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Article: Thinking about the dead. (Op-Ed).(whether events after death affect how well one's life went)
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- Free Inquiry
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- June 22, 2003
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I have just published a book about my maternal grandfather, David Oppenheim. A Viennese of Jewish descent, he was a member first of Sigmund Freud's circle and later of that of Alfred Adler. But despite his abiding interest in exploring human psychology, he underestimated the Nazi threat and did not leave quickly enough after the Nazi annexation of Austria Deported to the overcrowded, underfed ghetto of Theresienstadt, he soon died. Fortunately my parents left Vienna in time. They were able to go to Australia where, after the war, I was born.
Many of my grandfather's letters and papers have survived. One of them asks: What is a good life? Since David Oppenheim was ...
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Article: THIEVES ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO HONOR A FAVORITE SON.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
July 20, 2002 ;
375 words
... ... d been put up by the state Department of Transportation. 'I'd keep looking every day to see if they were up,' said David Oppenheim, president of the society. 'Some people just have to spoil something nice for everybody.' 'There could be 100 reasons ...
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