Gary's Autobiography "Wunderkind" Made with free internet tools 1. Beautiful EPUB Reader Microsoft Edge Extension with Read Aloud Microsoft Guy Natural Voice 2. https://online-voice-recorder.com/ 3. https://editor.audio/ 4. https://converter.app/mp3-to-video/ Some Interesting Points just in first Two Chapters: - Gary always wanted to be left alone yet he had a big family. - Poorer Polish Jews immigrants were looked down upon by the richer German and Russian ones - Gary's mother had to escape the pogroms (see below the word meaning) - Gary's parents were born on the same day and year and minute. - Gary thought everyone had the same birthday because people celebrated a new year (his parent's birthday was 1st of January) - Gary had an exceptional memory - Gary put paper in his ears to block his mother and then it could not come out - Gary's early childhood was a performance- Gary hated a fruitcake- Gary's mother was a bad cook - Gary had a limp (left leg injury) and polio virus. - Polio was an unknown virus at the time that forced children to be isolated for a month. Now we know Polio was a virus spread through the feces. - The trauma of separation of children from their parents had a long-lasting effect - Gary taught himself to read ________________________ The word "pogroms" from Encyclopedia Britannica:"Pogrom", (Russian: “devastation,” or “riot”), a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Although the assassin was not a Jew, and only one Jew was associated with him, false rumors aroused Russian mobs in more than 200 cities and towns to attack Jews and destroy their property. In the two decades following, pogroms gradually became less prevalent; but from 1903 to 1906 they were common throughout the country. Thereafter, to the end of the Russian monarchy, mob action against the Jews was intermittent and less widespread.The pogrom in Kishinev (now Chişinău) in Russian-ruled Moldavia in April 1903, although more severe than most, was typical in many respects. For two days mobs, inspired by local leaders acting with official support, killed, looted, and destroyed without hindrance from police or soldiers. When troops were finally called out and the mob dispersed, 45 Jews had been killed, nearly 600 had been wounded, and 1,500 Jewish homes had been pillaged. Those responsible for inciting the outrages were not punished.The Russian central government did not organize pogroms, as was widely believed; but the anti-Semitic policy that it carried out from 1881 to 1917 made them possible. Official persecution and harassment of Jews led the numerous anti-Semites to believe that their violence was legitimate, and their belief was strengthened by the active participation of a few high and many minor officials in fomenting attacks and by the reluctance of the government either to stop pogroms or to punish those responsible for them.Pogroms have also occurred in other countries, notably in Poland and in Germany during the Hitler regime. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even today as it was throughout the history similar divide-and-conquer tactics of those in covert power may incite masses into catastrophic genocides.Overcoming our weaknesses is also a protection from evil within us. Our problems cannot be solved by external forces or ideologies or astrology. We make our own choices and destiny.