Keeping up with the orders

The DVD is selling very well, so well that I'm ready to order another 100 to be burned. I really want to get the translation finished so the subtitles can be added along with the few corrections needed in spellings and credits.

I got another e-mail from Barnislav asking about more info. on my background. People have a hard time understanding that I don't have a degree much less a masters or doctorit (did I spell that correctly?). It will take him a little while to know me and understand I will do the work he wants me to do. I think we'll work well together because we have the same determination.

A New Beginning

I've been introduced to Branislav Lazin a TV Journalist From Vrsac, Serbia. He has done a film on the German claensing just as I have and want's to continue. I was introduced to him by Ed Grunwald who was introduced to me by Kearn Schemm. If I were to make a kind of tree to show how all these people came into my life it would be ten feet tall and still growing.

The topic we're going to focus on is what happened to the orphans who parents were killed or died in the camps. Thousands of shildren were placed in these orphanages to be raised as Serbians or Russians amoung other nationalities and never knowing they are really German. Now these people who have found out where they really came from have stories to tell about the terrrible times they went through. Their lives were hard because they were not treated the same as the other children and didn't know why.

I have so much work to do preparing for the meeting in Chicago. Now is the time to start asking for funding. I've never done this before, but I think it's meant to be so the proposal I make will be excepted so Branislav and i will continue to tell these stories.

business cards

I got them today, my business cards. Now I have a web site, business, the paper work going through to make my company official and I still haven't figured out a term for the genocide. I have stepped away from it for a couple days thinking that something will come to me if I don't think about it for a while. Do you think that will work?

I'm still getting orders for the DVD and I'm starting to get people lined up to interview for the next one so that's a good thing. When I get finished here I will contact someone I haven't yet which usually brings me someone else to interview. I truely beleive there are more survivors out there than we realize. This will help get the much needed information to get this in the history books. If we have more and more information no one will b able to ignore it anymore. So my job is far from over.

I must stay focused and get back on the wagon. My time off of thinking about a term or any aspect of the job at hand has come to an end. Until tomorrow.

getting the word

I'm still trying to figure out what to call this genocide and at the same time trying to get the word out about the documentary. I'm getting orders everyday and I'm about to order me third burning, but I still have not reached enough people to make this a part of every schools history class. I'm following my own rule which is make a new contact everyday. I know this is going to take off, until then I must stay focused and keep introduceing new organizations to the DVD.

I still have to figure out a term for the genocide and there's so many different directions to go in I'm finding it hard to stay focused. I can do this, I will do this, I just have to do this.

burnt out

This must be what it feels like to be burnt out. I know I want to do things to keep this going and I know that the longer I'm away form it the harder it will be to get back into it. These things are obvious. I'm still trying to do something everyday to keep moving forward. Making a new contact, sending the information to a new group or picking up the phone and talking to someone I haven't talked to for a long time to keep them aware that I'm still here. These are things I'm still doing regularly. The problem I'm having is focusing on a path to lead me to an end result. I haven't figured out a positive end result so I don't know how to set up the path to follow. Am I being redundent.

I'm still working on coining a term which is taking a lot of research. I think I need to look at this differently. I need to step back and focus on taking little steps then I think I'll be able to move forward more positively.

keeping up with it

I'm still working on the term that will explain the genocide. Something that will be known as soon as you hear this word.

I'm also trying to get the word out about this documentary and tell everyone it exists.

Still getting orders for the film does keep me going, but I can't stop here. I must keep working on the next film while I get the first one out to the public.

I must get back to work now.

A new person to talk to

I received an oder today for one of my DVDs from a man in the United Kingdom. I found out that he found out about the film through a series of three people before he got to me. It's like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. There's a lot of truth to that theory. One seems to know many people through many people who in the end know eachother.

I'm still working with words, this is something I'll always do. I have no other reason for living right now. Words seem to be the only thing that makes me happy. Reading them, writing them, thinking about them, every aspect of words brings me happiness and thought.

Finding a term for the German Genocide has not become easier, but has brought a new understanding of many words I never thought about. Where a word came from is fasinating. The word destroy was a vulgar word when spoken during the time of middle eanglish. I never would have thought that. How can a vulgar word at one time mean something so different now?

Words are tricky

I've been researching how to coin a term by looking up how people to it and the thought process behind it. Words like genocide, holocaust and Donauswaben all came from putting two words together. The difference between genocide and holocaust verses Danueswaben is the first two have root words from Greek and Latin and when broken down into individual words you see the way they are written to be used in English is the reverse of how they're written in either one of those languages. Danueswaben is two words of German origin one naming a place and the other naming a people put together in that order to explain the place the group of people come from. It's so much easier to read and understand because there are no root words that come from other languages a person probably never heard of anyway.

I always loved words and thought I knew them pretty well, but I don't. I've learned this through looking up definition after definition trying to find the perfect word or combination of words to discribe this "thing" that happened. How do you discribe fear, torture, pain, starvation, exicution and murder in one or two words? I keep looking at words trying to figure out that magic term and it seems like it's hiding from me. I know it's out there. Something will click and it will uncover itself. Just like the documentary and conference uncovered itself and I wasn't looking for it, at least not the way it came together, it just did. Maybe I'm pushing too hard or not hard enough.

I feel I have to do as much as I can to bring this to the worlds minds eye. Somehow I have to make people see this the way I do. That's why it's so important to find the perfect word to discribe what happened to all these people. I'm not quiting.

How to coin a term.

I was given a challenge beyond anything I ever emagined doing. I'm supposed to coine a term and/or phrase for the ethnic German cleansing that took place after the second world war. This terma will be used in every artical, story, book, movie and dinner table conversation had about the topic. It must be something that will make everyone think of one thing and one thing only, the ethnic German cleansing.

How did a girl who grew up in the mid-west get an opportunity to do something that people never think of doing? How does one coin a term? I started by looking on ask.com then I went to google and now I'm writing in my blog trying to figure out my next step. It's not clear cut at all. I must come up with something that will make sense in every language and mean the same thing. That's the trick, how to find a word that means the same thing in every language. From what I know about languages, "OH" means the same in every language, but I really don't even know if that's true. I'll figure it out, I always do.

The Forgotten Genocide

I've just completed a three day conference ending with a documentary on the ethnic German cleansing that took place after WWII in Eastern Europe. The first of it's kind has brought an awareness to the public that's been hidden for 65 years. Millions and millions of people lost everything, homes, families and too many their lives becasue they're German and the world doesn't know about it. The secret has been kept too long.

My first film is The Forgotten Genocide which only scratches the service of what really happened. I will begin my second film immediately to build on what I've begun and to keep the awareness alive. I feel an unrest in getting as much information out there about this horrific part of history that's been hiden for too long.

I'm looking for people to interview and I can't get over how many survivors there are. Thank goodness for people taking better care of themselves and modern medicine. Between those two things I have many people to interview who lived through the death camps and have made the dicision to share their stories.

I was on a skype call today being asked to go to Germany for a conference following up on the conference I put together here in the states. I'm amazed at the overwhelming responce I'm getting form the work I've done. I'm proof that you can do anything you want, especially if you put blinders on ; ) It's been a lot of work but it hasn't been hard, at least not like digging a whole or building a house. It's been exact, researched, double checking kind of work. Everyday I had to set up new thing, person or place to go without forgetting to double check everything i did the da before and completing each task completely. Just as I'm doing with this blog.

This is my new best friend. I'm going to keep everything straight and let off a little steam now and than with this new friend.