So anyway, so she ended up getting her whole team involved at the cultural preservation office, and they started looking through their archives. It will take more than that. After the newspaper articles, a barrage of angry phone calls flooded into Castlemont High School, many of them from the local Jewish community. And maybe I learned something, but I didn't feel anything. It just seemed to go a little bit too far. And I remember he started talking, asking them questions. Becaust I remember I was walking back up, and he was on my left. Oh God, we have to sit through this to go skating? Europe),chose to exterminate Jews. Who Played Me in "Schindler's List"? Recommended: Ages 8 and up. Like, it stayed with me. All of the sudden, it was like, oh, are you Jewish? Thanks, as always, to our program's cofounder, Mr. Torey Malatia. Book Depository is the world's most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. I see your visit to Oakland, a city plagued with poverty, from different views. Murdering someone for no reason is cold. That morning, most of them crowded onto a single bus and headed to the Grand Lake Theatre, this beautiful classic movie house in town. This is Allen Michaan, the owner of the Grand Lake Theatre. Defenders of 'Schindler's List' often point to the twofold goals of Holocaust commemoration. They wanted to learn about that. He told me to go back to Africa. Others had never learned the first thing about it. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. | 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--. Ernst Reiter. The world's attention validated the size of their grief. In an email, Steven Spielberg confirmed that one of the reasons he decided to make that film was that student's question. Angry. We leave behind our goodwill to the people of Alabama who build the great houses and to the men who make the laws. Give the truth to the youth. Ah, an educated Jew like Karl Marx himself. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Kandi got in trouble for this-- was reprimanded by the principal, vilified in letters to the editor, just like the kids had been before. And if it takes an apology so we can get this to blow over, so be it. No, they were just saying white people. And like you said, the one student was like, oh wow, that was cold. He found the primary source for us knowing about it-- the only source-- a newspaper article in The Huntsville Democrat in 1835. And then they're like, ah, OK. You know? January 27, 1945 is the. But that didn't seem to calm the storm. I said, he's not going to shoot this woman. These notations meant that the prisoners should be killed after a certain time in the camp. I see it as a failing governor's publicity stunt that enables him to portray--, wait a minute-- that enables him to portray himself as a caring politician, embracing the poor, and smothering them with empty promises, coincidentally close to election time. A lot of kids were like, oh, my God. And according to the kids, those patrons noticed them back. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. The county in which Oakland sits voted overwhelmingly against Pete Wilson in the 1990 election. We were offensive in some of our actions. She has authored over forty articles and two books. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. I think it's safe to assume this particular fact stood out to this girl because Jews were suddenly a trending topic at her school. Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. Nathanial Osborne was a senior when he went on the field trip. Did this even happen? They didn't go skating. I was like, how are we bigger than the earthquake? And I found it very moving. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. They were tired of talking about how ignorant they were. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. I get that. You can't pretend you're white. It was her overdramatizing being shot. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. Reiter 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. FunTrivia is a collaborative community effort, where we are constantly updating questions to keep them accurate. You know, I made him a martini. On 5 August, a ceremony was held at Yad Vashem in recognition of the Zborowski family's continued support of the Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Schindler's List (1993) Elina Lwensohn as Diana Reiter. Two years later, their only child, Edith, was born. Other families feel the opposite. I was just like, wait a minute. They were applauding. Those who stayed in the theater were shushed several times by the other patrons and also an usher and a chaperone. But now that I'm an adult, I could see why people were clapping. They walked into the theater. And one of them asked why the Jewish people didn't just pretend that they were German so as not to be killed. And to me, that laid an impression upon me. 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. Our program was produced today by Nadia Reiman and Chana Joffe-Walt. Then one of the kids said that out loud. That's all I could say. Amon Goeth was an SS guard in charge of Plaszow. Countless personal artifacts artfully destroyed. It's a very good question. I was bummed to read the speech mainly because I felt that it misrepresented the way that I felt and the way I know my family feels about removal or about assimilation. In time gone by, I have thought that the white men wanted to bring burden and ache of heart among my people in driving them from their homes and yoking them with laws they do not understand. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Many years ago, I began my professional career as a litigation attorney. Diana received her bachelor's degree in Letters and Arts from Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania, and a master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Administration from Pace University, where she graduated with honors and was recognized with the Outstanding Student of the Year Award: For Excellence in the Give the truth to the youth. But something snapped while reading about the gift shop. Oh, my God! The high school administration decided it needed to nip this controversy in the bud. There is no way out until the end. By the time I'd gotten over to the auditorium, it was overflowing. 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. 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 fin Diana Budisavljevic's passport photo from 1945. [about to be shot] And every time I went back to Tuscaloosa, which was a number of times, I would go, at some point during the trip, walk over and read it again. In 2013, Diana was appointed to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. And he opened things up to the floor. Where the ruins of the old state capitol are. I don't know. He was like, Aw, man. And with the movie being what it was, it makes sense to me now, most definitely. Diana Reiter, Piasek, Krakw. And I was going like, who spends money to see a film on the Holocaust just to disrupt it? to the quiz link under the stated answer and then click "Report error" at the bottom of that page. Jawohl? | And she lives in Oklahoma. So she was expressing that to them. : I'm only trying to do my job. This is from a local call-in show, Flashpoints, that was featured in a documentary called Blacks and Jews from the mid-90s. And some entities felt that the kids didn't apologize for what they felt they should be apologizing for. We are not going to have arguments with these people. What did they feel they should be apologizing for? I felt bad about it because I said, wow, we're not even good enough to just wait here? Currently, Dr. Dumitru is working on two projects. Castlemont kids were black, Pacific Islander, and Latino. And that was horrible and heartbreaking and difficult enough without the extra weight. Coming up, a memorial you didn't want to visit dedicated to an event you wish never happened-- what you can learn from that. A lot of violence. Who played me? I want to say Mr. Finkelstein. There was a lot of violence in the movie. Ladies and gentlemen, the students of Castlemont High School, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you a man who is helping and who has accomplished great things for film, for education, and for tolerance-- Mr. Steven Spielberg. See Diana E Reiter's compensation, career history, education, & memberships. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] (November 6, 1902 - 1943) was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. My sister is among the many for whom there have been no remains recovered whatsoever-- vaporized. Aaron Grumet, the math teacher, says it was all very hush-hush. Laura Abrams was the school social worker at Castlemont at the time. DIANA DUMITRU: I did a study of why some people harmed and others helped Jews during the Holocaust in Romania. The Life Summary of Diana. And for him to acknowledge what happened but not place that type of blame on us was great. Gentiles' willingness to assist Jews was greater in lands that had been under Soviet. I couldn't understand who these people were. I mean, to us, we were probably like, oh God, black and white. 15? She bounces abruptly, up and down again, into the snow. Who played me? And, did your family own slaves? Remember.org shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories . When Diana Reiter was born about 1920, in Poland, her father, Mr. Reiter, was 20 and her mother, Mrs. Reiter, was 20. : Also, here in the podcast, there are a couple curse words we have an un-beeped. In the News. Ye. For a film about a concentration camp, Schindler's List has a fair amount of sex and titillating nudity in it, which, again, weird thing to show a bunch of high school kids on a field trip. I'm about to get ready to go to class. And since we don't actually know a lot about this speech-- we don't know for sure which chief it was, we don't know why he said it, the only account of it comes from this one newspaper reporter and leaves crucial questions unanswered-- in the end, it's unclear what to think. Did he say it under duress? And what I remember was that all the politicians and dignitaries were there and got their seats in the front. 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. Long shots with nobody talking, and you don't know what's going on. They were building a concentration camp. So I went into the projection room and I told projectionist, I said, stop the film. It was cold. Who played me? He and the governor of California at the time, Pete Wilson, had been working on a way to incorporate Schindler's List in a larger curriculum for high schoolers about the Holocaust and slavery. Yeah. One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. That was cold.". Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. The general or the guy in charge there--. It was chaotic. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Which is why the corner of Greenwich and Liberty on this bright Sunday afternoon, surrounded by a riot of mid-spring tourists with winkled maps and exposed knees, taking photos of cranes, is the very last place I should be. Who played me? I told Oskar that some of the Nazi officers did not care about the production done at his factory. It's just when you're seeing it and you're looking at it, it's like, how do you cope with it? I was also a black teenager who went to the movies with her friends, and there was always a feeling of being policed or policing yourself if you're young, brown, and carefree in a white space. Deniers of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of around 6 million Jewish people in World War II, either deny that such a genocide took place or minimize its extent. Always extra ice. So there's no grave to visit. No. I can feel the sweat that went into making this not seem tacky, of wanting to show respect, but also wanting to show every last bit of carnage and visceral whomp to justify the $24 price of admission. Many Castlemont kids were low income. The kids were trying to apologize for their behavior, for the way that they behaved. You've got to do something about this. For one thing, a lot more media picked up the story-- CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times-- but the anger and reprimands just kept coming over the next few days and weeks. Oskar Schindler told me he knew I was a bookkeeper for a company in Lipowa Street. BA Parker has worked on our show, and she also incidentally used to be a film professor, and she tells what happened. A holocaust survivor said the teenage Prince Harry saw her as "another boring lady," but "William is a different character altogether." Fri, Feb 24, 2023 LOGIN Subscribe for $1 Diana Reiter Ewa Kolasinska Irrational Woman Bettina Kupfer Regina Perlman Grzegorz Kwas . Our senior producer, Brian Reed, was spending a lot of time in Alabama a few years back doing reporting. If not--Nathaniel Osborne. But I also see-- wait a minute-- but I also see the entire political fiasco as an opportunity to vent the anger, and the spite, and the animosity I feel toward your entire time in office. I've been there a bunch. Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. And they're like, oh, we're great. I was in the audience with my 13-year-old son and two other friends. I remember one scene. I brought my wife one time. They learned they could push back. Yeah. Auschwitz was also a place of execution. Prettying up the place, and cutting the hedges, and painting stuff. This is outrageous. The Jewish woman in the scene he's talking about was the foreman on a construction project. 7 Holocaust Records Resources for Genealogists. The heroes ran into the buildings. Tanzania didn't even know back then what anti-Semitic meant. Now he teaches special education. A few months went by, and then some surprising news arrived at Castlemont. I would have been like, what is that? And I just wondered if there was something slightly arch about that. Others even snuck into other movies. Not only were there all these government officials hanging around, and security, and the national press, but hundreds of protesters marched up and down the street outside the school, many of them from the Nation of Islam. Find reviews, educational history and legal experience. Wilson said that welfare, quote, "seduces teenage girls into a life of poverty and encourages irresponsibility." And during that time, a Creek chief addressed the legislature on their way out of the state with these words. Lwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. And it's like, my emotions, I was like, how do I handle that? We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. On September 21, the day that would have been my sister's 28th birthday, my father gave a eulogy to this effect at her memorial. This time, it was unannounced-- no media. Born: April 11, 1915 Graz, Austria Austria . It's dumb, sure, but what could possibly be less dumb? In 19321934 she worked in the office of Kazimierz Kulczyski, making architectural drawings.[3]. I let out a loud, sharp laugh. The general or the guy in charge there-- . If not--, So she was expressing that to them. There had been a lot of discussion about what happened a while ago to a persecuted minority who wasn't them. And I was thinking the same thing in my head. Elina Lwensohn is a Romanian-American actress. She said it was going to cave in. Beyond being a mere analysis of discourse, Narrating the Holocaust reflects the situations in camp that triggered these responses, and shows how the professional . "Narrating the Holocaust thus offers considerable insight into texts that are not well known, particularly to English readers." - Adrienne Kertzer, The European Legacy (Adrienne Kertzer, The European Legacy) "In Narrating the Holocaust, Andrea Reiter breaks ground in two ways.First, she focuses on a wide range of testimonies written by survivors, most of which have not been available to a . I mean, first of all, super sad. She started her film career in 1991 with Theory of Achievement. I was very confused when I read the speech because--. Can you come back and make sure that gets done? 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. And he showed us documents from where he had gotten out of Washington DC that stated that. Diana Shaw Clark is an author and political advocate living in London. You would see some people get up that were not students and head out the theater. Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. Anisa Rasheed felt the same way as her students. Oh, you're not going to come back? And we just chose another, quieter way-- at least until my father got sick and couldn't stop blurting it out over and over to strangers in parking lots. House Party 3 was also playing that day. Diana Reiter is on Facebook. Within Castlemont, what happened on the field trip just became known as "the incident." Let's get the kids to apologize. Or they decided the kids needed to nip this controversy in the bud. He gave this speech. Now they were fed up and defensive. Maafa is another word for the African Holocaust. As directed by Hitler's Nazi party, the Holocaust, also known as the Shoah in Hebrew, is a term to describe the genocide of Jews and other minorities during World War II. Shoot her. This was all students wanted to talk about and asked me a lot of questions about. After the death of her father, a Holocaust survivor, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike to get a visa for her. I enter, sit down, and stare at the screen and say Shari's name and how I was 3,000 miles away that morning and didn't even know she was working there until I got the call at 6:00 AM, and that I wish I had seen her more in those last years and remembered more about her and had something better prepared to say, and that I wished my kids would have known her, and that she'd think it's pretty fucking weird that I'm here talking about her to an invisible camera in the bowels of a museum dedicated to the fact that she was killed by an airplane while sitting at her desk. Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. Stella, by Peter Wyden is an eloquent yet straightforward documentation about the life of Stella Goldschlag, who was responsible for turning over countless Jews to the Gestapo and their ultimate death. I mean, to be quite honest, you have the governor there, Mr. Pete Wilson, who was also "Mr Budget-Cut Governor." And even though there was no school, the teacher was known for his great field trips, so 70 kids showed up. We are sorry for the disruption. To this end, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says it best. And a lot of the students couldn't even get in because the auditorium was full. You know? What was the name of the girl he married in the work camp? Amon Goeth I was like, wait a minute. Steve Kandell is a writer and editor in New York. People were disappointed in the students and the faculty. An impressive and well-informed monograph with a sophisticated theoretical . Luca.Heupel@messe-muenchen.de. And everybody was talking about it-- in class, outside of class. Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. Narrating the Holocaust - Ebook written by Andrea Reiter, Patrick Camiller. School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Faculty Publications. You know, we have empathy. 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