Woman in Gold

[joeychuck2]

I would have added this to the holocaust thread but it wouldn't end up on the home page and no one would see it.

I just saw Woman in Gold. It was a VERY GOOD movie. Kept me interested all the way through. It had a powerful message.
My grandmother came from Vienna Austria way before the War but I could feel like I could have been there.
The World should never forget what happened. It was a real story about real people. The young lawyer in it was very cute too.
I loved it. Anyone else see it?

 

[mikeyank]

I have not seen it Joey, but I'm reminded of when I was a little boy living on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, one of my boyhood friends named Joseph lived in an apoartment building down the block, and I remember seeing his mother had writing and numbers printed in faded blue on her arm, and I found out that was her number when she was in a concentration camp in Germany. It was a powerful message to me at age six or seven, as I still remember being in the kitchen of their apartment, when I first noticed it.

 

[stowe1]

Thanks joey; I'll have to put this on my list to see.

There are several reasons I am so vehement about the world never forgetting The Holocaust, but it all started when I was in Jr. High. Growing up in Baltimore in the 40's, 50's and 60's most neighborhoods were ghettoized - by that I mean there were certain area which were predominantly one ethnic group or another. I grew up in a part of East Baltimore in an area more ethnically diverse than many, but predominantly Eastern European, Italian and religiously Catholic. And the public schools were organized based on where you lived. But I went to a public Jr. High to which kids could apply from all over the city and had to be accepted. This was when I met a significant number of Jews for the first time and became friends. During that time of course they arrived at the age for their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. I remember we Gentiles would be jealous because the Jewish kids would get out of school early one or two days a week to go to Hebrew school - lol. I was invited to several of the ceremonies and the receptions after. A few of them were just home affairs because the families were not able to afford the more lavish parties others could. It was during those smaller affairs that I got to meet and talk to the kids' grandparents and first learned about The Holocaust. None ever went into great detail about the horrors of the camps I imagine out of not wanting to scare young people and/or like so many of the Greatest Generation they just didn't want to talk about it. Of course as I aged and continued my education I became more knowledgeable about The War and The Holocaust my interest just deepened.

It is so important that Jew and Gentile alike keep this horror alive so that no one ever forgets this greatest example of man's inhumanity to man.

 

[gardenboy]

too have seen it and thought it was excellent and the actors portrayed real life persona correctly. It really brought home the subtle desecration of jews by the nazis in the theft of art - some I understand has never been recovered! A great movie

 

[tampa24]

It is so important that Jew and Gentile alike keep this horror alive so that no one ever forgets this greatest example of man's inhumanity to man.

That's so true.

 

[joeychuck2]

as Stowe said Jews and gentiles alike share the world with so many others too. If one thing ISIS did was to show Christians and Jews that we have common enemies and should be united in what is really the same religion that split off into 2.
I too used to visit Baltimore in the late 60's and I remember a beautiful area that Ultra Orthodox Jews lived in. It was by far not a ghetto.
Everyone loved each other no matter what ethnic group they were in. Here in Brooklyn I remember lots of people with numbers tattooed on them. I also remember walking on Ocean Parkway and black people who just came from the south not looking in your eyes and crossing the street when a white person was walking there . We came along way but there is so much more to go.

 

[Ambivalent]

I would have added this to the holocaust thread but it wouldn't end up on the home page and no one would see it.

I just saw Woman in Gold. It was a VERY GOOD movie. Kept me interested all the way through. It had a powerful message.
My grandmother came from Vienna Austria way before the War but I could feel like I could have been there.
The World should never forget what happened. It was a real story about real people. The young lawyer in it was very cute too.
I loved it. Anyone else see it?

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I am very interested in seeing this movie, Joey. The paintings of Klimt are strange, haunting, and inspiring. The story of what happened to those paintings, during the Nazi era, is tragic. It's good for people to know about these things.

The young lawyer was played by the Canadian actor, Ryan Reynolds, and yes - he's very cute!

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO

 

[Ambivalent]

Thanks joey; I'll have to put this on my list to see.

There are several reasons I am so vehement about the world never forgetting The Holocaust, but it all started when I was in Jr. High. Growing up in Baltimore in the 40's, 50's and 60's most neighborhoods were ghettoized - by that I mean there were certain area which were predominantly one ethnic group or another. I grew up in a part of East Baltimore in an area more ethnically diverse than many, but predominantly Eastern European, Italian and religiously Catholic. And the public schools were organized based on where you lived. But I went to a public Jr. High to which kids could apply from all over the city and had to be accepted. This was when I met a significant number of Jews for the first time and became friends. During that time of course they arrived at the age for their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. I remember we Gentiles would be jealous because the Jewish kids would get out of school early one or two days a week to go to Hebrew school - lol. I was invited to several of the ceremonies and the receptions after. A few of them were just home affairs because the families were not able to afford the more lavish parties others could. It was during those smaller affairs that I got to meet and talk to the kids' grandparents and first learned about The Holocaust. None ever went into great detail about the horrors of the camps I imagine out of not wanting to scare young people and/or like so many of the Greatest Generation they just didn't want to talk about it. Of course as I aged and continued my education I became more knowledgeable about The War and The Holocaust my interest just deepened.

It is so important that Jew and Gentile alike keep this horror alive so that no one ever forgets this greatest example of man's inhumanity to man.

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Beautiful reminiscence, Stowe. You are quite right about how crucial it is, to remember.

"A" XOXOXOXOXO

 

[Ambivalent]

I have not seen it Joey, but I'm reminded of when I was a little boy living on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, one of my boyhood friends named Joseph lived in an apoartment building down the block, and I remember seeing his mother had writing and numbers printed in faded blue on her arm, and I found out that was her number when she was in a concentration camp in Germany. It was a powerful message to me at age six or seven, as I still remember being in the kitchen of their apartment, when I first noticed it.

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Hugs, Mike.

"A" XOXOXOXOXO

 

[DadBearWoof]

During the mid 1960's I was stationed in Germany. One day a group of us returning from leave took a tour of a concentration camp outside of Munich. To this day I can remember the barracks, the gas chamber and the ovens. It was one of the eirest experiences of my life. To any of the doubters out there that do not think the holocaust happened hop on a plane for Germany and take a tour of one of the camps, you will soon change your mind.

Looking forward to seeing the movie.