Cheryl’s Column, Written By Cheryl Freier, for www.thegraylinghiddentruthpoems.com
On this date in history, there were some displaced persons, refugees that had been captured by the Nazis that were freed. Notably were the refugees in Rees, Germany who were to be repatriated. Also, other displaced persons because of the war leave temporary transfer camps, which were near Hamburg, Germany. These people were very fortunate to survive the war and to go back to Russia.

On this date in history and in the beginning of WWII, Adolph Hitler gave the orders for mobilization of over 95 divisions of soldiers to prepare for the conquest of Czechoslovakia.

Choosing Books That Express the Tension of the Times
Written by author, Cheryl Freier
The novel, Echoes Resounding from the Past: Hidden Truth Poems is a depiction of triumph over innumerable odds. This is Joseph Freier’s story and his hope to survive in the woods in Nazi Slovakia. In this novel, one learns about how people survived in other wars. In this book, the reader’s fascination for a revelation is realized as the thought: it is a small world is revealed. Find out how two people meet from opposite ends of the world.

For the holiday season,people all over world should listen to my husband’s singing of Passover songs. It is the biggest treasure. Read some of his story. He was a young boy in Nazi Slovakia. Cheryl Freier

Stresses About War Times Are Hard For Children To Accept
By Cheryl Freier-author of historical fiction novels on the Holocaust www.thegraylinghiddentruthpoems.com
The word stress is such a general word. By itself it really does not really explain much. Yet, the meaning of the word stress does say that a person is struggling with her thoughts and emotions. The key issue about stress is also how the stress affects others. Stress ripples off onto children. At least 20 percent of children suffer from stress. Warnings signs for children with stress symptoms include irritability, lack of sleep and anger. (From The American Legion Magazine, October 2014, page 13).
Joseph Freier’s children accepted the World War II edict that they were being hunted down by the Nazis. The decision to accept this truth was shattering for the children, but they knew that they could not give into anxieties. Stress and denial would cost them their lives. Cheryl Freier is the author of the new novel, Echoes Resounding From The Past Hidden Truth Poems, and The Grayling Hidden Truth Poems, and The Day Of The Hidden Truth Poems.

We All Cross The Bridges In Our Minds As We Survive Our Experiences And We Cross Real Bridges Too. Cheryl Freier is an author of novels. She is the author and illustrator of children’s books.
Many of the bridges in the United States are in need of repair. The Tappan Zee Bridge in New York has outlasted its design. The design is the cantilever bridge, which distributes the weight of its beams and users to anchors that are secured offshore. The Tappan Zee Bridge has been replaced with the European design, the cable-stayed bridge. This type of bridge distributes its weight with cables and towers and is much cheaper to construct. Civil engineers consider it the first choice for the building of bridges when a bridge is needed to cover an area of 3,000 feet or more.
There were many bridges for the Freiers to cross in their plight for flight from the Nazi insurgents in Slovakia; some were real and some were composites of their thinking, but they had to pass them nevertheless. Read author Cheryl Freier’s latest novel: Echoes Resounding From The Past: Hidden Truth Poems. Read her first novel about the family’s escape from the Nazis: The Grayling: Hidden Truth Poems. The grayling was the fish that they ate when they were hiding near a lake in the woods in Slovakia. Follow Cheryl’s website: www.thegraylinghiddentruthpoems.com.

The T-Rex Was Unlikely To Win A Race Against The Hadrosaur
Written By Cheryl Freier-author-illustrator
Back in prehistoric times, a carnivorous predator, the T-rex did not necessarily have a chance of overcoming another prehistoric dinosaur, the hadrosaur, who was reputed to be a herbivore. The hadrosaur had its caudofemoralis muscle attached much lower to the femur of its back legs and therefore there was a much longer muscle contraction which automatically made its running strides shorter and slower. The T-Rex was able to run faster at first but would tire out sooner. It was then in prehistoric times that the hadrosaur outwitted the T-rex. (Scientific American, February, 2015, p. 19.)
So it was the story told over again throughout history that the victor of a contest is not necessarily the stronger of the two opponents. Such was the outcome of the story of David and Goliath as told in the Bible. Such was the outcome of WWII when the vicious Nazis had the world at bay until the Americans, and the British, and the Russians overtook the Nazis. Cheryl Freier is the author of The Wild Grasses: Hidden Truth Poems which tells the story about the harrowing experiences of a family forced to hide in the woods during WWII. Cheryl Freier is the author and illustrator of the storybook for children The Shepherd Boy And The Sheep Alphabet, which is the story about young King David and features the added feature of an alphabet book about the different types of sheep in the world.

By some miracle, the tombstone which belongs to the Great Rabbi Low still remains and is intact in a Prague cemetery in Czechoslovakia. This despite the horror of battles and bombings by the Nazis from the air.
Rabbi Low wrote the poem: The Wreaths Of Seven Wells. This is the first stanza (p.273 of A Story Of The Jewish Museum In Prague): The first well-Water of Holiness, summoned by mysterious knowledge, saves from haughty viciousness, protects from worries and illness, heals every wound from painfulness, refreshes men from weariness, from it comes fourfold mightiness. Cheryl Freier is an author/illustrator. She is the author of The Day Of The Hidden Truth Poems: a book which includes poetry written by her husband, Cantor Martin Freier.
We must remember the Great Rabbi and the truths and the good for mankind that he stood for.

Remnants Of The Past Remain For The Inca People To Re Visit Their Past: And For All Other Peoples To Visit And Share

By Cheryl Freier, author of The Grayling Hidden Truth Poems and The Day Of The Hidden Truth Poems

In the April, 2011 edition of National Geographic, the featured article on the cover was mentioned as ‘The Genius Of The INCA New Discoveries Reveal How They Forged a Mighty Empire’.  When discussing the Inca nation, we are delving deep into the history of Peru.  For decades, due to political unrest, archeologists had abandoned missions to dig for the secrets of the Incas.  The Incas had never developed a system of writing. 

Presently there has been the revitalization of interest in archeological discoveries of the Incas and remnants of vast palaces have been discovered near their capital city,Cusco.  Much information reveals that the Incas were a warlike people—conquering other peoples and melding their customs and mores into their central communal spirit. 

On the islandof Taquile, which is located in the middle of the great Titicaca Lake, there is a community of descendants of the Incas.  The people speak the same language; they play the same musical instruments, drums and wooden pipes; and they grow food in their fields exactly the same way as their ancestors did; and they visit a wall of stone that has remained for more than five centuries.  I wonder that if the Nazis had won the war, would there have been Hebrew people left in an isolated part of the world who could tell the story of their forefathers.  Read The Grayling Hidden Truth Poems and The Wild Grasses to become aware of the struggles for survival of these people during WWII.

Pictured beneathe the caption (on Yahoo.com) are people who have come to honor those who gave their lives for the freedom of the world during WWI.  The caption of the article reads:  “World War I battlefield soil arrives in London”.

Having married a man with whom I shared a life with for 40 years, who truly was a man of wonder in many ways.  The quality of his thinking about what is the right thing to do and his empathy for others were the highlights of his thoughts.  I shall miss him always. 

In reverence to his memory and to his ability to overcome the hate and persecution which he was exposed to unfairly as a young boy, I have written a series of four books in memoriam of him, Martin Freier;  the books contain some of the music which he wrote, and contains many of the poetry that he wrote. 

I pray for peace in the world and peace in our hearts and souls.  I am grateful to see a project of this enormity which collected the soil from 70 nations to display the soil as symbols for freedom to perpetuity in a memorial garden in England. 

I wish you all happy holidays and peace and perpetuity for all righteous thoughts.  Cheryl Freierf