October 7, 2012
It has been an extremely emotional and surreal two days. We found the location where Michael's mother's childhood home had been. We visited the Shoah memorial, and then the ultimate experience, we met Mary Steinhauser who escaped the Nazis by immigrating to a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. |
| This apartment building stands where 22 Grosse Morengasse must have been. The plaque at Michael's feet (see below) memorializes Holocaust victims who lived in the building. |
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| (The text translation is from Google Translate and is less than perfect.) HERE WERE 91 JEWISH MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN CONFINED SPACE APARTMENTS IN GROUPS OF LIFE, BEFORE DEPORTED BY THE NAZIS WERE ONLY 5 OF THEM HAVE SURVIVED. IN MEMORY OF A GIRL IN 2nd FLOOR HAD LIVED AND WHOSE NAME WE DO NOT KNOW. PATH OF REMEMBRANCE |
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| Shoah Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna |
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| Mary Steinhauser in her apartment in Vienna |
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| Mary's class in the Jewish school in Shanghai. Mary is in the second row, third from right. In the first row, far right, is Peter Finkelstein, better known to the world as Peter Max. Yes! That Peter Max. |
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ReplyDeleteI had to do a little e-searching to get my brain to make the "Peter Max" connection. In the process I found this piece by Peter Max. "An Evening with Ram Dass" 2010.
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