Saturday, December 15, 2018

Reissue of Schindler's List: Omits extermination of Roma in holocaust totals

Schindler's List notes its 25th anniversary, and is a fine film for the experience of many European Jews.  The introduction by Stephen Spielberg, however, should have included for historical accuracy and human fairness, a correction to the use of 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust as being all Jews In reality, an unknown but large number were Roma, See, for example, https://www.thoughtco.com/gypsies-and-the-holocaust-1779660.  And homosexuals and others deemed unworthy.

In 1990, a valiant attempt was made to focus the attention of one of the camps, Mauthausen in Austria, on its impact on Roma, Gypsies.  See  Austria Road Ways; and  https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/07/world/mauthausen-journal-at-a-death-camp-gypsies-confront-indifference.html.  The camp is largely intact, buildings, functions, the quarry for forced labor and related killings, inside is a display including:


There is extensive non-English research:  for example, click on the translation for the search we entered, for "Ausrottung der Zigeuner")(this site is not secure) http://www.sintiundroma.de/sinti-roma/ns-voelkermord/vernichtung.html.  The documentation center in Nuremburg has more: http://www.sintiundroma.de/start.html.  Move down the list of countries, areas with documentation of the extermination. 

Our nominal Car-Dan Tour Company (just Dan and me) have visited camps including Buchenwald,  Bergen-Belsen. See Germany Road Ways; and Auschwitz, see Poland Road Ways

Thursday, December 13, 2018

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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Romani jazz Django Reinhardt emerges from a novel

Talent. Himself.
 ah wippa shhh lop lop

A Romani 1910-1953- see the biographical film
that accompanies his Three-Fingered Lightning

Three-Fingered Lightning, there also with Stephane Grappelli  on violin
Nuages 

Here's a loop  
bing stroo pip


Clouds

A terrible fire permanently curled some of his fingers http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html
Paris
diddly diddly whoop aoh!

Djangology  Djangology

Born in Belgium, nomadic
de de de bumpa doo wah
Relatives, many gone in the WWII KZ

Minor Swing Minor Swing
Gotta make a mix of this and just loop it all day    I Got Rhythm    I Got Rhythm
zanga la loo lee bwingo flipflip

Daphne Daphne
Belleville Belleville

Caravans
Rarely played a song twice in the same way  Sheik of Araby

Meet him today in the novel, The Girl Who Took An Eye for an Eye --  David Lagerkrantz,
Lisbeth Salander back,
kick back and put her in the cafe, in the curling smoke, inhaled up the nose,  before she explodes and POW

Django up there, just looks over
And nods

images of old film unlikely violin
a character, two characters, absorbing every tone