[conspire] OT (geopolitics) So much winning

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Josef Grosch (jgrosch at gmail.com):

> I grew up next door to Holocaust survivors, Mr & Mrs. Finegold. They
> met in a Red Cross camp after liberation. Mrs. Finegold was one of
> the people who had escaped from Sobibor and did not talk about what
> happened. Mr. Fiegold was in Dachau and "Yadvegor" ( I have never
> been able to find a reference to that camp, I guess I mis-heard the
> name ).  

"Yad" is Hebrew for "place".  My entirely secular and
half-century-disussed tourist Hebrew from 1980 when I was a volunteer
kibbutznik is not helping me guess what "vegor" might be (especially as
your neighbours might have said something a little different).

> My wife and I are Jewish so we are a bit skittish. Any time
> authoritarian start making lists of people they don't like, the Jews
> always get added to the list.

I will never, ever suggest my Jewish friends are paranoid in fearing
this.  Nobody ever sought to mass-murder sarcastic, left-handed
Norwegian-Americans.

(Well, not yet, anyway.)

An excellent argument can always be made that having a second passport
around and ready to go is good insurance, especially if you're in any of
the groups likely to be included in those lists.