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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