The Stars and the Cookie Jar

WTF?

 

OMG WTF BBQ?

AND A 55-SEAT SENATE MAJORITY?!

In spring 1937, my great-aunt Raissa-Sylvie Gellerman and the woman with whom she'd spend the remainder of her life, Ariela Markiewicz, went to Berlin and rallied in protest of the atrocity at Guernica. They were Jews, yes, and Bundist Socialists, yes, and one held a University degree. They loved each other to distraction, by all accounts.

In Berlin they protested against crimes of war. They were beaten, arrested, jailed without trial and only freed, on a cash bond of over $200,000 modern money, after four months in a basement cell.

They were detained under Paragraph 175 of the Nuremberg Laws, which applied not to Jews, not to Bundists, not to protesters or reactionaries...

...but for homosexuals.


Just telling you where I'm coming from, a bit.