spoken for

I am so mad, I already wrote this whole post and was one second away from publishing it when Macromedia felt the need to close my browser window. I hate you Macromedia. I hate you Flash 7. I lost it all. And it was beautiful. And now I don’t know that I can get all of that back out of my head. I’m going to cry. Emailing them and telling them off didn’t help any. I guess I can try and remember…

If you’ve seen the movie, you need to read this book!

Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) was a pianist during WWII who’s only crime was being born a Jew. He lived in the Warsaw getto with his family and three siblings (two sisters, one brother), the family had lived in that section of Warsaw prior to it being made a getto. They lived there as best they could on small rations, few jobs, other horrible living conditions until they were deported. Two of the siblings had a chance to stay on work detail but left wanting to be with the rest of the family instead; the families being deported were told they were being moved elsewhere. As the families were being loaded into cattle cars, Szpilman was pulled out of the crowd at the last second by someone he knew and not allowed to reenter. His family was shipped to their deaths at Treblinka.
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