Word: bierman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pontiac and a silver tea set for collateral. They managed to get a $9,000 loan, but most women entrepreneurs are not so fortunate. A surprising number of bankers remain skeptical that women can successfully run any kind of company, regardless of experience or credit history. Christine Bierman owns three companies, including Colt Safety, a distributor of hard hats and other equipment. But she told the House committee, "I have been turned down for a loan by every bank in St. Louis...
...bear to witness the pain of one individual. It seems as though Wallenberg--who, as a well-to-do Gentile, could have sat through the war in comparative comfort in Sweden--felt personally responsible for helping the Jews. Before he left on his mission to Budapest, according to Bierman, he told a friend, "I cannot stay in Sweden beyond the beginning of July. Every day costs human lives...
...have steadfastly claimed that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947. But each time the Wallenberg case has threatened to completely fade away into anonymity, a new piece of evidence has cropped up to support the possibility that Wallenberg is still alive. In his painstakingly researched book Righteous Gentile, John Bierman has gathered together the evidence which has been collected to date to support this theory and has supplemented the evidence with his own interviews of key sources to provide a fascinating biographical account of Raoul Wallenberg...
...first half of the book tells of how Wallenberg became involved in the effort to save the Hungarian Jews and contains eye-witness accounts of many of his heroic and ingenious efforts while in Budapest. Bierman plays up Wallenberg's heroism by contrasting it against the atrocities that were committed in Hungary at the time, especially by Eichmann, Wallenberg's arch-enemy and a man utterly dedicated to Hitler's Final Solution--the absolute extermination of Jews in Europe...
...criminals, he was perhaps the most cold-heartedly sinister, a man so evil that years after the war he could say without reservation, "I will jump into my grave laughing because the fact that I have the deaths of five million Jews on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction." Bierman tells of the death marches--organized by Eichmann--which claimed tens of thousands of lives. And the Hungarian terrorists were no better than the Nazis; in some cases they were even worse. They roamed the streets of Budapest in packs, randomly terrorizing and executing Jews. The city had erupted...