'Creative Resistance' in the Nazi Camps

Holocaust research has traditionally portrayed Jews as passive victims but Stanford scholars John and Mary Felstiner study how some took up the pen, the paintbrush or the piano to send a message to future generations.

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Education

Tags:

• arts
• humanities
• creativity
• Nazi Germany
• resistance movement
• Holocaust

[grunder20]

back in the days? man, i really am lucky i was born in the new age.

[windthorpe1]

@BadgerinSC i'm sorry, I don't think so. I'm just tired of reading all of you poor "revisionists", trying to demonstrate that Shoah never happened. You are just poor people. The nazis already tried to destroy any evidence of their crimes... luckly somebody did fight against oblivion. It's so easy not to imagine or trying to understand, but please read a little bit more: the structure called "crematorium" indicates the buildings with gas chambers and hovens inside.

[zombiekiller117]

I've got to ask,how do you get access to paints and paintbrushes and musical instruments in a "death camp" ? Between the art supplies,music instruments and the swimming pool and brothal at Aushwitz it seems less and less like a prison and more and more like a holiday fun resort !!!

[TheRationalizer]

@wijse

>People do not hate people for nothing.

Sure they do. They also hate them for minor things, and exaggerated + incorrect assumptions/stereotypes.

Freud noted that people tend to hate more those who are most similar to themselves but slightly different.

[wijse]

@TheRationalizer Jews have always found ways to maximize the profits out of everything. Did you know since around 170 bc the Jews have been expelled 77 times from 77 different cities. It makes you wonder that they might be the cause of their own demise, people do not hate people for nothing.

[wijse]

@TheRationalizer Rationalize this. Qui Bono? Who have profited the most from the Holocaust? They received Israel and they have extorted billions of money out of the Holocaust industry. Everytime there is somekind of criticism of Israel and the Jews, you can bet there is going to be some kind of new focus on the plight of the Jews and the Holocaust. A new documentary, book, study or movie.

[wijse]

Too bad the 40+ million Russian Christians and 20+ million Ukrainian Christians that the Communist Jewish Leaders in the NKVD slaughtered and starved to death didn't have a 'creative resistance' movement.

[BadgerinSC]

So the Nazis killed people "in the crematorium"? (Where one cremates an already dead corpse) Utter nonsense. The greatest hoax ever perpetrated in recorded history.

[jimj122680]

Wait a minute.... I thought these were "death camps". But the jew prisoners were allowed by the "evil" SS guards to paint, write poetry, and perform classical music.

[DandJRuffin]

Why are these scholars trying to define and re-define the motives of people they have not met? Wy are they inventing such an expression as "creative resistance"? I have a feeling they consider it shameful not to risk ones neck and simply try to survive? Why is it wrong to simply cope with a situation instead of revolting? What are they trying to accomplish? I don't understand ...