I do not believe our great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. 15? It was the first time she felt like someone-- an adult-- was publicly coming to their defense-- wasn't labeling them, didn't accuse them, or condescend towards them, or try to save them. And the fact that it was him, it was even better, you know? But yeah, it was a gentleman. Aaron Grumet was a geometry teacher at Castlemont and had been one of the teachers on the original field trip. Reiter And you should have to see for yourself how little your pain matters to a family of five who just need to get some food before the kids melt down. You know, white people this, or blah. I'm only trying to do my job. Between 1881 and 1914, millions of Jews left Eastern Europe to seek religious freedom or economic advancement. | Reiter's brief concluding chapter discusses why authors have committed themselves to writing Holocaust narratives. Buildings got painted. 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? I was in my office upstairs, and I decided to go downstairs and get a cup of coffee. What was the last name of the Rabbi whom Oskar Schindler saved from being singled out for death? My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. 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. It was like 70/30 split. Yeah. 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. There had been a lot of discussion about what happened a while ago to a persecuted minority who wasn't them. And I remember I heard somebody says, oh my God, he's not going to shoot her. I know he likes it when he says--. You're not going to come back? And instead of it being used as a time of enlightenment, it just breeded more ignorance. New fires are lighting in the West for us, they say, and we will go there. Yeah, and their homelands. And it explains that the Trail of Tears led thousands of Creek Indians through Tuscaloosa, back when it was the capital of Alabama, on their way to the West as they were being driven from that part of the country. B.A. Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. They walked into the theater. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Almost everybody we talked to made a point of mentioning it. And I have never forgotten this thing. The teacher had made arrangements ahead of time, but no one remembered him calling. Many survivors turned to writing about their experiences.Beyond a mere . 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. It's just when you're seeing it and you're looking at it, it's like, how do you cope with it? BA Parker has worked on our show, and she also incidentally used to be a film professor, and she tells what happened. But it felt like the greater powers that be, or the certain elements, they wanted the kids to apologize for their feeling and their thinking, that they should apologize and own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of Jewish people, and that they're sorry for that and they'll never do it again. Act Two, Exit Through the Gift Shop. Then one of the kids said that out loud. Release Calendar Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. 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. The county in which Oakland sits voted overwhelmingly against Pete Wilson in the 1990 election. 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. Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. Yeah. 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. It's dumb, sure, but what could possibly be less dumb? 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. Finally, the kids and the teachers could get back to their studies, final exams, preparing for graduation. Trending. We have all that. Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. Did this even happen? It went on, "People attending the film were shocked and angry by what they felt was insensitivity to the Holocaust." established by Spielberg to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. And she lives in Oklahoma. She bounces abruptly, up and down again, into the snow. The article read, "To the horror of many in the audience during Monday's matinee, some of the African-American and Latino teenagers seemed to laugh and applaud at scenes depicting Nazi atrocities." Two days after that, Tanzania remembers she was walking to school. And I found it very moving. 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. Quote, "I come here, brothers, to see the great house of Alabama and the men who make the laws and to say farewell in brotherly kindness before I go to the far West where my people are now going. I remember I walked past one gentleman. Spielberg's directing and cinematography are also often dismissed as 'gimmicky.' [2012]. Those who stayed in the theater were shushed several times by the other patrons and also an usher and a chaperone. I'm only trying to do my job! Within Castlemont, what happened on the field trip just became known as "the incident." Yeah, they've seen a lot of violence, but when you see it, it's not a laughing matter. But after hearing it, though, you look it up in a dictionary, and you figure out what it is. Allen, the theater owner, didn't know when he stopped the movie that the Castlemont students were kids of color, mostly black. Amon Goeth It can be of use. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. What does that mean? Countless personal artifacts artfully destroyed. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. A brief film introduces the exhibition's narrator . I'm Ira Glass. Life and career [ edit] Lwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. And I just wondered if there was something slightly arch about that. : No one bats an eye. And it's all so numbing that maybe this is the whole point. This story begins with a random encounter with history. In the News. After the newspaper articles, a barrage of angry phone calls flooded into Castlemont High School, many of them from the local Jewish community. First, we need to learn about our own Holocaust, and then maybe we can understand your Holocaust. Exactly. He said it really loud, I believe. And people will find moments of grace or enlightenment or even peace coming here. The manager told him. And like you said, the one student was like, oh wow, that was cold. Angry. I think now of every war memorial I ever yawned through on a class trip, how someone else's past horror was my vacant diversion. And I remember thinking, wow, this is just nuts, you know? By Melody Amsel-Arieli. He tells me my family is welcome whenever the museum is open and leads me to a cramped, dark space but does not follow. Diana Shaw Clark is an author and political advocate living in London. Some of her notable roles are Diana Reiter in Schindler's List (1993), Katya in the 1994 Seinfeld episode "The Gymnast", Iris in Six Ways to Sunday (1997), and Anne Levels in The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). Her body was very involved. That's a hell of a way to learn it. It's just hard to accept the fact that he says, we know you mean us no harm. And I remember seeing a lot of things that high school kids shouldn't be seeing. Our senior producer, Brian Reed, was spending a lot of time in Alabama a few years back doing reporting. What I will say is, I remember just kids just being frustrated, and saying things, and not really having a clear understanding of what they're saying. 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. We're bigger than the earthquake? Who played me? Raised in Austria's second largest city, he loved the outdoors, especially skiing in the Alps. 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 heroes ran into the buildings. There are three recording booths for people to tell their own stories of the day or remembrances of loved ones who were lost. Where the ruins of the old state capitol are. I find my sister as she has been for 12 and 1/2 years and will be forever-- enshrined alphabetically before Howard Lee Kane. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. No, they were just saying white people. And he opened things up to the floor. Auschwitz was also a place of execution. Polski: Kamienica, 1938 proj. One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. 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. We are not going to have arguments with these people. And then, fully aware of his place on the food chain, he handed the mic over to the man of the hour. Who Played Me in "Schindler's List"? And we didn't want to be there, so probably heard some [CLICKS TONGUE] aw, man, teeth-sucking, attitude. Anisa Rasheed felt the same way as her students. Jawohl? Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film also marks the first time that the director has authorized a book on the film, and the first time . It's a very good question. I mean, I want to know was your main purpose in portraying yourself through the streets of my city where you have cut welfare, education, and many young futures, like mine--. And the annoyance is tempered by the realization that non-participation in the pageantry has its drawbacks. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. But Tanzania basically said that doesn't make any sense. I mean, to be quite honest, you have the governor there, Mr. Pete Wilson, who was also "Mr Budget-Cut Governor." We were probably-- no, I wouldn't say probably-- we were definitely unruly. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. The whole story was told as a morality tale about black teens and what was wrong with them. Yeah. Many object to the perspective from which the story was told. That morning, most of them crowded onto a single bus and headed to the Grand Lake Theatre, this beautiful classic movie house in town. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. 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. 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 . Allen asked the manager what was going on. And Spielberg did something no one else in the auditorium thought to do, something that students, counter-intuitively, had been yearning for the whole time-- you talk to them like they were kids. I mean, yeah. He gave this speech. 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. I felt embarrassed. And even after trying to research it, what we're left with is our own personal reactions and feelings. : It did not sound accurate to me. This is to Governor Wilson. 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. I brought my wife one time. That was so uncomfortable. Reiter Yes, I did. Or, man, that was crazy. And I remember somebody-- I think one of the teachers was recording it. They were also going to go ice skating, which a lot of them were especially looking forward to. Our senior producer is Brian Reed. And it kind of ricocheted around from person to person, piercing into each one this bullet of information from the past. There was a lot of violence in the movie. So I went into the projection room and I told projectionist, I said, stop the film. We leave behind our goodwill to the people of Alabama who build the great houses and to the men who make the laws. I mean, it felt great. It wasn't at the fact that she got shot. They hate our freedom to buy what we want. 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 . Steve Kandell was an editor at Buzzfeed back in 2014 when the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York City. Oskar Schindler told me he knew I was a bookkeeper for a company in Lipowa Street. Amon Goeth Just a handful of kids were allowed to ask questions, and the questions were vetted and approved by the adults. The Riemers lived in an apartment building that housed offices of the Communist Party of Germany. 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 Oskar that the list he was looking at was accurate but Oskar wanted to know my name. Let's go-- stand up, ladies and gentlemen. The main attraction is through a revolving door, a minute-by-minute recreation of the morning and its aftermath, from video of Matt Lauer's first distracted, furrowed brow at the end of an interview with some author on The Today Show, and on and on. 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. Here's Steve Kandell. She's just trying to try to let them know that they're doing something incorrectly. They talked and horsed around with each other. Oh, my God! Tanzania didn't even know back then what anti-Semitic meant. They were going to see a film that covers some history. 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 . Act One, The Miseducation of Castlemont High. Where is the right place to store pounds of unidentifiable human tissue so that future generations can pay their respects? Oh, OK. And you guys are here to watch a movie? Is this a foreign film? In the early 1930s Ernst became a Jehovah's Witness. Maafa is another word for the African Holocaust. For BP: Nancy Milburn and Diana Reiter of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. "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 . One guest teacher explained that racism has 54 components to it. How did it feel to hear that from an adult? When Spielberg tells you to do something, you do it. This is all I have to say.". 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. 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. 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. Now he teaches special education. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers. Tracy Wilson was one of the students on the field trip, a freshman. I don't need to be one of them. You cannot sit here and fill me with your knowledge until I have my own. Did you know that some of your white teachers happened to be Jewish or anything? I don't know. This chamber is meant to be a sanctuary, but all there is to see here are armoires packed with carefully-label bags of flesh too ruined and desiccated even for science. And the teacher respectfully put it away. Tanzania was there. Who played me? They were dressed professionally. Remember the Children: Daniel's Story is the Museum's primary exhibition program for young people and their families. And I absolutely, when I heard about this incident--. These plans were already in the works before the field trip happened, but where better to make the announcement than Castlemont High School? Ye. At 14, Tracy felt the same way. So she was expressing that to them. We also read Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank and were taken to the Holocaust Museum in DC. I will see all his movies. That can harden you really quick. By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. It also occurs to me that I am the only person here alone. You would see some people get up that were not students and head out the theater. From their perspective, here's what happened. The last lines . 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. And according to the kids, those patrons noticed them back. If you find There is no way out until the end. Hela was raised in Dukla, a Polish village near the Czech border. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. That was an appropriate reaction. That was cold.". Back next week with more stories of This American Life. Days beforehand, a bunch of workers came to campus to carry out this whole beautification campaign. A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. His sister, Shari, had died in the Twin Towers. It's starting to come back to me now, everything. And that was horrible and heartbreaking and difficult enough without the extra weight. So we begin with a bunch of students who were taken on a field trip to learn about the past. And she doesn't disagree. And in both of these stories, what they learn is so different from the lessons that they are supposed to get from the past. We understood this and respected it. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. Are you coming back? Ernst Reiter. I told Amon Goeth that I was a graduate of the University of Milan. I felt bad about it because I said, wow, we're not even good enough to just wait here? She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). 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