A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. So that same week as the field trip, by the end of the week, they organized a press conference, and the students were strongly encouraged to speak. Our managing editor is Susan Burton. : That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. Documentaries speak to the desire to 'never forget'; what other goal, according to some of its supporters, does 'Schindler's List' speak to? Bjrn Lanna. So, both of these territories were under Romanian administration during 1941-1944. I felt embarrassed. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. We're bigger than the earthquake? I went down into the lobby, and there were several dozen very angry, agitated people that were screaming at the manager-- what are you going to do about this? The Austrian woman is credited with helping rescue 7,500 mostly Serbian children from wartime Croatia's death camps. They were also going to go ice skating, which a lot of them were especially looking forward to. Let's go-- stand up, ladies and gentlemen. One of the kids asked Spielberg, have you ever made a movie about the Black Holocaust, about slavery? You know, I made him a martini. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. I find the ticket booth, exhale deeply, and say the magic words. I'm about to get ready to go to class. This needed to be fixed. He said that he understood what happened, and that he didn't blame us, and that we were just kids, and that we weren't anti-Semitic, and that the situation just in and of itself was just really, really bad. 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. I'm Ira Glass. Wilson said that welfare, quote, "seduces teenage girls into a life of poverty and encourages irresponsibility." I brought my wife one time. Here's Steve Kandell. Let's talk about the Black Holocaust. From their perspective, here's what happened. Kandi got in trouble for this-- was reprimanded by the principal, vilified in letters to the editor, just like the kids had been before. I know he likes it when he says--. It was chaotic. Who played me? She's the manager of historic and cultural preservation at the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. And the annoyance is tempered by the realization that non-participation in the pageantry has its drawbacks. Hallways dedicated to tracing the hijackers' timeline, al-Qaeda's rise, and a video wall with people like Hillary Clinton laying out the justification for the unending war on terror, tying grief cannily to political ideology in a way that might seem crass if I were able to process it all with a clear head. Oh! Spielberg's directing and cinematography are also often dismissed as 'gimmicky.' Gentiles' willingness to assist Jews was greater in lands that had been under Soviet. Instead of sitting up here on the stage like a performer, I'd like to be right down there in the center, among all of you. You're not going to come back? And at some point, the timer is up. So but the people who are Creek, what did they make of it? She's the English and History teacher, and she organized a day-long black history teach-in, or African Holocaust Day. And well, were you raised racist? She's Jamaican-Indian. By the time I finally reach the gift shop, the indignation I've been counting on just isn't there. Her discussion of the need to witness and the effects of trauma do not add much to what we already know. Many other Jews who couldn't survive in Nazi Germany also appear in the film, such as the architect Diana Reiter. They didn't go skating. Act One, The Miseducation of Castlemont High. They were applauding. Yes. If you find 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 Remember.org - The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivors' History. What movie are you all watching? And then the senior class president, Kandi Stewart, went off script. In the years 19301931 she was a technical officer, gave opinions on the designs of newly built buildings in Krynica and dealt with appeals against decisions of the Krakw construction authorities. They were tired of talking about how ignorant they were. 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. The world's attention validated the size of their grief. 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--. Filming & Production When Diana Reiter was born about 1920, in Poland, her father, Mr. Reiter, was 20 and her mother, Mrs. Reiter, was 20. Who played me? They learned they could push back. And they would just look at me like, oh no, she didn't. Diana Popescu is a cultural historian with expertise in representation and memorialisation of the Holocaust in areas of public memorial art, museum studies and contemporary visual arts. It did not sound accurate to me. Reiter And I thought, are these Nazi sympathizers? All we did was get kicked out of the theater. : As Vice Chair for Social . Yeah. 57 people died. This story begins with a random encounter with history. I let out a loud, sharp laugh. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. Movies. Some went out to get drinks and popcorn. 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. This is Tracy. Yeah. And I have never forgotten this thing. Oh, you're not going to come back? Book Depository is the world's most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. They eventually did learn something about this one event in Jewish history. BERLIN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A 96-year-old German woman who was caught shortly after going on the run ahead of a court hearing last month on charges of committing war crimes during World War Two. S.S. Guard Halls B1, C1, Entrance West +49 89 949-21121 +49 89 949-21129. And he asked him to put the camera away. Or they decided the kids needed to nip this controversy in the bud. Dusty, ownerless Topsiders encased in glass. If you prefer a beeped version of our show, you can find that on our website. Defenders of 'Schindler's List' often point to the twofold goals of Holocaust commemoration. Did it bum you out when you heard about this speech? One of the four students who apologized on camera received death threats in the mail. I didn't want to duck and hide, I wanted to run straight into the absurdity and horror and feel every bit of the righteous indignation and come out the other side raw. In the years 19281931 she worked in the Directorate of Public Works of the Provincial Office in Krakw[2] with two other architects, Zdzisaw Kowalski and Adam Moscheni. And if you're a person of different color, it's very difficult for you to pretend you're another culture. Bio. 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. Recommended: Ages 8 and up. But I have now become satisfied that they're not unfriendly toward us, that they wish us well.". From August 1940, she worked in the design office of Kazimierz Kulczyski and she lived with her mother at Krlewska, until the creation of the ghetto in March 1941. Because you sure figured out how to come today. 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. The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. She has earned a PhD from the University of Southampton (2013), having been supervised by Prof. Andrea Reiter and Prof. Joachim Schloer. They were African-American and Latino teenagers applauding at Nazi atrocities. 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. Few Holocaust survivors attach any meaning to camp life itself. And then, of course, the trimming of the hedges and the painting, which I found to be very funny. The fact that everyone else here today has VIP status grimly similar to mine is the lone saving grace. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. : I'm Ira Glass. Castlemont kids were black, Pacific Islander, and Latino. Well, I remember I was seeing a movie that was in black and white. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). And that's when I recall the giggle, shall I say. Diana Reiter aims to provide great service and uses RealSatisfied to gather performance feedback and ratings as a 3rd party from customers to measure and manage performance. Edited by Michael Declan Dunn, 25 Apr. A wing for Pennsylvania and the Pentagon, tape loops of survivors telling how they got out, smoke and fire and ash and twisted metal and the husk of an ambulance. Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. And one morning he went for a jog near his hotel-- he was in Tuscaloosa-- and he got to this park. We declined participation in most of the ceremonies and pageantry in favor of figuring out for ourselves our family's new geometry, just like any family that has suffered a loss. And to me, that laid an impression upon me. | She emigrated to the US after the death of Elina's father. He was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. The movie and the book owe their names to the list of over a thousand Jews who worked in the title character's factory to rescue them from destruction by the Nazis . 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. Hall C3, C4, North Entrance +49 89 949 21124. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. They waved signs around that spanned from the pointed "How can a Zionist Jew teach us about racism and oppression?" Currently, Dr. Dumitru is working on two projects. She's Latino. The biographic novel begins with a short introductory chapter that sets the tone for the book in two manners, how people were in awe of Stella . We don't look like anybody else that's standing in line, but no one said anything to us. All of the sudden, it was like, oh, are you Jewish? 17-year-old Nathaniel, who you heard earlier, was in a crisp white shirt and black necktie. Diana works to help students find and understand the connections between the real world and the academic world. Hujar That can harden you really quick. Governor Wilson and his policies seemed like a direct threat to things that really mattered to her. Just saying it out of anger because they've heard somebody say it or read it somewhere. This happened back in 1994. Who played me? So it was a very, very poignant question on these 14-year-old kids. Diana Reiter Fundraising and Development Director Kansas City, Missouri, United States 491 followers 492 connections Join to view profile Mid-Continent Public Library University of. Castlemont. This often includes analyzing stories from the news or the worlds of celebrities and pop culture to recognize the threads relevant to what they are learning in their classes. It's just hard to accept the fact that he says, we know you mean us no harm. Luca.Heupel@messe-muenchen.de. It gave us-- it gave me relief. Days beforehand, a bunch of workers came to campus to carry out this whole beautification campaign. Luca Heupel. Some kids in the theater laughing while blood poured out of the woman's head. We understood this and respected it. You can see that happening in one of my favorite moments from that assembly with the governor and Spielberg. By Diana Fersko New York Daily News Jan 09, 2021 at 5:00 am The photographs have been seen by millions: Among the rioters who stormed the Capitol building, one intruder wore a "Camp Auschwitz". Release Calendar Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Narrating the Holocaust book. 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. And, did your family own slaves? One Jewish Castlemont teacher told The LA Times, "They're not Afro-American kids laughing at Jewish horror, they're the inner-city hip-hop generation desensitized to violence because they see it every day." Answer: all the main characters survive the Holocaust . And the way they were building it was incorrect. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Why get mad at a commemorative T-shirt now? That's when I remember a lot of students were like, oh! Photos and Memories (0) Do you know Diana? And I would just be like, hi, how are you? Two days after that, Tanzania remembers she was walking to school. And then I ran down this little pathway down the hill, and I saw this marker, one of those historical markers. 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 . He told me to go back to Africa. We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. In these lands of Alabama, which have belonged to my forefathers and where their bones lie buried, I see that the Indian fires are going out. But now that I'm an adult, I could see why people were clapping. Trending. The Characters In 'Schindler's List'. Was this chief standing there in front of the Alabama state legislature, which was partially responsible for kicking his people out, and kind of mocking them slightly or being slightly sarcastic in this speech? The Jewish woman in the scene he's talking about was the foreman on a construction project. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. Diana Reiter, Piasek, Krakw. And I said, wait a minute. There were performances from the students, including a monologue that started off, "Dear Mr. President, I am a woman with three children and no food to eat." But in this speech, to me, it seems like Yoholo Micco is not only shaking their hand, but he's giving them a hug or even a kiss goodbye. Or--, What one of the Castlemont kids-- we don't know who-- actually said-- the five words that would come to define this incident-- "Oh, man. I was just like, wait a minute. And did you know the Archean is div In the days and years after, this was less of a mantra than our only way forward, to find a way to separate what happened from what happened to us. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. But in the movie Blacks and Jews, one of the students talked about one particular aspect of the history of slavery that stuck with her. The heroes ran into the buildings. Why are documentaries like 'Shoah' and 'Night and Fog' considered acceptable by this rule, while 'Schindler's List' is not? And it's artsy in the beginning, almost impenetrable. I mean, to us, we were probably like, oh God, black and white. Tracy and the other students took on all the blame. This is America. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. And Kandi Stewart seemed to be saying, I'll step in front of it. We also read Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank and were taken to the Holocaust Museum in DC. What about the Trail of Tears, or slavery, or colonialism? 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. Steve Kandell was an editor at Buzzfeed back in 2014 when the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York City. That's what I want to say had some Jewish ties. Tracy Wilson wore a dark navy dress with puffy shoulders and brass buttons, looking like someone much older than she was. [on acting] It's really simply the script, and wishing to plunge myself in the unique universe of an auteur, if that universe exists. Yeah, they've seen a lot of violence, but when you see it, it's not a laughing matter. 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. This is called the reflection room. But to be fair, they hadn't witnessed the full spectrum of the pain and suffering of the Jewish people yet. One of the protesters was a little more specific. You've got to do something about this. No, I take that back. And she told me, as they were researching, they were hoping to find evidence that this wasn't exactly right, that maybe the interpreter had messed up or something else was wrong about this speech. They misbehaved on a field trip, and they said they were sorry. And now they were getting death threats for not being sorry in the right way. It was cold. And I stopped by a store that was close by the school, and I looked down at the newspapers. Nathanial Osborne was a senior when he went on the field trip. Her body was very involved. Just a handful of kids were allowed to ask questions, and the questions were vetted and approved by the adults. They hate our freedom to buy what we want. The prospect of experiencing this stroll down Waking Nightmare Lane with tuned-out schoolkids or spectacle-seekers would be too much. And then they're like, ah, OK. You know? Yes, I did. This recording is from the Blacks and Jews documentary, which has a long section on Castlemont. The high school administration decided it needed to nip this controversy in the bud. The teachers seemed to come to an agreement that it was the kids' incident, and therefore, the kids were the ones that needed to step out in front of it. This is the Maafa. In a matter of, what are you doing here? It's This American Life. In any Balkan country the names . As well as providing a reminder of "history's darkest days", Prince Charles said the portraits would show "humanity's interconnectedness, as we strive to create a better world for our children . 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