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_______ Sad and not old? Sonia's Song, by Sonia Korn-Grimani
2022 10 03
I first met Mis. Korn-Grimani in 2017, Jan. 5.
(or at least for that Italian holiday)
when she was still actively promoting her memoir about the 1931 - 1945 Nazi SS freely killing and robbing era.
(like what the Chinese Red Guard was doing, or the current "taboo" phenomena in USA ).
I might have gone through the book the first time in 2018 (or 2017),
shortly after she asked me to attend her talk.
Anyway,
Since I started to learn using TextQuitling to do READING in FOREIGN LANGUAGES (YES, ENGLISH INCLUDED)
Also, I'd like to introduce my 84 years old mother to read something not as scientific dense materials,
such as Robert Saplosky's Why Zebra don't Get Ulcers.
Thus I decided to pick Sonia Korn-Grimani's project
(She was receiving invitation from US s Holocaust Memorial Museum to put down her life stories in English,
while she has wrote her memoir in German in 2009)
Anyway, While reading,
I do realize that her story was in the same category of Anne Frank's diary.)
I am not sure if this is an OLD STORY,
while, hey, Bible is still the most popular book in print after thousands of years.
Not only so,
BUT IT IS VERY BRUTALLY TRUE
that THERE ARE MANY MANY WAR ORPHANs in Ukraine,
EVERYDAY,
while the WAR murder cases are still ongoing.
I'm just kind of sad,
Whatever Sonia Korn-Grimani had wished when she wrote down her life stories, the blessing did not last.
Dr. Korn-Grimani was able to write in a "clear", "non-emotional" tone at her 78 years old time.
In case you want to have an opportunity to ask yourself:
"IF SIMILAR THINGS happen to my immediate environment,
Would I be able NOT TO ACT CRUEL?
Would I be able to rise the gun ONE INCH HIGHER?"
Then, Maybe this similar to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" can provide you a "time travel" to her time, and her location..
the "oppressive" living condition.
Surely, as usual, I'm on the quest to "SEEK" "friends",
who are in the same path of studying "foreign languages", English included.
Dio ti benedica,
Da Chiesa di Vissi D'Arte
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