Jokes in Auschwitz
- added February 22, 2007
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This inspiring story is about finding laughter in the last place you would think. In 1944, Werner Reich was a teenager in the Nazi death camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, when the infamous Josef Mengele, "The Angel of Death," randomly "selected" 96 boys out of 5,000, saving them from the gas chamber. Werner was one of the surviving "Birkenau Boys" spared, it seems, because of a bad joke. Thank you to my friend Mikal Reich for introducing me to his courageous father who will do anything for a laugh. Today, Werner is a magician (a profession he learned in Auschwitz) and speaks to schoolchildren in hopes the Holocaust will never happen again.
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The holocaust was quite the upsidown extravaganza of the epitomy of what can be represented by our questionable evolving culture. To which direction will we lead ourselves and to what degree of significance is the end result?
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Surviving the HolocaustThis blog has a great profile about Werner Reich.-
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- Scott_Bromley
- 07/26/07
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The Day the Clown CriedThe infamous "lost" film of Jerry Lewis, which was buried due to a
legal dispute between him and the writers of the original screenplay.
It tells the story of a self-centered circus clown, Helmut Doork, who is
sent to a concentration camp after a drunken impersonation of Hitler.
There, he befriends the Jewish children of the camp, and performs
for them, angering the camp Commandant. He is accidentally sent
with the children on a train to Auschwitz, and there, he is expected
to lead the children, like a Pied Piper, to the gas chambers.-
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- Scott_Bromley
- 07/26/07
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I'd always heard the film was either a travesty or too far ahead of its time, so Lewis threw them in a safe, where they molder still.
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What an amazing accountability! Great job!
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