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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eskimo2 on March 07, 2007, 11:55:58 AM
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(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2007/mar/with_arnold_friedman.jpg)
Holocaust survivor and speaker Arnold Friedman with a fellow teacher and myself.
His story of survival was amazing and horrifying. I was chaperoning an eighth grade field trip to a Holocaust Education program at Congregation Shaarey Tikvah Synagogue in Beachwood, Ohio. Two thirds of the way into his talk I realized that I had a pocket camera and could film a clip, so I did. In his 80’s he still has a heavy Czechoslovakian accent; you will need to turn up the volume and listen carefully, but it’s an amazing story. The camera films 640x480 res. at 10 fps, so I compressed it a lot to get the 11.5 minute talk down to 13 MB.
http://hallbuzz.com/movies/2007/arnold_friedman.wmv
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2007/mar/holocaust_museum.jpg)
The Holocaust Museum at Congregation Shaarey Tikvah Synagogue.
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I also learned a lot about the Jewish faith. Above is a A handwritten Hebrew parchment scroll (basically the first five books of the Old Testament). It takes a writer an entire year to produce one.
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The written surface of the scroll should never be touched; a special pointer is used. This section is part of the ten commandments. Old Hebrew has no vowels, punctuation or spaces and reads from right to left.
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And if you make a mistake, you get to start all back over from the beginning. Amazing story!
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good stuff :aok
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What's with the orb in the second picture? According to late inght radio, it has some ethereal significance.
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thanks for sharing.
My old humanities teacher's father survived the holocaust. It was very sobering seeing a man with a serial number tattooed to his arm. He still had a jacket with a sewn on Jewish star that he was forced to wear before he was sent to a "final solution" camp.
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I've seen these people in public on three occassions, though I've only spoken to one old gentleman who wanted to unload his story, which was a living nightmare. The tattoos identify them. Thanks for the post.
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I once stayed at a B&B in San Francisco run by a survivor. I must admit that seeing that number tattooed on his arm came as quite a shock to me.
It's one thing to read about something that happened before you were born and quite another to meet someone who was there and suffered though it.
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SNACKS! FLIP-FLOPS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tt7NYkPPSg
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HAHA...The look on LD's face at the end when his mother - in- law says "Somebody get a spunge" is priceless
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Originally posted by cav58d
SNACKS! FLIP-FLOPS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tt7NYkPPSg
I didn't find that funny. Especially since my Aunt's Mother and Father emigrated from Poland, barely spoke any English, and were Auschwitz survivors. But every time I saw them, they'd smile, and they also had tattoos. I'm sorry, I cannot joke around with stuff like that.
I have a sense of humor, but that is over the top.
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I worked part time with a nice older lady named Helen in the medical records department of a clinic in Skokie in the early 1980s. We never discussed her time in the camps, but you could catch a glimpse of the tatoo on occasion.
Charon
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I must agree with Masherbrum, you can't joke around with concentration camps, especially Auschwitz!