I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz

From YT:
"On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor's pop song - 'I Will Survive' at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.

This clip was first edited with the help of my friend Pisithpong Siraphisit who runs Compeung Art Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a celebration of life.

Despite the systematic brutality and cruelty endured, we have still survived."

See Pt 3, wherein the Auschwitz survivor experiences flashbacks and talks about what it is to have survived the holocaust: http://videosift.com/video/I-Will-Survive-Dancing-Auschwitz-Part3
ponceleonsays...

Fucking AWESOME!

Humor is one of best ways to deal with anything tragic. If you aren't laughing at your misfortune, you need to... The sight of this little old man trying to dance with his grand-kids is just pure fucking awesome!!

*promote
*quality

siftbotsays...

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ponceleon.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, July 12th, 2010 10:32am PDT - promote requested by ponceleon.

Samaelsmithsays...

Interesting. I totally get it and loved it but some small part of me was a little bemused and... um, put off(?) by the irreverant display at such grim sites. But hey, if anyone deserves to be irreverant, this guy definitely does. Wonderful.

DerHasisttotsays...

Survivor's guilt is bad, but survivor's gloat seems wrong to me. Dancing at their home or in their community I would have been totally behind them, but at the sites of torture and killing it seems wrong to me.

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