By Dr. Mária Schmidt, AMERICAN CENTRE FOR DEMOCRACY
George Soros, his global Open Society Foundations and the hundreds of other organizations also funded by him are noisily and sometimes violently demonstrating against policies and governments who fail to accede to his agenda. There are lawsuits and Congressional investigations into his activities in the United States. In Hungary, the government is passing new laws to curtail his foundations and his Central European University’s operations.
To balance Soros’s version of what’s taking place in Hungary, read excerpts* from an article written by Dr. Mária Schmidt, the director general of the House of Terror Museum, and the XXI Century Institute, in Budapest:
“When George Soros appeared in Hungary in 1984, the Soviet rule still appeared solid and indestructible. Six years later, in 1990, when the Communists were toppled by God’s grace, Soros had already recruited a broad circle of supporters and proposed to take over Hungary’s complete sovereign debt and, in exchange, asked for Hungary’s industry, that is, the bulk of the country’s national wealth. His offer was turned down by József Antall, our first, democratically elected prime minister.
The pundits, who had by that time been promoted to positions of moral authority by Soros, launched a sweeping media campaign urging the government to repay the substantial debt accumulated by the communists and not even think of requesting a debt waiver or even rescheduling. Meanwhile, keeping debt servicing in mind, those same pundits wanted and urged Hungary to be the only country in the region where no re-privatisation took place. That is, they opposed the idea of returning nationalized property to the original owners. Instead, they favored privatization, a process already launched by communist comrades. That position created a common ground for the former democratic opposition, i.e. SZDSZ and those former comrades who had been the beneficiaries of wild privatization. This is how the fullest and fastest privatization possible became one of the main demands of the post-communist camp. It is an established fact by now that privatization in this wild form, just as in its later incarnations, meant the bargain sale of public wealth.
It was during Péter Boross’ tenure as prime minister that George Soros made an attempt at a bargain buy-off of OTP, Hungary’s largest retail bank. His plans were foiled first by Boross and then by Gyula Horn, his Socialist successor. For when the new government took over, Soros made another bid at getting hold of OTP at a spectacularly low price, and this time he was strongly supported by SZDSZ, which was part of the government coalition. Prime Minister Gyula Horn didn’t let him have his way.
The Hungarian Test
It was in Hungary that Soros tested the kinds of organizations that were worthy of being funded as well as the type of network he had to set up to push his interests as effectively as possible. He soon realized that people committed to the national cause, the likes of Antall or Boross, i.e. the MDF or again the patriotic wing of the Socialist Party as well as Fidesz – after it showed for the first time its opposition to the Democratic Charter – would always hinder his endeavors. He, therefore, built and broadened his network, drawing on opinion-making groups. The latter accepted the opportunities offered to them by Soros – some inadvertently, a few consciously, and many hoping for quick and tangible advantages. Another way to put it would be to say that Soros bought off segments of the intelligentsia – liberal intellectuals, first and foremost, but not only them. Soros grantees occupied important, and even, dominant positions in Hungary’s cultural life as well as in the humanities. They used their media dominance to become for decades the ones who call the shots in determining the canon.
Setting deceptive and seemingly innocent goals like equal opportunities, Roma programs, hospital equipment and, above all, human rights, Soros attracted a great number of people to his orbit. Soros’ activists transformed human rights into a flexible notion that can arbitrarily be expanded and applied to all kinds of situations. Nowadays, his people concentrate on the human rights of migrants, but recently some of them would extend those rights to animals as well. All this only partially masks, if at all, the fact that through his network, Soros intends to directly advance his political goals, which yield him everywhere and at all times business profits that can be converted into money – a lot of money.
It also took a great deal of coordinated effort to build his popularity, that at the sound of Soros’s name, today’s young generation think of a selfless philanthropist fighting for noble causes rather than the currency speculator who tried to ruin and then acquire France’s largest bank in 1988 and crushed the pound sterling in 1992. In addition to the superb gains he made, that latter operation also made him a kind of celebrity – a status he enjoys brandishing. In 1998, he also knocked out the ruble, causing significant collateral damage to Hungary’s economy. In an open letter published by The Financial Times, he argued that the Russian economy was overvalued and was nearly bankrupt; Thus the national currency should be devalued by at least 15 to 20 percent. As a result, the ruble crumbled and lost 61 percent of its value, while Russia became insolvent. Millions of Russians lost their retirement pensions and of course their savings as well, similarly to what had happened half a decade earlier in Great Britain.
Anyone curious about why the activity of Soros himself and the organizations funded by him have become unbearable in Russia, this is where the roots are to be found. However, one year before, he launched a speculative attack on Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan as well. Malaysia’s president called Soros a criminal who destroyed what Malaysians had built for forty years. “When I make money, I do it without considering the social consequences,” he explained in a fully philanthropic way. Oh yes, since we are talking about Soros, the philanthropist, who apparently feels especially committed to us Hungarians, it is not irrelevant to recall that in 2008, in the gravest hours of the financial crunch, Soros and his associates launched a hostile takeover attack against the forint and OTP. These attempts were repelled, and the Financial Supervision Authority imposed a record half-a-billion forint fine on Soros’s company, which he easily paid of course.
We should never forget however what we can expect from him and who he really is: a speculator, who ruthlessly represents the interests of a specific group of global business and financial circles, playing on a thousand instruments and shrinking from no obstacles.
Quite naturally, the “authoritative” press sponsored by him presents Soros as a friend of mankind, a philanthropist.
But what kind of philanthropist is a serial ruiner of European and Asian currencies, who wiped out the savings, retirement pensions and salaries of masses of ordinary citizens in order to reap huge profits for himself? His wealth is charted in offshore tax havens in the Cayman Islands, and the Dutch Antilles. In other terms, the main bulwark of left-wing foundations that are so deeply worried about poor people is a tax evader. In our region, at the price of investing relatively small amounts, he acquired huge influence, the dimensions of which he himself characterized by saying that he had managed to transform the Soviet empire into a Soros empire.
Skyfall
Soros reminds me of Silva, the wicked but hugely smart, leading character in the 23rd James Bond movie
Skyfall. Played by Javier Bardem, Silva’s obsession and mission are to grab world power. Soros is led by a similar obsession. As he put it himself, he is driven by “some rather potent messianic fantasies” in trying to implement the kind of global world order, the kind of global society that runs a global economic order. All this sounds very familiar to us. Yes, we have lost almost half a century thanks to a similarly utopian redemption project that was imposed upon us by similarly messianic people.
Soros thinks he has enough money not to be bound by any rules and also to change the ones he doesn’t like. “I am interested in change,” he said. He also proudly declares: “I like subversive actions and often resort to them as well.” And he is perfectly right in saying so. It is clear to everyone that the people behind the color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia were those of Soros’ NGOs and network, but he also contributed to Yanukovich’s fall and the Arab Spring.
He has also intended and continues to intend to topple Orbán and of course Trump as well. The methods are always the same. He buys influence in the world of the intelligentsia, among opinion makers in academia and the financial world, as well as in the media. He builds and takes over political parties, NGOs. He organizes them into a network and uses them as covers. He creates chaos and apprehension. He weakens incumbent powers by all available means. He cries electoral fraud if necessary, economic hardships whenever possible or finds some other pretext. He has large demonstrations organized, or if they are organized by others, his people join them immediately and take over the lead. Through Facebook, Twitter and mobile phones, huge masses can be mobilized, making his job easier than it used to be. He has been educating and raising his activist network and his media for 25 years now and uses them to take those demonstrations as starting points in order to try and destabilize the system. He provokes disturbances with his radical street fighters to create chaos. It is also important in this project to create the impression that the incumbent powers are about to surrender or have already been overthrown and have lost control of the situation. What is at least equally important is the message that the demonstrators are not alone. They have the whole society and even the entire world behind them. Especially the most “advanced” and the most “authoritative part.” They think and act just like you because you and your ilk are on the good side of history and represent progress.
In our country, such arguments only have an impact on the young. We, the older generation, have become too thoroughly acquainted with “progressives” and those who preach about historical necessity. Once they produce fratricidal wars, religious wars, border clashes, economic crises, financial collapse and disorder, Soros appears in the role of the one person who can restore order. He distributes aid, bandages, medicine while telling people what to do. He invests(!), buys property, stabilizes and, most importantly, opens an opportunity for a new political team of the kind that follows the noble goals of “open society,” one that plays from Soros’s music. Those are the times when he’s really in his element. As he put it himself, “the world very much needs to have a conscience, and I want my foundation network to be the conscience of the world.”
Destabilizing Europe, disintegrating the European Union is a tough challenge for him, but that is precisely what is on the agenda. In the wake of the financial crunch of 2008, economic and financial growth came to a halt and, as a result, a sense of insecurity became pervasive. The European political elite has been showing signs of fatigue.
All this in itself was hard enough to bear, but the migration crisis supported by Soros and organized by his network is a real test of the breaking point. Understanding the recipe described above, it is not at all difficult to detect what Soros’ goal must be: split the European Union by maintaining and increasing migration; destabilize Western Europe by flooding it with masses of Muslim migrants whose integration is impossible while drying out the eastern half of the continent financially…
Fortunately, however, Soros and his activists are not the only players in the field. Those who are not seduced by progressive and redemptive siren-songs know perfectly well that the slogans of democracy, checks, and balances, human rights, free speech and freedom of education when pronounced by them are worth exactly as much as they were when uttered by our communist rulers. Nothing.
They are phony and hypocritical. They don’t tolerate debate, open speech or arguments. I feel sorry for left-wingers. They invested all their remaining heritage into their marriage to Soros. They abandoned the desires and the aspirations of the ordinary people and gave up representing and protecting their interests. What they got in exchange from Soros is just money, nothing else. Money is never there in sufficient quantity, and there are always more people who want to share it. And once it runs out, they will be left with nothing- including their self-respect.
Fidesz’s victory in 2010 erected unexpected obstacles to the previously unhindered expansion of the Soros Empire.
The headwind blowing in Hungary is of particular importance because as I have mentioned above, this is where Soros’ philanthropist operation was originally launched, and this is where it runs the school – CEU – that provides it with a fresh supply of human resources. Once CEU is compelled to abide by the same laws that apply to the other universities, people will get the message that George Soros is, after all, not omnipotent nor invulnerable. That news is as great for us as it is intolerable for him and his activists.
* The full version was posted on April 25, 2017, in English, on About Hungary, and the original Hungarian, A Baloldal Sírásója, on Látószög.
@ honeybee:
Not bad.Thanks. Never even occurred to me.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/europe-scandinavia-the-nordics/topics/swedish-jokes
@ honeybee:
Natch. He was a violist.
Bratsche is German for viola.
ArnoldHarris Said:
Swedes have a better sense of humor.
Sebastien Zorn Said:
Close call boychik. Before I begin pelting you with meatballs.
ArnoldHarris Said:
Don’t mess with the best !!!!!!!!
Sebastien Zorn Said:
Better: “Millions for da fence…”
@ Sebastien Zorn:
William was also the first Count of Calabria and Apulia. I played in a string quartet backing up a Calabrian folk singer who was as intensely nationalistic as the Puerto Rican Salsa singer we had just backed up who had actually performed using the Puerto Rican flag as a cape, like Superman, I guess. The 2nd guy was, like, speak the Calabrian language, listen to Calabrian music, buy my family’s Calabrian Olive oil.
Not us.
My Litvak cousin’s only response to all of the famous Litvaks was — ‘so what? Everybody’s from somewhere.”
Wanting to get in on the flag waving fun — like the Koreans, the Irish, the Texans, the Puerto Ricans and Calabrians here — I turned to the 2nd violinist — she was Japanese — I said, “you know what unites us Jews as a people, what is the single most important unifying factor?”
“What?”
“We all desperately wanna be Asians.”
And a young guy from Southern Jersey, unconnected to the group, he just happened to be around backstage, exclaimed, “I thought it was just me!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Apulia_and_Calabria
Drengot Reinhardt was a great guitarist, Here he is playing a musical tribute to his ancestor’s great feat in stopping the Muslim onslaught.
Django Reinhardt – The Sheik of Araby
https://youtu.be/o6jwvS0mHwo
The tributes never stop
“Blake Mills stops by Norman’s Rare Guitars”
https://youtu.be/m7ZJlx_524M
Bit of a stretch, I guess, huh? Ok, then.
“Millions for Defense, not a penny for Tribute!”
Better get these out while I can, any day now, people will start getting fired for making racist anti-Norman jokes.
@ ArnoldHarris:
Fascinating. They have biographical Wikipedia articles. Also, I found the following passage in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_southern_Italy
humorous
one of main primary sources and a historical novel!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatus_of_Montecassino
@ Sebastien Zorn:
SZ, before we put historical Norsedom to sleep, check out a man who ought to be listed among the ultimate badasses.
Rainulf Drengot was one of a bunch of Norman adventurers, mostly second sons who could not inherit their family lands in Normandy, and who drifted down south to central and southern Italy looking for the main chance.
These guys were the late 10th and early 11th century version of today’s motorcycle gangs. One of the local Italian notables set them up in their very own encampment, from which they ventured out as hired lances. Rainulf Drengot, backed by his own string of brothers, proved to be the most sagacious of them all, and got himself appointed Count of Aversa in 1030.
The Drengot brothers kept their family power only a couple of generations, but the leadership of the Normans of Southern Italy conquered not only that territory, but also broke the back of the Arab control over Sicily. The Norman who accomplished that, was William of the Iron Arm (“Bras de Fer’). Not for nothing does a guy in a crowd like that get such a nickname that lasts through a thousand years of history.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
@ honeybee:
HB,
Lay off SZ. He’s become the one guy on Israpundit whom I read right down to the very last word. Partly because he’s informative, but also because he has a sense of humor. Which is a damned fine attribute, all things considered.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
@ Sebastien Zorn:
You need new jokes the ones you tell have moths.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
delightful time travel/ alternate history reworking of the 30 years war referred to in the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series
Very Jewish, in a way, as it is the experience of a transported collectivity with a very special role to play.
Sebastien Zorn Said:
“A rabbi once asked his old friend, a priest, “Could you ever be promoted within your Church?”
The priest says, thoughtfully, “Well, I could become a bishop.”
The rabbi persists, “And after that?”
With a pause for consideration, the priest replies, “Maybe I could be a cardinal, even.”
“And then?”
After thinking for some time, the priest responds, “Someday I may even rise to be the Pope.”
But the rabbi is still not satisfied. “And then?”
With an air of incredulity, the priest cries, “What more could I become? God Himself?”
The rabbi says quietly, ‘One of our boys made it.'”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humour
@ Sebastien Zorn:
who was Jewish. Not to brag or anything.
“The hidden story of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera”
By David P. Goldman
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/81821/divine-justice
@ Sebastien Zorn:
corrected link
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html
@ honeybee:
‘nother chestnut alert:
You know, Mozart died so poor he was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave. As with poor Richard, the third, not the almanac, nobody knew where his grave was. Until recently. When the archaelogists finished unearthing the gravesite, it was late at night, they saw, in the grave, a little man in 18th century clothing furiously erasing music notation on foolscap. One of them said to another: “What do you suppose he’s doing?”
The little man looked up and sternly whispered, “Shh! I’m decomposing!”
@ honeybee:
Chestnut alert:
from memory: When the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius]
was asked the secret of his longevity, he replied, “vell, Finnish guys last nice!”
This one is mine:
Mozart wrote over 600 works
[“music in three stages: early 1761-1772 middle 1772-1781 late 1781-1791 best known works Mozart composed over 600 works including: 21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin concertos, 27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets, and many other pieces.”
Mozart
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html%5D
lived from January 1756 – 5 December 1791)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
600 works, died age 35.
Tom Leher said, “It’s a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, HE’D BEEN DEAD FIVE YEARS!”
I say, imagine how much more prolific he’d have been, IF HE’D HAD SIBELIUS!
Edgar G. Said:
The giant was Ragnar Lothbrok who first conceived the idea to sail West using a lodestone. Ragnar Lothbrok was the Father of Bjorn Ironsides, Ivar the Boneless and Sigrud Snake in the Eye. Ivar was a clever commander who ravaged England and Ireland
Sebastien Zorn Said:
On my Maternal side I am Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish
@ Edgar G.:
@ ArnoldHarris:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism
@ Edgar G.:
@Honeybee
Sebastien Zorn Said:
Remember this, Edgar G? You mentioned it a while back. I discovered it as a kid.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-detective-novel-that-convinced-a-generation-richard-iii-wasnt-evil
What the story of Esther and Mordechai needs is a cracker-jack fictional historical detective. and Indiana Jones-like archaelogist combined. Based on a real guy, buy the way.
Would you believe when I take out the extra block quotes in edit and hit update, IT PUTS THEM BACK. over and over. Screw it. And they’re talking automated cars? ha ha.
metaphor alert
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
@ Edgar G.:
Watch “Berlioz. Harold en Italie (Bashmet, Gergiev) 1/4” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/bgVsJLDLWj8
@ ArnoldHarris:
“A Norse, A Norse, My Kingdom for a Norse.”
@ ArnoldHarris:
@ Edgar G.:
I hope that my last observation wasn’t too Norseating.
@ Edgar G.:
@ ArnoldHarris:
Could that be the origin of the expression, “No Norse is good Norse?”
@ Edgar G.:
Edgar,
The Norse truly coule be labelled as a historical phenomenon in the Europe of the 9th-13th centuries.
Traveling in their graceful and seaworthy sailing vessels, some of them of them served the rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire as their Varangian Guard, while others of the same ilk created the beginnings of the various Russian kingdoms, one of which, under Prince Alexander Nevsky, broke the back of the German Catholic invaders of North Russia in the early 13th century.
During that same period, some Nordic adventurers of the same general blood lines conquered parts of western Europe, where one of them, from their Norman-French base, conquered the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon rulers. Another group of these Norse adventurers sailed westward in the North Atlantic to settle what became Iceland, while some of these sailed still farther northwest and settled small parts of much more formidable Greenland. An offshoot of these sailed yet again westward to the Labrador coast of North America, and established at least one known and proven settlement further south on the northern tip of Newfoundland at L’Anse Aux Meadows — discovered a few decades ago by a pair of adventuresome archaelogists.
And there were still other Norse adventurers of historical note, notably a group of Norman French knights who settled more or less as an armed gang in southern Italy where they established a base from which they became a power in the land, and shortly afterward, reconquered all of Sicily from the Moslem Arabs who had taken control of that island two centuries earlier.
Not for nothing has my Jewish Croatian arachaeologist and historical comparative linguist wife studied elements of Norwegian as well as Hebrew, English, Russian, Bulgarian, etc, etc.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
Sebastien Zorn Said:
My parents and Grandparents families all lived within 25 miles of the (Western) Dvina which flows into the Gulf of Riga. Fortunately, My both my father’s(Latvia) and mother’s(Lithuania) parents escaped in 1894, others made it to America, but hundreds of our families stayed there.
We were a huge family including in-law connections. At our last family gathering nearly 10 years ago (another is coming up soon) there were over 3,000 sttendees frm all over the world.
An interesting-to me- point about this Dvina River; this is the river down which the old Vikings used to sail, coming to the source and then lifting or rolling on logs, their longboats to the headwaters of the Volga and down into the Black Sea. They were referred to in ancient scrolls as “Rus”. The Rus then controlled the passage to and from the Black Sea, charging tolls for many years- later called “Varangians”..and made up the guard for the Byzantine Emperors.
In fact one was the giant Harald (Hardrada) who served there for 20 years before being called back to become king of Norway. He then invaded England, with 300 ships of warriors and was killed at the Battle of Stanford Bridge in Yorkshire, by King Harald Godwinson, who marched (jogged) up there from the south coast (where he was waiting for the Normans to come) in 4 days nearly 200 miles. They were so utterly destroyed that only 24 ships of survivors went back to Norway.
Then a message that the Normans had landed, and Harald had to turn around and rush straight back, to Hastings, not even waiting for his reinforcements, to fight William of Normandy, where he was killed by the famous “arrow in the eye”. It’s all laid out on the Bayeaux Tapestry.
Sorry folks for going off at a tangent; I’m just very interested in History.
@ ArnoldHarris:
xx
The same thing has happened to me several times. I just use “edit” on the second one, and erase as much as I can. It leaves my name, but no content which is, under the circumstances O.K.. Try it.
@ ArnoldHarris:
Amen to that brother.
Still, it is cold comfort. They always cite that figure 2/3. It is misleading. The Nazis did not manage to occupy all of Europe. The UK, Sweden, Switzerland. The number of our people murdered in Nazi occupied Europe was over 90%, over 95 percent in Lithuania and Belarus — which seceded from Lithuania during the Civil War, 1918-21, the Jews of Belarus were Litvaks. Not now. After they succeeded in killing almost all of the Litvaks, after the war, Jews from other parts of the Soviet Union moved to what was now really another country.
And now, to add insult to mortal injury, the bastards have the sheer chutzpah to take credit for our contributions before the world, while denying their responsibility for the Shoah, making false equivalence between the Lithuanians who murdered Jews and the Jewish avengers who delivered justice to the killers, and promoting antisemitism at home.
http://vilnews.com/2011-01-world-famous-litvaks
I googled: Lithuania and anti-semitism
https://www.google.com/search?q=lithuania+anti-semitism&rlz=1CAACAO_enUS742US742&oq=lithuania+anti-semitism&aqs=chrome..69i57.3845j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
@ Sebastien Zorn:
SZ,
My paternal grandparents were Litvaks. Their move across the ocean made what proved to be the ticket to life, liberty and opportunity in the” Goldene Medina” back in he 1880s. Maybe a little earlier for my granddad, David Harris. When I got to know him well enough to walk hand in hand with him and talk to him when I was a seven year-old in 1941, he handled the Midwestern version of the English language with no noticeable accent, which means he must have arrived at Ellis Island when he was still a teen-ager. My paternal grandmother, Fanyeh Harkavy Harris, spoke /English as though Yiddish was her native language a half-century after she arrived in the USA. I never knew Grandpa David’s family name. I’m sure it wasn’t “Harris”. Probably “Hirsch” or something on that order. I understand that some of the admitting officers on Ellis Island renamed them on the spot.
It was all different for my maternal family, all of whom were long-established British Jews. My grandfather worked in some of the large British shipyards, such as the Thorneycroft shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness and the “fitting-out” yards at Southampton, as a coppersmith and tinsmith. His name was Morris Jacobson, and his wife’s name was Anne Glickman. They married in a formal proceedings on Sunday December 27, 1903, as announced by a formal printed invitation at the Stepney Synagogue, 168 Amhurst Rd, Hackney N.E. Jewish, yes. But proper British, double-yes. I met my maternal grandfather only once, in Chicago as a young guy. But my maternal grandmother died long before I was born in 1934.
I share your sentiments about what the neighbors did to assist the invading Nazis in Lithuania. Being as vindictive as I am, I hope and pray that one day, the Russian Army will roll right over that place and flatten them like pancakes. The same for Ukraine.
As for Germany, they killed about one-third of the world Jewish population of that era. But Stalin’s Russia broke up their country and awarded the entire eastern part to Poland. The Jewish nation will grow back those martyred six million. But nobody grows back lost provinces. How’s that for justice of a sort?
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
@ ArnoldHarris:
All of my grandparents and great-grandparents on one side of my family were murdered. The only reason the other side of my family lived is that they saw the handwrighting on the wall over 150 years ago and formed a family organization to bring everybody over one by one over the course of the entire 19th century from Lithuania. Some of the them were here before the Civil War. My great grandparents were among the last in the 1880s. In the 1920s the door to America was slammed shut. Hear what became of those who remained.
¨The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian Jews (Litvaks),[a] living in Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland within the Nazi-controlled Lithuanian SSR. Out of approximately 208,000-210,000 Jews, an estimated 190,000–195,000 were murdered before the end of World War II (wider estimates are sometimes published), most between June and December 1941. More than 95% of Lithuania’s Jewish population was massacred over the three-year German occupation — a more complete destruction than befell any other country affected by the Holocaust. Historians attribute this to the massive collaboration in the genocide by the non-Jewish local paramilitaries, though the reasons for this collaboration are still debated.[1][2][3][4] The Holocaust resulted in the largest-ever loss of life in so short a period of time in the history of Lithuania.[4]…¨
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Lithuania
I don´t want to forget. I wont do it. I refuse. I wont let anybody else either.
@ ArnoldHarris:
They act like being only 14 was a defense. Many of the killers and many of the resisters were teenagers. My father and cousin among the Zionist youth resisters as described in second link. My father escaped from a labor camp in Czechoslavakia and made his way to Budapest under siege, my cousin escaped 3 times, the last time successfully, disguised as a priest, from a labor camp in the Ukraine, to make his way back to Budapest under siege.
¨The Shoes on the Danube Promenade – Commemoration of the Tragedy¨
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/newsletter/31/shoes.asp
¨Jewish Resistance in Hungary¨
http://degob.org/index.php?showarticle=2022
@ ArnoldHarris:
George Soros: (Helping Nazis) “Was The Happiest Time of my Life”
¨Uploaded on Feb 6, 2012
George Soros is talking about his time working for the Nazis during German occupation in WWII. Soros worked with confiscating the land of the Jews in Hungary. He explains this experience as the “happiest time” in his life…¨
https://youtu.be/c1Qr7TnWG74
Must be from a different interview. This segment isn´t in the longer interview.
¨The Infamous George Soros Interview on 60 Minutes- Nazi Collaboration¨
https://youtu.be/dnsHl5qzpYc
@ ArnoldHarris:
Ted,
Do me a favor and and clean out one of these two identical comments about Soros. Your blogsite has no way I know of for commenters to clean up doubled-over items caused by impatient brains with long fingers.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
My mind finds itself idly wondering how this anti-Jewish devil, himself a child of our nation, escaped the clutches of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944 and early 1945, until the Red armies of the southwestern fronts blasted their way through the crumbling Nazi armies.
Or is there someone around with provable information that he was a secret Hagana agent?
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
My mind finds itself idly wondering how this anti-Jewish devil, himself a child of our nation, escaped the clutches of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944 and early 1945, until the Red armies of the southwestern fronts blasted their way through the crumbking Nazi armies.
Or is there someone around with provable information that he was a secret Hagana agent?
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker