Author Searches for Holocaust Family Who Wrote Letter Begging to be Saved

 “You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe … help us to follow our children … It is our last and only hope.”

The letter was sent in early August 1939, just a few weeks before World War II would erupt. The letter was sent from Vienna, Austria, by a Jewish man named Alfred Berger. The missive was a desperate plea to a complete stranger, an American who happened to share his last name.

“By pure chance I got your address and as our names are the same I hope that we belong to the same family of Moravia,” he wrote.

Sixty years later, the letter was found in a trunk in a California attic and eventually made its way to Faris Cassell, an investigative journalist who decided she needed to find out the end of the story.

As the situation in Europe grew more dangerous and untenable for the Jewish population, Alfred and his wife, Hedwig, had figured out a way to get their grown children out of the country, through a connection with their son-in-law’s aunt. But the parents would be left in a situation that was growing more dire by the day.

“The only possibility to join our children, the dearest we have in this world, is the way to America and I beg you instantly to send us/for me and my wife/an affidavit.”

Did the parents escape and join their children? What happened? Cassell launched an investigation that would last over a decade and take her to Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic and Israel, poring through letters and family records, and exploring archive offices.

“The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help” by Cassell (Regnery History, out now) tells the true story of this desperate escape attempt.

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ADL's "Sly Fox" Says "Trump is bad for America and bad for the Jews"

Just when you think that dumb Jews go low in pandering and apologising to vicious ant-Semites, we found one that can go even lower.

 Abraham "kapo" Foxman , who tuchis lekks, enemies of the Jewish people, and who supposedly retired from the ADL and  left a self-hating Jew as his replacement as national director, wrote the nauseating column below in The Times of Israel. 

Remember: It was Jews like Foxman that headed the Judenrat that helped Nazis lead their fellow brothers and sisters into the flaming ovens of auschwitz. It was Jews like "Fake Fox" that endorsed the genocidal Stalin until his death.. 

We don't have enough anti-semites to disparage and hurt us, we need a fellow prominent Jew to stab us in the heart... Instead of thanking the best friend the Jews ever had in the White House, this "Fake Fox" blames Trump for the hate in the USA, totally ignoring the hateful rhetoric of AOC, Ilhan Omar and Tlaib.  

Read his exaggerated lies and weep:

Nothing pains me more than to speak up with anguish in the face of this presidential election. But silence is not an option. American Jewry confronts a fateful choice. Another four years of Donald Trump will be nothing less than a body blow for our country and our community.

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Breslovers Remove Ukrainian Social Distancing Gates In Uman .....

 

Following the violence at the Kever of Reb Nachman of Breslov in Uman earlier this week, two Israelis were expelled from Ukraine.

Deputy Minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Herashchenko said, “The national police and the immigration authority have decided to expel two Israelis who were acting aggressively and incited violence. If actions such as these, that are akin to hooligan actions, are perpetrated by other foreign citizens, they too will be expelled from the country.”

The Minister posted to social media and said, “Pilgrims, please remember that you are guests in Ukraine. Ukrainians are a tolerant people but we will not tolerate rude and uncivil behavior and violence on your part.”

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Chareidim Themselves Were the Ones Behind The "Train Inspector' Who Banned Chareidim From The Train

On Thursday morning, a train inspector at the Bat Yam train station ordered a Chareidi couple not to board the train. “Chareidim don’t board,’ he shouted.

Secular bystanders intervened, telling the couple to board the train anyway and started filming the scene while the inspector shouted at them not to record it.

The video was uploaded to social media, where it created quite a stir on Israeli media. Chareidi politicians slammed it as another display of anti-Chareidi sentiment and Transportation Minister Miri Regev ordered an immediate investigation into the matter.

But as it turned out, the “train inspector” was an imposter.

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Girl Finally Get a Date ... Now She is Rejecting Him Because He Put His Hat in the Back Seat

 

Question: How many people suffered from Covi-19 in the last 6 months? How many unfortunately died? How many people went through personal problems. whether it be health, parnassah, shalom bayis, or losing children through tragedyjust in the last 6 months? 

Just this morning we read about the young bride who died right after her chuppah, who never got the chance to dance at her own wedding..whose husband is sitting shiva during the week that would have been sheva brachos.

Yet this spoiled brat, fresh out of the money guzzling seminary, is about to reject her 'basherta" because he wasn't wearing his hat.

What are we teaching our girls....? 

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Biden Writes .... Hit Single "The Thing"

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Arabs Beating the Hell Out of Each Other On Bet Shemesh Construction Site

 

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Bride Dies 9 days After Collapsing at Her Wedding

 

 The 34-year old kallah, Shirli Arielli,that collapsed at her own wedding immediately after the chupa in southern Israel nine days ago, has died, the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba said Wednesday.

Shirli,  a doctor, suffered a cardiac incident during the event.

Her husband and many of the gusts were also doctors. They tried to resuscitate her after she collapsed.

She was rushed to Soroka Medical Center where she had been employed, and had been in critical condition for the last 9 days, but doctors were unable to save her.

“We took her to Soroka hospital, seeing a young woman wearing a wedding dress in that condition is one of the worst things I have ever seen in my time as a Magen David Adom volunteer,” one of the medics who treated her told Channel 13.

She will be buried Thursday in the southern city of Ashkelon.

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The Power of One ......What One Rabbi Did For Utah ......

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Dramatic Moment Four Firefighters Chased Down Brute on a Bike After He Punches Woman on Brooklyn Street

New York City firefighters chased down a man who randomly punched a woman in the face on a sidewalk as he rode past her on his bicycle just a few feet away from a fire station, according to newly surfaced video.

The incident, which was caught on surveillance footage, took place at around 5pm in front of the FDNY’s 214/Ladder 111 fire station on August 26.

A 60-year-old woman in a blue shirt was walking down Hancock Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn when a man approached while riding a bicycle from the opposite direction.

The man swerves onto the sidewalk and lands a punch to the woman’s face, knocking her backwards to the pavement.

Seconds later, four firefighters emerge from the fire station and are seen giving chase.

The man on the bike turns left at the corner of Hancock and Lewis Avenue before he is caught by the four men.

The firefighters wrestle him to the ground and pin him down until police arrive. He was then taken into custody.

As firefighters surrounded the suspect, he allegedly punched a 29-year-old fireman in the eye, causing bruising and swelling. 

The woman suffered a cut mouth, but police said she declined medical attention at the scene, according to WCBS-TV. 

The New York Police Department identified the suspect as Daniel Biggs, 53.

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Jessica Krug the Jewish Professor That Faked Being Black Endorsed Murder of 15-year-old as a 'revolutionary moment' because 'he wanted to be a cop'

 

Race faker Jessica Krug was applauded at a university conference when she hailed the murder of a 15-year-old boy hacked to death outside a New York bodega as a ‘revolutionary moment’ because he wanted to be a cop, DailyMail.com can reveal. 

Lesandro ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz was chased through the Bronx and butchered with machetes by a Dominican street gang who mistook him for someone else in a notorious 2018 killing.

But speaking on a Columbia University panel, Krug dismissed Guzman-Feliz, a member of the NYPD’s Explorers youth program, as a ‘collaborator’ who worked against his own community and was targeted because ‘snitches get stitches’. 

‘It’s so much more difficult to understand what kind of freedom we could achieve by being willing to confront those who are working against the interests of the community,’ she said, going unchallenged as she appeared to endorse the grisly murder. 

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Salmon May Harbor Infectious Coronavirus For a Week

 Coronavirus lingering on chilled salmon may be infectious for more than a week, according to researchers in China, where imported fish have been investigated as a potential source of infections.

Researchers at the South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Guangzhou found SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, collected from salmon samples could survive for eight days at 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s roughly the temperature at which the fish are transported. The research was released Sunday in a report ahead of publication and peer review.

Read more at NEWSMAX.

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'Kamala Harris’s crazy comment about the "rapist" Jacob Blake'

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Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize following Israel-UAE accord

President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report.

Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination, Fox News reported.

“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde, told Fox News.

In his letter to the Nobel Committee, Tybring-Gjedde wrote that the Trump administration has played a key role in the establishment of relations between the two nations.

“As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the UAE, this agreement could be a game-changer that will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity,” he wrote, Fox News reported.

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Huge Pre-State of Israel Photo Collection Gets New Life With Third-Generation Owner

Rudy & Miriam Weissenstein 

A deep appreciation for a photographic collection recounting Israel’s early years pushed Ben Peter to try to restore The Photo House, his grandparents’ Tel Aviv storefront with an archive of some one million photos taken in pre-state Israel.

Now a costly relocation back to its original 1936 site, coupled with the coronavirus pandemic, have pushed this historic business to the edge, and Peter is looking for financial help to restore the family business.

“When I look at my grandfather’s collection, I think of a man who left his family in Europe and came to a place because of an idea and documented all things that interested him,” said Peter.

Photographer Rudy Weissenstein, Peter’s grandfather, captured thousands of personal moments with his camera — including a famous photo of his wife, Miriam Weissenstein, descending through the air in what resembles a seated yoga pose — and major events, such as the signing of the Israeli declaration of independence.

A photo of dancer and gym teacher Miriam Weissenstein, taken by her photographer husband Rudy Weissenstein, who owned Tel Aviv’s Photo House in Tel Aviv (Courtesy The Photo House)

“It’s amazing for me to… see all these people in their small moments, and not to erase this but to protect it as is,” said Peter.

Peter didn’t always think of his grandparents’ business that way.

His love and need for stronger ties with his maternal grandmother first brought Peter to the shop when he was 26 and emerging from the painful depths of a familial tragedy.

Peter’s father murdered his mother and then committed suicide. His grandmother was wracked with grief and anger but still running the store, hoping there would be a third generation to take over the business. His grandfather had died 11 years earlier.

Michal Weissenstein Peter, the second generation of The Photo House in Tel Aviv, who died tragically in 2006 (Courtesy The Photo House)

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Singing Happy Birthday could spread Covid-19 because the enunciation of Bs and Ps releases large droplets which may be infectious

Singing happy birthday may be good for timing how long to wash your hands, but a new study reveals it could also be spreading coronavirus infected droplets.

Aerosol researchers at Lund University, Sweden studied the amount of particles emitted when we sing, and the impact this has on the spread of Covid-19. 

To understand how many virus particles are emitted when we sing, researchers had 12 healthy singers and two people with Covid-19 sing into a funnel. 

The study shows that singing – particularly loud and consonant-rich singing found in songs like Happy Birthday – spreads a lot droplets into the surrounding air.

Researchers say if singers wear a face mask and venues practice social distancing and implement good ventilation, then the risk from singing can be reduced.

The NHS recommended people sing 'Happy Birthday' twice while washing hands as it was the perfect amount of time to ensure as many germs as possible are removed.

The idea for the study came off the back of a number of reports about the spread of Covid-19 in connection with choirs singing together, researchers explained.

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1,000 Americans Move to Florida EVERY DAY as They Abandon New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - with Home Sales doubling in Florida

Roughly 950 people move to Florida every day and the state has seen 'unprecedented demand' and an uptick in luxury home sales as people in northern states flee large cities amid the pandemic for more space and sunnier shores. 

The influx in new residents comes as the coronavirus shutdown led families to flee congested cities and seek short-term stays that turned into permanent moves.

The 2020 Miami Report released this summer states that an average of 950 people move to Florida every day and a majority come from high-taxed areas like New York, Boston, California and Chicago, according to the New York Times.

According to the Douglas Elliman August report, new contracts for single-family homes and condominiums doubled in July and continue to rise in five south and central west coast Florida counties. 

In Palm Beach County, new single-family and condo contracts are well above normal levels from a year ago, seeing a 268 percent increase in single-family contracts over $1million. 

For the first six months of 2020 80 percent of real estate transactions were residential transactions.

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My "Date" with History… and Hope

Scientists on a desert kibbutz coaxed fruit out of 2,000-year-old seeds found at Masada. It tastes like honey mixed with inspiration

“All things are mortal but the Jew,” Mark Twain once marveled. “What,” he wondered, “is the secret of his immortality?”

The answer, I’m happy to say, is sweeter than you think. And it is blossoming on Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava region, 40 minutes north of Eilat. Yes, the New York Times just broke the story of the children of Methuselah and Hannah, biblical date trees (that didn’t meet on JDate) with some impressive history and something to teach at this perilous time as a lead up to the Jewish New Year.

Times reporter Isabel Kershner has been to Ketura before and in her article on the budding solar industry in Israel back in 2012 dubbed me “Captain Sunshine.” Actually, she quoted Dr. Elaine Solowey calling me Captain Sunshine. “Anyone who beats the government bureaucracy is a superhero,” said Dr. Solowey, a renowned authority on desert agriculture. And since then I’ve been wearing a ring with a 2,000 year old coin minted in the temple in Jerusalem with an insignia of the sun, fighting the fossil fuel lobby and working with partners to achieve, finally, the redemptive 100% solar daytime goal for Eilat and the Arava.

Dr. Solowey, along with her partner in bringing ancient history alive, Dr. Sarah Sallon from Hadassah Hospital, are the heroes of the day. Or actually the millenium. Back in 2005, Dr. Sallon got hold of some ancient date seeds found at Masada, the last stand of the Jews against the conquering Romans. The seeds were from the Judean Palm, a variety that is extinct. Could they resurrect these ancient seeds in this, the Third Jewish Commonwealth?

A year after Theodor Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress, in Basel, Twain published “Concerning the Jews” in Harper’s Magazine. “The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone,” observed the essayist, but not the Jew. “All other forces pass, but he remains.”

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