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Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Témoignage : Hélène Broda, jamais sans sa sœur.
Sep 15, 2016 | Dénoncées par un milicien, Hélène et sa sœur cadette sont arrêtées à Limoges, début 1944. Elles seront déportées à Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Raghun, puis Terezin, toujours ensemble : "Je vivais pour elle et elle vivait pour moi". Témoignage recueilli en novembre 1995 pour la Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, basée à Los Angeles. Biographie Ses parents ont fui Lodz (Pologne) vers la France, où elle arrive, à 2 ans, en 1923. La famille s’installe à Nancy, où naît Juliette, sa sœur cadette. Lors de la débâcle, Hélène et les siens prennent la route vers le sud. Ils s’établissent près de Limoges, à Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), où Hélène termine ses études. Elle trouve ensuite un emploi de secrétaire, dans une compagnie d’assurance de Limoges. Elle s’intègre aussi aux réseaux locaux de la résistance. Dénoncées comme juives (mais pas comme résistantes) par un voisin que la famille fréquentait sans savoir qu’il était milicien, Hélène et Juliette sont arrêtées au début de 1944. Grâce à une complicité, elles réussissent à prévenir leurs parents, qui échappent de justesse à la Gestapo. A Drancy, Hélène croise le poète Max Jacob. Peu avant sa mort dans ce camp, il lui confie : "Le rayon de lumière que tu as dans les yeux, prends bien garde de le préserver et va jusqu’au bout !" Les deux sœurs sont déportées vers Birkenau (Auschwitz II) dans le convoi numéro 69, en mars 1944. Hélène et Juliette se serrent les coudes pour survivre : "Je vivais pour elle et elle vivait pour moi". En novembre 1944, elles sont transférées au camp de Bergen-Belsen en Allemagne, avec le commando de la musique d'Auschwitz. Puis, en février 1945, Hélène et sa sœur sont emmenées à Raghun. En chemin, elles tentent sans succès de s'évader. Juste avant la libération de ce camp de travail par les Britanniques, elles sont à nouveau déportées, vers le ghetto de Theresienstadt (Terezin, en tchèque), où Hélène devient la secrétaire du représentant de la Croix Rouge, tandis que sa sœur souffre du typhus. Les Russes les libèrent en mai 1945. Après de nouvelles péripéties, les deux sœurs sont rapatriées en avion à Lyon, le mois suivant. Elles retrouvent leurs parents en Haute-Vienne, qui avaient réussi à s'y cacher pendant toute la durée de la guerre. La famille revient à Nancy, où Hélène rencontre son mari. Sa sœur est décédée en 1992. "Elle aura eu, grâce à son courage, et à mon courage […], 47 ans de rémission", dit Hélène. Elle a écarté le ressentiment du reste de sa vie, heureuse : "En vouloir à qui ? A quels Allemands ? A quels Français ?"
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Friday, August 25, 2023
Music in Nazi Germany - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz | DW Documentary | Reupload
Nov 9, 2022 | Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight.
The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. While Furtwängler decided to stay in Germany and make a deal with the devil, Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the brutality of the death camp, with a cello as her only defense. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?
German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. In addition to Beethoven, Bach and Brucker, Richard Wagner was highly valued, because he was Hitler’s personal favorite. Hitler understood the power of music, and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels was in charge of music in the Nazi-controlled state.
This music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.
The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. While Furtwängler decided to stay in Germany and make a deal with the devil, Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the brutality of the death camp, with a cello as her only defense. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?
German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. In addition to Beethoven, Bach and Brucker, Richard Wagner was highly valued, because he was Hitler’s personal favorite. Hitler understood the power of music, and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels was in charge of music in the Nazi-controlled state.
This music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.
Sunday, November 13, 2022
The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz | DW Documentary
Nov 9, 2022 | Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight.
The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. While Furtwängler decided to stay in Germany and make a deal with the devil, Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the brutality of the death camp, with a cello as her only defense. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?
German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. In addition to Beethoven, Bach and Brucker, Richard Wagner was highly valued, because he was Hitler’s personal favorite. Hitler understood the power of music, and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels was in charge of music in the Nazi-controlled state.
This music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.
The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. While Furtwängler decided to stay in Germany and make a deal with the devil, Lasker-Wallfisch struggled to survive the brutality of the death camp, with a cello as her only defense. Why did gifted artists like Furtwängler make a pact with evil? Why was classical music played in extermination camps? And how did this change the way victims saw music?
German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. In addition to Beethoven, Bach and Brucker, Richard Wagner was highly valued, because he was Hitler’s personal favorite. Hitler understood the power of music, and his chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels was in charge of music in the Nazi-controlled state.
This music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.
Friday, February 07, 2020
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
Alltag Holocaust: eine KZ-Aufseherin erinnert sich | Panorama | NDR
Friday, June 26, 2015
Queen Visits Site of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
The Queen is visiting the site of the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war and concentration camps on Friday, the final day of her state visit to Germany.
The chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who will join the Queen for part of her tour of the site, said the trip would be seen by Jewish communities around the globe as “tremendously significant”.
The camps were liberated by British troops 70 years ago, and the site is now a memorial to those who died at the hands of the Nazis.
It will be the Queen’s first trip to a former concentration camp and a personal reflective visit for the monarch, with a minimum of ceremony. » | Press Association | Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday, November 06, 2009
LE MONDE: Des extraits du journal d'Anne Frank ont été coupés d'un manuel scolaire au Liban à la suite d'une campagne du Hezbollah, selon qui l'ouvrage fait la promotion du sionisme. La polémique a éclaté après que le Hezbollah eut appris qu'un manuel scolaire utilisé par un établissement privé de la capitale contenait des extraits du Journal d'Anne Frank.
Al-Manar, la chaîne de télévision du Hezbollah, a dénoncé l'ouvrage, estimant qu'il se concentre sur la persécution des Juifs. "Ce qui est plus dangereux encore est la manière dramatique et théâtrale dont le journal est relaté, il est chargé d'émotion", estime la chaîne dans un reportage diffusé la semaine dernière. Il se demande pour combien de temps encore le Liban "restera une arène ouverte pour l'invasion sioniste de l'éducation". >>> LeMonde.fr avec AFP | Vendredi 06 Novembre 2009
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
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