Since 2010 the Tory government has overseen the lowest levels of housebuilding since the 1920s. The combination of weak supply, very high demand and collapsing wages has pushed house prices to their most unaffordable level ever.
The Tories are planning the biggest education funding cuts in decades.
An awful lot of people don't seem to have even noticed that the Tories have been privatising thousands of state owned schools, property and all, for free, into the hands of private sector pseudo-charities, many of which are owned by major Tory party donors (like Philip "Carpetright" Harris, Alan Lewis and John Nash).
cosying up to Rupert Murdoch ...).
Interesting to see if this is correct and how it will play out. One assumes the blogger would not put such a statement out without covering his back against a libel action.
So in short, vote Tory.
Finnegan's attempts to take us straight back to the 1970's with his tried and tested disastrous ideas that brought Britain to its knees will never succeed.
Why do you think that the Tories did not manage to balance the budget after the 2008/2009 crisis, while governments in e.g. Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden did?
You've bungled things. The Labour party was in power then. The conservative party has all but turned around the economy. While george Osborne was a doom monger, he certainly fixed the economy during his tenure as chancellor.
Empty mantras do not constitute a political argument.
Why do you think other governments did manage to make public finances sound while the Tories could not despite being in power since 2010?
The fellow does indeed seem trapped in a time warp.
Flares and tank tops all round.
Was Labour in power in Iceland?
"Gudrun Johnsen was on the special commission set up to learn lessons from Iceland's banking collapse.
"The banks were 10 times the GDP of Iceland; 20 times the state budget. They were too big to bail out.
"The stock market collapsed: 80% of the stock market was wiped out overnight. Shareholders were badly hurt. About every other business in Iceland became technically bankrupt.
"97% of the banking sector collapsed in a matter of three days, ..."
Was Labour in power in Ireland?
Was Labour in power in America or Europe?
With half a decade's hindsight, it is clear the crisis had multiple causes. The most obvious is the financiers themselves—especially the irrationally exuberant Anglo-Saxon sort, who claimed to have found a way to banish risk when in fact they had simply lost track of it. Central bankers and other regulators also bear blame, for it was they who tolerated this folly. The macroeconomic backdrop was important, too. The "Great Moderation"—years of low inflation and stable growth—fostered complacency and risk-taking. A "savings glut" in Asia pushed down global interest rates. Some research also implicates European banks, which borrowed greedily in American money markets before the crisis and used the funds to buy dodgy securities. All these factors came together to foster a surge of debt in what seemed to have become a less risky world."
The Labour party was indeed in power in the UK and New Labour's fascination with neoliberal economic orthodoxies has been exposed as a mistake. Labour is now learning from that mistake. The Tories are not, as the evidence amassed earlier demonstrates. Even so, Brown's government was able to stabilise the economy after the worst crash since 1929, a global - not a British - failure of financial markets and neoliberal orthodoxy. The recovery was choked off by Tory austerity and that remains a massive problem for the UK economy. Far from "saving" our economy, the Tories are wrecking it.
Now, get to grips with evidence and cut out the empty mantras.
In the words of Tony Benn, "Every generation must fight the same battles again and again and again. There is no final victory, and there is no final defeat..."


Economist Paul Krugman calls the House budget "fraudulent" and "pink slime", a nod to that other heinous product.
The poster-boy for soft-serve conservative economics, Republican congressman Paul Ryan, has issued up another fatty budget proposal that was summarily passed by the Republican controlled House on Friday. The budget, which slashes benefits for the poor and unemployed, while protecting some of the greatest economic injustices in our current tax code benefiting the wealthy, is all political. It's a bit of banner-waving for the "limited government" parrots in the GOP, and is likely to back-walk what limited economic progress we've made since the crash of 2008. In any case, it will never be passed in the Senate, and so we continue the dance of "who can lead worse".
The new Ryan budget, in the words of economist and writer Paul Krugman, are "fraudulent" and "pink slime" (though Krugman admits that pink slime has some nutritional value while Ryan's budget does not). The (now) House budget proposal depends on two very important truths, both of which are more fantasy than reality.
1) That by closing tax loopholes the government can save trillions of dollars in lost revenue. Those tax loopholes, which supposedly exist in multitudes within our Gordian Knot of present tax codes, will need to generate $700 billion a year in order for the House budget to hold water. That's a lot of loopholes. Unfortunately, Ryan's budget doesn't specifically name a single one. There are two reasons for this. Most of the largest tax loopholes (where the most federal revenue stands to be saved) are within the corporate tax code, a bit of corporate welfare that the budget wants to actually protect. The second is that if he started naming some actual loopholes, he'd have to provide all of them, and there aren't enough to generate an extra $700 billion a year. Lack of specificity is a political lubricant, and this is what makes his budget "fraudulent".
Truly, this budget is the harbinger of another round of staunchly partisan behavior on the part of an ideological right-wing party with no interest in maintaining the integrity of the democratic process. For that to happen, both sides of the aisle would need to be functioning honestly and with the best interest of the American people in mind. The hard-line Republican right, which has a stranglehold on the GOP party, is not doing that, and so we should not expect an ethical political process, either with concern to the present budget or much of anything else in the run-up to the election.


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By: Brittany Weiss
BATON ROUGE - A program offered to Entergy users is saving some customers a large chunk of change. The program, Entergy Solutions, is offered to Entergy customers at no additional charge.
Pat Thomas lives off Millerville Road and participated in the program in 2016. Since she says she's saved hundreds of dollars in electricity.
"I noticed within three months, I started paying attention," she said. "Everybody needs to save money."
Entergy Solutions is an energy efficiency program that helps residential or business customers lower their monthly bill at no additional cost to them. A vendor contracted through Entergy provides customers with cash incentives in the form of instant rebates. Those include sealing leaks in ductwork, sealing leaks in the house, and adding ceiling insulation. Customers like Thomas often see a quick return in the form of a lower monthly Entergy bill. From Apil 2016 to April 2018 Thomas' Entergy bill went down by about $70.
"That's a big difference, guys," she said.
The program began in 2014, and since then, Greg Guilbeau of Entergy says it's spent about $20 million on energy efficiency in residences and businesses. It also helps Entergy postpone major upgrades because it's lowering overall usage.
"Your house is more efficient, your business is more efficient, your bill goes down," said Guilbeau.
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Since 2014, customers have saved about 110 million kWh. The annual amount of kWh saved has grown by more than 70 percent during the first three years of the program. Entergy says that's equivalent to taking nearly 18,000 cars off the road for a year.
Entergy is authorized by the Public Service Commission to spend $7 million a year helping customers though Entergy Solutions. The program wrapped up in November 2017 and has since been searching for a new vendor to restart the program in 2018.
The funding for the program comes from the customers. About 50 cents is added to the monthly bill of a typical residential customer. A minimal amount that adds up for people to use.
"It's kind of a first come, first serve basis," said Guilbeau.
Eligibility is fairly wide open for Entergy Louisiana residential customers (rent or own). The customer must live in a single-family home or multi-family unit of four units or fewer that's at least one year old with electric air conditioning (central or window).
Right now, Entergy is searching for a new vendor to start the program. Applications are not currently available. Guilbeau says the program should start back up again in July.
To learn more about Entergy Solutions, click here.

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The amazing thing is that you can get all of that poorly written, rewritten, or spun content to rank in the search engines. You can get a handful to thousands or visitors a day (depending on which keywords you targeted and competition) to be directed to your site through search engines. The fatal flaw with this system is that the end users you care about coming to your website are visitors and not search engines.
After those visitors read a few sentences of your content, they are going to be driven right back to the search engine results page away from your website. Sure you might hook a few straggling visitors that don't realize your content is crap, but the majority of these visitors will never return to your website again, and they most definitely will not convert to a conversion.
I guess you could harass your visitors with CPM and popup ads, but really the amount of money you'd make from that is insignificant to what you could generate if you wrote for people to begin with. Plus in due time, Google is going to realize that you content is not worthy of visitors; as search engines refine their algorithms, they are going to be able to identify useless content that currently ranks by examining everything from the actual text on page to how many users instantly return back to the serps.
It is by no means easy to do this, and you still need to link, comment, and network to get your content recognized by others. Writing for people takes talent, but by doing so you'll see positive results.
Imagine yourself as a searcher looking for information about cutting the fat off of your web portfolio. The author need to engage you as a reader which can be done using humor, posing a question, or even taking an unusual stance on an issue. After this author has your interest, they need to inform you with details and examples about how to go about cleaning out the trash in your portfolio. If the content fails to be different and say anything new, then you might turn elsewhere or just never be directed there in the first place.
If you provide knowledgeable and useful content for your readers, your chances of a conversion are greatly improved. A conversion could be anything from getting first time visitors to return back to your website to having a user purchase a product you posted a review on. The conversion is a multiphase process. It starts off with getting visitors to a landing page and ends with your final goal, such as a sale or return visitor. If you are writing for the search engines, then visitors are never going to make it past the first step. The better content that you produce and push on user, the further you increase your chances of a conversion.
So take a look at the content you've been producing or have had produced for your sites. What are visitors reactions to this content? Are the majority of them bouncing away? Maybe that's not a bad thing. If visitors are exiting your site after one page view, it could mean you addressed the question they wanted answered. It could also mean that your product landing page needs work, thus they didn't proceed further down the path that leads to a sale. Look at visitor behavior, but look deeper than the basics – get into the mindset of your visitors and see your website as searchers do. If you do that, then you'll have an understanding of whether your site is satisfying the needs of your users, but more importantly you can see where change needs to be implemented, so that ultimately your websites serve people and not search engines.


The 2009 staging of Japan's Tokyo Game Show will be held from September 24 – 27 at Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. For me personally TGS 2009 will be all about the Playstation 3 as the new cheaper and more efficient PS3 slim might be on it's way to my room in a few weeks and I'll be looking forward to the upcoming games for Sony's platform. Cosplaying is always big at TGS as well and the cosplayers are expected to be out in full force.
TGS 2008 featured an impressive 1,768 booths supported by 209 exhibitors. A similar number of exhibitors and booths are expected in 2009 along with 180 thousand visitors over the 4 days of the expo. The theme this year is "Game wa, genki desu!" which means "Game, It's so energetic!"– to express the vitality and liveliness that overflows from the world of games!
Exhibitors will be split into various areas mainly the general area for console game manufacturers and studios like Sony, Microsoft, Konami, Sega, Capcom, Square Enix and Taito. Schools offering education related to video games and companies offering marketing, sales and other business solution will also be present.


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The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy (Oxford Handbooks)
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English | 2013 | ISBN: 0195397843, 9780195397840 | 599 Pages | PDF | 3.94 MB
The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this handbook takes a closer look at particular industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry. The volume offers an up-to-date account of key topics, discusses open questions, and provides guidance for future research. It offers a blend of theoretical and empirical works that are central to understanding the digital economy. The chapters are presented in four sections, corresponding with four broad themes: 1) infrastructure, standards, and platforms; 2) the transformation of selling, encompassing both the transformation of traditional selling and new, widespread application of tools such as auctions; 3) user-generated content; and 4) threats in the new digital environment. The first section covers infrastructure, standards, and various platform industries that rely heavily on recent developments in electronic data storage and transmission, including software, video games, payment systems, mobile telecommunications, and B2B commerce. The second section takes account of the reduced costs of online retailing that threatens offline retailers, widespread availability of information as it affects pricing and advertising, digital technology as it allows the widespread employment of novel price and non-price strategies (bundling, price discrimination), and auctions. The third section addresses the emergent phenomenon of user-generated content on the Internet, including the functioning of social networks and open source. The fourth section discusses threats arising from digitization and the Internet, namely digital piracy, privacy, and security concerns.
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The ship's cabin in Pasazerka (The Passenger), as envisioned by UBC Opera's creative team. The opera is part of a series of events at the University of British Columbia marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (photo from UBC Opera)
UBC Opera presents the Canadian première of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Pasazerka (The Passenger). Opening Jan. 30 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on the University of British Columbia campus, this will be the first time the work has been presented on any university stage in the world.
The Passenger opens on a luxury liner bound for Brazil. A newly married German woman, Lisa, who, earlier in life, had been an aufseherin, camp guard, at Auschwitz, thinks she recognizes a fellow passenger. The passenger is Martha, a Polish Auschwitz prisoner who was thought to have died at the camp. The effect that their meeting (either actual or imaginary – it's never made clear) has on the two women, and on Lisa's marriage to the German ambassador to Brazil, is the subject of this dramatic and powerful opera.
UBC Opera's production is being created from scratch. The opera has proven so popular no sets or costumes are available for rent; consequently, new sets are being constructed and, at this writing, the students were sewing together dozens of striped prison pajamas for the Auschwitz prisoners' chorus.
After receiving its world première in 2010 at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria, The Passenger has seen frequent performances in various German venues, a highly acclaimed production at the English National Opera in 2011 and, more recently, it has been performed successfully in the United States at the Houston Grand Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In spring of last year, it was performed at the new Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre, and it will be performed in Spain later this year.
The UBC production has received funding from various sources, including the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which promotes Polish culture around the world, and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, as well as Poland's Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When the president of UBC, Dr. Santa Ono, heard about the project, he committed further funding for the production. Other funding has come from UBC's dean of arts, Gage Averill, and the David Spencer Endowment Encouragement Fund. The production also has received support from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Temple Sholom and UBC Hillel House.
"In our time, antisemitism and neo-Nazism has become shockingly prevalent again. Even our own neighbour to the south has witnessed a growing social and political climate which has encouraged disrespect for other human beings and blatant racism," said Prof. Nancy Hermiston, head of the Voice and Opera divisions at UBC and the director of this production of The Passenger, in a recent interview with the Independent. "In my opinion," she said, "this has, in part, been released as a result of the behaviour and actions of President Trump. His attitude has given those elements of the world's population promoting discrimination, hatred, antisemitism and neo-Nazism, a sense that they have a licence to do so. Our opera highlights the consequences of this hatred and racism. Now is the time to remind ourselves of respect and tolerance for others and of our humanity. It is the exact time to remind ourselves of the horror of the systematic extermination of millions of innocent people. Genocides continue to plague our world. Have we learned nothing from the past?
"We can never forget the tragic deaths of those millions of innocent souls nor can we forget those who survived that crime against humanity," she said. "We cannot let another Holocaust occur."
The Passenger is sung in Polish, Russian, Czech, French, Yiddish, German and English, which offers a particular challenge to the young singers at UBC. Equally challenging for the singers, according to Hermiston, is the difficulty of dealing emotionally with the subject matter, which, in rehearsal, has led to periods of weeping and feelings of deep sorrow, both for the singers and "even for me," admitted Hermiston, "especially at the end, when the chorus of prisoners comes downstage and challenges the audience to 'never forget, never forget.'" (Hermiston has engaged a counseling team to help the singers through their own trauma as they reenact this emotional narrative.)
Performances of The Passenger are set for Jan. 30 and 31 and Feb. 1 at 7:30 pm, and Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available online at music.ubc.ca/opera-pasazerka-the-passenger.
The opera is part of a larger commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz that is being undertaken by UBC Opera; the UBC Modern European Studies program; the UBC department of Central, Eastern and Northern European studies; the UBC Witnessing Auschwitz International Seminar; and UBC Go Global. During a symposium that runs Jan. 27-30, there will be various symposia and exhibits, and school-outreach programs featuring local survivors and UBC professors and students, as well as the opera The Passenger.
Guest speakers for the symposium include Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Dr. Bozena Karwowska, Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Dr. Chris Friedrichs, Aleksander Laskowski, Dr. Richard Menkis, Dr. Dorota Glowacka, Dr. Rima Wilkes, Dr. Anja Nowak, Dr. Peter Suedfeld, Dr. Tricia Logan, Dr. Ilona Shulman Spaar, Janos Benisz, Amalia Boe-Fishman and David Ehrlich, among others. For more information, visit auschwitz75.arts.ubc.ca.
Graham Forst, PhD, taught literature and philosophy at Capilano University until his retirement and now teaches in the continuing education department at Simon Fraser University. From 1975 to 2010, he co-chaired the symposium committee of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
Format ImagePosted on January 17, 2020 January 15, 2020 Author Graham ForstCategories Performing ArtsTags Auschwitz, education, Holocaust, Nancy Hermiston, opera, theatre, UBC, UBC Opera, University of British ColumbiaLeave a comment on Opera urges "never forget"
Not long ago, not far away
This child's shoe and sock were found in January 1945 among thousands of others at Auschwitz-Birkenau, abandoned by the Nazis as the Red Army approached. (photo from Collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim, Poland. ©Musealia)
On display now at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, the exhibit Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away is the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition ever mounted in North America about Auschwitz. Dedicated to the victims of the death camp, the goal of this exhibit is to make sure no one ever forgets.
A study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany reported that 41% of Americans and 66% of millennials say they don't know about the Auschwitz death camp, where more than a million Jews and others, including Poles, Sinti and Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and others, were executed. And 22% of millennials say they haven't even heard of the Holocaust.
Artist Alfred Kantor's depiction of arrival in Auschwitz: "Throw away your baggage and run to the trucks." (photo from Gift of Alfred Kantor, Museum of Jewish Heritage, N.Y.)
"Seventy-three years ago, after the world saw the haunting pictures from Auschwitz, no one in their right mind wanted to be associated with the Nazis," Ron Lauder, founder and chair of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Committee and president of World Jewish Congress, said. "This exhibit reminds them, in the starkest ways, where antisemitism can ultimately lead and the world should never go there again. The title of this exhibit is so appropriate because this was not so long ago, and not so far away."
The exhibition consists of 20 galleries spanning three floors, and features more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs. They are on loan from more than 20 institutions and private collections around the world, as well as the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.
An audio guide given to each visitor upon entry details the items on display. Visitors will see hundreds of personal possessions, such as suitcases, eyeglasses, photos, shoes, socks and clothes that belonged to survivors and those murdered at the concentration camp. In one glass case, a child's shoe is on display with a sock neatly tucked inside. We are left to wonder, who put that sock in the shoe and were they expecting the child to shower and then retrieve it?
Determined to survive, and to have a head of hair again one day, Ruth Grunberger made this comb for herself in Auschwitz, using stolen scrap metal and wire. (photo from Collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Gift of Ruth Mermelstein, Yaffa Eliach Collection donated by the Centre for Holocaust Studies.)
Auschwitz was located 31 miles west of Krakow in the small southern Polish town Oswiecim, which dates back to the Middle Ages. Jews were a part of its society for centuries. Auschwitz-Birkenau was conceived and initially constructed to house 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war and slave labour, before it became a factory of death. The architect who designed the camp was Fritz Ertl, a native of Austria. Ultimately, some 1.1 million Jews and thousands of others were killed there. Many who arrived at Auschwitz were sent directly from the overcrowded, sealed, windowless boxcars to the gas chambers and crematoriums.
There are videos throughout the exhibit, including one of Hitler and a large adoring crowd. There's a concrete post that was a part of the fence at the Auschwitz camp, and a part of the original barrack for prisoners at the killing centre.
Margit (Manci) Rubenstein made this Star of David necklace from material taken from the lining of her shoes and shoelaces while imprisoned in Auschwitz (1944). (photo from Collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Gift of Sugar siblings in memory of Rosenfeld and Schwartz families.)
A German-made Model-2 boxcar, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz, sits outside the museum. In a video, survivors talk of the horrible conditions and stench inside those boxcars.
Viewers can see the operating table, test tubes and instruments used in medical experiments. There's a gas mask used by the SS and a model of a gas chamber door used in crematoria 2, 3, 4 and 5 – and testimonies from survivors of the camp. To show the striking contrast between the victims and the perpetrators, there are photos of Rudolf Hess at his nearby residence with his family enjoying the outdoors.
Nazi ideology and the roots of antisemitism are traced from the beginning, to understand what happened before the gas chambers were created. Discrimination and bigotry against Jews existed long before Hitler came into power, of course. In one room, there's an anti-Jewish proclamation issued in 1551 by Ferdinand I that was given to Hermann Göring for his birthday by German security chief Reinhard Heydrich. The proclamation required Jews to identify themselves with a yellow ring on their clothes. Heydrich noted that, 400 years later, the Nazis were completing Ferdinand's work.
In a video seen near the end of the exhibition, Holocaust survivors urge people to refrain from hate and to work for peace.
This exhibition was in Madrid before coming to New York. This important and moving must-see exhibition is both a reminder and a warning.
Alice Burdick Schweiger is a New York City-based freelance writer who has written for many national magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman's Day and The Grand Magazine. She specializes in writing about Broadway, entertainment, travel and health, and covers Broadway for the Jewish News. She is co-author of the 2004 book Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman, with Jennifer Berman and Laura Berman.
Located in the Museum of Jewish Heritage, at 36 Battery Place, entry to the exhibit Auschwitz: Not Long Ago is by timed tickets available at mjhnyc.org. An audio guide is included with admission, and tickets range from $10 to $25. Hours are Sunday to Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (last entry at 7 p.m.), and Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (last entry at 3 p.m.). The exhibit will be in New York until January 2020.
Format ImagePosted on June 14, 2019 June 12, 2019 Author Alice Burdick SchweigerCategories WorldTags Auschwitz, history, Holocaust, Nazis, Ron Lauder, Second World War
First edition Frank diary
Dr. Robert Krell and VHEC executive director Nina Krieger at the display case for Het Achterhuis, a first edition of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl. (photo by Shula Klinger)
In November 2017, the Jewish Independent published the story of a first edition of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, that had come to light in North Vancouver (jewishindependent.ca/retribution-and-restoration).
The edition had been purchased by bookbinder Richard Smart from an estate sale in Holland. The book was badly damaged. The front cover had come apart and the spine had broken away from the bound pages. Inside the binding, pieces of another book had been used to pad the spine. It was common practice at a time when paper was scarce, but, in this case, the paper fragments came with a message. Taken from a German volume, the original bookbinder had positioned the title of the book, Die Vergeltung, where it could easily be seen. Its meaning: retribution.
Smart planned to sell the book but not to a private collector. He wanted it to remain in the public eye and be kept within the Jewish community.
A few weeks after the article was published, I received an email from Dr. Robert Krell in Vancouver. A survivor himself, he is a founder of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. He wanted to know if the book was still for sale and could be purchased for the VHEC.
I passed Krell's message to Smart at the Old English Bindery, and a conversation began about its possible sale. Two weeks later, I drove Smart and Emilie Crewe, the bindery's administrator, to a meeting at Krell's home. Krell and his assistant, Joy Fai, welcomed us, and we talked over coffee.
Krell explained his position on the sale, talking about the book's precious legacy and his own feeling for history. It was deeply moving when he held the book for the first time and opened the cover to see the printed words in the spine.
For any lover of history, a volume like this can take a pretty firm hold on one's imagination. When the volume is a treasure of this kind, in the hands of a Dutch Holocaust survivor, and – just possibly – with its own, private message of solidarity for those who perished, the power of this moment is immeasurable.
It took a few minutes to finalize the administrative aspects of the sale. Krell gave me a moment alone with the book, then I put it back in the decorative box Smart had crafted, wished Anne goodnight and closed the lid.
Het Achterhuis is now on display at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The case is situated next to the classroom where all school students begin their tours. It is, said Krell, "a high-traffic area," so the children cannot fail to pass the book. And, while the centre's artifact-driven exhibits include many extraordinary items, he said, "the symbolism of Anne reaches far more children than we can."
Housed at the VHEC, the book will be a teaching tool. (photo by Shula Klinger)
Having said that, Krell added, "It's symbolic for all the wrong reasons. It's a lovely story of a bright girl who saw so much more than anyone else could, from that tiny room. The Dutch use this photo of a smiling adolescent girl as an example of Dutch resistance, but they have not yet apologized for what they did, the 100,000 Dutch Nazis."
Krell spoke of the many ties between Holland and Canada, describing liberation day on May 5, 1945, by Canadian troops. Even now, Holland celebrates this day with a gift of tulip bulbs to Ottawa.
Asked why the first edition should be housed here, at the VHEC, Krell said, "Why not? We have been teaching students since 1976. We have earned the right to have a precious book to show our students and loyal teachers."
Krell emphasized the educational role of the book – artifacts make history real for children, he said. And, "to continue our teaching, we have to use artifacts that survivors have left us. They are evidence of what happened and we have to show what they represent. A skipping rope, a toy, a tin cup, a utensil – that is the difference between life and death."
Even more importantly, he said, "we're in a phase of succession to the next generation, to carry the legacy of survivors. These include memories and warnings because we're facing incredible racism and antisemitism in the world today."
Contemplating the importance of remembering and teaching about the Holocaust, Krell offered a sombre analogy. At Auschwitz, he said, when prisoners were robbed of their last possessions, they were stockpiled in a spot they named "Canada," the land of plenty. "Canada was in Auschwitz," said Krell. "We must be careful not to bring Auschwitz back to Canada."
Shula Klinger is an author and journalist living in North Vancouver. Find out more at shulaklinger.com.
Format ImagePosted on June 7, 2019 June 5, 2019 Author Shula KlingerCategories BooksTags Anne Frank, Auschwitz, Die Vergeltung, Het Achterhuis, Holocaust, Richard Smart, Robert Krell, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, VHEC
Accountant in Seattle
Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor forgives former SS officer Oskar Gröning. (photo from TLNT Productions)
The Accountant of Auschwitz is more than the latest documentary to successfully convey the horrors of antisemitic genocide to an audience 75 years removed from those events. It exemplifies the emergence of a coterie of young filmmakers eager to tell the stories of the Holocaust to their peers and to future generations.
For Toronto director Matthew Shoychet and producer Ricki Gurwitz, the trial of nonagenarian SS officer Oskar Gröning in his Lower Saxony hometown in 2015 provided the entry point to explore an ambitious array of historical, legal and moral concerns. The approach they chose for their debut feature documentary, however, was as important as the facts and the message.
"The way we put it together with the editors, we knew we didn't want to play it chronologically," the 32-year-old Shoychet explained. "The film opens with fast-paced, happy music with animation, then right into the trial, then back. You're challenging the audience, but in a fresh, exciting way. You don't see many Holocaust films that are told that way."
The Accountant of Auschwitz screened at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival last fall and is part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, which opens March 23.
Shoychet's path to The Accountant of Auschwitz was unusual in that his family was not directly affected by the Holocaust. He was interested in films about the Holocaust, but he wasn't instilled with the kind of painful personal history that was (and still is) the catalyst for many filmmakers.
In 2013, Shoychet went on the March of the Living to Poland and Israel, where he received his first close-up exposure to the Final Solution and Holocaust education. A friend he made on that trip went to work for the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto, and that contact led to Shoychet directing the short film Anne Frank: 70 Years Later (2015), which screened at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the University of Warsaw.
Shoychet joined that year's March of the Living as a chaperone, where he met Bill Glied, a Serbian native who'd been deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944. When Glied remarked that he was going to Germany to testify at Gröning's trial, Shoychet and Gurwitz put a pitch together to the Government of Ontario, the Rogers Documentary Fund, CBC's Documentary Channel and a couple of private investors.
"It came together fast," said Shoychet, who arrived on the scene in Lüneburg, Germany, in the midst of the trial.
For Toronto director Matthew Shoychet, the trial of SS officer Oskar Gröning in 2015 provided the entry point to explore an ambitious array of historical, legal and moral concerns. (photo from TLNT Productions)
Gröning's job, as The Accountant of Auschwitz makes clear, wasn't loading Zyklon B into the gas chambers or machine-gunning Jews. Thanks to a change in German law, it is no longer necessary to prove that a Nazi pulled the trigger. His presence at the scene and involvement in crimes is sufficient to decide guilt.
"Oskar was on the ramp [when the trains arrived and where selections occurred], taking suitcases and calming chaos," Shoychet said. "But it was all part of the mass murder operation."
Among the issues that The Accountant of Auschwitz takes on is the purpose and value of trying a 94-year-old man for war crimes. The film makes a convincing argument on multiple grounds, beginning with the extent of the cover-up that took place in Germany after the war.
"Ninety-nine percent of the judges in West Germany from 1945 to 1967 were members of the Nazi party," Shoychet noted. "Hardcore believers. Of the 800,000 SS officers, 100,000 were investigated between 1945 and today, just over 6,000 were brought to trial and 124 received life sentences."
That paltry number minimizes the scale of the crimes and serves to bury the past. The film asserts that Gröning's confirmation under oath of his work at Auschwitz was a public and irrefutable rebuttal to Holocaust deniers and other antisemites.
"Even if you say he's too old – and even the survivors say they don't care if he goes to prison – for history's purposes, the fact that a Nazi perpetrator is sitting in a German courtroom with German judges, saying, 'Yes, these things happened, I was there,' that makes the trial worthwhile," Shoychet said.
A loquacious interview subject, even on the phone from Israel, where he had presented The Accountant of Auschwitz at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival a few months ago and was presently working on a project of the One Family Fund (he's a board member), Shoychet confided that the process of making his feature doc debut was one of learning as he went. For example, until he went to Germany, he had never heard of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who had been convicted of crimes at Sobibor yet consistently denied any involvement. Demjanjuk's tangled tale, which, among other things, raises the subject of putting an elderly man on trial, ended up being a 20-minute segment in the film.
The Accountant of Auschwitz is rife with revelations and messages, but one gets the sense in talking with Shoychet that his main goal was conveying his own experiences of discovery, discussion, inspiration and outrage – with respect to Nazis and survivors, as well as contemporary justice-seekers and neo-Nazis – to viewers his own age.
"There may not be an ISIS fighter who will be deterred by a 94-year-old Nazi being prosecuted," Shoychet allowed. "It's making the connection of the past to the present. Trying to take a younger person and put them in the shoes of the survivors."
Shoychet's affinity for provoking questions and debate among the audience bodes well for his next efforts behind the camera.
"I never actually thought I would make a documentary," he said with a trace of bemusement. "My passion is scripted narratives."
For tickets to The Accountant of Auschwitz and the film festival schedule, visit seattlejewishfilmfestival.org. For another perspective on the impact of Gröning's trial, see jewishindependent.ca/witnessing-her-history.
Michael Fox is a writer and film critic living in San Francisco.
Format ImagePosted on March 8, 2019 March 6, 2019 Author Michael FoxCategories TV & FilmTags Auschwitz, documentary, history, Holocaust, justice, Matthew Shoychet, Oskar Gröning, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, SJFF
Witnessing her history
In spring 2015, at Luneburg Regional Court in Germany, the trial of Oskar Groening, "the bookkeeper of Auschwitz," began. Nineteen-year-old Torontonian Jordana Lebowitz, a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, was among those who witnessed the proceedings. The young adult book To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a War Criminal Trial (Second Story Press, 2017), written with award-winning author Kathy Kacer, is about what Lebowitz experienced before, during and after the trial.
The book has different components and is not structured like a usual biography or historical account. It includes Lebowitz's recollections as told to Kacer, as well as selections from Lebowitz's blog, which the then-teen wrote for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto about the trial. Numerous Holocaust survivors, now living in Canada, speak about their experiences at Auschwitz. They also traveled to Germany for Groening's trial.
Lebowitz shares her concerns about going to Germany and readers learn how she made the trip come about. After almost every chapter, there are excerpts of Groening's testimony that Kacer has based on news articles and interviews, as there were no transcripts from the trial itself. These sections allow readers to know what Groening was thinking as his claims were being assessed by the court. Charged with being complicit in the deaths of more than 300,000 Jews, he was eventually found guilty.
Lebowitz epitomizes how individuals from my generation should act. Her main goal was to ensure that the experiences of Holocaust survivors would be recorded so that future generations would be able to access them, and learn from them. Her main purpose in going to the trial was to witness this history and make sure that future generations would know it, too.
Lebowitz had been to Auschwitz on a March of the Living trip. The program takes students from around the world to Poland and Israel, so they can see firsthand and learn about the Jewish communities that once existed in Europe and the tragedy of the Holocaust that wiped almost all of them out. It was on March of the Living that Lebowitz met Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm, with whom she became close friends. Bohm was imprisoned in Auschwitz for three months and testified in the trial against Groening.
As the bookkeeper at Auschwitz, Groening not only witnessed many Jews coming off the trains, but confiscated their possessions as they arrived. He was not tried for being a murderer, but for helping the Nazis murder Jews. The German government wanted Groening's trial to occur, as they wanted Nazis who were still living to be brought to justice, even if it was many decades later.
Lebowitz heard about the trial from Bohm, and then set to figure out how she could attend it. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre agreed to fund the trip if she would blog her experience in the courtroom for others to read and follow as the trial was taking place. She managed to convince her parents she could handle what she would face on the trip during the trial, and Thomas Walther, the prosecutor, helped Lebowitz find a place to stay in Germany and procured a pass to allow her into the courtroom.
To Look a Nazi in the Eye is powerful in part because it reveals the compassion Lebowitz initially felt for Groening, in his frailty, sitting in the courtroom each day. He recounted heartbreaking stories of what had transpired in the camp. But, while Lebowitz believed at the start of the trial that he was truly sorry for what he had done, Groening's stories began to change, and not for the better. He also said he was not guilty because he did not personally hurt or exterminate Jews.
As her daily accounts progress, there are humourous moments that balance out the horrific stories about Auschwitz. For example, purses and paper were not permitted in the courtroom. In order to blog, however, Lebowitz needed a notepad and pen. So, she snuck toilet paper and a pen that was hidden in a place the security guards would not find during a body search. Her persistence paid off, and Lebowitz managed to take notes each day. That her family and others read her blog posts gave her some assurance that she was succeeding in her mission of helping keep the history alive and relevant.
One part of To Look a Nazi in the Eye that is amazing is how Lebowitz interacts with the Holocaust survivors. Bohm, Bill Glied and Max Eisen were among the survivors who attended the trial and were brave enough to recount their experiences at Auschwitz. For them, and others, it was a duty to their family and themselves to ensure that some form of justice was achieved. At first, they seem pretty hesitant of a younger individual being at the trial, but later open up to Lebowitz more. Seeing a person from a younger generation advocating for this cause made them happy, in a sense.
Since returning to Canada, Lebowitz has remained involved in Holocaust remembrance. As the book's website notes, she "came to understand that, by witnessing history, she gained the knowledge and legitimacy to be able to stand in the footsteps of the survivors who went before her and pass their history, her history, on to the next generation."
Chloe Heuchert is a fifth-year history and political science student at Trinity Western University.
The following excerpt was published by CM: The Canadian Review of Materials and can be found, along with a review of To Look a Nazi in the Eye, at umanitoba.ca/cm/vol24/no2/tolookanaziintheeye.html:
"I wanted to leave," replied Groening again in a voice that had grown increasingly hoarse. "I asked for a transfer to the front."
Was it Jordana's imagination or was Groening faltering under the strain of the trial and the intense cross-examination? She hadn't noticed it before, but he looked decidedly weaker at this point in the proceedings than he had looked in the beginning. His face was haggard, his shoulders slumped, and his hands trembled.
Finally, Thomas [Walther] gathered his notes together and stood in the centre of the courtroom. "Behind me sit the survivors who are here to testify, along with their descendants," he said. "I ask you, Herr Groening, did you ever think when you were in Auschwitz that the Jewish prisoners might stay alive and eventually have their own children?"
Groening shook his head and closed his eyes. When he finally responded, his voice was faint. "No. Jews did not get out of Auschwitz alive."
Format ImagePosted on November 16, 2018 November 15, 2018 Author Chloe HeuchertCategories BooksTags antisemitism, Auschwitz, Holocaust, Jordana Lebowitz, justice, Kathy Kacer, Nazis, Oskar Groening
ROM's Evidence Room
Interior perspective of The Evidence Room, with models of an Auschwitz gas column and gas-tight hatch, plaster casts and a model of a gas-tight door. (photo by Fred Hunsberger, University of Waterloo School of Architecture)
Visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will see an obscene display among the collections of dinosaur fossils, Egyptian mummies and suits of armour – a scale model of a gas chamber of the kind used at Auschwitz, where more than one million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1945.
The Evidence Room exhibit, as it is named, consists of white plaster replicas of elements of the Nazi death camp murder machine, including the steel mesh columns through which pellets of Zyklon B insecticide were lowered to asphyxiate the prisoners locked inside the gas chambers. Similarly, it depicts the heavy door, which was bolted from the outside.
The exhibit features a reproduction of the original architectural drawings prepared by German architect, engineer and SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Bischoff, who served at Auschwitz as chief of the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS.
Visitors to ROM will note the meticulously planned airtight seal around the gas chamber's door to prevent toxic leaks, and the grill-covered peephole that allowed dignitaries to watch the prisoners die.
"To understand this room … we first have to acknowledge that it's related to the most murderous place," said the exhibit's creator, Robert Jan van Pelt, at a ROM Speaks lecture on June 27.
Van Pelt's grisly display is the first in a ROM series intended to engender discussion of contemporary issues. And the issue here is forensic architecture, a relatively new field that uses planning and design tools to understand human rights abuses, in this case genocide.
For van Pelt, a Dutch-born architect who teaches at the University of Waterloo, The Evidence Room represents the culmination of two decades of work.
Van Pelt served as an expert witness during a trial, in London in 2000, in which Holocaust-denier David Irving unsuccessfully sued Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt for libel after Lipstadt, in a book, called out the pseudo-historian's falsehoods. Irving famously quipped "No holes, no Holocaust."
Van Pelt testified that indeed there were apertures in the gas chambers' ceilings through which poison pellets were dropped. His testimony led to his 2002 book The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial.
The 592-page volume greatly impressed Alejandro Aravena, curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. The Chilean, who was awarded architecture's Pritzker Prize for his work transforming slums and making architecture a tool of justice and social change, commissioned van Pelt to create an exhibit explaining the workings of an Auschwitz gas chamber. A model was on display at last year's Venice Biennale.
In preparing for the current exhibit at ROM, van Pelt – together with colleagues Donald McKay, Anne Bordeleau and Sascha Hastings – wrote a supplementary book, The Evidence Room, published by the New Jewish Press in association with the University of Toronto's Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies.
"It is difficult to imagine the details of a gas chamber, where humans were locked in to die," says one Holocaust survivor quoted in van Pelt's new book. "One has to feel the double grates that protected the bucket filled with poison pellets from the desperate hands of the condemned, peer into the bucket, imagine the pellets melting away, the poison oozing out of them.
"I knew a good deal about the Auschwitz-Birkenau murder factory," says the survivor, "but the gas column really shocked me. Because of what I had read about people thinking they were going into a shower room, I had always imagined the gas being dispersed by sprinklers. Touching that construction had a profound effect on me – a new visceral recognition all these years later."
And what of the pristine white plaster van Pelt and his architecture students used to build the reproduction?
For me, it jarringly evoked a sense of peace and innocence. But, as well, it called to mind that those murdered in the gas chambers defecated and urinated as they died and that Sonderkommandos (a special unit of slave labourers who removed gassed corpses and hauled them to the crematoria) had to whitewash the gas chambers after each usage.
The Evidence Room is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum until Jan. 28, 2018.
Gil Zohar is a journalist based in Jerusalem.
Format ImagePosted on August 18, 2017 August 16, 2017 Author Gil ZoharCategories NationalTags Auschwitz, forensic architecture, genocide, Holocaust, in this case genocide., museums, Nazis, Robert Jan van Pelt
"We shall never forget"
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum (photo from auschwitz.org)
On July 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. He was accompanied by, among others, Nate Leipciger, a former prisoner of Auschwitz born in 1928 in Chorzów, who emigrated to Canada in 1948 and has visited the memorial on more than one March of the Living; Canadian Minister for Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion; and Rabbi Adam Scheier from Montreal, vice-president of the Council of Rabbis. The guests were welcomed by museum director Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, who told them about the history of the camp and the contemporary challenges of the memorial.
Trudeau laid a wreath and held a minute's silence in front of the Wall of Death in the courtyard of Block 11, where executions by shooting were held, as a commemoration of all victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
The guests visited the vast portion of the museum's exposition. They saw, among other places, Block 4, which was dedicated to the extermination of Jews and which contains German photographs documenting the arrival of the transport of Jews from Hungary, a model of gas chamber and crematorium II from Birkenau, Zyklon B canisters, as well as human hair taken from the murdered. There is also a display dedicated to the story of storage rooms for looted property which, in the jargon of the camp, were called "Kanada." In Block 5, the visiting delegation saw personal objects of victims that were found in these storage rooms after the liberation of the camp, such as shoes, suitcases, glasses, brushes and kitchen utensils. The delegation also visited the building of the first gas chamber and crematorium in Auschwitz I.
In the second part of the visit, Trudeau walked through the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. He walked along the rail ramp where the Germans conducted selection of the Jews, and also saw the ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium III, where the Jewish prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, was said. Candles were lit at the monument, commemorating all victims of the camp.
The prime minister also made an entry in the guest book of the museum. "Tolerance is never sufficient: humanity must learn to love our differences," wrote Trudeau. "Today, we bear witness to humanity's capacity for deliberate cruelty and evil. May we ever remember this painful truth about ourselves and may it strengthen our commitment to never again allow such darkness to prevail. We shall never forget. Nous nous souviendrons."
Format ImagePosted on July 15, 2016 July 13, 2016 Author Auschwitz Memorial and MuseumCategories WorldTags Auschwitz, Holocaust, Leipciger, Trudeau
From Israel to Poland
Dor Brown wrapped in the Israeli flag as he approaches Treblinka death camp. (photo from Dor Brown)
Israel's Journey to Poland – the equivalent of the Diaspora's March of the Living, but without the Israel portion – is organized by the Israel Education Ministry and funded mainly by the parents.
Every year in Israel, senior classes from high schools across the country have the option to travel to Poland on an organized tour of those terrible, yet important, Holocaust death camps. I chose to join my class and am now writing this from the bus on my way back from the Majdanek death camp. It's probably been one of the most difficult and emotional days of my life.
We were in Majdanek for a grisly four hours. Going into the "showers." The barracks. The room where the Nazis burned the dead bodies. At the end of the tour, we held a very touching ceremony near the mountain of the ashes. Yes, a literal mountain.
With my hand on my heart, this trip is a must for every Jew worldwide. Until you go to Poland and see firsthand these horrific sights, you really cannot fully understand the depth of the horrors and misery and death.
A snapshot. One hundred fifty students from my school crying their hearts out while looking at those terrible sights. Weeping while holding the Israeli flag. While crying out loud, we were all shouting together in our hearts and minds and with great pride: "Am Yisrael chai!"
Left to right: Dor Brown, Alex Katz and Oren Bizuener. (photo from Dor Brown)
Today, we were in Auschwitz I, the labor camp and concentration camp that is now a museum. It was very difficult and very moving. Piles of hair. Piles of discarded shoes. Piles of glasses. It was unbelievably difficult to look at. An experience we should all have, however tough, to really understand how low civilization stooped.
After Auschwitz, we boarded our buses to the Plaszow labor camp. What remains is basically a beautiful memorial site. Amon Goeth was the cruel, barbaric and sadistic commander of this camp. He was the one who famously shot Jews for fun and practice. And tortured them in terrible ways.
Wrapping up the tour, our guide shared a story about a certain Jewish prisoner.
One morning, a Nazi guard came to this prisoner and told him he must run to his bunk. The prisoner did as he was told. When he arrived, he was greeted by Goeth. His meagre belongings were strewn across his thin cot.
Goeth was hunkering over his stuff with a picture in his hands. The picture was of Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl. "Who is this!" Goeth barked.
"Theodor Herzl," replied the prisoner.
Goeth mocked, "The crazy Jew from Vienna who thinks there will be a Jewish country?!"
The prisoner was shaking with fear. He thought his death was near.
Goeth laughed and spat out, "The chances that it will happen are as slim as you becoming a cabinet member in that country's government, or an ambassador." With that, Goeth struck the man so hard that the poor prisoner blacked out.
Forty years later, that prisoner – Zvi Zimmerman – fulfilled Goeth's prophecy. During his life, he not only was ambassador to New Zealand and a Knesset member in four Israeli governments but was also a deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament.
Upon finishing his story, the guide – with tears in his eyes – shouted, "Am Yisrael chai!"
For the rest of the day, we were all Zvi Zimmerman.
The whole group at Auschwitz concentration camp under the infamous sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei," "Work Makes You Free." (photo from Dor Brown)
Our last day in Poland. We woke up at 6:30 a.m. and headed to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the death camps. The largest death camp the world has ever seen. And, hopefully, the last death camp the world will ever know.
We saw lots of difficult places and sights over the past week but this was the toughest. I can't describe the chills of dread going through my body as we entered the gate. The images of death running through my mind as I walked through the camp, the death place of my ancestors.
"Work Makes You Free." Indeed.
The camp is huge. And beautiful. The surrounding trees are tall and green. To think that those trees were the last sight that almost one million of our people ever saw. How dare the camp be so beautiful today.
At the end of the tour, we had a ceremony where we each had to read out loud the names of persons who died in the Holocaust. It was a sad and exhausting roll call.
As the ceremony wrapped up, with tears pouring down our cheeks like rain, with hearts and souls broken, we all shouted together our rallying cry of the week: "Am Yisrael chai!"
As Yigal Alon said: a country that doesn't know its past will have an uncertain present and future.
Dor Brown is the son of Bruce Brown, who immigrated to Israel more than 20 years ago from Canada. Dor and his family live in Rehovot. Dor is finishing high school this year, and will enter the Israel Defence Forces in October 2016.
Format ImagePosted on November 6, 2015 November 4, 2015 Author Dor BrownCategories Op-EdTags Auschwitz, Holocaust, Journey to Poland, Majdanek
The godliness of survival
As the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approached last month, discussion turned to the shrinking number of survivors. My father-in-law, Bill Gluck of Vancouver, was one of them, having been deported to Auschwitz from Hungary in 1944, a beautiful boy of 13 with piercing green eyes, a compact frame and a knockout grin. We mentally celebrated his life on that anniversary. But not 24 hours later, his ailing body gave out.
As we began to grieve my father-in-law's death, I became aware of the delicate dance between remembering Holocaust survivors for the individuals they were, and invoking their identity as survivors.
Esteemed psychoanalyst and child survivor of the Holocaust Anna Ornstein specializes in trauma. Yet even she bristles at being called a "survivor," telling the Washington Post on Jan. 23, "That's almost like another crime." She added, "We were reduced to a race…. This is my name, I had parents who raised me a certain way, and that was not washed away."
Mourners don't have the luxury of asking the departed how they wish to be remembered. In any case, we each carry our own points of salience with us when we remember.
At my father-in-law's funeral and shiva, Bill's nephew recalled dancing on his uncle's feet. My husband described the invisible love that had been all around him, like clean air. Bill's daughter reflected on the heartiness of autumn's last remaining leaves as she had helped make her father comfortable during his final weeks. And there were his fellow Holocaust survivors, coming to pay respects to a departed member of their own.
Before I met him some 20 years ago, my father-in-law had visited Vancouver schools, telling students his personal story of survival and freedom. For some of the audience, this was their first experience of learning about the Holocaust. One of these students later befriended a young man from Toronto when they studied together at Queen's University. That young Torontonian would, a few years later, become Bill's son-in-law.
My stepmom encountered Bill years before I met him, hearing him relay his personal account one evening at Vancouver's Jewish community centre. I, too, recall reading about Bill's journey in the pages of the Jewish Western Bulletin (now the Jewish Independent) before meeting his son, who I would go on to marry.
Survivors manage to touch so many, directly and indirectly. Yet, as each one is, my father-in-law was so much more than the sum of those harrowing experiences. Along with his wife, my beloved mother-in-law, Bill built a life of love out of the depths of inhumanity. He lavished a great deal of affection and nurturing on his family, and found his own moments of serenity and solitude as he took up distance sailing around the islands of British Columbia in his later years.
As the rabbi spoke about my father-in-law at the graveside service, he spoke of the godliness that surely ran through him. In young Bill's harrowing months at Auschwitz, he had found ways to help his fellow inmates. Perhaps most profoundly, Bill had also committed to memory details of instances of kindness amid the horror. Sometimes a certain German guard in the camps would help him – pulling him out of a work line to give him a less strenuous task, placing him on a bicycle during a long march, even giving him his gun to hold. These stories of goodness didn't die with Bill, for my father-in-law had taken pains to impress these anecdotes upon his children.
Perhaps the godliness of survival is also the godliness of looking for kindness wherever it happens to be, and instilling goodness in the everyday. Bill wanted life to be simple and good; he wanted to find kindness around him, and he hoped others did too.
Mira Sucharov is an associate professor of political science at Carleton University. She blogs at Haaretz and the Jewish Daily Forward. A version of this article was previously published in the Canadian Jewish News.
Posted on February 13, 2015 February 12, 2015 Author Mira SucharovCategories Op-EdTags Anna Ornstein, Auschwitz, Bill Gluck, Holocaust, survivors
A return to Auschwitz
Mordechai Ronen (Canada) is embraced by Ronald Lauder. (photo by Shahar Azran)
Fifteen Auschwitz survivors, aged 80-94, returned to the infamous camp – some for the first time – ahead of the 70th anniversary celebration of its liberation on Jan. 27. Joining the survivors on their visit was Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, who, along with the USC Shoah Foundation, organized the delegation of returning survivors from across the world.
"When I arrived in Poland, the tall trees made me immediately anxious. They reminded me of my arrival to Auschwitz – the same day my mother and little sister were gassed," said Johnny Pekats, 80, one of the American survivors who returned to the death camp for the first time. "For years, I refused to return to this horrible place, but I finally decided to come back with my son. I wanted to say Kaddish with him there. This is my first and last visit to Auschwitz and my message for the world is that it's not enough just to remember; we have to make sure that this never happens again."
More than 100 Auschwitz survivors from at least 19 countries traveled to Poland as part of the WJC delegation to participate in the ceremony.
"I deeply admire the courage of these survivors," said Lauder, who joined them at Auschwitz. "For some of them, this was the first time they returned to the place of their nightmares. Each survivor is a living testament to the triumph of good over evil, of life over death, and they are my heroes."
There was also a reception at a Krakow hotel for the survivors and other guests, at which film director and founding chair of the USC Shoah Foundation Steven Spielberg said, "Their testimonies give each survivor everlasting life and give all of us everlasting value. We need to be preserving places like Auschwitz so people can see for themselves how evil ideologies can become tangible acts of murder. My hope for tomorrow's commemoration is that the survivors will feel confident that we are renewing their call to remember. We will make sure the lessons of the past remain with us in the present so that we can now and forever find humanitarian ways to fight the inhumanity."
Format ImagePosted on February 6, 2015 February 5, 2015 Author World Jewish CongressCategories WorldTags Auschwitz, Holocaust, Johnny Pekats, Ronald S. Lauder, WJC, World Jewish Congress


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Article last updated on: Feb 07, 2019
OLED is an emerging display technology that enables beautiful and efficient displays and lighting panels. OLEDs are already being used in many mobile devices and TVs, and the next generation of these panels will be flexible and bendable.
Different kinds of flexibility
When we talk about flexible OLEDs, it's important to understand what that means exactly. A flexible OLED is based on a flexible substrate which can be either plastic, metal or flexible glass. The plastic and metal panels will be light, thin and very durable - in fact they will be virtually shatter-proof.
The first range of devices that use flexible OLED displays are not really flexible from the user perspective. The device maker bends the displays, or curves it - but the final user is not able to actually bend the device. Besides the beautiful designs, a flexible OLED has several advantages especially in mobile devices - the displays are lighter, thinner and more durable compared to glass based displays.
Second generation flexible OLED devices may indeed be flexible to the final user. Finally, when the technology is ready, we may see OLED panels that you can fold, bend or stretch. This may create all sorts of exciting designs that will enable large displays to be placed in a mobile device and only be opened when required.
Flexible OLED products
In October 2013, following many years of development and prototype demonstrations, both Samsung and LG Display finally started producing flexible AMOLED displays on plastic (polyimide) substrates. Both Korean companies are now mass producing such displays, which are being used in mobile phones and wearable devices - such as the Galaxy S7 Edge (shown below), the LG G Flex 2 and Apple's Watch.
Samsung Display is currently producing flexible OLEDs in two production lines, the 5.5-Gen A2 and the and the newer A3 6-Gen A3. Samsung is producing around 9 million flexible OLEDs per month - to satisfy demand for its mobile phones and wearables - and Samsung is working on expanding its capacity as demand soars and as Apple ordered around 100 million flexible OLED panels for its future iPhones.
LG Display currently produces plastic-based OLEDs in its Gen-4.5 fab, and is investing $900 million to build new production lines as it also aims to become a major flexible AMOLED producer.
The latest flexible OLED news:
Louis Vuitton demonstrates a handbag with two flexible OLED screens
Fashion house Louis Vuitton demonstrated a bag with two flexible OLED displays (calling it a "Canvas Display") at the company's "Cruise 2020" show in New York earlier this week:
This is not the first Louis Vuitton OLED design - in 2017 it launched the Tambour Horizon, an Android Wear smartwatch that featured a 1.4" 390x390 round AMOLED . In 2019 the device was updated with a smaller 1.3" display.
Read the full story Posted: May 11, 2019
Digitimes: RiTdisplay starts to produce OLED lighting panels
According to Digitimes, PMOLED display maker RiTdisplay has started to produce flexible OLED lighting panels, targeting the automotive, medical and consumer (home) applications.
For the automotive market, the RiTdisplay is apparently collaborating with Luminit, through its Taiwan-subsidiary Luminit Automotive Technology. RiTdisplay is holding 30% at LAT which is already starting to supply OLED lighting panels for automotive brake lights and started low-volume shipments in Q1 2019.
Read the full story Posted: Apr 30, 2019
Samsung delays the launch of the Galaxy Fold
Following the reports from early reviewers that the foldable screen in their Galaxy Fold devices broke down after a day or so, Samsung has decided to delay the release of its foldable smartphone.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung wants to "fully evaluate the feedback and run further internal tests". Samsung will announce a new release date int he coming weeks. Samsung did not fully disclose its initial findings and does not give a full explanation to what went wrong with these review units. Samsung did, however, state that "Initial findings from the inspection of reported issues on the display showed that they could be associated with impact on the top and bottom exposed areas of the hinge. There was also an instance where substances found inside the device affected the display performance."
Visionox demonstrates new foldable OLED prototypes
China-based OLED producer Visionox unveiled new foldable OLED prototypes at the China Information Technology Expo.
Visionox demonstrated inside and outside folding panels, 8.5-inch OLED that folds in two places and a larger 10.5-inch panel that folds in three places. Visionox says that its panels can be folded over 300,000 times.
OLED-Info's foldable, flexible, VR/AR, microdisplays, PMOLED, automotive and graphene OLED market reports updated to April 2019
Today we published new versions of our market reports - that cover the flexible, VR/AR, microdisplays, automotive, PMOLED and graphene OLED markets. OLED-Info provides comprehensive niche OLED market reports, and our reports cover everything you need to know about the niche market, and can be useful if you want to understand how the OLED industry works and what this technology can provide for your own industry. The reports are now updated to April 2019.
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The report package provides a good introduction to the flexible and foldable OLED market - present and future. It details both flexible displays and lighting technologies. Read more here!
Kyulux's CEO shares company updates at OLED Korea 2019
In June 2018 Kyulux and Wisechip unveiled a PMOLED display that uses Kyulux's Hyperfluorescence yellow emitter. Kyulux updated today that Wisechip is now ready to start producing the HF panel and is seeking customers.
Wisechip eventually settled on a large panel - 73.00 x 41.86 mm (2.7") with a resolution of 128x64. Wisechip says that the power consumption of its HF display is almost half of its regular fluorescent yellow PMOLED.
KAIST researchers develop a washable wearable solar-powered OLED device
Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed a self-powered wearable and washable OLED display device. The whole device is fabricated on textiles and the efficient OLED devices are driven by polymer solar modules.
Both the OLED device and the polymer solar panels are sensitive to moisture and oxygen, and regular OLED encapsulation will not protect such a device when washed. The researches designed a new washable encapsulation barrier using both ALD and spin coating. The device is flexible (curvature radius of 3 mm) and survived 20 washing cycles of 10 minutes each with little change in performance.
Read the full story Posted: Mar 28, 2019
CLSA updates on BOE's AMOLED production plans for 2019
Market analysts from CLSA say that in 2018 BOE shipped 2.7 million flexible OLED displays to Huawei, its main customer. These were produced at BOE's Chengdu B7 6-Gen OLED fab, which has reached yields of over 75% (DSCC estimates that BOE's yields are around 50%).
CLSA says that BOE will soon start ramping the second phase of its B7 line, and the company expects to ship 30-50 million AMOLED panels in 2019. CLSA says that this is a highly aggressive target - and they believe actual shipments will only be 12.9 million in 2019.
Samsung says its display earnings were lower than expected in Q1 2019
Samsung Electronics announced that it expects its first quarter earnings to be below market expectations - due to weakness in its display and memory businesses.
Samsung says that LCD prices have dropped more than expected and demand for its flexible OLED also declined. Analysts from Susquehanna Financial Group estimate that a weak smartphone market and a "dramatic" decline of Apple iPhone OLED orders caused Samsung Display's revenue to decline around 50% compared to Q4 2018.
Reports from China suggest excellent sales of Samsung's Galaxy S10
A report from China suggests that Samsung sold over 500,000 units of its new flagship Galaxy S10 smartphones in China in only 7 days. it tok 30 days to achieve the same number of sales for Samsung's GS9 smartphone in 2018. Within two weeks of its launch, the GS10 is sold out in Hong Kong.
Reviews on Samsung's GS10 has been very positive, and Samsung expects to sell 40-45 million units in 2019.


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Removing Customer Contacts
When people leave the institution and no longer want them to show up in the customer contact dropdown when creating an event, the customer contact will need to be marked as inactive.
Select People.
Navigate to the person you would like to inactivate.
You will see an Active checkbox on this page. This is the person record and not the customer contact record, so unchecking the Active box here will not remove the customer contact from the dropdown list.
In the Customer Contact Information box, click the name of the contact. If there are multiples due to the record being associated to multiple Customers, select the one you wish to inactivate.
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Thunder journal: OKC vs. Sacramento moves at different pace
by Maddie Lee
Published: Thu, December 12, 2019 1:04 AM Updated: Thu, December 12, 2019 1:22 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Marvin Bagley III made his first appearance Wednesday since the Kings season opener. De'Aaron Fox has been sidelined by a left ankle sprain for a month.
Between adjusting to the losses of speedy Fox and Bagley, and going through a coaching change from Dave Joerger to Luke Walton, Sacramento isn't the same pace-pushing team it was last season. In fact, entering play Wednesday, the Kings ranked last in the NBA in pace (97.98 possessions per 48 minutes), according to NBA.com.
Compare that to last season, when Sacramento finished ranked No. 2 in pace (105.19), behind only Atlanta, another team led by a young point guard.
"I think anytime there's a coaching change," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said, "a new coach comes in, there's always an adjustment to the way you're playing. I think what they're doing offensively is really taking advantage and utilizing the players and their skill sets. I think that (Buddy) Hield is getting really good quality looks. (Bogdan) Bogdanovic is getting really good, quality looks. (Nemanja) Bjelica is getting really good, quality looks. "And those are probably three of your better shooters on your team."
The Thunder playing style has also slowed since trading Russell Westbrook to Houston this summer. OKC went from ranking No. 5 in fast break points last season (18.2 per game) to last in the league (8.7) this year.
The Thunder has turned its offensive focus to ball movement. And with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seen as the point guard of the future, the Thunder likely won't be among the league's fastest teams anytime soon.
Gilgeous-Alexander knows he's not particularly quick from end to end. He shines with his change of speeds.
"I think he understands angles, and he can go from really slow speeds or no speed to a really good first step," Donovan said. "And I think when he gets angles, he's really long and he's got obviously a lot of English and things that he can do touch-wise around the basket, but it's more his ability to change direction and read angles."
Article: Thunder: Chris Paul has changed the way Shai Gilgeous-Alexander thinks about defense
Video: OKC Thunder - Chris Paul on win over Jazz (Game 23 of 82)
Bagley returns
Bagley came off the bench for the Kings on Wednesday, after missing 22 games with a broken right thumb.
Bagley wasn't on a strict minutes restriction, Walton said before the game, but the Kings staff planned to monitor his conditioning.
Walton said his message to Bagley would be, "Look, it's Game 1 back. He's going to be excited, the crowd's going to be excited, but let's focus on rejoining the group and getting to the level where the team is playing at and how we're playing. And then for him, going out there and having fun. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, don't let the moment get too bit. It's basketball, you've been out a long time, and go out tonight and just have fun playing in front of your home crowd."
Thunder forward Danilo Gallinari returned to the starting lineup, after missing one game with a left ankle sprain. … OKC wing Abdel Nader made his fourth-straight start, earning consecutive starts for the first time in his NBA career.
Maddie Lee, Staff writer
Coach Billy Donovan and the Oklahoma City Thunder hoped to reach the .500 mark with a win over Sacramento late Wednesday night. For coverage of the game, go to oklahoman.com. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]
Maddie Lee
Maddie Lee followed an NBA team from Seattle to Oklahoma City, she just took a 10-year detour in between. Lee joined the Oklahoman in October 2018 as a Thunder beat writer, fresh off a stint in Oxford, Miss., where she covered Ole Miss for the... Read more ›
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David now keeps a bottle in the car. Since Beerenberg turned their famous caramelised onions into a sauce, David reckons "life is complete". He pours it generously over every type of meat and now finds it impossible to walk past a sausage without indulging. "There's always room for quality," quips David as he tucks in.


Experience the beauty of Big Bear from a great vantage point – on horseback. You can saddle-up year-round for hourly, half-day, sunset and overnight rides and tours through National Forest areas. Your kids will also love the pony rides that are available. For some people, the western mountain experience would not be complete without horses.
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Margo Guryan – Take A Picture
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Margo Guryan's 1968 album "Take a Picture" completely remastered with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Beautiful digipak with 12-page full color booklet which includes lyrics and biographical info, as well as liner notes from current artists and journalists.
Routinely selling for huge sums of money on the vinyl market and making its way into the collections of pop fanatics as far afield as Japan, Take a Picture has taken on a dynamic life of its own since its 1968 release, especially for an album that went relatively unheard at the time. It is not difficult to figure out what all the retroactive acclaim is about once you hear the sweet, delicate strain of gently kaleidoscopic music on the sole album from Margo Guryan. It is the soft pop of which gauzy dreams are made, full of the hazy changes and transitory variations of autumn, an album that you invariably want to wrap up in.
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CalCom targets Californian farmers with new solar and storage fund
By Liam Stoker
Sep 27, 2019 3:32 PM BST
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Solar developer CalCom Energy has put forward a new US$100 million fund to help build solar and energy storage projects to benefit farming communities in California.
The Agriculture Energy Infrastructure Fund has been developed alongside Symbiont Energy and Live Oak Bank to help agriculture companies in the state build renewables projects over the next two years.
The fund will see companies enter into power purchase agreements with CalCom, with power originating from associated solar and storage developments.
CalCom said it estimates that the fund will deliver total savings of around US$250 million over the lifetime of the developed assets, and is intended to specifically target farms affected by recent wildfires in the state.
Dylan Dupre, president and CEO at CalCom, explained that farmers in California had been under "extreme pressure" in recent times, and the company would now be offering "very favorable financing options" for those who had not historically had access to clean energy.
"The Ag Energy Infrastructure Fund will also allow the company to expand our current project development work — and, for the first time, own the projects we're developing," the firm's chief commercial officer, David Williams, added.
CalCom has an established presence in the Golden State, having developed more than 200MW of clean energy projects.
California too is in the midst of a policy-inspired solar boom, with the state having set itself the goal of decarbonising its energy supply entirely by 2045.
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Many beginner aquarists, we wouldadvised to buy an aquarium with a capacity of 20-40 liters. Remember that the smaller the "house" for your future fish, the more difficult it is to take care of it, the more - so, accordingly, it is easier, but it is not necessary at first to pour an aquarium with a volume of 100-1500 liters and above, everything must be approached "wisely".
Visual inspection of the integrity of the aquarium. The fact is that many aquariums are 5 pieces of glass glued together by a special composition. Either way, over time, a leak may appear in the aquarium, which must be eliminated as quickly as possible.
Checking aquarium equipment. This includes checking the lighting (the lamps can burn out over time), the work of the air filter and compressor, temperature indicators and other things. - Checking the water quality. Over time, the water in the aquarium can become clouded. It can be connected with completely different factors - excessive abundance of food, excess algae, surplus soil and so on. One way or another you will need to understand the cause of the turbidity of water and eliminate it.
Feeding and monitoring the behavior of fish. Do not forget to feed your fish every day, preferably at the same time. Try not to tolerate malnutrition or surplus food in the aquarium. Just look at how the fish behave, whether you have sick or pregnant individuals. If it happened that one of the inhabitants of your aquarium "surfaced belly", then try to find out the cause of the incident and eliminate it.
Daily check the condition of other aquarium inhabitants - snails, shrimp, crayfish, algae, etc. Do not over-propagate.
Cleaning of aquarium equipment. You will need to disconnect the filter, compressor, heater and other devices from the power supply and clean them from seaweed, silt, fish products and other types of contaminants.
Cleaning the glass of the aquarium itself.
Using a siphon, clean the soil in your aquarium from all kinds of dirt.
To dilute greatly overgrown plants, remove old or damaged leaves from them.
Remove excess fish from the aquarium. If different types of fish, snails and other animals are constantly multiplying in your aquarium, soon they will simply not have enough space. Try not to let this happen.
Check for stiffness, salinity and otherwater indicators. If you start rare and too fastidious to the environment of the fish, then you will need to constantly maintain that environment, where they will live in the most comfortable way, so try to maintain it properly.
Well, probably, and all that you need to know aboutHow to take care of an aquarium. By observing these simple rules you will be able to provide your fish with a long and "happy" existence, we wish you success in your endeavors!


The Cambridge, Massachusetts start-up Editas Medicine, developing therapies based on new research in genome editing, gained $43 million in its first financing round. The funding was led by venture companies Flagship Ventures, Polaris Partners, and Third Rock Ventures, with participation from Partners Innovation Fund, the venture funding arm of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Editas Medicine develops therapies based on genome editing, the process of modifying the human genome to turn on or off any gene in the human body, particularly those causing disease. The company's scientific founders believe their genomic editing technologies make it possible to create therapies that address the root cause of a range of diseases.
– David Liu, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University.
Zhang, Church, and Doudna conduct research in genomics and invented some of the key technologies behind genome editing. Joung also studies genome editing and their translation into treatments for disease. Liu conducts research in protein evolution and biological engineering.
"Editas is optimizing and refining existing genome editing technology," says Zhang in a company statement, "to create a versatile platform for the development of potential human therapeutics." Among the genomic editing technologies developed by the founders are clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats or CRISPR that harnesses an associated protein called Cas9 to bind to specific RNA molecules. These RNA molecules then guide the Cas9 protein to the precise location in the genome needing repair. The repairs can deactivate a disease-causing gene, or slow the expression or alter the behavior of the gene.
Another genome-editing strategy at Editas Medicine is transcription activator-like effector nucleases or TALENs that introduce engineered restriction enzymes into cells to cut DNA strands at specific points in their sequence. These cuts, called double-strand breaks, can cause either further mutations or repair damaged sequences.
Editas Medicine's funders are providing most of the company's interim management. Kevin Bitterman, a principal at Polaris Partners, is serving as interim president, with Alexandra Glucksmann as chief operating officer, and Lou Tartaglia, a partner at Third Rock Ventures, as chief scientific officer. The rest of the Editas Medicine board is represented by partners from Third Rock, Flagship, and Polaris.


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