tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post62331155573647096..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Memory and Humanity, by Clare MulleyMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-37288110961977779702015-02-01T22:01:04.159+00:002015-02-01T22:01:04.159+00:00Thank you for your comments all!
I also loved Car...Thank you for your comments all! <br />I also loved Carol Drinkwater's blog on tolerance, and I was so pleased to hear Dame Stephanie Shirley say the same. <br />Leslie Wilson - that is interesting. You say 'the wives' protested. Did it make any difference which partner was Jewish? Can you cast any more light? Clare Mulleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592100764046914574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-68861860377032070592015-01-30T11:33:36.657+00:002015-01-30T11:33:36.657+00:00An inspiring blog! Dame Shirley is an example to u...An inspiring blog! Dame Shirley is an example to us all, and I do love the story about her painting over the swastika - though the fact that she had to do it herself does suggest that perhaps we should have some legislation about this? I wonder if the farmer was one of those who is proud of Britain's role in World War 2?<br />It is not quite so incredible, though, that Dame Shirley's mother and father survived. As a Jew married to a gentile, he would probably have been a 'privileged Jew', and though in 1943 an attempt was made to remove the Jewish partners in such marriages from Berlin to be murdered, it failed when the wives protested, which took no little courage. I believe (though it's a thing I would want to check) that the status remained largely unchallenged thereafter. Of course, had Hitler won the war, he would have come after those spouses, and also their children, and anyone with any Jewish ancestry at all. Whereas in the actual twelve years of Nazi rule, you were safe if you had four baptised grandparents, even if your name was Cohen.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72926633109879726572015-01-29T11:42:36.354+00:002015-01-29T11:42:36.354+00:00I love her tale of buying paint and doing it herse...I love her tale of buying paint and doing it herself, this is so true, that we can not stand and say we must change, but go and and change! Ruan Peathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17999492027801288004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-68304309368263282802015-01-28T12:05:33.483+00:002015-01-28T12:05:33.483+00:00Another vote from me, and also praise for Carol Dr...Another vote from me, and also praise for Carol Drinkwater's recent blog on tolerance. The example of Dame Shirley and also of the Auschwitz survivors featured on the BBC's excellent Touched by Auschwitz programme yesterday (no doubt on i-player if you missed it) is inspiring. Difference should be celebrated, not feared, and politicians and the like who make people afraid of difference, for their own ends, are to be scorned and mistrusted.Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11871344153749710528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79831941849328538992015-01-28T11:13:33.452+00:002015-01-28T11:13:33.452+00:00I so agree with you, Elizabeth.
A fine thought-pr...I so agree with you, Elizabeth. <br />A fine thought-provoking piece, Clare, thank you. How wise of Dame Stephanie to remind us that the 'anti' factions are growing in many corners, not only in the anti-semitic factions.Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-30115728247789868092015-01-28T10:55:39.460+00:002015-01-28T10:55:39.460+00:00What a moving and inspiring post Clare, and what a...What a moving and inspiring post Clare, and what a strong and interesting woman. Goes to show that to change things we have to have the strongest will to change. No one's going to do it for us. Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.com