She was just a person who happened to have gotten to work a little early on a Tuesday morning. And it kind of ricocheted around from person to person, piercing into each one this bullet of information from the past. I'm like, wow, it's so amazing that you're here today. I think there might have been applause. The students of Castlemont had been thrust into a dizzying adult world of bigotry and bylines. 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. I do not believe our great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. But after hearing it, though, you look it up in a dictionary, and you figure out what it is. Halls B1, C1, Entrance West +49 89 949-21121 +49 89 949-21129. Diana Reiter, Piasek, Krakw. Contact Diana Querrey & Harrow 175 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL, 60604 Diana Marie Reiter 10843 Frank Ln Orland Park, IL, 60467-4601 View 1 other location Reviews Write A Review Not yet reviewed. And if you're a person of different color, it's very difficult for you to pretend you're another culture. We're not numb to it. And there was one woman that was in tears. Yeah. Much criticism of 'Schindler's List' centers around respect for victims of the Holocaust. It says legislators teared up at the speech. There'd been a huge earthquake in California the day before-- 6.7 magnitude. If you're not familiar with Schindler's List, basically, Oskar Schindler, a real-life German businessman played by Liam Neeson, tricks the Nazis into letting him save 1,200 Jewish people in Poland. We understood this and respected it. Quiz: The Austrian woman is credited with helping rescue 7,500 mostly Serbian children from wartime Croatia's death camps. After the newspaper articles, a barrage of angry phone calls flooded into Castlemont High School, many of them from the local Jewish community. I'll probably bring my kids one day, once I realize I won't have the words to explain. Diana served as the UK Coordinator for John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaign, and was the lead fundraiser abroad for Barack Obama's race in 2008. In the days and years after, this was less of a mantra than our only way forward, to find a way to separate what happened from what happened to us. And for the first time, her Jewishness was a topic of interest. and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. Or so they thought. A soot-coated bike rack, as it was found. At least, that's how I felt when I was a teenager and my teacher showed us the film. I'm only trying to do my job. I think now of every war memorial I ever yawned through on a class trip, how someone else's past horror was my vacant diversion. Stella, by Peter Wyden is an eloquent yet straightforward documentation about the life of Stella Goldschlag, who was responsible for turning over countless Jews to the Gestapo and their ultimate death. The president addressing the nation and vowing steely, determined revenge. 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. Bjoern.Lanna@messe-muenchen.de. They were anti-Semites. Yeah, I'm doing mine. And well, were you raised racist? And I was thinking the same thing in my head. Oh, we're just here for the day. : It's basically a comparative study of the attitudes towards Jews in two neighboring territories, which is Bessarabia and Transnistria. There were still two more hours and 20 minutes of the film that they never got through-- the film that they hadn't been properly prepared for and that they hadn't been taught. Never once during this press conference did the principal or any of the teachers make a statement. And they're like, oh, we're great. Ah, an educated Jew like Karl Marx himself. And he opened things up to the floor. And one of them asked why the Jewish people didn't just pretend that they were German so as not to be killed. Spielberg said he wanted it to be just them-- no hard feelings, no agenda. For a film about a concentration camp, Schindler's List has a fair amount of sex and titillating nudity in it, which, again, weird thing to show a bunch of high school kids on a field trip. And they would just look at me like, oh no, she didn't. You would see some people get up that were not students and head out the theater. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Tracy Wilson was one of the students on the field trip, a freshman. And I was going like, who spends money to see a film on the Holocaust just to disrupt it? How did it feel to hear that from an adult? The events of the day have already been exploited and sold in ways previously incomprehensible. Or, man, that was crazy. Recommended: Ages 8 and up. In 19321934 she worked in the office of Kazimierz Kulczyski, making architectural drawings.[3]. Her mother was a dancer in Bucharest. There were dozens of presentations about a variety of topics. I was just like, wait a minute. Because we need new books, and our lockers are broke, and the bleachers have holes. We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. Reiter In the years 19281931 she worked in the Directorate of Public Works of the Provincial Office in Krakw[2] with two other architects, Zdzisaw Kowalski and Adam Moscheni. You know, white people this, or blah. You've got to do something about this. "Narrating the Holocaust thus offers considerable insight into texts that are not well known, particularly to English readers." - Adrienne Kertzer, The European Legacy (Adrienne Kertzer, The European Legacy) "In Narrating the Holocaust, Andrea Reiter breaks ground in two ways.First, she focuses on a wide range of testimonies written by survivors, most of which have not been available to a . It's just when you're seeing it and you're looking at it, it's like, how do you cope with it? Tanzania was there. 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 what I remember was that all the politicians and dignitaries were there and got their seats in the front. Diana works to help students find and understand the connections between the real world and the academic world. It was cold. 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. 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 . And I stopped by a store that was close by the school, and I looked down at the newspapers. My name is Diana Reiter and I live in Orland Park with my husband and our two children. That's all I could say. And he showed us documents from where he had gotten out of Washington DC that stated that. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Our managing editor is Susan Burton. Das Land nimmt den gesamten stlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel ein und grenzt im Norden an Rumnien, im Westen an Serbien und Nordmazedonien, im Sden an Griechenland . The general or the guy in charge there--. And like you said, the one student was like, oh wow, that was cold. Yeah. That should only be in sex education, not on this screen. I helped save the lives of many Jews. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. I am allowed to enter the 9/11 museum a few days before the grand opening for the general public, but why would I want that? For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and . Yes. Who played me? A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. Diana E Reiter is Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. As soon as they got there, they noticed that almost all of the other patrons were white. But this time, it was for something she really cared about. The Riemers lived in an apartment building that housed offices of the Communist Party of Germany. Remember, this all began with a field trip to teach kids tolerance. A wing for Pennsylvania and the Pentagon, tape loops of survivors telling how they got out, smoke and fire and ash and twisted metal and the husk of an ambulance. I didn't do anything. In the years 1928-1931 she worked in the Directorate of Public Works of the Provincial Office in Krakw[2] with two other architects, Zdzisaw Kowalski and Adam Moscheni. And what we found was, yes, the speech really did occur in the Muskogee language, interpreted into English at the legislature. Company Credits And I said, wait a minute. Remember.org - The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivors' History. And it explains that the Trail of Tears led thousands of Creek Indians through Tuscaloosa, back when it was the capital of Alabama, on their way to the West as they were being driven from that part of the country. I personally thanked Mr. Schindler for giving me a job. And that's when I recall the giggle, shall I say. So that same week as the field trip, by the end of the week, they organized a press conference, and the students were strongly encouraged to speak. House Party 3 was also playing that day. - Sergeant! I was very confused when I read the speech because--. Another influential argument is that the movie presents a skewed view of the Holocaust, in that: I told Oskar that I did not have to like Ms. Klonowska. Because you sure figured out how to come today. And we didn't want to be there, so probably heard some [CLICKS TONGUE] aw, man, teeth-sucking, attitude. 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. Europe),chose to exterminate Jews. The county in which Oakland sits voted overwhelmingly against Pete Wilson in the 1990 election. Unterscharfhrer! And I felt embarrassed by that. Who played me? Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. They weren't kids who goofed off on a field trip. No. And if I ran into anybody else who I knew had some influence, I was going to say the same thing. Aaron Grumet, the math teacher, says it was all very hush-hush. | To the management and patrons at the Grand Lake Theatre and anyone else who was offended by our actions, we apologize for any discomfort and pain we may have caused you. By Melody Amsel-Arieli. Those who stayed in the theater were shushed several times by the other patrons and also an usher and a chaperone. Yeah. [1] Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. Imagine a '90s era high school picture day. So but the people who are Creek, what did they make of it? Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. But Tanzania told me and my producer, Sean Cole, that, as the students walked out of the theater, the audience definitely knew it. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. I find the ticket booth, exhale deeply, and say the magic words. 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. Instead of sitting up here on the stage like a performer, I'd like to be right down there in the center, among all of you. You cannot sit here and fill me with your knowledge until I have my own. They also learned how to steel yourself against all of that. Anisa Rasheed felt the same way as her students. 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. Reiter, Bernd, "If Germany Atoned for the Holocaust, the US Can Pay Reparations for Slavery" (2019). He always wants extra ice in the shaker. Laura Abrams was the school social worker at Castlemont at the time. And people will find moments of grace or enlightenment or even peace coming here. Hi, I'm the student body president at Castlemont High, Kandi Stewart, and I would like to introduce our student speakers for today, which is Tracy Wilson--. They were going to see a film that covers some history. Governor Wilson gave a pretty formal recitation about his Holocaust education initiative. That was cold.". This is from a local call-in show, Flashpoints, that was featured in a documentary called Blacks and Jews from the mid-90s. [4] In the years 193134 she was a member of the Union of Architects of the Krakw Province, renamed the Association of Architects of the Republic of Poland and the Union of Jewish Engineers (from 1937). Photos and Memories (0) Do you know Diana? Allen, the theater owner, didn't know when he stopped the movie that the Castlemont students were kids of color, mostly black. Governor Wilson and his policies seemed like a direct threat to things that really mattered to her. Tucked away off to the side, behind an unmarked door, it is overseen by the medical examiner's office. This is the Maafa. Nathanial Osborne was a senior when he went on the field trip. But also, I read it and reread it, and I just wondered, is this speech kind of subversive in some way? 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. Josef Bau was one of the people who is seen forging papers for Schindler's workforce. They were tired of talking about how ignorant they were. Whose perspective is that? Give the truth to the youth. According to analyst Miriam Braatu Hansen, which of the following 'gimmicks' created the most moral (not artistic) outrage among his critics? Amon Goeth Thanks, as always, to our program's cofounder, Mr. Torey Malatia. He shot her! I felt embarrassed. Born: April 11, 1915 Graz, Austria Austria . In fact, one of the school administrators said she was happy the students reacted that way because she knew it had affected them. This is Tracy. Hall C3, C4, North Entrance +49 89 949 21124. And I remember he started talking, asking them questions. All we did was get kicked out of the theater. They wanted to talk about something else. This is Tanzania Enskip, also a freshman on the field trip. For BP: Nancy Milburn and Diana Reiter of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. I get that. This piece goes into some detail about 9/11. They leave almost instantly, and I can now see what is on the other side of the window-- aisles of dark-stained wood cabinets of rosewood or teak, maybe, floor to ceiling, lit by small, overhead spotlights. His sister, Shari, had died in the Twin Towers. This recording is from the Blacks and Jews documentary, which has a long section on Castlemont. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] (November 6, 1902 1943) was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. So it was a very, very poignant question on these 14-year-old kids. There were those bold ones that asked the question. I don't know. He tells me my family is welcome whenever the museum is open and leads me to a cramped, dark space but does not follow. JSTREETPAC Board Member. She said it was going to cave in. It did not sound accurate to me. And that was horrible and heartbreaking and difficult enough without the extra weight. Did it bum you out when you heard about this speech? Review Diana Cost We have not found any cost information for this lawyer Contact for Details Resume Education They were applauding. 617.349.8970. direiter@lesley.edu. 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). And these people in the lobby, some of them told Allen they were family of Holocaust survivors. Is this a foreign film? He talks about how we're being driven from our homes, and then, in the same breath, goes on to say, this is for the betterment of our people. Or--, What one of the Castlemont kids-- we don't know who-- actually said-- the five words that would come to define this incident-- "Oh, man. Lwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. You know, I made him a martini. If you find Quiz: She's the manager of historic and cultural preservation at the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. And I absolutely, when I heard about this incident--. Diana E. Reiter Partner New York Tel +1 212.836.7452 diana.reiter@arnoldporter.com vCard Diana Reiter's practice focuses on complex civil litigation. 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. To this end, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says it best. The general or the guy in charge there-- . One of the protesters was a little more specific. They waved signs around that spanned from the pointed "How can a Zionist Jew teach us about racism and oppression?" Diana Reiter. Who played me? Now they were fed up and defensive. Oh God, we have to sit through this to go skating? Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Due to the economic situation, she was dismissed at the end of 1931. It was like 70/30 split. In time gone by, I have thought that the white men wanted to bring burden and ache of heart among my people in driving them from their homes and yoking them with laws they do not understand. It just seemed to go a little bit too far. Between 1881 and 1914, millions of Jews left Eastern Europe to seek religious freedom or economic advancement. So basically, Brian stumbled upon this random bit of history three years ago. Bulgarien (bulgarisch [bg'arij]; amtliche Bezeichnung seit 1990 Republik Bulgarien, bulgarisch ) ist eine Republik in Sdosteuropa mit etwa 6,5 Millionen Einwohnern. Something arch that went right over the heads of the legislators at the time and also over the heads of the Alabama Historical Association when they approved this marker over a century and a half later. - Yes, sir! This is to Governor Wilson. 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? 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