In fact, I include the following in the introduction to both
the Kindle edition and
the regular one:
"On my blog and in
other forums, I’ve written about this—and so, it’s nothing new. That is, I’ve
discussed what my father’s maternal grandmother—Marysia Elizabeth “Mary” Rusnak
Gaydos—and her father—András “Andrew Rusnak” Rusznak—did during the Sho’ah to
family members back in Košice, Slovakia—which was still Kassa, Magyarország
even in the 1930s and 1940s.
"I certainly did
not wake up one day and think, “Oh; I’m going to accuse my great-grandmother of
sending relatives to Auschwitz and make up a story around it.” That’s not even
the kind of incident that I thought would’ve even happened in my family (which
already had—and has—our own issues), though I shouldn’t have been (as my dad’s
sister stated that she wasn’t) surprised—after all, a few red flags should’ve
come up."
I also include part of the reason that I wrote the book in the final chapter:
"[H]istory
repeats itself, and the bad parts of history really repeat themselves because
of those whom:"1.
ignore or
deny history
"2.
go out of
their ways to defend what evils happen in history
and/or
"3.
even
actively repeat it, or go out of their way to do worse than what happened the
first time
"I guarantee that some of
these same relatives whom voted for Trump may also plan to leave the United
States if the going gets tough and they don’t want to live with their choices—despite
that they know that Trump illegitimately won by, for example, having Vladimir
Putin and Julian Assange help him—and quite a few of them might even blame
those of us whom weren’t able to get out."
I thus fully anticipate that some of my family will be angry and even ready to sue me—and those who'd consider suing would've had that idea before; so, I'm not giving them the idea to consider doing what they might consider doing, anyway—the higher good of learning from and teaching others to learn from history carries the risk of ligitational backlash.
Nonetheless, I have a duty to remind my family and others of the following for the higher good:
That what was happening 80 years ago—when the Nuremburg Laws were enacted against Jews and almost every gentile group in Germany, and when my grandparents were born—is happening today is scary and not funny—and I don't think that my grandmother anticipated making it to 80 years old just to see Donald Trump become a Neo ****** and be at the kind of risk at which her family in Europe was, and the risk that all of us are at now.
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