| 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 |
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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! |
| 12th March 2010 - 04:38:21 PM |
| 48 : Sami<3 |
| HI Elyse I go to SCMS and your speech today was very good I had a lot of fun listening to stories and everything that you had to say. Thank You so much for your time out of class. I will see you around school! :) |
| 12th March 2010 - 04:02:41 PM |
| 47 : natalie and rachel |
| hi elyse we go to south charlotte middle school your speech about the holocaust was very well thought out thank you for the speech we found the information very interesting! see you around! |
| 06th November 2009 - 11:10:46 PM |
| 46 : Jack Glasheen |
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Hello Elyse,
My name is Jack Glasheen and I know your mother professionally; she referred me to your website. I have 3 teenage daughters and have not only been very much a part of their interests and activities but also those of their friends. I must say that your effort and the response it has received is amazing. The concept and follow through is as good as any I have ever seen. I am not Jewish but we have very close Jewish family fiends and my family, through our generations in America, has always lived in communities that had a lot of Jewish families. So I am fairly familiar with your culture and traditions. I am 2nd generation from Ireland. I found the stories about your grandfather very interesting and it left me wishing I knew as much about my own grandparent’s journey. Further, the stories were so well told that I feel as if I really now know your family I will forward your link to some friends... Good luck with your wonderful project it’s a great contribution to all society. |
| 01st October 2009 - 06:07:15 PM |
| 45 : Josh Allred |
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Hey Elyse!
My name is Josh Allred (As indicated by my name slot in the upper left corner, heh)I was in Mr. Elgins homebase last year (2008) I've read through your site and wonder if you've ever been mocked by somebody that claims that the holocaust never happened. Those are people that refuse to believe the horrors of the NAZI party and their doings, if we forget the holocaust, it can happen again. That is why we must push forward when others try to push back. Now that I'm done with my long post-doc like speech, great site, and keep up the good work! |
| 18th August 2009 - 05:14:50 AM |
| 44 : Boaz Ephraim |
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Dear Elyse,
My name is Boaz Ephraim, your father's Second cousin, I live in Tel-Aviv, Israel and have a lot of Holocaust Stories I heard from my grandmother tea, Sister of your great grandfather Dr. Hugo Schleicher. Tea was in a Concentration camp "Teresienstat", She survived. I my have some copies of original document's that i have from that time, I'm Very excited that you are doing such an important project as a Bat-mitzvah project by telling your family's story to all your friend's and to the rest of the world. keeping these stories alive so we and the rest of the world will never forget. Mazel Tov! Boaz Ephraim Tel Aviv ISRAEL |
| 24th July 2009 - 05:43:52 PM |
| 43 : Lisa Bloch Rodwin |
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Dear Elyse,
I was so happy to read all the stories on your website. I went to Rippowam High School and was a good friend of your Aunt Brenda. We were all active in Young Judea, a Zionist Youth Group. I had the good fortune to meet your Grandma Ellen and Grandpa Bert many times. They were both amazing, accomplished people. My mother also escaped from Germany with her parents, my Oma and Opa. They were able to leave Berlin when my Mom was only 5 years old, and settled in New York City. I think it is wonderful that you have the story from your Great-Grandfather, my Oma and Opa never wrote down the details of their trip from Germany through the Netherlands to New York. Good luck with your project! Lisa Bloch Rodwin |
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