[Faith-talk] International Women's Day Recognition

[Paul]

Debbie, I know of no book per se about smuggling blind people out of Germany 
during World War II.  However there is a book written in 1963 and available 
from NLS.  It is entitled "And There Was Light" by a blind Frenchman who 
somehow collaborated with the underground forces.  The book was written by 
Jacques Luseyran.  Don't know the book number, but if you ask for that book 
and give the reference person at your library that info, I'm sure he/she can 
help you.

Esperanto is a language created in 1887 by Dr. Lazarus Ludovik Zamenhof 
(1859-1917) and was designed for people to learn to speak, read and write in 
international situations.  The Hadley School for the Blind used to teach it; 
in fact, I read an article about it in an old issue of "Dialogue" magazine. 
With only 16 rules of grammar with only one exception, I found the language 
easy to learn.  By simply learning and/or memorizing a limited number of 
words, one adds either a prefix or suffix to the word to change meanings. 
For instance, the word "lerni" means "to learn." A "lernilo" is a textbook 
or a tool to help one learn.  "Lernado" means a continuation of learning 
etc.  All nouns end in o; all verbs, depending on the tense, end in as, os, 
is or us or i; adverbs end in e and adjectives end in a.  I hope this isn't 
too complex for those of us who are not interested.  You might just google 
"Esperanto" in your search engine, and you'll possibly get more info there 
than I can relate here.  Paul
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From: "debby phillips" <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] International Women's Day Recognition


> Paul, can you explain to us a bit about what Espantero is? Also, I get 
> glimpses of history about blind people being smuggled out of Germany and 
> other places, do you know of a book I could read that would give more 
> information about this?    Blessings,    Debby
>
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