Word: plaszow
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...pain we have suffered or, perhaps even worse, inflicted -- they are what we try to escape. The Nazi scheme to exterminate Jews and other undesirables is one such nightmare image; and Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's drama about the man who saved 1,100 Jews from the Plaszow death camp, is essentially a plea by a preeminent popular artist that to remember is to speed the healing. Last week that moving Holocaust memorial became a mobile one, as the film opened in Germany, Poland and Israel -- the three countries where the atrocities were planned, executed and most poignantly commemorated...
...They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time I see one, the memories come back, and I can't sleep or work." Yet he went, as did scores of other Holocaust survivors, as well as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Ezer Weizman...
Amon Goeth, commandant of the Plaszow death camp, strides into the basement of his barracks mansion and sees his maid, the lovely Jewish internee Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz). He had chosen her as window dressing for the mausoleum he runs, but her strength and grace have touched him. For a crucial moment, on the face of actor Ralph Fiennes, evil pauses to consider itself. Could I have a decent feeling? Could I love this base creature, this beautiful thing, this Jewess? Just as quickly, and subtly, Fiennes' face tells us no. Goeth's fists flail out, not so much...
Long accounts of Jewish suffering and degradation at Nazi hands were beginning to get on Israeli nerves. Tel Aviv Magistrate Moshe Bejski was recounting how 15,000 inmates of Plaszow camp had been herded together to watch hangings in 1943. Snapped Prosecuting Attorney Gideon Hausner: "Fifteen thousand people were standing there and only a few hundred guards were facing you-why didn't you revolt and charge and attack these guards?" Staggered by the question, Bejski asked permission to sit, blurted: "After 18 years I cannot describe the feeling of fear . . . there was belief the war would...
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