Elie[Good]' title='Elie[Good]' />Elie Wiesel.Eliezer Elie Wiesel was a noted Holocaust survivor and an award winning novelist, journalist, and human rights activist.He also won a Nobel Prize laureate in World Peace.Erga Group, founded by Elie and Randa Gebrayel in 1980, thrived and succeeded in becoming one of the leading engineering consulting firms in the country.Wiesel born September 3.Sighet, a Rumanian shtetl, to an Orthodox Jewish family.His parents, Shlomo and Sarah, owned a grocery store in the village.He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tsiporah.When he was three years old, Wiesel began attending a Jewish school where he learned Hebrew, Bible, and eventually Talmud.His thinking was influenced by his maternal grandfather who was a prominent Hasid.He also spent time talking with Moshe, a caretaker in his synagogue who told Wiesel about the Messiah and other mysteries of Judaism.In 1. 94. 0, the Nazis turned Sighet over to Hungary.In 1. 94. 2, the Hungarian government ruled that all Jews who could not prove Hungarian citizenship would be transferred to Nazi held Poland and murdered.The only person from Sighet who was sent to Poland and escaped was Moshe, who returned to Sighet to tell his story.He told of deportations and murder, but the people thought he was crazy and life went on as usual.In 1. 94. 2, Wiesel celebrated his bar mitzvah.He continued studying the Bible and other Jewish books, and became particularly attracted to Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.To further this study, he learned about astrology, parapsychology, hypnotism and magic.He found a kabbalist in Sighet to teach him.In March 1. 94. 4, German soldiers occupied Sighet.They forced the Jews to wear yellow stars.The Nazis closed Jewish stores, raided their houses and created two ghettos.In May, deportations began.The Wiesels Christian maid, Maria, invited them to hide in her hut in the mountains, but they turned her down, preferring to stay with the Jewish community.In early June, the Wiesels were among the last Jews to be loaded into a cattle car, with eighty people in one car.Wiesel later wrote, Life in the cattle cars was the death of my adolescence.After four days, the train stopped at Auschwitz.Wiesel, then 1. 5, followed the instructions of a fellow prisoner and told the waiting SS officer that he was eighteen, a farmer and in good health.He and his father were sent to be slave laborers.His mother and younger sister were taken to the gas chambers.Wiesel and his father survived first Auschwitz and then the Buna labor camp for eight months, enduring beatings, hunger, roll calls and other torture.Wiesel witnessed hangings and once, a trial by three religious rabbis against God.Yet he still prayed every day.Like other inmates, Wiesel was stripped of his identity and became identified only by his number A 7.In the winter of 1.Wiesels foot swelled up.He went to a camp doctor who operated on him.Two days later, on January 1.SS forced the inmates of Buna on a death march.For ten days, the prisoners were forced to run and, at the end, were crammed into freight cars and sent to Buchenwald.Of the 2. 0,0. 00 prisoners who left Buna, 6,0.Buchenwald. Upon arrival on January 2.Wiesels father, Shlomo, died of dysentery, starvation and exhaustion.Wiesel was sent to join 6.Block 6. 6 of Buchenwald.As the end of the war approached, on April 6, 1.On the morning of April 1.SS guards. In early evening, the first American military units arrived and liberated the camp.After liberation, Wiesel became sick with intestinal problems and spent several days in a hospital.While hospitalized, he wrote the outline for a book describing his experiences during the Holocaust.He was not ready to publicize his experiences, however, and promised himself to wait 1.When Wiesel was released from the hospital, he had no family to return to.He joined a group of 4.France. Upon arrival, he tried to immigrate to Palestine but was not allowed.From 1. 94. 5 to 1.France found for him by a Jewish group called the Childrens Rescue Society.He remained an Orthodox Jew in practice, but began to have questions about God.In 1. 94. 7, he began to study French with a tutor.By chance, Wiesels sister, Hilda, saw his picture in a newspaper and got in touch with him.Months later, Wiesel was also reunited with his sister Bea in Antwerp.In France, Wiesel met a Jewish scholar who gave his name simply as Shushani.Shushani was a brilliant yet mysterious man who enchanted his audience with his insights in all areas of Jewish and general knowledge, but did not reveal any information about his personal life.Wiesel became his student and was deeply influenced by him.Shushani taught Wiesel to question and made Wiesel realize how little he actually knew.In 1. 94. 8, Wiesel enrolled in the Sorbonne University where he studied literature, philosophy and psychology.He was extremely poor and at times became depressed to the point of considering suicide.In time, however, he became involved with the Irgun, a Jewish militant organization in Palestine, and translated materials from Hebrew to Yiddish for the Irguns newspaper.He began working as a reporter and in 1.Israel as a correspondent for the French paper LArche.In Israel, he secured a job as Paris correspondent for the Israeli paper Yediot Achronot and in the 1.He also became involved in the controversy over whether Israel should accept reparation payments from West Germany.A turning point in Wiesels life came in 1.Wiesel interviewed the Catholic writer Fancois Mauriac.During the interview, everything Mauriac said seemed to relate to Jesus.Finally, Wiesel burst out that while Christians love to talk about the suffering of Jesus, ten years ago, not very far from here, I knew Jewish children every one of whom suffered a thousand times more, six million times more, than Christ on the cross.And we dont speak about them.Wiesel ran from the room, but Mauriac followed him, asked Wiesel about his experiences and advised him to write them down.Wiesel then spent a year drawing on the outline he had written in the hospital to write an 8.Yiddish manuscript he called And the World Was Silent.He gave it to a publisher in Argentina and it came back as a 2.Night. The book, published in France in 1.U. S. in 1. 96. 0, was autobiographical and told of his experiences from his youth in Sighet through his liberation from Buchenwald.It is also a personal account of his loss of religious faith.In 1. 95. 5, Wiesel moved to New York as foreign correspondent for Yediot Ahronot.It was around this time that he decided to stop attending synagogue, except on the High Holidays and to say yizkor, as a protest against what he concluded was divine injustice.One night in July 1.Wiesel was crossing a New York street when a taxi hit him.He underwent a 1.Once he recovered, he began to concentrate more on his writing.He dedicated four hours every morning, from 6 0.After Night was published, he wrote a second novel in 1.Dawn, about a concentration camp survivor.In quick succession he wrote The Accident 1.The Town Beyond the Wall 1.The Gates of the Forest 1.Legends of Our Time 1.Jewish suffering during and after the Holocaust.In 1. 96. 5, he visited the Soviet Union and wrote a book entitled The Jews of Silence 1.Soviet Jewry. After the 1.Israel, he wrote A Begger in Jerusalem 1.Jews responding to the reunification of Jerusalem.This book earned him the Prix Medicis, one of Frances top literary rewards.In these books, he portrays characters in situations that are exclusively Jewish.He perceives reality through the lens of Talmud, Kabbalah, and Hasidism.His books mingle tales and legends with testimony, recollection and lament.In 1. 96. 9, Wiesel married Marion Erster Rose, a divorced woman from Austria.She translated all of Wiesels subsequent books.In 1. 97. 2, they had a son who they named Shlomo Elisha Wiesel, after Wiesels father.Wiesel continued writing through the 1.His book The Trial of God 1.God of hostility, cruelty and indifference.Wiesel, throughout his life, refused to completely abandon his belief in God as caretaker of His people, while at the same time he questioned Gods seeming indifference to Jewish suffering.His cantata Ani Maamin 1.Jewish forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who have the responsibility of directing Gods attention to Israels suffering throughout the generations.Other books include One Generation After1.Four Hasidic Masters 1.The Testament 1. Wiesel was outspoken about the suffering of all people, not only Jews.In the 1. 97. 0s, he protested against South African apartheid.Perfume Houses D to E Now Smell This.This page lists perfume houses with names starting with the letters D and E.Perfume houses are alphabetized by first name, so that Damien Bash is listed under D.Some perfume houses have their own pages if the name is a link, click on it.Jump to Perfume Houses A B C F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U Z.This page was last updated on 2.September 2. 01. 7.Daisy Fuentes Beauty.Former model and actress who launched her own clothing and beauty lines.Fragrances were introduced in 2.Dianoche, followed by So Luxurious in 2.Recent releases include Dianoche Ocean 2.Dianoche Love 2. Dianoche Passion 2.Mysterio 2. 01. 1.Where to buy at Kohls.Damien Bash. Small niche line with five fragrances Lucifer no.Lucifer no. 2, Lucifer no.Lucifer no. 4 and Sin.Website Damien Bash.Dana Dana Classic FragrancesPerfume house established in 1.Javier Serra. Their first release was the now iconic Tabu 1.Other well known fragrances include Ambush and Canoe.See review of Dana Emir 1.Danas prestige offerings were reconfigured for the mass market over the years, and the company was acquired, along with Houbigant, by Renaissance Cosmetics in 1.Renaissance filed for Chapter 1.New Dana Perfumes, later renamed Dana Classic Fragrances.Dana Classic Fragrances markets Chantilly, Tabu, Loves Baby Soft, Loves Fresh Lemon, Loves Rainforest, Loves Soft Jasmin, Canoe, Navy, and English Leather, among others.Recent releases include English Leather Black 2.Tabu Forbidden 2.Loves Rainforest 2.British Sterling H.I. M. Reserve British Sterling H.I. M. Private Stock 2.Chantilly Eau de Vie 2.Tabu Rose 2. 01. Website Dana Classic Fragrances.Danica Aromatics.California based perfume house established in 1.Danica Siegal Hyman.The I Am collection includes 1.I am passion, I am wild, I am good, etc.Where to buy at hamptonct or directly from Danica Aromatics.Website Danica Aromatics.Daniel Hechter. French fashion house.Designer Daniel Hechter is perhaps best known for his ready to wear clothing.Fragrances were introduced in 1.Caractere. Subsequent releases include Sport 1.Contact 2. 00. 3.Recent releases include Hechter Paris 2.Website Daniel Hechter.David and Victoria Beckham dvbHe is the well known soccer player, she was formerly Posh Spice of the Spice Girls.Fragrances are created under arrangements with Coty, and include David Beckham Instinct 2.Intimately Beckham for him for her 2.Intense Instinct 2.Intimately Beckham Night for him for her 2.Instinct After Dark 2.Beckham Signature for Him, Beckham Signature for Her 2.David Beckham Pure Instinct 2.Beckham Signature Story 2.Instinct Ice 2. 01.Intimately Beckham Yours 2.Beckham Signature Summer 2.David Beckham Homme 2.Instinct Sport 2.The Essence by David Beckham 2.David Beckham Urban Homme 2.David Beckham Classic 2.David Beckham Classic Summer 2.David Beckham Classic Blue 2.Instinct Gold Edition 2.David Beckham Beyond 2.Aqua Classic 2. 01.Beyond Forever 2.Made of Instinct 2.David Beckham Respect 2.Website Beckham Fragrances.Des Filles a la Vanille.French niche line of perfumes and home fragrance.Recent releases include Imma 2.Where to buy at beautyhabit in the US.Website Des Filles a la Vanille.Desire in Sunlight.Indie natural perfumes and perfumed chocolates by Isabelle Aurel.See review of Chocolat Jasmin.Website Desire in Sunlight website no longer activeDessert Beauty.Brand established in 2.Clean Perfumes Randi Shinder in collaboration with American pop star Jessica Simpson, and specializing in gourmand bath, body fragrance products.It has since been discontinued.Website Dessert Beauty no longer activeDetaille.Niche beauty and fragrance line established in Paris in 1.Fragrances include 1.Sheliane and Alizee for women Aeroplane, Escrimeur and Yachting for men.New releases include Osmose, Bois dOud, Rose Nuit Fleur de Peau 2.Website Detaille.Diane von Furstenberg.Belgian American designer who introduced the iconic wrap dress in the early 1. Nik Software Hdr Efex Pro Serial . Her fashion business eventually lapsed, but was relaunched in 1.Her first fragrance, Tatiana, was named for her daughter and launched in 1.Later scents included D 2.Recent fragrances, made under license arrangements with ID Beauty, include Diane by Diane von Furstenberg 2.Sunny Diane 2. 01.Love Diane 2. 01.Website Dv. FWhere to buy at department stores and discounters.Diesel. Italian jeans sportwear company.Under arrangements with Marbert Cosmetics, Diesel launched several fragrances, including Diesel Plus Plus 1.Diesel Zero Plus 1.Green 2. 00. 2. Those fragrances are all now discontinued.In early 2. 00. 6, Diesel signed a new licensing agreement with LOreal.The first fragrance under that deal is Diesel Fuel for Life 2.Diesel Cologne Fuel for Life 2.Recent releases include Fuel for Life Unlimited 2.Only The Brave 2.Fuel for Life Summer 2.Fuel for Life Summer 2.Fuel for Life Denim 2.Loverdose 2. 01. Only The Brave Tattoo 2.Fuel For Life LEau 2.Fuel for Life Spirit 2.Loverdose Tattoo 2.Only The Brave Wild 2.Loverdose Red Kiss 2.Only The Brave Extreme 2.Bad 2. 01. 6, Only The Brave High 2.Bad Intense 2. 01.Where to buy department stores and online discounters.Website Diesel. Different Company.See The Different Company.Dita Von Teese. Burlesque model and actress.Fragrances were introduced in 2.Dita Von Teese, made under licensing arrangements with Luxess.Subsequent releases include Rouge 2.Fleurteese 2. 01.Erotique 2. 01. 3.Where to buy not widely distributed in the US, but try Ron Robinson or HSN.Website Dita Divine.Niche perfume house established by Yvon Mouchel in Dinard, France.Fragrances include Divine, LAme Soeur, LInfante, LHomme Sage and LHomme de Coeur.Recent releases include Linspiratrice 2.Ltre Aim Femme Homme 2.Eau Divine 2. 00.LHomme Infini 2. Spirituelle 2.LHomme Accompli 2.Where to buy Luckyscent in the US, First in Fragrance in Germany.Website Divine. Domenico Caraceni.Domenico Carceni was established in Rome in 1.Caracenis descendents still operate as tailors in Milan, but the Domenico Caraceni brand name was purchased by Gianni Campagna in 1.Three fragrances, Domenico Caraceni 1.Ivy League Loren.Where to buy in the US at luckyscent in Germany at first in fragrance.Website Domenico Caraceni.Dorissima. Small niche perfume house of Doris Brugger.There are two fragrances, Goldmund and Narziss.Where to buy luckyscent.Website Dorissima.Dragonfly Blue. Single note and blended perfume oils.See review for Dragonfly Blue Shea Butter.Website Dragonfly Blue.Dr Vranjes. Florence based line of Dr.Paulo Vranjes, the original founder of Antica Farmacista.Where to buy Beautyhabit or Luckyscent.Website Dr Vranjes.DS Durga. Brooklyn based indie perfume line that debuted in 2.DS and an architect Durga.The original collection includes 5 Originals 3 Solos for women, 6 Originals 3 Solos for men.See reviews for Italian Citrus, Cowboy Grass, Marblehead Reds, Barbados, Vetyver Juniper.Recent releases include Resin 2.Nine new fragrances 2.Poppy Rouge, The Orchid Drinkers, Five Step Waltz, Staghorn Sumac with Joya, 2.Hollywood Regency 2.Bowmakers 2. 01. D.S. Durga J. Crew Homesteaders Cologne Water 2.D. S. Durga J. Crew Longshoremans Cologne 2.Debaser 2. 01. 5, El Cosmico 2.White Peacock Lily, Rose Atlantic Radio Bombay 2.Durga 2. 01. 7, Vio Volta 2.In 2. 00. 9, DS Durga launched a number of fragrances for the Anthropologie chain.These are all in limited edition and are sold at selected Anthropologie stores fragrances include Beverly Hills 1.East Mid East, Royal Purpure, Smoked Amber 1.Rheims 2. 00. 9, Shake Shake Senora, Petitgrain Sur Fleur Pomelo Blossom 2.In 2. 01. 3, DS Durga introduced the HYLNDS range, with Bitter Rose, Broken Spear Isle Ryder and Pale Grey Mountain, Black Lake, followed later in the year by Spirit of the Glen.Foxglove followed in 2.Where to buy at Barneys, Beautyhabit, Luckyscent or Twisted Lily, or from the website, which also lists brick n mortar stores carrying the line.Website DS Durga.Dsquared. 2Fashion line established in Milan in 1.Dean and Dan Caten, twin brothers from Canada.
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