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AP Interview: Agassi drug inquiries dropped
ROME Tennis officials have closed the book on Andre Agassi's drug revelations.
International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti told The Associated Press on Wednesday that despite appeals from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the statute of limitations in the case expired long ago and no retroactive punishment was possible.
In Agassi's recently published autobiography, "Open," he wrote that he took crystal meth in 1997 and lied to the ATP to avoid a suspension after failing a doping test.
The statute of limitations in the case was eight years.
"The ATP is the only entity that could have shed light on what happened, but it's too late," Ricci Bitti said. "WADA asked information from the ATP without much success. As a member of WADA's executive committee, I'm obviously very disappointed that Agassi - such a great and emblematic player - decided to make these revelations.
"I'm sure he had his reasons, which were not easy to understand. ... There were a lot of strange reasons involved. From a sports point of view, it's very unfortunate. I think what he did hurt our sport."
In another drug issue, Ricci Bitti is awaiting the outcome of appeals launched by Belgian players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse, who were given one-year bans for violating WADA's whereabouts rule.
The suspensions were lifted in December after the players appealed to a Belgian court, and both still have appeals pending with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Wickmayer also has taken her case to the European Commission and the European Court for Human Rights.
"It's a very important case because it could have consequences resulting in the revision of the WADA code," said Ricci Bitti, who is also an International Olympic Committee member.
Wickmayer claims she was not properly informed of the online reporting requirements for drug-testing that led to her ban.
Under WADA rules, elite athletes must be available for out-of-competition testing for one hour a day, 365 days a year. They must give three months' notice of where they will be so they can be tested.
Regarding recent talk from some players and promoters calling for a tennis World Cup, he reiterated that the ITF is not about to abandon the Davis Cup.
"Everyone has the right to bring in new ideas but the players have to understand that the Davis Cup is part of tennis' history, just like the Grand Slams, and it should be respected," he said. "That doesn't mean the international federation isn't open to new ideas."
One such idea Ricci Bitti mentioned is the addition of fifth-set tiebreakers for the Davis Cup.
"There are a lot of things we are considering for the Davis Cup," he said. "But right now we don't see any reason to change something that works so well."
The proposed World Cup would involve rules changes and 32 teams playing in a 10-day biennial event at a single venue, according to details discussed by Novak Djokovic in January.
Lastly, Ricci Bitti discussed problems facing the French Tennis Federation over plans to build a new stadium for the French Open, with opposition from residents and some members of the Paris city council.


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LizBiz is I won't be shooting for the next 2 months, but would love to make plans after that
I currently reside in Seattle WA.
I use to live in Reno, fucking off, working hard, spending money and playing with my dog.
Well, I got tired of it, shit was boring. So I sold everything, moved my dog into my car with me and left, hit the road and kept going. Here I am heaps of experience later having gained and lost (including the love of my life, my dog) and I'm still going, plotting something else.
So join me while I trip, drink, laugh, and probably fuck my way thru many more experiences to come.
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my first set instamagic is up! check it out if you'd like ; )
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I have a wall in my living room filled with polaroids from the last 2 years. friends, strangers, objects, places... some of them have great stories, some of them are just pictures of a past roommate wearing bunny ears while holding a "bloody" knife.
Growing up my family was polaroid crazy, so maybe it just stuck as I got older. maybe its just the flaws in the picture that make me love them so much. either way I thought no theme would fit better for my first set, enjoy.
Greetings liz
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We need more photos woman! Get on it.
I know! gah it has been a looooong time.
For two months you make us wait? Rude!!!
i just sent you a friend request with photoshoot inquiry...
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LizBiz, loved your first set so much, do more do more!!!
yor first set is so damn cute :)
It could be a game, as long as the prize is you and I shooting a photo set!
I'm gonna be in your neck of the woods around Thanksgiving (hint, hint!)
thanks lovely!
which bay?
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Samoan Experience
days in Tafua
EcoTour Samoa
The Samoan Election
Pruning the Mangoes
Climbing Mt SiliSili
Fourth week in Samoa
Samoan Experience
days in Tafua
EcoTour Samoa
The Samoan Election
Pruning the Mangoes
Climbing Mt SiliSili
Fourth week in Samoa
Samoan Observer
is there no fruit on my mango?
more mangoes next year?
Green oranges or
orange oranges?
In search of a Samoan
The Hardest Cut
Rambutan - hairy thing
from the forest
Rambutan revisited
Abiu - the emporer's golden
Avocado - fruit or vegetable?
Carambola - star of the rainforest
Durian - the extreme tropical
Rollinia - lemon meringue
pies growing in the garden
Sex and the single pawpaw
Soursop - a taste sensation
The mulch story
Do it yourself pest
The joys of soapy water!
The hungry fruit tree
Positive insects
By Alison
(I took leave from TAFE for 18 months to be a 'spouse'
and keep Digby company while he worked in Samoa. This was the first
time in my life that I had not worked, and it was difficult adjusting)
The Women's Network
It is interesting to reflect on how you find your feet in
a new place, particularly if you do not have a work environment to develop
your contacts. My first contact was Janet at the airport when I arrived –
while I was waiting for the luggage to come through she gave me some great
info and invitations – when I asked how she spent her time she said that she
played bridge and went to the aerobics class every day and worked as a volunteer
at the local school in the library a few days a week. So I turned up at the
gym called Health Attack – in my mind it will be forever Heart Attack – and
Janet was the first person I met and she introduced me to Joanne, from Canberra
and Betty. Last week Betty asked if I would like to come to the weekly morning
tea and gave the phone number of Diane who lived near me and could probably
give me a ride. I also turned up at the Tiapapata
Art Centre and signed up for art classes every Wednesday and met the teacher,
Wendy, who is from the US and married to a Samoan – been here 10 years – and
at the art classes I met Robin, from Canberra and Chantal from France, both
of whom are professional women in their own right on leave while their husbands
work out their 3 year contract in Samoa. And so it goes on – while I was at
my first art class Ecotours Samoa came through and I met Steve Brown who was
running a tour and stopping off on the way and this led to other things. Surprisingly
it is Steve who is the closest to being described as a kindred spirit
Art Classes
Every Wednesday morning I attend art classes, and
when I feel inclined I go and spend Friday morning there as well just
working on my projects. We have been doing printing using lino cuts, and this has been a wonderful medium to work with
– gouging away at soft lino and digging
out the grooves – just like carving your name in the desk when
you were in grade 5. I have been working with fruit images and have
decided to try and make a set of postcards of the different fruit at
Cape Trib, so that who knows it may become something
else we can sell to the unsuspecting tourist. It has been really good
to just sit and gouge and gouge some more and talk to Robin and Chantal
and get to know them a bit more and get their advice on Samoa . Then you roll the ink over the lino cut, place a card on it and then roll it so that the
ink impression is transferred to the card. It has really got me in –
have now created cards for Durian, Carambola, Rollinia.
Women in Samoa
My understanding of what the cultural expectations
are for Samoan women has been developing – I may have mentioned
earlier that I have been invited to join the Gender Equity team meetings
at the UN – have yet to actually attend a meeting, so will keep
you posted on that. But from the reading and the discussion I am learning
that the Samoan culture and gender equity do not fit at all.
Brenda, the nutritionist on the fruit tree project
has lent me a book 'Taimatai Samoa' which is the individual stories of seven
Samoan women, all considered high achievers and now in their seventies
or dead. It was a most humbling book to read. Several things really
stand out: the role of the NZ govt in providing scholarships; the women's
ability to stand up to their husbands' wishes to stay in the home; and
yet what seems like a contradiction – their commitment to the
fa'a Samao (the Samoan way) which virtually expects women to serve
their families and their husband's family especially. The wife
is so busy doing all the domestic duties for the husbands
family, she does not have time to bring up her children, which are often
brought up by the husband's sisters – the extended family tends
to live in the same village though this is now breaking up. So they
managed all this and still were able to achieve in a community sphere
as well, though admittedly in the classic girl professions such as teaching
and nursing. The scholarships were a real circuit breaker – when
they were introduced in the forties, the Matai (the village chiefs)
wanted the power to decide who would go , and
of course would choose their own children. The NZ govt said no, it would
be decided on merit and girls would also be eligible. These young women
went off to NZ, stayed in church hostels or with families and had to
cope in a whole new culture.
We were invited to Wendy's for dinner last Tuesday
– about 12 people there – none of whom we knew and one of
them was a young smart Samoan woman in her early thirties – Eliza.
Eliza was the first Samoan I have really had a heart to heart chat with
– and I was glad I had read Brenda's book because it helped
me understand her own circumstances. She left the village at 17 as a
scholarship girl, went to NZ, freaked out at school and learned to cope
with the English and the expectations, went on to get an accounting
degree, married a palangi, who was into video
production. The marriage broke up after 2 years and she decided she
wanted to come back to Samoa and help her country. She has set up a private video production business
which produces a monthly video magazine on the latest news in Samoa for all the Samoans living abroad. She
has bought her own house and is completely independent. We talked about
how she could not fit in back in her village – she said she could
not accept the violence – adults to children and men to women,
and she did not see how she could ever develop a relationship with a
Samoan male because he would not see her as an equal. In discussions
about the violence later, Wendy said there was an organization called
'Stop Smacking Your Children' and there was also a push
to try and reduce the level of corporal punishment in schools, which
apparently is also fairly high and widespread, as part of the fa'a Samoa.
The Fia Fia
On Wednesday night we went to Aggie Grey's Hotel for
the weekly Samoan dance performance – I thought I was a bit slack
taking 4 weeks to get to one, but my neighbour Ann who has been here
for 2 and a half years has never actually been to one. It was rather
good and very professional.
The fire dancing was particularly memorable –
if you watched the New Years TV show which went round the world you
may remember the fire dancing which was beamed around the world. Well
seeing 10 young men with muscles cavorting in front of you with fire
sticks alight at both ends, leaping and spinning and dancing is much
better than watching it on TV, doing backward somersaults, their bodies
glistening with sweat, all reflected in the pool. The performance was
full of fun and energy - all the dancers are staff at the hotel.
Although this is essentially a tourist experience,
it is possible to gain an insight into aspects of Samoan culture. One
memory that will stay with me for a long time was the young woman proudly
raising her missionary style neck to ankles costume with puffed sleeves
and loud floral pattern to exhibit her tattoos to the audience of over
100 palangis - she did it with such dignity that the element of
voyeurism was replaced by admiration and respect.
The next day in the street, the wind exposed another
set of tattoos on the shapely legs of a young modern Samoan woman -
but the only person who usually gets to see these tattoos is meant to
be the husband. Apparently the church does not approve of the tattooing
but it still goes on, even under threat of being barred – so it
is quite a commitment and I am amazed that young women are still undertaking
When Digby had the fruit trip to the other island
Savaii, he came to a community centre where all the men from the village
were meeting to tattoo a young man – Dig and his work crew were
there to prune the trees, and all the time they were there, they could
hear the groans coming from the man being tattooed, lying on the ground.
Later we were told it can take up to 3 weeks, every day, being jabbed
with this shell blade 1 cm long , like a toothbrush
with lots of little saw tooths which is laid on the leg after being
dipped in ink and then hammered into the leg – tap, tap, tap –
with two attendants fanning and holding his head while he moans in pain.
As well as the dance performance there was a buffet, and
the interesting part was that they has a whole section of it devoted
to Samoan food so we had – wait for it – Sea cucumber, sea
urchin, as well as more normal things like banana cooked in coconut
milk and taro leaves with coconut cream (palusami)
and breadfruit cooked in coconut milk, followed by dessert of papaya
cooked in coconut milk. You start to get the idea that the basis of
Samoan cuisine is something cooked in coconut milk – and it is
coconut milk prepared from first principles (first find your coconut
tree) – not the stuff in the can which I have on good authority
is like canned asparagus as opposed to the real thing. So one of my resolutions is to learn how to actually make real coconut
cream and a traditional palusami. Agnes
next door (my Samoan neighbour who is so shy!! has the coconut grating
doover by her back door so I am going to rock in with a coconut and
get her to show me how to do it.
Last weekend we went to the far east of the island to a
remote village called Tiavea. Robin and Chantal
both mentioned that this area was the most remote and that there was a long
4 hour walk along the coast (which neither of them had done between 2 villages
and no roads, and some of the best bird watching on the island)so we decided we would go and check it out, maybe walk a bit
of the way, and just see how it went. The track to the village was about
5 km and was just a bulldozer scrape which had grassed over and wound its
way down from the ridge to the beach below. There were very few cars that
used this track and as we drove down we passed several people coming up with
horses as pack animals.
When we got to the beach and the village there was a sign
with the charges for the privilege of parking/swimming etc and a group
of kids and a woman materialised to collect the money from the rich
palangis. As we were the only show in town, a few others
gathered to watch, including an old man who turned out to have been
a worker at one of the agricultural research stations where digby
now works – once he discovered this common ground he appropriated
us and told us to shift our car and park it at his house (fale)
so that he would look after it for us while we were away – "I
work for you" – were his words. When we told him we planned
to walk to Uafoto, the other village his jaw
dropped in disbelief that anyone who had a car would want to do such
a stupid thing – 'the track goes up and down up and down'.
We didn't get much specific help so headed off
along the beach and came to the river which we had to cross. In true
Australian style we thought that there would be a crossing upstream
a little way where we could step across and headed up stream to find
it – well what we found was a group of young women all washing
in what they thought was privacy until digs and I thundered through
the bush. Interesting that they are washing, covered in soap suds but
still wearing sarongs (lavalavas) which cover
neck to knees. One of the girls spoke excellent English, came forward
and introduced herself, shook hands with me, wanted to know my name,
what we were doing etc. she said she had done the walk, leaving at 6
am and returning at 4 pm with her cousins from Hawaii, her name was
Leh, and when we came back we should look for her at the house
on the corner.
She told us we had to go back to the beach and cross
the river there – which we did with digby
wading out into the surf carrying the daypack above his head and jumping
the waves which came up above his armpits. Then we walked along and
found the track in the plantation of bananas and breadfruit and followed
it up onto the ridge into the rainforest – real rainforest which
is rare in Samoa and then down into the next bay which
was a beautiful sandy beach with no-one around. Along the beach, there
is a fire still smouldering, but no one around. We could not find where
the track left the beach and wandered around for a while and then gave
up and went back to Tiavea.
At Taivea, the village was
sleeping, and soon woke up when we arrived back. Robert provided us
with 3 coconuts already husked and with great style knocked the top
off for us to drink – what a great drink it is – with all
the coconuts falling on the ground at Cape Trib I keep making these
new resolutions. Leh appeared with her cohorts – aged 18 years single
girls plus the proverbial kids gathering around – it took me straight
back to being in the Himalayas with all the same curiousity
and friendliness – and the questions – how old are you,
how many kids you have, is he your husband, where do you come from,
how long you stay I Samoa, and with Leh there speaking beautiful English we actually had some
meaning ful exchanges. Leh
had finished school in Apia and had learned her English at school – amazing – and
now hung out with her mates who we had disturbed washing at the creek.
She said she would come with us on the walk and show us the track when
we came back, and that we could stay at the beach huts run by her friend
a bit further down the road. So we probably will.
When discussing this with Chantal later at the next art class, she
was able to fill me in on the lack of a road to the village –
there is no school – the kids have to work 2 hours up to the village
school on the ridge and 2 hours back at the end of the day – and
they are hit by the principal for being late. She has been trying to
sort out how an aid program could build the road so a bus could get
down there – the samoan govt is not interested as it is so much money.
Chantal also knows Leh from her own sojourns
The Bahai Temple
Five kms up the road from us in
the misty hills looking down over Apia is a Bahai temple – the architectural design is stunning
and it is set in landscaped gardens with a sweeping promenade leading
to the building which looks like a beehive. There is only one Bahai
temple on each continent, and this one in the Pacific is rather unusual
– when I asked why it was there it seemed to have something to
do with the Samoan head of state being a bahai.
There is a community of Bahai people who have settled in the vicinityf,
including Wendy and Steve Percival who own the Art Centre. Wendy invited
us to the last Sunday's service because it was a special one to
celebrate International Women's Day.
The opportunity to close up how the building worked
seemed a good one so we toddled along. The Bahai
believe in the 'oneness of mankind' – there is only
one god who is common across all religions who have had a variety of
prophets coming along on his behalf. They also believe in the equality
of women which is where Eliza gets her support to live in Samoa as she chooses. The service itself was interesting – about 300
people – 95% Samoan – the local tv
camera crew turned up to film – yes we were recorded on tv
actually attending a church service – I don't know whether
that helps or hinders our credentials. Brenda commented to digby
that she had seen him on tv last night –
this is a small place!
The acoustics were great for singing – the massed choir soared
out into the space and the echoes seemed to enhance it – but for
speaking it was terrible, the echo was so long that it ran while the
person was reading the next sentence – you needed to wait about
30 secs after each phrase and most of the speakers did not do this so
it was all a big babble, as most of it was in samoan anyway it really did not make that much difference
to us. The Bahai do not believe in ministers
– everyone is equal – you do not need someone to intercede
between you and god – so there was no sermon – the service
was made up of the choir singing, interspersed with readings taken from
the book of Bahai's founder who wrote
in the 1800s.
After the service we all went over for a huge morning tea to the pavilion
set in the gardens and lots of people came up and introduced themselves
to us, and of course once they discovered digby's reason for being in
samoa asked him if he would come and have a look at their
fruit trees. I can now imagine a little of what it must be like being
a doctor in a social situation, with everyone wanting you to listen
to their symptoms and give a diagnosis over a cup of tea! During morning
tea, we got the sermon that we missed out on in the temple – from
a visiting bahai who was an indian
fighter pilot who had worked at Bamaga for the last 10 years with the
council. He was a bit of a ranter, with no intellectual rationale or
logic behind the statements he was pronouncing – you can see my
own values coming through here – and I felt sorry for the islanders
at Bamaga who no doubt listened patiently to it all for 10 years.
The following Tuesday Wendy invited us to dinner with about
10 other people – and the guest of honour was this guy again who
was invited to address the guests between the main course and dessert
– and we had another disjointed rant which lasted about 30 minutes
– when I got home I was so angry with all the claptrap and illogical
thoughts, it took me a couple of hours to calm down.
So I have had my religious dose for the next 10 years.
Wendy prepared a beautiful dinner and this is where I had the long in
depth chat with Eliza,
so the evening was interesting despite the sermon. There was no wine
– the bahais do not drink alcohol – and we wondered what other
rules were imposed, as they claim that they do not adopt any of the
social or cultural mores of the religions such as with the catholics
not being allowed to eat meat on Fridays – they say they have
cut through all that.
The Atele Orchard
I went out to the govt orchard at Atele, one of the places
where digby works,
although up until now he has not spent much time there as he has been
concentrating on the orchard at Nafanua. Atele is a much larger orchard
with thousands of trees – there is a mangosteen block of about
3 acres, the trees look about 4 years old and many are getting sunburnt
and have had the shade protection removed too soon. Walked down the
road in the orchard – the windbreaks are soursops and jakfruit
and casuarina planted 2 metres apart. Walked
along the soursop row and lots of rotten soursops on the ground, lots
of ripe ones in the trees so I collected an armful and took them back
to the car – digs and I pulped them and froze them for juice and
then made soursop icecream which we took to
Wendy's for dinner and it was a great hit.
There is a huge papaya plantation – they are
all at least 3 metres tall and they pick them with a long stick which
knocks the stem and then you drop the stick and catch the fruit as it
falls. The vine was about 2 feet deep amongst the papayas, and then
I discovered pineapple rows completely covered by the vine interplanted
with the papaya. I went out on a papaya picking expedition with one
of the young women – she knocked them with the stick – I
caught them as they fell more or less. With all the
vine on the ground if you miss, they often have a soft landing, but
there are volcanic rocks strewn through the whole orchard (oh for a
bulldozer) and hidden by the vine so some of the dropped papaya splattered
everywhere. There were lots of rotten papaya
still on the trees. We walked randomly around for about an hour fighting
our way through the vine, stepping over the rocks – ok for a hobby
but not for a business.
Then into the abius and
rollinia grove – thousands of ripe fruit
on the trees which are in beautiful condition, with all the fruit dropping
on the ground uncollected. My overwhelming reaction was that I wanted
to step in and take charge of harvesting and marketing of all this fruit
so it was not wasted!!!! I can't help myself can I?
The whole thing seemed inefficient and disorganised (to my eyes), the
citrus so overgrown (digby has now taken charge of the
pruning teams) that it made my fingers positively itch to turn it into
something productive.
Future Plans
From meeting Steve at the Art Centre, I have arranged to
join his next 7 day ecotour of Samoa which takes
in 4 islands and 4 nights are spent staying in villages – the people he knows
and the places he will take us – the bus has 4 seakayaks on the roof – will give a different insight into
the place and I am really looking forward to it – a couple from Germany, a
couple from the Netherlands, me, a local samoan,
and an ecotourist student. This tour starts on the
7th April.
I have arranged with Chantal to give me private French lessons
– 2 x 1 hr each week until the mid of June – so 16 lessons which will brush
up my schoolgirl French from the 1960s – I am amazed at how much I have remembered.
So this will put us in a really good position to travel in France through the alps. Who knows if I get really
keen, when digby goes back
to Australia I might spend the next month in france by myself, rather than Ireland. But I may be
sick of the French by then – who knows – I can just decide when the time comes.


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I was wondering; on average, how long does it take you to design, code and develop a WordPress theme (with all the extra features etc.) and put it up for sale on TF (if it's accepted)?
It seems to be getting longer and longer each time!
My first theme took about two weeks (a year ago)
My second theme about four weeks plus ??hrs in support (six months ago)
My latest theme took seven weeks. Although I'm expecting a lot less support requests this time since I am no longer using timthumb
It all depends really. In my case I am more designer than coder so the coding slows me quite up a bit. I am sure there are some theme authors who can knock em out a lot faster than me.
Anywhere from 2-12 weeks but that's not 8 hours a day typically.
Spending the time on documentation is an often overlooked piece, but an extra day of documentation could save weeks of support mail.
it's harder to build first theme, but after that all other themes you should do much easier.how?
when making html make div with same id's and classes, so you can reuse shortcodes, sidebars, menus…not completely reuse (you will need to change something probably) but almost 90% of job is done for that
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In the next UK IASA event we will be looking at the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
Update: If you would like to attend then please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
UK IASA Meeting Agenda
14th November 2005
Microsoft Offices, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London
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By NURBAITI HAMDAN email@example.com
Peter Jackson and his The Lord Of The Ring trilogy of films have helped put New Zealand on the tourism map like no other, and now the focus continues with the Hobbit movies.
NEW Zealand is famous for its scenery and nature, and as a country whose economy thrives on agriculture, green farms are abundant.
But not all farms are the same – there is the one (pun intended) farm that tourists from all over the world flock to.
The Alexander farm, which has been rebranded The Hobbiton Movie Set Tours, is where the outdoor scenes of the blockbuster The Lord Of The Rings trilogy were filmed. It is also one of the sets for the latest movie in the franchise, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
When I was told that I would be visiting the movie set, I did not know quite what to expect. I thought it would be at a studio or a small, rebuilt outdoor set in a man-made environment.
I was wrong.
Nestled on a 10-acre plot of private land near Matamata, in the North Island of New Zealand, the Alexander farm has been transformed into Middle Earth and is a draw for Lord Of The Rings devotees.
Now, while New Zealand is not short of vast, green hills, director Peter Jackson had a specific vision in mind of how Middle Earth should look like, based on the description in the books by J.R.R Tolkien.
"The hills they wanted weren't your typical, ordinary hills but had to be 'green, rolling hills'," said the Hobbiton Movie Set & Farm Tours media and communications manager Ian J. Brodie.
Jackson found exactly what he was looking for at the farm, owned by the Alexander family.
The production team then sought the Alexanders' permission to start a movie shoot on the property.
"We said that we wanted to shoot Lord Of The Rings. And the reply was, 'Lord of the what?'" Brodie told us with a chuckle.
The farm had no roads, buildings or power lines. So in March 1999, site construction began from scratch, starting with a 1.5km-long road.
The farm became home to 400 people – including Jackson, actors Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins), Sir Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins), and Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) – and filming of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy commenced in December that year.
Despite a major movie production taking place on the property, to this day, the farm still operates as a working sheep and cattle farm.
The Hobbiton Movie Set Tours is fast becoming the central attraction of New Zealand, with a projection of 100,000 visitors to the farm for the year ending March 31, 2013.
It includes a two-hour guided tour around the property that was completely rebuilt in 2011 for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of a three-part prequel to The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
One of the attractions on the tour is definitely the Green Dragon Inn, a watering hole and meeting point for the hobbits in the movie.
As all the interior scenes for the movie were shot in studios in Wellington, for the purpose of the movie set tour, the interior of the pub has been recreated to an amazingly accurate detail.
I felt magically transported to Middle Earth as I stepped into the inn.
The furniture, floor rugs and tableware used were in tune with the Middle Earth theme, such that you would forget you were actually in New Zealand.
"That's Bilbo's chair over there," said Brodie, gesturing to a brown armchair next to a small round window.
Well, we quickly took turns sitting on the chair used by The Hobbit's titular character.
Tour visitors receive a complimentary drink of traditional ales, cider and non-alcoholic ginger beer at the Inn. With a seating capacity of 100 people, the inn is also available for hire after hours.
As we tucked into our farm-style lunch at the Green Dragon, I could not help but feel I was in the movies myself. By normal human standards, I am considered a hobbit-sized person!
We later headed out to visit the 37 hobbit holes (houses of the hobbits) around the farm. Each hole has its own characteristics that match the personality of the hobbit that resides in it.
Look out for Samwise Gamgee's house: it has a chimney and a yellow door with colourful flowers outside, showing off his profession as a gardener.
It was a different experience altogether seeing the huge Party Tree – where Bilbo held his party – it was so majestic and grand that you felt you were a small creature standing in front of something so big.
At Hobbiton, Middle Earth is a real place.
The excitement of being at the movie set was clearly seen on the faces of all the visitors we ran into on our trip. The popularity of the movies, coupled with the vast landscape of the farm, makes it a perfect tourist attraction for avid movie-goers and families alike. No New Zealand trip would be complete without visiting the Hobbiton Movie Set Tours.
If you are looking to bring back souvenirs, a gift shop near the entrance of the farm is where you can purchase postcards and Tolkien's books, among other things. You can also get a signed copy of The Lord Of The Rings Location Guidebook, written by Brodie. n Visit hobbitontours.com to book your tour in Middle Earth. The tour price starts from NZ$75 (RM189) per adult. For more information on New Zealand as a holiday destination, visit newzealand.com. Malaysia Airlines (malaysiaairlines.com) flies to Auckland six times weekly.
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All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.
Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, ...
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.
Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead.
Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.
Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three-year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S. Army and rescued by Lt. Kurt Klein, whom she married. Photos.
Excerpted from All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Copyright © 1995 Gerda Weissmann Klein. Excerpted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when the Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live on for a while in the basement of their home, they are eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of all but her life. By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead.
Despite her horrifying experiences, Gerda Weissmann Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends managed to create a community of friendship and love; stripped to the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to young Americans. It introduces them to this century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet shows that with hope and faith, hatred can be overcome.
Preparing students to read All But My Life:
The questions, discussion topics, and assignments that follow will enrich your students' understanding of All But My Life and significantly expand their knowledge of the Holocaust and the Second World War. Many of your students will have grandparents who remember the war; some may have fought in Germany, others may even be Holocaust survivors themselves. Encourage your students to interview older people who remember the war. They might tape record these interviews and play them to the class. Every student will be interested in the HBO documentary on Gerda
Weissmann Klein, One Survivor Remembers, which won the 1996 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short. Videocassettes of this film (ISBN 1-55974-587-8) are available from Direct Cinema Limited, P.O. Box 10003, Santa Monica, CA 90418. You should urge your students to watch the films and documentaries about Nazi Europe and the Holocaust which frequently appear on television. Try, too, to have them relate the events that Gerda witnessed to events in our own culture. Could a holocaust happen here? Why, or why not? Current news stories could also be of interest. Where else in the world are people being driven from their homes and forced to starve? What might the rest of the world do about it?
Understanding the story:
Bielitz (Bielsko)
1. What historic event occurred on September 3, 1939? What was its immediate effect on the Weissmanns' lives? What was the Third Reich?
2. On the day of the Nazi invasion, Gerda's parents ask her to telephone the other family members, but when she does so there is no reply (p. 6). Why not? Where have these people gone?
3. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Weissmann feel "relief and pride" (p. 6) when their children insist on staying with them?
4. Why don't Gerda's parents react when the carpet begins to burn (p. 8)?
5. Why does Gerda's brother, Arthur, slap her (p.8)?
6. Why does the "drunken, jubilant mob" in Bielitz believe it has been liberated (9)?
7. When one of Arthur's classmates tells him that young Jewish boys are being murdered in the camps, Arthur says, "Nonsense" (p. 17). Why doesn't he believe this boy?
8. The night before Arthur leaves home, he sits at his desk "looking through the mementos of his youth" (p. 18). What thoughts do you think are going through Arthur's head?
9. Why does Zeloski, the baker's delivery man, use the past tense when he speaks of Arthur (p. 19)? Why does Gerda say, "I hate you"?
10. Why doesn't Arthur want his family to accompany him to the station? Why doesn't he turn around as he leaves the house?
11. Why does Mrs. Weissmann decide to visit the cemetery after Arthur leaves home?
12. What does the young man tell the concert audience at the resort of Krynica? Why is he carried away by the police? Do you think he really is a maniac?
13. Why does Mr. Weissmann decide that the family should sell all of their belongings? What words would you use to describe Gerda's feelings after the sale?
14. What does Gerda's father have in mind when he says, "Whatever you are thinking now is wrong" (p. 32)? What promise does Gerda make to him at this moment?
15. What does Gerda mean when she says that Niania is an "old Austrian" (p. 34)? Who was the Emperor Franz Josef?
16. Why doesn't Gerda tell her parents about her conversation with Arthur's friend Peter, even after they discover that Arthur is still alive?
17. What does it mean to the Polish Jews that the Germans have violated their pact with the Russians (p. 46)? What will it mean to Arthur?
18. Why is Gerda not able to summon a doctor the night her father has a heart attack?
19. What does Ulla represent to the young Gerda? Why does Gerda decide to learn English, despite the danger of doing so?
20. What is Gerda's initial reaction to Abek? Does she feel positive, negative, or uncertain?
21. How are Gerda's life and character affected by the terrible letter from Erika? What changes have the dreadful events wrought on Erika's own character? "I want to kill, just kill," she writes (p. 70). Would you say that acts of hatred engender more hate?
22. How does Gerda deduce Arthur's changing state of mind from his letters?
23. In April 1942 the Jews in Bielitz are ordered to move to the quarter near the railway terminal which would become their "ghetto." What does the word ghetto mean? What was its original meaning, and what has it come to signify today in our country?
24. Why does Gerda "despise" Niania when she goes to say goodbye (p. 75)?
25. Why do Gerda's parents refuse to look back at their old home when they leave for the ghetto? Why does Gerda choose to look back?
26. Why are Gerda's parents in better spirits when they arrive in their ghetto apartment?
27. What does Aussiedlung mean? Why is the word so resonant for the Bielitz Jews?
28. What does Judenrein mean?
29. How would you describe the farewell Gerda's parents take of one another: joyful, sorrowful, or a combination of the two? What legacy do they leave the young Gerda?
30. Who is Merin? Why does he say to Gerda, "Are you crazy?" (p. 90)? Why does he throw her back on the truck and say "You are too young to die" (p. 91)? Is it because he pities her and wants to save her life, or because, as a worker, she will be useful to the Nazi State?
31. Why does Gerda walk away from her mother without looking back?
1. "Now I have to live," Gerda reflects on the train (p. 95). What reasons does she give for wanting to live?
2. What is the Militz? How does it differ from the ordinary police force? Why does the Militz Commander feel so hostile toward his own race? Why does he agree to give Gerda her permit?
3. Why is Abek's family so generous and hospitable to Gerda? What is Gerda's reaction to their kindness?
4. What is a Dulag?
5. Who are the "living skeletons" Gerda meets in the Dulag? Where are they to be sent?
6. Why does Gerda refuse the working card and decide to move on to the camp? What does her decision have to do with Abek? Why doesn't she want any "special privileges" (p. 107)?
7. During the train ride to the camp, why does Suse Kunz say that she feels "pretty good, in spite of everything" (p. 113)? Does this statement reflect Gerda's mood?
1. Who is Frau Kügler?
2. Bolkenhain is Gerda's first view of the "homeland of Nazism" (p. 114). How do the Germans there seem different from those she observed in Poland? What is "propaganda," and what effect has it had on the German people's preconceptions about Jews?
3. Who is Mrs. Berger? What does she imply in her short speech to the young women (p. 116)? Do you believe that her methods for dealing with the inmates were good ones? Do you find her a sympathetic character?
4. Why does the moon become Gerda's "loyal friend"? What does the moon signify to her?
5. Why do the inmates of Bolkenhain have to wear three stars? Why is it necessary that they be identified as Jews from every angle?
6. Who is Meister Zimmer? How do his attitude and behavior differ from those of Frau Kugler?
7. How does Mrs. Berger get Gerda to acknowledge her father's death? Do you think Mrs. Berger's method is kind? What method does Gerda use to cope with the dreadful knowledge?
8. Under what government did Gerda's grandfather live? Why was he exiled to Siberia? Why was he not given a trial? Why was he released and allowed to go home?
9. What is Yom Kippur? Why do the prisoners decide to fast, and what satisfaction do they derive from doing this fast?
10. Why is Lotte weeping at the camp fence? Why is she, unlike Gerda, unable to draw on happy memories to help her survive?
11. What makes Gerda sense that she will never see Arthur again after receiving his frayed, dirty letter?
12. How did Frau Kugler save Gerda's life? Do you believe that genuine affection existed between Frau Kugler and the girls under her care?
13. How did Abek's mother and sisters die? What mixed emotions does their fate inspire in Gerda? Why is she ashamed of her own feelings?
14. What message does Gerda communicate in the play she writes and performs for her fellow prisoners? In what way does the play manage to convey hope? What does Gerda get out of the experience of putting on the play, and why does she count it as the "greatest thing I have done in my life" (p. 142)?
15. In the summer of 1943, a change comes over Bolkenhain: incoming mail is cut off, Meister Zimmer becomes abusive, and there is not enough raw material for spinning. What is the meaning of this change? What turn is the war taking for the Germans?
1. How do the Marzdorf Judenalteste and Lagerfuhrerin differ from their counterparts at Bolkenhain? What does this mean for the inmates?
2. Who is Frau Aufsicht?
3. Why is the supervisor's question to Gerda, "Are you hungry?" (p. 147) a "tricky" one?
4. What keeps Gerda from throwing herself under a train and ending her life?
1. Upon seeing Litzi, Frau Kugler, and Mrs. Berger again, Gerda's reaction is "This was home!" (p. 153). What has she learned from her experiences at Marzdorf?
2. What does Gerda state to be the most important quality in a future husband? Why do the other girls laugh at her opinion? Do you agree with her or with them?
3. Why did Abek volunteer to come to Burgberg? Gerda feels responsible for his coming. Do you think that she is responsible? If so, does she make up for it by her loving behavior to Abek during his last days?
4. Why do Italian prisoners suddenly appear in Burgberg? What has happened in the war to turn the Italians and the Germans into enemies?
5. Why did Gerda decline to see Abek in Burgberg, writing him a note instead?
1. Who is the Betriebsleiter? This man is what one would describe as a sadist. What is a sadist, and which of the Betriebsleiter's characteristics are sadistic?
2. What is the Spinnerei? Why is it so dangerous to work there? 3. What is tuberculosis? What happens to the girls who contract it in Grunberg?
4. What impact does the beating by the SS guard have on Gerda? How does it affect her will to survive? How does it affect the other girls?
5. Why are the girls undressed and given numbers (pp. 178-179)?
6. Why does Gerda want to procure poison?
The March
1. Why do the authorities decide to embark on the march to Czechoslovakia? What turn in the war has prompted this flight?
2. Why do Gerda and Ilse not carry out Gerda's plan to go to the police station? What might have happened to them had they done this?
3. What does Tusia mean when she says that Gerda has given her "belief in humanity" (p. 197)? What is Gerda's response? Is her decision to make up "good news" for the other girls a good one?
4. Why do the guards abandon the marchers?
5. What is the significance of the white flag hanging from the church steeple in Volary?
1. What is Gerda's first impression of Kurt Klein? What does he represent to her? Why does she feel compelled to tell him they are Jews? What is his response?
2. When does Gerda finally admit to herself that her parents are dead? Why has she delayed the acknowledgement until this moment?
3. What does Kurt mean when he says, "It seems we fought a war against the Nazis, but I haven't met a Nazi yet" (p. 221)?
4. Why does Gerda compare herself to Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid?
5. What are Gerda's emotions on seeing Liesel, Suse, and Ilse's graves? Why does she turn abruptly away from them?
1. Gerda writes, "Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden" (p. 247). What does she mean by this? In what way is it a burden?
2. What does the State of Israel symbolize to Gerda?
3. What are Gerda's feelings about suicide? What has formed these opinions?
4. What is the significance of Gerda's guilt over having, long ago, purloined a rum ball? How does this guilt carry over into her current life?
5. Why was Gerda unable to speak German on the radio? Why does Gerda prefer speaking English to any other language?
Questions for class discussion
1. In her Preface, Gerda writes "I feel at peace, at last. I have discharged a burden, and paid a debt to many nameless heroes." What burden has she discharged, what debt has she repaid? What has been achieved by her relating the stories of Lotte, Erika, and others?
2. What motivations kept the Weissmanns from fleeing Poland before the Nazi invasion, as Uncle Leo suggested they do? Did Mrs. Weissmann make a mistake in making her husband's health their primary concern? Why did the Weissmanns continue to hope that everything would be all right? Later, Aunt Anna urges the Weissmanns to accompany her into the Gouvernement. Why do they refuse to go? Was their decision justified?
3. Gerda couldn't understand why her neighbors made a Nazi flag to hang from the Weissmanns' house. What do you think their motivations were? Might this action have helped the Weissmans?
4. At the ruins of the Jewish Temple in Bielitz, Arthur gives Gerda a little piece of glass. Why does Gerda keep the glass for so long? What does it come to signify to her?
5. How does Gerda's vision of her parents change during the course of the book? What words would you use to describe her feelings about them when she is a young girl at the beginning of the war; at the end of the war, after their deaths; and as an older woman, a mother herself, looking back over the years?
6. On the door of Mr. Weissmann's factory, the Nazis place a sign that says: Dogs and Jews Not Allowed to Enter (p. 26). Do you find that the Nazis treated the Jewish people better, or worse, than dogs? In what ways did they consider the Jews useful to them and therefore worthy to be kept alive?
7. When the Weissmanns move into the basement of their house, Trude, who will move from the basement to the main part of the house, says "without malice or sarcasm" (p. 33) that she will be glad to have a nice place to spend Christmas. Do you think that Trude is really without malice? Do you think she might feel resentment for the difficult, impoverished childhood she has led? Why might she, and people like her, irrationally blame the Jewish population for their troubles?
8. What role does religion play in the lives of the Weissmann family? How do Gerda's religious beliefs evolve over the course of the book? Why, during the final march through Czechoslovakia, does Gerda stop praying?
9. Of all the Germans Gerda meets during the war, only two -- the officer in Bielitz who discovered her English textbook and Frau Kugler -- "behaved as though they were human" (p. 51). What can account for the fact that so many people acted with such incredible cruelty? Do you believe that the German nation should be held collectively responsible for the atrocities against the Jewish people? Or do you think that the kind of madness that overtook them is latent in all human beings?
10. How would you describe Abek's character? Can you understand Gerda's negative feelings toward him? How do their characters differ? How do their attitudes toward religion differ? Do you think that Gerda led Abek on, or that she dealt with him in the most sympathetic and humane way possible? How does Erika's letter about her love for Henek help to make Gerda understand her own feelings for Abek?
11. Reflecting upon the horrible scene in which families were separated and thrown into trucks, Gerda wonders, "Why? Why did we walk like meek sheep to the slaughterhouse? Why did we not fight back?" (p. 89). What answer does she give? Does that answer seem sufficient to you? What other reasons might you give?
12. Frau Kugler "appeared grim and forebidding," but "her harsh appearance turned out to conceal a kind heart" (p. 114). What lesson does Gerda learn about the difference between appearance and reality? What other characters in her story present a deceptive exterior? A terrible situation, like war, can bring out evil and rapacious qualities in some people. Does it seem to you that it can also bring out extraordinary and unexpected qualities in others? What other examples does the book provide?
13. Gerda relates the dramatic story of her grandfather's exile in Siberia and his return home (pp. 125-126). In what ways does his story resemble that of Gerda and her family? How does this memory help her to accept her situation in the camp? To what extent, in your opinion, were the governments of Czarist Russia and Nazi Germany similar to one another? How highly did they value human life? Would you say that the word "authoritarian" describes both systems?
14. Although Gerda loses her family early in the war, she enjoys firm friendships with girls like Ilse and Suse. What does friendship come to mean to her? How instrumental is it in keeping her alive and full of hope?
15. Could Gerda and her fellow prisoners be described as slaves? How do Gerda's definition of freedom, and her feelings about freedom, change over the course of her imprisonment? How does she manage, occasionally, to achieve feelings of freedom?
16. How would you describe the character of Kurt Klein? Why is he so well matched with Gerda? What does he, as an American, a Jew, and a liberator, symbolize to Gerda? How does Kurt's character differ from Abek's?
17. Gerda describes her childhood as "safe and sheltered, too sheltered perhaps for what the years ahead were to bring, but full of lovely memories from which to draw strength" (p. 24). Do you believe that Gerda's happy childhood and loving family contributed to her ability to survive where so many others did not? At the end of the book, she says that her childhood "in all probability was not as perfect as I have chosen to remember" (p. 258). Why has Gerda chosen to remember only the happy times with her parents? What other characteristics have helped to make Gerda a survivor?
18. Gerda writes, "Throughout my years in the camps, and against nearly insuperable odds, I knew of no one who committed suicide" (p. 250). Why do you think these people, who suffered such great loss and pain, did not resort to suicide, when many people take their lives for seemingly lesser reasons?
Expanding your knowledge
1. Read a short history of World War II, either in a book or in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Then divide a piece of paper in half. On the left half place events from All But My Life and the dates they took place. Look up what events took place in the war on those dates and place them on the right half of the page. How can the events that immediately affected Gerda be explained by the larger history of the war itself? Which dates does the author consider most important? Which do you consider the most important?
2. Find a map of wartime Europe. Locate Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia; within them, locate Bielitz, Sosnowitz, Bolkenhain, Marzdorf, Landeshut, and Grunberg. Trace the route of the march from Grunberg to Volary.
3. Interview someone who lived during World War II (if possible, find someone who fought in the war or who lived in Europe at that time). You may want to ask the following questions: How did you first learn about the war? How did your life change as a result of the war? How did you follow war news? When did you hear about the Holocaust and how did this news affect you?
4. Although Nazi Germany constituted the most notorious chapter in the history of anti-Semitism, it did not invent this particular prejudice, which dates back almost as far as Christianity itself. Research the history of anti-Semitism. How did it begin? Why did it continue? In which countries, and in which centuries, was it most pervasive? Have there been other Jewish holocausts in history? Have you observed incidents of anti-Semitism in your own community?
5. Many people called World War I (1914-1918), in which many millions died, "the war to end all wars," and most Europeans, like Gerda's father, found it impossible to believe that such devastation could occur again. World War I ended with the defeated Germans being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded excessively harsh reparations from the already devastated country. Research World War I and the Versailles treaty. In your opinion, was the treaty unfair or unreasonable? Might it indeed have sown the seeds of Nazi hatred?
6. Read a book on the history of Nazism (you might choose one from the suggested reading list below, or find one of your own choice). How did the movement begin? Why did so many people listen to Hitler and take him seriously? How did Nazism compare with the Fascism of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini? In America in the last few years there have been numerous cases of neo-Nazism, accompanied by the desecration of Jewish cemeteries and other acts of hate. These neo-Nazis claim that their hate-inspired writing and speech is protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech for all. Do you believe that such hatred should be protected? Likewise, should the Ku Klux Klan be legally permitted to march, burn crosses, and spread racist and anti-Semitic literature?
7. Mrs. Weissmann says, "It will be as it was with Napoleon" (p. 44), trying to believe that Hitler's swift progress will soon be reversed. Where, and how, did Napoleon's fortunes change? Did Hitler's eventual defeat resemble Napoleon's? Research the history of Central Europe, Gerda's home. How many wars have taken place there in the last five hundred years?
8. "Neutrality with Russia had been violated; German troops had crossed the frontier" (p. 46). For the Weissmanns, this meant that things would get worse for Arthur; but for the Nazis, it was to mean a new, and powerful, enemy. As you research the history of World War II, look up the Nazi-Soviet pact. How and why did Communists and Fascists, who had such different ideologies, join forces? What caused their falling out? What was Russia's enmity to mean for Germany?
9. In the Nuremberg war crimes trials that were held immediately after the war, most of the Nazi leaders were tried and many were sentenced. But not all of the war criminals were caught; even today, a few who have lived in hiding for decades are being caught and brought to trial. Find the names of some Nazis who have been brought to justice in the last twenty years. What were their crimes? What sort of lives did they lead in hiding? What punishments were they finally given?
10. Follow news reports of murder and genocide that are coming out of present-day Bosnia and Africa. How do these events resemble, or differ from, the Holocaust during World War II? How is the international community responding? What is the UN doing about it? What should be done?
Suggestions for further reading:
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl; Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing; Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf; Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List; Chaim Potok, In the Beginning; Art Spiegelman, Maus; Studs Terkel, The Good War; Emile Zola, I Accuse.
Suggested films:
The Diary of Anne Frank; Europa, Europa; Pillar of Fire; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Schindler's List; Shoah; The Sorrow and the Pity.
Posted December 15, 2010
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the holocaust because it demonstrates how strength and love can be found in unlikely places and how hope can still exist when all else is lost. Gerda, a real holocaust survivor, writes in a way that is so personal that you feel like you are in the story with her constantly battling for life and overcoming hopelessness. When each member of Gerda's family is shipped separately to different camps and until she is liberated Gerda is constantly telling herself lies and holding the picture of her homecoming in her heart for strength by believing that she has something left to live for after the war. This really is still something I think about and how after the war she never returned to the home of her childhood because deep down she knew that her family was dead and was never coming back home. Another part that made me put down the book and think about was when Gerda had put together a play to entertain her fellow prisoners and to amuse her jailers. Gerda was glad to make them all forget about their doomed futures and make them smile. This gave all the girls hope that someday everything might be normal and reminded them that the rhythm of the work camps is not the only thing that exists in the world. Gerda finds love and kindness from an unlikely American solider to a German officer who risks everything to bring the girls notes into the camp they work at. Gerda is an extremely strong woman to overcome the slaughter of her childhood home, her family, her friends, and the loss of all but her life.
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Posted July 19, 2013
This was a well written memoir. I would recommend for anyone who is interested in this subject matter. HOWEVER, I am very disappointed with the editing. I was reading along & when I turned the page it wouldn ' t make sense. Sometimes a phrase would be missing but once it must have been several sentances. I have no idea why the SS picked her out to go into the woods. The next page they were marching again. For several other books this has happened and there have been other typos. But they were free. I paid for this one. I AM VERY UNHAPPY WITH BARNES AND NOBLE
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Posted January 19, 2013
It was one of the best inspirational books i've read in a long time. I finished this book within 2 days because i couldn't put it down.
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Posted December 5, 2014
I recommend this book for anyone who likes reading about the Holocaust. I could not put this one down. I just find it amazing how
some of these people survived and love reading their stories.
Posted September 23, 2014
I had the opportunity to listen to her speak while attending St Cloud State University. I will never forget that day. I highly recommend this book to others.
Posted September 15, 2014
I cried. This was way more than I expected. Her story is so heartfelt. I could identify with many of her feelings even though I was not there at that moment in time. Her resolve to go on is inspireing. Finding the love of her life at the end was beyond dreams. I am so happy for the author.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted April 2, 2014
A very good book. But also very sadWas this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 3, 2014
I loved this book and read it in a day. It definitely goes up on the shelf with the book thief and between shades of grey.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted November 10, 2013
This book was so awesome. I really felt the emotion from Gerda!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted August 22, 2013
Is so detailed about her feelingsWas this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted April 8, 2013
I highly recommend this book, I saw Gerda Weissmann Klein on a morning talk show here in Phoenix and got very interested in her story, so glad I went out and bought the book, she is a woman to admire, I will never forget her story, she is truly admirable!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 12, 2013
Gerda is a bit different than many of the Polish Jews during the Holocaust, in that her little town was a bit fluid its German/Polish identification. As a border town, it used to be a part of Austria-Hungary, so many of its citizens spoke German as their first language (she actually admits that it was her first, and the language of her mother). So she had a fairly strong German connection, spoke the language, and was generally pretty immersed within the culture. In fact, in the beginning, when she describes the town's reaction to Hitler invading, and all the celebrations surrounding his arrival in Poland in 1939, she hints off-hand that the town was never that welcoming to Jews in general; her family and many other Jews had always had a sense of being "below" the rest of the population, and the coming of Hitler had simply allowed a physical manifestation of the already-present anti-Semitic mentality.
Gerda originally penned her memoir in 1957, a little over ten years after her liberation, and then wrote an epilogue for the re-issue in 1997, a contrast which I found very illuminating. In her original memoir, her voice is very simple, very straight-forward, and somewhat immature and unpolished. She is a teenager interrupted, and her interpretations are through her own limited young perspective, without the ability to relate past her own self. Her original telling of her own reactions and thoughts are very genuine and raw, and it reflects much of her culture of quiet disbelief, yet an immense patience to simply wait for a time when things will eventually get better again, as they always have during times of historical persecution. She even mentions why she thinks the Jewish people went so quietly to their own deaths: They still had faith that humanity couldn't commit such atrocities.
Her later voice, in the epilogue, is one that has seem many years since, and relates her own experiences differently. She mentions her parents, how she herself, having become a mother three times over, now knows the terror and the quiet courage that her own parents and many other must have felt, her disappointment that she couldn't relate at the time, and her immense appreciation for things and instances that most people would never be able to appreciate. It is a voice that has seen much more reflection than the voice in her original memoir, and the contrast is beautiful.
The Holocaust and atrocities might have sprouted roots and gained initial momentum from the rife antisemitism and hatred in the Nazi regime, but it was only allowed to come to full fruition by the passivity and indifference from those surrounding. Individual memoirs like this, and people like Gerda who share their experiences and appreciations remind us that terrible things happen, but those that chose to do nothing are ultimately just as guilty as those that committed the crimes
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Posted September 23, 2012
Amazing story told by a brave girl. A must read for all ages. W
This book will stay in your heart forever!
Posted June 28, 2012
Absolutley one of the best books i have ever read.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted November 11, 2010
In Gerda Weissmann Klein's masterpiece All But My Life, elucidates the tragic story of a adolescent girl who is drawn into the Holocaust. Throughout the novel, the adolescence and her family are shipped to different concentration camps one at a time, to a point where all of the members have vanished from existence. She endures the journey of pain, through the dark, and difficult and trying times of the various slave-labor camps. Although through her own character, unexpected sacrifices of her dear friends, and many coincidences, the youth survives the horrid camps. All But My Life, clearly depicts the themes of how morality is truly an option, which shows that no matter if people have freedom or not, they will forever have the choice to act with morality and compassion. Also, in order to survive the dramatic events, Gerda shows that sustaining the power of hope in the course of harsh times can provide others with hope and joy. Reading this novel, I did like the flow of the story and the various themes in the book, which give people a clear understanding of them. Along with the flow of the story, I also liked the characters of the tale, which provide different backgrounds and added emotions. I suggest this novel to those who are very interested in the events and experiences of the Holocaust, or are just looking for something to pass the time with. I would also recommend the Schindler's List.
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Posted November 9, 2010
It will be a book that stays with you. It should no matter what you are dealt in life that you can overcome it and move on. It is also a time in history that should not be forgotten and not repeated again. It is difficult to read and times but needed. I also saw the documentary that was done and highly recommend it. Please have this book recommended or on required reading lists.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
When I was in elementary school the author came to give an inspirational talk by sharing with us some of the experiences that she had been through, to show us that no matter how bad things get, life is always worth living. At the time I was so young that I remember focusing more on the tale of her journey through the war and less on the aspects of her personal relationships with her family and love interests. I happened across this book from a friend whose family member purchased it as a result of our meeting with the author all those years ago. It was my fist time reading the book and I do have to admit that it is not as engrossing as I would have hoped, and there were a lot of chapters where I really had to force myself to stick with it. Overall, though, I do think that it is a wonderful story and definitely worth the time and effort it took me to finish it, and I can definitely see all the aspects of her struggle better now as an adult than I did before.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted February 25, 2010
A wonderfully written, first-person account, by a truly inspiring woman. I have read many books on the holocaust. Few make you feel hopeful at the end, the way All but My Life made me feel. Mrs. Weissmann-Klein's writing style is so personal, I found myself inside her story. A courageous account that I highly recommend!
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Millions fought for their lives in the Holocaust of WWII, millions died, and some survived, Gerda Weissmann Klein, a survivor, gives to the world a moving and inspiring story that will forever be in the hearts of her englightened readers.
Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts the darkest, most evil parts of humanity, while at the same time, never loses hope in humankind. Being born a Jew, the escape from the terrifying holocaust and Nazi camps was nearly inevitable for the Jews in Poland. Gerda grew up in Poland and WWII had struck Europe when she was fifteen. From the time her home was invaded, to the next six years of her life, Gerda would face numerous death camps and murderous death marches, yet she fights through it all with courage and hope. In the novel, Gerda recounts many stories and struggles she had faced during the times she was in the camps and on the death march. She was striped of her family and ultimately striped from life she had once known. This book is a fast reader! Page after page is filled with horrifying images of the barbaric cruelty of the Nazis, and the power in hope possessed by Gerda and her friend IIse. Gerda believes in her suffering -she believes that there is a greater purpose behind all the pain and struggles. She believes there is good in everything: in humankind. Throughout her memoir she recalls the intolerable evil of humanity and also the compassion that every human has the ability to possess, pointing out that all people have the choice to act humanely or act in cruelty. Gerda maintains the mood of fear of what is next with, also, an underlying optimism. This book is thought provoking and emotional; questioning human goodness and a comfort of hope. This book is a tough one to put down. The power in this book makes Gerda's story a moving memoir, reminding the readers of the terrors human kind can create. Despite the struggle and difficult, risky choices, Gerda survived her nightmare and lived to tell her remarkable story. Her telling this story is one of the many goods that have come out of her unimaginable experience. There are many books written by Holocaust survivors and about victims, and every story is different and touching in its own way, but Gerda's book is one of the forerunners for best holocaust stories because it has raw emotion and intricate themes. There is no doubt this book is a classic reminder of what hope and optimism can make one achieve.


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One of these days i'm going to do something in altiris and it works as it should the whole day!
I created a new deploy image task for a new image I captured. I select image name,. Fine - that works
I goto select product Key and nothing comes up. There are products keys in the DB. Nothing appears - I go into other deploy image tasks and the product key appears in them. This software is BEYOND a joke now. Its ridicuclous.
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I'm not sure where you're located, but I think that some of the Catalina Dealers in New Jersey and Maryland are all owned by the same family. So be careful when you go to another dealer - you may be dealing with the same people.
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At almost 18wks I've felt baby move pretty regularly for a few weeks. But I wanted to know if it's normal to feel LO in different spots of your abdomen? I can feel the solid mass of this kid all over. Sometimes in my lower belly, sometimes on either side of my belly button and today just above it. I never feel him that high unless I'm laying down. Just wondered if anyone else is experiencing this.
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My LO is very active as well. I feel him/her petty much all day long. It'salways below my belly buton thou...It does move to the left & right side thou. I beleive I may have a future gymnast in there! ... And I fear that I am going to hae a newborn that never sleeps LOL
Im - I'm sure you'll feel it soon. :)
BNW - I know what you mean. I feel the baby alot! But he finds the most interesting places to be already. I know that sometimes laying down forces him up, it's just weird. lol
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We have the same due date :) My sweet girl moves all over the place too, but always below my navel. Her favorite spot is using my bladder as a pillow :) It's not too bad as long as she's not kicking it, lol!
Is this your first? I don't know what BTFF stands for. Have you found out boy/girl yet or are you even planning to?
I feel my baby all over my belly too (at or below my belly button) and I'll be 19 weeks on Saturday. I don't feel the hard baby parts yet by touching my stomach, but I do feel the hardness of my uterus.
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Meg this is our first (BTFF= Baby Tiste Fetus Face, lol - let's just say my hubby is a nut ;) ) We find out on the 25th! I'm super excited It started with LO using my stomach as a pillow, not the greatest feeling. I'm just wondering if he gets pushed up there by the way I'm waying, plus a full bladder/stomach. I feel the same hardness Marie was taking about.
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lol I'd have to agree that your hubby's a nut :) I'm baffled that your baby would be up that high though. You should have had an u/s or doppler, so where do they put the wand? They always start a couple inches above my pubic bone. Seems like LO would get pushed down by a full stomach and bloating since your actual stomach is right underneath your ribs on the left side. I don't really feel my uterus other than it's firmer than the squishy organs around it... but I do always feel the onion-sized lump of my LO :) Measuring fundally (from pubic bone to top of uterus), you should be about 18 cm (one cm per week).
FTM here. I haven't felt my little one yet. I sometimes poke my stomach and say "cmon little one! Move it in there!" but she/he is stubborn like me and won't budge hehe.
Sidenote: any other FTMs afraid to poke there stomach too much? Funny, I think I might poke him/her in the eye and would never forgive myself!! lmao
Too funny, Deena! I'm FTM but I know there's plenty of fluid in there to protect her, so I poke away! lol I usually use all my fingers though cause I'm trying to figure out if it's her head, back or butt I'm feeling ;) ...haven't been able to figure that out except when she kicks and punches at the same time!
You're time is coming! I like to lie on my back in the morning and put my hand over her to see if she is awake and moving around, hoping for a kick or two before I get up :)


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