I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz.Part3

This clip complements the previous two clips in the series 'I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz.'
In June 2009, I, together with my father, my four children and niece, travelled to Poland to retrace my parents' past. While on a cattle wagon at Radagost Station in Lodz, my father experiences flashbacks. He reenacts the memory of his three-day journey in a similar cattle wagon, heading to Auschwitz, 65 years earlier, and appears to enter a trancelike state. In his native tongue, he carries on an improvised dialogue with the imaginary peasants he passed on the way.
This clip also raises my own personal concerns as a Jew. I ask my father: 'Do I look like a 'JEW?' I ask my mother: 'If you had your time again, would you choose to be Jewish?' and I ask my daughter: 'What did you feel when you returned to Australia?'

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Education

[pavenis]

You should have just let the man talk and not turned torture and death into entertainment. This is not a computer game or a stage show, kids.

[janekorman]

@pavenis We know it's not light entertainment. Our motives were explicitly to acknowledge the horror, and then to defy it by the 3 generations dancing to life.

[nashwok]

What is the boy singing at the end? xD

[janekorman]

@nashwok He is singing a made up song while his sister is recording him. He is counting from one to ten in Polish because that's all he knows in Polish. The clip is cut when he starts to make an ugly face and just before he says 'I am a Jew, what will you do?! I didn't include this because I thought the work needed to be more subtle. x Jane

[lislippiatt]

thank you for allowing your son to enter our life and draw our attention to your work

Nicky and Daniel

Edinburgh

[janekorman]

@lislippiatt

Wow - how fantastic to hear from you and your glowing comment. I think it's thanks to you and opening your home to Gil - this act keeps the good things in the world continuing. Thank you so much for having Gil.

Warm wishes.

Jane

[bunburina]

Dear Jane, thank you so much for uploading these videos! This really is the ultimate victory statement, a true celebration of being alive! Don't listen to the naysayers - you've got it right. Life is about laughing, dancing, and sharing these moments with your loved ones. And therein lies the Nazis’ biggest crime – stealing this happiness from all those who perished during the Holocaust. I wish I could give you, and your entire family a big hug.

[ranahalprin]

BRAVO !!!! LET HIM DANCE AWAY THE TEARS AND CELEBRATE LIFE !!!

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[CelticAngloPress]

@lislippiatt

Holohoax lmao you're a disgrace.

Edinburgh.

[clintonearlwalker]

There is a video of the grandson of Rudolph Hoess visiting the camp. It is surreal in a place that is as probably as "surreal" as any place on Earth.

[janekorman]

@petertownend

ha ha. Got you angry. and learn to spell

[petertownend]

@janekorman busy nah so fook off you paedo yid