The staff wasn't alone in pushing this theory. So the 70 teenagers just sat where they could, a lot of them in the back. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Thursday evening, more than 40 people logged into Zoom for the Caf Europa Sukkot celebration and to honor the 100th birthday of Holocaust survivor and Dongan Hills . And she lives in Oklahoma. Diana Reiter. Other families feel the opposite. And like you said, the one student was like, oh wow, that was cold. For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and . I'm about to get ready to go to class. The Life Summary of Diana. She died two years later, a victim of the Krakw concentration camp.[5]. to the extremely pointed "Zionist Jews are the new Nazis." Her mother was a dancer in Bucharest. And it's three hours long and in black and white. But after hearing it, though, you look it up in a dictionary, and you figure out what it is. | Amon Goeth Join Facebook to connect with Diana Reiter and others you may know. Maafa is another word for the African Holocaust. Who played me? : What did they say to you about it? Or maybe worse, watch that pain be co-opted by people who want, for whatever reason, to feel that connection so acutely. . They wanted to learn about that. Yeah. They wanted to talk about something else. Many object to the perspective from which the story was told. Is this a foreign film? I'm Ira Glass. I said, he's not going to shoot this woman. Movies. JSTREETPAC Board Member. The teacher had made arrangements ahead of time, but no one remembered him calling. Remember.org - The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivors' History. They learned other things, too. Jewish people just weren't on their radar-- to hate, to love, anything. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. The exhibition tells the story of one family's experiences during the Holocaust from the perspective of a boy growing up in Nazi Germany. I told Amon Goeth that I was a graduate of the University of Milan. And if it takes an apology so we can get this to blow over, so be it. Due to the economic situation, she was dismissed at the end of 1931. As Vice Chair for Social . Who played me? Whenever there's an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don't know. And maybe I learned something, but I didn't feel anything. Another influential argument is that the movie presents a skewed view of the Holocaust, in that: I told Oskar that I did not have to like Ms. Klonowska. Bjrn Lanna. The movie they were going to see was Schindler's List, a film about the Holocaust. I felt embarrassed. They eventually did learn something about this one event in Jewish history. - Yes, sir! Auschwitz was also a place of execution. It wasn't at the fact that she got shot. an error, click through It doesn't matter what type of movie it is, people talk. By the time I finally reach the gift shop, the indignation I've been counting on just isn't there. Like he's saying, you guys have yoked us with your laws and driven us from our homes, but we know you wish us well. And one of them asked why the Jewish people didn't just pretend that they were German so as not to be killed. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Narrating the Holocaust. Aaron Grumet, the math teacher, says it was all very hush-hush. And the fact that it was him, it was even better, you know? Back then, what did we say? But he probably said it as, Aw, man. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. That's a hell of a way to learn it. Steve Kandell was an editor at Buzzfeed back in 2014 when the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York City. | Narrating the Holocaust book. This is Allen Michaan, the owner of the Grand Lake Theatre. Ms. And Spielberg said, well, maybe I will. And then I ran down this little pathway down the hill, and I saw this marker, one of those historical markers. But it wasn't like-- you have to understand that a lot of the kids didn't really differentiate Jewish people from all white people, so they weren't necessarily saying, oh, all Jews are blah. Where are the subtitles? I stare at the $39 hoodies, and the rescue vests for dogs, and the earrings, and the scarves, and the United We Stand wool blankets waiting for that rush, and can't muster so much as a sigh. And one morning he went for a jog near his hotel-- he was in Tuscaloosa-- and he got to this park. Mixing help today from Stowe Nelson Katherine Rae Mondo and Sharif Youssef. The program to teach Schindler's List to high school students spread across the country. All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. Did he say it under duress? Imagine a '90s era high school picture day. She was 25 years old then. The longtime Vancouver resident, who died Sunday, recalled that pivotal chapter in her life in a 2006 Colu All we did was get kicked out of the theater. Spielberg's directing and cinematography are also often dismissed as 'gimmicky.' To this end, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says it best. It would have been great for him to see what his cuts were doing to this urban community, but that's just my thought. Or they decided the kids needed to nip this controversy in the bud. Nathanial Osborne was a senior when he went on the field trip. But I have now become satisfied that they are not unfriendly toward us, but that they wish us well. They were dressed professionally. Tattered flags, handwritten pleas for help, missing persons flyers, screams. A lot of violence. And then they're like, ah, OK. You know? And I remember seeing a lot of things that high school kids shouldn't be seeing. If you prefer a beeped version of our show, you can find that on our website. Remember.org shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories . Ye. In this literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps, the principal question asked is: How did the survivors find the words to talk about experiences hitherto unknown, even unimaginable? Ernst Reiter Born: April 11, 1915 Graz, Austria Austria Flossenbrg Jehovah's Witnesses Ernst was an only child born to atheist parents in southern Austria during the middle of World War I. For BP: Nancy Milburn and Diana Reiter of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. [about to be shot] School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Faculty Publications. Well, I won't count on your vote. Diana works to help students find and understand the connections between the real world and the academic world. I'm like, oh, yes, I did. House Party 3 was also playing that day. The general or the guy in charge there-- . In the chaotic last months of 2001, my father wrote letters to newspapers asking simply that the press stop calling his daughter a hero. And I have never forgotten this thing. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. I felt bad about it because I said, wow, we're not even good enough to just wait here? He talks about how we're being driven from our homes, and then, in the same breath, goes on to say, this is for the betterment of our people. She's the manager of historic and cultural preservation at the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. Yet, most agree that the difficulties of coping with the misery and its lingering memories were eased if some purpose -- whether in the form of physical or psychological resistance or of hope for a future life, reunited with their loved ones -- could be found. DIANA DUMITRU: I did a study of why some people harmed and others helped Jews during the Holocaust in Romania. It did not sound accurate to me. I don't want to hear anything-- no disrespect, but I don't want to hear anything about anybody else's Holocaust before I hear my own. If you're not familiar with Schindler's List, basically, Oskar Schindler, a real-life German businessman played by Liam Neeson, tricks the Nazis into letting him save 1,200 Jewish people in Poland. There were 500 people in the theater that day watching one of the most upsetting films of the 20th century, and some of them-- the teenagers-- were laughing and carrying on. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). You can't pretend you're white. Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it with a bunch of tourists from Denmark-- annotated divorce papers blown up and mounted, interactive exhibits detailing how your mom's last round of chemo didn't take, souvenir T-shirts emblazoned with your best friend's last words before the car crash. If not--, So she was expressing that to them. Here's Steve Kandell. I've been there a bunch. And I remember I heard somebody says, oh my God, he's not going to shoot her. They were furious. That was so uncomfortable. Yeah. Hi, I'm the student body president at Castlemont High, Kandi Stewart, and I would like to introduce our student speakers for today, which is Tracy Wilson--. We also read Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank and were taken to the Holocaust Museum in DC. This is to Governor Wilson. Well, I was in one of those classes, and what they were talking about was basically how slave ships were owned by Jews. And a lot of the students couldn't even get in because the auditorium was full. Quick warning if you're listening with little kids. And I said, would the class field trip from Castlemont School please assemble in the lobby? Publicly, throughout the entire Schindler's debacle, it seemed like these stackable burdens were resting squarely on the shoulders of the students. I was in the audience with my 13-year-old son and two other friends. And that's when I recall the giggle, shall I say. We're bigger than the earthquake? Another, wearing a regal brown and gold dashiki, a kufi, with a leather-bound neck pouch, walked up and down the front of a classroom, commanding students' attention, pointing to placards listing the names of people who had been lynched in the South. Let me grab a juice. There was a lot of violence in the movie. What was the name of the girl he married in the work camp? She said it was going to cave in. I do not believe our great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. And she doesn't disagree. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. A brief film introduces the exhibition's narrator . It's just drawers and drawers full of stuff. After the TSA-style security check, complete with body scan, there's a dark corridor with word clouds and photographs projected onto tower-like pillars, while disembodied voices tell snippets of stories about the morning-- an overture warning us about the symphony ahead. And I was going like, who spends money to see a film on the Holocaust just to disrupt it? Elina Lwensohn is a Romanian-American actress. Here's what she said to the governor of California. From their perspective, here's what happened. Who Played Me in "Schindler's List"? Prettying up the place, and cutting the hedges, and painting stuff. Yes. Diana Shaw Clark is an author and political advocate living in London. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. And the guy simply pulled out his gun and shot her. The heroes ran into the buildings. And he asked him to put the camera away. And I said, wait a minute. To the management and patrons at the Grand Lake Theatre and anyone else who was offended by our actions, we apologize for any discomfort and pain we may have caused you. Castlemont kids were black, Pacific Islander, and Latino. I said, wait a minute. It was cold. You know? Steve Kandell is a writer and editor in New York. We don't look like anybody else that's standing in line, but no one said anything to us. In a letter to The LA Times, a boardmember of the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue wrote, quote, "I feel angry that anyone old enough to understand the meaning of man's inhumanity to man could act as callous as these kids apparently acted." So we begin with a bunch of students who were taken on a field trip to learn about the past. The exhibition starts with one shining, unfathomably terrible morning and winds up as all of our lives, as banal and constant as laundry, bottomless. This is Tanzania Enskip, also a freshman on the field trip. As we would say nowadays, extra. Prisoners sent to the camp as hostages, or with their files marked "return not desired" or "do not transfer," were killed in Auschwitz. I don't need to be one of them. That's when I remember a lot of students were like, oh! I don't know how to feel about the matter because to do so would require any of this making even a bit of sense. Luca.Heupel@messe-muenchen.de. And I only thought of one thing, and that is, I have a riot situation on my hands. Official Sites Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. I brought my wife one time. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. And what happened on that field trip with this group of black and Latino students became kind of a big deal, talked about all across the country because of what they did not learn. And so recently, Brian decided to look into it. Tracy Wilson was one of the students on the field trip, a freshman. In an email, Steven Spielberg confirmed that one of the reasons he decided to make that film was that student's question. The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. Like, OK, that's a bit much. They talked and horsed around with each other. It's a very good question. And when we were outside in front of the theater waiting on the bus to come back and pick us up, they told us we couldn't wait in front of the theater. My name is Diana Reiter. And Kandi Stewart seemed to be saying, I'll step in front of it. But something snapped while reading about the gift shop. Special thanks today to Keeli Shaw, Sundar Ramun, Kathryn Braund, Scotty Kirkland, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Guy Hubbs, Jason Edward Black, Christopher D. Haveman, Will Dahlberg, Tilia Wilton-Johnson , Otto Grimwood , Brandi Mack, Rose Thornwell, Jerry Wolfe, Mark Rader, Roy Arce, Jay Shilliday, Sam Greenspan, and Lauren Elliott at Amblin Partners. They wanted to teach us about the Holocaust. At 14, Tracy felt the same way. Cicely Day was a senior at Castlemont back in '94. La lista de Schindler (ttulo original: Schindler's List) es una pelcula estadounidense de 1993 del gnero de drama histrico basada en la novela de ficcin histrica El arca de Schindler del escritor australiano Thomas Keneally.Dirigido y coproducido por Steven Spielberg, con guion de Steven Zaillian, el filme relata un perodo de la vida de Oskar Schindler, un empresario de etnia . They waved signs around that spanned from the pointed "How can a Zionist Jew teach us about racism and oppression?" And then, fully aware of his place on the food chain, he handed the mic over to the man of the hour. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. I'm Ira Glass. This piece goes into some detail about 9/11. In 2013, Diana was appointed to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. They bid farewell to parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. And it's like, my emotions, I was like, how do I handle that? It's fine. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. People were disappointed in the students and the faculty. They were going to see a film that covers some history. One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. And a lot of the students and faculty never got in. He said no. 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