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I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz Part3

submitted by Skeeve

1 decade 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago

From YT:
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 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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I don't believe he's having a flashback. I think he's just showing them what he said, or what others said, or what he remembers. People are very quick to judge the elderly. Remember, they're me and you, only older.

If he himself stated that he was having a flashback, my guess is that he was just embarassed to admit he was improv'ing for people. He knew what he was doing, he's as smart as you or me - just older.

While you are thinking about flashback in the psychological sense - "recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations," - I'm sure the people meant flashback in the typical, layman sense, "a memory of the past; a portrayal of the past in a story".

Over on YT the poster has been defending her father from people who think he has dementia, etc. As you said, he's as smart as you or me - just older.
>> ^dannym3141:

I don't believe he's having a flashback. I think he's just showing them what he said, or what others said, or what he remembers. People are very quick to judge the elderly. Remember, they're me and you, only older.
If he himself stated that he was having a flashback, my guess is that he was just embarassed to admit he was improv'ing for people. He knew what he was doing, he's as smart as you or me - just older.

Fairly said.

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