| 13th March 2011 - 09:41:07 PM |
| 68 : Kathleen |
| Hi Elyse - my 13 yr old daughter and I (both Catholic) were at the play today, and were priviliged to hear you speak. You are a very eloquent young lady, and I so admire your desire to share your legacy. I look forward to educating myself more by looking through your site...thank you for all the time and energy you spend ensuring that the past is never forgotten. |
| 03rd October 2010 - 07:15:39 PM |
| 67 : Judy Carol Faust |
|
Dear Elyse,
I read the article on you that was from a link at the Boston3G site. You are already an amazing person. Don't let anyone ever try to take you down, like the other two nasty entries below. You are doing a great job. I want to let you know that I am a Personal Historian and filmmaker. Please have a look at my website. Maybe what I am doing can inspire you or perhaps your family might like me to make their story into a documentary. I just completed a Holocaust survivor story of a woman who was a hidden child in Poland during the war. I am one lone woman, a fairly new business, not a professional big studio, but I am finding that my own desire for peace and love in our world can come through the art form of the simple documentary. In the next two weeks I will have the new previews up so you can see the range of what I do. Maybe you can link to my site and I can link people to yours too. Let's chat! See all the info you need at: www.connectyourstories.com blessings to you and your work! Judy |
| 01st October 2010 - 08:13:55 PM |
| 66 : Nita Brown |
| My daughter, Shawn Leo, sent me the article written about you and your website. She worked with your mom, Elyse. I am glad to see you are doing this, and wish you continued success! |
| 27th August 2010 - 09:42:52 PM |
| 65 : Holly from Spectrum Eye Care |
| Hi Elyse! I stopped by to see the scoop! Very nice job on your website. |
| 07th August 2010 - 12:18:27 PM |
| 64 : Sam and Lynn Rimell |
| A wonderful site. Keep up the good work. |
| 01st August 2010 - 08:47:03 PM |
| 63 : Doris Bodenheimer Loggins |
| Hi Elyse. My Bodenheimer family came to North Carolina in 1750's we have a Reunion the last Sunday in July. as a child I grew up beside of a Bert Bodenheimer,not your grandfather.Not any of the early Bodenheimer's was Jewish that Iam aware of.You are a great young lady to under take this project.I live beside a couple from Germany he fought in the Germany Army after the war they came to America. Thank you for all of you work to keepthe History of truth alive. So many people try to change facts tosay what they want to say , not what happen. Thanks again |
| 21st May 2010 - 08:38:15 AM |
| 62 : Nancy |
| Elyse - I would be proud to have you as my child. As a college student in the 1970's, my major was German language and history. I had the opportunity to live in Germany for 6 months. While there, I visited Dachau and I will never forget the impression it made on me. It was absolutely chilling and made me feel sick that people could inflict such horror upon others. You are an inspiration!! Keep up your wonderful work and never let people forget what happened. |
| 12th May 2010 - 06:47:23 PM |
| 61 : Sam P (from Becca's hebrew class) |
| By the way, keep up the good work!!!! |
| 12th May 2010 - 06:46:29 PM |
| 60 : Sam P (from Becca's hebrew class) |
| Hi Elyse. Cool site. I saw your article from the Charlotte Observer. It's Sam from Becca's class at Hewbrew school. Do you know which site you made "My Jewish Legacy". |
| 09th May 2010 - 04:51:06 PM |
| 59 : Phil Nordan |
| Enjoyed your article in the Observer, great job! I am a gentile and have been a friend of Israel for 30 years. I have a small museum in Monroe, NC dedicated to showing gentiles the importance of Israel. I start with the Balfour Declaration which most gentiles have never heard of. My wife and I helped Ed Pizer bring an art display to the Jewish Center named "The Family I Never Knew" by Ardyn Halter a tremendous artist. We had the pleasure of spending the day with him recently. If you have not seen his 11 prints at the JC you want to see them! Keep up the good work. |
| 04th May 2010 - 03:04:31 PM |
| 58 : Lyn Baker |
| I go to Temple Israel, and I read an article about you previously, and about your grandparents. I may be wrong, and please correct me, but I thought the article mentioned that you had relatives in Auburn, Maine. That's where my parents came from. If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to know if they did, or was Conn. the only place in New England they lived. I grew up in Mass. Thanks alot. Lyn B |
| 03rd May 2010 - 01:49:48 PM |
| 57 : John Elliot |
| Saw the article in the CLT OBS--what a wonderful idea! I was born in '48. I've read many books & seen films about the Holocaust & the whole Nazi experience, and met survivors over the years. Most recent book was "Flory," memoirs of a young Jewish lady in Holland during the Nazi occupation; I highly recommend. |
| 01st May 2010 - 04:31:56 PM |
| 56 : Cy Tetenman |
|
Hi Elyse, I was born just 2 years before the war broke out in Europe and throughout my childhood I heard stories of our families caught up in this terrible war. As a teenager I worked in a drugstore in a poorer area of the city and saw some men and women come into the store and could see the numbers tattooed on their arms.
Thanks, Elyse, for taking the time and effort you put into this site. I don't get to see you often but always hear from Gram that you're a bright and sweet young woman. All the best and keep up the great work you are doing. |
| 01st May 2010 - 02:49:18 PM |
| 55 : NancyKohlerRash |
|
My parents met and married (on Easter Sunday! 4-5-44) and serves as an Army Engineer and Army Nurse. Mother was one
of the nurses who cared for Buchenwald survivors. I have her original black-and-white photos taken within the camp. Many of the people there were so emaciated they could not tolerate solid foods, or even soups. The nurses worked 5 hour shifts at night preparing intravenous feeding solutions, then got 3 hrs sleep, then went back to the camp and hooked the transfusions up and cared for the people. They were not able to save them all, as the camp water supply had been poisoned with lye dummped in by the departing Nazis, and no food remained, either. But they saved all they could and sent them to camps for refugees when they were well enough to travel. I wrote up my mother's story of her life in WWII and gave copies of the photos to the Women in Military Service Memorial museum in Arlington, VA. It is just outside the Arlington Cemetery. You can access it online. Mother's name was Lt. Janiece Grindol Kohler. My daughter Wendy Rash studied the Holocaust when she was in college at UNC-Asheville, and she used the pictures and story dictated to her by her Grandma Jan. If You want to e/m me at nancykrash at mindspring.com |
| 01st May 2010 - 10:11:40 AM |
| 54 : M Shoe |
|
I just read your story in The Charlotte Observer ( 5/1/10) and am amazed at the work you have done in learning about your legacy. I teach AP US History and have recently taught the holocaust. I plan to share your website with them.
M.Shoe |
| 30th April 2010 - 06:28:47 PM |
| 53 : Rivkah |
| Jewish continuity is so important in today's world. You are an intelligent young woman & what you are doing is awesome. May your life go from strength to strength. |
| 26th April 2010 - 04:48:33 PM |
| 52 : Miriam |
| Elyse, you are so awesome for starting this project. You go girl! Mazel Tov to you on creating an open and positive environment for young people to tell their stories. Are you familiar with a group called StoryCorps? You may want to look them up. This would be another great way for the younger generation to get involved. I don't know if they've done a holocaust project but the 3G-ers and their grandparents could tell their stories together via StoryCorps. Check it out! All the best to you. You are a great role model and make me proud! |
| 24th March 2010 - 03:03:06 PM |
| 51 : Katherine |
| Hi Elyse! i go to Elizabeth Lane and i love your website. I am reading Number the Stars in IWT. It is a book about the holocaust. :) |
| 23rd March 2010 - 06:57:46 PM |
| 50 : Laura <3<3 |
| hey Elyse! i go to SCMS and i heard you're speech a couple weeks ago. i loved your speech a few weeks ago. i loved hearing about those incredible stories about your family history. thank you so much for sharing that with us!! :) |
| 14th March 2010 - 12:00:44 PM |
| 49 : Elizabeth |
| Elyse, I go to South Charlotte Middle and on Friday I heard your presentation! It was great, thank you for sharing. I'm really interested in the Holocaust, but sometimes it's just to overwhelming for me to research, so I always appreciate hearing stories from other people about it. I'm 100 percent Irish, and I'm the third generation from Ireland, but my Grandfather Herbert "Skinny" Dugan got drafted to fight during World War 2. Thank you very much! |
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