{"id":3111,"date":"2019-10-03T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:39:35","slug":"marthas-launches-pondering-in-the-dark-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"BOOK LAUNCH OF &#8216;PONDERING IN THE DARK&#8217; in LONDON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 October 2019 &#8211; Finally, the secret is out! For many, many months Martha worked with Eva&#8217;s family on a surprise present for the 90th birthday of Eva Schloss, namely a beautiful tri-lingual publication of poems and paintings of her brother Heinz Geiringer (1926- 1929), written and painted while in hiding in Soestdijk (6 July 1942 &#8211; 9 May 1944).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only now, after 75 years the poems have been published internationally &#8211; on the occassion of Eva&#8217;s 90th birthday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"594\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1-950x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1-950x594.jpg 950w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1-590x369.jpg 590w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-17.50.46-copy-1.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poems are beautiful, very sensitive and philisophical. The paintings shows a real talent and to complete the book, we have included the original handwritten poems and photo&#8217;s from Vienna and Brussels that Eva and her mother found in their appartment on the Merwedeplein.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a book launch in the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St Johns Wood. Eva did not expect anything, and it was a complete surprise! Eva said that it was the most beautiful birthday present that she ever got&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martha would like to express her deep gratitude to the sponsors: Anne Frank Fonds (AFF) Basel, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, The Anne Frank Trust UK, the Johannesburg Holocaust &amp; Genocide Centre, the National Holocaust Memorial Museum, Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam and Het Amsterdams Lyceum. <br><br>This is the press release as published in the Crescas Newsletter (in Dutch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"955\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o-950x955.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o-950x955.jpg 950w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o-590x593.jpg 590w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/79716135_1417612828402402_4327529697928806400_o.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1267\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-950x1267.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-950x1267.jpg 950w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-590x787.jpg 590w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2497-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Filmstill-Book-Launch-2-950x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Filmstill-Book-Launch-2-950x548.jpg 950w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Filmstill-Book-Launch-2-590x340.jpg 590w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Filmstill-Book-Launch-2-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Filmstill-Book-Launch-2-520x300.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/14bae92f-8b8d-4ac4-a5e3-1dc62669e655\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1267\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-950x1267.jpg\" alt=\"(c) Martha van Der Bly \" class=\"wp-image-3126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-950x1267.jpg 950w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-590x787.jpg 590w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2500-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(c) Martha van Der Bly <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 October 2019 &#8211; Finally, the secret is out! For many, many months Martha worked with Eva&#8217;s family on a surprise present for the 90th birthday of Eva Schloss, namely a beautiful tri-lingual publication of poems and paintings of her brother Heinz Geiringer (1926- 1929), written and painted while in hiding in Soestdijk (6 July&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=3111\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}