A man exits one of the confessionals, sees me, shakes his head and says, "Amazing idea." 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. How did it feel to hear that from an adult? And then, fully aware of his place on the food chain, he handed the mic over to the man of the hour. They're both stories that's in a setting designed to actually teach them a little bit of history. BA Parker has worked on our show, and she also incidentally used to be a film professor, and she tells what happened. Another reader wrote, "There is no excuse for what those kids did-- not lack of education, not lack of being prepared, nothing." 42. Mixing help today from Stowe Nelson Katherine Rae Mondo and Sharif Youssef. For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and . I mean, yeah. Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. 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. The world's attention validated the size of their grief. I found my "career home" in real estate. Book Depository is the world's most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. We're kids, and you're adults. Yeah. Yeah, and their homelands. Diana.Reiter@messe-muenchen.de. They were in the newspaper on the front page at the very top. Give the truth to the youth. This story begins with a random encounter with history. Landscaping got done. There'd be free screenings of the film and a study guide. I saw Schindler's List twice in school by my 15th birthday. Recommended: Ages 8 and up. Photos and Memories (0) Do you know Diana? Halls B1, C1, Entrance West +49 89 949-21121 +49 89 949-21129. And the guy simply pulled out his gun and shot her. Let's talk about the Black Holocaust. . What does that mean? Others even snuck into other movies. And if it takes an apology so we can get this to blow over, so be it. What movie are you all watching? Yeah. This is outrageous. To this end, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says it best. But now that I'm an adult, I could see why people were clapping. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. 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. As soon as they got there, they noticed that almost all of the other patrons were white. When one of the moviegoers told them to be quiet, they reportedly bombarded him with popcorn. Other families feel the opposite. Reiter Buildings got painted. They misbehaved on a field trip, and they said they were sorry. Who played me? They were also going to go ice skating, which a lot of them were especially looking forward to. No, they were just saying white people. They learned other things, too. Governor Wilson and his policies seemed like a direct threat to things that really mattered to her. And Spielberg said, well, maybe I will. And the way they chose to respond was to say that these kids, who'd grown up in the rough, open flatlands, had seen so much violence-- seen people shot, had guns pulled on them-- that they were desensitized to it. It was like 70/30 split. This is the Maafa. His sister, Shari, had died in the Twin Towers. 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. 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. established by Spielberg to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Exactly. Many other Jews who couldn't survive in Nazi Germany also appear in the film, such as the architect Diana Reiter. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. Oh! 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. Castlemont kids were black, Pacific Islander, and Latino. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. Reiter, Bernd, "If Germany Atoned for the Holocaust, the US Can Pay Reparations for Slavery" (2019). Few Holocaust survivors attach any meaning to camp life itself. 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. I'll step right in front of it. Josef Bau was one of the people who is seen forging papers for Schindler's workforce. 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 It gave us-- it gave me relief. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Now he teaches special education. There were those bold ones that asked the question. A few months went by, and then some surprising news arrived at Castlemont. But to be fair, they hadn't witnessed the full spectrum of the pain and suffering of the Jewish people yet. And then they're like, ah, OK. You know? Running to almost 700 pages, Spiegel's diary begins in January 1939, when she was 15, and ends on the last day of her life, 30 July 1942, when she was executed by German soldiers. Whoa! Quick warning if you're listening with little kids. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepoomice. 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. He said it really loud, I believe. 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. First, we need to learn about our own Holocaust, and then maybe we can understand your Holocaust. They waved signs around that spanned from the pointed "How can a Zionist Jew teach us about racism and oppression?" 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 One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. And I remember thinking, wow, this is just nuts, you know? Some went out to get drinks and popcorn. 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 . : She'd never seen the speech before. That was cold.". And did you know the Archean is div The four chaperones sat in the front-- four of them for 70 kids. Aaron Grumet was a geometry teacher at Castlemont and had been one of the teachers on the original field trip. All of the sudden, it was like, oh, are you Jewish? You can see that happening in one of my favorite moments from that assembly with the governor and Spielberg. Who played me? And it's all so numbing that maybe this is the whole point. Or so they thought. It just seemed to go a little bit too far. Luca.Heupel@messe-muenchen.de. We believe our teachers' hearts were in the right place. It looks unnatural. 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. Oh, you're not going to come back? 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. They talked and horsed around with each other. I felt embarrassed. Diana E Reiter is Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. 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. An impressive and well-informed monograph with a sophisticated theoretical . If not--Nathaniel Osborne. The president addressing the nation and vowing steely, determined revenge. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Days beforehand, a bunch of workers came to campus to carry out this whole beautification campaign. By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. I'm Ira Glass. And a lot of the students and faculty never got in. In the chaotic last months of 2001, my father wrote letters to newspapers asking simply that the press stop calling his daughter a hero. Diana Reiter, 16 Pawlikowskiego street, Krakw, Poland. 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. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. 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." Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. Anisa Rasheed felt the same way as her students. There'd been a huge earthquake in California the day before-- 6.7 magnitude. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. At that point, I was, for lack of a better term, pissed off. In fact, one of the school administrators said she was happy the students reacted that way because she knew it had affected them. We're not going to have arguments with these people. Inside these cabinets are the remains that, after nearly 13 years of the most rigorous testing known to man, have not been matched to the DNA of any of the victims. And the way they were building it was incorrect. Stay with us. The heroes ran into the buildings. It went on, "People attending the film were shocked and angry by what they felt was insensitivity to the Holocaust." It's starting to come back to me now, everything. I think there might have been applause. By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. She died in February 1943, at the age of 23. Oh God, we have to sit through this to go skating? It's fine. I'm only trying to do my job! All we did was get kicked out of the theater. And I was going like, who spends money to see a film on the Holocaust just to disrupt it? I was just like, wait a minute. What did they feel they should be apologizing for? [2012]. 7 Holocaust Records Resources for Genealogists. 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. 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 : Join Facebook to connect with Diana Reiter and others you may know. And it's like, my emotions, I was like, how do I handle that? Sir, she 's foreman of construction. Four of the students from the field trip, who were also members of the student council, sat at a table in front of news cameras. And I absolutely, when I heard about this incident--. I don't know. To get past the door, one must register for an appointment. She was just a person who happened to have gotten to work a little early on a Tuesday morning. 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. Thanks, as always, to our program's cofounder, Mr. Torey Malatia. I let out a loud, sharp laugh. That was cold. An anguished Zygmunt, who had held onto the diary during Renia's brief time in hiding . 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. Amon Goeth was an SS guard in charge of Plaszow. Elina Lwensohn is a Romanian-American actress. I find my sister as she has been for 12 and 1/2 years and will be forever-- enshrined alphabetically before Howard Lee Kane. Never once during this press conference did the principal or any of the teachers make a statement. He shot her! Why get mad at a commemorative T-shirt now? They never showed us Amistad in public school in Baltimore. That's what I want to say had some Jewish ties. Vera Santospirito. I was like, how are we bigger than the earthquake? 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. It's just drawers and drawers full of stuff. We will never have a chance to make another first impression, but we have to rise above this. All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. This is all I have to say.". And I have never forgotten this thing. It was chaotic. And then the senior class president, Kandi Stewart, went off script. In fact, it's not even close. Today's program is about what happens when you come across some historical facts presented by people who want you to learn those facts, either from a marker on the side of the road, or maybe a film, or in the case of this next act, a museum. The county in which Oakland sits voted overwhelmingly against Pete Wilson in the 1990 election. I said, wait a minute. Yeah. 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 . And what I remember was that all the politicians and dignitaries were there and got their seats in the front. 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. She emigrated to the US after the death of Elina's father. And no one quite makes eye contact with anyone else, and that's just fine. I know he likes it when he says--. And one morning he went for a jog near his hotel-- he was in Tuscaloosa-- and he got to this park. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Is this a documentary? That was so uncomfortable. 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. Documentaries speak to the desire to 'never forget'; what other goal, according to some of its supporters, does 'Schindler's List' speak to? The event itself was a total circus from the beginning. He said no. And he wrote this for Buzzfeed back when the museum opened. It was clear the administration had to respond publicly. Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. 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. 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. There was a lot of violence in the movie. 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." They learned they could push back. There is one small room on the main floor of the museum that is not, in fact, operated by the museum itself and is not available even to many of the families. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. And I would run into-- like, all of these government people that worked for education was there. Two days after that, Tanzania remembers she was walking to school. Date: 5 April 2021: Source: Own work: Author: Zygmunt Put: This is a photo of an object of cultural heritage inscribed in the registry of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship with number 3979 GEZ Krakw. Oh, we're just here for the day. He tells me my family is welcome whenever the museum is open and leads me to a cramped, dark space but does not follow. But he probably said it as, Aw, man. A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. It was a program befitting of a head of state and a Hollywood icon. Yeah, I'm doing mine. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. Always extra ice. The general or the guy in charge there-- . 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). It was actually a school holiday-- January 17, Martin Luther King Day. 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? The high school administration decided it needed to nip this controversy in the bud. Those who stayed in the theater were shushed several times by the other patrons and also an usher and a chaperone. Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. They weren't kids who goofed off on a field trip. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. 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. And there wasn't any real correction. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). As Vice Chair for Social . They were building a concentration camp. They hate our freedom to buy what we want. And he asked him to put the camera away. 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 . , wow, this is the world & # x27 ; s brief in... 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