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From: "ETM" <>
Subject: Re: [CZ] Thank-you for Article on 1945 massacre & Elfriede (Steiner) Grillmair story
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:34:54 -0500
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> Hello -
>
> First of all I have to apologize for apparently clicking on the wrong
> label when I sent off my emotional outburst of last Saturday. It was 5
> o'clock in the morning when I finally finished writing and I was totally
> exhausted after a night of trying to put this flood of painful memories
> down on paper. I couldn't see straight any more and I obviously missed
> the target.
> In any case, I really appreciated all the heartwarming comments I
> received and I want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart for
> taking the time to read my story and even to reply to it. I sure am
> grateful for this collective "lift".
> I was also comforted to learn about other people's struggle between
> keeping the silence about these horrible events on one hand and talking
> about them and being ostracized for it on the other. And it certainly is
> a sign of hope that now even conferences on ethnic cleansing can be held
> without being demonstrated against by the perpetrators of such crimes
> against humanity. Also, I was especially touched when Cheri Dohnal asked
> me if she could use my email in her family book as a kind of comment on
> the main massacre story. Well - I would feel extremely honored and
> pretty thrilled if anybody wants to use these my views in any
> publication, either with my name or without it. No copyright attached.
> There are plenty more stories where this one came from, if I really
> wanted to write any more (I probably won't, it's just too hopeless to
> find a publisher). I think I had an especially rich and varied life. Not
> an easy one, to be sure, but a very exciting one - and I am actually
> still working on what I would consider the "main mission" of my life. So
> I better concentrate on that one.
>
> Again, sorry for the mix-up and to everybody on the mailing list
>
> HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON !
>
> Elfriede Steiner Grillmair
>
> P.S. I hope I am sending this email to the right address now.
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