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Making Better Concrete: Guidelines to Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures
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- Dubious Accusations of the Polish Home Army (AK) Killing Fugitive Jews
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The House of Ashes
Oscar Pinkus
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Dubious Accusations of the Polish Home Army (AK) Killing Fugitive Jews.......2007-03-06
Oskar Pinkus is a Polish Jew who lived in Losice, located 85 miles east of Warsaw and 10 miles from the Bug River. In 1939-1940, after the German-Soviet conquest of Poland, Losice's Jews didn't believe in Hitler's threats (pp. 50-51). This further shows that the widespread Jewish-Communist collaboration of 1939 couldn't have been driven by fears of Nazi extermination.
The Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa) was kept in the dark until the last moment before the August 1942 roundup of Losice's Jews (p. 106). The Germans also forced the local farmers to come with their carts (p. 106). (This corrects the misuse of a painting shown in the movie SHTETL, through which the viewer is misled into believing that the local farmers collaborated willingly in the roundup and transport of Bransk's Jews). At Siedlce, 20 miles from Losice, the Ukrainian police took over (pp. 109-110), and both the Blue Police and Polish farmers were sent home. The Ukrainians and Germans loaded the Jews onto trains for their 60-mile trip to their deaths at Treblinka. At Siedlce, it was the Germans, not Poles, who were jeering the Jews: "As the Jews passed, the Poles fell silent watching the procession of doomed men and women. The German soldiers who stood on the sidewalks commanded in sneering voices...: (pp. 109-110).
Just before the roundup, Pinkus fled Losice. Throughout his treks, he was helped by Poles in numerous, successive occasions (p. 88, 90, 91,128, 129, 137, 212), including once by a Polish Blue Policeman (p. 87). This further proves that many Polish benefactors were necessary for the saving of even one Jew. Pinkus also mentions Poles who refused to help owing to the German-imposed death penalty for such acts (p. 89, 93, 133) and, unlike Jan Tomasz Gross, recognizes the legitimacy of this motive for Polish inaction (p. 119). However, Pinkus criticized overseas Jews for their lack of assistance (p. 119).
Pinkus eventually found "permanent" lodging in a shelter underneath farmer Karbicki's barn. At first, Karbicki helped only because Pinkus paid him but, in time, became more altruistic (p. 199; "But I can't keep you for nothing", p. 220). The reader may exonerate Karbicki after considering his extreme poverty, which included tattered clothes and hole-ridden boots (p. 128; p. 153). (It is unfair that Poles who were paid to help Jews are deemed ineligible for the Yad Vashem medal, whereas Danes, who were incomparably better well-off under German occupation and yet took hefty fees for shipping Jews to Sweden, are eligible).
At first, Pinkus praised the AK and commended it for assassinating Germans, spies, collaborators, and informers (pp. 195, 204), and for making the Germans fearful of entering the woods. As a result of all this, in 1943 the hidden Jews felt safer than ever (p. 196).
In time, Pinkus left his shelter at Karbicki's farm and encountered other Jews in hiding in the forest or nearby farms. They assembled into a band that built an independent shelter within the forest, and that stole feedstuffs and livestock from Polish farmers (pp. 204-206). One may understand why Poles sometimes killed fugitive Jews.
Pinkus then writes: "Shymeluk had gone to Wolki for food one night and did not return. At first the farmers denied that he had even been in the village but eventually we learned that he had been killed by...the AK, the Polish underground. Shymeluk was in a farmer's house when the AK arrived. They took him with them, and although there was no direct proof that they killed him, it remained a fact that Shymeluk never returned from that trip." (p. 213). Obviously, Pinkus didn't see any of this, but was relying on someone else's statements (in other words, hearsay). Besides, could "going for food" include stealing? Finally, in any event, how could Pinkus know that Shymeluk's presumed death didn't occur sometime AFTER the latter's presumed contact with the AK?
Interestingly, Pinkus' only clearly eyewitness experience with the AK was a positive one. The AK visited the area, forced all the Jews out of hiding, and, not only didn't harm them, but encouraged them (pp. 215-218).
But later that night, the AK allegedly returned and "without even looking" threw grenades into the forest shelter in which the Jews had until recently been hiding (p. 218). Considering the darkness of the forest, and unless Pinkus was very close to the shelter (which he doesn't indicate), how could he possibly know such details? Besides, if the AK was out to kill Jews, why didn't it do so earlier that day, in broad daylight, when it had all the Jews gathered together?
Skepticism is justified. The informed reader may recount Polish Jew Jerzy Kosinski's tall tales about Polish atrocities against Jews, exposed as such by independent investigation, or Yaffa Eliach's contradictory, fantastic account of her 7 year-old self counting the number of bullets fired by an AK soldier into her baby brother. (Who counts shots, and what AK soldier would waste multiple scarce bullets on an infant?)
Pinkus even makes a Yaffa Eliach-like accusation of the AK having an order to kill all remaining Polish Jews. He admits the nonexistence of written evidence of it, yet says: "But better evidence lies in their record of persistent and widespread murder...In 1945 alone, 352 Jews were murdered by the AK..." (p. 226). What a non sequitur! A few hundred Jews killed, even if all correctly blamed on the AK, is hardly proof of an AK "mini-Wannsee" (Eliach's term). And 352 killed out of over 250,000 remaining Polish Jews would only mean that the AK did an atrociously poor job of it.
Pinkus claims that, in March 1945, the AK killed 3 of the 20 surviving Jews of Losice (p. 226). This is a flat lie. The AK no longer existed then! It had already been disbanded by Leopold Okulicki, its final commander, in January 1945.
Devastating.......2005-03-19
Very painful but extremely well written account of the author's experiences as a teenage Jew under Nazi rule. In addition to the horrific experiences of this young man and his family, he gives us a glimpse of the bigotry and ignorance in Europe that allowed Hitler to slaughter so many Europeans, most of them Jews. A must-read for everyone, especially anyone who is so ignorant as to compare Israeli Jews to Nazis.
Devastating.......2002-12-17
Devastating saga of endurance and inhumanity that makes Anne Frank's fate appear almost benign by comparison - and just ONE of so many individual tragedies. To Pinkus's descendants I can only reach out a hand of solidarity and voice my hope that Palestinians/Moslems/Arabs (do Americans know the difference?) are never so demonized.
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The Healing Home: Practical Ways to Harmonize Your Home and Energize Your Spirit
Stephen Ash
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Is your home filled with junk you can't let go of? Are the corners cluttered with items you're keeping "just in case?" If so, you're likely clinging to the past in personal and professional relationships as well--holding yourself back from living the fullest life possible. With the practical suggestions in this one-of-a-kind guide to healthy living, you'll easily acquire the skills needed to effectively achieve harmony in your home and your inner spirit. Life-changing tools from a variety of cultures and traditions--Native American, Celtic, Indian, African,
Tibetan--help peel away layers of stagnation. Beautifully illustrated lessons on everything from ancient shamanism and chakras to modern crystals, minerals, even electromagnetic field balancing, invest you with the power to improve your internal and external environment. Whether you create your sacred space with a medicine wheel or cleanse your new office space with a smudging stick and blessed water, you'll clear the way for positive change in your home and yourself.
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Effective and Enlightening.......2003-12-22
The Healing Home Book is at long last a book that gives the reader easy to follow, effective practices to create a home filled with peace, light, happiness and love.
Based on the Native Tradition of the Medicine Wheel, it allows the reader to pin-point areas of disharmony and resolve them using the power of tested and tried methods based on years of experience by the author.
Learning to deal with ley lines and water lines without disturbing the harmony of the Earth is as important as clearing stuck emotional and spiritual energies within the living space in an effective and safe way.
The second part of the book gives beautiful ways of re-connecting to the source and creating balance within ourselves, so we are well prepared and able to redress the balance within our living and working space.
I would recommend this book to everyone who is aware of the importance of balance and harmony in the space that we inhabit, so that they can create for themselves a life filled with happiness, peace, abundance and health.
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Carry the truth to the people: A.fter C.ash Townley smoked out : a companion volume to "The farmer and Townleyism" : being the second volume of an expose ... political history : House bill 44 explained
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The Colburns: Glimpses at the life of James Smith Colburn, merchant, 1780-1859 : excerpt from "A house on Beacon Street"
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Beauty for ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with numerous illustrations
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Limited testing along the north foundation of the Monroe--period house at Ash Lawn--Highland, Albemarle County, Virginia
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