">The Trial</span> for two million. It ended up in Germany. Kafka's three sisters died in the death camps. Not a nice place for his papers. He is not even German himself.<br />
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Esther Hoffe died in 2007 in Israel, leaving The Batch to her daughters, Eva Hoffe and Ruth Weisler who escaped Prague in the Nazi era. They want the papers sold at their profit to Germany <span style="font-style: italic;">(Germany!)</span> -- the German Archive in Marbach. What? Kafka's sisters were killed in the Shoah. His religious-orientation group, etc.... The papers they do not sell to Germany, they want kept in their Swiss (Zurich) and Israeli (Tel Aviv) bank vaults; and/or in Eva's apartment on Spinoza Street in Tel Aviv with her multiple multiple pi square root to the nth degree cats. Perhaps some 40-100 of the darlings.<br />
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Kafka as anyone's private property?? See details at the NYT Magazine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26kafka-t.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26kafka-t.html</a><br />
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Apparently, Brod himself was thinking of depositing The Batch at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. But he never followed up. Esther Hoffe herself had planned to deposit The Batch at Marbach, but she also never followed up. So now we have The Daughters.<br />
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Or just Eva Hoffe.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BoiHHPKaknyQKUXomT3ODkMJNl4lN9Wkxy1r3WHrGuI1rbakctd56rUDB5qiwiaHOsuYVUNPX8oF4eoAw4zMLnoBARnCVayG6KqgxFRv4f0QnaLlSRJfdYFa-JF4G2ahscj1wbzYBRJ9/s1600/scan0043.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550174108148665090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BoiHHPKaknyQKUXomT3ODkMJNl4lN9Wkxy1r3WHrGuI1rbakctd56rUDB5qiwiaHOsuYVUNPX8oF4eoAw4zMLnoBARnCVayG6KqgxFRv4f0QnaLlSRJfdYFa-JF4G2ahscj1wbzYBRJ9/s320/scan0043.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 103px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 85px;" />Franz Kafka, his papers, post-mortem. Dispute. Eva wants Kafka</a><br />
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Prague: You can be a contender, see Marlon Brando, <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Waterfront</span>, at ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0waNRaz6wU/<br />
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The National Library of Israel is crying foul. They say that the succession of possessors after Brod are executors of Brod's will, and that not beneficiaries; and want the complete will of Mr. Brod produced. Eva has produced a portion. Court action ongoing. If the Library prevails, the papers revert to Brod's estate. His will, they say, says the papers to to the Library, or its equivalent:<br />
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Tel Aviv is not interested, but that leaves not just the Hebrew University -- but <span style="font-style: italic;">another public archive </span>abroad and not necessarily in Israel as A Contender.<br />
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Papers to Prague, Should that be so? Prague has the most cogent claim to the Kafka papers.<br />
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FN 1 Prague: Franz Kafka moved to Prague at 18, began clerical jobs and sporadic writing. At University, studying law (after other areas did not interest him) he formed a close friendship with Max Brod - who figures mightily in the later tale of Kafka's papers.<br />
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Kafka had a regular career life, nothing spectacular. He went into business pursuits, and a family business for a while. Brod encouraged him to publish some works, which Kafka did in 1918 or so.<br />
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His frequent and varied escapades with the ladies are a puzzle for another time. Poor lasses: had to be either nice or not, and twain could not meet. A lifetime doing the nasty, as one biography site puts it? Not him, see ://www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-Biography.htm/. Attraction, repulsion for what he was doing, neurotic perhaps, adequacy, inadequacy, all that. Poor Kafka. Lucky ladies for not marrying that one. Then along came Felice, to whom he wrote letters (sold for a pittance in the 1950's), Gerti and Grete, all nice girls. Meanwhile, Kafka went into a health sanitorium. Did Grete have his child? Or is that tabloid fodder? Grete was later beaten to death by the Nazis in 1944, so the answer is gone.<br />
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Kafka was exempt from soldier service in WWI because of his job at an insurance institute partially owned by the government. He was diagnosed: tuberculosis. Felice left the field and married someone else, Bauer. Kafka probably said, "Whew. Dodged that bullet." Then along came Julie and Milena Jesenska: Milena's daughter wrote a book about her mother and her mother's relationship with Kafka. Then Dora Diamant who apparently never recovered from her awestruck and possessive love of Kafka. His health deteriorated, and he died in 1924. He is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Prague.<br />
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While he lived, Kafka himself burned some 90% of his works, see NYT Magazine 9/20/2010.<br />
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Kafka instructed Brod to burn his works. Brod didn't. He edited and published all he could find. Brod moved to Tel Aviv with the writings, to escape the Nazis. Did he save Kafka for the ages, or merely disregard a friend's wishes? See again://www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-Biography.htm<br />
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* The Cambridge Guide to Kafka, see google book by Julian Preece at page 208 ff, at http://books.google.com/books?id=wVz2auyt81sC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=Bodleian+library+cambridge+kafka&source=bl&ots=pKpCLY9qI4&sig=ZgwA5UY2d8hgozaGg8tLTQ5DYjU&hl=en&ei=zDMGTb_pKYG88gaA8rmwCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false/; The library: see ://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/about/operations/legaldeposit/historical</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-60141865988324978282010-08-08T17:50:00.035-04:002020-05-25T14:29:11.849-04:00Pilzen, Plzn, Pilsener Urquell - The Brew. Who Got Pilsner Urquell After Nazi Confiscation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Two Families, the Reich, and a Brewery <br />
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A History and a Confiscation<br />
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<b>Pilsner Urquell</b><br />
<b>Plzensky Prazdroj </b><br />
The Historic Pilsen Brewery<br />
Property Confiscation, Unjust Enrichment - Economic Symbols of the Shoah <br />
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<b>Brewery History and Ownership. Issue summary:</b><br />
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1. 1900 until the Reich: Wilhelm Guggenheim; (with partner Heinrich Abeles until Abeles' pre-Reich death)</div>
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2. Enter the Reich. Company (Brewery and Distribution interests) confiscated and annexed to the Strelow Company (Arische), we think. Guggenheim, wife and one child finally migrated to Brazil, says one source; Chile says another, with documentation apparently; two other children then in Britain as part of humanitarian transport</div>
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3. After WWII: Brewery and distributorship nationalized.</div>
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4. Then Communism.</div>
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5. Then private again.</div>
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6. And South African Breweries now.<br />
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10% shares of Pilsner Urquell is said to be held by the "original" owners <i>before nationalization</i>. </div>
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That is different from original owners <i>before Nazi confiscation</i>. </div>
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Should confiscated property revert in interest to those who owned it <i>at confiscation.</i> This is not a matter of proof of ownership. Who got it? </div>
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<b>I. Town histories. Successful breweries are traced with pride.</b></div>
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Many brewery cities have museums and tours and take great pride in their product: so does Plzen, Pilzen, Pilsen, Plzn. See all that fine history at ://www.click4hotel.eu/hu/nevezetessegek-pilzen-plzen.<br />
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Slavs in what was known as Bohemia at the time, were brewing and serving Byzantine envoys as early as 448 AD. They grew their own hops by 859 and seriously brewed by 1088. Wenceslas II himself founded Plzen. O, Good King (The St. Stephen's Day walker really just a prince?). Or was this one a King? See ://www.brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue5.3/urquell.html/<br />
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Fast forward (or rather, stagger and weave) to medieval times, and when they found a recipe for success in "bottom-brewing" that produced the lovely light color and taste, that devotees of Pilsner welcome. This became a sot's tragedy for the separate brewers in 1838 when the separate licensed brewers had to dump the brew in the streets because the fermenting went bad, and - yes! The solution in the form of a uniform methodology, and a fine new big building in which to (<i>br-a-a-ap</i>) do it. Read at that site about the history of the huge synagogue there, now a museum; the Jewish monuments. People disagree about whether even later "improvements" in brewing, to stainless instead of wood casks, worked. Go vote.<br />
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A friend had recalled that family members in Europe had interests in the Pilsen Urquell Brewery at some time, and we checked to see if any interest remained by the time of WWII. We find no connection with their surnames yet. We remain interested in any Jewish ownership or other interest or involvement in the Brewery prior to 1900, however. Who were the brewmasters? <br />
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<b>II. But Town and Brewery Histories leave out important parts. </b><br />
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<i>WWII confiscation from Jewish ownership </i></div>
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<i>and whether the Jewish families got their compensation.</i></div>
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<b>Purchasers of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery in 1900 - Heinrich Abeles and Wilhelm Guggenheim.</b><br />
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<b>What we have so far. Rosa Abeles. </b><br />
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Rosa Abeles was the wife of Heinrich Abeles, and mother of Hertha Abeles. Hertha married Wilhelm Guggenheim. The families had known each other for years, and became business partners with the purchase of the Brewery - Heinrich Abeles had been in the distributing business. See the account of Rosa's life by Margo Lohr in Hamburg, Germany: "For the pause and rememberance (sic) -- against denial and oblivion" reads the closing thought. Read the original at ://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=2630. Or go to stolpersteine-hamburg.de and search for Rosa Abeles.<br />
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The story of this Pilsner Urquell ownership family - the combined Abeles-Guggenheim story (especially with other Guggenheims at the time in South America and America) is compelling. This should be in the museum at Pilsen. Is it? After the years of the Reich, and the confiscation and concentration camps, who got the Brewery interests? Should they have? Wilhelm Guggenheim does not appear to be related to Solomon Guggenheim and the Guggenheim Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, NY and other interests.<br />
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<b> THE GUGGENHEIM AND ABELES FAMILIES</b></div>
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<b>A. 1900-1945</b><br />
<b>A summary from the work of Margo Lohr, Stolpersteine in Hamburg </b></div>
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In 1900, the Pilsner Urquell Brewery was bought by Wilhelm Guggenheim and the beer distributor, Heinrich Abeles, see Rosa Abeles' memorial (mother of Wilhelm's wife, Hertha) through Stolper Steine in Hamburg at ://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=2630<br />
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Guggenheim married Abeles' daughter, Hertha, and they had three children: Daniel Fritz Walter Yechiel; Heinrich Zwi; and Marianne Bluemel Berta. When Abeles died, Guggenheim took over the distributing business. The Guggenheim family was in Hamburg, Germany, at the time. The business grew- including a restaurant at Pilsen. <br />
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1933: National Socialists in power.<br />
The Reich governor issued a Sicherungsanordnung - a confiscation order as to all the Abeles passports and assets. By another Nazi order, all Jews had to pay to the Nazis 1/6 of their assets, in return for which they got a small living expense stipend.<br />
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1937: The Abeles Company was now gone. Did not exist. Jewish companies were transferred to Aryan companies. "Arische".<br />
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Wilhelm Guggenheim was allowed to go to Pilzen to wrap up matters. The Abeles and Guggenheim rights in the brewery and distribution were being given to the Strelow Company: arische, or Aryan. Apparently all was confiscated, including some real estate and a restaurant. By agreement, Hertha's mother, Rosa Abeles, was to get a stipend for her life, but that was reneged in many ways. And, as part of overall Jewish disenfranchisement, the Guggenheim-Abeles business in Hamburg was seized, and the Guggenheim family home had to be sold at a pittance. They moved into a small apartment, where a neighbor denounced them. This led to a detective coming about to see if they intended to emigrate. They moved into another apartment.<br />
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The Guggenheims sent two of their children, Heinrich age 16 and Marianne age 12, to England as part of a humanitarian transport. Rosa's daughter Erika (sister to Hertha) (married to Karl Wolff) emigrated to America. Rosa had had to sell her house, and was in an apartment.<br />
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Then Wilhelm Guggenheim was arrested, and the Gestapo released him because of his fine service in WWI. Rosa moved into a little Inn owned by two sisters, but they eventually killed themselves because of the Nazi persecution. Wilhelm and Hertha hid. And stayed hidden. Fritz, another son I think, hid on his own elsewhere. <br />
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Friends provided food. Wilhelm had been prominent - kept trying to get out with his family - most anywhere. See the site for the list of places he tried to arrange. The site says he finally got visas for <i>Brazil </i>for all 3. Remember that Marianne and Heinrich were in Britain.<br />
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Crates of valuables, treasures, museum quality artifacts, never got to them; those they traced had accrued fees too high. The Stolpersteine site has people's recollections of what was in the crates. Treasures.<br />
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Did any of the children eventually get to claim the property? <i>[Did elder brother Siegfried Guggenheim obtain it? See the container lists of the museum at the findingaids site] </i><br />
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Rosa Abeles, mother of Hertha (who was the wife of Wilhelm) was still in Hamburg, then was shunted first to a Jews' House, then to the railroad station for "resettlement" in 1942. She was sent to <a href="http://petrginz.blogspot.com/2007/08/theresienstadt-where-petr-was-sent.html">Theresienstadt </a>.She had to pay for her own passage. Jews had been forced to turn in their woollens and furs. She died in Theresienstadt in the "infirmary", pulmonary disease so says the Solper Steine.<br />
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[She perished there in 1942, see the Yad Vashem Central Data Base, Shoah victims listing, at ://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_FL?last_name=Abeles&first_name=Rosa&location=Hamburg&next_form=results]<br />
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This verbal recollection, and collection of remembrances, is in Hamburg, and is part of the project <i>Solpersteine,</i> places and biographies from the Holocaust. For a description of the deportation process for Jews in Hamburg, see ://www1.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035//moorweiden.html/<br />
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One Strelow was an architect in 1935 in Hamburg, Chr. H. I. Strelow, see http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035//moorweiden.html/ A Leopold Strelow had been an architect there in 1907 or so. See ://www1.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035//Litzmannstadt.html No beer interests seen yet. <br />
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Later information: Wilhelm Guggenheim is the younger brother of Siegfried Guggenheim, who resettled in New York, see ://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430964#serI/ , that other family members were already well settled in South America. At first we believed that Wilhelm, Hertha and Fritz went to Chile, see ://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430964/. That site tracks the Siegfried Guggenheim family estate (museum pieces, correspondence, etc). As to the two children earlier sent to England for safety, this required money for the children's support, and that many families could not afford. They were fortunate. See http://www.kintera.org/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249802 / Heinrich may now use the name Henry Griffith, see http://www.ajr.org.uk/index.cfm/section.searchnotices/initial/G But this site says Brazil again - see http://www.ajr.org.uk/index.cfm/section.searchnotices/initial/G Recent contact with a family member confirms the Brazil.destination and the name. <br />
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There is now a film, a documentary, by Jens Huckereide about the Guggenheim home in Hamburg, "Ab Nach Rio", Die Guggenheim Atke, see ://www.diethede.de/diethede/projects/projects2.html and the photograph there. Is that the Guggenheims? Gone to Rio. It commemorates the 60th year since the Shoah, or Holocaust. The film focuses on the history of the owners of the home: the Jewish Guggenheims, then acquired from them in 1938 (forced sale), by the Fritsche family, Michael and Claus Fritsche (we are trying to figure out the German -- let the cursor hover over the German word and Google will translate it), and only in 2007 sold to the State and to be a kindergarten, we understand. Stadtvilla Rothenbaumchaussee 121, Hamburg. There have been showings of the film this year.<br />
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There remain proofs of the business interests. See photos and reproductions of phone book listings for the Guggenheim-Abeles business before the War, at ://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?cj=1&srchb=r&gss=affiliate&rank=1&gl=allgs&gspl=1%2cAny+Locality&pcc=2&prox=1&gsln=Guggenheim&gsfn=Wilhelm&o_xid=0001231454&o_lid=0001231454. There are many, in different cities, Berlin, Baden-Wurttemberg, Hamburg, etc.<br />
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There is a photo of Wilhelm Guggenheim with a baby as well, that we understand is the son Heinrich. There are records of a Wilhelm Guggenheim out of Hamburg during the war years, then a Wilhelm Guggenheim going to Switzerland. That is a different branch. The Wilhelm Guggenheim in issues here is the Hamburg family. It is a large and distinguished family, with roots going back centuries, especially in Worms, Germany. For researching any family, look up findagrave.com. We understand that Guggenheims stem from the same root, perhaps in Worms, Germany, with prominence as early as the 18th Century.<br />
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1938. Confiscation. Curtain down, for some. The Nazi confiscation process: See <i>Robbing the Jews</i> at ://www.lootedart.com/NNAURN730391; and ://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/details.php?content=2008-09-01/ Who is this other Guggenheim who was a drugstore goods wholesaler, and who, as Guggenheim & Co in 1938 also lost it? See page 265, Google book, <i>Aryanization in Hamburg</i><br />
by Frank Bajohr. Examples of confiscations: pages 290, 160, 246, 214, 245. It is reviewed at ://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/19/2/309The Pilsner Urquell Brewery was in Czech land, however, so would not be in the Hamburg accountings. Process again: first, you have to report. See ://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/appropriation6.htm<br />
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1945. The Guggenheim-Abeles account in the Stolpersteine ends with the death of Rosa Abeles. The brewery was nationalized in 1945. Did the same Strelow Company own it at the time, so that they are the ones who own the portion of it now. <br />
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There were Strelows who died in the War, one a pilot, Hans; another a U-Boat captain, Siegfried; see <a href="http://www.germanyroadways.blogspot.com/2010/08/buchenwald-inmate-504-alfred-dube-1923.html">Buchenwald Inmate. Tale of Two Families</a>.<br />
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1945. Nationalization. Would the arische or aryan Strelows have received any compensation when the company was nationalized after the war? See ://www.brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue5.3/urquell.html/ Same family?<br />
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1989. Communism fell (the "Velvet Revolution"), and the brewery has been publicly owned ever since. Who got what at that time? See the ownership known so far. As a publicly owned company, Pilsner Urquell or Pilzen Urquell, has done well, and has bought other breweries. Here is who owns what, as of the time of the Brewing Techniques dot com site:<br />
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<li>51% held by a Czech bank. </li>
<li>10% held by the "Licensed Brewer's Association, a group comprising the descendants of the original shareholders <i>before nationalization</i>" -- that from the Brewing Techniques site. *</li>
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<i> </i>* <i>"Original shareholders before nationalization" got 10%. Licensed Brewer's Association. </i><br />
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We cannot find who makes up that group. Is this, or does it stem from the Strelows in Hamburg. The wording appears to <i>exclude</i> the people who owned the business when it was confiscated, the Guggenheim and Abeles families. Did the Strelows retain it and now own the 10%?<br />
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We understand that the Guggenheims got nothing. Start with <i>Guide to the Siegfried Guggenheim Collection 1791-1961</i> at ://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430964#a0<br />
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If the Strelows got Pilsner Urquell in 1989, then for their six or seven years of enjoying confiscated property ownership, they are much and unjustly enriched. The Guggenheims, for 38 years of ownership and then the confiscation, lost out on it completely. There are reparations procedures, and the proofs seem clear enough, but each family makes its own decisions for its own reasons. See FN 1 for information so far about the Strelows.<br />
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Ownership changes at the Brewery:<br />
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<li>In 1999, SAB bought a controlling interest (44% market share - is that controlling here? - here we go. Pilsner buys Radegast and after puts and calls and calls and puts and options run wild, SAB has the whole wad 100% by 2001 ) in Pilsner Urquell - South Africa Breweries. See agreement to acquire at ://online.hemscottir.com/ir/sab/rnsfeed.jsp?item=7529077752068SABMiller. Suds on Six Continents. See ://www.sabmiller.com/ and the moving timeline of acquisitions and mergers at ://www.sabmiller.com/index.asp?pageid=27And the restaurant (was it in Pilsen?) became a chain - see ://www.sabmiller.com/index.asp?pageid=149&newsid=1112 Pilsner Urquell Original Restaurants. A new one just opened in 2009 in Prague. Pilsner Urquell Kulatak in Vitezne Square.</li>
<li>Shares in SAB Miller pay dividends at $.68 per, "group revenue" at $26,350,000.00. See ://www.sabmiller.com/files/companysnapshot/SABMiller_company_snapshot.pdf</li>
<li>Is there a cloud on a title where property was stolen, acquired by confiscation? Experts, please stand up. Curious. Is there a statute of limitations on reparations? More curious. Why not just do something really nice for the owners from whom the brewery was confiscated. No fuss, no lawsuits, just a quiet <i>really </i>nice thing for them. A conscience-clearer, fog-benevolence. Let's ask the Chairman. What's the bank that owns so much of it? Ask their Chairman.</li>
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See also ://www.drinkamerican.us/faq/59-who-owns-what-beers.html (why drink American if the other is better in taste and purity of ingredients?)(is it?)<br />
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<b>Modern Annual Report and History.</b> SABMiller in its 2005 Annual Report gives a modern history of Pilsner Urquell, known in the document by its Czech name, Plzensky Prajdroj. The history does not go back far enough for this cultural icon, and symbol of the Shoah. See ://www.prazdroj.cz/en/o_spolecnosti/_download/prazdroj_ar_05.pdf See Michael John Short smile. Ask if he knows of the Guggenheims?<br />
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Ownership: This site confirms the Guggenheim earlier ownership, and lists Wilhelm Guggenheim as "former owner of beer company". See http://www.ajr.org.uk/index.cfm/section.searchnotices/initial/G<br />
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* Something like po cele generace inspiruje Pilsner Urquell svou nezamenitelnou chuti nejen emelce, vedce, vynalezce, ci spisovatele, ale de zdrojem inspirace prop kazdeho, kdo ho jen ochutna.<br />
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Ms. Google says that means "<span class="medium_text" id="result_box"><span title="">inspiration for generations of Pilsner Urquell beer its unique taste not only emelce, scientists, inventors, or writers, but the prop de inspire everyone he had a taste." So the company done good! Attention, Henry Griffith and Marianne! Not interested? Fine. Just so you know.</span></span><span class="medium_text" id="result_box"><span title=""> See ://translate.google.com</span></span><br />
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<b>C. Wilhelm, younger brother of Siegfried Guggenheim-</b><br />
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The family. The Guggenheims go back to 1794 in terms of official tallies. A branch may be the Solomon Guggenheims NY, as in Guggenheim Museum and other good works. For an idea of the reach, contacts, interests of this family and its far-flung family members, see the information from the Siegfried Guggenheim site, Guide to the Siegfried Guggenheim Collection 1791-1969, at ://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430964#a0<br />
What happened with Wilhelm, who received the Abeles portion of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery before the Reich, upon the death of Heinrich Abeles. Did the Abeles family have any interest left after the death of Heinrich, and what was given to them by Wilhelm for Heinrich's interest. Wilhelm's children: two went to England during the War.A Brazil component thereafter is beyond this look.<br />
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See <a href="http://germanyroadways.blogspot.com/2010/08/buchenwald-inmate-504-alfred-dube-1923.html:">Germany Road Ways: Buchenwald Inmate</a> Siegfried Guggenheim also was in Buchenwald briefly. See http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=430964, estate of Siegfried Guggenheim, correspondence; and http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=430964&local_base=GEN01.<br />
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Interest moves back to the Strelows, the company that annexed the Brewery at confiscation. Tracking, tracking. It is not an unusual name. How to tell which is which.<br />
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There is an Albert Strelow in the index to a history of the Ford Motor Company, and the moguls in industry over decades, see http://cgi.ebay.com/FORD-MOTOR-COMPANY-DEFINITIVE-ILLUS-HISTORY-EPIC-BOOK-/130417957109; and Albert Strelow was one of the first investors, see http://www.railbirds.com/blog/333119/71510-today-in-history.html.<br />
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There is a Gallerie Heike Strelow, see ://www.galerieheikestrelow.de/cms/front_content.php; and Heike Strelow is also an author, see ://www.flipkart.com/oekologische-aesthetik-heike-strelow-theorie-book-3764324236; lots of people named Strelow over here, see ://pipl.com/directory/name/Strelow/William -see also the name Roger.<br />
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As confirmation of the ownership, there is a Strelow & Co. notation for a Pilsner Urquell beer coaster at ://www.beer-coasters.eu/en/not-beer-change/my-coasters/Prazdroj.html?ppns=30; and also at ://www.pivni-tacky.net/de/ceske-pivovary/pilsner-urquell-plzen-109/ <br />
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Hans Strelow, Siegfried Strelow. Other source: An "elite of the Third Reich" is Siegfried Strelow, and also Hans Strelow, see pages 335-336, ://books.google.com/books?id=inwd2rDaLm4C&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&dq=Strelow+Company+Reich&source=bl&ots=-JXsNWwi8v&sig=4-hXhGxVfVEQCKFGJVc6MqvkMuA&hl=en&ei=NElhTK33EYL6lwfNpujDCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false .<br />
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Both received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.<br />
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Read about Hans the pilot - A "German Luftwaffe figher ace", see ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Strelow/. See also ://www.military-art.com/mall/more.php?ProdID=16657 (do a find for Strelow). He was shot down behind Soviet lines, and killed himself to avoid capture. Someone vet Wikipedia on that. Siegfried, the U-Boat commander, is not listed as a relative of Hans, and no indication of death during wartime, see ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Strelow/ Common name, no relation probably.<br />
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For a time, we thought another family, Czech, might have an interest in the brewery at the time of WWII, but apparently not. We had posted more on the Strelows at the site concerning the only survivor of the European branch of that family, but have no confirmation that the information there is the confiscated brewery family same family.<br />
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The brewery, and war, and compare the families with various connections with it. A Czech family, now decimated, who identified with it in the past; a German Jewish family who built it up for 38 years, and it was taken from them, and many of them got out and resettled elsewhere; and a German Aryan family who got it by confiscation. Did they win? Does it matter. To whom. Skycams looking back. See <a href="http://germanyroadways.blogspot.com/2010/08/buchenwald-inmate-504-alfred-dube-1923.html:">Germany Road Ways: Buchenwald Inmate </a><br />
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2010. There are 30 Strelows in the phone book in Hamburg (not necessarily the same family, of course, but a continuing name presence). There are two "Hans" and a hyphenation as the first name. The pilot's line? GAnd the company still deals in -- go look at the bubbles at http://www.strelow.de/index.php. - adult beverages. The tall glass of bubbly there has a nice head. Also wines? <span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="">There is a nice picture of "the team" and we see no Strelows, so maybe this is no connection at all. Did they sell and sell the name with it? Or never have it.<br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="">"<i>Already in 1891</i> (the Strelows or the Guggenheim-Abeles?) the foundation stone for the traditional Hamburg company has been laid. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="">In addition to the tradition, it is to be a joy for us, always a valued partner for the hospitality and retail.</span></span><br />
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Henry Griffiths Update, much later than received. This is 2012.<br />
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A comment that I cannot publish because it gives a real name and an email, but here is the neutral part: "The Picture of Wilhelm Guggenheim with a baby was posted by me. The
baby was my father, Henry Griffiths, nee Heinrich Zwi Guggenheim. My
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-51043548706282145102008-03-11T17:02:00.007-04:002013-02-01T13:33:48.142-05:00Hluboka nad Vltavou, Cesky Budejovice; Budvar Beer; Budweiser<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Update January 2012: At first Budvar, Budweiser (CZ) won against others who would use its name. Now, it seems to have lost. American Budweiser, who adulterated the original formula, has already merged with Beck, Busch, Michelob, Goose Island and Stella Artois (do they really taste like European beer any more?); and wants to merge with the Mexican establishment owning Corona, see too big for one burp at <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/02/01/Too-Big-to-Brew-Why-the-DOJ-Wants-to-Block-Beer-Deal.aspx#page1"> http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/02/01/Too-Big-to-Brew-Why-the-DOJ-Wants-to-Block-Beer-Deal.aspx#page1/</a> See Cindy McCain's interest and details at <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/06/beer-and-cities-cindi-mccain-budweiser.html">Beer and the Cities</a></div>
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<b>Ceske Budejovice, or Cesky Budejovice.</b></div>
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<i>Beer Wars: The Czech Old Real Budweiser</i></div>
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<i>Took On the Additive-Laden Foreign Interloper, </i></div>
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Here is a tale of two beers, a tale of a spunky town that faced down Anheuser Busch, a tale of marketing fairness. Update 12/2008 - the Czech Budweiser prevailed in the European litigation about who could use the name - the authentic, or the upstart. See National Post at <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/06/beer-and-cities-cindi-mccain-budweiser.html">www.://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/legalpost/archive/2008/12/16/this-bud-s-for-the-eu.aspxl </a>and European Voice at://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2008/12/budvar-wins-bud-case/63434.aspx/ <br />
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American Budweiser Out. European Budweiser In. At least, as to use of the name "Budweiser" in some European markets. Then, visit the town itself.<br />
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"Budeweiser" beer to Europeans means a beer with two pedigrees:<br />
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b) it has to be made in the town in the Czech Republic called Budvar or Budweis - or Budejovice here. Names and their spellings vary with the phonetics, the linguistic roots being applied. They probably can have their breweries also in other places, but the Budweis town and the Budweiser name stemming from it are basic.<br />
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Names portraying origins are given Respect. The name cannot be used by just anyone, even if patented later elsewhere, under different laws. Because this beer is made in Budvar, or Budweis in German (recall the days of fluid boundaries, the overlap of languages depending on dominant influences), it is <i>entitled</i> to use the name "Budweiser." The brewer also wisely patented the name in Europe decades ago, after centuries of use.<br />
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Our Budweiser" beer (courtesy of USA's Anheuser-Busch) from the US meets neither requirement, so cannot be marketed at Budweiser in much of Europe - not made in Budvar, and some ingredients to not make the cut. See <a href="http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/06/beer-and-cities-cindi-mccain-budweiser.html">Joy of Equivocating, Beer and the Cities, Cindy McCain, Budweiser</a>.<br />
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The exterior is so freshly redone, as to look new. Nearby is the town of Budweis, or Cesky Budejovice - Ceske Budejovice - home of Budvar Beer - Budweiser to you, see ://www.virtourist.com/europe/budejovice/index.html but no similarity in taste - very refined over there. We recall seeing some arrangement on using the name in both countries, US and CZ, but need to check. Pun pun. Excellent place to park and walk in the big square and eat. Always eat.<br />
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<b>Budweiser and Americans:</b> Back to basics.<br />
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Compare the "Budweiser" style of brewing, with its additives, to the "Pilsner" style, from Plzn, the Czech Republic. Weep for the loss here, at<a href="http://morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/library/backissues/issue5.3/urquell.html"> http://morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/library/backissues/issue5.3/urquell.html</a></div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-6358555227365732722008-03-11T16:46:00.009-04:002008-06-08T11:12:51.800-04:00Hluboka nad Vltavou - Centuries of Renovations - Wenceslas I to Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque to Neo-Gothic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHFrbVXxDXI6FekOzViOe7UYLzlxFywWcFO0eT7Ea0I5x-CVAe_V2Ke0-oWKpoCPt9bpEkw4bts5Sn1imTyMsQletb_jNa8exqRe6Qd5njQ24hAnCh4JfU2UuU3Ddh5VS5zrls2Zsa2fL/s1600-h/HlubokanadVltvou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHFrbVXxDXI6FekOzViOe7UYLzlxFywWcFO0eT7Ea0I5x-CVAe_V2Ke0-oWKpoCPt9bpEkw4bts5Sn1imTyMsQletb_jNa8exqRe6Qd5njQ24hAnCh4JfU2UuU3Ddh5VS5zrls2Zsa2fL/s320/HlubokanadVltvou.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176589522389891122" border="0" />Hluboka Castle</a><br /><br />Arrive in Prague, make your way south toward Cesky Krumlov, the medieval town that rivals (and surpasses) the German Rothenburg and Dinkelsbuh, we think, and see this on the way.<br /><br />Many chateaux have early start dates, but undergo vast renovations through the centuries. That is so with Hluboka. Begins somewhere 11-12th Centuries.<br /><br />One guidebook says founded by Wenceslas I; then this site says Premysl Otakar, see ://www.guidingprague.com/tour_menu/other_tours_CR/HlubokaCB. Need to see if they are one and the same - titles, earlier names, tracing can take time.<br /><br />See the interior here at ://www.zamky-hrady.cz/1/hluboka-e.htm<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYFCqF9R_KOJkp7U2WqSFjXYx1Y7mQ4lY1aTksjT0H_aREOSbd5vDsLewgaplg_VJCH8nbGvegCDKdKO0qzKbuZDREpxxC4DxVSRnZT45rmdQeZpZMEmxAz-WG77cy4SS_aNJ4QPZyQ8Ec/s1600-h/hlubokafront.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYFCqF9R_KOJkp7U2WqSFjXYx1Y7mQ4lY1aTksjT0H_aREOSbd5vDsLewgaplg_VJCH8nbGvegCDKdKO0qzKbuZDREpxxC4DxVSRnZT45rmdQeZpZMEmxAz-WG77cy4SS_aNJ4QPZyQ8Ec/s320/hlubokafront.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176588981224011778" border="0" />Hluboka Castle Facade</a>Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-53135460592570454792008-02-12T16:06:00.001-05:002020-05-25T05:58:20.925-04:00Prague - Jan Amos Komensky, "The Teacher of Nations"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jan Amos Komensky. Johann Amos Comeni lived in Prague and other places including Heidelburg, Germany. He was an educator, philosopher, writer, priest (Protestant), in exile after the re-Catholicization of Vienna reached the Czech nation.<br />
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The "korun" currency shows the greater tribute to Komensky: as a teacher who cares and reaches out, ready to grasp and help. See discussion at <a href="http://bogomilia.blogspot.com/2008/02/jan-amos-komensky-teacher-of-nations.html">Bogomilia, Jan Amos Komensky</a>.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-86469556580019946762007-09-17T01:49:00.000-04:002020-05-25T15:28:53.724-04:00Liberec - A quieter voice. Marian Column.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Liberec has a modest plague column, those petitions in stone to Mary for relief from recurrence of the Black Death, or thanks for at least sparing some of the population.<br />
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There are many reminders in Europe that the plague hit everywhere and often. Here is a site with photos of Austrian Marian Columns, and references to others in Germany. The Austrian columns are tall and rounded, without the multiple figures and shapes on the Czech columns. See //campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/column. That source is a Marianist institution.<br />
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In the Czech Republic, the fashion for specific Plague columns appears to be from about 1715. They often show buboe-shaped tumescences and scenes of sufferers or saints. Plague was intermittent and devastating for centuries before that, however. See its course in 1348, and people's group and individual response patterns, at //www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.<br />
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See the huge lump-type columns in more central towns, like Kutna Hora, see later post here. We did not get to Olomouc CZ, the town with an enormous one, but do an images search for it. O-l-o-m-o-u-c. How could Mary ignore its shouting.<br />
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I like this simple one, nestled in Liberec. A small supplication amid the dead. Do see Liberec.<br />
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* Marian columns: Mary has traditionally been the intercessor for the suffering, perhaps more accessible with the mother-connection? Finding out is roundabout. The UDayton site, //campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/column, collects these explanations for Mary on top of columns:, examples include showing her rectitude, firm faith; she is shown leaning against a column in early art and that shows she did not have labor pains ("dolor"?); the column anticipates the suffering of the future; points to the end of pagan religion; mostly date from 15th-17th centuries, but there are reported such columns 1oth and 15th centuries; the round shape lets pilgrims move around it; stand for the Counter-Reformation; were votive, pilgrimage and rallying points. There is a list of exhibits of Marian art held at UDayton - none explore the Marian columns. //campus.udayton.edu/mary//exhgrp.<br />
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The theme, supplication of women. Here is a modern memorial, a technically non-Marian column, but highly evocative, in Levoca, Slovakia. See <a href="http://www.slovakiaroadways.blogspot.com/">Slovakia Road Ways</a>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3q5UfafUow1xyaex2NyKcmiqqXTzxPvkNSeltR19e-kyaRg7TOvNb1wc3IqBa6DV96po7VAK9XA8G8NG_iloat8323WI8u6CuifsOPTJ0_NUtn1E2AOKKV9UZ0PNlZgsMSdcJKKeXqjQ/s1600-h/Levocawomchild.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111056045838153778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3q5UfafUow1xyaex2NyKcmiqqXTzxPvkNSeltR19e-kyaRg7TOvNb1wc3IqBa6DV96po7VAK9XA8G8NG_iloat8323WI8u6CuifsOPTJ0_NUtn1E2AOKKV9UZ0PNlZgsMSdcJKKeXqjQ/s320/Levocawomchild.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-42929369139192210342007-09-14T17:31:00.000-04:002020-05-25T14:41:30.557-04:00Liberec - Waldstein Houses, Crystal in the Castle, Square<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Liberec is in the northwest corner of the Czech Republic, Northern Bohemia, near the German border. It is a town that grew at the crossroads of several trade routes.<br />
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Liberec is in a mountainous area, with castles on hilltops. And traffic jams at rush hour, like anywhere. See //www.infolbc.cz/indexen; and terrain shown at . liberec.turistik.cz/en/. Now that we are back, I wonder if the castle we thought was in Slovakia is really here, outside Liberec. We did stop and just take pictures as we went. Look at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.slovakiaroadways.blogspot.com"> Slovakia Road Ways</a> at the Zilina post.<br />
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Towns obtained their marketing privileges from the reigning monarch, and constructed fine Town Halls to show their success. Rudolph II (see Iron Man post in Prague about him) gave Liberec its market "license" status. Choose a cafe with umbrellas, feet up a little, aahh. There is a Liberec webcam posted here, but I gave up on the load time. You try at www.webcams.cz/webcam.php#.<br />
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Why Liberec? Sometimes, pick a town in a new area that is in the range of something else and just relax and go see. We were leaving Theriesensdadt, or Terezin, the ghetto-concentration camp - where Petr Ginz and others were sent, and most then died, there or at a subsequent extermination or labor camp. This town is nearby.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-40526285480594577052007-09-14T13:16:00.000-04:002007-09-14T17:31:19.670-04:00Kutna Hora - UNESCO, Plague Column<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxy0jggmj87n5TPE-AAkrXwgIuMU1mQ78vw8ThZWREov0_vk35yV2C7U616mIWNtNUCUAah0G6dBi0RL1yMeOz2L2U5IPLdny7_v31MSB_qmyDuFfXoA-opLH2ouBgqxYN_l2aKXZRAcG/s1600-h/kutnaplaguecol.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxy0jggmj87n5TPE-AAkrXwgIuMU1mQ78vw8ThZWREov0_vk35yV2C7U616mIWNtNUCUAah0G6dBi0RL1yMeOz2L2U5IPLdny7_v31MSB_qmyDuFfXoA-opLH2ouBgqxYN_l2aKXZRAcG/s320/kutnaplaguecol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109740462995650386" border="0" /></a><br />1. The Plague Column - see the base, with its prayers and invocations; as well as the tall structure. There is usually Mary at the top, with a crown of stars. Do an images search for marian plague column, and you can see the type, and its components in European town squares, especially in eastern or central Europe.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRzxgIa63NPBFzINimQXMr1LvohoHFNW0MBWvnZ6kDg0kaRTv4KVOn85c5F9lOX_z2CtTpEDCJRAArkiDWeTS8VCktrirFKBkRZyh2uL0KHrwvYwNM-Qs6yf_CiQe96HhxsH5s2yS7dLr/s1600-h/kutnaplaguecolbase.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRzxgIa63NPBFzINimQXMr1LvohoHFNW0MBWvnZ6kDg0kaRTv4KVOn85c5F9lOX_z2CtTpEDCJRAArkiDWeTS8VCktrirFKBkRZyh2uL0KHrwvYwNM-Qs6yf_CiQe96HhxsH5s2yS7dLr/s320/kutnaplaguecolbase.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109740651974211426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFDfOo5qOZ22S5dPNeCFvq4RTdkRoioVvHrKb42GgSsrE9vZEoiWx54mKQ3Lmi5Yt_qfrYoAqvRPgR-MsqBhAXinac_2JZH-deFRnw57kUmcrjRSV0tqI-RZF6BtMCEf0EIfVJsDoqgE5/s1600-h/Kutnabaseplaguecol.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfFDfOo5qOZ22S5dPNeCFvq4RTdkRoioVvHrKb42GgSsrE9vZEoiWx54mKQ3Lmi5Yt_qfrYoAqvRPgR-MsqBhAXinac_2JZH-deFRnw57kUmcrjRSV0tqI-RZF6BtMCEf0EIfVJsDoqgE5/s320/Kutnabaseplaguecol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109739758621013826" border="0" /></a><br />Kutna Hora has a fine plague column. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage site.<br /><br />This is what it was like to have Plague. See historymedren.about.com/od/theblackdeath/a/death_defined. No wonder people rejoiced in 1715 that only half the population died from it, and the survivors were spared. <br /><br />Some tours are organized totally around UNESCO sites - see //www.czechadventure.cz/en/tours/Sightseeing-tours/One-Week/Czech-Republic-Unesco-Heritage-Trail. We see the ones nearby wherever we are, and do see most of them. Here is a photo site of Czech Republic Highlights, with a fine Marian or Plague column view here at Kutna Hora. richard-seaman.com/Travel/CzechRepublic/Highlights/index.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-65564341452105895762007-09-13T13:29:00.002-04:002007-09-13T13:49:49.256-04:00Kutna Hora - UNESCO - Cathedral of Saint Barbara<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXk4wiSrDrRiEBsu3xFu_0LNF22pRgn_9kARwOq5kYX5kqn_YvSilsDC8iTA6wcRigBOYOm722uinQEHHIevH0PXNgIh_21hBnKZYCApBT1RM1SEb7LYsoIungpEBkFbDXIpbe2_0NkLUg/s1600-h/kutnasantabarb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXk4wiSrDrRiEBsu3xFu_0LNF22pRgn_9kARwOq5kYX5kqn_YvSilsDC8iTA6wcRigBOYOm722uinQEHHIevH0PXNgIh_21hBnKZYCApBT1RM1SEb7LYsoIungpEBkFbDXIpbe2_0NkLUg/s320/kutnasantabarb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109742919716943746" border="0" /></a>With tree branches, hard to get a clear shot, but you at least can see the flying buttresses here - unusual and difficult with largely brick construction, so there are so many. The roof resembles a peaky crown. Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries, some variation between sites on exact dates. History at www.travel.cz/guide/126/index_en.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-EJ3TsU9jzielTSae7zN3dqkWZy6LWIazsnSXOWhiJ379E__ehWkhoVVgf4_klobQNsHeeJ5QUZBSlAb-dQdGQMN5meGu1MPej33MnmEFUQP_41uk3LKGBUycFrw32LhAlSoj0kPtTiw/s1600-h/kutnasantabarbroof.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-EJ3TsU9jzielTSae7zN3dqkWZy6LWIazsnSXOWhiJ379E__ehWkhoVVgf4_klobQNsHeeJ5QUZBSlAb-dQdGQMN5meGu1MPej33MnmEFUQP_41uk3LKGBUycFrw32LhAlSoj0kPtTiw/s320/kutnasantabarbroof.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109742404320868210" border="0" /></a><br />Designed by John Parler, son of Peter Parler who built the great St. Vitus in Prague.<br /><br />Here is a site about Saint Barbara herself, about 300 AD, at //sill-www.army.mil/pao/pabarbar. She was tortured and beheaded by her own father when he returned to find his bath house design redone by Barbara, who had converted to Christianity in his absence, and put in windows to resemble the trinity. She later became associated with safety from gunpowder, a patroness of artillerymen.<br /><br />Then again, this site points out how little is known, how many centuries passed before any mention, and etc. See www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284d. Her life is to remind people of anger?? See www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284d.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-90318133348287897262007-09-13T13:29:00.001-04:002007-09-13T14:05:01.082-04:00Kutna Hora - mining,double gate?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSuBkQQlk1Wwd2fiqlJSaBdCr8ZXrKEHWnFmfTb8aB4UPXQ1hTYQc49BX5bGf7nJNNRpJF96i98hrbgzTW-zW2FSfNPZ0aix6H77-0o18mCViQwvh1EpJFHJhEKzGIfOfNIzQ8EAbjmZu/s1600-h/kutnagate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCSuBkQQlk1Wwd2fiqlJSaBdCr8ZXrKEHWnFmfTb8aB4UPXQ1hTYQc49BX5bGf7nJNNRpJF96i98hrbgzTW-zW2FSfNPZ0aix6H77-0o18mCViQwvh1EpJFHJhEKzGIfOfNIzQ8EAbjmZu/s320/kutnagate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109746643453589394" border="0" /></a><br />We may prove ourselves wrong here, but we think this nice double gate, one for each line of traffic, and ease in collecting taxes/tolls, is Kutna Hora. <br /><br />Still checking. <br /><br />Meanwhile, here is a fine history of Kutna Hora and its mining - silver. See//chramsvatebarbory.cz/kutna-hora-history.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-77433322029627953122007-09-12T08:34:00.000-04:002007-09-20T11:16:52.873-04:00Kutna Hora: On the Way. Charnel House, walled church grounds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgdnoWaVA-QUmC8I1p1BKwT0xIAQbAstjP5Y5ctPYbOxRPiviQyDWNgiOsvb6n2ayBoNbAjam-mvFaXbrhNkSc_ThKdXjE56bQMBK0JLyvRS7FwezZr64LgVGah-vBTxpSxN3WnSU5svo/s1600-h/kutnachgravesq.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109190436598822338" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgdnoWaVA-QUmC8I1p1BKwT0xIAQbAstjP5Y5ctPYbOxRPiviQyDWNgiOsvb6n2ayBoNbAjam-mvFaXbrhNkSc_ThKdXjE56bQMBK0JLyvRS7FwezZr64LgVGah-vBTxpSxN3WnSU5svo/s320/kutnachgravesq.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Destination: We were headed elsewhere, to a glamorous and elaborate ossuary or charnel house* at Sedlec, at a monastery in another direction outside Kutna Hora. Someone there in the 19th century constructed chandeliers and sconces and other Martha Stewart decorations, made of what you happen to have on hand, here hands themselves, bones and skulls. Out of mass graves from Plague or other war times. The Thirty Years' War also slaughtered many religiously motivated combatants, early 17th century.<br /><br />The stop instead. We never got to Sedlec. See what we found instead, on the side of the road on the way to Kutna Hora: a traditional old walled church-defense complex, no signs, and its authentic charnel house. No designer additions.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmyEfun3Sz0xwOcj4BZLk6VbGt5CAeJO8jGx6IiQZBZ_nu1kRNTliFQpfUcpy1UAQcYa8eFv7yTT8CsUCD6uLBHuPjTGel_IErMjrBgcOYU7gmbZrv3h3LgCst2TKXarOG0rM3HwU5p-J/s1600-h/kutnaboneskull.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109203562018879026" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmyEfun3Sz0xwOcj4BZLk6VbGt5CAeJO8jGx6IiQZBZ_nu1kRNTliFQpfUcpy1UAQcYa8eFv7yTT8CsUCD6uLBHuPjTGel_IErMjrBgcOYU7gmbZrv3h3LgCst2TKXarOG0rM3HwU5p-J/s320/kutnaboneskull.jpg" border="0" /></a>Floor to ceiling, respectfully and neatly stacked bones and skulls, in an octagonal charnel house,* open windows except for the bars. There was a caretaker, watching us as he worked in the churchyard, but not following.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6AqOILGmymUopkCJcRvYFV6epi8lpbWZRUID4l9g85L4Kpn1eEDG4JEa-aRX4Nt5dl_LlIb9HBljtrOCiBBorVNx6YubNZU1PijlZB9JzvIE03rG_lP1EZ4uf-v9g-aYLC_imrzslGC1/s1600-h/Kutnabonestack.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109190780196206050" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6AqOILGmymUopkCJcRvYFV6epi8lpbWZRUID4l9g85L4Kpn1eEDG4JEa-aRX4Nt5dl_LlIb9HBljtrOCiBBorVNx6YubNZU1PijlZB9JzvIE03rG_lP1EZ4uf-v9g-aYLC_imrzslGC1/s320/Kutnabonestack.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The old walled church complexes:</span><br /><br />These consist of a thick, high wall, a built-in tower that appears for defense and lookout, in a traditional architectural shape of a square tower and peaked roof like a witch's hat, atop another and much larger square structure below.<br /><br />That tower on tower shape would be good for defense because ladders could not be put all the way up. But bad because the wood would ignite.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IiR4rUGws1e79LT8DM9yYAPIyHqxqmZpnnrYMTH-yKVR4ocgWouTzWAMvY4HBRyCUJ9zAl0DZO4P3gSoY8HBQRWEQ5cdVIYfsRHLTqPHa-NdFlcOicW1RhRP-BowG37dHPLOP9Xmy2yw/s1600-h/kutnabonechurch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109190591217645010" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IiR4rUGws1e79LT8DM9yYAPIyHqxqmZpnnrYMTH-yKVR4ocgWouTzWAMvY4HBRyCUJ9zAl0DZO4P3gSoY8HBQRWEQ5cdVIYfsRHLTqPHa-NdFlcOicW1RhRP-BowG37dHPLOP9Xmy2yw/s320/kutnabonechurch.jpg" border="0" /></a>Then there is a free-standing church building inside, and another free-standing building, the charnel house.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTME1komLC0g31te7Ul7KrI0KVumXqFeakmYBVX3ml4eK24X8AsApFFOoQ25rKBKZE4MvLdvDidtphnlqiCAgZBTTi7KlFIEtYOYonwg-rI4SacrS2SAiStx1OV_v4k7vi4nICrlqhyphenhyphen2t/s1600-h/kutnachurchprop.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109191308477183506" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHTME1komLC0g31te7Ul7KrI0KVumXqFeakmYBVX3ml4eK24X8AsApFFOoQ25rKBKZE4MvLdvDidtphnlqiCAgZBTTi7KlFIEtYOYonwg-rI4SacrS2SAiStx1OV_v4k7vi4nICrlqhyphenhyphen2t/s320/kutnachurchprop.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0pXZqFdXSn-iJO_SjXNcA4JpTy2fzeXINrVyB-SyBmsjkIsmhHTJL0NmGzEFp4KxOXm9Jyy-HKZGEB_Aw1hDj8IGjBrMGKuISWigkshC_aUhXMF9hrDf5ekDYsaOs9tcZ_af4GQXNw3F-/s1600-h/Kutnabonehouse.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109191080843916802" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0pXZqFdXSn-iJO_SjXNcA4JpTy2fzeXINrVyB-SyBmsjkIsmhHTJL0NmGzEFp4KxOXm9Jyy-HKZGEB_Aw1hDj8IGjBrMGKuISWigkshC_aUhXMF9hrDf5ekDYsaOs9tcZ_af4GQXNw3F-/s320/Kutnabonehouse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There is the octagonal charnel house here, skulls and bones, just behind the church.<br /><br />There is a similarly small charnel house, that does invite visitors inside, in very small groups, very respectful, at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. See post at <a href="http://www.polandroadways.blogspot.com/">Poland Road Ways</a>. Mass graves were a necessity. Do a search for mass graves plague, and find them at Venice, Athens, all over Europe.<br /><br />The church's graveyard with individual headstones is here just inside the walls.<br /><br />Yale would love this. Maybe they would be motivated to return Geronimo. See//www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook. See//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml.<br /><br />Advantage of the sudden find: Slow walk around, breathe in, breathe out, stretch, sit, think back, then with so much else to see, we skipped Sedlec.<br /><br />See other posts on Kutna Hora, and overview of the town at //thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-czech.<br /><br />.....................................................................................................................<br />* You can take a virtual tour of Sedlec yourself. At Sedec, we had read that the bones of plague and/or thirty-years' war victims were arranged in the 19th century in patterns and chandeliers. Many tour books feature this extravaganza. See the photos of all this at //richard-seaman.com/Travel/CzechRepublic/Highlights/index.<br /><br />Charnel houses are a practical approach to small graveyard areas: after a time, dig up and place all together in one building. Usually these are careful arrangements, from the tidy stack to the more bizarre decorative type, see the one we saw in Poland at _____________ and here is another one in Austria (that we did not see) at www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Austria/Bundesland_Oberoesterreich/Hallstatt-329225/Things_To_Do-Hallstatt-BR-1.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-14811027568048328772007-09-11T10:49:00.000-04:002007-09-12T01:04:55.113-04:00Driving in the Czech Republic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZnIGf6iDuZSmU4AzpoNF9Rj0mMiFoC-0ZpIxUGcZiRACxWHhkr-KoTTLi2A9W7g-t3xfncrEGPvlEUzobw-UW0cWw9dYRqsd_kGh2wTRSXB2krRAl2XQhQFyHjzUNH-owlDo-7nXlke-/s1600-h/100_0028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZnIGf6iDuZSmU4AzpoNF9Rj0mMiFoC-0ZpIxUGcZiRACxWHhkr-KoTTLi2A9W7g-t3xfncrEGPvlEUzobw-UW0cWw9dYRqsd_kGh2wTRSXB2krRAl2XQhQFyHjzUNH-owlDo-7nXlke-/s320/100_0028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094489536594476786" border="0" /></a><br />Just because a square is empty of cars does not mean you are welcome to park yours there.<br /><br />Always good to check the rules before you launch. Start at //www.stopin-prague.com/blog/driving-in-czech-republic. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some rules.</span> Note this - instead of paying tolls on non-motorways, buy a highway coupon (at a gas station) and stick it to the windshield. Lights on at all times. In a traffic jam, cars must create a lane for emergency vehicles. An unbroken yellow line to the right means no parking. "Stopping" is permitted, however. An accident with property damage about 2500 or more must be reported to police. No radar detectors. If an accident, there are procedures to follow, read up.<br /><br />At this site, copy and paste enough in another browser to get to the home page, then navigate to the rest until you get there. //www.ispsca.cz/newcomers/docs/New%20Czech%20Road%20Regulations%20-%20July%202006.pdf<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alcohol. </span>As in many parts of Europe, blood alcohol tolerance is zero. Find where you are going to stay, park and stay there. Period. Pick a place where you can walk to your supper, and to libations if you indulge.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Road signs, speed limits.</span> That site also lists common road signs, in Czech with translation, gives speed limits (you can't go as fast as legend here in US says about Europe), parking rules and other vitals. And reproduces the symbols and what they mean. They are not always obvious, so carry them with you. Your guide book may not have all of them. For example, a big red empty circle means absolute prohibition to any vehicle going there. Some show a car with a line through. That means no four-wheeled vehicles.<br /><br />NOTE ALSO. Go slow if you travel in spring and fall, when there might be freezes. Some countries restrict sand and salt use to only the most major roads.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rentals.</span> Rent your car from an Eastern European country if your travel is mostly there. There may be restrictions from Vienna, for example, in driving to or insurance covering certain places for concern of car theft. Know these in advance, and fly in with information in advance. We make rental arrangements from US, and check it all out there first.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-4808161847179554792007-09-11T05:06:00.001-04:002008-02-17T07:33:37.891-05:00The Diary of Petr Ginz - Places of Petr Ginz. The Occupation.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OotJfWYTZz0PunU9z3GvRChtf5-x1GpDecx0MqSgP1JVaGF_P0LOM7oGqG2h9dq5B9vkBCE1GShtja7I6WyCwzU-hr6P1XQvLOLYO-Ns8LBFzEobpNxvXPxqY37mXi6YdRggfnNpDKzC/s1600-h/Hradecsgraffito.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OotJfWYTZz0PunU9z3GvRChtf5-x1GpDecx0MqSgP1JVaGF_P0LOM7oGqG2h9dq5B9vkBCE1GShtja7I6WyCwzU-hr6P1XQvLOLYO-Ns8LBFzEobpNxvXPxqY37mXi6YdRggfnNpDKzC/s320/Hradecsgraffito.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109179931108816306" border="0" /></a><br />Petr Ginz was a boy in Prague during the German occupation. He kept a diary, now published in English in 2007 as "The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-42." Locations that Petr Ginz names, or where he went, are laid out now in photographs and comments at a Europe Road Ways companion blog, <a href="http://www.petrginz.blogspot.com/">Places of Petr Ginz</a>.<br /><br />The places include references to Prague, where the family lived; Plzen, nearby, where there is a great synagogue; Hradec Kralove, his Christian mother's home town -here is a picture of some Renaissance sgraffito * on the side of a building in Hradec Kralove; and the Sudetenland, on the German border, where others were from.<br /><br />Petr was sent at 14, the age when Mischling children were to be separated from their families, to the ghetto created at the old garrison town of Theresienstadt (Terezin); and ultimately to Auschwitz, at the town of Osweicim (Auschwitz), Poland, where he was killed.<br /><br />The war references are poignant, yet matter-of-fact. See <a href="http://petrginz.blogspot.com/2007/08/assassination-in-life-of-petr-ginz.html">Places of Petr Ginz, Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich at St. Cyril's Church</a>. Also see the 1975-76 film, "Operation Daybreak," for views of Prague itself, and a tragic, courageous war story of the Czech Resistance and the assassination.<br />The diary was discovered in 1993 in the Jewish museum in Jerusalem, along with some of his drawings and science fiction and other writings. It is edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, who adds an introduction and parts of her own diary; and translated by Elena Lappin, Atlantic Monthly Press NY 2007. Meet Ms. Pressburger at www.radio.cz/en/article/63435.<br /><br />Petr is a child of a mixed Jewish-Aryan marriage, called a Mischling by the Nuremberg laws of the German occupation in WWII. See www.owlnet.rice.edu/~rar4619/nuremburg.html.<br /><br />A "Mischling" could be designated in various degrees from pure Aryan. See www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/nuremberg-laws.shtml. The concept was "mongrel," as seen when you do an Images search for Mischling. All dogs on the first page, except for a copy of a Nazi certificate for Mischling I.<br /><br />The panorama of his short life ended at his age 16 in Auschwitz, a concentration camp that also had held Anne Frank for a time, I understand, before she was sent to her death at another camp, Bergen Belsen, not far away.<br />..........................................................................<br />* Sgraffito - a building decoration technique, layers of colored material, then scrape off top layers in drawing or other patterns. Scroll down this photo website and see the sgraffito - //richard-seaman.com/Travel/CzechRepublic/Highlights/index.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-16089747353619094212007-08-16T04:24:00.002-04:002010-06-27T14:00:53.321-04:00Cheb, The Sudetenland - The town's belly-tilt of half-timbers; Roland<div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Cheb</span>, in the Sudetenland</b></div><br />
The Sudetenland is near the German border, and the area has been in the middle of conflict for centuries - its location is the best entry to Bohemia from the northwest. www.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">britannica</span>.com/<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">eb</span>/article-9022726/<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">ChebSee</span> also the blog on Places of Petr <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Ginz</span> for more photographs and information posts on <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Cheb</span>.<br />
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The town is known in German as <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Eger</span>. Here are the German Merchant Houses that date from medieval times - the foundation and ground floor to first floor are reinforced to bear the weight of the floors below, but there are additional tilts visible also. See the square at www.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">mestocheb</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">cz</span>/html/e_<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">kamera</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">htm</span><br />
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The area's identity goes back to 870AD, and the name to 906AD. The territory was annexed by Hitler in the 1938. See en.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">wikipedia</span>.org/wiki/<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Cheb</span>. Then was made part of the Czech area again, and feelings run fierce, see people.bu.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">edu</span>/<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">crr</span>/<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">ICWA</span>%20for%20Web/Awakening.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">htm</span>.<br />
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Roland here may be the same Roland as the son of Charlemagne (see timeline). In fountains in city squares in Europe, he is often representing free market privileges, when those were granted to the town. But why the wild man? We understand that a figure signifies that the town had official market privileges. <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Seewww</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">mestocheb</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">cz</span>/html/e_<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">pamatky</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">htm</span>. And we saw another in Bratislava, Slovakia; and understand there is also one at Bremen, Germany. But there is another Roland statue here in <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Cheb</span> -- with Roland the Knight, very dignified, with his unbreakable sword, at the well-fountain. What is the connection of the Savage Man, also connected at the sites with Roland, and the Knight. <br />
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Since Roland is also the nephew of Charlemagne, or some sites merely say he fought for Charlemagne, we looked up dates and how the market Roland fits with the fighter. As Charlemagne's nephew (or officer) he fought and died -- killed by rebellious Basques at <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Roncesvalles</span> near the Pyrenees when he went to fight against the Moors, when they were taking over Spain. Charlemagne was emperor of Germany in 800 AD, and Germany was little more than wilderness at the time. Perhaps this savage man is closer to the reality than the later knight. If he were Roland, however, he would have his unbreakable sword, not this club. Is that so?<br />
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This site lays out a timeline: many of these statues went up in the 1300's or 1400's as a symbol of freedom and market rights, see the Bremen source at ://www.google.com/search?q=Roland+medieval+history&<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">hl</span>=en&<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">sa</span>=G&tbs=<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">tl</span>:1,<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">tll</span>:1404,<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">tlh</span>:1404&<span class="goog-spellcheck-word">prmd</span>=b&<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">ei</span>=s4cnTLX6BYX6lwfl8e3kDw&<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">ved</span>=0CD0QzQEwAw<br />
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Roland became a "pop icon" - a symbol of cities becoming independent of the nobility, see the general site at ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland/.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-84290081729559978762007-08-15T09:59:00.001-04:002009-10-01T21:27:24.955-04:00Cheb, The Sudetenland - The Castle. Renaissance stove.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOmzzyhwiwH22dWNL4LPVXyMF6TjL6IKBnui-MgY-c0qe8ZkZzjIvFd8y-WkuJ8p2QyOUoPr74y8TuQYL7bFsMWhyphenhyphenDs7e3dyJQ66OacUwiVo5zVB4Bkc5UHSPnItXK9KBH1VU5uZuTNCC5/s1600-h/chebcastlestov.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099220570073863394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOmzzyhwiwH22dWNL4LPVXyMF6TjL6IKBnui-MgY-c0qe8ZkZzjIvFd8y-WkuJ8p2QyOUoPr74y8TuQYL7bFsMWhyphenhyphenDs7e3dyJQ66OacUwiVo5zVB4Bkc5UHSPnItXK9KBH1VU5uZuTNCC5/s320/chebcastlestov.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
First, the creature comforts of a Renaissance stove, the ceramic wood-burning stove at Cheb Castle. Stoves like this are in homes, castles, anywhere that a relatively efficient heating system was needed. For many, there were ducts and outlets to chimneys for heating the entire place; and many such stoves. <br />
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For a look at the role of this kind of stove in theology, lite, see <a href="http://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/">Martin Luther's Stove</a> in Wittenberg.<br />
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There he mentored many fellow philosopher-theologians. Behind it, as in many such situations, there resided a third party mischief-maker.<br />
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Now that we are warmed up, what happened here.<br />
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This Romanesque fortress castle was originally built by the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa - Red Beard. See more of Barbarossa at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor. For the castle itself, see www.marianskelazne.cz/en/turistika-volny-cas/tips-for-trips/. Scroll down to Cheb. It dates from the 12th century, at a place of earlier Slavic settlements 10th-11th centuries. See www.mestocheb.cz/html/e_pamatky.htm. See also the Cheb-Sudetenland posts at <a href="http://www.petrginz.blogspot.com/">The Places of Petr Ginz</a>, from a boy's diary while living in Prague 1941-1942.<br />
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The old "Sachsen" area of Germany-area borders on the Bohemia of the old maps, and ethnic groups have lived on both sides - see the map of the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th Century at www.geocities.com/wenedyk/ib/hre_map.html. Watch European boundaries shift at historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/blathredex.htm.<br />
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The area came to unwanted prominence when Adolph Hitler visited and then took it over by annexation. The location is strategic for moving from the northwest into Bohemia. See Adolph Hitler annexed the Sudetenland in 1938, see www.spectacularslovakia.sk/ss2001/snp.html,<br />
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There is a fine chapel, and a large undercrypt-type space beneath. In some areas, the vast undercrypts of churches, with the huge supporting pillars, were used as bomb shelters.<br />
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Undercrypts were used for burials, places for valued items, special chapels. Some have a hole in the ceiling that brings in light, covered in a transparent material, if you look up, goes straight to a mosaic or other symbol or religious figure on the ceiling (way up there) of the main sanctuary.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-8092882571585293782007-08-13T10:59:00.000-04:002007-08-13T09:46:19.904-04:00Austerlitz , Slavkov- near Brno. The Three Generals<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWoGaffs8-aNC765RQUACCtpmRhL26pAfO9cDD4cgkisJ5nCvIv0S9D5o5YcoSkThf_z83WBphvZKQXBb3Yolcxr7EF6TxU8LF8r3EwR3fFVhfHpGWT4JEOWxLH2M8nJU-k3zc6Oz4qGgD/s1600-h/Austerlitz.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWoGaffs8-aNC765RQUACCtpmRhL26pAfO9cDD4cgkisJ5nCvIv0S9D5o5YcoSkThf_z83WBphvZKQXBb3Yolcxr7EF6TxU8LF8r3EwR3fFVhfHpGWT4JEOWxLH2M8nJU-k3zc6Oz4qGgD/s320/Austerlitz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096738248326677714" border="0" /></a>Austerlitz was pivotal in its day, 1805. See www.austerlitz.org/en/. Napoleon's victory against Russia and Austria. See www.napoleonguide.com/battle_austerlitz.htm<br /><br />To tackle this, stay in Brno (we didn't) and go to the Austerlitz area on its own. We drove right past Brno, expecting to find a focused battle area at Austerlitz, with plenty of accommodations and all well marked. Not so.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dTjLSFIL8ElDmr-5jc72ZpFAdNPM7yq-NGzjWKG2OKYVtBxJ7ujHmdfaPpaYLGhV2cg63TNdTVv-jYFWYOI_HDl-_CeDNcTR_t1QbzDDSpbVWRj9iZln2sMp9i3rlPvTrBEJxZYyLCDz/s1600-h/Auster3gens.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dTjLSFIL8ElDmr-5jc72ZpFAdNPM7yq-NGzjWKG2OKYVtBxJ7ujHmdfaPpaYLGhV2cg63TNdTVv-jYFWYOI_HDl-_CeDNcTR_t1QbzDDSpbVWRj9iZln2sMp9i3rlPvTrBEJxZYyLCDz/s320/Auster3gens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096738123772626114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwpd7U7XyqpatGoi89F4rJV898v4uFaPaum4WDSA3nfXCkD0Z0ZDSyMbCnv4OJBeH4lcGuF0OhQGxGFLk8O0ae8ptCCbO1CP0FVa0WZHSDD8gGIrpsFs1mJGBc9BWH2KLJSrqIL7mlkICx/s1600-h/cardandict.jpg"><br /></a><br />There will be a small sign on the motorway showing a Napoleon symbol - that turns out to be near the tree where he watched the battle at dawn. No more. And then you are on your own to find where in the huge battle area, almost without bounds, there might be the monument we saw in the guidebook.<br /><br />To find it, we finally asked a pedestrian who then offered to show us because his house was on the way, so in he came. Lordy watching over little sparrows and us, it was fine and we all had fun. And got there. And then came back to get a place to stay. Also no problem.<br /><br />The monument was lovely at sunset, out in the country still, wide expanses of open space where battle and skirmish and blood and shouts took over at one time. Did all this effort and killing mean anything in the long run. It delayed the downfall of Napoleon to 1812, some seven years later. See www.sparknotes.com/history/european/napoleonic/section9.rhtml (that is a student exam-crib source - take a look).Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-90865104769323799962007-08-13T09:57:00.000-04:002007-08-17T11:21:07.159-04:00Plzen - Pilsen - The Great Synagogue, World War II, Marian Column<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinUGZX6YUtATAICUQmVChvODBJVcYfftor71O1g2nu67llfUeC-we29zlZ77mtThwP71u6alrwF0gkQBNbENbBMhbdMKcFl004X_1X13oLf3qROSW0OSmfwOEIkaye8zqG7nhrYsTMoZNq/s1600-h/plzplaguecol.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinUGZX6YUtATAICUQmVChvODBJVcYfftor71O1g2nu67llfUeC-we29zlZ77mtThwP71u6alrwF0gkQBNbENbBMhbdMKcFl004X_1X13oLf3qROSW0OSmfwOEIkaye8zqG7nhrYsTMoZNq/s320/plzplaguecol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099684817383855426" border="0" /></a>Plzen is more than the home of pilsner.<br /><br />Its square features a fine Marian or Plague Column, erected in the 1700's in gratitude for deliverance, or to ward of future infection. See www.zcu.cz/plzen/landm/plague-col.html<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g61f1mx40r3J2DW0YWmPdRh5_Zc70JOaoCdNdbcR1IL7-V4VSR71ffv3V4KzORmvb1E7RP1OzLbzSQY121p3d722P4OBoKiLu0BMk6c_gYEzy9xGmfs7nXBDjNFaGML1BZhY2wOQVCQ3/s1600-h/plzammem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g61f1mx40r3J2DW0YWmPdRh5_Zc70JOaoCdNdbcR1IL7-V4VSR71ffv3V4KzORmvb1E7RP1OzLbzSQY121p3d722P4OBoKiLu0BMk6c_gYEzy9xGmfs7nXBDjNFaGML1BZhY2wOQVCQ3/s320/plzammem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099681604748318002" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The American General George Patton liberated it with his tanks in World War II, and here is the memorial with the rare sentiment these days, "Thank you, America." Patton is buried at the Hamm Military Cemetery at Luxembourg. See <a href="http://www.luxembourgroadways.blogspot.com/">Luxembourg Road Ways</a>. Read about it, and the later soviet rewrite, at www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/05/09/heroes-welcome.php.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CGAQw4a89HX8D52g5n6JUxlo5vkBQaip3PivI4yHUBAzHzD0Fdwvwlo3ZyWK7cZBWhYCc9tcBdvPF9H07jgON7tlct0n7XJq-DhSbwXmDrPF1B5292yYMPzJPg8BtrOPQ6MKB6PaieZp/s1600-h/plzgrsys.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CGAQw4a89HX8D52g5n6JUxlo5vkBQaip3PivI4yHUBAzHzD0Fdwvwlo3ZyWK7cZBWhYCc9tcBdvPF9H07jgON7tlct0n7XJq-DhSbwXmDrPF1B5292yYMPzJPg8BtrOPQ6MKB6PaieZp/s320/plzgrsys.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098184252146091762" border="0" /></a><br />Jews have lived in the area of the Czech Republic for a thousand years, at about 2 1/2% of the population, until WWII. See www.bethor.org/articles/czechtorah2001.html.<br />Some 80,000 were killed in WWII's "final solution." See www.radio.cz/en/article/78537.<br /><br />The Great Synagogue in Plzen is third largest in the world, after Jerusalem and Budapest. Read about synagogues and see a full-length Plzen photo at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue. There is no congregation left there now.<br /><br />See <a href="http://www/petrginz.blogspot.com">Places of Petr Ginz </a>for more photographs and information posts on Pilsen - Plzen. He was a boy in Prague who kept a diary in 1941-1942, and the places he writes about are researched and photos offered also there.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591617710421183643.post-19423088942833009352007-08-13T09:54:00.001-04:002007-09-18T16:34:18.676-04:00Hradec Kralove - The Places of Petr Ginz - His mother's town<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwN0iDFfYcwvzEbAsbBbIh0CP2XPEzhtobdy5SjOXJp4r37MhToq2OIFlIOisV7vXKibX71bqVvBOtwBGB3EhlG5SRXAsWrHUXU1sytoPd3jndBXgRw2q-iJIXf8orq9D8PmPx4zIVejem/s1600-h/Hradecmarian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwN0iDFfYcwvzEbAsbBbIh0CP2XPEzhtobdy5SjOXJp4r37MhToq2OIFlIOisV7vXKibX71bqVvBOtwBGB3EhlG5SRXAsWrHUXU1sytoPd3jndBXgRw2q-iJIXf8orq9D8PmPx4zIVejem/s320/Hradecmarian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108975514544905570" border="0" /></a>Hradec Kralove was the home town of the mother of Petr Ginz. Please shift to the blog on <a href="http://www/petrginz.blogspot.com">Places of Petr Ginz </a>for more photographs and information posts on Hradec Kralove. Petr's mother (who was not Jewish) was from Hradec Kralove, and she visited there from Prague. Other relatives came to Prague to see the family, bringing special foods from the country.<br /><br />Do read "The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-42," the entries by this 12-14-year old child of a mixed Jewish-Aryan marriage during the occupation, and his art and other writing, now published in English after its discovery in 1993 and publication in Europe. It is edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, and translated by Elena Lappin, Atlantic Monthly Press NY 2007. Unlike Anne Frank, who was in hiding with limited things to do, Petr was out and in school, doing errands, watching family members taken away, and in direct experiential contact with everyday Nazi horrors.<br /><br />The panorama of his short life (he died in Auschwitz, as did Anne Frank) includes Prague, where he lived with his family during the occupation; and incudes references to Plzen, Hradec Kralove, the Sudetenland, then Terezin or Theresienstadt ghetto, where he was taken; and ultimately to Auschwitz - Osweicim, Poland, where he was killed.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0