Guest muto2100 Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Holocaust survivor speaks out after 50 years By Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes, Standard-Times staff writer 11/12/97 <http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-97/11-12-97/c01lo080.htm> DARTMOUTH -- Whenever silver-haired Misha Defonseca, a 64-year-old Holocaust survivor, sees a dead squirrel in the road, she does not avert her gaze and drive on. She stops her car. Respectfully, she moves the animal's body to the side of the road because animal corpses still remind her of the Holocaust. [...] Captivated, a capacity audience listened quietly to Ms. Defonseca recall the horrors of the Holocaust, and, ultimately, her odyssey of survival, at UMass Dartmouth on Monday evening. Ms. Defonseca was promoting her book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust," which will be published in April. [...] [...] As an 8-year-old child, she said, she walked for four years, across 3,000 miles, from Belgium through eight Nazi-occupied countries in search of her parents, and along the way was befriended by wolves. [...] Hiding in forests, she said, she survived by stealing from farm kitchens, pilfering crops in fields, and eating wild plants. In the course of her travels, she lived with a pack of wolves, she said. She told of being captured by partisans, trapped in the infamous Warsaw ghetto, and being forced to knife a Nazi soldier to death in self-defense after she witnessed him rape and shoot a young girl. [...] As she saw humanity crumble around her, she said, she found solace, a superior ability to find food, and a tender, enveloping warmth in the company of wolves. And it was the start of a great love. Eventually, she said, she was accepted into the wolf community and the "mummy wolf" replaced her lost mother. If she straggled behind the pack, the mummy wolf would cautiously watch her. "I was human only in appearance. I had become a wolf and a pup. [...] --------------------------------------------------------- This map shows the present distribution of Eurasian wolves, in light orange. Belgium is between France and Germany http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Present_distribution_of... <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/ Present_distribution_of_wolf_subspecies_eur.JPG> http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/alps/n... <http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/alps/ news/index.cfm?uNewsID=51160> Wolves were driven to extinction throughout most of Western Europe by the beginning of the last century. Thanks to conservation efforts, the animals have returned to the European Alps from Italy?s Apennine Mountains. <http://www.science-spirit.org/archive_cm_detail.php?new_id=77> 1999 Wolves Repopulate Europe Late last year, the Swiss government confirmed that European wolves have returned from Italy to live in the Swiss Alps for the first time in over a century. Source: New Scientist -------------- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_wolf> The Eurasian Wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the Common Wolf, European Wolf, ....... it has been pushed back from most of Western Europe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SgtMinor Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 muto2100 wrote: > Holocaust survivor speaks out after 50 years > By Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes, Standard-Times staff writer > 11/12/97 > <http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-97/11-12-97/c01lo080.htm> > DARTMOUTH -- Whenever silver-haired Misha Defonseca, a 64-year-old > Holocaust survivor, sees a dead squirrel in the road, she does not > avert her gaze and drive on. She stops her car. > Respectfully, she moves the animal's body to the side of the road > because animal corpses still remind her of the Holocaust. > [...] > Captivated, a capacity audience listened quietly to Ms. Defonseca > recall the horrors of the Holocaust, and, ultimately, her odyssey of > survival, at UMass Dartmouth on Monday evening. > Ms. Defonseca was promoting her book, "Misha: A Memoire of the > Holocaust," which will be published in April. [...] > [...] > As an 8-year-old child, she said, she walked for four years, across > 3,000 miles, from Belgium through eight Nazi-occupied countries in > search of her parents, and along the way was befriended by wolves. > [...] > Hiding in forests, she said, she survived by stealing from farm > kitchens, pilfering crops in fields, and eating wild plants. In the > course of her travels, she lived with a pack of wolves, she said. > She told of being captured by partisans, trapped in the infamous > Warsaw ghetto, and being forced to knife a Nazi soldier to death in > self-defense after she witnessed him rape and shoot a young girl. > [...] > As she saw humanity crumble around her, she said, she found solace, a > superior ability to find food, and a tender, enveloping warmth in the > company of wolves. And it was the start of a great love. > Eventually, she said, she was accepted into the wolf community and > the > "mummy wolf" replaced her lost mother. If she straggled behind the > pack, the mummy wolf would cautiously watch her. > "I was human only in appearance. I had become a wolf and a pup. [...] > --------------------------------------------------------- > This map shows the present distribution of Eurasian wolves, in light > orange. Belgium is between France and Germany > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Present_distribution_of... > <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/ > Present_distribution_of_wolf_subspecies_eur.JPG> > http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/alps/n... > <http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/alps/ > news/index.cfm?uNewsID=51160> > Wolves were driven to extinction throughout most of Western Europe by > the beginning of the last century. Thanks to conservation efforts, > the > animals have returned to the European Alps from Italy?s Apennine > Mountains. > <http://www.science-spirit.org/archive_cm_detail.php?new_id=77> > 1999 > Wolves Repopulate Europe > Late last year, the Swiss government confirmed that European wolves > have returned from Italy to live in the Swiss Alps for the first time > in over a century. > Source: New Scientist > -------------- > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_wolf> > The Eurasian Wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the Common Wolf, > European Wolf, ....... it has been pushed back from most of Western > Europe.... This story seems too strange to be true. I can imagine that living in a war zone, in constant fear of one's life, can leave emotional scarring and distorted memories, but it remains a story that's difficult to believe in its entirety. Others have doubts about the veracity of this tale as well: http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/stories/Defonseca1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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