I'm Ira Glass. Then we get into the theater, and downhill from there. I was just like, wait a minute. So the marker's titled "The Indian Fires Are Going Out," in quotes. Vera Santospirito. Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. We will never have a chance to make another first impression, but we have to rise above this. I'm like, wow, it's so amazing that you're here today. And I absolutely, when I heard about this incident--. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. And I remember watching the movie. Two years after the Castlemont kids got kicked out of the movie theater, over two million public high school students had seen Schindler's List, and many more since then, including me. I would have been like, what is that? So we begin with a bunch of students who were taken on a field trip to learn about the past. They were furious. And in both of these stories, what they learn is so different from the lessons that they are supposed to get from the past. Tracy Wilson was one of the students on the field trip, a freshman. I don't need to be one of them. And for him to acknowledge what happened but not place that type of blame on us was great. 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. Some kids in the theater laughing while blood poured out of the woman's head. I stare at the $39 hoodies, and the rescue vests for dogs, and the earrings, and the scarves, and the United We Stand wool blankets waiting for that rush, and can't muster so much as a sigh. And even though there was no school, the teacher was known for his great field trips, so 70 kids showed up. And I remember thinking, wow, this is just nuts, you know? We understood this and respected it. Find reviews, educational history and legal experience. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. Another, wearing a regal brown and gold dashiki, a kufi, with a leather-bound neck pouch, walked up and down the front of a classroom, commanding students' attention, pointing to placards listing the names of people who had been lynched in the South. Ja, I'm doing mine. 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. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. I was bummed to read the speech mainly because I felt that it misrepresented the way that I felt and the way I know my family feels about removal or about assimilation. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). 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. Lownsohn, a native of Bucharest, Romania was cast as Diana Reiter in "Schindler's List". They hate our freedom to buy what we want. : Born: April 11, 1915 Graz, Austria Austria . Polski: Kamienica, 1938 proj. And he showed us documents from where he had gotten out of Washington DC that stated that. Today, she's a teacher. While riding in a car one day, I complained that I was freezing since the top to the car was down. One of the protesters was a little more specific. I think there might have been applause. 7 Holocaust Records Resources for Genealogists. Like, it stayed with me. I mean, first of all, super sad. They learned how white people read them and their behavior and how quickly they get labeled. In an email, Steven Spielberg confirmed that one of the reasons he decided to make that film was that student's question. Aaron Grumet was a geometry teacher at Castlemont and had been one of the teachers on the original field trip. But yeah, it was a gentleman. Where the ruins of the old state capitol are. Luca Heupel. If you would have asked me when I was 15, I would've told you no. From their perspective, here's what happened. It was her overdramatizing being shot. The crowded memorial hall is lined with photos of everyone who died and touchscreen consoles that call up their obituaries. And at some point, the timer is up. One of the Castlemont kids, who got a death threat in the mail, later hung it on her dorm room wall for motivation. Diana Reiter, 16 Pawlikowskiego street, Krakw, Poland. There'd been a huge earthquake in California the day before-- 6.7 magnitude. And he wrote this for Buzzfeed back when the museum opened. - Sergeant! FunTrivia is a collaborative community effort, where we are constantly updating questions to keep them accurate. 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. And we just chose another, quieter way-- at least until my father got sick and couldn't stop blurting it out over and over to strangers in parking lots. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. These plans were already in the works before the field trip happened, but where better to make the announcement than Castlemont High School? Luca.Heupel@messe-muenchen.de. 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. : But it felt like the greater powers that be, or the certain elements, they wanted the kids to apologize for their feeling and their thinking, that they should apologize and own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of Jewish people, and that they're sorry for that and they'll never do it again. Quick warning if you're listening with little kids. We were offensive in some of our actions. Tracy Wilson wore a dark navy dress with puffy shoulders and brass buttons, looking like someone much older than she was. I can feel the sweat that went into making this not seem tacky, of wanting to show respect, but also wanting to show every last bit of carnage and visceral whomp to justify the $24 price of admission. It's just when you're seeing it and you're looking at it, it's like, how do you cope with it? This is all I have to say.". 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. 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. This was all students wanted to talk about and asked me a lot of questions about. Or maybe worse, watch that pain be co-opted by people who want, for whatever reason, to feel that connection so acutely. This recording is from the Blacks and Jews documentary, which has a long section on Castlemont. And I remember he started talking, asking them questions. A soot-coated bike rack, as it was found. The main attraction is through a revolving door, a minute-by-minute recreation of the morning and its aftermath, from video of Matt Lauer's first distracted, furrowed brow at the end of an interview with some author on The Today Show, and on and on. She emigrated to the US after the death of Elina's father. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Or they decided the kids needed to nip this controversy in the bud. These notations meant that the prisoners should be killed after a certain time in the camp. Exactly. 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. Why are documentaries like 'Shoah' and 'Night and Fog' considered acceptable by this rule, while 'Schindler's List' is not? And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. Raised in Austria's second largest city, he loved the outdoors, especially skiing in the Alps. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Our program was produced today by Nadia Reiman and Chana Joffe-Walt. 617.349.8970. direiter@lesley.edu. But this time, it was for something she really cared about. For example: the 'Oxygen Holocaust' model of the GOE is still touted by many as fact, even though there is not a single study corroborating it. Diana Budisavljevic's passport photo from 1945. 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. I mean, to be quite honest, you have the governor there, Mr. Pete Wilson, who was also "Mr Budget-Cut Governor." Just saying it out of anger because they've heard somebody say it or read it somewhere. That should be headline news. What does that mean? Diana.Reiter@messe-muenchen.de. Reiter They misbehaved on a field trip, and they said they were sorry. Oh! Back next week with more stories of This American Life. One Jewish Castlemont teacher told The LA Times, "They're not Afro-American kids laughing at Jewish horror, they're the inner-city hip-hop generation desensitized to violence because they see it every day." We were probably-- no, I wouldn't say probably-- we were definitely unruly. The exhibition starts with one shining, unfathomably terrible morning and winds up as all of our lives, as banal and constant as laundry, bottomless. Many Castlemont kids were low income. Halls B1, C1, Entrance West +49 89 949-21121 +49 89 949-21129. New fires are lighting in the West for us, they say, and we will go there. All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. That can harden you really quick. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 He found the primary source for us knowing about it-- the only source-- a newspaper article in The Huntsville Democrat in 1835. [2012]. It was actually a school holiday-- January 17, Martin Luther King Day. The kids didn't own being insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. Steve Kandell was an editor at Buzzfeed back in 2014 when the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened in New York City. And I remember somebody-- I think one of the teachers was recording it. It's just drawers and drawers full of stuff. Let's go-- stand up, ladies and gentlemen. . Narrating the Holocaust - Ebook written by Andrea Reiter, Patrick Camiller. Who played me? But he probably said it as, Aw, man. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Diana was an engineer and she spoke to Amon Goeth about a structure which needed to be torn down and, if that did not happen, there would be at least a subsidence and collapse at the southern end of . And with the movie being what it was, it makes sense to me now, most definitely. 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. Her ancestors were part of this group of people who left Alabama at this time and came to Oklahoma, and she'd never seen the speech before till we sent it to her to ask her about it. And like you said, the one student was like, oh wow, that was cold. The Riemers lived in an apartment building that housed offices of the Communist Party of Germany. And now that they've been reprimanded, they're going to try to be better people. Castlemont. So basically, Brian stumbled upon this random bit of history three years ago. | He gave this speech. I saw Schindler's List twice in school by my 15th birthday. 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). The Holocaust occurred because a nation, The German nation and its European collaborators (i.e. He started sharing it with people who usually had just as strong a reaction as he had-- reactions of various kinds. And the annoyance is tempered by the realization that non-participation in the pageantry has its drawbacks. Let's talk about the Black Holocaust. She's Latino. Those who stayed in the theater were shushed several times by the other patrons and also an usher and a chaperone. Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. And people will find moments of grace or enlightenment or even peace coming here. Ernst Reiter. I was like, wow. All we did was get kicked out of the theater. Hi. The Characters In 'Schindler's List'. Governor Wilson gave a pretty formal recitation about his Holocaust education initiative. Did this even happen? The Life Summary of Diana. 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. That was on the front page too, below the story about Castlemont. They also learned how to steel yourself against all of that. The heroes ran into the buildings. 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. He chose which Jewish girl to be his maid? Amon Goeth Diana Reiter aims to provide great service and uses RealSatisfied to gather performance feedback and ratings as a 3rd party from customers to measure and manage performance. It will take more than that. The Austrian woman is credited with helping rescue 7,500 mostly Serbian children from wartime Croatia's death camps. They were applauding. Who played me? And I was thinking the same thing in my head. Parker in New York City. The presence of the tomb has been a point of contention among families who want more from a final resting place than the basement of this museum of unnatural history. Governor Wilson and his policies seemed like a direct threat to things that really mattered to her. I found my "career home" in real estate. They weren't kids who goofed off on a field trip. I'm about to get ready to go to class. It's This American Life. Imagine a '90s era high school picture day. And I was going like, who spends money to see a film on the Holocaust just to disrupt it? There is no way out until the end. I said, whoa. And if you're a person of different color, it's very difficult for you to pretend you're another culture. I'm only trying to do my job. But Tanzania basically said that doesn't make any sense. It was a program befitting of a head of state and a Hollywood icon. 42. : Some went out to get drinks and popcorn. Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. One boy reportedly thought the Holocaust meant the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. 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 . Why get mad at a commemorative T-shirt now? According to analyst Miriam Braatu Hansen, which of the following 'gimmicks' created the most moral (not artistic) outrage among his critics? He told me to go back to Africa. Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. This is Tanzania Enskip, also a freshman on the field trip. Always extra ice. 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. But as with every other turn in this Castlemont Schindler's saga, all it did was enrage pretty much everyone. So but the people who are Creek, what did they make of it? Ms. In the News. Here's Steve Kandell. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. Well, today on our program, we have two stories about people who bump into unsettling facts from history. It was like 70/30 split. Yeah, and their homelands. I helped save the lives of many Jews. Recommended: Ages 8 and up. I do recall a scene where the young Jewish girl is talking to the German soldiers. 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