Loss and Legacy

04/05/2025

Sam A. Gronner, author of the memoir "Loss & Legacy," wrote about his years as a recent immigrant and his experience at DeWitt Clinton High School in the , N.Y. This year marks the 60th anniversary of his graduation from the-then all boys school. Follow the link for an update. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FFvTx4tc9/

11/04/2025

, beginning Saturday evening, celebrates the people of Israel's freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. This year the 37th annual March of the Living in remembrance of the will include former captives seized by on Oct, 7, 2023. Despite historic anti-Semitic attempts to eliminate them, the Jewish people live on. Tzili Wenkert, grandmother of freed hostage Omer Wenkert, will be among the marchers, stating: “I won twice — once against the N***s and once against Hamas. I will march in the March of the Living as living proof that the Jewish people survive despite all attempts to destroy us.”

Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust survivors, marking 80 years since end of World War II

30/03/2025

He wrote the 2018 book, "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them." Now Jason Stanley, philosophy professor at Yale University, has taken his lesson personally and is relocating to Canada.

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”. Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and T...

16/03/2025

Reminder of the fragility of democracy: One month, three weeks and two days for Hi**er to end the democratic Weimar Republic, warns Claude , in reference to Donald ’s seeming embrace of dictatorship.

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are...

04/03/2025

Volodymyr Zelensky refused to repeat Neville Chamberlain's capitulation. Neither Trump nor Vance likely saw the parallel with the 1938 incident.

Anyone with an understanding of history no doubt experienced a sense of déjà vu while watching last week's live video from the Oval Office. This was not the first time where a dictator browbeat a European diplomat to ac...

04/03/2025

Historical analysis of the Trump/Vance confrontation with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office is now available on the blog.

Anyone with an understanding of history no doubt experienced a sense of déjà vu while watching last week's live video from the Oval Office. This was not the first time where a dictator browbeat a European diplomat to ac...

27/01/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYYydLSFs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Today is the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Watch the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony at:
- UN WebTV: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11q739xt7
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/7iMVTfohywg
- X: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lPKqObWbqeJb

03/09/2024

German elections takeaway: We've seen this before.

In the book, Loss & Legacy, author Sam A. Gronner relates how his father, ten years old in 1930, almost immediately felt the change brought about by the formation of a new N**i-led regional government in the Weimar Repub...

25/01/2024

McConnell Casts Doubt on Border Deal, Saying Trump Opposition May Sink It

Pretty much the end of when a non-elected strongman browbeats elected legislators into submission.

The minority leader privately told Republicans that the former president had put his party “in a quandary,” casting further doubt on the deal’s chances and the fate of Ukraine aid that the G.O.P. has tied to it.

09/11/2023

85 Years ago Samuel Gronner, a successful Jewish businessman in Ilmenau, Germany, , was taken into "protective custody" on the night of November 9, 1938. His detention on what came to be known as "Kristallnacht", was a foreshadowing of the massive rounding up of Europe's Jews for mass extermination by the N**i regime.

In a thought-provoking commentary, writer Meryl Ain, author of two post-Holocaust-themed novels, asks hypothetically if the outcome would have been different if social media existed at the time to shape public opinion around the world as it is doing today about Israel's response to the horrific Hamas massacre last month.

The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by …

13/10/2023

What Hamas propaganda euphemistically calls "resistance."

The book "Loss & Legacy" recounts how ten-year-old Jochen (later John) Gronner first encounters anti-Semitic hatred. Having later recognized the consequences of N**i propaganda in fueling the Holocaust (including the kil...

19/06/2023

(Photo: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA )