[tob2]

R.I.P.

[Impy]

RIP

I thought DMX was the big death yesterday, RIP also.

[Rusty0604]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[GOPJ]

When Philip was only 18 months old, the family was exiled from Greece and settled in Paris, where they relied on relatives for handouts. It was there that Alice became increasingly more religious, began hearing voices, and claimed that she was receiving divine messages.

She was diagnosed as schizophrenic and, on the advice of Sigmund Freud, her womb was irradiated with x-rays in an attempt to thwart her alleged sexual desires.

When Philip was nine, his mother was admitted to a Swiss sanatorium where she was held against her will for over two years.

After Alice was released, she essentially became homeless, staying in various German inns. She did not see Philip again until the funeral of her daughter Cécilie, who died in a plane crash at the age of 26 in 1937. Alice eventually settled in Athens, Greece, and during World War II hid a Jewish family on the top floor of her house, around the corner from a Gestapo headquarters.

Her heroic actions were recognized by the Holocaust center Yad Vashem in Israel. In 1993, the remembrance center bestowed the title of Righteous Among the Nations on Alice and a year later, Philip traveled to Yad Vashem and planted a tree in her honor.

No one's spared the pain of this world - yet redemption's possible. Weird. Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.

[SJackson]

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