You think this woman, my mother would want ________ __ ______ THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER of the Cincinnati Firm ________ _________ & ________ to kill off her FAMILY that remains after the HOLOCAUST took everyone else including my brother who jumped from the Carew Tower to his death partially because he was second generation Holocaust Survivor?
Tragedy after tragedy like dominoes falling...IMO THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER deserves PRISON...for eternity. IMO anything less would be just as tragic.....DAMN THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER....as a just Goddess would do!
Holocaust victim's DREAMS... for MONEY and/or prestige!
Well............
....you would think things could get ugly...like very ugly. That's never a good thing but far less bad than When EVIL destroys a holocaust victim's DREAMS... for MONEY and/or prestige!
My mother speaking in this link about the lost family of the Holocaust, who WANTED me to survive and raise my son, has been dismally trashed by the Law Firm of _______ _________ &______, and more specifically by ____ ___ ____.
Fill in THE BLANKS.....yes, I will, in time. Patience is what my mother and life taught me.
The blanks filled in will be SHOCKING and yes people like these do things like that.
It was uncanny. So many unfortunate events being reproduced to me in these books...it was unbelievable. One project i will do is use the volumes and events and put the names of all of my victimizers on the net. That which I wrote about Kimberly Colangelo and Charles Perkins and John Simon and Dr Lori Simon PhD are in keeping with the books themes of unkind humanity and THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER.....BECAUSE she was..is..was??? such a well respected LAWYER takes the cake!!! Stay tuned for truth that is as unbelievable as the plots in A Series of Unfortunate Events except to older wiser people who have been ground through the mill over a lifetime.
I think I erased a paragraph, the gist of which is that I read all 13+ volumes of this series to my son when he was young. We laughed much then over the complex plots in which all the orphans managed to escape with their lives. Inside I cried because I had experienced my own series of wretched events that were too close in the plots to the series. Now THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER tops ANY of those evil villains. I joked with friends that Daniel handler KNEWwhat I was going to go through and based the series on MY LIFE.
My son and I did get one volume autographed by Daniel Handler at the Library in Cincinnati.
People have told me, and I have disagreed with them, that from the moment Kimberly Colangelo walked into my place until now....there are BOOKS to be written...Movies to be made. From my perspective I just want the pain to be over...in its own time...with justice. Like the 3 orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events who were targeted for their parents MONEY.....Once I became an orphan June 2016, THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER has targeted my mothers money for others...why? I am not certain as I was as ssurprised when I found tghis out as my mother's attorney who was physically shut up by THE WELL RESPECTED ATTORNEY in the office of THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER...PARTNER IN THE FIRM OF _____ _____ & ______ who if truth be known was the perfect model for a Daniel Handler tragedy.
The following is a copy and paste from the link...I need to reformat this but it is readable now and it is very meaningful...especially to me.
The trauma of second-generation Holocaust survivors
Rita Goldberg's mother was a Holocaust survivor whose epic escapes from
the Nazis were worthy of a film script. But like many children of camp
survivors, Rita has also been affected profoundly by her experience
Alix Kirsta
The children of people who lived through the Holocaust
– mostly Jewish – are known as second-generation survivors. In recent
years, large numbers of these middle-aged men and women have been trying
to make sense of their backgrounds, which have sometimes been obscured,
especially where their parents have been unable to talk about their
experiences. In Rita Goldberg, a teacher of comparative literature at
Harvard University, they have found a new voice to cheer their quest.
At a recent London reading of her mother's biography, Motherland,
Rita, 64, was unprepared for the strength of the audience response. "I
was startled by it and am beginning to see how many of my generation
were defined by their parents' history, even though they did not live
through it."
The need for the children of survivors to understand the origins of
their own demons, is, she believes, fuelling research into their
traumatic family histories. "People came up to me in tears – and
recognition. I met the daughter of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto,
whose father refused ever to talk about it and insisted she had no right
to ask questions. He said it was nonsense that she should have a part
of his history, since his life and hers were separate. It was his way of
coping with the past."
One can understand both views. Despite the horrific nature of
the survivors' wartime experiences, it is surely unreasonable to expect
their children not to delve into that past, especially when it is
declared taboo. Yet how justifiable is it for the postwar generation to
claim, like Goldberg, that their parents' history also belongs to them?
Those questions lie at the heart of Goldberg's history of her
German-born mother, Hilde Jacobsthal – now 89 and diagnosed with
Alzheimer's – and its lasting influence on herself and her two younger
sisters, whose own experiences inform part of the memoir. Much of the
material comes from her youngest sister Dottie's recorded interviews
with their mother about her early life, which Goldberg describes as: "A
huge effort, emotional and difficult for us all."
It was especially difficult for their middle sister, Susie, who
perceived her parents' past as dominating their lives; she refused
initially to discuss the transcribed tapes.
Goldberg admits she wrote the book partly to confront her own demons.
"I'm not sure it helped, but I never wanted to remove or exorcise these
ghosts. They belong to me. I only wanted to examine and understand my
relationship to them."
The narrative of her mother's many near miss escapes from the
Gestapo, reads like a film script. The Jacobsthal family left Germany
for Holland in 1929 for economic reasons. In Amsterdam, they became
close friends of Otto Frank and his daughters. Margot Frank and Hilde,
both 12, were classmates and close friends: Margot's sister, eight
year-old Anne, often tagged along, eager to join in. When the Franks
disappeared overnight after Germany occupied Holland in 1940, Hilde's
family assumed they had fled to Switzerland. Only after the war
did Hilde learn that they had been hiding nearby.
and her sister Susie with their mother, Hilde, and
Otto Frank and his wife Fritzi, right, in 1958. Otto, father of Anne
Frank, was Rita's godfather.
Trained as a nurse in 1941, Hilde worked in a creche, the uniform
protecting her from danger to some extent. Even at 16, she possessed an
"almost comic" self-confidence. Once, hiding with a non-Jewish family,
the Gestapo knocked at the door: Hilde put on her uniform and
remonstrated with them for forgetting that the flat was in quarantine
following a reported case of diphtheria.
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opposite a theatre used by the Germans as a round-up centre for Jewish
deportees, Hilde rescued some people, grabbing and steering them through
the streets to the nearest underground station where they vanished into
the crowd. She even pulled her parents off a deportation truck several
times. But one day, Hilde got back after work to find that their home
had been looted. The door bore a Nazi seal and her parents had been
deported. She never saw them again.
Her brother, Jo, working with the Belgian underground, smuggled Hilde
into Belgium where she remained a fugitive for 18 months. This, too,
was touch and go. Forced to swim half a mile across the river Maas into
Belgium, balancing her clothes on her head and supporting her brother,
paralysed by cramp, she outwitted the German border patrol's dogs and
searchlights.
Staying one step ahead of the Nazis, she frequently changed her
appearance, name, nationality, language, religion and age, using false
papers supplied by the resistance. She became, says Goldberg, "an
experienced escape artist", fleeing unsafe lodgings and Nazi
sympathisers, squeezing out of attic windows, running across rooftops at
night, hiding beneath stores of hay and vegetables in farmers' trucks
under the noses of the Germans. Fluent in German, Dutch, French and
English, and blessed like her brother with fearlessness and a quick wit,
she convincingly swapped one identity for another, becoming a blonde
24-year-old member of the Dutch Reformed Church one week, a devout
French-speaking Catholic the next, attending Sunday mass and saying the
rosary with the other women.
Goldberg believes that the innocent young Hilde Jacobsthal was lost
for ever at that point. "The culmination of intense emotion and physical
strain became the foundation of a new personality in my mother."
That personality was energetic, cheerful and outgoing, but Goldberg
sensed her mother's capacity for joy hid a wound too deep to heal.
"Learning to build a wall and compartmentalise pain and conflict helped
her to survive but created a remoteness that distanced her, even from
us. She buried a part of herself so deep it remains impenetrable."
Goldberg at one stage went through periods of depression, consumed
by "a vague gloom, like some sort of auto-immune disorder". As the
eldest child, she felt the pressure to be responsible and protective
towards her mother. "The history was a crushing burden and has to some
extent paralysed me."
The origins of that burden are self-evident. Her mother returned to
nursing after the war and joined the British Red Cross in April 1945.
Intent on finding her parents, she volunteered to work in Bergen-Belsen.
When she arrived at the liberated camp, 13,000 decomposing corpses
were unburied; 60,000 inmates, barely alive, were dying at the rate of
400-1,000 a day. After begging to be allowed to look for her parents,
Goldberg was the only woman permitted to enter the notorious "Horror
Camp One".
Separating the living from the dead and dying, she searched faces
distorted by pain and emaciation, unable to discern any remnant of human
personality. Her worst fear was of not being able to recognise her
parents if she found them.
Hilde left, leading a children's exercise class at Belsen, c1946.
Finding out that they, as well as Margot and Anne Frank and Mrs
Frank, had been murdered, she knew she had lost everything: her parents,
name, language, country, home and official identity.
Belsen became her home for two years. Joining the American Joint
Distribution Committee, she dressed in a US uniform and oversaw the
rehabilitation of survivors, including the immigration of 70 Hungarian
children to Palestine. As Belsen became the largest displaced persons
camp in Europe, some semblance of a community miraculously evolved:
there were dances, theatre performances; exiles fell in love, got
married, had children, held religious services. Hilde's good looks and
vitality attracted many boyfriends and in 1946 she met her future
husband, Swiss-born Dr Max Goldberg, Belsen's public health officer. In
1950, Max and Hilde emigrated to the US with 10-month-old Rita.
Rita Goldberg: 'We were measured against our
grandparents’ martyrdom and our parents’ exceptional courage.'
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
For the Goldbergs, staying silent about the past was never an option.
As a confident extrovert and mimic, Hilde thrived on storytelling. As
Goldberg observes: "Her history has what Joseph Conrad called glamour, a
hypnotic magic that has transfixed succeeding generations as well as
her own. Adventure, danger and strong personalities – this is the tale
listeners want to hear. My sisters and I began to think that our
parents' self-confidence extended to a kind of bragging about their
past, and often about us as well, as if we were golden examples of their
successful survival. This may be true of other children of charismatic
parents."
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spotlight fell on them for other reasons. After the war, Hilde was
reunited with Otto Frank, who regarded her as his surrogate daughter. To
Hilde, Otto was like a father, and he became Rita's godfather and legal
guardian of Hilde's daughters.
The Goldberg daughters felt that they could never do as much with
their lives as their parents had. "We were measured against our
grandparents' martyrdom on the one hand and our parents' exceptional
courage on the other. And we failed abjectly to live up to that sublime
standard."
Goldberg believes she lacks the qualities necessary for survival, a
conviction that has influenced everything she has done. It was also
difficult for the three sisters to handle their teenage moods. "We were
ashamed even to acknowledge anger or anxiety. Those emotions felt
somehow unworthy."
Ultimately, writing her mother's story turned out to be liberating
for Goldberg. "By narrating her story, I have found my voice. It is
helping all of us move forward." • Rita Goldberg will read at Waterstones, Hampstead, London NW3, at 7pm on 18 March • This article was amended on 17 March 2014 to correct Rita Goldberg's age. rvivors
I am searching undue influence and the Holocaust in my continuing argument against what THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER wants the court to believe. That 70 + years after the Holocaust the survivors, and their children are immune to being affect by strategies like UNDUE INFLUENCE.
I am the son of two survicors.
I have been unduly influenced by the WELL RESPECTED LAWYER. Anything she put in front of me I signed, because if I could not trust my mother's attorney who could I trust? The world was proven to me a dangerous place. My parents were proof of that.
In a search engine I put in (how the holocaust affected survivors to undue influence)
The links I find I am placing in this post. The first link above goes to the trauma of SECOND GENERATION HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.
The long range psychological effects of the Holocaust on the mental
health of survivors are indeed multitudinal and complex. There can be
no doubt that profound shock
enveloped those arriving at the death camps. What had once been only
rumor was, in fact,
truth. Shock was followed by apathy. Martin Wangh asserts that
"recovery from these
two states could occur only by a means of psychic splitting. This meant
that some form of
denial or 'psychic numbing,' 'derealization,' or 'depersonalization.'
had to take place."27
Also, in general, the senses became heightened, and one lived as a
hunted animal, always
on the alert for danger. Any aggressive, vengeful impulse had to be
constantly suppressed, thus a paranoid attitude could become deeply
rooted. Apathy was a period filled
with extreme danger, any new arrival, who was already exhausted from the
dehumanizing
conditions of his transport or the ghettos, who remained in shock for
any length of time,
would surely be killed. And if he retreated into himself for too long,
he would be shunned
by other prisoners, and would be thus deprived of their support.
One way survivors coped with the prolonged horrors of the holocaust was
to sustain the hope of reuniting with their families. Upon liberation,
however, most of them
were confronted not only with the discovery that their family members
and friends had
perished, but also sometimes with the horrible circumstances of their
deaths. Many survivors, when physically able, returned to their home
towns only to find their property destroyed or taken over, their pre-war
neighbors indifferent or hostile, and their communities
obliterated. Some continued their search in DP camps and elsewhere in
Europe for several
years. While some did find a few surviving relatives, others either
never discovered what
happened to their loved ones or learned that every single Jewish person
they had ever
known before the war had been murdered. Unable to fully comprehend
their tragedy or to
express their grief or rage, the survivors still had to undertake the
task of rebuilding their
lives. As they began these new lives, living conditions were often
cramped and poor.
There were few clothes and household goods available and food was
rationed. Interesting
and well-paying jobs were hard to come by. Most of the young refugees
found themselves
in menial factory or office jobs, or in domestic work.
A frequent occurrence were marriages that seemed to disregard all
ordinary criteria.
Recreating a family and bringing a child into the world was a concrete
attempt to compensate for their losses, to counter the massive
disruption of their lives and to undo the dehumanization and loneliness
they had experience. Many survivors gave birth in DP camps as
soon as they were physically able. Almost without exception, the
newborn children were
named after those who had perished. The children were often viewed as a
symbol of victory over the Nazis. They were the future.
Uprooted, dislocated, and robbed, most survivors decided to leave
Europe and find
a safer place to live and rebuild their lives. Most of those who had
survived the war adhering to Zionism went to Israel. Others, who had
relatives in North America, went there
with the hope of recreating an extended family.
In the United States, in addition to the difficulties shared by most
immigrants, the
majority of survivors encountered a unique cluster of negative reactions
and attitudes.
Most arrived as penniless refugees and received initial financial aid
from relatives and
Jewish organizations. The survivors were provided with very little
help, however, in emotional rehabilitation. Their war accounts were too
horrifying for most people to listen to.
In addition, bystanders' guilt for having knowingly neglected to do
anything to prevent
their fate, led many to believe that survivors were pointing a finger at
them. Reactions
such as "that's in the past," "let bygones be bygones," "be grateful and
happy for getting
to America," or "look at the positive side of things" led most survivors
to keep silent.
The initial reaction of silence proved detrimental to the psychological
well being of
the survivors and to their families and to their integration into their
new cultures. The silence intensified survivors' sense of isolation,
and formed yet another obstacle to the
mourning process. This silence, imposed by others, proved particularly
painful to those
who had survived the war determined to bear witness. The only option
left to survivors,
other than sharing their Holocaust experiences with each other, was to
withdraw completely into their newly established families. It has only
been within the last 10 to 15 years
that people have wanted to hear, but now many of the adult survivors
have already passed
away.
A syndrome is a group of signs or symptoms that occur together and
characterize an
abnormality. After World War II, the medical profession in many
countries started to be
confronted with survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. It took
several years before a
unified scientifically based view of their problems could develop. In
1961, William G.
Nielderland, foremost psychoanalyst in the field of treating survivors,
coined the term Survivor Syndrome. He came to realize that the symptoms
affected not only survivors, but
their families as well. The predominant symptoms included an inability
to work, and even
at times to talk. Anxieties and fears of renewed persecution, such as
fearing uniformed police officers, were apparent. There were also many
feelings of guilt -- for having survived
when others had not. "Why am I alive?" Why not my sister and
brother...my whole family?" The survivors presented symptoms involving
thoughts of death, nightmares, panic
attacks, and various other psychosomatic symptoms. Marital problems
would combine
with disinterest in life, people, and sometimes even in reality. This
complex of disturbances that constitutes Survivors Syndrome can be
summarized as follows:
A pervasive, depressive mood with morose behavior and the
tendency to withdraw, general apathy alternating with occasional
shortness, angry out bursts, feelings of helplessness, and insecurity,
lack of initiative and interest, prevalence of considerable
psychosomatic stress, persecutory attitude, and expression.
A severe and persevering guilt complex related to the fact of having survived when so many others had perished.
A partial or complete somatization that can range from
rheumatic or neurologic pains and aches in various body areas to such
psychosomatic diseases as peptic ulcers, colitis, respiratory and
cardiovascular syndrome, and hypertension. These may be accompanied by
mental confusion or nightmares.
Anxieties and agitations that include inner tensions,
feelings of valuelessness, often culminates in paranoid ideation and
reaction. Such survivors may appear chronically apprehensive and afraid
to be alone.
Personality changes showing more or less radical disruption of the entire
maturational development, behavior, and outlook. In the most severe
cases these are fully developed psychotic disturbances with delusional or
semi-delusional symptomatology, paranoid formations, morbid brooding,
complete inertia, or agitation."28
As is noted from the above definition, the symptomatology can range from mild
psychological disturbances to the very severe. Other well known psychologists in the field
of treatment of survivors agree with this definition -- Chodoff, Krystal, Hoppe, Korany,
and Barocus.29
In defining who is a survivor, Dr. Joel E. Dimsdale gives the following definition: "A
survivor is one who has encountered, been exposed to, or witnessed death, and has himself
or herself remained alive."30
Five psychological themes in survivors have been described. The first is the death
imprint, which is related to anxiety about death. Involved here are images not just of
death, but of grotesque and unacceptable forms of death. For many survivors, the imagery
can include many forms of memory -- the smoke or smell of the gas chambers, the brutal
killing of a single individual, or simply separation from a family member never seen again.
The survivor can feel stuck in time, unable to move beyond the imagery.
The second category is that of death guilt. Death guilt is epitomized
by the question
"Why did I survive, while he, she, or they did not?" Before this
happens, however, the imagery mentioned previously has already taken
shape. Part of the survivors' sense of horror
is the memory of their own helplessness and inability to act in ways
they would ordinarily
have thought appropriate (save people, resist, etc.), or even to feel
appropriately (rage,
compassion, etc.). Death guilt begins in the gap between the physical
and the psychological. That is one reason for the recurring imagery in
dreams and in waking life. Within the
imagery is the survivor's sense of debt to the dead and responsibility
to them. The irony is
that survivors are likely to feel more guilty than do the perpetrators.
The sense of guilt can
be especially strong concerning the death of close relatives or friends.
Guilt need not always be pathological as can be seen in the writings
of Elie Wiesel, who wrote of the transformation of death guilt and debt
to the dead, into that of responsibility in his One Generation After and
Night.
The third category of the survivor syndrome is that of psychic numbing
or the diminished capacity to feel. Psychologists have come to
recognize psychic numbing as a necessary psychological defense against
overwhelming images. However, this can easily out
live its usefulness and develop into withdrawal, apathy, depression, and
despair. The
most extreme cases were apparent in the musselmen in the camps. Many
survivors describe having survived by losing "all feeling." In
Hiroshima, survivors have made similar
comments such as "I became insensitive to human death."31 In numbing there is a separation of image and feeling.
A fourth category has to do with survivor sensitivity to or suspicion
of counterfeit
nurturance. The survivor feels the effects of his or her ordeal, but
frequently resents help
that is offered because it is perceived as a sign of weakness.
Following the death immersion experience, the survivor's sense of a
counterfeit universe may well continue. This
sense seems confirmed when they realize that others view them as in some
way carrying
the taint of the Holocaust -- as persons to be feared and avoided as
though they were contagious. They may in some cases inwardly accept
this social response and feel themselves
to be tainted. These conflicts can lead to patterns of distrust in
human relationships, mutual antagonism, and the sense that much of the
world around them, even life itself, is counterfeit.
The fifth and final category is the survivor's struggle for meaning. Survivors of
Nazi death camps have been called "collectors of justice." They seek something beyond
economic or social restitution. They seek something closer to acknowledgement of crimes
committed against them and punishment of those responsible in order to reestablish at
least the semblance of a moral universe. The impulse to bear witness, beginning with a
sense of responsibility to the dead, can readily extend into a mission. For many survivors,
the mission took the form of involvement in the creation of the State of Israel.
Where death occurs on the scale of the Holocaust, survivors are denied not only the
physical arrangements of mourning, such as the grave, the remains, and the service, but
also the psychological capacity to absorb and to feel their deaths and to complete the
mourning process. This aborted mourning can create for the survivor's existence, a "life of
grief." The survivor may be especially vulnerable to various kinds of psychological and
bodily disturbances."
From Sandra Williams link
" Problems encountered with the children were multiple. Most had no
papers; the
very young did not know their birth dates; age had to be determined from
X-rays to establish approximate age by looking at bone structure. At
the dinner table, children who had
been used to being hungry and hiding food, would snatch and grab food
and stuff it in
their pockets. "
Exactly what my mother did in the nursing home. Whenever she passed tables with food, she grabbed something and hid it so no one would see...and THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER says 70 years later the survivors are just fine! Damn her. My mother was low hanging fruit to be picked easily at will by THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER who seems dirtier and dirtier the more I research and remember. Shame on the large firm for making such a vulture PARTNER!!!
