tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7266951282945189704..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: What I did in my summer holidays...1961 By Adele GerasMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-35478012307886469352012-08-14T12:46:25.937+01:002012-08-14T12:46:25.937+01:00Thanks so much, Vicki and Theresa...and lovely to ...Thanks so much, Vicki and Theresa...and lovely to see you here, Vicki! adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-87180051857300938372012-08-13T19:46:45.474+01:002012-08-13T19:46:45.474+01:00Oh Adele, this is one the most moving posts I have...Oh Adele, this is one the most moving posts I have ever read - evokes youth so sensitively and honestlyTheresa Breslinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02240135723649161949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-32022395575244874112012-08-13T00:28:48.410+01:002012-08-13T00:28:48.410+01:00Wonderful post. Your description of seeing Eichma...Wonderful post. Your description of seeing Eichman reminds me of Hannah Arendt's famous line about the "banality of evil." All the more chilling. But really, it's a good thing your mind was filled with the romance of a 17 year old...that's how it SHOULD be! It would've been heartbreaking if his evil had crushed your starry-eyed,love-saturated, innocent teen self.Vicky Alvear Shecterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570828339389206203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-84555482445304292312012-08-12T16:44:41.260+01:002012-08-12T16:44:41.260+01:00This comment comes from someone who is a very dear...This comment comes from someone who is a very dear friend of mine. Her parents' flat was just along the landing from my grandmother's place and we were very close from the age of about 3. This is what she wrote to me in an email:<br /><br />It was very interesting to read your post on the blog. I remember perfectly well this summer . My reaction to the Eichman trial was very different I don't think I went<br /><br />to the place. My mother did , I think, but I remember only too well many parts of it , as it was transmitted on the radio (there was no TV in Israel then) and I and many of my class mates and other friends were very influenced by the testimonies given there. You have to remember that my grandparents and aunt and her family and other members of my mother's family all perished in the Holocaust' and so were members of Irit's family [a mutual friend of ours who lived across the street ..Adele] and other friends. We talked about the trial all the time. It was only 16 years after the war and Israel was full of surviv0rs that remembered and most of them didn't tell about the horrific things they witnessed, till this trial.<br /><br />Then we suddenly heard the unbelievable that even today, so many years after, is still unbelievable and unbearable.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-46702024208129694842012-08-12T16:36:37.024+01:002012-08-12T16:36:37.024+01:00Many thanks to Anne Roooney for retrieving my acci...Many thanks to Anne Roooney for retrieving my accidentally deleted post! And to Mary Hoffman who suggested that I could schedule it retrospectively, which indeed I can! My other comments are lost but in a few moments, I am going to post part of an email I had from a very dear friend in Israel to whom I sent the link.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.com