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The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control (The Karnac Library)
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Wendy Hoffman

Bookish's review

May 31, 2014

it was amazing

bookshelves: dissociative-identity-disorder, government, ritual-abuse, abuse, non-fiction, biographies, jewish-survivors, cults

Very touch read emotionally. Struggled to put it down expect nightmares even if similar books don't give you nightmares. A tough ending. Wendy Hoffman explains how people are kept within abusive cults, including Satanic ritual abuse and reversed Kabbalah which were carried out both by the same group, including her parents. Slightly later they sold her for government experimentation within the MK Ultra programme, to brothels and the Illuminati as well (although very little was said about them). She had bravely described her coercion and forcing into one horror after another, including the one child who she was allowed to raise but only as a means of controlling her. She talks about the impossible choices (double binds) which make victims forced to perpetrate on others in order to tie them further to the cult, make suicide more likely than recovery off they should ever manage the skin chance of escaping.The end is not a peaceful, confusing one. Wendy believes she owes her humanity to the one year of childhood in which she had a true friend, the power of this attachment helped her survive and prevented her becoming like the remainder of her cult-involved, criminal family.

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“What better weapon than the human brain? The human brain was Mrs Twartski's and Wiezenslowski's domain. The children who were used were the castaways of the United States government, like dogs abandoned and a vet's office. Mrs. Twartski read the letter out loud, slowly and carefully enunciating every word in her thick Polish accent. The German scientists were looking for children who could learn quickly, were between ages four and twelve, and could withstand being famished without dying. Deutschland were paying dollar $50,000 per subject. Everyone in living room exactly Mrs. Twartski and all my aunts let out a huge "Ahhh". My sister's and my eyes grew wide because we had no idea what this meant or why the adults were so excited. Then my sister's eyes narrowed as if she knew something that I didn't yet, as if she had just figured something out.”
― Wendy Hoffman, The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control

“I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, "You can't have her. I love her, my daughter." My father said, "Take the younger one. She's smarter, " as he pushed me over forward.
Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.”
― Wendy Hoffman, The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control

tags: attachment, betrayal, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, childhood-trauma, josef-mengele, manipulation, war-criminals

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“Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.”
― Wendy Hoffman, The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control