tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post7262477327299169526..comments2022-08-22T05:44:39.036-04:00Comments on Compelling Stories: Jewish Lives Lived: Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism by Leo Spitzer, 1998Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-12107882093975926312015-05-19T03:53:53.095-04:002015-05-19T03:53:53.095-04:00Hello:
I would be happy to help you for nothing. I...Hello:<br />I would be happy to help you for nothing. I have helped many loved ones find relatives after great lengths of time, and have had some success. Please contact me if you wish for assistance. Since this blog is over 3 years old, I have no idea if you ever got help. Search Facebook for my name and contact me.<br />Respectfully,<br />Lynev AugustLAugusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839994638902029965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-46043454154413665462015-05-19T03:39:38.013-04:002015-05-19T03:39:38.013-04:00Hello, Marie:
You gave us NO POSSIBLE WAY to conta...Hello, Marie:<br />You gave us NO POSSIBLE WAY to contact you or Tina. I clicked your profile but there's no contact info.<br />If she is the granddaughter of the Otto Kafka that died in NY in 1939, then time is of essence. The best way to contact me is to look for my Facebook under Lynev August. We KNOW that Otto did business in S.A. If he is the same Otto, then Tina has MANY cousins since our Otto had six children.<br />We have a portrait (painting) of Otto, who was the first cousin of the famed writer Franz Kafka. Otto was the person Franz used to create the rich uncle in his novel "Amerika".<br />PLEASE CONTACT ME MARIE OR TINA. FACEBOOK----LYNEV AUGUST <br />Blessings, <br />Lynev & Eric<br />P.S.: We cannot help if we cannot contact youLAugusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839994638902029965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-52611698166159790492014-07-28T06:22:17.042-04:002014-07-28T06:22:17.042-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.LAugusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839994638902029965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-66353504306247066162014-07-28T06:17:46.689-04:002014-07-28T06:17:46.689-04:00Hello:
I am the wife of Otto's grandson, Eric....Hello:<br />I am the wife of Otto's grandson, Eric. I no nothing of another family, but am extremely interested to contact them and would be very pleased to hear from them. Please respond as soon as possible. We do know that he did much business in South America, import/export and steel. <br />Lynev (& Eric) August<br />winipu4 <br />at <br />aol.<br />com<br /><br />P.S.: I also know that many others in the family would be pleased to be in touch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-76055935919770042542014-07-28T06:16:11.705-04:002014-07-28T06:16:11.705-04:00Hello:
I am the wife of Otto's grandson, Eric....Hello:<br />I am the wife of Otto's grandson, Eric. I no nothing of another family, but am extremely interested to contact them and would be very pleased to hear from them. Please respond as soon as possible. We do know that he did much business in South America, import/export and steel. <br />Lynev (& Eric) August<br />winipu4 <br />at <br />aol.<br />com<br /><br />P.S.: I also know that many others in the family would be pleased to be in touch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-36688970232431016782012-03-17T22:12:49.477-04:002012-03-17T22:12:49.477-04:00If you look in Bolivian Geneology and post the nam...If you look in Bolivian Geneology and post the names, maybe somebody might know. It would help to know her name,Bolivians we do not loose our maiden names when we marry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-87103524249953979352012-01-21T19:37:00.520-05:002012-01-21T19:37:00.520-05:00I hope someone who reads your post will have an id...I hope someone who reads your post will have an idea on how to find where your mother settled.Toby Anne Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234774578571650096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-63870723607357833132012-01-21T18:26:07.272-05:002012-01-21T18:26:07.272-05:00My mother's name is Henny Elba Goldstain-Golbe...My mother's name is Henny Elba Goldstain-Golberg . She came to Bolivia during the Holucost . Married Raul Pinto . She had two children. She left them with this man in other words run away becouse he abused her. I was told by a family whom they new her( Arturo Buchman).Aparently she did suffer during the persecution of JEws .<br />I'm 63 years old looking for her. If you could help me wich way to go and find her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-30448274535779264682011-12-03T10:51:06.855-05:002011-12-03T10:51:06.855-05:00That's terrific. It will get wider circulation...That's terrific. It will get wider circulation. I'm truly amazed at the comments posted about this memoir on this site. It's almost the only book that's generated comments, and certainly more comments than any other.<br />PS I'm going to look at Plunkett Lake Press's list.Toby Anne Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234774578571650096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-76464097093553117022011-12-02T21:08:50.542-05:002011-12-02T21:08:50.542-05:00Loved this book. We are publishing it as an ebook ...Loved this book. We are publishing it as an ebook in a few months from Plunkett Lake Press Ebooks of Life Writing -- a digital press that focuses on Central European and Jewish non-fictionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-72340231112912875982011-11-26T20:47:21.826-05:002011-11-26T20:47:21.826-05:00In La Paz when I was growing up my parents would t...In La Paz when I was growing up my parents would take us to an Austrian Tea Room, there were several germans at one time or another, my father point me one in the group and told he is a nazi, and is sitting with German Jews.<br />Everybody knew who was what, even now.<br />A day after I arrive , everybody knows I am back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-72567622220944158112011-10-27T17:53:42.380-04:002011-10-27T17:53:42.380-04:00Hi, my name is Marie and I'm writing this for ...Hi, my name is Marie and I'm writing this for my friend Tina. Tina is looking for information regarding her maternal grandfather Otto Kafka. She only knows very little about him - he apparently came to Bolivia in the thirties from Austria/Hungary/Germany. He married Tina's grandmother who were spanish but born in Bolivia. They had three daughters. As far as she knows - her grandfather died when the daughters were quite small. There were rumors that he already had a family back home! If anyone knows where Tina can find more information we/she would very much appreciate your help.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547135407642380189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-87383790214448301092011-08-27T14:00:21.155-04:002011-08-27T14:00:21.155-04:00It WAS unbelievably outrageous, but I went there t...It WAS unbelievably outrageous, but I went there twice to check it out, and found the location of the sawmill that Barbie managed. But remember that by that time nearly all of the Jewish families were gone. Only 9 left at the end of 1944. What was more outrageous was that Barbie was involved in every government of Bolivia from 1964 onward, and he and his friends actually took over the government of Bolivia in 1980. Want details, see the incredible book, The Big White Lie, by Michael Levine. <br /> By the way, the last of the original group in <br />Charrobamba, Betty Hamburger, has built a charming tourist attraction at the old community site. There is still much to be seen.watermotorstoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15559901292463830994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-19004395870940002102011-07-17T13:44:10.782-04:002011-07-17T13:44:10.782-04:00Anyone who goes to Wikipedia's entry on Klaus ...Anyone who goes to Wikipedia's entry on Klaus Barbie will see much of the above post corroborated. I don't know about his living in the refugee Jewish community. I'm not saying he didn't, but it certainly sounds unbelievably outrageous.Toby Anne Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234774578571650096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-45687987251120798202011-07-17T13:23:45.574-04:002011-07-17T13:23:45.574-04:00This is an amazing and little known part of Jewish...This is an amazing and little known part of Jewish and Bolivian history. An incredible detail I checked out personally was that Klaus Barbie, who came to Bolivia in 1951,and, as recently revealed, was in the pay of the West German Secret Police,lived in the Jewish refugee community of "Buena Tierra", now known as Charrobamba, near the town of Coroico. Barbie was part of the Merex organization of Nazi officials in Latin America run by Reinhard Gehlen, head of the West German Secret Police.<br /> In June 17, 1980 he was part of the "cocaine coup" that took over the gov. of Bolivia.watermotorstoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15559901292463830994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-24485642766536694282011-07-16T16:47:46.577-04:002011-07-16T16:47:46.577-04:00Thank you for posting that interesting memory. It ...Thank you for posting that interesting memory. It was wonderful of your father to be so welcoming.Toby Anne Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234774578571650096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344339282355602954.post-27176002419991498702011-07-12T12:07:17.132-04:002011-07-12T12:07:17.132-04:00I was a little girl when we were in Oruro, my fahe...I was a little girl when we were in Oruro, my faher an Economist that run the family mines kept homes in Oruro and La Paz,I only played with family, but this day he came and asked my mother to take me with my nanny to play with a a little girl, she was maybe a year or 2 older, we went, I had never seen tea served in glasses, we have tea time, her name was Celine, we stayed a bit.<br />Never saw them again, I asked my father when I was teen, who they were, he told be they were Jews that had come from a camp after the war, and he wanted to show them they were welcome.<br />Even that I was maybe 3, I never forgot,I wonder what happend to them.<br />The Jews that stayed in Bolivia, are Bolivians to the core.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com