From 1% to 100% of the World's City Populations Know that Esperanto is an International Language

Long time and new Esperanto speakers answered the question: What percent  of your city, under the age 40, knows that Esperanto is a language or an international language?  I optimistically said that 10% of young New Yorkers know what the word is. Most people offered personal opinions and a few remembered more formal surveys of past decades. Most said 1%.  I found the 1% answer very disappointing, and probably true.  Most people from English-speaking countries/cities, Scandinavia, Spanish-speaking countries, Brazilian cities agreed 1% is their reality. From Berlin to Moscow answers were more uplifting and varied from 20 to 100% (of note in the birth-city of Esperanto, Bialystok, Poland). My non-scientific opinon says that the percentage of people with minimal knowledge about Esperanto is falling in the internet-era, while our numbers of speakers distributions goes up in new towns and cities with the help of the on-line courses like Lernu and Duolingo. As the percentage falls it is less likely that big NGO's or other international organizations will  take Esperanto seriously. Are we doomed to stagnate?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/esperanto.grupo/permalink/10153876460520289/?qa_ref=qd&pnref=story

Teach Yourself Esperanto Vastly Used from about 1970-1980

http://ka5nom.com/esperanto/TYEBook.pdf

A few new copies are still around even in 2015, but I bought my yellow covered copy in about 1972.

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Zamenhof Street (1930) and Warsaw's Jewish Museum (2014)

Zamenhof Tago cxe Zamenhof Strato Varsovio

Klienci, którzy 15 grudnia 2009 r. wybrali się do delikatesów na Muranowie, zamiast o mięso mielone, włoszczyznę i kapustę kiszoną mogli prosić o bova muelitajo, legomoj albo acida brasiko.

A w studio mody – o pantalono albo robo, czyli spodnie lub sukienkę.

Zdjęcia: Mariusz Majewski

The new Jewish Museum of Warsaw is also adding attention to L.L.Zamenhof.  1. A reproduction of

the old cobble-stoned Zamenhof Street is in the Museum.

2. Zamenhof Street  of the Muranow quarter   (named in 1930)  is adjacent to the new

museum and an older Holocaust memorial. 3. An estimated 450.000 visitors have been to the museum.

http://forward.com/articles/208070/stunning-new-louvre-of-jewish-museums-opens-in-war/?p=all

Unesco's Irina Bokova & Paulo Coelho Subtitled in Esperanto on Language Diversity and Rights

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Neil Blonstein's Intervention on 2014 Holocaust Program at UN on WWII Sufferings of Esperanto Speakers

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Henri Masson Mi iom heligis la foton . Interveno de Neil Blonstein, oficiala reprezentanto de UEA ĉe la UN-sidejo en Novjorko pri la persekutoj kontraŭ Esperanto, kun mencio de la Libro "La danĝera lingvo", kadre de kunveno pri la militkrimoj de 1943-ĝis 1949. 11an de novembro 2014. (ekde 01:05:04) Intervention de Neil Blonstein, représentant officiel de l'Association Universelle d'espéranto (UEA) au siège de l'ONU à New York à propos des persécutions contre l'espéranto, avec mention du livre "La danĝera lingvo" lors d'une réunion sur les crimes de guerre de 1943 à 1949. 11 novembre 2014. (à partir de 01:05:04) http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/united-nations-war-crimes-commission-records-1943-1949-past-present-and-future-panel-discussion/3886628590001 Henry Mayer, National Holocaust Museum Direct first made reference to "sufferings of Esperanto speakers at minute 39:00.  Neil Blonstein commented at minute 1:05:04.

Henry Mayer, Holocaust Museum Head, Talks on Esperanto with Esperantists face to face on WWII Suffering and Documentation

In the frame work of a UN program with 400 participants, linked to the Holocaust, lecturer, Henry Mayer, Director of the Washington DC National Holocaust Museum mentioned "speakers of Esperanto" among several groups suffering under the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Universal Esperanto Association rep, Neil Blonstein intervened for a minute and receive a response. Later he briefly took a photograph with Mayer along with the Esperanto version of the Diary of Anne Frank. Petr Ginz was on the Conference flyer and mentioned in Neil's intervention. Kadre de UNO programo kun 400 au'skultantoj, ligata al juda holokau'sto, preleganto, Henry Mayer, Estro de Holokau'sta Muzeo de Cxef-urbo de Usono, parolis pri "parolantoj de Esperanto" inter deko da grupoj speciale suferantoj dum Dua Mond-milito. Nijl povis interveni por minuto kaj la muzeestro ankorau' respondis. Private Nijl fotigxis kun li kun Esperanto versio "Tag-libro de Anne Frank". Cxeestis alia esperantisto, Arlen Baden. Unu minuta film-resumo: Highlights from our panel discussion on the United Nations War Crimes Commission Records, http://bit.ly/11CVQUf

Highlights from Panel discussion on UN War Crimes Commission: Past, Present and Future

Some highlights from the panel event held by DPI on November 11, 2014: "United Nations War Crimes...

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Henri Masson Mi iom heligis la foton . Interveno de Neil Blonstein, oficiala reprezentanto de UEA ĉe la UN-sidejo en Novjorko pri la persekutoj kontraŭ Esperanto, kun mencio de la Libro "La danĝera lingvo", kadre de kunveno pri la militkrimoj de 1943-ĝis 1949. 11an de novembro 2014. (ekde 01:05:04) Intervention de Neil Blonstein, représentant officiel de l'Association Universelle d'espéranto (UEA) au siège de l'ONU à New York à propos des persécutions contre l'espéranto, avec mention du livre "La danĝera lingvo" lors d'une réunion sur les crimes de guerre de 1943 à 1949. 11 novembre 2014. (à partir de 01:05:04)

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  Neil Blonstein added 5 new photos to the album 2014 UNO Muze-estro kaj Nijl parolas pri Esperanto/400 homoj — with Petr Ginz.

  Kadre de UNO programo kun 400 au'skultantoj, ligata al juda holokau'sto, preleganto, Henry Mayer, Estro de Holokau'sta Muzeo de Cxef-urbo de Usono,
  parolis pri "parolantoj de Esperanto" inter deko da grupoj speciale suferantoj dum Dua Mond-milito. Nijl povis interveni por minuto kaj la muzeestro ankorau' respondis. Private Nijl fotigxis kun li kun Esperanto versio "Tag-libro de Anne Frank". Cxeestis alia esperantisto, Arlen Baden. Unu minuta film-resumo: Highlights from our panel discussion on the United Nations War Crimes Commission Records, http://bit.ly/11CVQUf Nijl dum interveno: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=908542229190552&set=p.908542229190552&type=1&theater
  
  

  
  

  Henry Mayer, who helps maintain the collection of artifacts at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, knew a diary had been kept by Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party’s chief ideologue and a confidant of Adolf Hitler. (Richard Simon / Los Angeles Times)

  Henry Mayer, son of a Holocaust survivor, made it his mission to find the long-lost journal kept by Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party's chief ideologue and a confidant of Adolf Hitler.

  In 1995 a related program about the Holocaust and Esperanto occurred AT the museum: 

  http://www.miresperanto.com/en/articles/holocaust.htm

  
  

  In 2010, following the National Esperanto Conference in Washington, D.C a few dozen Esperantists visited the Holocaust Museum.
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  http://utopia-vs-reality.blogspot.com/2011/04/holocaust-and-esperanto.html
  
  Several links on the child-Esperantist-Holocaust victim, Petr Ginz.
  
  http://esperantofriends.blogspot.it/2012_02_01_archive.html
  
  Active German, Dirk Bindmann, esperantist describes his German Esperanto teacher as an anti-Nazi activist who published the truth and later fled with the assistance of several Esperantists in several countries: Source: Dirk Bindmann Mia Esperanto-instruisto, Ludwig Schödl, konspire presis kaj disvastigis informilojn kun faktoj pri naziaj persekutoj en Germanio. Poste li fuĝis el Germanio kaj trovis kun helpo de esperantistoj azilojn en pluraj landoj (en Francio, Palestino kaj aliaj, kiujn mi ne plu memoras).
  
  

  
  

Jetsons 1962 First Episode Judy Jetson Studies Esperanto, Rosie the Robot Offers to Help.

Script

http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-jetsons-1962&episode=s01e01

Relavant minute:

Hey, where did you get the antique jukebox? Shush! Now, say heIIo to our new maid, Rosey, EIroy.
HeIIo to our new maid, Rosey, EIroy.
Can you throw a forward pass? I'm not sure, but I'II try.
Hi, Mother.
I'm home.
Judy, I thought you were going swimming.
Not with aII these homework tapes I have to Iisten to tonight.
GeopoIitics, Esperanto, space caIcuIus.
I'II never be finished.
I couId heIp you, Miss Judy.
I'm wired for tape anaIysis.
I shouId have aII the answers for you in about 1 0 minutes.
Judy, this is our new maid, Rosey.
Am I ever pIeased to meet you.
Rosey, you are out of this universe.

One minute clip (you may need a FB account??):
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204376238958100

The whole episode without sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYya-un3tqE

The picture is the precise moment that Esperanto is mentioned.

Jetsons - Esperanto

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Nyegosh Dube

Esperanto was mentioned in the very first episode of "The Jetsons", a popular American cartoon series about a family of the future. The show debuted in 1962 and is set in the year 2062. Here's a video I made of the relevant segment from a website.

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Esperanto estis menciita en la unua epizodo de "The Jetsons", populara usona televida karikatur-serio pri familio de la estonteco. La programo debutis en 1962 kaj okazas en la jaro 2062. Jen video kiun mi faris de la koncerna segmento el retejo.