Lisierl Einstein.
“..world is a dangerous place to live ..not because of ..people who are evil ..but because of ..people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein.
It is incomprehensible for humanity to come to terms with the loss of a life, especially if it is forcefully taken. So having to deal with exactly that sense of grief and loss which is measured 6,000,000 times over, is exactly what The Holocaust demands. There are many strands to any investigation, of that urgent search that is needed before the very evidences dissipates. Along with the strenuous research necessary, which poses many more questions than the answers we have been given, the humanitarian concern for so much lost and taken life must be critical, crucially aware and respectful.
“..I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles ..World.” Albert Einstein.
If we weigh the loss of these 6,000,000 individual Jews, and establish the clear essential which the Survivor delivers to our imaginings, we will learn what it is we need to know. Though the storm of terrifying horror which envelopes us as we delve deeper and dig further, none of this must ever lose sight of our reasoning for pursuing this immense atrocity. While it is essential that we learn all that We need to know of The Holocaust, it is particularly more so and true when we learn these lessons from those Survivors whose knowledge is certain.
“..I had become ..a true child of the camps. ..I had learned ..tricks I needed to survive.” Thomas Buergenthal.
There are evidences which will teach of a humanity that was seemingly downgraded to a level just above the tricks no Child should have been forced to learn. When we then engage our imaginings, so as to convey all recollections of Survivor’s, and through what they endured to what they still must suffer with and on our behalf, we lend a portion of our own humanity so as to be tested. Trawling through the debris of darkness of this catastrophe, we visualise the light at the end of that corridor in which the Survivor stands, so as to visit us with what has tested their very reason for life itself.
“..years of anxious searching in ..dark ..with their intense longing ..their alternations of confidence and exhaustion ..and final emergence into light ..only those who have experienced it can understand that.” Albert Einstein.
For those too few Jews, who emerged through the very gates of that hell, how can we not be doubled over in excrutiating pain over what they witnessed, suffered and then experienced. We who humbly seek to know, who can never reach that deeply into the abyss so as to deliver even a modicum of what it was for the Survivor to understand, what it was to have lived through it, we do so to commend them. We stand for all Survivor’s knowing alkl too well we would too easily have succumbed to the denigration and degradation which sought to make beings inhuman.
“..If you can’t explain it to a 6 year old ..you don’t understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein.
I have sought to pass on those lessons I have learned to those willing to learn, and while we must protect their senses, we cannot sanitise their suffering and pain. For those who are still the youngest, who are most capable of not being totally overwhelmed by the loss and atrocity this catastrophe inspires, we lean toward a cautious effort to inform them. So I temper my writing when I aim my work at those who are our most sensitive and impressionable. I seek here to use Albert Einstein as a prime example of one, who escaped what would have been intended for him.
“..Unthinking respect for authority is ..greatest enemy of truth..” Albert Einstein.
For all and any Jew, for me to exclaim an understanding, that from amongst the 6,000,000 Jews who perished, there are conceiveably so many Jews whose enlightenment could have gifted us just as much as Albert has managed. We know through the experience of these 6,000,000 Slaughtered Jews that those who advocated for Hitler, left their own ability to discern the truth of humanity outside too many camp gates. Those very Death Camps, which visited hell upon the Jewish People, did not exclusively beckon reason nor humanity from those who explored the outer reaches of atrocity we now explore.
“..World is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” Albert Einstein.
Part of the reasoning for the Holocaust is not only what happened to these Jews, but what was allowed to happen to them. As we stood along the sideline we became witnesses to the gravest tragedy ever to be visited upon a People for being a Jewish People. For us to learn then, and we simply have to know what was to be imposed, from Wannsee, upon 11,293,300 Jews within Europe, at a time when as many as 1,000,000 Jews had already been Murdered, Shot, Abused and Killed. It is also relevant that we recognise that immediately upon Hitler’s rise to power, the decline of any Jewish presence in Europe was assured.
“..If Hitler were not a lunatic he could easily have avoided ..hostility of ..Western powers. That he is a lunatic is ..sole advantage in ..present sinister picture of ..world.” Albert Einstein.
For all too many of these Jews, who sought refuge away from their own Homelands, they were caught out by the speed of Hitler’s assaults upon their very existence. But this too is also true of the many Jews who could both afford to flee and managed to do so. So many Jews were more related to those they were leaving behind than they could ascertain. The very need for all Jews to take heed of Hitler’s burgeoning threats was not immediately recognised by all too many. While we also recognise from the many who afford us their insight into what was emerging in Germany, escape was never easy nor was it even at all possible.
“..several opportunities ..to jump off ..train ..but my Brother and I wanted to remain with ..Father under all circumstances ..although he repeatedly begged us to escape.” Zev Birger.
These evidences then are from those Jewish Survivors who have delivered their Testimony to us and hopefully for us to learn from. Tragically though, and from those Jews of the Catastrophe who left their statement of their passing presence for us to search for and through, we must gain from the overall truth that both threatened Jewish groups deliver. Also, and in this intimate search, we recognise from within the Catastrophe itself, that we are always cognizant that these are Jewish People, 6,000,000 of whom must be considered individually.
“..Murder of 6,000,000 Jews must never be reduced to a statistic.” Simon Wiesenthal.”
For millennia, these Jewish People, who had been clearly recognised as the vibrant People they were intended to be, must never be recalled merely as a statistic. With this in mind, I can well understand the reaction of the Jewish Survivor, particularly in Poland, who must have then suffered gravely with the proposition as to why did they even bothered to Survive. Their number had been so devastatingly reduced to a remnant, their return ensured they were not to be considered humanely by former neighbours and colleagues and are to be further attacked by the ignorance of the hatred that has always hounded the Polish Jew within Poland.
“..on ..Umschlagplatz ..history of Polish Jews came to an end ..arrested and seemingly terminated.” Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz.
In many community’s, across the whole of Poland, and after Hitler had been vanquished from Polish lands, the remnant of the Polish Jew sought to return. Hitler assumed correctly that Poland would not prove averse to die Endlosung der Judenfrage. Providing more than one third of those Jews targeted, Polish Jewry suffered 50% of all those European Jews Slaughtered. The Polish Jew who was to emerge was to be treated, not as a miracle of survival but were somewhat identified as an inconvenience and a former owner of goods adn property’s now purloined.
“..A man should look for what is ..and not for what he thinks should be.” Albert Einstein.
In these recurring instances, the returning Polish Jew’s status as an inconvenient, who was a hero amongst the Polish people, but would not be allowed to reclaim what had already been stolen. It is evident that what had been taken from the Polish Jews, and would not be returned to them, was a larceny was so immense, avarice and greed surfaced. The immorality and unethical application of societal norms was obviously abandoned in favour of a larceny no belief system could uphold. But gain has a measure above and beyond humanity which all too many people are loathe to apply to their own substandards.
“..killing was perpetuated by hoodlums. ..what about ..soldiers who ..took part. ..what about ..others ..onlookers ..bystanders. ..history of ..Polish people is filled with suffering and glory ..Be worthy of that history ..citizens of Poland. ..face ..recent past which is also yours. To forget is to choose dishonor.” Elie Wiesel.
The Jewish return had proven contrary to their presence from within their own community, and from former neighbours the response was such that they were unwanted, shunned, attacked and all too many of them were Murdered. From Chelm, Cracow, Kalisz, Kielce, Losice, Lublin, Parczew, Ryki, Rzeszow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Slawatycze, Sokoly, Turek and Turobin all too readily the truth for the Jewish Survivor was Murder and Death. There was still a continuance of that antisemitic hatred they had experienced prior to Hitler’s brand of its effect.
“..Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.” Albert Einstein.
Even before mankind contrived to restrict us to versions of their divisive impositions, the right to say what needed to be said had been written into Humanity’s statute. While every effort must be made to ensure only what is positive and nurturing of that ideal in human relations, all too often there is an ugly truth which subverts the best of intentions. The being that was Hitler came along at a time when hatred could be engaed with and stretched to ensure the vast majority of a people, or a national state could be inculcated in the assault upon a smaller group with the state. Such is the diverse nature of divisiveness which antisemitism has been wreaking for the best part of 2,000 years.
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Lieserl Einstein Maric was born on January 27th. 1902 to Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein in Novi Sad, Serbia. Lieserl died from Scarlet Fever on September 19th. 1903.
“..Dear Lisierl
When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.
I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.
This universal force is LOVE.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.
This universal force is LOVE.
When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force.
Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others.
Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals.
For love we live and die.
Love is God and God is Love.
This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.
To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation.
If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…
If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.
However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.
I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer!”
Your father Albert Einstein
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“..Out yonder there was this huge World ..which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great ..eternal riddle ..at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. ..contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation.” Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein, the German Jewish Physicist was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14th. 1879 and by the time of his death, April 18th. 1955 he is recognised as one of the Greatest Physicists of all time. What we cannot know, and nor should we speculate on such certainty but, Albert Einstein would have been consigned to the same Slaughter as his fellow Jews, merely for being born a Jew. It is surely as Hitler would demand, that if Albert had stayed within the sphere of Hitler’s influence, one of the Death Camps or Killing Sites would have decreased our understanding of relativity.
“..All that is valuable in human society depends upon ..opportunity for development accorded ..individual.” Albert Einstein.
We can never know how many like minded Einstein’s have been cast into oblivion by the creed of such an infirm hatred as espoused by Hitler. It is most certain though, that the genius of the Jewish People survived in the likes of Albert Einstein to stand before the pillars of wisdom which confers upon all of humanity an understanding that any intolerance is unrelated to civilisation. The curse of any form of hatred, be it for the individual or here as Hitler proposed for the entirety of the Jewish People has wasted too much of what should only ever add to the culture we seek.
“..important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” Albert Einstein.
Curiously, for 6,000,000 Jews who were thrown into an abyss of such hatred, we have given it a name, The Holocaust to signify its unprecedented level of that hatred. For more than 2,000 years of so called christian enlightenment, the Jews have faced isolation, abuse and destruction with a religious fervour beyond rationalisation. For 3,000 years prior to this, a Jewish People were ejected from the Promised Land and forced to wander, enslaved and separated out from those community’s which saw in them a difference they could develop into many forms of intolerances.
“..Although I am a typical loner in daily life ..my consciousness of belonging to ..invisible community of those who strive for truth ..beauty ..and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.” Albert Einstein.”
Albert Einstein also developed into one of the World’s leading thinkers, and luckily for us, he saw fit to quit Germany for a sanctuary that was well away from what saved him from very terms of The Holocaust. Albert’s genius is unquestioned, and even when we are aware his Jewish antecedence had condemned him under Hitler’s racial theorism, hatred blinded all too many to this fact. The Holocaust itself, needs no explaining in this piece as I have always maintained, The Holocaust is either the known fact or it is the denied truth.
“..I am by heritage a Jew ..by citizenship a Swiss ..and by makeup a human being ..and only a human being ..without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.” Albert Einstein.
We have dedicated sites, Museums and University’s devoted to who and what Albert Einstein was and what he brings to human understanding. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s, when the Einstein Family donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, that we further delve into his loss over Lieserl. With orders not to publish the Letters contents until some 20 years after his death, an extraordinary account of a gentle genius emerges and unfolds. In amongst these items is that letter to Lieserl, an outpouring to his Daughter, a communicating evidence of human emotion that is affording us the Man who had a Daughter.
