Bear.... In.... Spaaaaaaace!

[magid]

One of the astronauts in the most recent Discovery took a copy of a tiny teddy bear (Refugee, which had been donated to the U.S. Holocaust Museum by a survivor who'd carried it everywhere with her) into space (traveling 5,330,398 miles in almost 13 days. A very well-traveled bear.)

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[rethought.livejournal.com]

That's nifty.

I'm always amazed to find out about survival stories from the Holocaust. I learned recently that my major professor's family somehow managed to stretch their ration food to feed three Jews living in hiding. How? A doctor diagnosed the mother as being pregnant when she wasn't entitling her to extra dairy and bread.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Wow. Did the doctor have to have her 'miscarry' or something at some point? (Were the hiding people there for years?)

No matter how much I read, I can't wrap my brain around that time, not really. So scary.

[rethought.livejournal.com]

*nods* And the idea that some people are denying it makes me ill.

I don't know all the details, but apparently the people hiding were able to leave for the US via Spain (which seems like it would have been pretty scary as well, since it was fascist also).

She kept telling the doctor she wasn't pregnant, but he wouldn't believe her. About 1942, she really did get pregnant. I wonder what the doctor thought then. The doctor wasn't in on it, so it was just stubbornness about his diagnosis that got the rations.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I can't cope at all with Holocaust deniers. The whole thing gives me brain freeze and the inability to do much more than sputter and want to stomp in frustration.

Spain wouldn't've been easy, but compared to where they were coming from, who knows what it seemed like.

Double wow. I just assumed you'd meant the doctor was in on it, and this was the easiest way to work the system. But to continue diagnosing pregnancy when she wasn't? I'd want to look around for another doctor, if I didn't have three refugees to feed.... Though perhaps he'd be fine once there was an actual pregnancy...