established by Spielberg to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Diana Golden probably owed her life to a slave-labor assignment. Let me grab a juice. | I'm Ira Glass. It's just hard to accept the fact that he says, we know you mean us no harm. Bulgarien (bulgarisch [bg'arij]; amtliche Bezeichnung seit 1990 Republik Bulgarien, bulgarisch ) ist eine Republik in Sdosteuropa mit etwa 6,5 Millionen Einwohnern. I was in the audience with my 13-year-old son and two other friends. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 They're both stories that's in a setting designed to actually teach them a little bit of history. Whenever there's an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don't know. "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 . Some kids in the theater laughing while blood poured out of the woman's head. Sir, she 's foreman of construction. Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. I was like, wait a minute. House Party 3 was also playing that day. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. This is all I have to say.". Landscaping got done. And I have never forgotten this thing. And did you know the Archean is div So anyway, so she ended up getting her whole team involved at the cultural preservation office, and they started looking through their archives. Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. Remember.org shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories . Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. And I remember seeing a lot of things that high school kids shouldn't be seeing. 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. They were in the newspaper on the front page at the very top. What movie are you all watching? Three years later, he released Amistad, about a slave ship. 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. In 1928 she married Elimelech Riemer and the couple settled in Berlin. Oh, OK. And you guys are here to watch a movie? Yes. Here's Steve Kandell. This time, it was unannounced-- no media. But after hearing it, though, you look it up in a dictionary, and you figure out what it is. No one bats an eye. Photos and Memories (0) Do you know Diana? 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. No. This story begins with a random encounter with history. Murdering someone for no reason is cold. I'm only trying to do my job. View the list of all donors. And maybe I learned something, but I didn't feel anything. You know? | Dusty, ownerless Topsiders encased in glass. We understood this and respected it. This happened back in 1994. They were also going to go ice skating, which a lot of them were especially looking forward to. Who played me? At least, that's how I felt when I was a teenager and my teacher showed us the film. I know he likes it when he says--. Bio. It's starting to come back to me now, everything. He said it really loud, I believe. 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. Something arch that went right over the heads of the legislators at the time and also over the heads of the Alabama Historical Association when they approved this marker over a century and a half later. But to be fair, they hadn't witnessed the full spectrum of the pain and suffering of the Jewish people yet. He was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. I'm like, oh, yes, I did. And during that time, a Creek chief addressed the legislature on their way out of the state with these words. And I remember watching the movie. She's Latino. Yeah, and their homelands. Give the truth to the youth. 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. That was an appropriate reaction. Back next week with more stories of This American Life. And some entities felt that the kids didn't apologize for what they felt they should be apologizing for. Quiz: Anisa Rasheed taught English and African History at Castlemont at the time. By the time I'd gotten over to the auditorium, it was overflowing. They also learned how to steel yourself against all of that. But Tanzania told me and my producer, Sean Cole, that, as the students walked out of the theater, the audience definitely knew it. When Spielberg tells you to do something, you do it. Laura Abrams was the school social worker at Castlemont at the time. I find my sister as she has been for 12 and 1/2 years and will be forever-- enshrined alphabetically before Howard Lee Kane. A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. Yes. 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--. Can you come back and make sure that gets done? They bid farewell to parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. In 19321934 she worked in the office of Kazimierz Kulczyski, making architectural drawings.[3]. : Who played me? Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] (November 6, 1902 1943) was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. FunTrivia is a collaborative community effort, where we are constantly updating questions to keep them accurate. You know, we have empathy. I felt embarrassed. Where are the subtitles? DIANA DUMITRU: I did a study of why some people harmed and others helped Jews during the Holocaust in Romania. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. And it's three hours long and in black and white. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. You can see that happening in one of my favorite moments from that assembly with the governor and Spielberg. 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. Poldek Pfefferberg was a member of which organisation inside and outside the ghetto? 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). The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. You know, I made him a martini. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. Release Dates And I talked to several historians, including two experts who are Creek themselves, and there does not seem to be evidence that this was sarcastic. Josef Bau was one of the people who is seen forging papers for Schindler's workforce. An impressive and well-informed monograph with a sophisticated theoretical . to the extremely pointed "Zionist Jews are the new Nazis." 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. Act One, The Miseducation of Castlemont High. In fact, one of the school administrators said she was happy the students reacted that way because she knew it had affected them. Mixing help today from Stowe Nelson Katherine Rae Mondo and Sharif Youssef. Diana Budisavljevic's passport photo from 1945. And I would run into-- like, all of these government people that worked for education was there. They never showed us Amistad in public school in Baltimore. This is the Maafa. Find reviews, educational history and legal experience. It just seemed to go a little bit too far. A lot of violence. 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. This is outrageous. And even though there was no school, the teacher was known for his great field trips, so 70 kids showed up. [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). I'm about to get ready to go to class. It will take more than that. Our website, thisamericanlife.org. There were musicians and African dancers, lectures on ancient Egypt and Jim Crow. Oh, are you guys on a field trip? The students of Castlemont had been thrust into a dizzying adult world of bigotry and bylines. The county in which Oakland sits voted overwhelmingly against Pete Wilson in the 1990 election. The Castlemont kids were the test case for all of this. And then it was over. And for him to acknowledge what happened but not place that type of blame on us was great. I brought her to see it, a friend. Tracy Wilson was one of the students on the field trip, a freshman. And I would just be like, hi, how are you? But I have now become satisfied that they are not unfriendly toward us, but that they wish us well. Who played me? BA Parker has worked on our show, and she also incidentally used to be a film professor, and she tells what happened. Defenders of 'Schindler's List' often point to the twofold goals of Holocaust commemoration. And the guy simply pulled out his gun and shot her. Two days after that, Tanzania remembers she was walking to school. He was also up for re-election. So we begin with a bunch of students who were taken on a field trip to learn about the past. Give the truth to the youth. Becaust I remember I was walking back up, and he was on my left. There was a lot of violence in the movie. Days beforehand, a bunch of workers came to campus to carry out this whole beautification campaign. 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. Tanzania didn't even know back then what anti-Semitic meant. Narrating the Holocaust book. And it kind of ricocheted around from person to person, piercing into each one this bullet of information from the past. I will see all his movies. Bjrn Lanna. I remember I walked past one gentleman. As black people, Latinos, and other races, Indians, they don't understand their own Holocaust. She's the English and History teacher, and she organized a day-long black history teach-in, or African Holocaust Day. Did this even happen? He started sharing it with people who usually had just as strong a reaction as he had-- reactions of various kinds. I found my "career home" in real estate. The Jewish woman in the scene he's talking about was the foreman on a construction project. Well, I won't count on your vote. Diana E. Reiter Partner New York Tel +1 212.836.7452 diana.reiter@arnoldporter.com vCard Diana Reiter's practice focuses on complex civil litigation. It got her out of Auschwitz. Tattered flags, handwritten pleas for help, missing persons flyers, screams. And what do you make-- what a strange speech to make, as you're being exiled, to the people who are exiling you. And one morning he went for a jog near his hotel-- he was in Tuscaloosa-- and he got to this park. Spielberg's directing and cinematography are also often dismissed as 'gimmicky.' The crowded memorial hall is lined with photos of everyone who died and touchscreen consoles that call up their obituaries. We are sorry for the disruption. It's This American Life. Remember, this all began with a field trip to teach kids tolerance. What did they say to you about it? Governor Wilson and his policies seemed like a direct threat to things that really mattered to her. Dang! It was hurtful. 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. 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. Lwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. Many other Jews who couldn't survive in Nazi Germany also appear in the film, such as the architect Diana Reiter. Two years later, their only child, Edith, was born. Diana Reiter Partner at Arnold & Porter New York, New York, United States188 connections Join to connect Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP Yale Law School Experience Partner Arnold & Porter Kaye. One afternoon two weeks later, Steven Spielberg came back. All we did was get kicked out of the theater. One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. This is Allen Michaan, the owner of the Grand Lake Theatre. Reiter, Bernd, "If Germany Atoned for the Holocaust, the US Can Pay Reparations for Slavery" (2019). Ja, I'm doing mine. Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it with a bunch of tourists from Denmark-- annotated divorce papers blown up and mounted, interactive exhibits detailing how your mom's last round of chemo didn't take, souvenir T-shirts emblazoned with your best friend's last words before the car crash. Yeah, I'm doing mine. Why get mad at a commemorative T-shirt now? There'd be free screenings of the film and a study guide. You know? The program to teach Schindler's List to high school students spread across the country. First, we need to learn about our own Holocaust, and then maybe we can understand your Holocaust. And they would just look at me like, oh no, she didn't. In the early 1930s Ernst became a Jehovah's Witness. And then the senior class president, Kandi Stewart, went off script. What did they feel they should be apologizing for? They hate our freedom to buy what we want. I said, whoa. What was the last name of the Rabbi whom Oskar Schindler saved from being singled out for death? 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 Yes. Her discussion of the need to witness and the effects of trauma do not add much to what we already know. 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