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SEX! — We have a finite number of erogenous zones, but an infinite number of ways and means of stimulating them. INTIMACY! — We have a finite number of needs, but an infinite number of ways and means of satisfying them.
Sex is one a way of expressing intimacy and intimacy can give meaning to sex. Simple, right? As if! When sex and intimacy collide, confusion, disappointment and frustration abound.
Doc,I really have a serious problem. I can have sex all day long — women, men, whatever ya got — not a problem. And I think I'm really good at it too. That is until there's hugging and kissing. Again, — women, men, whatever ya got — big problem. I don't mind a quick hug or embrace, or a fleeting kiss, but anything more than that and I just freeze up. I can't seem to relax inside myself while in another's embrace. I am 39 and worry about dying alone and forgotten, because I can't let myself get close to someone long enough to fall in love. I know this sounds foolish, but I have never even slept with another person, like after sex, in my whole life. What's wrong with me? — Frozen
Wanna know what's wrong with you, Frozen? Easy! You're a human, that's what's wrong with you! You are exhibiting a very human characteristic, a fear of intimacy, albeit a rather severe case of it indeed.
Many people are able to perform sexually, while having difficulty with intimacy. When I see such a person in my therapy practice, I help my client overcome this rift by encouraging him to gradually increase the amount of intimacy he is comfortable with every sexual encounter. It's a simple behavior modification thing.
So, I suggest that you hold an embrace a minute or two longer each time you are embraced, taking the intimacy a bit deeper than you did the time before. The same goes for kissing — hold a kiss for a few moments longer, or kiss a little deeper each time a kiss is offered. You'll have to concentrate and make a concerted effort, because this is unfamiliar territory for you. But you have a really strong motivation; you don't want to be sad and alone. I think you'll find that you will be rewarded handsomely with everything you invest in this exercise.
A good potion of any fear is what we talk ourselves into about the feared thing. Sure, there may be a traumatic event at the source of some of our fears. But even if there is, we have the capacity to move through the remembrance, let go of the trauma and move on with life.You've been living with this phobia for a long time, Frozen. It's become second nature for you. As you apply yourself to overcoming your dread of intimacy, have some compassion for yourself. Know this will take time. In fact, it'll be the work of a lifetime.
My advice to you is to set a goal for yourself. Try to turn some of this aversion to intimacy around. Give yourself say 6 or 8 weeks to make this happen. Start out with baby steps, but don't hesitate to stretch and challenge yourself. Let your partner(s) know that you are working on something important. Ask for his (their) help and patience. You'll be able to overcome your hesitancy even sooner with the help and encouragement of others. Ask for feedback on your progress.
Keep at it till you are comfortable cuddling in someone's arms for an hour or till you can kiss someone passionately without wanting to pull away. Celebrate the fullness of your personhood; don't just settle for bumping parts.
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Dear Dr. Dick,I could sure use you some advice on how to find Mr. Right! Can you help? Here's the thing, I only meet guys that want sex….they objectify me and just think about their own needs. I'm sick of it. I'm including a link to my online profile and photos of myself so you can judge for yourself.Where can I go to meet someone that believes sex is mutual? — Why Not Take All of Me
Are you trying to tell me that someone as delicious as you is having trouble connecting with quality people? If so, what chance is there for us mere mortals?
Listen, I don't mean to be flippant. It's just that looking at your photos and reading your profile, you sound like a dream. Of course, maybe that's the problem.I'm not sure asking me, or anyone else for that matter, how YOU should go about finding Mr Right is the correct way to go. The reason being, there's a different Mr Right for everyone. For some, Mr Right is no more than a pretty face, stiff dick and a supple ass.
Your needs appear more complex. One thing for sure, if you are looking for the perfect match for YOU, integrity and authenticity are preeminent. Don't settle for less than what you want.That being said, you might begin by reassessing how you present yourself online. If the images you post suggest sex, that's what you will attract. I mean come on — all those eye-popping nude full body shots of yourself; the close-up of your dripping hardon; your ass backed up to the camera lens like that, so that everyone and his mother can see where the sun don't shine. And your profile, it proudly proclaims, "power bottom extraordinaire." — Trust me, darlin', none of this invites anyone to take you seriously for the dignified, well-rounded person you claim to be.
Finding Mr Right, is difficult at any stage of life. While you sound like a decent enough guy, you are no longer a youth. This time of life presents it's own unique challenges. Are you carrying lots of personal baggage that may be off-putting to potential partners? I see that a lot in my more mature clients. They are too set in their ways to really enjoy the spontaneity of a new relationship.Lots to consider, huh?
Good luck
Dear Dr. Dick, I have recently been going out with this great guy. He's had three long-term relationships in the last 10 years or so. He says that with each one, when they met, he felt a "spark." (I guess he means the spark of attraction, or passion.) But each of his relationships came to a crashing end.Anyway, this guy and I have been chatting on the internet for hours every day for weeks, but have only had two dates in person. And both times we got down to sex rather quickly. Now he says he wants things casual between us, because he didn't feel any spark upon meeting me. He says I'm not his soul mate.I think this "spark" is passion. But fiery as it is, it always burns out, as it did with his first three partners.I'm different, I fall for a guy by getting to know him, finding mutual interests, and developing intimacy over time. (Although this method hasn't worked for me, any better than his method has worked for him.)Is the approach through friendship better or worse than the approach through passion? Is there a future for a couple like us? — In Way Too Deep
My gut feeling is that there isn't enough common ground here for anything more than a garden-variety casual internet connection. And I suspect you both are looking for something more permanent than that. That is what you are talking about, right?
While you may have enough in common to consume hours of internet time each week, (no big challenge there, you can train a chimp to do the same) the sex thing, or passion thing, or whatever else one calls it these days, simply isn't there. And there's no making it suddenly appear at this point in your association. Your internet "date" is not about to be dazzled by anything that isn't highly combustible, regardless of how poorly this has served him in the past. Your method, on the other hand, ain't getting you married either.
Alas, we're such creatures of habit.I am of the mind that passion is the stuff that keeps us thrilled while we slog through the less appetizing "getting-to-know-him" and "getting-adjusted-to-his shit" phase. In fact, I believe the "fireworks" thing is designed to distract our attention — or more precisely — blind us to the more unsavory aspects of the guy we're bumping.
If there are no fireworks we'd immediately see the guy's an overweight psychopath, with anger management issues, bad teeth, a little dick, shameful personal hygiene, a ridiculously low IQ, dwarfed only by his bank account, who picks his nose and lets his mother run his life.Time to move on, darlin'!
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This photo was in my inbox last week and it instantly caught my eye. I love the idea of mixing navy and cobalt blue with black and sequins for a festive holiday look. Tomorrow I'm posting a bold red and green Christmas look, and after that a couple of cozy sweaters for lounging. What kind of holiday attire is your favorite - sequins, red + green, cozy sweaters or something else?
Shirt: Rock & Republic c/o Kohl's, $8
Sequin clutch: Limited, $15Black shoes: c/o Chinese Laundry, $99
Necklace: Banana Republic, old (similar)Watch: Michael Kors, family gift
Rings: My Stella & Dot website $69 and $39 and $49
Bracelets: My Stella & Dot website $59 and $59 and $79 and $32 and $39
|Speaking of blue and sequins, I tried on this Tracy Reese top at Target yesterday - it's currently 50% off!
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Wendyl wants to know: So little cocoa in chocolate sauce
These little pottles can be found among the fruit at your local supermarket. The idea is that you buy some strawberries or other fruit and dip it into the chocolate. Everyone loves this treat, but when it comes to chocolate, less is certainly not more. Many chocolate sauces and pre-prepared chocolate items in the supermarket can have very little chocolate in them at all.
Ingredients (in order of greatest quantity first):
Sugar A bit disappointing to see that there is more sugar in this product than anything else. In fact it is 57.3 per cent sugar which is a massive 11.5g or nearly two teaspoons per serving - one-sixth of this tiny pottle.
Added water Cocoa (3.5 per cent) This isn't a lot of chocolate for a chocolate product. It reminds me of my analysis of guacamole dip which had 4 per cent avocado. At this percentage and so high on the ingredients list you can work out that most of this product is sugar and water. If you're going to eat chocolate, make sure you eat chocolate, not something resembling chocolate.
Vegetable fat This could be palm oil, but we don't know.
Modified starch (E1442) This is hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate which is treated starch. It will be in here most likely as a thickener.
Milk solids This is what is left in milk after you take the liquid out.
Food acid (E270) This is lactic acid which is derived from milk.
Salt Emulsifier (E471) Emulsifiers in products such as this help keep the oils and water blended together just like a mayonnaise. This emulsifier is mono and diglycerides of fatty acids.
Flavour Usually vanilla flavouring is added into chocolate but with so little cocoa in there may be chocolate flavouring as well. One thing we can be sure of is that it is artificial flavouring.
Preservatives (E202, E211) These are potassium sorbate (202) which has no known health effects. But sodium benzoate (211) can cause a rash in some people.
My recommendations
Everyone knows how to melt chocolate. It takes a minute in the microwave, so while picking up one of these pottles when you're buying your fruit might seem easy, why not go for more cocoa and better-quality ingredients and melt it yourself? When buying chocolate I always think it's a good idea to go for one which has chocolate as the first ingredient rather than sugar. This means you are getting mostly chocolate. Whittaker's does a dark chocolate with 50 per cent cocoa which would be good to melt down and Cadbury's does dark chocolate melts with 43 per cent cocoa - a vast improvement on this product. Price-wise you will get more chocolate for your buck and all chocolate addicts know that when you eat good-quality chocolate you eat less. If you are melting chocolate to dip fruit in, such as strawberries, add a little oil to help thin it out a little. And if you don't have a microwave use a double boiler, or place a bowl on a saucepan with simmering water in it to melt it gently.


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RICHMOND — A head-on collision in South Richmond has critically injured three people and left at least four others hurt, police said.
One woman was ejected from a Chevy Camaro and is in extremely critical condition, police said.
None of the victim's names, ages or hometowns were released.
The collision at South 37th Street at Stege Avenue, in a residential neighborhood one block south of the city's major thoroughfare, Cutting Boulevard, happened about 7:20 p.m., according to Richmond police Lt. Bisa French.
Police said a white Chevy Camaro was traveling south on South 37th Street when it collided head-on with a Chevy pickup truck heading north. Upon impact, the truck tipped over and all three men were injured, one critically.
Of the four people in the Camaro, two have critical injuries, police said. The others in both vehicles appear to have non-life threatening injuries. The speed limit on the street is 25 mph and excessive speed could be factor in the crash, police said.
"We do have some reports that the Camaro was traveling at a high rate of speed and we are investigating if alcohol was a factor," French said.
Because the collision involves more than five victims it is considered a "mass casualty" incident and will tax emergency services, hospitals, police and fire services in the city for several hours, police said.
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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
Azure Functions Proxies Sample
This sample demonstrates a simple single page application that is hosted on Azure Storage. The site returns a different Azure Functions logo whenever the site is refreshed. The SPA calls APIs that are served from Azure Functions. Proxies are used to route the site root to the SPA and also provide access to the
GetFunctionLogo function.
Setup steps
Create a new public container in an Azure Storage account. Copy the files in the ContentFiles folder to this container.
Add a CORS setting for your storage account:
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Deploy to Azure
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About the Study
With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them is based on a telephone survey utilizing both landline and cellular telephones. Respondents include a nationally representative sample of 22-to-30-year old adults who have at least some post-secondary education. The survey was preceded by five focus groups conducted in sites across the country.
Telephone Survey
Telephone interviews were conducted from May 7 June 24, 2009, with 614 young adults aged 22 to 30 years old who have experience with some post-secondary education. The interviews averaged 26 minutes in length and were offered in both English and Spanish. The response rate for the study was 27 percent for the landline portion of the sample; it was 29 percent for the cell phone sample.
The margin of error for the report is plus or minus 4.8 percentage points. However, it is higher when comparing subgroups or question items that werent asked of all respondents.
Sample Design
The study employed a dual-frame landline/cell phone telephone design. The sample was designed to be nationally representative of the target population and also to allow separate analyses of African-American and Hispanic respondents. The landline RDD sample was disproportionately-stratified to over-represent area code-exchange combinations with higher than average densities of African-American and Hispanic households. While this method increases the proportion of respondents in this target group[s], special weighting adjustments restore the overall representativeness of the sample.
The telephone sample was provided by Survey Sampling International, LLC (SSI) using standard list-assisted random digit dialing (RDD) methodology. This method guarantees coverage of every assigned phone number regardless of whether that number is directory listed, purposely unlisted or too new to be listed. The cellular sample was not list-assisted, but was drawn through a systematic sampling from dedicated wireless 100-blocks and shared service 100-blocks with no directory-listed landline numbers.
For both the landline and cell samples, quotas were imposed so to fill three main quota groups which were defined as follows:
- Four-year group - people who completed a four-year program or attended a four-year program and did not finish.
- Two-year group - people who [a] completed a two-year program, or [b] started a two-year program but did not finish and [c] did not qualify for the four-year group.
- Drop-out group - people who [a] started a post-secondary education (PSE) program, [b] did not finish the program and [c] did not qualify for the two-year or four-year groups.
The questionnaire was designed by Public Agenda, and all interpretation of the data reflected in this report was done by Public Agenda. As in all surveys, question order effects and other non-sampling sources of error can sometimes affect results. Steps were taken to minimize these, including pre-testing the survey instrument and randomizing the order in which some question and answer categories were read.
The interviewing was conducted by Princeton Survey Research International in conjunction with Princeton Data Source, LLC.
Weighting Procedures
Survey data were weighted to (1) adjust for the fact that not all survey respondents were selected with the same probability and (2) account for gaps in coverage and non-response biases in the survey frame. Weights were applied to balance sample type, race, ethnicity, gender, age, education, census region and household telephone use. The overall design effect of the weighting procedure is 1.47.
The Focus Groups
Focus groups allow for an in-depth, qualitative exploration of the dynamics underlying the publics attitudes toward complex issues. Insights from participants in these focus groups were important to the survey design, and actual quotes were drawn from the focus groups to give voice to attitudes captured statistically through the surveys. All focus groups were moderated by Public Agenda senior staff. Five focus groups, all with adults between the ages of 22 and 30, were conducted as follows:
- A mix of young adults, who either did not complete a post-secondary education program or had no post-secondary education experience in Erie, Pennsylvania;
- Young adults currently in a two year or technical program in New York, New York ;
- Young adults currently in a four year program in Phoenix, Arizona:
- Young adults currently in a four year program in St. Louis, Missouri;
- Young adults who did not complete a post-secondary education program in Seattle, Washington.
"With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them," by Jean Johnson and Jon Rochkind with Amber N. Ott and Samantha DuPont, was prepared with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The authors of "With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them" would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance during the preparation of this report:
Our partners at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, WA, especially Marie Groark, Hilary Pennington and Ian Rowe, for providing us the opportunity to conduct this research and the freedom to explore the issues without constraint or bias;
Arthur White, founder of Jobs for the Future, for his contributions to the conception of the project and his invaluable counsel and support;
Dan Yankelovich and Barbara Lee for their insights and guidance;
Scott Bittle for his direction and assistance;
Sanura Weathers for her help in producing this report and her commitment to excellent design;
Melissa Feldshe for bringing our work to the attention of a broad audience;
Francie Grace, David White, Peiting Chen and Allison Rizzolo, of PublicAgenda.org, for producing a distinctive and highly informative online version of this report;
And Public Agenda President Ruth A. Wooden for her vision, insight and guidance.
Finding 1:
Most students give their high school guidance counselors fair or poor ratings.
Finding 2:
Students who get perfunctory counseling are more likely to delay college and make more questionable higher education choices.
Finding 3:
High school counselors are viewed as less helpful than teachers.
Finding 4:
Advisors at higher education institutions get better ratings, but theres room for improvement.
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Not everyone is able to participate in and ask questions of the candidates at the presidential candidates' forum held annually during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Anyone who can't be there can still participate by submitting YouTube videos to ask the candidates their questions.
The purposes of the YouTube Candidates Forum are:
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- To complement the face-to-face forum
- To increase members' interest in the election and, we hope, stimulate greater voter participation
The face-to-face forum and the YouTube forum will not intermingle–i.e., the face-to-face forum will proceed in its traditional format, presided over by ALA's immediate past president. The YouTube forum complements the Midwinter forum.
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- Anyone interested in the election and the candidates may submit questions
Deadline for submissions: January 16, 2009
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Anyone who has acces to the Internert and YouTube will have access to all questions that are submitted with the correct required tagging. To assure that the video forum addresses members' highest priorities and to keep the candidates' response responsibility manageable, a jury consisting of recent ALA presidents will select six questions for the candidates to respond to. The jurors will submit their recommendations to the current president no later than January 18, 2009. The six questions that receive the strongest recommendations will be showcased in the video forum.


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It's a true pleasure having found gratifying work that allows me to help people and bring together all of my skills into one place; Lice Happens! I'm sure to call upon my years of experience counseling families in difficult situations in an emergency healthcare setting as I respond to clients' urgent need to get rid of head lice, transition them back to normalcy, and empower them through education and training.
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College basketball fans, March Madness has officially arrived.
This year's 2011 NCAA Tournament bracket revealed Sunday was full of emotion for all those involved — hopefuls, automatic bid winners, and those denied a spot among the 68 teams competing.
Ohio State snatched the overall top seed after clinching a Big Ten Championship with a decisive victory against Penn State early Sunday. But the Buckeyes, who earned the No. 1 seed in the East Region, will face what many consider this year's most competitive pool. Joined by Kentucky, which was named the SEC Champion on Sunday after a blowout win against Florida, Big East powerhouse Syracuse, and ACC regular-season champion North Carolina, the East will prove a tough, stacked road to the Sweet Sixteen and beyond.
While the East is certainly daunting, the Big East conference's sheer presence in the Tournament is equally overwhelming. With 11 total spots in the NCAA Tournament and a No. 1 berth in the Southeast Region for Pittsburgh, all eyes on the Big East. Only five teams in the entire conference didn't get an invite to the Big Dance, causing both expectations and doubts to soar. While Pitt took the Big East's regular season title, Connecticut and its star guard Kemba Walker sailed through the tournament for the conference title. And the Huskies weren't alone in impressing the nation with competitive tournament play as Notre Dame, Louisville, and Syracuse all came through in hard-fought games.
Returning national champions Duke are the front runners in the West Division, as Sunday's ACC Championship rout of North Carolina earned the Blue Devils a No. 1 seed. But there's plenty of power beyond Duke in the play of Texas, UConn, and San Diego State. And the final No. 1 position for the 2011 bracket was awarded to Kansas.
The Jayhawks will top the Southwest Division, where Notre Dame, Purdue, and Louisville all have the ability to go to the Final Four. And let's not forget about BYU's dominance of recent headlines thanks to Jimmer Fredette and an honor code scandal, along with Florida's potential, and even the return of last year's underdog favorite, Butler.
Snubs and Surprises
Although the addition of three more spots helped shrink the infamous NCAA Tournament bubble, this year's selection was not without its share of upsets, snubs and surprises.
After a trip to the Big Ten Championship for the very first time, Penn State played its way off the maybe list and into the Tournament for the first time since 2001 with a No. 10 seed in the West. Also playing its way in, Georgia was likewise awarded a No. 10 spot, though in the East Region, much to the surprise of the Alabama faithful.
The Crimson Tide joined Colorado on the list of bubble teams denied a chance at playing for a national title. Although Alabama defeated Georgia twice in regular season play, huge conference losses to Florida and a fall to Kentucky in the SEC Tournament ultimately kept the Tide off th8s year's bracket sheets. Similarly, the Buffs were shocked with a snub after a season filled with three wins against No. 5 seed Kansas State and a victory against Texas to boot.
With just four ACC teams in the tournament, Virginia Tech and Boston College were also sent packing to the NIT by this year's committee. The Hokies were denied a spot after nabbing a major regular season upset against the Blue Devils and beating Florida State, after a controversial Seminole basket was called back in the ACC Tournament.
While this year's NCAA Tournament features obvious favorites, and jilted teams, if the past is any indicator of the future, the biggest upsets and shocking turns are yet to come. With automatic bids awarded to teams with enormous potential like Belmont, who many consider a Cinderella story in the making, and Bucknell, a team that hasn't lost a game since January, we really don't know who will be in the Final Four come April.


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Let's not squander the opportunity to make the country safer. We don't need another study. We need to pass some common-sense laws, starting with a ban on military-style assault weapons.
After the horrid murder of 27 children and adults in Newtown on Friday, Democratic lawmakers and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman called Sunday for the assault weapons ban and a national commission to study mass shootings. The danger of creating such a commission is that some lawmakers likely will use it to delay legislative action, saying the country must wait for its findings.
By that point, history suggests, the iron will be cold, the moment will have passed. So let's hold off on the commission and work on sensible state and federal legislation first.
Our only complaint with the assault weapons ban proposal is that it doesn't go far enough. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., proposes to ban assault weapons and high-capacity clips and drums. So far, so good. There is no civilian application for any of this deadly hardware. But why not take it a step further and require background checks for every gun sale and a limit on bulk sales?
If and when a commission is created, it could, among other things, review the delivery of mental health services. In Connecticut, officials closed two state mental hospitals decades ago and transferred services to community settings. Are those services adequate and accessible? Many experts answer with an emphatic "no."
It shouldn't take a shooting tragedy to spur sensible action, but, sadly, it does. "We must change," President Obama said Sunday in Newtown. Let's not talk it to death.


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GEAR | Vintage Wheels
I've always loved vintage cars, but since getting on Instagram, spotting them has become a real hobby. I don't know if they're all around me now or if they always have been, but I see them everywhere. I'd love to own one one day, but for now the photos will do.
What are your favorite vintage cars? I'd love to know so I can keep an eye out for them.
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Ford Broncos, International Harvester Scout, MG Midget, the list goes on!
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Awww!! The bmw 2002 is my dream car. But any vintage Volvo is awesome as well. They're harder to find!
- December 17, 2012 at 8:50 PM
- Unknown said...
I own the top second from left and called it Trevor :)
- December 17, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- That's Not My Age said...
Love an old motor. My brother has a 60s Mustang. It's fab.
- December 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM
I own a red 1957 MGA Convertible. I love to sport my British driving cap, and dream I'm cruising down the narrow winding roads in the English countryside.
My daughter caught the vintage bug, and has a Miami Blue 1977 Volkswagon Rabbit diesel. She was sad when she went off to college and left Rosie behind.
I wasn't because now I can take her out for a spin anytime!
- December 18, 2012 at 4:57 AM
- Jennifer said...
Vintage Saab 900 and my old '91 Landcruiser that I had to sell a couple of years ago.
- December 18, 2012 at 5:18 AM
- Twiggy said...
International Scout! Obsession.
- December 18, 2012 at 6:32 AM
Navy 1985 Mercedes 300D. I am actually selling one in Texas right now, sadly. Fav car ever.
- December 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM
- Tyla Caccese said...
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- December 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM
- Tyla Caccese said...
WOW! Love these cars. I used to drive a '76 Nova in firestorm red. It had a huge engine but was an under the radar muscle car. I wish I never sold it; I bet the 17-yr old that bought it from me picks up tons of chicks with it.
- December 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Any old vintage Volvo! You can't beat them.
- December 18, 2012 at 9:31 AM
YES! Older Volvo's anything from P1800 to the "newer" 240's and 740's
- December 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM
1967 jeepster commando! we have 2 and my boyfriend is working at rebuilding one at the moment!
- December 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Married a man with a serious 'thing' for vintage Italian cars.. his current is a 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV. Ah, for the smell of petrol and prosciutto on a Sunday morning drive - heehee.
- December 18, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Looks like you've got a thing for round headlights too.
- December 18, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Steve said...
67 GMC half ton.
Volvo P1800
- December 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Latest Fashion And Style said...
I like this car. so beautiful is.
- December 19, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Nash Metropolitan and 57 T-bird
- December 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- Tara said...
1978 Ford Ranger. Dark olive green with tan leather interior. A blanket across the bench seat and a huge steering wheel. *sigh
- January 2, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Jeep Wagoneer be mineeeeeeee
- January 10, 2013 at 12:39 AM
- Scotti said...
I've been lusting after that red BMW down the street myself!
- January 12, 2013 at 8:20 AM
- ZOUi said...
awesome articles. thank u :)
- January 13, 2013 at 11:12 AM
- Ginamua said...
Ford broncos, especially with soft tops, jeep wranglers, and defender 90
- January 15, 2013 at 3:09 PM
- Vannessa Gabbett said...
For me, any muscle car and a Volkswagen bus! The Volkswagen bus always reminds me of the Mystery Machine, which I really love. It's so old school and I can bring it everywhere, especially when going to the beach. You should definitely check this out or a muscle car!
- February 11, 2013 at 7:48 AM
- Vannessa Gabbett said...
For me, any muscle car and a Volkswagen bus! The Volkswagen bus always reminds me of the Mystery Machine, which I really love. It's so old school and I can bring it everywhere, especially when going to the beach. You should definitely check this out or a muscle car!
- February 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Naomi Champy said...
Right. Who doesn't find vintage cars charming, dainty and all? Anyway, you didn't mention your favorite of the classics. Mine would be the Dodge Challenger. Check this pin: http://pinterest.com/pin/378935756116786148/ I'm soo in love with it! ^.^ The Dodge Charger used in the Dukes of the Hazzard's appeals to me too. Notice the color congruency? :)
- March 1, 2013 at 10:21 AM
I have a 1972 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible - I've loved Ghias from the beginning - the 'poor man's Porsche...' They are rare - and a sighting (particularly here in rust-inducing New England) is an exciting event!
- March 2, 2013 at 12:21 PM
- Mickey said...
A Ford Ranchero 1979 would be my favorite. I don't own one, my Grandpa does. But I get to drive it sometimes, and that's cool for now. I'm still planning to own a vintage car, though. Anyway, these photographs are amazing! Seeing a vintage car on the road always makes me stop and stare until it's out of my sight. I don't know, but there's some sort of magic in them that gets me all the time.
Mickey Doshi
- April 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM


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Translated by Martin Goodman The year 1944. How we dreamed about this year! Throughout all the years of study, we wanted to push time [forward], so we could reach the age of 18, so we could finally be Eighteeners, the oldest girls from the female students in the school, the ones who were finished. This period seemed to us like an actualization of all desires. Here and there, there was perhaps a thought of 'what after this?', Numerus Clausus in the university, and war in the world. But all this was outside of our thoughts. We were certain that by the time that we would complete final examinations that all problems would be resolved and the whole world would be as wonderful as we could wish for. We did in fact have problems with the school a war problem for all the female students, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Our school, the Gimnázium for girls named for Count Albert Áponyi, was placed at the disposal of the army [for use] as a hospital [starting] from the year 1943, and we studied in the boys' Gimnázium in the afternoon hours. None of this bothered us, the opposite is true. This was an extra teenage adventure, letters in the desks from the boys and everything associated with it.
March 1944 arrived. Spring temptations while we were approaching the end of studies. Final exams, leaving school and going out into the real world92, the world of grown-ups. There were many plans: perhaps we would study medicine or something else in Budapest. In any case, we would study; this was clear because we were all distinguished students!
This [previous statement] refers to the [female] Jewish students. The war seemed far away to us and we were certain that our Hungary would not be hurt, and of course, neither would we. We had not heard of concentration camps, starvation, [or] actual persecution of Jews; and if some rumor snuck up on us, it seemed like a fiction that could not reach us. However, [even] if we did not want to know what was happening around us, events were approaching us.
March 1st was the first day of Spring. However, the year 1944 did not bring us tidings of the beginning of Spring. On March 18th, Saturday, we were still studying, still speaking about the Latin exam next Monday, and no one imagined what was going to happen that day. On March 19th, Sunday, we woke late as usual, like on a day without studies, we were discussing going on a hike with our girl-friends in order to enjoy the nice spring weather. A strange noise was heard from the main street, the main road between Vienna and Budapest. We approached the direction [where] the noise [was coming from], and in front of us there was an uninterrupted convoy of vehicles loaded with German soldiers, [they were like] children almost. They waved their hands at us, still not discerning between Hungarian girls and mere Jewish girls. We smiled back at them and we did not feel how that with the galloping vehicles, an unbelievably difficult future was approaching us that we never had imagined even in our worst dreams.
News on the radio. The German government decided for various reasons to man important strategic locations, like the Post Office, the Police Department, train [stations], etc. with Germans. We still did not appreciate what was happening and what this had to do with us.
The next day, we went to school as usual. Monday afternoon, stores were closed; few persons were in the streets. German soldiers in black uniforms were standing around the banks, the post office, etc., and in spite of this, we [went] with our briefcases to the Latin exam. At school, there was the usual pre-exam excitement, [for an exam] that never took place. In place of the teacher, the principal entered with a German escort and announced that the school had been assigned to the German soldiers for lodging. We took our briefcases and went home, perhaps a little pleased from the unexpected freedom. However in the desolate street, when we saw the German soldiers in black uniforms, I suddenly felt that catastrophe was approaching. I started to run home in fear, I opened the door, and I broke out in sobs. Daddy, Mommy, this is the end, let's flee, they will finish us [off]. I cannot explain what frightened me, but I felt the situation was bad.
News followed news. Many Jews had been arrested in train stations in Budapest and no one knew where they had been taken, anti-Jewish statutes were planned, etc., etc.
In the meantime, we continued with studies. Once again, another school a school of nuns, we had to keep going, we will take the graduation exams, come what may. The Hungarian Education Ministry decided to move the exams up to the month of April because of the new situation caused by the entrance of the Germans. However, the month of April also brought [bad] tidings and edicts. Starting from the 5th of April, all Jews were required to indicate their Jewish identity with a yellow Star of David on [their] clothing. Everyone had to be able to recognize us from a distance. We simply didn't understand how we could go out on the street, to walk among the students this way. Still, it was all done, the 5th of April arrived, and we went to school as usual. They pointed at us in the street, but we still hoped that this would change, that it would pass. Passover, the evening of the Seder, the last one with the family, the last at home, while simultaneously, written graduation examinations were starting. Once again, we were in the boys' Gimnázium.
Wednesday, April 12th, the exam in [the] Hungarian [language], everything went fine. That evening was the night of the second Seder. In the middle of reading the Haggadah, [there was an] alarm. We all went down to the [bomb] shelter in the house. Be calm [let's] continue in an orderly fashion with the festive meal. The airplanes merely flew over our city and again there was quiet.
Early in the morning, April 13th, I hurried to school [for] a written graduation examination in Latin. Outdoors, it was a Spring day. The windows were open in the auditorium of the examinations, and we sat and focused on the work. Suddenly, at about 11 [o'clock], [there was an] alarm. The teacher requested [us] to immediately hand in the work and to go down to the [bomb] shelter. I handed in everything, and running, I arrived at home. If something should happen, then I would be together with the family. And truly, [something] happened, for the first time, they bombed our city, explosion after explosion, but all [the bombing] was in the industrial zone that had virtually no Jews, a fact that caused us no little trouble. The bombing finished, we went up to the house and rapidly heard the outcome: about 1000 killed, most of them in the industrial zone, and of course, [there were] only four Jews93 among them. Rumors: Jews [had] guided the bombardment, the Jews were guilty for everything, [evidenced by the] fact, [that] they weren't hurt.
The next day, graduation exams continued. I did not go; I did not dare to go out on the street. The doorbell rang, the school custodian came. He had been sent to bring me immediately because examinations were taking place, and if [even] one exam was missed, [then] all of [my] exams would be void. We finished the exam in [the] German [language] and went out into the street in the blue uniforms of our school, with the yellow Star of David prominently visible on them. And for the first time, I experienced a personal attack. A woman with a dog sicked her dog at me [saying] Get the dirty Jew[ish girl].
The exams continued, oral exams were conducted in one day in all subjects, student by student. That is to say, not according to subjects, rather by students, a different method than [the] accepted [method] in the land [of Israel]. The exam was staged in the presence of an examination committee that consisted in part of teachers from the school and in part of other teachers and a chairman appointed by the Ministry of Education. Our chairman was a priest, Dr. Job Bánhegyi, the head of the Benedictine Order, and we sat in our blue uniforms with the yellow patch in front of this committee which did not include one Jewish member. All of them related to us in an unusual fashion, taking into account our emotional condition; they tried to help us and not to make things difficult for us. Especially, the chairman; there are no words to describe his tact and his understanding. We finished [our exams]. The results were made public the week after the exams. All of us, meaning six Jewish girls from the class of 30 [girls] passed with very good grades; all [of us received a grade of] excellent or at worst good.
This was the moment we had foreseen a diploma in hand with grades like these, everything was open in front of us, even Numerus Clausus [edicts] would [not prevent] us [from being accepted] in the universities. The important thing was the diploma, so we thought, but Hitler and his entourage decided otherwise.
The month of May. There was talk of abducting girls from their families, of work in places far from home, of concentrating Jews into ghettos, much talking, and still we were foolish, still we did not realize what was happening. They, referring again to the six graduated Jewish girls, decided to request from the chairman of our graduation exams that he should take us to work on the estate of the Benedictine Order. These priests [were] very rich, with large estates that required manpower, especially now in wartime. He received us very nicely and was quite willing to help us; we had only to inform him when we wanted to start to work. It was hard for us, spoiled girls from the study benches, to imagine working in the fields. How would we be able to do this? We still did not know what we were capable of and what would have to be done. We thanked him and promised to contact him later.
In the meantime, there was news. We had to move to the ghetto in the Jewish quarter Sziget and from there apparently, we were to go to work with all the Jewish families. We [the six Jewish girls] chose of course to go with our families, and the plan to work on the farm of the Benedictine Order fell through. A new blow, Jews were arrested without any violation of the law, for things they had never said, or simply because they were Jews. In the middle of the night, our neighbor was arrested and the following morning, it became known that my friend from the class, who had even managed to take the graduation exams, had also been arrested for writing an article against the treatment of the men/women of the Jewish Labor Service. We felt that the end was near, but we were also optimistic because what else could be done to us? The end of the war was apparent to us although we no longer heard the radio the Jews had to hand over all the [radio] receivers but news continued to sneak [in]. The Russians approached the borders of Hungary. Everything will be all right; they will not be able to impose additional edicts on us. We handed over our spacious apartment in the middle of the city in exchange for a room together with another family in the [Sziget] quarter of the city that had been assigned to be [the Jewish] ghetto. We took with us a few [pieces of] furniture and beds; everything [else] was left with the new residents [of our old apartment], because this was [supposed to be] only for a short time and then everything [was supposed to] return to its former state; we would receive the apartment, the furniture, the clothes, and the rest of the apartment's contents, all as we had left it. No one thought that such times would ever arrive. Then we rented a cart to move our possessions and we were in the ghetto. Dense, hot, but the important thing was that we were all together and what can happen when we are all together?
Additional news, they snuck a newspaper into the ghetto, the 6th of June, the invasion began, the English and the Americans entered onto European soil. The Russians from the east and the invaders from the west. In a little while, we would be free. However, the Germans in cooperation with the [Hungarian] authorities were very busy. We were in the ghetto for just a few days, and [then] again on the road. Once more, we left behind our meager possessions, we were permitted to take only a few garments and food with us, only what we ourselves could carry. We moved to barracks that served in the past as poor workers' accommodation; we never used to come near them, [because] they told us frightening stories about this place, about the filth and contamination. This place was the place assigned to us for lodging. We underwent body searches so that we wouldn't, God forbid94, smuggle gold or possessions, not even a watch; all this belonged to the conquerors [occupiers]. The body searches were humiliating, unendurable, but in spite of everything, we were all together.
We went by foot to our new place, bundles in hand. A long line of humiliated Jews that a number of weeks ago were respected persons, loyal citizens. We passed by our home on Árpád Street, heavy hearted, unable to go on. Mother cried, and we continued to comfort her: It's not important, it's all temporary; soon we will return to here. Again we found ourselves without beds, only mattresses or even no [mattresses]. How will we be able to live here? Friday, the Rabbis of the congregations that were gathered in this place decided to organize Friday [evening] prayers. Everyone came, even the Germans [who said], By what right is an assembly organized here? Who granted permission? Who authorized it? Those responsible will pay for this. All of the Rabbis were arrested, and on Sabbath morning by German orders, they were given a haircut. And in order that they [i.e., the Rabbis] should not think any more about prayer; they had to clean the lavatories. It is difficult to imagine the psychological and physical hardship that we endured in this place, and we did not yet know what would follow, and how things would be resolved.
Sunday, more news. All men up to the age of 45 years were required to stand with their families until afternoon with all of their possessions. They left to go to work. We were happy, my father was exactly 45 years old, we all went to work together; if if we can work, everything would work out for us, they pay for work, if not with money, then with food, with humane accommodations. Those who were above the specified age and who were unable to go out [to work] envied us. Everything was ready, we gathered, we left, we parted from those who were to be left behind and we did not know that we would see these persons from whom we were separating within a number of days. A freight train arrived, they loaded us by families [into freight wagons], person by person, sitting on [our personal] possessions. But so what? We were together and we would certainly reach our desired destination in a number of hours. They closed the wagons with lock[s] so that we would not flee. The train remained at the temporary station for hours, and [then] we left, traveling and traveling to we knew not where. From time to time, we looked through the train's window [to find out] where we were. My father, who during his life had traveled throughout Hungary, concluded, We are traveling northward, this is wonderful, soon we will meet the Russians. In Aszód95, they opened the wagons and allowed us to go to the bathroom; in the interim, all of this had [to be] done in the wagon. We moved away a bit and we heard the screams from the nearby institution for young criminals, Flee!, they are taking you to be killed!. We laughed, what did they know? We were traveling to our work. The road was long, three days and three nights. In a crowded wagon, dirty, everything was spilled! Along the way, our guards took the opportunity to enter the wagons and to request us, if we still had anything, to hand over to them money, jewelry, watches, in other words if we had succeeded to smuggle anything until now. We already knew that they had taken us out of Hungary, [and] that we were already in Poland; we saw the sign Krakow in the train station. And still we traveled.
The 14th of June, 1944. The train stopped, we looked through the window We read Oswiecim96 on the station sign. What's this? None of us had heard of a place like this, in any case none of us in the wagon. However, the train continued for a while and stopped again, a final time.
Cries [from] outside, the window aided us again and we saw many persons. Most were German soldiers and people in clothes with stripes. We wondered who they were, but they all seemed lined up and the [meaning of the] sight was not clear to us. My father said, In any case, wear a lot of clothes because anything on our person will certainly remain with us. The door of the wagon opened. A German escorted by a man in striped clothes entered and shouted, All Jews, Get out [of the wagon], Leave everything, [your] things will be brought immediately after you. We jumped out, dirty with three layers of clothes and with a jacket on a summery day. Sweating, even so, we were all together. Men and women to line up separately came the new command. I went with mother, my eight-year old brother with my father, but quickly he came to us, a small child must stay with his mother. And rows of women and men advanced past a tall German officer who surveyed the arrivees and directed them to the left or to the right. We did not know who he was and based on what he chose direction [left/right]. Later, they informed me that this was the well-known Dr. Mengele. Our turn came; he turned to my mother and asked, This is your child? meaning my brother. My mother answered, Both of them. However, he decided No and told my mother to go to the right and he directed me to the left. I did not even have a chance to say goodbye, my mother waved her hand and cried, Take care of yourself; she did not know that I had been selected to live and that they had sent her with my brother to die. This was the final farewell. I went out into the wide world, the world of grownups, in accordance with the edict of the Germans.
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|Number of inhabitants in the city of Győ:
|Number of Jews in the city of Győ:
|The Rabbi
|Head of the Community
|Spiritual Leader
|Responsible for Maintenance of Institutions
|Old Age Home
|Council of Community Representatives
|Kitchen for the Poor
|Synagogue Collections
|Visiting the Sick
|Responsibility for the Mikveh
|Chevra Kadisha
|Matzah Baker
|Torah Teachers
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Translated by Martin Goodman Each time that I remind myself of the dark days during childhood, I tremble to the depth of my spirit98 and soul and I relive the horrifying experience that befell us then. No detail is forgotten and I see before my eyes all of the individuals that surrounded me in those days as if they were alive and acting today. I will try to revive a tiny fraction of those impressions for you (children) so that you children of the eternal people will remember what the Amalekite people99 did to us in this generation.
When I come to place a marker and a monument for the six thousand Jews of the city of Győ and the surrounding area, I remember the six million who were murdered in Europe during six years of the evil German rule.
Life of the Jews in the city of Győ was conducted by still waters100 for about 70 years. Life was not different or [more] special than [in] other cities in the European Exile. The Jews lived with the non-Jews as a tolerated minority for many generations, they were involved in the general life of the land, spoke in their language, absorbed the spirit of their culture, conducted business and were involved in all of the [types of] work that were [considered to be] worthwhile to the people of the land. However, they observed the heritage of Israel, kept Mitzvot and customs of Israel; they lived and grew101 and built homes and families.
In order to guard their independent character, they created frameworks and boundaries for themselves, they established Jewish public institutions and education in a community framework, at the head of which stood the Rabbi, the spiritual leader, and at his side, there were men of action selected by the community, who saw to the running of the institutions. They provided services to the synagogues in the city; they established schools for Jewish children, a mikveh for family purity, a slaughterhouse for Kosher slaughter [of animals], etc.
Like other cities of central Europe, the city of Győ included two separate [Jewish] communities. One was called the Orthodox community and the second was called the Neolog (progressive) community. Each had a separate Rabbi and leadership. The first [Jews] concentrated in the neighborhood of Sziget near the Rába River. Formerly, this area was the ghetto, the restricted area of the Jewish settlement. The later [Neolog Jews] chose a settlement for themselves in the inner part [of the city] outside of the old Jewish quarter. This separation was more external than a separation in [their] hearts, because one fate tied them together against the outside world. So the Jews lived in two communities for about seventy years. Generations of orthodox Rabbis that came from Yeshivot102 and descended from rabbis, as well as rabbis who graduated from schools for Neolog Rabbis, provided religious service in the two communities mentioned above, Rabbi Snyders and Rabbi Dr. Roth were the last in the period that preceded the Holocaust.
The thrust of Orthodox education consisted of strengthening foundations of faith in the hearts of youths [and] avoiding activities of assimilating Jews; whereas the thrust of Neolog education consisted of safeguarding the relevance to the Jewish framework without excessive strictness regarding observance of routine daily Mitzvot [and] blurring of external boundaries that separated Jews and non-Jews. Neither of them became Zionist until the 1930s. An important change in the thinking of the generation occurred only in the years before the Holocaust, when Rabbi Dr. Emil Roth was chosen. He brought with him a new spirit and poured new blood into the veins of his congregation.
Rabbi Roth arrived in Győ in the year 1935 from the city of Eger in Hungary. He was a graduate of the rabbinical school in Budapest, and he continued his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From there, he brought a spirit that changed the face of the generation in the city from end to end. In his regular sermons in the synagogue to the public and to the youth in study groups, he preached Zionism and called for Aliya103. He established study groups for the Hebrew language [and] study groups for the Tanach104. Youths from all of the movements [of Judaism] came to listen to his teachings.
Of course at the beginning, he had difficult struggles with the members of his Neolog congregation as well as with ultra-Orthodox factions in the city. They attacked him because of his preaching on behalf of Zionism, and he stood up to them like an iron wall and he did not weaken and he did not concede to them until the difficult days rapidly came that proved the correctness of his path. Also, in the most difficult days, his conduct was a wonder. When the men of the Zionist underground came to save him, he did not want to abandon the members105 of his congregation and chose106 [instead] to remain with them in [their] trouble.
In the first days, when only rumors had arrived about the harsh decrees against the Jews in all of the states of eastern Europe, and even [later] when rumors arrived regarding plans for extermination [of the Jewish] people by the Germans, and until the year 1944 when most of the [Jewish] communities of Eastern Europe were already destroyed, patriotic Jews in Hungary still quieted themselves because such a thing would not happen in Hungary.
In fact, it did happen, and it was like thunder on a clear day. The day was 19 March 1944; the Jews that lived in Hungary woke from their slumber and from their illusions. They were awakened by hobnail boots of the German [soldiers] and by their army divisions that swept107 the entire land of Hungary in a single day. About 850 thousand Jews were trapped in their net. The difficult struggle of every Jew began for his life, for his very life. Likewise, the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators cooperated to destroy, kill, and obliterate108 the entire Jewish people where ever they were. They had tried and true methods. [The methods were] in accordance with the written Torah109 that was in front of them and in accordance with the practical legal decisions110. They knew how to use pacifying techniques on the multitudes [of people], they knew how to anesthetize the will against rising up, by means of lies and falsehoods and innocently pretending that they were only seeking the welfare of their victims. And the innocent Jews, believing that was what they [the Germans and Hungarian collaborators] truly wished, did their final will [by] extending their necks to their murders.
Step by step and at a rapid, hastened rate, the Nazis implemented their Final Solution on the Jews in the land of Hungary. First, they concentrated the tens of thousands of youths in work camps; in exchange for the essential work that they [the Jews] would perform there, they [the Nazis] would guard them there. (The intention was to concentrate the youths in remote camps far from their homes, so that they would not discover the power of opposition while at home.) [Only] elderly individuals, women, and children remained at home.
They established a Jewish Council with authority (this also was for their good) so that they [the members of the council] would execute the commands of the Germans: Gathering and recording of Jewish property and handing it over to German authority; Abandoning homes and concentration of the entire Jewish population in a closed district, completely cut off from the outside world. All that was required now was to transfer them to safe locations due to the danger of the war.
The German destruction machine functioned with precision and according to plan. In contrast, the Jews did everything with dulled sensibilities, as if [they were] hypnotized.
Those days were the Spring of 1944. The German war machine was already creaking and they [the Germans] retreated on every front, east and west. However, [enough of] their power remained to complete the task of exterminating more than 800,000111 Jews who remained alive in Hungary. Within 50 days, the Counting of the Omer112 between Passover and Shavuot, the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators [deported and] destroyed 600,000113 souls, in front of the entire world, and no one objected114.
Also on the Eastern front, the Russians halted their advance to give the Germans time to execute their plot. The British also closed the gates of the Land of Israel so that some Jewish refugees that had fled for their lives should not, God forbid115, find refuge. Only one road was still open to them; it was the road that led to the fiery furnaces of Auschwitz, and the road of afflictions of burdens and death in the wilderness of the peoples of Europe.
The turn of the Jews of Győ arrived a week before the Shavuot116 holiday. We were already crowded into the Ghetto by then, all five thousand Jews, in a narrow tight area. Two/three families in one room. We were sustained by a feeling of shared fate and a very weak hope that the Lord's salvation would come at any moment117. However, it [salvation], was delayed and the Hungarian Gendarme118 force and the S.S. soldiers came to beat us with their bayoneted rifles. They rushed us to come to a school building in the middle of the ghetto so that each of us should hand over articles of silver and gold and [other] valuables that were still in our possession. From there, began a journey by foot through the city streets, a long, long journey in which they all marched, elderly individuals who supported [themselves on canes], sick individuals that carried themselves and [sick individuals that] were carried by others, children and day-old infants carried in the arms of their mothers. The journey of separation from the city was escorted by the Gendarme force and the S.S. soldiers from both sides, with careful guarding so that no one would be lost. The non-Jewish population also escorted us; standing in the windows and peaking full of pleasure, some openly and some secretly, because their city had also finally been cleansed of these foreigners, because they knew that they [the Jews] would never return here.
We arrived at the Buda Road, which was an intermediate station. There were rickety wood shacks there, and already about one thousand Jews awaited us that had been brought here from cities adjacent to Győ and Moson. Now, we became one large camp for a number of days. It was Friday. In the evening, the Welcoming of Sabbath prayer service was conducted outdoors119. [As] the ministering angels and the host of heaven above came out to greet the Sabbath Queen, [so] we also went out to greet the Sabbath. The song Le-cha Do-di Li-krat Ka-lah120 was recited in the lament melody of Tisha B'Av121, and also the words of Rabbi Roth in his sermon concerned current events, how to remain human and to protect His image122 in conditions and circumstances when the law has no power and the law [becomes] might makes right123.
Also, early on in the morning [that] Sabbath, a big Kiddush124 was conducted in the area of the shacks a public sanctification of the name of God.. when the S.S. and the Gendarme force assembled Rabbi Roth, the judges, and some elders of the community, shaved their beards and peyot125, and after they had beaten them with murderous blows, they transferred them to the area of the shacks in the sight of the entire community and congregation so that they would see and fear126.
And so on the day after this Sabbath, we went on the first transport, stuffed and pressed in closed freight cars, in inhumane conditions, on the final journey. When we arrived at Auschwitz after four days, it was the 23rd of [the Hebrew month of] Sivan [in the Hebrew year] 5704 [14 June 1944]. The second transfer arrived after it on the 26th of [the Hebrew month of] Sivan [in the Hebrew year] 5704 [17 June 1944].
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Translated by Martin Goodman The Nazi movements in Germany and Austria spread127 their negative influence on Hungary and on the nearby128 city of Győ. Already in 1938, they removed the Jews from the Hungarian army and inducted them into work brigades. The primary function of these brigades was to perform tasks for the army that involved physical work.
At first, they inducted only young men of [military] draft age. In a later period, this service was extended to all men up to age 42 [years]. By 1940, they gathered Jews who were subject to the draft from Győ and from the surrounding area into the old fortress of Komárom. The situation there was reminiscent of Auschwitz principally thanks to the infamous Captain Ag129.
After Hungary joined the war, the Hungarian army fought on the Russian front and a large portion of the Jewish slave laborers [from the work brigades] was taken there. While the regular army was equipped with winter gear and matching supplies, the [Jewish] slave laborers worked in summer clothes without suitable supplies and housing, in a cold of 30 to 40 degrees [Celsius} below zero, in point of fact on the front line, exposed to the tortures of winter by the cadre and the sadistic officers. Obviously, these men who were not accustomed to physical labor, were not able to endure the physical and psychological tortures, and most of them perished.
[The slave laborers were] separated from home and family without being able to receive packages (letters also arrived very late and irregularly) , with [only] a little [bit] of inferior food. Their clothing and shelter did not suit the Russian winter. They were cold and were not able to maintain personal hygiene. They weakened both physically and psychologically and finally fell victim to maladies such as typhus, cholera, and famine. We do not have precise figures; however the number of Jewish victims on the Russian front is estimated at 60 to 70 thousand.
After the breaching of the Russian front, the [Jewish] slave laborers were employed inside the borders of Hungary in conditions that were slightly better130. The purpose was to separate working men from their families and thereby to cause their [i.e., the families] financial collapse.
In the spring of 1944 when the deportation of the Jews began, most of the Jewish families had no young men. This greatly eased the work of the authorities. At the end of 1944, the Russian army crossed the Hungarian border. As a consequence, all of the Jews who had been inducted into the work camps were transferred to Germany, together with the retreating German and Hungarian armies. Most of the expelled [Jews] were unable to endure further test of famine, cold, diseases, tortures, and forced marches. Very few had the fortune, [being] sick and weak, to see the day of liberation.
Deportation of the Jews of Győ was executed in June 1944. However of the 6000 Jewish inhabitants of the city and the surrounding area, almost all of the men were lost, and most of them did not even know the fate of their families.
After the liberation of Hungary (April 1945) , those few men who had the fortune to return from this awful [work brigade] service, extended help to the feeble shadows of men that arrived from the death camps.
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Translated by Martin Goodman It is difficult to imagine our psychological state when we arrived after the liberation of Győ, in April 1945, in a freight train from Budapest to our city. We came to the city where we were born, grew up, and were educated, and it was empty for us; empty, without Jews. All 6000 of the Jews were deported. Our homes, our furniture, our shops, our places of work, synagogues, community institutions were all robbed, smashed, destroyed. We passed the first night in an empty basement; sleep did not come to our eyes.
We recognized the inhabitants of the city. We grew up with them, but we could not forgive what they had done to us. Anyone who had not been a Zionist; what he had seen and felt had converted him to be a Zionist. It was clear that there was no reason to start over again in that place, to restore and to build amid uncertainty. However in spite of all of this, we were compelled to begin a new life.
At that time, we still hoped for the return of our deported families. And in fact, the first liberated persons began to arrive from the nearby Austrian border (about 60 kilometers [away]) . The trains were not yet operating. There was no food, clothing, fuel, or medicines. There was nothing except for poverty, sickness, unlimited exhaustion; only a strong desire to return home as rapidly as possible. Unfortunately, this did not always succeed because the weakened impoverished men could not always withstand the vicissitudes of this second migration of nations, and many died after liberation on their way home.
Our function was to extend help to our brethren that passed through our city, first and foremost warm food, lodging and clothing, medical care and hospitalization to those who required it. This was a huge mission in a city where all the shops were closed, a city without food, transportation, or fuel. However, necessity is the mother of invention131. We managed to acquire a horse and wagon and we went out to the surrounding villages to bring food. Every day, we fed 500 to 800 persons, we cleaned the community school building and we set it up [to be] a habitation [for individuals in] transit. We hospitalized the sick in the restored wing of the city hospital. Luckily, there were some doctors among the first returnees that dedicated their energy to this work for many months. In the first period, [only a] few of the members of our community returned. Later with restoration of the railroads, liberated persons from Germany began to arrive. We received132 them all with joy and brotherhood, every returnee and his problems.
Since they were all weak, destitute, psychologically broken the fate of their loved ones, only this was known to them it was necessary to take care of them: housing, clothing, food, medical care, adapting to new conditions, sources of livelihood, all of these required much work, activity, and lots of money. The last problem was solved by the American JOINT133 which immediately supplied us a large stock of clothing and food when regular transportation was restored. The main share of the assistance project in our city, as in the rest of the cities, and in the center, in Budapest, was done by veteran members of the Zionist movements whose ultimate purpose was to direct the Holocaust survivors to the Land of Israel.
This was the long-term purpose, but until then it was necessary to live, to reside [in a dwelling], to eat. After the first waves of transit refugees passed in the first six weeks, we began to organize the survivor community of our city, about 450 persons out of 6000. In Győ, like everywhere in the Exile, we organized a new life in a community framework. Dedicated, passionate comrades cleaned the little synagogue and within two weeks, regular prayer services began, and later on, community life. Afterwards, with the help of the JOINT, we repaired the big synagogue, we elected a new chief Rabbi, Dr. Eizenberg (currently the chief Rabbi in Vienna) in place of Dr. Emil Roth of blessed memory134, who died a hero's death in the Holocaust. Our cantor returned and so we developed an intense community life. This was the only family that remained for most of us. We organized lectures and gatherings with the help of the Zionist Histadrut135 and the JOINT, and the public participated in them with great awareness. The community even organized a very successful Passover Seder.
A serious problem was the return of the Jews' apartments to their lawful owners. All of the homes were occupied [by non-Jews] and it was not easy to have them returned. For this purpose, we organized a housing office in cooperation with the municipality. These homes also had to be furnished. All of the furniture [that belonged to the] Jew[s] had been stolen, robbed, and it was very difficult to trace what had become of it. Also for this purpose, we cooperated with the municipality and we organized a division of lost property, and in fact, we succeeded to find homes, furniture, and other essential things for most of the returnees.
In the meantime, the national and municipal authorities began to function, stores opened, transportation was restored, and industrial production started. Holocaust survivors who had recovered began to work, they started businesses. After a year or two, widowers married widows, and in 1947 the first Jewish child was born after the liberation.
Adapting to the new conditions was difficult. First and foremost, the youths were dissatisfied, and at the end of 1946, emigration began.
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Translated by Martin Goodman In the meantime, preparations began for establishment of the new Jewish state, and it was desirable to direct Holocaust survivors, as much as possible, to immigrate [to Israel]. This was a renewed migration of returnees, [although] now in the opposite direction and by regular means of transportation [cars, buses, trains], but once again [it went] through Győ to Germany, in order to continue from there to the Land of Israel. The road was long and fatiguing and took a year to two years, through camps in Germany and Cyprus [British detention camps], until they arrived in the Land of Israel.
Before we left the city, we erected a magnificent monument in the Jewish graveyard in Győ to the memory our brethren. Within the monument, we signed the names of our martyrs in a magnificent memorial book. (A photograph and plan of the monument appear in this book.) Those who remained in the city conduct a memorial ceremony every Memorial Day136 at the monument. The monument was dedicated in a national memorial ceremony with the participation of the President of the State at the time, the Minister of Education, and representatives of the state and municipal governments. Heads of the Jewish organizations and almost all of the Rabbis also participated. We succeeded in bringing a copy of the memorial book [with us] and we gave it to the Yad Va'Shem137 archive in Jerusalem.
With the passing of time, about a half of the Győ survivors arrived in Israel, and they are with us today [at the time of publication of this book]138, about 240 persons.
In the meantime, we have become Israelis. However, we shall never forget our dear brethren who perished in the Holocaust. Since we are unable to pray and say [the] Kaddish139 [prayer] on Memorial Day at the monument [in Győ], we meet every year in a different city140. However, we are growing old, and our ranks grow shorter. That is how life goes. We desire that when we are no longer among you, that a portion of Israeli youth will unite on Memorial Day with the memory of the Jewry of Győ that once was a flowering community. And our children and our grandchildren, who speak and read only Hebrew, will know where their forefathers came from.
1) The word for "high school" in the Hebrew text can refer to what are sometimes referred to as middle school and high school 9th - 12th grades) or just high school (10th-12th grades) , depending on context. In Hungary it usually refers to years 7 to 12 and in most cases herein, I have simply translated this as "high school". Return
2) Literally 'one-half a Jubilee' Return
3) Literally, 'dressed themselves in the form of ' Return
4) The 10th of Tevet is a Jewish fast day that commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in the year 586 BCE. Return
5) The corresponding date using the modern calendar is 28 December 1971. Return
6) One of the leaders of the Magyar tribes. So called since the city was surrounded by a round fortress, gyûrû meaning ring in Hungarian. Return
7) Also known as Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary 1458-90. Return
8) Sziget literally means island. This is an area across the Rába river from the old city of Győr and takes its name from the fact that it is surrounded on three sides by rivers. Return
9) In 1826 the cemetery was inaugurated. Return
10) Literally, 'Holiness Society'', i.e., the group responsible for funerals and burials. Return
11) Academies of higher Jewish study. Return
12) Actually Judaism was initially divided into three groups Orthodox, Neolog (Reform/Conservative) and Status Quo Ante (communities not associated with the other two) . Return
13) A single-room school where a rabbi teaches boys. Both factions managed an elementary school recognized by the City authorities. Return
14) Comforting mourners is regarded to be a religious duty by traditional Jews. Return
15) The Hebrew text is unclear, but the 6,000 includes the number of Jews living in Győr and the surrounding area. Return
16) Rabbi Ya'akov Snyders also served the community until 1944. Return
17) When the Neolog congregations were formed in the 19th Century they were considered progressive, but generally practices are conservative and should not be confused with current reform/liberal movements. Return
18) Deuteronomy (7:26) . Return
19) Avigdor Bar-Hai adds another opinion - Later, in my boyhood (1939 and on) the relationship between the Orthodox and Neolog communities were improved, maybe thanks to Dr. Roth. Many of the Orthodox community, (including my late father) used to go after the Friday evening prayer to the Neolog Synagogue to listen to Dr. Roth's sermon. Return
20) Literally "Aunt Rosa". Néni is the formal/respectful way of addressing an older woman. Return
21) The term used is the Yiddish "naches" joy, gratification, especially from children. Return
22) Annual commemoration of the passing away of a close relative. Return
23) The period that commemorates the interlude between when the Romans entered Jerusalem and when they burned the Second Temple. Return
24) This custom is based on the Lamentations (2:19) , " Rise, cry out at night at the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of God, lift up your hands to Him for the soul of your infants who are wrapped in famine " Return
25) The discussions of the Rabbis of Babylon dating from between 1600 to 1800 years ago. Return
26) A sarcastic slur of the name Ephraim. Return
27) Hungarian being their day-to-day language. Return
28) Literally "hairs". Return
29) A high school with emphasis on technical and practical subjects. Students attended for eight years after completing four years of elementary school. Return
30) High school. Return
31) To their credit the Benedictine school accepted Jewish students and one of them, József Schmideg, even became a rabbi, a fact proudly acknowledged by the Order. Return
32) Presumably, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, October 1917. Parallel with the there was a Communist regime in Hungary for a short period. Return
33) Literally, 'new' Return
34) Literally 'people'. Return
35) Well know writer (1882-1953) , who also established the magazine "Múlt és Jövő". He is the father of the historian Raphael Patai. Return
36) Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern political Zionism. Return
37) Yehuda HaLevi was a medieval Jewish poet from Spain. HaLevi wrote about his religious yearning for Zion. His writings provide a religious counterfoil to the political Zionism of Herzl. Return
38) The Hebrew word transliterates to Macoy, but it might be Makai, a Hungarian writer who translated the works of medieval Spanish Hebrew poets. Return
39) Likely to be Manoello Guido ca. 1265-1300, who wrote Hebrew poetry and his established name is Immanuel ben Solomon. Return
40) Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot) 1583-1645 Dutch statesman and historian. He had a protective role in Amsterdam for Jews that escaped from Spain and Portugal. His main work is Remonstrantie. Return
41) A quarterly Jewish publication still in existence. Return
42) Literally, 'The Hope'. Return
43) Miklós Horthy became Regent of Hungary in 1 March 1921. Return
44) Literally 'still-born'. Return
45) A communist government was established for four months during 1918-9. It was headed mostly by converted Jews, but was very anti-Semitic. Return
46) Presumably, the miracle of deliverance of the entire Jewish people in the days of Mordechai and Esther. Return
47) The date of the Purim holiday. Return
48) Literally 'The Youth That Studies'. Return
49) Tomasov was an active Zionist who traveled around the country visiting congregations. He was an important and influential person in Transylvania among young Zionist. Return
50) The 'Numerus Clausus' edicts in 1920 limited the Jewish enrollment in universities to no more than their relative part of the population, 6% of the total enrollment. Return
51) The 'shekel' was basic currency in Israel during Biblical times and the coin of ½ Shekel was used as a tool for Census of the Population, since counting the people was prohibited. Return
52) A place where Jewish men gather to study the Torah. Return
53) Bath for ritual immersion. Return
54) Flat unleavened bread eaten during Passover. Return
55) In the 'Tashlich' ritual, which is performed between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, breadcrumbs are cast on the surface of a body of water to symbolize the casting away of sins. Return
56) Literally Forward!. Return
57) Theodore Herzl. Return
58) German newspaper published 1874-1942. Return
59) Jewish historians. Return
60) Modern Hebrew language poets. Return
61) The meaning of this name is unknown. It could be a nickname or an acronym. Return
62) The name means Spring (Season) in Hebrew. Return
63) Women's International Zionist Organization. Return
64) Seems to be a reference to the leader or controlling Zionist organization in each region. In the Talmud Galil means area or region. Return
65) 'Assimilated Jews' may be closer to the intent of the author. Return
66) The head of the Jewish Community. Return
67) The Numerus Clausus Return
68) Unable to determine the meaning of this word in either Hebrew or Hungarian. Return
69) Jews are required to observe 613 mitzvot or commandments listed in the Torah. Return
70) A style of printing Hebrew letters traditionally used for the Biblical and Talmudic commentaries of Rashi, as well as for other religious texts. Return
71) See Song of Songs 3:11, Go out and see, O daughters of Zion, how King Solomon was crowned by his mother on his wedding day, the day of his heart's joy. This verse and other verses from Song of Songs were deeply loved by Jewish mystics, and also in modern times, by secular Israelis. Return
72) See Song of Songs 2:1, I am the rose of the Sharon [valley], the lily of the valleys. Return
73) Literally, 'steps'. Return
74) European Jews typically pronounced Hebrew in Ashkenazi fashion. However, by the 1920s, the Sephardi pronunciation had been adopted by Hebrew speakers in Palestine and by other Zionists. Return
75) Jewish prayer book. Return
76) Old Testament, from Hebrew acronym for Torah, Prophets, and other Writings. Return
77) Babylonian Talmud, Ta'anit, folio 29a. Return
78) 'Purim play', Yiddish. Return
79) Literally Aunt Klara. Néni is formal/respectful way of addressing an older woman. Return
80) The first wife and queen of King Ahashverosh. Return
81) A long coat worn by Hassidic (ultra-Orthodox) Jews. Return
82) Long locks of hair grown from the vicinity of the temples and sideburns, a custom of Hassidic (ultra-Orthodox) Jews. Return
83) The title of this Yiddish song is small room narrow and warm and it begins with the words auf dem pripicsek brent a feurel, which means on top of the cooker burns a flame, referring to the small single flame burner used in poor households to cook meals. Return
84) Where the Torah scrolls are kept in the synagogue. Return
85) No romantic relationship is implied. Return
86) Translation of this name is uncertain. Return
87) Older Aviva. Return
88) Younger Aviva. Return
89) Literally 'new'. Return
90) Translation of this expression is uncertain. Return
91) The group is named after the Maccabees, the priestly Cohenite family that ruled the Land of Israel between 160 B.C.E. and 70 B.C.E. This was the last independent Jewish state in the Land of Israel before the State of Israel was established in 1948. Return
92) Literally 'the big world'. Return
93) Two of these people Rozsa Eckmann (nee Lowinger) and Ilona Eckmann (nee Koch) were from my mother's family (Stephen Schmideg) . Return
94) This expression is intended to be ironic. Return
95) A small town north-east of Budapest. Return
96) Polish spelling of Auschwitz. Return
97) Much of this section is written in present tense even when past tense is clearly intended. Return
98) Literally 'I am stormy to the depth of my spirit'. Return
99) According to Exodus (16:8-16) and Deuteronomy (26:17-19) , the Amalekites ambushed the Jewish people shortly after they left Egypt. Return
100) See Psalms (23:2) . Return
101) Increased in population. Return
102) Academies of Jewish religious study. Return
103) Immigration to the Land of Israel. Return
104) Old Testament, from Hebrew acronym for Torah, Prophets, and other Writings. Return
105) Literally 'children'. Return
106) Literally 'preferred'. Return
107) Literally 'that swept and passed like a current of mighty waters'. Return
108) See the expression used by Haman regarding his attempt to commit genocide against the Jews of the Persian Empire, Esther (3:13) . Return
109) Ironic reference to the written books of the Torah. Return
110) Ironic reference to the Responsa Rabbinic literature. Return
111) Literally '80 myriads'. Return
112) See Leviticus (23:15-16) . Historically, the period of the counting of the Omer has been marked by customs of mourning because in the days of Rabbi Akiba, one of the greatest Torah scholars of the 2nd century, thousands of Torah students died in a plague. Return
113) Literally '60 myriads'. Return
114) Literally 'no one opened his mouth and whistled'. Return
115) This savage irony is not a mistranslation. Return
116) The Shavuot holiday, which is celebrated 50 days after the beginning of Passover, commemorates the announcement of the Ten Commandments and the giving of the Torah to the Jews at Mount Sinai. Return
117) Literally 'in the wink of an eye'. Return
118) Police Return
119) Literally, 'under the canopy of the heavens'. Return
120) Come m beloved to greet the bride. Return
121) The 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, the day on which Jews commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Return
122) God's image, i.e., human beings. Return
123) Literally 'he that is [most] violent [shall] prevail'. Return
124) Kiddush is the sanctification/blessing recited over wine prior to a festive meal; the use here is ironic. Return
125) Long strands of hair that some Orthodox Jewish men grow from the area of the sideburns. Return
126) A similar expression is used in Deuteronomy (21:21) to describe a boy who is executed for disobeying his parents. Once again, the cruel irony of this passage is not a translation error. Return
127) Literally 'radiated'. Return
128) Close to Austria, that is. Return
129) Uncertain about correct spelling of this person's name. Return
130) Literally 'slightly less bad'. Return
131) Literally, 'Necessity awakens the ability to improvise'. Return
132) 'Greeted' may be a better translation. Return
133) American Jewish Distribution Committee. Return
134) Literally 'the memory of a righteous man is a blessing'. Return
135) The umbrella organization of Jewish workers in the British Mandate of Palestine. Return
136) Holocaust Memorial Day, celebrated in Israel on the 27th of the Hebrew month of Nissan. Return
137) Holocaust Memorial Museum. Return
138) Since then many members have passed away. Blessed be their memory. Return
139) Prayer of sanctification of God's name recited by Jewish mourners. Return
140) Nowadays (2004) the memorial service takes place in the small synagogue at the Dvora Hotel in Tel Aviv. An annual memorial services is also held at the cemetery in Győr. Return
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