He Has Survived
July 19th, 2010 - 8:23 am
That video of the Holocaust survivor dancing with his family at Auschwitz while singing “I Will Survive” — the one I lambasted YouTube for pulling, on Saturday’s The Week in Blogs?
Somebody relented, and the video is back. Enjoy it in all its glory.
On the one hand, (if I don my PC helmet for a brief, intensely uncomfortable moment) this is ridiculously inappropriate. But on the other hand (fuck the helmet; I never liked it anyway), what an amazing Fuck You to the Nazis, and their kindred spirits. I am deeply touched and moved by this. Thank you.
My wife’s grandfather (on her father’s side) was taken to a camp in … ’39, I think. Her grandmother literally sold everything that they had, converted it to gold, and bribed a camp official to get him out. They fled Germany immediately thereafter. They ended up losing over half the family to those bastards. The rest of the family is scattered around the world–here in the U.S., England, Israel, Argentina….
My father-in-law talks very little about the 30s. He fought for the U.S. in WWII. Was in the Battle of the Bulge. Witnessed at least one of the camps being freed, if I recall correctly. He is one of the most amazing men I have ever known. But I know there is a piece of him that was absolutely destroyed by what happened to his family–nuclear, extended, and cultural.
The ability and willingness of survivors like that old man above to “dance on the grave” gladdens my heart. I’m passing this around. Thanks for the link.
I second what Mr Hill said in his first and last paragraphs, 100%.
The antidote to evil is joy! This is perhaps the best use of amateur video I have ever seen. It is so appropriate! It is the ultimate slap in the face to evil. Fantastic! Bravo!
L’Chaim! I am in tears over this, what a wonderful video!
or as I would have in a previous life F***ing Yea!
The antidote to evil is joy!
I love that! Is that you own, Steve, or did you get it from someone else?