This Is Not What I Wanted My Second Post To Be About · 10:40pm Mar 26th, 2013

Apologies for interjecting a sober, highly off-topic announcement into a site that celebrates artistic levity and creativity, but I'm posting this in the few corners of the Internet I frequent on the off chance someone might be interested:

Anyone who receives HBO, one way or another, on April 8th at 9pm EST there will be a documentary on Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a well-to-do Jewish couple living in Philadelphia, who in the Spring of 1939 traveled to Berlin and rescued 50 Jewish children before the height of the holocaust could unfold. They pulled it off in spite of pressure and resistance from all sides, including the Jewish community in Philadelphia at first, and despite the sacrifices it meant to them personally. One of the children, who will be featured prominently on the documentary, is now a patient and close friend of a doctor that I work for. We often chat anytime they're in the office, usually about history. Sometimes bad. Sometimes good. My own grandfather was on the Russian Front fighting Germans in WWII, so we have some common ground in our discussions.

I understand this is not the place for these types of tales. However, it would be wrong of me not to raise awareness, infinitesimal though it may be, on the story this person has to tell and how their life was most likely saved by Mr. and Mrs. Kraus. I've already seen an advanced copy of the documentary. I can vouch for its quality; anyone even remotely interested in history will benefit from watching.

Thanks for reading, and believe me this is not the second blog post I wanted to make. I'm still writing, still editing where I can. I'm hopefully coming to the finish line on a couple projects. I even think people will appreciate some of them once they're ready for posting. But this was a post that needed to be made. I promise not to always be so serious here in the future.

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