Month: December 2010

Auschwitz part 2

FROM THESSALONIKI TO AUSCHWITZ AND BACK MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR FROM THESSALONIKI ERIKA MYRIAM KOUNIO AMARIGLIO VALLENTINE MITCHELL 2000 Translated into English by Theresa (neé Amariglio) Thessaloniki 1998 PART II Chapter 2: German Occupation and Deportation • On the first day of September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That was it! The Second World War had …

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Mother Teresa Part 2

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR GOD MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE COLLINS/FOUNT PAPERBACKS 1977 PART I Chapter 1: Something Beautiful for God I should explain, in the first place, that Mother Teresa has requested that nothing in the nature of a biography or biographical study of her should be attempted. ‘Christ’s life’, she wrote to me, ‘was not written during …

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Auschwitz

Book review Introduction: The perils of indifference Elie Wiesel’s millennium address on the ‘perils of indifference’ contains eternal truths and pinpoints the essence of all decent civilization. “We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the …

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Global warming

2010 Diary week 50 Climate Change: A strategy for action Book Review Below you will find Part 5 of the continuation of the review of Chapter 11 of Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton with the title ‘Energy and Transport for the Future’. These are some snippets: “Hydroelectric schemes so not have to …

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