Comments on: To Each His Due http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/ Listen to stories on anything from honeymoons to WWII, from award-winning journalists to first-time writers alike, from anywhere in the world. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:25:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Behira http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-26323 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:53:31 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-26323 Ms. Rosner, thank you for sharing such a personal experience with us. As you and your father passed through the gates of Buchenwald, I feel myself walking silently by your side, seeing what you see, feeling what you felt. Thank you again. Ms. Rosner, thank you for sharing such a personal experience with us. As you and your father passed through the gates of Buchenwald, I feel myself walking silently by your side, seeing what you see, feeling what you felt. Thank you again.

]]> by: Thaisa Frank http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-24240 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:28:21 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-24240 Liz....What everyone else said. Also, the extraordinarily surprising juxtaposition of images. As in the paragraph when your father finds a tiny dark granule in his urine, saves it to show his doctor and you walk through the fish market among the fish parted from the water forever. And that's just one example. Wow. Liz….What everyone else said. Also, the extraordinarily surprising juxtaposition of
images. As in the paragraph when your father finds a tiny dark granule in his urine, saves it to show his doctor and you walk through the fish market among the fish parted from the water forever. And that’s just one example. Wow.

]]> by: Alex Forman http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22875 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:28:59 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22875 Liz, having just returned from visiting the Anne Frank House, the Jewish Museum and the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam, your piece was especially powerful for me. You have a unique gift for personalizing the horror of the Holocaust, so that the 6 million atrocities become very accessible on the individual level, the universal suffering becomes tangible through your words about yourself and your dad. As you did in The Speed of Light and Blue Nude, you make this seminal event of the human history so palpable to us all. Thanks again for all your bring to this world and no matter what, keep on writing! Liz, having just returned from visiting the Anne Frank House, the Jewish Museum and the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam, your piece was especially powerful for me. You have a unique gift for personalizing the horror of the Holocaust, so that the 6 million atrocities become very accessible on the individual level, the universal suffering becomes tangible through your words about yourself and your dad. As you did in The Speed of Light and Blue Nude, you make this seminal event of the human history so palpable to us all. Thanks again for all your bring to this world and no matter what, keep on writing!

]]> by: mike http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22871 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:16:53 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22871 this is a moveing story,I just cannot imangine the terror that your dad went through. I pray that this is NEVER repeated ever again by any one to any one again. Unfortunely that is not the case all we have to do is look in places like Africa and the middle east,and even in Iraq. this is a moveing story,I just cannot imangine the terror that your dad went through. I pray that this is NEVER repeated ever again by any one to any one again.
Unfortunely that is not the case all we have to do is look in places like Africa and the middle east,and even in Iraq.

]]> by: Harriet Chessman http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22764 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22764 This is an AMAZING piece, Liz, just amazing -- so carefully and beautifully crafted -- and the craft is vitally important; it's so important and necessary to place each word and sound and image and white space over and in opposition to the horror of Buchenwald, of all that happened each minute there. What I most love about this is the stunning restraint. Inside the writing is the sound of the 10,000 voices, yet it's all the more powerful for being indirect. Your images and metaphors carry so much powerful significance -- those glinting fish, the green of the trees slowly creeping toward the wire, the dusty ground, the twisting road . . . . the whole world, first of Hamburg and then of Buchenwald, is re-created here, so that it's made real, both in 1944 and 1945, and in the present of your visit with your wonderful, thoughtful, courageous father. Do you have a memoir here, growing? I think so. This is an AMAZING piece, Liz, just amazing — so carefully and beautifully crafted — and the craft is vitally important; it’s so important and necessary to place each word and sound and image and white space over and in opposition to the horror of Buchenwald, of all that happened each minute there.

What I most love about this is the stunning restraint. Inside the writing is the sound of the 10,000 voices, yet it’s all the more powerful for being indirect. Your images and metaphors carry so much powerful significance — those glinting fish, the green of the trees slowly creeping toward the wire, the dusty ground, the twisting road . . . . the whole world, first of Hamburg and then of Buchenwald, is re-created here, so that it’s made real, both in 1944 and 1945, and in the present of your visit with your wonderful, thoughtful, courageous father.

Do you have a memoir here, growing? I think so.

]]> by: Tobey Hiller http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22328 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:52:54 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22328 Beautiful piece, Elizabeth. Very moving. Very personal for me in some ways, too. Maybe we'll be able to talk about it someday. Beautiful piece, Elizabeth. Very moving. Very personal for me in some ways, too. Maybe we’ll be able to talk about it someday.

]]> by: Meg Waite Clayton http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22308 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:20:42 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22308 Elizabeth, I've traveled with my own father, but never anything close to this far. Thank you for sharing this lovely piece. Elizabeth, I’ve traveled with my own father, but never anything close to this far. Thank you for sharing this lovely piece.

]]> by: Victoria http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22026 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:36:32 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2007/06/19/to-each-his-due/#comment-22026 Moving, haunting, beautifully written...pure Elizabeth Rosner. Moving, haunting, beautifully written…pure Elizabeth Rosner.

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