Jack Gostl – Page 2 – Project Gideon Company

Memorials

IN OCTOBER OF 1944, HITLER overthrew the leader of the Hungarian government, Miklos Horthy, and replaced him with Ferenc Szalasi.

Szalasi, whose ideology closely followed Hitler’s, immediately established the Arrow Cross Party – a fascist, anti-semitic organization that brutally and publicly terrorized the Jews in Budapest by beating and killing them. Nearly 80,000 Jews were expelled from Hungary in a death march to the Austrian border and approximately 20,000 Jews were brutally shot along the banks of the Danube River. The victims were forced to remove their shoes at gunpoint (shoes being a valuable commodity during World War II) and face their executioner before they were shot without mercy, falling over the edge to be washed away by the freezing waters.

Passports

Note a few things here.

The large, red, letter “J”. All “Jewish” passports were recalled and stamped accordingly.
The red stamp of the word “Israel” above the name. This was done on all “Jewish” passports. It should be noted that this was well before the state of Israel was founded. In fact, the name “Israel” had not yet been chosen. Possibly this refers to the biblical name given to Jacob.
The third passport/visa was signed by the American consul in Vienna GERMANY. In 1938. Hitler had forced the resignation of the Austrian Chancellor by demanding that he admit Nazis into his cabinet. The new Chancellor, a pro-Nazi, invited German troops to enter the country on the pretext of restoring law and order. Hence, annexing Austria to Germany

Psychiatry and the Holocaust

At The Project Gideon Company it is our opinion that the role of the psychiatric industry has long been misunderstood and underrated as one of the root causes of the Holocaust.

Definitions

Eugenics

The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.

Evolution

The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.

Euthanasia

An easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request. Also called mercy killing.

NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

Racial Hygiene

The term racial hygiene was used to describe an approach to eugenics in the early 20th century. Most eugenicists at the time, racial hygienists believed that the lack of eugenics would lead to rapid social degeneration, the decline of civilization by the spread of inferior characteristics.

Eugenics

Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,” which gained popularity during the early 20th century. Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity. They believed the use of methods such as involuntary sterilization, segregation and social exclusion would rid society of individuals deemed by them to be unfit.

The eugenics movement started long before the Holocaust and continued long after. The eugenics movement in Germany, and during the Holocaust took a particularly dark, outright proactive, turn. [Author’s note: I doubt if there were any “light” turns in this movement.]

In any discussion of eugenics, the terms unfit and undesirable constantly appear. Upon examination, these appear to be political rather than scientific definitions, which of course means that the definitions keep changing. It can be said that the Pharaohs practiced eugenics in Exodus by drowning Jewish infants. The Chinese practiced eugenics by killing (or more recently aborting) female children. More recently, in the 20^th century, eugenics came to mean sterilization.

The Nazis of course carried this to extremes and performed outright killings.

Jacob Sternberg

A Holocaust survivor, he emerged from a war ravaged Europe, emigrated to Israel, became a paratroop officer and then came to America.

In America he taught in the fledging field of Computer Science and then created a number of innovative solutions to difficult problems and eventually became CEO of high-tech companies that he founded.

Became a Professor of Operations Research (1966)
I was founder and CEO of high-tech companies based on patented technologies invented by me and my staffs. The projects served ADP, Air Force, American Express, AT&T, Burroughs, CBS, Citibank, Exxon, IBM, Siemens (and others)
Spent nearly seven years in the post-Gorbachev empire working on major Russian communication and resource companies with detours to Ukraine and Bulgaria.

I was a Senior Consultant to the Defense Enterprise Fund (part of Global Partners Ventures, supported by the U.S. Congress)

Married Christina Troller – the daughter of a world class German Scientist. She converted to Judaism and her father disinherited her.

She is a highly regarded information scientist. She held important positions at GE’s Nuclear Production Operations in Hanford and nuclear research at Knolls Atomic. She held management positions at CBS and Sternberg’s technology companies.

Weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Partial list of the weapons captured after the uprising was suppressed:

7 Polish Rifles
1 Russian Rifle
1 German Rifle
59 pistols of various calibers
Several hundred hand grenades, including Polish and home-made ones .
Several hundred incendiary bottles
Home-made explosives
Infernal machines with fuses
A large amount of explosives, ammunition for weapons of all calibers, including some machine-gun ammunition.

What follows is a brief description of some of the homemade weapons used in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Truly Impressive.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising has been well documented. But the details are often lost. There were two uprisings.

In January 1943, German SS and police began a wave of mass deportations, planning to send thousands of the ghetto’s remaining Jews to forced-labor camps in the Lublin District of the General Government.

A small group of Jewish fighters, armed with pistols, infiltrated a column of Jews being forced to the Umschlagplatz (transfer point). At a prearranged signal, this group broke ranks and fought their German escorts. Although most of the Jewish fighters died in the battle, the attack disoriented the Germans, giving the Jews a chance to disperse.

Encouraged by the apparent success of the resistance, people in the ghetto began to construct subterranean bunkers and shelters. They were preparing for an uprising should the Germans attempt a final deportation of the remaining Jews from the ghetto.

Then, on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday, the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto began the next act of armed resistance against the Germans. Lasting twenty-seven days, this act of resistance came to be known as the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

And despite years in a starvation-menu ghetto and no access to weapons fought the Nazis for nearly a month, until artillery leveled the ghetto. It was a total modern Masada. Just unbelievable bravery against overwhelming odds with captured and handmade weapons. (This may have been where the lipstick-casing-as-cartridge-case story came from.)

It is grimly amusing to note that the Warsaw inmates, with their pathetic weaponry, held off the German army for 27 days, while the French army fell in 24 days.

What Defines Resistance

From the Jewish Partisan Encyclopedia

Jewish resistance took on different forms. Physical resistance by the partisans was something that hurt the Germans. Spiritual resistance may not have affected the Germans and their collaborators directly, but it was important to the Jews, since the Nazis wanted to take away their dignity and self-respect.

In defiance of the laws, the Jews held prayer services, or taught children to read Hebrew

There were smugglers who sent children to safety and couriers who carried messages between the ghettos, as well as forgers who created documents for use in the outside world. Jews in the work camps sabotaged guns and other products they were making for the Germans.

In Lithuania, Jewish partisans were responsible for significant damage to Nazi trains. Partisans also destroyed numerous Nazi power plants and factories, and focused their attention on other military and strategic targets, rather than on civilians.

Resistance and defiance took multiple manifestations. In her paper, “Tribute”, Christina Sternberg chronicles many unique and touching stories. She will states that “a rather detailed indication of the actually massive resistance is provided by the paper by Jack Gostl entitled ‘They Didn’t Just Go Quietly

Filipinka

Filipinka – right; Sidolowka – Left. By Halibutt

Flipinka, also known as Perelka, was an unofficial name for ET wz. 40 hand grenades, manufactured in the Home Army underground facilities in 1940. It was designed by a former worker of the Rembertow Polish Army ammunition factory and based on a pre-war anti-tank grenade, model ET wz. 38. The designer was Edward Tymoszak, hence the ET abbreviation.

About 700 young Jewish fighters clashed with German forces, sometimes in hand-to-hand combat. These fighters were poorly equipped and lacked military training and experience. Yet they held the great German war machine, the masters of the blitzkrieg, at bay for 27 days. The effects of the diversion of these resources had significant impact on the German war effort.

It is grimly amusing to note that the Warsaw inmates, with their pathetic weaponry, held off the German army for 27 days, while the French army fell in 24 days.