like someone jumped out and grabbed me. Publicly, throughout the entire Schindler's debacle, it seemed like these stackable burdens were resting squarely on the shoulders of the students. Official Sites 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. 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. Between 1881 and 1914, millions of Jews left Eastern Europe to seek religious freedom or economic advancement. It was a program befitting of a head of state and a Hollywood icon. an error, click through She bounces abruptly, up and down again, into the snow. When Spielberg tells you to do something, you do it. Herr Kommandant! They hate our freedom to buy what we want. It is based on Schindler's Ark, a 1982 book by Thomas Keneally. And did you know the Archean is div Let's talk about the Black Holocaust. Our program was produced today by Nadia Reiman and Chana Joffe-Walt. He said it really loud, I believe. Or, man, that was crazy. Diana Reiter is on Facebook. Diana E. Reiter Partner New York Tel +1 212.836.7452 [email protected] vCard Diana Reiter's practice focuses on complex civil litigation. But this time, it was for something she really cared about. Never once during this press conference did the principal or any of the teachers make a statement. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. So the 70 teenagers just sat where they could, a lot of them in the back. I said, he's not going to shoot this woman. 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? For Exxon: Kannon Shanmugam, Daniel Toal and Ted Wells of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. | And just quickly, there was something else about the scene-- the way the actress fell after she was shot. I helped save the lives of many Jews. Whose perspective is that? I'm Ira Glass. Wilson said that welfare, quote, "seduces teenage girls into a life of poverty and encourages irresponsibility." : The Castlemont kids were the test case for all of this. 95AD, remember.org. Give the truth to the youth. In any Balkan country the names . And some entities felt that the kids didn't apologize for what they felt they should be apologizing for. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. All we did was get kicked out of the theater. They learned how white people read them and their behavior and how quickly they get labeled. Angry. Unterscharfhrer! And the guy simply pulled out his gun and shot her. Yes. That should be headline news. 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. And I just wondered if there was something slightly arch about that. 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. It would have been great for him to see what his cuts were doing to this urban community, but that's just my thought. And so when some Jewish people offered to come to Castlemont to teach them about the Holocaust, they weren't in the mood for moral lectures on someone else's history. Yes, I did. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepoomice. Reiter was portrayed by Elina Lwensohn in the 1993 film Schindler's List, in which she is shot by Amon Goeth after an argument over the foundations of the barracks being built improperly. And a lot of the students and faculty never got in. Countless personal artifacts artfully destroyed. I do not believe our great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. 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. What movie are you all watching? You know? We believe our teachers' hearts were in the right place. She is . By Bernd Reiter, Published on 07/31/19. Anisa Rasheed taught English and African History at Castlemont at the time. School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Faculty Publications. Steve Kandell was an editor at Buzzfeed back in 2014 when the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York City. They wanted to teach us about the Holocaust. Where the ruins of the old state capitol are. I mean, to us, we were probably like, oh God, black and white. And Spielberg said, well, maybe I will. And if it takes an apology so we can get this to blow over, so be it. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). But that didn't seem to calm the storm. As Vice Chair for Social . Diana Reiter. S.S. Guard I was like, wait a minute. Act Two, Exit Through the Gift Shop. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. It wasn't at the fact that she got shot. Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. And so recently, Brian decided to look into it. I remember one scene. And I only thought of one thing, and that is, I have a riot situation on my hands. I don't know. 17-year-old Nathaniel, who you heard earlier, was in a crisp white shirt and black necktie. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution Dachau Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). Cicely Day was a senior at Castlemont back in '94. The four chaperones sat in the front-- four of them for 70 kids. 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. The manager told him. A box of tissues sits on a wooden bench, and a family huddle silently looking through a window. I mean, first of all, super sad. 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. And I thought, are these Nazi sympathizers? No, I take that back. 42. The students of Castlemont had been thrust into a dizzying adult world of bigotry and bylines. Tracy and the other students took on all the blame. We're not numb to it. They were dressed professionally. 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. | Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. 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. Let's go-- stand up, ladies and gentlemen. Remember.org - The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivors' History. 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. A soot-coated bike rack, as it was found. Stay with us. Act One, The Miseducation of Castlemont High. When Diana Reiter was born about 1920, in Poland, her father, Mr. Reiter, was 20 and her mother, Mrs. Reiter, was 20. That's not me. And no one quite makes eye contact with anyone else, and that's just fine. Raised in Austria's second largest city, he loved the outdoors, especially skiing in the Alps. It went on, "People attending the film were shocked and angry by what they felt was insensitivity to the Holocaust." While riding in a car one day, I complained that I was freezing since the top to the car was down. No, they were just saying white people. Nathaniel didn't even know if he'd ever met someone who was Jewish. Castlemont. | The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes. And well, were you raised racist? They were African-American and Latino teenagers applauding at Nazi atrocities. There are FDNY T-shirts and search-and-rescue sweatshirts. Well, I won't count on your vote. Oh, OK. And you guys are here to watch a movie? And what happened on that field trip with this group of black and Latino students became kind of a big deal, talked about all across the country because of what they did not learn. I'm only trying to do my job. That should only be in sex education, not on this screen. Diana Reiter. And then it was over. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty, ownerless Topsiders encased in glass. And the teacher respectfully put it away. She died two years later, a victim of the Krakw concentration camp.[5]. It got her out of Auschwitz. Yeah. They were furious. : Many object to the perspective from which the story was told. 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. I'm Ira Glass. And when we were outside in front of the theater waiting on the bus to come back and pick us up, they told us we couldn't wait in front of the theater. This is to Governor Wilson. They're both stories that's in a setting designed to actually teach them a little bit of history. But that plot isn't clear for a long, long time. So it was a very, very poignant question on these 14-year-old kids. What was the name of the boy who put Danka Dresner and her mother into the 'good line' even though Danka didn't have a blue sticker? They misbehaved on a field trip, and they said they were sorry. Who played me? One of the protesters was a little more specific. 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. And I remember thinking, wow, this is just nuts, you know? We're kids, and you're adults. And I remember seeing a lot of things that high school kids shouldn't be seeing. Thanks, as always, to our program's cofounder, Mr. Torey Malatia. I'm only trying to do my job! - Sergeant! I think we have to put this under the heading of the privileges of youth. It was chaotic. View the list of all donors. Quick warning if you're listening with little kids. and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. And I would run into-- like, all of these government people that worked for education was there. The event itself was a total circus from the beginning. 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. Buildings got painted. And I have never forgotten this thing. There'd be free screenings of the film and a study guide. Luca Heupel. Tanzania was there. 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. He said no. 7 Holocaust Records Resources for Genealogists. And with the movie being what it was, it makes sense to me now, most definitely. They walked into the theater. There were musicians and African dancers, lectures on ancient Egypt and Jim Crow. You're clapping? I see your visit to Oakland, a city plagued with poverty, from different views. The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. So basically, Brian stumbled upon this random bit of history three years ago. That was on the front page too, below the story about Castlemont. This was all students wanted to talk about and asked me a lot of questions about. The prospect of experiencing this stroll down Waking Nightmare Lane with tuned-out schoolkids or spectacle-seekers would be too much. Hall C3, C4, North Entrance +49 89 949 21124. And then they're like, ah, OK. You know? So we begin with a bunch of students who were taken on a field trip to learn about the past. Poldek Pfefferberg was a member of which organisation inside and outside the ghetto? Murdering someone for no reason is cold. Tattered flags, handwritten pleas for help, missing persons flyers, screams. Exactly. It was a dominant explanation in the media. FunTrivia is a collaborative community effort, where we are constantly updating questions to keep them accurate. Many other Jews who couldn't survive in Nazi Germany also appear in the film, such as the architect Diana Reiter. We're not going to have arguments with these people. The whole story was told as a morality tale about black teens and what was wrong with them. No one bats an eye. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. Remember.org shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories . As we would say nowadays, extra. It was cold. 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. 239 Followers, 224 Following, 122 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diana Reiter (@direiter.art) They were going to see a film that covers some history. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. The fact that everyone else here today has VIP status grimly similar to mine is the lone saving grace. One of the Castlemont kids, who got a death threat in the mail, later hung it on her dorm room wall for motivation. 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 for the first time, her Jewishness was a topic of interest. 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. I find my sister as she has been for 12 and 1/2 years and will be forever-- enshrined alphabetically before Howard Lee Kane. Reiter 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. All of the sudden, it was like, oh, are you Jewish? 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