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. Did you know that some of your white teachers happened to be Jewish or anything? Castlemont. For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and . Diana Reiter is on Facebook. All the kids admit today they didn't behave appropriately during the movie. Diana Reiter. And I remember somebody-- I think one of the teachers was recording it. The last lines . Ah, an educated Jew like Karl Marx himself. A man exits one of the confessionals, sees me, shakes his head and says, "Amazing idea." What did you need in the ghetto in order not to be killed by the Nazis? See Diana E Reiter's compensation, career history, education, & memberships. And he opened things up to the floor. It wasn't just her thought. The names are read aloud on a loop in the adjacent darkened atrium lined with benches. The Life Summary of Diana. I saw Schindler's List twice in school by my 15th birthday. He said no. And it's all so numbing that maybe this is the whole point. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. And if I did, I didn't know they were Jewish. That should be headline news. You're clapping? They waved signs around that spanned from the pointed "How can a Zionist Jew teach us about racism and oppression?" Our program was produced today by Nadia Reiman and Chana Joffe-Walt. Reiter One afternoon two weeks later, Steven Spielberg came back. There were 500 people in the theater that day watching one of the most upsetting films of the 20th century, and some of them-- the teenagers-- were laughing and carrying on. A brief film introduces the exhibition's narrator . School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Faculty Publications. It gave us-- it gave me relief. The teacher had made arrangements ahead of time, but no one remembered him calling. Schindler's List (1993) Elina Lwensohn as Diana Reiter. And I only thought of one thing, and that is, I have a riot situation on my hands. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born July 11, 1966 Add to list That was cold.". One guest teacher explained that racism has 54 components to it. That was an appropriate reaction. Special thanks today to Keeli Shaw, Sundar Ramun, Kathryn Braund, Scotty Kirkland, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Guy Hubbs, Jason Edward Black, Christopher D. Haveman, Will Dahlberg, Tilia Wilton-Johnson , Otto Grimwood , Brandi Mack, Rose Thornwell, Jerry Wolfe, Mark Rader, Roy Arce, Jay Shilliday, Sam Greenspan, and Lauren Elliott at Amblin Partners. Europe),chose to exterminate Jews. Aaron Grumet was a geometry teacher at Castlemont and had been one of the teachers on the original field trip. Nathaniel didn't even know if he'd ever met someone who was Jewish. And the way they chose to respond was to say that these kids, who'd grown up in the rough, open flatlands, had seen so much violence-- seen people shot, had guns pulled on them-- that they were desensitized to it. I told Oskar that the list he was looking at was accurate but Oskar wanted to know my name. What does that mean? A lot of kids really liked her. We are sorry for the disruption. Tracy again. Because we need new books, and our lockers are broke, and the bleachers have holes. 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. And if you're a person of different color, it's very difficult for you to pretend you're another culture. And I remember thinking, wow, this is just nuts, you know? It looks unnatural. Diana Reiter, Piasek, Krakw. In the early 1930s Ernst became a Jehovah's Witness. : I see your visit to Oakland, a city plagued with poverty, from different views. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. Deniers of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of around 6 million Jewish people in World War II, either deny that such a genocide took place or minimize its extent. Why would I accept an invitation to a $700 million refutation of everything we tried to practice, a gleaming monument to what happened, not what happened to us? Technical Specs. [about to be shot] But I also see-- wait a minute-- but I also see the entire political fiasco as an opportunity to vent the anger, and the spite, and the animosity I feel toward your entire time in office. Yeah, so she reacted to the same thing in the speech that I reacted to. And even though there was no school, the teacher was known for his great field trips, so 70 kids showed up. The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. And it was saying, Castlemont High School students get kicked out the theater. That's when I remember a lot of students were like, oh! And a lot of the students and faculty never got in. An impressive and well-informed monograph with a sophisticated theoretical . Her second book, The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. I have not done this, but I present a case number, which means the official from the medical examiner's office can indeed let me through. That was so uncomfortable. There were dozens of presentations about a variety of topics. We don't look like anybody else that's standing in line, but no one said anything to us. It was clear the administration had to respond publicly. Ms. Now he teaches special education. And, did your family own slaves? I don't know. Why are documentaries like 'Shoah' and 'Night and Fog' considered acceptable by this rule, while 'Schindler's List' is not? But after hearing it, though, you look it up in a dictionary, and you figure out what it is. She started her film career in 1991 with Theory of Achievement. This category is for trivia questions and answers related to. The kids were trying to apologize for their behavior, for the way that they behaved. So the marker's titled "The Indian Fires Are Going Out," in quotes. I don't know how to feel about the matter because to do so would require any of this making even a bit of sense. But it wasn't like-- you have to understand that a lot of the kids didn't really differentiate Jewish people from all white people, so they weren't necessarily saying, oh, all Jews are blah. Remember.org - The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivors' History. So I went into the projection room and I told projectionist, I said, stop the film. In the years 19301931 she was a technical officer, gave opinions on the designs of newly built buildings in Krynica and dealt with appeals against decisions of the Krakw construction authorities. I think there might have been applause. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. Due to the economic situation, she was dismissed at the end of 1931. 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. about 1920-February 1943 (Age 23) Poland. And I said, would the class field trip from Castlemont School please assemble in the lobby? But he probably said it as, Aw, man. Through the late 1930s, many of these families exchanged cards, letters and pictures across the . There is one small room on the main floor of the museum that is not, in fact, operated by the museum itself and is not available even to many of the families. Angry. They weren't kids who goofed off on a field trip. 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. 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. BA Parker has worked on our show, and she also incidentally used to be a film professor, and she tells what happened. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepoomice. Aaron Grumet, the math teacher, says it was all very hush-hush. 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. I remember one scene. Not only were there all these government officials hanging around, and security, and the national press, but hundreds of protesters marched up and down the street outside the school, many of them from the Nation of Islam. And he wrote this for Buzzfeed back when the museum opened. Remember the Children: Daniel's Story is the Museum's primary exhibition program for young people and their families. It's starting to come back to me now, everything. I mean, first of all, super sad. Days beforehand, a bunch of workers came to campus to carry out this whole beautification campaign. Let me just say that--. And she told me, as they were researching, they were hoping to find evidence that this wasn't exactly right, that maybe the interpreter had messed up or something else was wrong about this speech. 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. On the day of the assembly, she roamed the halls, hoping for a Spielberg sighting. Her body was very involved. There was a lot of violence in the movie. 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. Many survivors turned to writing about their experiences.Beyond a mere . She is . I went down into the lobby, and there were several dozen very angry, agitated people that were screaming at the manager-- what are you going to do about this? But I have now become satisfied that they're not unfriendly toward us, that they wish us well.". Two years later, their only child, Edith, was born. Exactly. No one bats an eye. Castlemont kids were black, Pacific Islander, and Latino. Our senior producer is Brian Reed. And then it was over. 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." I was like, how are we bigger than the earthquake? She's Latino. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Ja, I'm doing mine. And it's three hours long and in black and white. 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 you should have to see for yourself how little your pain matters to a family of five who just need to get some food before the kids melt down. The longtime Vancouver resident, who died Sunday, recalled that pivotal chapter in her life in a 2006 Colu It is based on Schindler's Ark, a 1982 book by Thomas Keneally. For BP: Nancy Milburn and Diana Reiter of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. Other families feel the opposite. Yeah, I'm doing mine. My name is Diana Reiter. Kandi got in trouble for this-- was reprimanded by the principal, vilified in letters to the editor, just like the kids had been before. Almost everybody we talked to made a point of mentioning it. She bounces abruptly, up and down again, into the snow. No. And now that they've been reprimanded, they're going to try to be better people. Shoot her. She's the English and History teacher, and she organized a day-long black history teach-in, or African Holocaust Day. Who played me? Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. But that plot isn't clear for a long, long time. Lynched-- ropes tied around their necks and hung from trees for 100 years-- hung from trees, all these names, black people. I want to say Mr. Finkelstein. And everybody was talking about it-- in class, outside of class. If you would have asked me when I was 15, I would've told you no. I'm only trying to do my job. Herr Kommandant, the entire foundation has to be torn down and re-poured. Diana received her bachelor's degree in Letters and Arts from Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania, and a master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Administration from Pace University, where she graduated with honors and was recognized with the Outstanding Student of the Year Award: For Excellence in the Within Castlemont, what happened on the field trip just became known as "the incident." Are you coming back? But in this speech, to me, it seems like Yoholo Micco is not only shaking their hand, but he's giving them a hug or even a kiss goodbye. But Tanzania told me and my producer, Sean Cole, that, as the students walked out of the theater, the audience definitely knew it. They learned how white people read them and their behavior and how quickly they get labeled. A Zionist Jew-- Steven Spielberg is a Zionist Jew. They were applauding. So there's no grave to visit. This is from a local call-in show, Flashpoints, that was featured in a documentary called Blacks and Jews from the mid-90s. A box of tissues sits on a wooden bench, and a family huddle silently looking through a window. We were offensive in some of our actions. This recording is from the Blacks and Jews documentary, which has a long section on Castlemont. That can harden you really quick. Diana Reiter [Reiterwna] (November 6, 1902 1943) was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Krakw. This time, it was unannounced-- no media. She had roles in the films Simple Men (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amateur (1994), Nadja (1994) and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998). Halls B1, C1, Entrance West +49 89 949-21121 +49 89 949-21129. Some kids in the theater laughing while blood poured out of the woman's head. Trending. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. This story begins with a random encounter with history. All we did was get kicked out of the theater. If you find Lownsohn, a native of Bucharest, Romania was cast as Diana Reiter in "Schindler's List". The high school administration decided it needed to nip this controversy in the bud. Well, I was in one of those classes, and what they were talking about was basically how slave ships were owned by Jews. Josef Bau was one of the people who is seen forging papers for Schindler's workforce. 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--. This is Tracy. And no one quite makes eye contact with anyone else, and that's just fine. After the death of her father, a Holocaust survivor, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike to get a visa for her. | Yeah. There are FDNY T-shirts and search-and-rescue sweatshirts. Or maybe worse, watch that pain be co-opted by people who want, for whatever reason, to feel that connection so acutely. The Riemers lived in an apartment building that housed offices of the Communist Party of Germany. And so recently, Brian decided to look into it. Ye. 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. I was just like, wait a minute. And even after trying to research it, what we're left with is our own personal reactions and feelings. S.S. Guard No, I take that back. But now that I'm an adult, I could see why people were clapping. 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. And they're like, oh, we're great. After having children, I sought to find a career that was more flexible than law, yet equally challenging and rewarding. An anguished Zygmunt, who had held onto the diary during Renia's brief time in hiding . We don't understand our own Holocaust, because I'm black and Indian. 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. Hujar Well, I talked to one woman, named RaeLynn Butler. 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