Chapter 33 - Endangered Tribe

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We decided to go to Brasov two days later because it was on the way to Bucharest and we were planning a road trip through the Carpathians to the capital city.

We decided to go to Brasov two days later because it was on the way to Bucharest and we were planning a road trip through the Carpathians to the capital city

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New Adventure for the first part of 2012 (edited), Dennis Jarvis, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

We exchanged phone numbers with the model, Andra Danciu, and made a tentative date to meet at her mother's house in Brasov the following Tuesday. In the next two days we explored the region and I had several more adventures as a dublura, people staring and pointing at me, some asking for my autograph, some wanting to touch me — or vice versa, have me lay my hands on them. I began to tense up every time I went out in public. If I was with my cousin, Laura, she'd shoo fans, admirers and detractors away, like a farm girl hissing at geese or chickens. She'd had plenty of experience with unwanted publicity due to her fight with her dad's step nieces who'd made false claims on his estate.

 She'd had plenty of experience with unwanted publicity due to her fight with her dad's step nieces who'd made false claims on his estate

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Eddie's farmhouse chickens

In fact, the more she told me, the more I realized how unsafe it was for her to be staying at Fred's old apartment in Hochfelden. There had already been an attempt on her life when a strange woman, an ally of the step nieces, had approached her in a public sauna, offering a glass of water that had questionable additives (Laura secretly poured the contents of the glass into her stainless steel thermos and later had them analyzed: ethylene glycol). We all counseled Laura not to return to France where things were becoming increasingly dangerous, first because of the court case in September, and second because of rising anti-semitism. None of us had grown up with religion, but we were Jews nonetheless and proud of our heritage. Laura was a fighter, not one to be silenced. Our family had been forced to leave Hitler Germany and here we were again, battling one of the darkest stains on human history.

 Our family had been forced to leave Hitler Germany and here we were again, battling one of the darkest stains on human history

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Laura

Unite The Right Torchlit March Towards Lee Park Through Charlottesville, VA, Aug 2017

What remains to be said? I was traveling in a country that had a dismal past regarding its citizenry and what had been done to the Jews. And now I was about to meet a woman who looked like me and might easily have prejudicial views of my tribe.


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