My Esperanto School from 40 years ago is Alive and Well in France: Gresillon/Grezijono

 I write about the longest running Esperanto school, Gresillon near the Village Bauge', France periodically. I studied there about 37 years ago (simultaneously with one of the better known Esperanto activists, Anna Lowenstein sometimes known as Anna Corsetti and when I met her she was Anna Brennan Lowenstein).  It was heart-warming to get a letter stating that a journalist who already wrote about Esperanto, decided to do a video, in response to a comment I made.  Thanks to Cyrille Hurstel (at Facebook) who updated me on one of the most influential things I may have influenced in the Esperanto movement. The video was well-edited or subtitled or voiced-over in French, Italian, and Portuguese.....and seems to have even spread to Lebanon.  Links below for the article and video.


 Fakte mi foje skribas pri Grezijono, la sola loko kie mi studis Esperanton, antau' eble 37 jaroj (samtempe kun cxeesto de almenau' unu aktivega esperantistino, Anna Lowenstein). Do estis tre kor-tusxa ricevi leteron ke eble mi influis bonan inform-kampanjon pri tio:
Skribas Cyrille Hurstel

Saluton, antau nelonge vi komentis artikolon de jhurnalisto kiu pritraktis Esperanton (http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/anna-polonyi/656-the-rise-and-fall-of-esperanto). Vi vershajne bone influis char shi kontaktis la kastelon Gresillon kiam estis renkontigho kiun mi organizis tie kaj mi konvinkis vojaghi al la kastelo. La rezulto estis bonega http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa-KkhQt8fk kaj disvastighas en Italion, Usonon, Portugalion, Libanon ktp

Vi eble ekstartis ion grandan. Dankon. Cyrille

Alternativaj ligiloj: 

Kiam temas pri la agentejo AFP (Agence France Presse), pli bone uzi la
franclingvan hiperligilon.
<http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12wwkk_au-chateau-de-gresillon-l-esperanto-en-s-amusant_news>
(http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12wwkk_au-chateau-de-gresillon-l-esperanto-en-s-amusant_news)

Here is the English version: Jen al angla versio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFj6MCS-lUk&feature=player_embedded

En la franca, ŝi diras: "Parmi les 100 000 personnes à le parler
*régulièrement*, comme ce père (...)"
et avant:

00:07 "Pas évident à comprendre... Et c'est normal. Ce n'est ni de
l'anglais ni de l'espagnol... C'est de l'espéranto, une
langue/totalement inventée/ depuis plus d'un siècle. Ces familles sont
parmi les 100 000 personnes à la parler régulièrement, comme ce père de
trois filles bilingues."

00:24 témoignage de Cyrille, puis images de pique-nique

00:45 "Mais ce n'est pas toujours facile. Malgré ses ambitions
universelles, ce mélange de français, allemand, anglais, polonais et
russe reste peu connu."

00:54 témoignage de Amy

01:08 "C'est ici au château de Grésillon que se réunissent chaque été
des curieux et des enthousiastes pour se plonger dans la culture de la
langue, ou même débuter son apprentissage"

0:20 JL Kristos (5 mn pour apprendre la conjugaison)

1:30 Ce n'est pas simplement une langue, c'est aussi une culture.
L'espéranto a permis à Xiao Xiao de voyager de la Chine et de faire des
rencontres inédites.

1:40 témoignage de Xiao Xiao

1:52 Même si l'espéranto n'est pas devenu la langue universelle par
excellence comme l'espérait son inventeur, les espérantistes sont une
petite minorité venant des quatre coins du monde.

Here is the general website for the Esperanto School Grezijono:
Jen la gxenerala retejo de Grezijono
http://gresillon.org/?lang=eo 

Links to the Italian version and various other related links (Thanks to Bert Shumann and Ian Fantom):
Jen la filmeto en pluraj lingvoj:
http://gresillon.org/spip.php?article110
Ĉu iu el vi vidis ĝin en televida programo ?


A Ŭ T U N A S T A Ĝ O
kursoj kaj aktivaĵoj por plenkreskuloj kaj infanoj
de 25. oktobro ĝis 1. novembro 2013
vidi rete => gresillon.org/autune


> Karaj amikoj,
>
> jen interesa artikolo pri Kastelo Greziljono en la familia semajno - la
> semajnon post kiam mi estis tie!
>
> http://www.corrierenazionale.**it/home/esteri/2013/08/11/**
> news/106305-Esperanto-Chateau-**Gresillon-la-fortezza-della-**
> lingua-universale<http://www.corrierenazionale.it/home/esteri/2013/08/11/news/106305-Esperanto-Chateau-Gresillon-la-fortezza-della-lingua-universale>
>
> Esperanto, Chateau Gresillon: la fortezza della lingua universale
>
> Famiglie di tutto il mondo vengono per parlare questo linguaggio
>
> [Esperanto, Chateau Gresillon: la forto de la lingvo universala
>
> Familioj de la tuta mondo venas por paroli tiun cxi lingvon]
>

1939 Truth or Propaganda in Bialystok, Poland

This Yiddish video probably shows much of 1939 Bialystok, but I'm wondering if it was made after German occupation and then spread as propaganda and actually filmed before the occupation.  In the 4th minute the home of LL Zamenhof is shown and with a memorial sign, in Bialystok.


Estimataj gesamideanoj, en la parto 4:00 aperas en la filmeto la domo de Zamenhof. Kvankam la filmo estas en la jida lingvo, gxi enhavas subtitolojn en la angla lingvo. Mi esperas ke vi sxatos!
http://youtu.be/QDNtT29Zdfc

A new Museum of Polish Jews has some news about Zamenhof:
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/3074,ludwik-zamenhof-and-the-jewish-question-a-selection-of-sources/

From the Wikipedia article on Bialystok it is clear that 1939 was a difficult year with both Germans and Russians vying for control--the film might have been German or Russian Propaganda: 

With the beginning of World War II, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union and initially the city came under Soviet control, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR from 1939 to 1941 as the capital of the Belastok Voblast.^[22][23] After the Nazi attack on Soviet Union in 1941, the area was taken over by Germans and the city became the capital of Bezirk Białystok, a separate region in German occupied Poland, until 1944.^[24][25]

Swiss Center, Radio Programs and Library for Esperanto in La Chaux De Fonds

The Swiss city, La Chaux de Fonds, has maintained a friendly relation with Esperanto, beginning several decades back. It offered the Esperanto community several buildings for purchase or rent. The city library also kept a notable collection under the tutelage of Claude Gacond. Claude was also responsible for numerous radio shows in Esperanto, whose podcasts are in the "archives" section of http://www.cdeli.org/ 

Here is a recent sample program held at the Esperanto Center:
http://www.svisa-esperanto-societo.ch/kalendaro/Samedis_etude.htm

A related government website: 
 http://cdf-bibliotheques.ne.ch/CDELIes 

About the motor of Esperanto activity in La Chaux de Fonds: 
http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Gacond

Easy Link for Esperanto Radio Channels out of Several Countries.

http://esperanto-radio.com/

You can't get easier than that. Listen to Esperanto all day long. Live programs or programs podcast from a few days ago.