Fits with just released data of epigenetic transfer of holocaust ...
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Fits with just released data of epigenetic transfer of holocaust trauma. needs to be more seen more broadly and trans-generationally..
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I really enjoyed reading this well documented book. The impact of the Jewish people to science and humanity in general is overwhelming. This book is a good read.
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I tremendously enjoyed reading the author's account of how he traced his family roots.  It was well written and quite interesting given that there was an element of mystery in that his father had apparently purchased a plot of land that he knew nothing about.  It was quite sad, but important to hear, about how his family and the town they came from were affected by the holocaust.  I highly recommend this book for people who are interested in either the holocaust or stories of people who have successfully traced their genealogy.
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"The Marrano Legacy" by Trudi Alexy is one of finest books I have read lately. With 149 pages, it is a fast read. It is also a must-read for everyone who is interested in this subject. Ms Alexy explains in her Prologue what sort of story this is: "an intensely personal" one, both for her and the crypto-Jewish priest "Simon". She touches on her own life and relates it to the letters which go back and forth between her and "Simon". They are very moving letters, painful letters often, which explore intensely personal feelings. The Prologue also explains what is meant by a "crypto-Jew". The book is beautifully written and quite revealing about both Ms Alexy and "Simon" though his anonymity has been preserved. I found it moving because I am a Jewish Child Survivor of the Holocaust and, after the war (World War II) was over, still had to hide my Jewishness because my parents told me so, so it was easy for me to relate to "Simon's" situation. Hiding becomes a habit and this is true for "Simon" as well. I would - and indeed will - highly recommend this book to everyone. If anyone is not now very interested in crypto-Jews, you will certainly be after you read this book.
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This is not a detailed and comprehensive reference on the Holocaust, but as an educational tool for those who favor their smart phones and Facebooks and Twitters over immersed scholastic research, this is a good reference.

I you want a quick read while getting a decent education on the subject, this is it. Debbie has provided numerous references and photographs for her text, but if you want to get into details I recommend Wikepedia on specific topics.

The Holocaust is difficult to understand, even as you view videos on YouTube of the piles of skeletons heaped into boxcarts, or humans being shot into ditches, or the walking dead greeting their liberators.  It is difficult to understand how the Germans and Austrians, with democratic traditions,  got so dragged into this evil under the deception and lies by Hitler....who did not hide his intent if your read Mein Kampf

As a child Holocaust survivor I have founded a Holocaust memorial ( see nhholocaustmemorial.org), but it would be next to impossible for me to write a book on the Holocaust.  Debbie has written an excellent overview; hopefully those interested in details would be prompted by her book into further research.
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We received the 3rd edition of the book and  it fixed the errors from the 1st edition, particularly the chapter titled Do your Research.

Hitler never got elected, but his appointment to Chancellor followed the German Constitution.

Moreover, his Enabling Laws were ratified by the Reichstag.  His combining of the President and Chancellor into a single office, which then led to his proclamation of Der Fuhrer, was submitted to a popular vote..and passed by 81%

I do not agree that these elections followed democratic means, for

  ----The opposition to the Nazis, mainly the Communist Reichstag members, were chased away or arrested and sent to concentration camps  before votes were taken on the Enabling Laws (on the excuse they were traitors), after the Reichstag building fire.

  ----Widespread voter fraud and intimidation were employed in the August 1934 popular vote to combine the Chancellor and Presidents office into a single office.

A few years ago my wife and I were on a transatlantic ocean cruise and we met German nationals assigned to our dinner table.  They thanked the Americans for getting rid of Hitler. I replied, yes, but you brought us Hitler.  I requested reassignment to another table for the next dinner.

I always wished that one of the two nuclear bombs America dropped on Japan had been dropped on Germany.  (I suspect racism in America had something to do with this; Germans are of the Caucasian race and Japanese are of the Chinese race).

Congratulations to the author on what seem to be a very readable and well-referenced book.
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Fleeing persecution is not the same type of mobility as choosing to move for greater opportunity. The psychology of the uprooted, the friction and stress of losing one's origin story in order to survive...you do not have to be Jewish to appreciate the bittersweet insights. Masterfully written, if you are Jewish, this book will tug on additional heartstrings. My great grandparents, or at least some members of their families left Lithuania, Poland, Belarus -- the Pale of Settlement -- at the turn of the 20th century. This tremendous and permanent journey was better than the increasing hostility they chose to leave behind. In the Age of the Internet, both the beauty & bleakness of life in the Pale are almost unfathomable. Thank you, Roger Cohen, for helping us to Remember.

Studies have shown patterns of genetic variations in Ashkenazi Jews that correlate strongly to certain neurological disorders. You couldn't do genetic testing in the shtetl, but we can today! Perhaps a defective chromosome lies at the heart of bipolar disorder and a yet-to-be invented gene therapy will offer a cure. If you happen to be a geneticist, please see if this combined information on family history and the corresponding exposomes triggers any brainstorms :-)
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Dr. Singh's book is riveting in it's exposure of a little known community. The history of the arrival of the Jews in India, their different communities, where they settled and how well they were integrated makes fascinating reading. The varied reasons for their migration to Israel, their homeland, are well enumerated. Dr. Singh's research brings to light the cultural differences that made assimilation a different experience for each generation of the families, even though bound by a common religion. Detailed case histories show how Indian Jews integrated over time into their homeland, yet retained distinct aspects of being Indian. Individual profiles lead to a deeper understanding of the challenges faced, and how they were surmounted. The notes at the end of each chapter are a helpful reference. This book should be read by everyone interested in gender difference, minority studies, and the effects of migration.
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While reading Shirer's Third Reich book, I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust, obviously like most people I know something about it, but I wanted more detail so I picked up this book.  This book starts off with a very brief history of some antisemitism in Germany, starting with some vicious quotes from the hateful Luther, I think Luther's work titled 'On the Jews and their Lies' should be enough for anyone to question his integrity (although granted I've only read snippets not the entire thing).  Then it goes into a massive 900ish pages of event after event of the atrocities committed against the Jews during WWII (I find much of it hard to take, how could anyone treat a race / people like this, this reminds me of the worst stories of serial killers yet this wasn't a single demented individual but thousands).

First I have a few minor complaints, I wish the book did a little more background information on WWII and what lead to this, secondly the book often gets into a numbers game where it spends many pages giving facts such as x number of people were hauled away this day and murdered, I would have preferred less of this numbers presentation.  This book gave tons of information for the horrors of the holocaust, the mentioning of statistics is countered with lots of personal stories from people who survived or their diaries were later found.  Overall I'd give this book a perfect five stars, the few things I'd change seem minor compared to the stuff that was presented.  With that being said, I'm really glad that I'm done with this book, I was in a minor depression for the three weeks I read this.  I like to hope that deep down people are better / more moral than this systematic slaughter of millions, but obviously I'm wrong.  I guess this is what you get when you let hatred take over your common decency.
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The world needs to know. It is apart of America Holocaust.
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This book opened my mind and my heart even further to the reality of what has been called "the silent holocaust" of ritual abuse in American society and across the globe. I am beginning to grasp that just as there are individuals, families, communities, and religious groups whose heart is to love, nurture, support ,encourage, and give life to those around them, there co-exists,deeply underground and under the radar ,organized groups who embody the dark inverse of that. Their sole purpose is to hate, deprive, destroy, deaden, and kill those born into their multigenerational families in the name of their ideology and power. They are as old as time, and have been around for millenia. It was indeed the power of love that Wendy clung to from birth to present, and the brilliant work of her therapist, Alison Miller, that eventually allowed her to break out of that cage and FLY. Bravo, Wendy!
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This book is a combination of carefully researched historical analysis, biographical vignettes, and personal memoir written by medical anthropologist Gretchen Schafft.  It documents work done by German anthropologists employed by foundations, academic institutions and the German government from the 1930s until the end of World War II.  These anthropologists apparently embraced Nazi ideology so thoroughly that they left behind their scientific methods and ethics to become co-opted into the processes undertaken by the Nazi party, the SS and other government officials to eliminate political opponents, people of color, homosexuals, Roma, Polish, and Jews from German and German-occupied territory.  Their ability to deceive themselves into believing that their work in categorizing people destined for death camps was scientifically valuable is astonishing.  The fact that they were never punished for their complicity in the Final Solution is extremely sad.

Dr. Schafft has done an extremely thorough job of reviewing holocaust literature and newly available archival materials from both the Smithsonian Institution and sources in Europe to bring the reader extensive understanding of this co-option.  She places the activities of the Third Reich's anthropologists in the context of other well known events from the rise of Nazism and the war.  This convincing saga has, as Schafft says "no smoking gun" pointing to the crimes (including euthanasia, trafficking in body parts, and unethical torture filled medical experimentation) that these anthropologists very probably were complicit in.

I bought this book because I am interested in the moral lessons of the holocaust.  As an applied anthropologist myself, this disturbing and detailed story awakened in me a desire to deeply evaluate my own work as an applied anthropologist.  The book is well written, although some of the translated German memos have a stuffy bureaucratic sound--attesting to their authenticity, no doubt.  I recommend this book to general readers as well as professional specialists in history, anthropology, and the history of science.  It will change how you think about the German public's awareness of the evils perpetrated by Hitler's regime.

by Charlotte Miller, Ph. D.
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I just finished reading "Slaughter of the Dissidents."  The amount of well-documented research you put into your book is truly impressive but more so is how you clearly layout the case showing the bias, blackmail and coercion employed to keep researchers and educators in line with Secular beliefs.

Just last Sunday I was asked, "But if the world was created, why do most scientists believe in "millions of years leading to Darwinian evolution?"  Coupled with the fact that is all they are taught, the instances you use as examples reveal why scientists continue to "believe."

If folks liked Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" they will be blown away by "Slaughter of the Dissidents." russ@creationministries.org
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Now, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this again and with the correct family trees.  Unlike the mistake with one of the birth dates in the original publication.  In which I have contracted Ms Muller and the publisher regarding it, but never heard from either of them.  Here I thought theres possibly nothing else out there about her and all of the others that could possibly shed any light since the original publication regarding all of this.  I do have still have questions regarding all of this.  Especially, regarding what the heck happened to the rest of her diary and her sister's Margot's as well.  Just look at Carol Ann Lee's biographies about her and her father (in which I didn't read and tried to read).

Think thats it for now.
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Not since "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Microbe-Hunters/dp/0156027771/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Microbe Hunters</a>&nbsp;and "The Double Helix" by Watson and Crick&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Double-Helix-A-Personal-Account-of-the-Discovery-of-the-Structure-of-DNA/dp/074321630X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA</a>&nbsp;has the excitement of discovery in the biological sciences been expressed and made vivid for lay readers in the way that Douda and Sternberg's account of their research into Bacterial Immunological Systems and application of CRISPR/CAS9 for Gene Editing displays.  This easily understood scientific autobiography documents much of the research that led to one of the most important discoveries in molecular biology and genetic engineering in recent decades.  The clear prose and simple diagrams which document CRISPR and its mechanisms make clear and make exciting this journey of scientific discovery,

Highly Recommended
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Books like this are the catalyst missing today that offer documented forensic evidence rather than hearsay. The Internet is a catalyst but recently there is a movement to suppress documented forensic evidence regarding this subject.  Those that object present no argument except the warn out canard and accusation of anti-semitic. Those who continue to use the 6 million number should do their homework, it has been deflated and disproved, yet the media continue to use it.
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I read this book for two reasons.  First, I am primarily of Scottish ancestry and thus interested in things Scottish.  Second, I have a general interest in anthropology and human origins, partly arising from a postdoc in Berkeley, where our biochemistry research group shared a lab with Allan Wilson, who is acknowledged at the beginning of this book as one of two founders of biochemical studies of evolution.  That time preceded the development of DNA sequencing, and Wilson was developing evolutionary trees in birds from sequences of the small protein lysozyme. He later pioneered the DNA studies on which this book is based.  Wilson's untimely death was a blow to the field, but his students, colleagues and others have made huge strides with DNA marker analyses.  And whole genome sequencing promises a further revolution in the field.
As interesting as the DNA marker story is, it is only a fraction of this book, which seeks to integrate findings from the DNA analyses with history, linguistics and other sources of information about the development of the Scottish people.  Much of this information is presented in anecdotal form, which adds spice to the story, though it may also at times be distracting.  Overall, it is an excellent presentation and more than met my expectations, with only two quibbles.  First, I am sure that Scottish students will be familiar with all of the various geographic regions of their country.  Americans are not so familiar, and I doubt that even Europeans will be able to identify and place all of the geographic names presented.  A map or two would have been very valuable as a reading aide.  Second, given the large number of markers presented, a table minimally tallying those markers with origins and final outcomes would have been greatly appreciated as an overview.
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The general theme of Texe Marrs is that Zionist Israel has gotten away with infinite injustices, all in the name of Israel and the "Chosen". Modern DNA science has proven otherwise to the point that modern day Jews have no right to Palestine what so ever, as they are descendants of Mongol Turk foundation stock from Khazaria and only converted to Judaism in the 800's; their claim to be descended from Abraham is false!. The sources are credible, the subject researched deeply; it is well worth reading.