This is from a local call-in show, Flashpoints, that was featured in a documentary called Blacks and Jews from the mid-90s. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] (November 6, 1902 1943) was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. My sister's profile has incorrect information in it that we'd never signed off on or even seen. 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 . I'm Ira Glass. This is the Maafa. We will never have a chance to make another first impression, but we have to rise above this. It's starting to come back to me now, everything. There were musicians and African dancers, lectures on ancient Egypt and Jim Crow. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. At 14, Tracy felt the same way. Did this even happen? She was just a person who happened to have gotten to work a little early on a Tuesday morning. You can see that happening in one of my favorite moments from that assembly with the governor and Spielberg. I couldn't understand who these people were. Narrating the Holocaust Andrea Reiter (Author), Patrick Camiller (Author) Paperback $79.95 $71.95 Ebook (PDF) $71.95 $57.56 Quantity In stock $71.95 RRP $79.95 Website price saving $8.00 (10%) Add to basket Add to wishlist This product is usually dispatched within 3 days Delivery and returns info Free US delivery on orders $35 or over Description And they would just look at me like, oh no, she didn't. It seemed like it made it worse. Let me just say that--. Tracy again. 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. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Narrating the Holocaust. The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes. Let me grab a juice. And even though there was no school, the teacher was known for his great field trips, so 70 kids showed up. Whose perspective is that? Yeah. I would have been like, what is that? Narrating the Holocaust - Ebook written by Andrea Reiter, Patrick Camiller. 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. Poldek Pfefferberg was a member of which organisation inside and outside the ghetto? I told Oskar that some of the Nazi officers did not care about the production done at his factory. Now he teaches special education. Just saying it out of anger because they've heard somebody say it or read it somewhere. By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. 17-year-old Nathaniel, who you heard earlier, was in a crisp white shirt and black necktie. She was 25 years old then. 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. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. Where the ruins of the old state capitol are. No. She emigrated to the US after the death of Elina's father. By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. Oh, you're not going to come back? I brought my wife one time. 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? Long shots with nobody talking, and you don't know what's going on. Few Holocaust survivors attach any meaning to camp life itself. One guest teacher explained that racism has 54 components to it. But this time, it was for something she really cared about. They're both stories that's in a setting designed to actually teach them a little bit of history. In 19321934 she worked in the office of Kazimierz Kulczyski, making architectural drawings.[3]. established by Spielberg to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. In any Balkan country the names . 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. And a lot of the students couldn't even get in because the auditorium was full. Thanks, as always, to our program's cofounder, Mr. Torey Malatia. In the early 1930s Ernst became a Jehovah's Witness. I was like, wait a minute. No one bats an eye. Sir, she 's foreman of construction. I think we have to put this under the heading of the privileges of youth. He shot her! [on acting] It's really simply the script, and wishing to plunge myself in the unique universe of an auteur, if that universe exists. DIANA DUMITRU: I did a study of why some people harmed and others helped Jews during the Holocaust in Romania. One of the kids asked Spielberg, have you ever made a movie about the Black Holocaust, about slavery? 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. These notations meant that the prisoners should be killed after a certain time in the camp. It wasn't just her thought. It's basically a comparative study of the attitudes towards Jews in two neighboring territories, which is Bessarabia and Transnistria. 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. That can harden you really quick. Can you come back and make sure that gets done? All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. We understood this and respected it. Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. He started sharing it with people who usually had just as strong a reaction as he had-- reactions of various kinds. Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. Yes, I did. They were in the newspaper on the front page at the very top. Spielberg's directing and cinematography are also often dismissed as 'gimmicky.' She said it was going to cave in. I wander to a tucked away corner to find a giant photo of people leaping from the burning building, and I yell, "Fuck!" I'll probably bring my kids one day, once I realize I won't have the words to explain. Ms. Who played me? Elina Lwensohn is a Romanian-American actress. And now they were getting death threats for not being sorry in the right way. Amon Goeth I do recall a scene where the young Jewish girl is talking to the German soldiers. When one of the moviegoers told them to be quiet, they reportedly bombarded him with popcorn. After the newspaper articles, a barrage of angry phone calls flooded into Castlemont High School, many of them from the local Jewish community. And I felt like it was allowed. Almost everybody we talked to made a point of mentioning it. He tells me my family is welcome whenever the museum is open and leads me to a cramped, dark space but does not follow. For Exxon: Kannon Shanmugam, Daniel Toal and Ted Wells of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Our program was produced today by Nadia Reiman and Chana Joffe-Walt. It wasn't at the fact that she got shot. I have not done this, but I present a case number, which means the official from the medical examiner's office can indeed let me through. By Melody Amsel-Arieli. And everybody was talking about it-- in class, outside of class. Imagine a '90s era high school picture day. At that point, I was, for lack of a better term, pissed off. At least, that's how I felt when I was a teenager and my teacher showed us the film. One of the protesters was a little more specific. 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. You can't pretend you're white. We are not going to have arguments with these people. 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. Another reader wrote, "There is no excuse for what those kids did-- not lack of education, not lack of being prepared, nothing." Here's what she said to the governor of California. We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. And did you know the Archean is div And I was thinking the same thing in my head. There were those bold ones that asked the question. In the years 1928-1931 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 I felt embarrassed by that. But I have now become satisfied that they're not unfriendly toward us, that they wish us well.". Did he say it under duress? 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 Let's get the kids to apologize. Reiter No, they were just saying white people. 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. Menu. 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. I call my mother to tell her I'm doing this, but that she shouldn't come. Find reviews, educational history and legal experience. Are you coming back? If you want to bring a coffee table book full of photos of cadaver dogs sniffing through smoking rubble back home to wherever you're from, hey, that's great. This is all I have to say.". Many years ago, I began my professional career as a litigation attorney. Quick warning if you're listening with little kids. We're not going to have arguments with these people. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. Just a handful of kids were allowed to ask questions, and the questions were vetted and approved by the adults. Filming & Production Ja, I'm doing mine. We also read Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank and were taken to the Holocaust Museum in DC. Few Holocaust survivors attach any meaning to camp life itself. By the time I'd gotten over to the auditorium, it was overflowing. Like, OK, that's a bit much. B.A. Amon Goeth One afternoon two weeks later, Steven Spielberg came back. They learned how white people read them and their behavior and how quickly they get labeled. He was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. This is Tracy. I'd also like to acknowledge the fact that I believe that Castlemont High School has received a very bad rap for what happened that day on Martin Luther King Day. Unterscharfhrer! Landscaping got done. 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. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. What was the real first name of Mila Pfefferberg? It was hurtful. Why are documentaries like 'Shoah' and 'Night and Fog' considered acceptable by this rule, while 'Schindler's List' is not? You would see some people get up that were not students and head out the theater. Her second book, The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. 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. [4] In the years 193134 she was a member of the Union of Architects of the Krakw Province, renamed the Association of Architects of the Republic of Poland and the Union of Jewish Engineers (from 1937). And I remember watching the movie. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. On July 30, German soldiers discovered Zygmunt's parents and Renia hiding in the attic and executed them. That's a hell of a way to learn it. I brought her to see it, a friend. | Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. Remember.org shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories . 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. Ionut Biliuta, Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies 'Brilliantly written, with a masterful use of sources and secondary literature, Diana Dumitru's book will prove mandatory reading for every scholar interested in the perpetration of the Holocaust in the East. That was cold.". If not--, So she was expressing that to them. But I have now become satisfied that they are not unfriendly toward us, but that they wish us well. 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. : 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. It was actually a school holiday-- January 17, Martin Luther King Day. Her body was very involved. Here's Steve Kandell. That's when I remember a lot of students were like, oh! Yeah. 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