Voting Question: Proofread research paper please? Ten points!?
These are my first 4 paragraphs. Thanks!
The Beauty and Grace of Rock City
Planet Earth is full of many marvelous, majestic landscapes. Rock City, located in the Chattanooga area of Tennessee, is a landscape that has a lot to boast for. Located on a breathtaking mountain, Rock City has astonishing views and breathtaking scenery. However beautiful, the landscape is not the only detail Rock City has to boast for. A great place to explore and have fun, this tourist attraction is also brimming over with centuries full of history. It was founded by a couple in the early nineteenth century. They contributed to the most popular attractions in Rock City and helped create it into what it is today. Its rich history, however, begins before this. Rather, it starts way back when few people even inhibited Rock City. According to the earliest known history of Rock City, Native Americans were the first to settle in this area, later to be followed by visiting missionaries. Later, in the 1800’s, Rock City became a battleground when a Civil War was briefly fought on this location. The history of Rock City, deep and thrilling, is an interesting part of its culture.
Long before it was a tourist attraction, Rock City was the home to Native Americans. Most historians believe that primarily the Creek and Cherokee tribes inhabited this area. Matter of fact, a popular Cherokee chief, John Ross, lived in this area in the 1800’s. He became chief to the Cherokee Nation in 1827. Impressively, when the Indian Removal Bill was passed a few years later, Ross’s fight against Georgia’s land lottery begin the first of many political battles. Unfortunately, he still had to walk the Trail of Tears with his people. Much later, in 1863, the Battle of Lookout Mountain during the Civil War occurred in this area. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander, ordered his soldiers, “to storm lookout Mountain”( U.S. Civil War Photographs). Eventually, the Union pushed back the Confederates and took complete control of the mountain. Once the Confederates gave up, the Union soldiers, “climbed to Point Lookout and planted the U.S. flag” (U.S. Civil War Photographs). One of the Union officers made a remark in a “diary entry saying that one could see seven states from the summit at ‘the Rock City’” (History of Rock City). After the completion of this battle, however, there was nothing in Rock City in which to hold the interest of the general population. For many years, Rock City was seemingly unknown to many people except for its few inhabits, hikers, and some geologists.
However, Rock City had a greater fate: it would not forever be forgotten, rather it would rise as a well-known tourist attraction all over the United States. This is thanks to a humble man named Garnet Carter who would one day rise to fame and popularity. Carter, married to Frieda Carter, begin to take part in a recently developing community called Fairyland in Lookout Mountain in 1924. He began to build a golf course. However, this would not be any ordinary golf course. Because it was taking too long to build, he instead designed the first known miniature golf course called “Tom Thumb Golf Course.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Carter took on a new project of her own. Deeply passionate about nature, she decided to form the Rock City Gardens. Bravely, on her own, she, “took a ball of string and marked a trail winding through the giant rock formations all the way out to Lover’s Leap.” (History of Rock City). This amazing feat and show of determination impressed her husband. Carter began to help her. With his help, Rock City Gardens was officially opened on May 21, 1932. Initially, it was not huge success. Rock City, nestled in the mountains, was extremely hard to find.
Hence, the famous, bright, red barns with the slogan, “Come see Rock City”, was created. Carter, an obviously intelligent man, hired Clark Byers to paint signs on the roofs of barns along many highways. The majority of these signs read, “Come see Rock City.” Conveniently, some of the signs, “told the mileage to Rock City, the best highway, or some simply bore the slogan. The signs could be found as far north as Michigan and as far west as Texas. By the end of the 1930’s the signs paid off, and more people than ever visited Rock City Gardens” (History of Rock City). These are now seen as not only part of the rich history of Rock City, but also as part of the southern culture. However, the number of these barns are now dwindling. There use to be about 900 of these. Now, about 74 years later, there are only around 100 of these left. Many of these barns are, “disappearing, bowing to time’s decay or being replaced by other marketing mediums.” (Barn History). As Byers patiently explained to many tourists, these signs were no simple designs. While painting them, Byers not only had to make his own paint, but also used a 4 inch brush while he freehandedly painted it. These signs are truly a work of patience, determination, and skill
moreResolved Question: Geography questions please help me!?
1.The Great Divide Basin, located along the crest of the Continental Divide, in the southern part of which state?
2.Joshua trees and yuccas [YUCK-uhz] are most common in which state? (California or Rode Island)
3.The Mackinac [MACK-in-awe] Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas in which state?
4.Which state produces more peanuts then any other state?
5.The Merrimack River runs through Manchester, the largest city in which state?
6.Upper Klamath Lake is found in the Cascade Range in which state?
7.For just over a half century, St. Mary’s City was the colonial capital of which state?
8.Forests cover approximately 60% of which state (Arizona or Virginia)?
9.The oyster industry is important along the coastal region of which state (Connecticut or Missouri)?
10.Which state was the first to be surveyed using the township and range system in the early 1800s?
11.The slogan “Pike’s Peak or Bust” was used during the 1858 gold rush to a U.S. territory that later became which state?
12.Zion National Park and the Great Salt Lake are two major tourist attractions in which state?
13.Springfield, once a key stop on a California-bound stagecoach line, is located in which state that gets hydroelectric power from a dam on the Osage River?
14.Hot Springs, a city that shares its name with the nearby national park, is a famous tourist attraction in which state?
15.Which state is nicknamed “The Mountain State” because it has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River?
16.Uluru [oo-LOO-roo], or Ayers Rock, is a sacred area to the aboriginal people of which continent?
17.To barter with a vendor in Bangkok’s floating markets and to see a teak forest you would travel to which country?
18.To see the Altai [AL-TYE] Mountains and climb the four holy peaks around Ulaanbaater [oo-LAHN-BAY-tahr], you would travel to what country?
19.For centuries the Chinese emperors lived in seclusion in the Forbidden City, which is located within what present-day city?
20.What river flows through Lake Kariba and forms a border between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
21.The city of Massawa, Eritrea’s main port, is located on what body of water?
22.Name the strait that separates Sri Lanka from India.
23.Hinduism and Buddhism are two of the major religions that have their origins on which continent?
24.The Han [Hahn] are the largest ethnic group on which continent?
25.To navigate the Suez Canal and to visit Cairo’s City of the Dead, you would travel to what country?
26.To visit a mosque in the country with the largest Muslim population and to stay at a luxurious resort on the island of Bali, you would travel to what country?
27.In Islam it is the duty of every Muslim who can to make a once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca. This city is located on which continent?
28.Finnish is one number of a language family originating in the Ural Mountains. The Ural Mountains are located in Kazakhstan and which other country?
29.In the past, Mongol invasions greatly affected the way of life for people on Manchuria. Most of this region is now part of which country?
30.Which island, the easternmost in Melanesia, has a population that includes a large number of south Asians?
Thank you for your help!
moreResolved Question: Geography Questions please help! not homework!!!?
1.The Great Divide Basin, located along the crest of the Continental Divide, in the southern part of which state?
2.Joshua trees and yuccas [YUCK-uhz] are most common in which state? (California or Rode Island)
3.The Mackinac [MACK-in-awe] Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas in which state?
4.Which state produces more peanuts then any other state?
5.The Merrimack River runs through Manchester, the largest city in which state?
6.Upper Klamath Lake is found in the Cascade Range in which state?
7.For just over a half century, St. Mary’s City was the colonial capital of which state?
8.Forests cover approximately 60% of which state (Arizona or Virginia)?
9.The oyster industry is important along the coastal region of which state (Connecticut or Missouri)?
10.Which state was the first to be surveyed using the township and range system in the early 1800s?
11.The slogan “Pike’s Peak or Bust” was used during the 1858 gold rush to a U.S. territory that later became which state?
12.Zion National Park and the Great Salt Lake are two major tourist attractions in which state?
13.Springfield, once a key stop on a California-bound stagecoach line, is located in which state that gets hydroelectric power from a dam on the Osage River?
14.Hot Springs, a city that shares its name with the nearby national park, is a famous tourist attraction in which state?
15.Which state is nicknamed “The Mountain State” because it has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River?
16.Uluru [oo-LOO-roo], or Ayers Rock, is a sacred area to the aboriginal people of which continent?
17.To barter with a vendor in Bangkok’s floating markets and to see a teak forest you would travel to which country?
18.To see the Altai [AL-TYE] Mountains and climb the four holy peaks around Ulaanbaater [oo-LAHN-BAY-tahr], you would travel to what country?
19.For centuries the Chinese emperors lived in seclusion in the Forbidden City, which is located within what present-day city?
20.What river flows through Lake Kariba and forms a border between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
21.The city of Massawa, Eritrea’s main port, is located on what body of water?
22.Name the strait that separates Sri Lanka from India.
23.Hinduism and Buddhism are two of the major religions that have their origins on which continent?
24.The Han [Hahn] are the largest ethnic group on which continent?
25.To navigate the Suez Canal and to visit Cairo’s City of the Dead, you would travel to what country?
26.To visit a mosque in the country with the largest Muslim population and to stay at a luxurious resort on the island of Bali, you would travel to what country?
27.In Islam it is the duty of every Muslim who can to make a once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca. This city is located on which continent?
28.Finnish is one number of a language family originating in the Ural Mountains. The Ural Mountains are located in Kazakhstan and which other country?
29.In the past, Mongol invasions greatly affected the way of life for people on Manchuria. Most of this region is now part of which country?
30.Which island, the easternmost in Melanesia, has a population that includes a large number of south Asians?Well it is not. I didn't get homework Christmas brake.
moreResolved Question: Goegraphy Questions please help me!!?
1.The Great Divide Basin, located along the crest of the Continental Divide, in the southern part of which state?
2.Joshua trees and yuccas [YUCK-uhz] are most common in which state? (California or Rode Island)
3.The Mackinac [MACK-in-awe] Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas in which state?
4.Which state produces more peanuts then any other state?
5.The Merrimack River runs through Manchester, the largest city in which state?
6.Upper Klamath Lake is found in the Cascade Range in which state?
7.For just over a half century, St. Mary’s City was the colonial capital of which state?
8.Forests cover approximately 60% of which state (Arizona or Virginia)?
9.The oyster industry is important along the coastal region of which state (Connecticut or Missouri)?
10.Which state was the first to be surveyed using the township and range system in the early 1800s?
11.The slogan “Pike’s Peak or Bust” was used during the 1858 gold rush to a U.S. territory that later became which state?
12.Zion National Park and the Great Salt Lake are two major tourist attractions in which state?
13.Springfield, once a key stop on a California-bound stagecoach line, is located in which state that gets hydroelectric power from a dam on the Osage River?
14.Hot Springs, a city that shares its name with the nearby national park, is a famous tourist attraction in which state?
15.Which state is nicknamed “The Mountain State” because it has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River?
16.Uluru [oo-LOO-roo], or Ayers Rock, is a sacred area to the aboriginal people of which continent?
17.To barter with a vendor in Bangkok’s floating markets and to see a teak forest you would travel to which country?
18.To see the Altai [AL-TYE] Mountains and climb the four holy peaks around Ulaanbaater [oo-LAHN-BAY-tahr], you would travel to what country?
moreResolved Question: Can anyone correct this English article?
I have to translate a French article in English, my translation is very likely to have grammar and “syntax” mistakes. Thank you for your help.
General Motors, an exhausted giant
Ann Arbor special correspondent in Michigan
Famous, the sentence had been said in 1953 by the CEO of General Motors (GM), Charles Wilson: “What is good for America is good for GM, and vice versa”. At that time, it was more than a slogan, it expressed a national conviction. Until the 1980’s, the car manufacturer was holding itself more than the half of the family car’s domestic market in the United States. It has only 22% of it left. But its power is not the only thing which has been affected, its image is also deeply damaged. Is it too late to boost a giant which does not appear bled white as much as exhausted? Craig Fitzgerald, car consultant for the company Plante&Moran, in the Michigan, admits that the question is well-founded. Beyond the cost, he wonders “Can they succeed in? Do his managers have the talent and the will to make it?” A lot of people begin to doubt it. And far more people fear that the failure of a reflationary policy, after having cost astronomic amounts of money, is hugely more damaging. Even the public opinion does not come to the car manufacturer’s expectation, as if the two letters GM, or even the word “Detroit”( the name of the big city of Michigan where are the headquarters of car manufacturers, which symbolized the very idea of power) were smeared, discredited.
moreResolved Question: engagement ring...?
I want to propose to my GF... but do I need a DIAMOND ring? why can;t it be just gold? It's not the money, it's just the message it sends. I wan't her to like me for me, not because I can buy her jewelry. A marriage should be based on trust and love, not on stuff i buy her. The ring symbolizes a lot of things, but marriage symbolizes everything between 2 people and I just don't think a diamond is necessary. Besides, diamond rings for engagements only started maybe 50 years ago by the diamond company Debeers. Wikipedia says:
"The diamond engagement ring did not become the standard it is considered today until after an extensive marketing campaign by De Beers in the middle of the 20th century, which came to include one of the most famous advertising slogans of the 20th century: “A Diamond is Forever”... look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring
I think a $50 gold ring for each of us would be fine. What do you think?Wow, you can really tell a lot about a person by their answer to this question.
moreResolved Question: What are the rules for using famous quotes as slogans/phrases on merchandise sold for profit?
Looking to use certain quotes in a marketing campaign and wanted to know if there are any general rules regarding the practice or is it case by case? The quotes in question would come from famous people in history who have had a positive effect on the world.
moreResolved Question: Could it be that the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis could have been saved?
Many books have been published, read and forgotten. There is one book, however, which dare not be allowed to share this fate. This is the chronicles of Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, ztl, of the war years, 1942 to 1945, so aptly named "Min Hametzar" (From the Depths). published in New York in 1961 in Hebrew. Not enough individuals have read this book. The ghastly facts uncovered in it are not sufficiently well known.
Who can imagine the Hitlerite holocaust? Where is the language to describe it? All the known words of human speech have already been used for conventional occurrences; they have acquired everyday meanings and have been fashioned with an inability to describe the horrors of an Auschwitz or a Treblinka. What can be said to make individuals understand the wild cries of the night, when our brothers and sisters were led to the slaughterhouses? And in what way can one convey the conversion of precious Jews to the status of animals preparatory to being slaughtered?
Skyscraping walls prevented their cries being heard, and in that horrible man-made silence, the most valuable portion of the Jewish people was compressed in the confines of the ghettos in hunger and in thirst, in epidemics and in torture, crying bitterly, only to themselves, until the end of their anguish; when they were loaded into the sealed anguish; when they were loaded in the sealed cattle-wagons for the week-long journeys, when their corpses and the still have-living reached the slaughterhouses and gas chambers. Where can existing words be found to fit this story, and who is there to coin new phrases with meaning enough to tell this tale?
Yet all this was done through a directive from an innocent-looking office, where the S.S. murderers, with the methods of modern civilization gave the orders which, by chain reaction, set in motion all the machinery of death and destruction to which a stop could not be envisaged. One stroke of the pen to extinguish a hundred thousand lives. A few words enough for a million. And these few officers set the wheels turning in Auschwitz, in Treblinka; the Einsatzkomandos; the deep pits on the lonely plains of Europe overflowing with human blood. So much power behind it, such a military might enforcing it that only the winning of the World War could interfere with this running horror.
But how astonished was Rabbi Weissmandl to discover that these strokes of the pen could so easily have been erased, that the Jewish tragedy could to a considerable extent, have been alleviated by some simple "old fashioned" methods. How many hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives could have been saved -- perhaps even millions.
Wisliceny was the German henchman for the Jews of Slovakia, Eichmann's representative in that area for establishing the ghettos, destroying their livelihood and finally dispatching to slaughter the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Slovakia and the neighboring countries. He carried out this mission as directed by Eichman and as his own cravings commanded. His was the first country in Europe to be designated for the supply of Jews to the slaughter houses, as it was Slovakia that was first occupied by Hitler--even earlier than Poland. The puppet government of Cardinal Tissu had asked Hitler to "cleanse" its country of Jews. Officially it even paid Germany for transportation, and Wisliceny was the ultimate ruler and organizer. He was nearly always drunk; drunk from spirits and intoxicated with blood -- and seemingly unassailable.
Rabbi WeissmandlRabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, at the end of 1943, when two thirds of the Jews of Slovakia had already been transported for "work" to that far destination, got to know through a certain Hochberg -- an S.S. intriguer, and second in command to Wisliceny, that his chief was also lustful for money and that already on more than one occasion, money had bought relief for some individuals, postponing their deportation. Overwhelmed with joy at this discovery, he consulted his father-in-law, the great and renowned rabbi of Nitra, ztl, who agreed that if this old-fashioned method was effective, there was no reason why it would not be attempted on behalf of the great masses to be saved.
Rabbi Weissmandl writes of this same Hochberg, "I was first there on Friday in the summer of 1942 -- Tammuz, 5702. I was standing in the corridor near to the office of Hochberg and all of the waiting rooms around were crowded with those who had come to Hochberg to beg a postponement of that ultimate journey for "work in the east," as many still believed. I heard the voice of Hochberg speaking on the phone to his chief, Wisliceny saying, 'Her Hauptstumbandfuehrer, ich melde ghorehsamst, the train has left: Man 727, Women 637, Children 1667: altogether 3,028 Jawohl!' Never will this total leave my memory; 1600 children! No outcry and no tears. No one cares. The whole world is silent. Jawohl, Herr Hauptsturmbanfuehrer.
One of the famous men of Pressberg, Reb Aharon Gruenhut, finally succeeded in gaining confidence by Hochberg in Rabbi Weissmandl, for whom a secret appointment was arranged. On this occasion, the rabbi presented himself as one who had connections with rabbinical circles throughout the world. He showed Hochberg his passport that contained a British visa issued just before the outbreak of war, and told him of his visit to London and of conferences there to impress him with his high standing. He then made it clear that he had come on a secret mission of the highest importance as a representative of Jewry abroad, who had contacted him through the American "Joint" in Switzerland. Their message was that they were prepared to pay in cash for the stopping of all further transports of Jews from Slovakia to the east. The "Joint" was ready to pay the price that his chief, Wisliceny, would name. Rabbi Weissmandl emphasized that neither Hochberg nor Wisliceny should believe that his mission was directed by local Jews.
During this conversation with Hochberg in 1943, when the scales of war were already a little out of balance for Hitler's Germany after the heavy defeats in the east and the support of the allies by American might, Rabbi Weissmandl was able, with American might, Rabbi Weissmandl was able , with careful tact, to introduce doubts into Hochberg's mind about German world conquest, and more specifically about Hochberg's own position after the war. He conveyed to him that it would be very much to his and his chief's advantage to make some provisions for their own safety. In this respect, he was now authorized to offer the promise of World Jewry that if they would stop all further transports, he and Wisliceny would be save.
Hochberg became enraged at such suggestions, but as the conversation progressed, he became much softer and began to listen carefully to what was proposed. He listened and replied, "I must go to see Wisliceny."
He left immediately and Rabbi Weissmandl waited. Every minute seemed like an hour; every hour seemed endless. He sat there exhausted, awaiting the reply fateful for the remaining Jews of Slovakia, with so many hanging in the balance.
He had set there for many hours, when suddenly the door burst open and Hochberg hurried into the room. Speaking rapidly and with great excitement, he said, "the deal is done. My chief asked for $50,000 and no further transports will be sent; but he lays down the following terms: Wisliceny will show his goodwill: three transports -- next Tuesday, next Friday, the following Tuesday -- each of about 3000 souls, will be held up, but on Friday after that, the first Installment of $25,000 must be handed over. After that, there will be no further transports for seven weeks, to enable the second installment of $25,000 to be obtained and paid, after which there will be a final stopping of all transports. There is one further condition. You must be able to show that the money comes from abroad and not from Slovakian Jews themselves."
The latter was an important point to this S.S. henchman, as a guarantee that it was world Jewry who was behind the deal, and who would finally keep its promise for his safety. In any case, Rabbi Weissmandl did not then think that Slovakian Jews could possibly find such a sum, as by that time they had been stripped of all their possessions. On that other hand, he did not imagine for one moment that the wealthy "Joint" would not provide such a relatively small sum to save literally tens of thousands of lives from total annihilation in the German slaughterhouses.
Rabbi Weissmandl left Hochberg's office with hope and joy. He hurried home to Nitra to inform his father-in-law and to set about getting the deal consummated. The Rabbi of Nitra, in spite of his happiness at the possibility of saving so many lives, expressed some reservation. He felt that from a distance the "Joint" would not see their tragedy, and that the Zionist leaders working together with the "Joint" had a different calculation. But he suggested, representatives from beyond the "Kanzelel" -- the Council of Orthodox Jewish Communities -- should be drawn into this, and even the Zionists and non-Orthodox groups taken into partnership.
The name of Mrs. Gisi Fleischman came to the forefront, as she was of Zionist circles and also the pre-war representative of the "Joint" in Slovakia. Besides her prominence, she was a good-hearted and courageous women and her word would carry weight with the "Joint". It was also decidedly to call on Mr. Fuerst -- known for both his integrity and financial ability.
Among the weapons with which the Zionists have equipped themselves to pierce the walls of resistance to their influence, there is one most predominant. This is "ahavas Yisroel" -- love of the fellow Jew. This slogan and catch-phrase carries extra weight with the religious Jew to whom this concept has a special attraction. The Zionists have explained that their aim is achieving statehood is to provide a refuge and shelter for much tormented Jewry.
The long, bloody paths of our, till now, 2000 year long exile, with its inquisitions, persecutions, pogroms, slaughter and torture, has always been at the front of every Jews mind. Seldom was there a place on this earth inhabited by Jews, or a stretch of time, without blood and tears at the hands of our many persecutors of all nations. It was these pogroms that provided, for the short-sighted, the initial conditioning to seek a solution in the outward idea of Zionist achievements.
Possibly the Zionists, themselves, at the first steps of inception, were honestly taken by the idea of that solution; and it was this kernel of compassion that gave to them the power to influence others with this superficial consideration. Zionism has built on the basis that the solution of nationhood applicable to any other nation is in the same way also applicable to Jewry, as they could see no difference between the nations of the world and the Jewish people. As they see it, Jews regulate their fate by the same ways and means as all other peoples. The belief in exile by Heavenly Decree as a punishment for our sins, and the belief in Heavenly Redemption by the Will of the Creator was, to Zionism, non-existent. People's thoughts were not directed to the fundamental, all-embracing heresy upon which Zionism was established, but grasped only the attractive promises that were offered because unfortunately, Zionism arrived in the most feeble and small of all generation, coupled with distressing happenings, which contributed to the closing of people's minds to the truth and to their being led astray by the Zionist Idea.
THE UNHEEDED CRY
Read the gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, valiant holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred.
Available in our BookstoreHow much were Rabbi Weissmandl and his colleagues overcome with joy when they succeeded in getting the right people together! How great was their hope! But how much were they overwhelmed by sorrow when they tried to get things in motion, and how great was their frustration when they learned that the Zionists, together with the "Joint", stopped every outside help from reaching them. This was not only when it was a question of saving the remnants of the Jews of Slovakia -- about 40,000 souls -- but also when the possibility of saving what was still left of the Jews of Poland and Hungary was in question; a matter then of millions of souls. Then, too, the Zionists deliberately prevented any help from being extended under various excuses that even a child could see through. This was their policy -- stupid and merciless -- but they perused it relentlessly. In the end, they admitted openly that their policy was not to help fellow Jews, but to let them perish in the tens of thousands and in their millions.
This is forever unforgettable and unforgivable. Zionist "ahavas Yisroel" must be displayed conspicuously and beyond any doubt.
The Friday when the first installment of $25,000 had to be paid was fast approaching and there was not yet a way how this money could be found for Wisliceny. Mrs. Flesichman was also the representative of the World Jewish Congress and well known to the Jewish Agency. She was, therefore, considered to be the most suitable person to make contact with these organizations. Her words would be listed to....
The pressure became even greater when it was seen the S.S. oligarchy was in earnest. The first transport has been stopped. But how can contact be made with Zurich, with New York and with Jerusalem, the seat of the Jewish Agency, which influenced and coordinated the work of these other two bodies? Slovakia was then a small country sealed off by the German occupation of the surrounding territory. There was no common border with any free country, so how could any message be conveyed to the outside world?
Shloime Stern was instrumental in finding a temporary solution. He obtained a diplomatic courier, who was prepared to take all the important messages to the "Joint" in Zurich. He was also able to borrow money, temporarily, from various sources in Slovakia, putting together the equivalent of the enormous sounding sum of $25,000. The money obtained was changed on the back market for dollars and handed over to Hochberg for Wisliceny. Hochberg accepted it and came back with the message that there would be no further transports for seven weeks, which time was set for the completion of the deal.
They were all convinced that once the diplomatic courier would get their message to the "Joint" and the Jewish Agency, not $50,000 but ten times $50,000 would at once be put at their disposal for this and similar "deals." Surely Jews the world over would dance for joy upon hearing that at last the door was open in the inner circles of the S.S. and a way found to rescue their fellow Jews.
Mrs. Fleischman sat down to write the memorandum to Salli Mayer, the "Joint" representative in Switzerland. She was careful in her every word, explaining the situation of hope that had been ignited. The "Joint" should hasten its help at this last moment and miss the life-saving opportunity that had been so dramatically forced. The memorandum was sent to the "Joint", to the Jewish Agency and to a personal friend of hers, Mr. N. Schwalbe in Zurich. And then they sat down to wait.
Days went by, swallowed by weeks, and of the seven not many were left. The time for the final settlement was fast approaching and a great sum of money was needed. Many people had managed to escape from the hell of Poland to Slovakia on their way to Hungary and Romania, which were not yet being so intensely processed by the Hitler hordes. They were not a thousandth of a percent of those who were so brutally done to death, but still a number to be supported and a problem of Slovakian Jewry. Money was needed to bribe the Slovakian genarmerie and police to stop their pressure for the deportations to continue. Money was needed for the labor camps in Sered, Novaki and Wiener in Slovakia.
The Slovakian anti-Semitic government had built these camps for a slave labor before deportation began, and it was put to those Jews still left there that if they, themselves, would build up and increase the capacity of those labor camps, they would absorb more and so relieve the pressure for "deportations." and above all, the money was needed to refund the temporary loans from so many sources that had gone towards the first payment to Wisliceny and to provide the second $25,000 that would finally seal this blood transaction.
All this money was a matter of life or death for the tens of thousands of Jews in Slovakia and, in the end, for millions still alive throughout Europe. Who could provide and who should provide, if not the "Joint" and the Jewish Agency, who held possession of the vast sums of money given by Jews the world over for the help of their brethren in need? Was there anywhere at all any need that was greater?
The diplomatic courier left for Zurich, holding in his hands the lamentations of the strangling remnants of Jewry; in his hands, their appeal from death.
This courier had to spend some days in Zurich before his return. He was awaited with mounting anxiety, for with his advent were tied up all the hopes of the masses under sentence.
And he returned. But not even a letter was sent with him by those "help organizations" only a verbal message that they had no time to write, and of help there was no mention at all.
Rabbi Weissmandl writes that on hearing this message, they 'felt as though the house had collapsed on them'. It was only Mrs. Fleischman who started to explain matters after this great shock. She said that "uncle" Salli Mayer was a very cautious man and it was necessary to write again. It was also necessary to write to Mr. Silbersten, the Jewish Congress representative. "And who knows, maybe they are doing something great," she added. Maybe for such a big undertaking they had to refer to New York and Jerusalem -- who knows?
View video clip from the documentary, "Among Blind Fools", on Rabbi Weissmandl and his efforts to save thousands of Jews from the holocaust.Rabbi Weissmandl, himself, followed up with letters to the Agency and the "Joint" in the name of the Rabbis left in Slovakia -- letters of tears and of pleading -- but still there was no reply. Meanwhile, the seven weeks had passed and they had to send to Hochberg, asking him to explain to Wisliceny that the messenger that was to bring the money from Switzerland had met with an accident and was delayed in a hospital there. He would be bringing the money in three or four weeks time. Wisliceny agreed to wait.
In the end, a letter did come from the "Joint"; a letter written by Salli Mayer, which said that $50,000 was a lot of money for such a small country, and that in the previous year's budget of the "joint", only a few thousand dollars had been allocated for them. The "Joint" had to be run according to their system. The explanation given in the memorandum why they now need all this money and the documentary evidence as to what was happening in Poland, to which country the "deportations" took place, were exaggerated stories. This was the way of Eastern European Jewry, who were always asking for money. In general, he added, it was impossible to send anything at all just then, as the money was coming from America, which had prohibited the sending of funds to enemy countries. What was possible to do was to render some small help, monthly, if the "Joint" in Hungary would agree to do this out of the blocked account that been held since the outbreak of the war.
Rabbi Weissmandl and his colleagues read the letter, but they could not believe it had been written by fellow Jews. Their hearts stopped beating when its contents became clear to them. But this was not the end. There was a further letter. It fully explained the first. But it was more deadly and more devastating. It disclosed the bottomless abyss to which born- Jews can sink -- the responsibility of Zionism.
moreResolved Question: Could it be that the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis could have been saved?
Many books have been published, read and forgotten. There is one book, however, which dare not be allowed to share this fate. This is the chronicles of Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, ztl, of the war years, 1942 to 1945, so aptly named "Min Hametzar" (From the Depths). published in New York in 1961 in Hebrew. Not enough individuals have read this book. The ghastly facts uncovered in it are not sufficiently well known.
Who can imagine the Hitlerite holocaust? Where is the language to describe it? All the known words of human speech have already been used for conventional occurrences; they have acquired everyday meanings and have been fashioned with an inability to describe the horrors of an Auschwitz or a Treblinka. What can be said to make individuals understand the wild cries of the night, when our brothers and sisters were led to the slaughterhouses? And in what way can one convey the conversion of precious Jews to the status of animals preparatory to being slaughtered?
Skyscraping walls prevented their cries being heard, and in that horrible man-made silence, the most valuable portion of the Jewish people was compressed in the confines of the ghettos in hunger and in thirst, in epidemics and in torture, crying bitterly, only to themselves, until the end of their anguish; when they were loaded into the sealed anguish; when they were loaded in the sealed cattle-wagons for the week-long journeys, when their corpses and the still have-living reached the slaughterhouses and gas chambers. Where can existing words be found to fit this story, and who is there to coin new phrases with meaning enough to tell this tale?
Yet all this was done through a directive from an innocent-looking office, where the S.S. murderers, with the methods of modern civilization gave the orders which, by chain reaction, set in motion all the machinery of death and destruction to which a stop could not be envisaged. One stroke of the pen to extinguish a hundred thousand lives. A few words enough for a million. And these few officers set the wheels turning in Auschwitz, in Treblinka; the Einsatzkomandos; the deep pits on the lonely plains of Europe overflowing with human blood. So much power behind it, such a military might enforcing it that only the winning of the World War could interfere with this running horror.
But how astonished was Rabbi Weissmandl to discover that these strokes of the pen could so easily have been erased, that the Jewish tragedy could to a considerable extent, have been alleviated by some simple "old fashioned" methods. How many hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives could have been saved -- perhaps even millions.
Wisliceny was the German henchman for the Jews of Slovakia, Eichmann's representative in that area for establishing the ghettos, destroying their livelihood and finally dispatching to slaughter the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Slovakia and the neighboring countries. He carried out this mission as directed by Eichman and as his own cravings commanded. His was the first country in Europe to be designated for the supply of Jews to the slaughter houses, as it was Slovakia that was first occupied by Hitler--even earlier than Poland. The puppet government of Cardinal Tissu had asked Hitler to "cleanse" its country of Jews. Officially it even paid Germany for transportation, and Wisliceny was the ultimate ruler and organizer. He was nearly always drunk; drunk from spirits and intoxicated with blood -- and seemingly unassailable.
Rabbi WeissmandlRabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, at the end of 1943, when two thirds of the Jews of Slovakia had already been transported for "work" to that far destination, got to know through a certain Hochberg -- an S.S. intriguer, and second in command to Wisliceny, that his chief was also lustful for money and that already on more than one occasion, money had bought relief for some individuals, postponing their deportation. Overwhelmed with joy at this discovery, he consulted his father-in-law, the great and renowned rabbi of Nitra, ztl, who agreed that if this old-fashioned method was effective, there was no reason why it would not be attempted on behalf of the great masses to be saved.
Rabbi Weissmandl writes of this same Hochberg, "I was first there on Friday in the summer of 1942 -- Tammuz, 5702. I was standing in the corridor near to the office of Hochberg and all of the waiting rooms around were crowded with those who had come to Hochberg to beg a postponement of that ultimate journey for "work in the east," as many still believed. I heard the voice of Hochberg speaking on the phone to his chief, Wisliceny saying, 'Her Hauptstumbandfuehrer, ich melde ghorehsamst, the train has left: Man 727, Women 637, Children 1667: altogether 3,028 Jawohl!' Never will this total leave my memory; 1600 children! No outcry and no tears. No one cares. The whole world is silent. Jawohl, Herr Hauptsturmbanfuehrer.
One of the famous men of Pressberg, Reb Aharon Gruenhut, finally succeeded in gaining confidence by Hochberg in Rabbi Weissmandl, for whom a secret appointment was arranged. On this occasion, the rabbi presented himself as one who had connections with rabbinical circles throughout the world. He showed Hochberg his passport that contained a British visa issued just before the outbreak of war, and told him of his visit to London and of conferences there to impress him with his high standing. He then made it clear that he had come on a secret mission of the highest importance as a representative of Jewry abroad, who had contacted him through the American "Joint" in Switzerland. Their message was that they were prepared to pay in cash for the stopping of all further transports of Jews from Slovakia to the east. The "Joint" was ready to pay the price that his chief, Wisliceny, would name. Rabbi Weissmandl emphasized that neither Hochberg nor Wisliceny should believe that his mission was directed by local Jews.
During this conversation with Hochberg in 1943, when the scales of war were already a little out of balance for Hitler's Germany after the heavy defeats in the east and the support of the allies by American might, Rabbi Weissmandl was able, with American might, Rabbi Weissmandl was able , with careful tact, to introduce doubts into Hochberg's mind about German world conquest, and more specifically about Hochberg's own position after the war. He conveyed to him that it would be very much to his and his chief's advantage to make some provisions for their own safety. In this respect, he was now authorized to offer the promise of World Jewry that if they would stop all further transports, he and Wisliceny would be save.
Hochberg became enraged at such suggestions, but as the conversation progressed, he became much softer and began to listen carefully to what was proposed. He listened and replied, "I must go to see Wisliceny."
He left immediately and Rabbi Weissmandl waited. Every minute seemed like an hour; every hour seemed endless. He sat there exhausted, awaiting the reply fateful for the remaining Jews of Slovakia, with so many hanging in the balance.
He had set there for many hours, when suddenly the door burst open and Hochberg hurried into the room. Speaking rapidly and with great excitement, he said, "the deal is done. My chief asked for $50,000 and no further transports will be sent; but he lays down the following terms: Wisliceny will show his goodwill: three transports -- next Tuesday, next Friday, the following Tuesday -- each of about 3000 souls, will be held up, but on Friday after that, the first Installment of $25,000 must be handed over. After that, there will be no further transports for seven weeks, to enable the second installment of $25,000 to be obtained and paid, after which there will be a final stopping of all transports. There is one further condition. You must be able to show that the money comes from abroad and not from Slovakian Jews themselves."
The latter was an important point to this S.S. henchman, as a guarantee that it was world Jewry who was behind the deal, and who would finally keep its promise for his safety. In any case, Rabbi Weissmandl did not then think that Slovakian Jews could possibly find such a sum, as by that time they had been stripped of all their possessions. On that other hand, he did not imagine for one moment that the wealthy "Joint" would not provide such a relatively small sum to save literally tens of thousands of lives from total annihilation in the German slaughterhouses.
Rabbi Weissmandl left Hochberg's office with hope and joy. He hurried home to Nitra to inform his father-in-law and to set about getting the deal consummated. The Rabbi of Nitra, in spite of his happiness at the possibility of saving so many lives, expressed some reservation. He felt that from a distance the "Joint" would not see their tragedy, and that the Zionist leaders working together with the "Joint" had a different calculation. But he suggested, representatives from beyond the "Kanzelel" -- the Council of Orthodox Jewish Communities -- should be drawn into this, and even the Zionists and non-Orthodox groups taken into partnership.
The name of Mrs. Gisi Fleischman came to the forefront, as she was of Zionist circles and also the pre-war representative of the "Joint" in Slovakia. Besides her prominence, she was a good-hearted and courageous women and her word would carry weight with the "Joint". It was also decidedly to call on Mr. Fuerst -- known for both his integrity and financial ability.
Among the weapons with which the Zionists have equipped themselves to pierce the walls of resistance to their influence, there is one most predominant. This is "ahavas Yisroel" -- love of the fellow Jew. This slogan and catch-phrase carries extra weight with the religious Jew to whom this concept has a special attraction. The Zionists have explained that their aim is achieving statehood is to provide a refuge and shelter for much tormented Jewry.
The long, bloody paths of our, till now, 2000 year long exile, with its inquisitions, persecutions, pogroms, slaughter and torture, has always been at the front of every Jews mind. Seldom was there a place on this earth inhabited by Jews, or a stretch of time, without blood and tears at the hands of our many persecutors of all nations. It was these pogroms that provided, for the short-sighted, the initial conditioning to seek a solution in the outward idea of Zionist achievements.
Possibly the Zionists, themselves, at the first steps of inception, were honestly taken by the idea of that solution; and it was this kernel of compassion that gave to them the power to influence others with this superficial consideration. Zionism has built on the basis that the solution of nationhood applicable to any other nation is in the same way also applicable to Jewry, as they could see no difference between the nations of the world and the Jewish people. As they see it, Jews regulate their fate by the same ways and means as all other peoples. The belief in exile by Heavenly Decree as a punishment for our sins, and the belief in Heavenly Redemption by the Will of the Creator was, to Zionism, non-existent. People's thoughts were not directed to the fundamental, all-embracing heresy upon which Zionism was established, but grasped only the attractive promises that were offered because unfortunately, Zionism arrived in the most feeble and small of all generation, coupled with distressing happenings, which contributed to the closing of people's minds to the truth and to their being led astray by the Zionist Idea.
THE UNHEEDED CRY
Read the gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, valiant holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred.
Available in our BookstoreHow much were Rabbi Weissmandl and his colleagues overcome with joy when they succeeded in getting the right people together! How great was their hope! But how much were they overwhelmed by sorrow when they tried to get things in motion, and how great was their frustration when they learned that the Zionists, together with the "Joint", stopped every outside help from reaching them. This was not only when it was a question of saving the remnants of the Jews of Slovakia -- about 40,000 souls -- but also when the possibility of saving what was still left of the Jews of Poland and Hungary was in question; a matter then of millions of souls. Then, too, the Zionists deliberately prevented any help from being extended under various excuses that even a child could see through. This was their policy -- stupid and merciless -- but they perused it relentlessly. In the end, they admitted openly that their policy was not to help fellow Jews, but to let them perish in the tens of thousands and in their millions.
This is forever unforgettable and unforgivable. Zionist "ahavas Yisroel" must be displayed conspicuously and beyond any doubt.
The Friday when the first installment of $25,000 had to be paid was fast approaching and there was not yet a way how this money could be found for Wisliceny. Mrs. Flesichman was also the representative of the World Jewish Congress and well known to the Jewish Agency. She was, therefore, considered to be the most suitable person to make contact with these organizations. Her words would be listed to....
The pressure became even greater when it was seen the S.S. oligarchy was in earnest. The first transport has been stopped. But how can contact be made with Zurich, with New York and with Jerusalem, the seat of the Jewish Agency, which influenced and coordinated the work of these other two bodies? Slovakia was then a small country sealed off by the German occupation of the surrounding territory. There was no common border with any free country, so how could any message be conveyed to the outside world?
Shloime Stern was instrumental in finding a temporary solution. He obtained a diplomatic courier, who was prepared to take all the important messages to the "Joint" in Zurich. He was also able to borrow money, temporarily, from various sources in Slovakia, putting together the equivalent of the enormous sounding sum of $25,000. The money obtained was changed on the back market for dollars and handed over to Hochberg for Wisliceny. Hochberg accepted it and came back with the message that there would be no further transports for seven weeks, which time was set for the completion of the deal.
They were all convinced that once the diplomatic courier would get their message to the "Joint" and the Jewish Agency, not $50,000 but ten times $50,000 would at once be put at their disposal for this and similar "deals." Surely Jews the world over would dance for joy upon hearing that at last the door was open in the inner circles of the S.S. and a way found to rescue their fellow Jews.
Mrs. Fleischman sat down to write the memorandum to Salli Mayer, the "Joint" representative in Switzerland. She was careful in her every word, explaining the situation of hope that had been ignited. The "Joint" should hasten its help at this last moment and miss the life-saving opportunity that had been so dramatically forced. The memorandum was sent to the "Joint", to the Jewish Agency and to a personal friend of hers, Mr. N. Schwalbe in Zurich. And then they sat down to wait.
Days went by, swallowed by weeks, and of the seven not many were left. The time for the final settlement was fast approaching and a great sum of money was needed. Many people had managed to escape from the hell of Poland to Slovakia on their way to Hungary and Romania, which were not yet being so intensely processed by the Hitler hordes. They were not a thousandth of a percent of those who were so brutally done to death, but still a number to be supported and a problem of Slovakian Jewry. Money was needed to bribe the Slovakian genarmerie and police to stop their pressure for the deportations to continue. Money was needed for the labor camps in Sered, Novaki and Wiener in Slovakia.
The Slovakian anti-Semitic government had built these camps for a slave labor before deportation began, and it was put to those Jews still left there that if they, themselves, would build up and increase the capacity of those labor camps, they would absorb more and so relieve the pressure for "deportations." and above all, the money was needed to refund the temporary loans from so many sources that had gone towards the first payment to Wisliceny and to provide the second $25,000 that would finally seal this blood transaction.
All this money was a matter of life or death for the tens of thousands of Jews in Slovakia and, in the end, for millions still alive throughout Europe. Who could provide and who should provide, if not the "Joint" and the Jewish Agency, who held possession of the vast sums of money given by Jews the world over for the help of their brethren in need? Was there anywhere at all any need that was greater?
The diplomatic courier left for Zurich, holding in his hands the lamentations of the strangling remnants of Jewry; in his hands, their appeal from death.
This courier had to spend some days in Zurich before his return. He was awaited with mounting anxiety, for with his advent were tied up all the hopes of the masses under sentence.
And he returned. But not even a letter was sent with him by those "help organizations" only a verbal message that they had no time to write, and of help there was no mention at all.
Rabbi Weissmandl writes that on hearing this message, they 'felt as though the house had collapsed on them'. It was only Mrs. Fleischman who started to explain matters after this great shock. She said that "uncle" Salli Mayer was a very cautious man and it was necessary to write again. It was also necessary to write to Mr. Silbersten, the Jewish Congress representative. "And who knows, maybe they are doing something great," she added. Maybe for such a big undertaking they had to refer to New York and Jerusalem -- who knows?
View video clip from the documentary, "Among Blind Fools", on Rabbi Weissmandl and his efforts to save thousands of Jews from the holocaust.Rabbi Weissmandl, himself, followed up with letters to the Agency and the "Joint" in the name of the Rabbis left in Slovakia -- letters of tears and of pleading -- but still there was no reply. Meanwhile, the seven weeks had passed and they had to send to Hochberg, asking him to explain to Wisliceny that the messenger that was to bring the money from Switzerland had met with an accident and was delayed in a hospital there. He would be bringing the money in three or four weeks time. Wisliceny agreed to wait.
In the end, a letter did come from the "Joint"; a letter written by Salli Mayer, which said that $50,000 was a lot of money for such a small country, and that in the previous year's budget of the "joint", only a few thousand dollars had been allocated for them. The "Joint" had to be run according to their system. The explanation given in the memorandum why they now need all this money and the documentary evidence as to what was happening in Poland, to which country the "deportations" took place, were exaggerated stories. This was the way of Eastern European Jewry, who were always asking for money. In general, he added, it was impossible to send anything at all just then, as the money was coming from America, which had prohibited the sending of funds to enemy countries. What was possible to do was to render some small help, monthly, if the "Joint" in Hungary would agree to do this out of the blocked account that been held since the outbreak of the war.
Rabbi Weissmandl and his colleagues read the letter, but they could not believe it had been written by fellow Jews. Their hearts stopped beating when its contents became clear to them. But this was not the end. There was a further letter. It fully explained the first. But it was more deadly and more devastating. It disclosed the bottomless abyss to which born- Jews can sink -- the responsibility of Zionism.
moreResolved Question: Would Cameron Diaz wear a bag with a Swastika symbol in Israel?
Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion crime in Peru.
They suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring there on Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favourite political slogans.
While she explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words 'Serve the People' printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru.
The Maoist Shining Path insurgency took Peru to the edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.what is the American liberal's fascination with communist regimes responsible for killing 100s of millions of people?
Are they really this evil?
moreResolved Question: Can anyone help me with an advertising project? It would be greatly appriciated!?
I have to do make this advertisment in English, and I have to market or sell a real "celebrity". The point is I have to get their name out there, and make the target audience (10-17 year olds) supposedly want to buy the record or whatever the celebrity is famous for. I choose to represent Lillix. I need a slogan advertising Lillix, and what their all about. The problem is I cannot think of a good slogan, without it sounding cheesy. I thought Lillix was a good choice because they, in a way represent "whole-some" things...I mean they don't support being stick skinny, they support being healthy. And they care about world issues, as well they have normal hobbies like snowboarding that people can actually relate too. IIf you don't know who they are, think of an up and coming artist and you have to make up a slogan that will apeal to teenagers. You want ppl to buy the cd. So if any of you can think of a good slogan representing Lillix or whoever and any ideas you have for the script.
moreResolved Question: Can anyone help me with an advertising project? It would be greatly appriciated!?
I have to do make this advertisment in English, and I have to market or sell a real "celebrity". The point is I have to get their name out there, and make the target audience (10-17 year olds) supposedly want to buy the record or whatever the celebrity is famous for. I choose to represent Lillix. I need a slogan advertising Lillix, and what their all about. The problem is I cannot think of a good slogan, without it sounding cheesy. I thought Lillix was a good choice because they, in a way represent "whole-some" things...I mean they don't support being stick skinny, they support being healthy. And they care about world issues, as well they have normal hobbies like snowboarding that people can actually relate too. It doesn't nessecarily have 2 b them but think of an up and coming artist and you have to make up a slogan that will apeal to teenagers. So if any of you can think of a good slogan representing Lillix or whoever and any ideas you have for the script, that would be great!
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