Showing posts with label eastern europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eastern europe. Show all posts

Sunday, October 8, 2017

taxi am shabbat

the reason for our visit in dachau was the world premiere of the new book (in german) about the last jews in eastern europe written by my cousin eva gruberova and her husband helmut zeller: taxi am shabbat
if you asked me, the book has a character of a documentary as it describes many individual fates from jews in hungary, ukraine, slovakia, czech republic, lithuania ... we bought one of the much to few prepared samples (the printery / publisher was not ready for all that interested readers, i guess), so i will post an update when i read through, promissed. but please be patient as i have actually 2 another books in my reading pipeline :o)

of course, we enjoyed the opportunity to walk around in dachau and discovered a beautiful hundertwasser-style house out there:
in the middle of the picture you can see part of the dachau castle on a small hill
 after the solemn reading there was a lot of time to celebrate with family & friends afterward :-)
 good-bye dachau, i hope to see you soon again
more pictures here
their former project was the documentary born in concentration camp
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

marienbad (marianske lazne) - CZ - czech republic, our gate to eastern europe

i've spent tons of time in eastern europe in september (CZ, PL, SK), you know? i hope i will find enough time to upload few pictures and insights, we will see 😃
anyway, the most discussed topic out there were the refugees streaming to europe from war struggled mid-east.

the most interesting thing for me was that i have moved around mostly in the former german areas and yes, there is not much german spirit if any left out there ... of course, after the WWII were 12 to 15 million germans expelled from their homes (the numbers depend on source and yes, many, many germans were killed on the way ... the official number on wikipedia are 12 million germans who came to post-war west & east germany). any lessons learned?
  • a war is always a bad, bad, bad issue
  • dear germans, please don't cry about 500.000 refugees from syria, afghanistan, iraq, libya etc. ... the number is less than 1% of german population and yes, the refugees wouldn't come to europe when the so civilized western-christian 'community of values' led by CIA, USA, NATO, france, great britain, germany, drones, bombs & Co. wouldn't destroy their countries in the first place. of course, this western values (= chaos, death & destruction) are often locally promoted by western trained + financed terrorist groups like FLA, FSA, al-qaeda, ISIS / ISIL, al-nusra-front, ... if you asked me, turkey + saudi arabia + qatar also heavily supported these terrorists groups in order to ensure their local goals like e.g. the turkish-government's dream of the destruction of kurds ...
ok, let's start with our journey which the best of all wives & me started in the spa marienbad (marianske lazne):
 our hotel belvedere
hotel polonia
  my miss polonia
the spa centre with the singing fountain
spa house + belvedere
hotel nove lazne
spa in hotel nove lazne
http://jarogruber.blogspot.de/2016/01/trnava.html http://jarogruber.blogspot.de/2016/01/slovakia.html
3 emperors :-)

enjoy more marienbad pictures in google album here

our + my next stations in the 2 + 1 weeks in eastern europe were [czech republic, poland, slovakia, austria (vienna is east of prague, you know?), germany]:
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