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. Like, OK, that's a bit much. He started sharing it with people who usually had just as strong a reaction as he had-- reactions of various kinds. The exhibition tells the story of one family's experiences during the Holocaust from the perspective of a boy growing up in Nazi Germany. She's the English and History teacher, and she organized a day-long black history teach-in, or African Holocaust Day. Now he teaches special education. 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. Diana Reiter. But yeah, it was a gentleman. No, they were just saying white people. Diana Reiter is on Facebook. Angry. They wanted to talk about something else. I found my "career home" in real estate. She represents clients in product liability, mass tort, environmental, and commercial litigation in state and federal court, as well as in white collar investigations. At that point, I was, for lack of a better term, pissed off. The Life Summary of Diana. Countless personal artifacts artfully destroyed. : If you prefer a beeped version of our show, you can find that on our website. The Jewish woman in the scene he's talking about was the foreman on a construction project. They're both stories that's in a setting designed to actually teach them a little bit of history. 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. 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. There were musicians and African dancers, lectures on ancient Egypt and Jim Crow. And I absolutely, when I heard about this incident--. Murdering someone for no reason is cold. DIANA DUMITRU: I did a study of why some people harmed and others helped Jews during the Holocaust in Romania. And it's three hours long and in black and white. Yes, I did. And for him to acknowledge what happened but not place that type of blame on us was great. Trending. She died in February 1943, at the age of 23. What did you need in the ghetto in order not to be killed by the Nazis? We're not numb to it. Yeah. Kandi got in trouble for this-- was reprimanded by the principal, vilified in letters to the editor, just like the kids had been before. The four chaperones sat in the front-- four of them for 70 kids. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. 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. This is the Maafa. Long shots with nobody talking, and you don't know what's going on. His sister, Shari, had died in the Twin Towers. Mr. Steven Spielberg and the Governor of the State of California. Governor Wilson championed one of the harshest anti-immigration laws in California's history, Proposition 187. That can harden you really quick. If you find By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. 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. 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." That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. What did they feel they should be apologizing for? He shot her! : And I found it very moving. 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. Hall C2 +49 89 949-21134 +49 89 949-21129. In a matter of, what are you doing here? Exactly. Home; Search; Browse Collections; My Account; . I find the ticket booth, exhale deeply, and say the magic words. And they're like, oh, we're great. | I'm Ira Glass. He always wants extra ice in the shaker. You're not going to come back? Oskar Schindler told me he knew I was a bookkeeper for a company in Lipowa Street. You can see that happening in one of my favorite moments from that assembly with the governor and Spielberg. Our managing editor is Susan Burton. I remember one scene. Vera Santospirito. And it was saying, Castlemont High School students get kicked out the theater. Much criticism of 'Schindler's List' centers around respect for victims of the Holocaust. It's This American Life. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). One afternoon two weeks later, Steven Spielberg came back. No. On July 30, German soldiers discovered Zygmunt's parents and Renia hiding in the attic and executed them. And he wrote this for Buzzfeed back when the museum opened. Other news organizations picked up the story as a theater-going version of a hate crime, that dozens of black and Latino kids in Oakland were cheering on the murder of Jewish people. Quiz: No, I take that back. Many years ago, I began my professional career as a litigation attorney. The Castlemont kids were the test case for all of this. 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 So basically, Brian stumbled upon this random bit of history three years ago. Remember the Children: Daniel's Story is the Museum's primary exhibition program for young people and their families. You cannot sit here and fill me with your knowledge until I have my own. Yet, most agree that the difficulties of coping with the misery and its lingering memories were eased if some purpose -- whether in the form of physical or psychological resistance or of hope for a future life, reunited with their loved ones -- could be found. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. Gentiles' willingness to assist Jews was greater in lands that had been under Soviet. Tracy and the other students took on all the blame. 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. 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. And then, of course, the trimming of the hedges and the painting, which I found to be very funny. Let's go-- stand up, ladies and gentlemen. 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. This piece goes into some detail about 9/11. And some entities felt that the kids didn't apologize for what they felt they should be apologizing for. A lot of kids were like, oh, my God. Give the truth to the youth. They got an hour-long lesson on the basics before the field trip, but that was it. Also, here in the podcast, there are a couple curse words we have an un-beeped. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepoomice. The kids were trying to apologize for their behavior, for the way that they behaved. Accessed 28 Feb. 2022. 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. And I remember watching the movie. There is no way out until the end. Lwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. But as with every other turn in this Castlemont Schindler's saga, all it did was enrage pretty much everyone. As we would say nowadays, extra. There never will be-- just this theatrically lit Ikea warehouse behind a pane of glass. 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. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. They were African-American and Latino teenagers applauding at Nazi atrocities. We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. I witnessed Diana Reiter get shot. 617.349.8970. direiter@lesley.edu. Diana Golden probably owed her life to a slave-labor assignment. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. I do recall a scene where the young Jewish girl is talking to the German soldiers. Are you coming back? Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. Steve Kandell is a writer and editor in New York. I helped save the lives of many Jews. So the marker's titled "The Indian Fires Are Going Out," in quotes. And I also think it's very important that that incident that happened-- and by the way, I was thrown out of Ben-Hur when I was a kid for talking, so you know, I kind of know what that was like, I think. She died two years later, a victim of the Krakw concentration camp.[5]. Back then, what did we say? Yeah, I'm doing mine. That was on the front page too, below the story about 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. Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. 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? Publicly, throughout the entire Schindler's debacle, it seemed like these stackable burdens were resting squarely on the shoulders of the students. And the way they were building it was incorrect. How many members of the Dresner family are there in the film? I felt bad about it because I said, wow, we're not even good enough to just wait here? We are not going to have arguments with these people. Yeah, that's what struck me about it. And did you know the Archean is div 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. You know, I made him a martini. It was not our intention to offend anyone. It gave us-- it gave me relief. You can't pretend you're German. And Spielberg said, well, maybe I will. The heroes ran into the buildings. When Diana Reiter was born about 1920, in Poland, her father, Mr. Reiter, was 20 and her mother, Mrs. Reiter, was 20. See Diana E Reiter's compensation, career history, education, & memberships. Narrating the Holocaust book. Reiter's brief concluding chapter discusses why authors have committed themselves to writing Holocaust narratives. Laura Abrams was the school social worker at Castlemont at the time. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It would have been great for him to see what his cuts were doing to this urban community, but that's just my thought. : Whose perspective is that? So at first glance, this simply looked like another opportunity for Castlemont High School to put this whole thing to rest, or at least to put a positive spin on it. Ja, I'm doing mine. They misbehaved on a field trip, and they said they were sorry. Amon Goeth And the annoyance is tempered by the realization that non-participation in the pageantry has its drawbacks. There were those bold ones that asked the question. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. established by Spielberg to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. My sister's profile has incorrect information in it that we'd never signed off on or even seen. In fact, it's not even close. I am allowed to enter the 9/11 museum a few days before the grand opening for the general public, but why would I want that? But Tanzania told me and my producer, Sean Cole, that, as the students walked out of the theater, the audience definitely knew it. And the teacher respectfully put it away. So she was expressing that to them. And if I ran into anybody else who I knew had some influence, I was going to say the same thing. I was like, wow. That was cold.". She emigrated to the US after the death of Elina's father. 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. They were furious. No. I told Oskar that some of the Nazi officers did not care about the production done at his factory. Diana Reiter. 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 just quickly, there was something else about the scene-- the way the actress fell after she was shot. Two days after that, Tanzania remembers she was walking to school. 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. She has earned a PhD from the University of Southampton (2013), having been supervised by Prof. Andrea Reiter and Prof. Joachim Schloer. 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? Poldek Pfefferberg was a member of which organisation inside and outside the ghetto? They hate our freedom to buy what we want. He said it really loud, I believe. Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. 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. Jewish people just weren't on their radar-- to hate, to love, anything. 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. It looks unnatural. And I remember seeing a lot of things that high school kids shouldn't be seeing. 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. Das Land nimmt den gesamten stlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel ein und grenzt im Norden an Rumnien, im Westen an Serbien und Nordmazedonien, im Sden an Griechenland . Especially this part, "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. Lownsohn, a native of Bucharest, Romania was cast as Diana Reiter in "Schindler's List". The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. Or they decided the kids needed to nip this controversy in the bud. Landscaping got done. Stay with us. Find New York attorney Diana Reiter in their New York office. Hujar Many Castlemont kids were low income. And even after trying to research it, what we're left with is our own personal reactions and feelings. Give the truth to the youth. [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). But now that I'm an adult, I could see why people were clapping. Our website, thisamericanlife.org. And maybe I learned something, but I didn't feel anything. The whole story was told as a morality tale about black teens and what was wrong with them. Ms. All of the sudden, it was like, oh, are you Jewish? 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. 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. In any Balkan country the names . Diana works to help students find and understand the connections between the real world and the academic world. We understood this and respected it. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 It did not sound accurate to me. And at some point, the timer is up. Today, she's a teacher. We leave behind our goodwill to the people of Alabama who build the great houses and to the men who make the laws. By Melody Amsel-Arieli. He was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. 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