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Post by Bonobo on Sept 11, 2010 22:28:47 GMT 1
It was organised in the town of Będzin today. 200 people, including students from local schools, took part. Opinions were mixed - some praised the performance, pointing to its historical and educational value, others critisized, claiming that Holocaust shouldn`t be acted out because it is improper and one day someone might try to reconstruct Crematorium scenes etc. What do you think? I am for. Reading about Holocaust and seeing it with one`s own eyes are two different things. Young people need to witness such reconstructions to know how the past looked like. See the film: www.tvn24.pl/-1,1673173,0,1,w-bedzinie-zlikwidowali-getto-dzieci-i-mlodziez-zadowolone,wiadomosc.html
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uncltim
Just born
I oppose most nonsense.
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Post by uncltim on Sept 12, 2010 0:01:38 GMT 1
Are they learning the entire story or just parts of it? I've yet to hear a reasonable explanation of both sides. I understand this is an inflammatory statement but I've really never understood how a group of people could have made so many enemies in so many nations. Even today this is happening. Please consider my questions as from someone without bias, but a genuine wish to understand more completely.
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Post by tufta on Sept 12, 2010 8:24:23 GMT 1
I understand this is an inflammatory statement but I've really never understood how a group of people could have made so many enemies in so many nations. Even today this is happening. Please consider my questions as from someone without bias, but a genuine wish to understand more completely. It is good to have someone nearby who formes this type of questions,Uncletim! But it is not quite clear to me, what group of people do you mean? Germans?
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 12, 2010 9:19:37 GMT 1
I understand this is an inflammatory statement but I've really never understood how a group of people could have made so many enemies in so many nations. Even today this is happening. Please consider my questions as from someone without bias, but a genuine wish to understand more completely. It is good to have someone nearby who formes this type of questions,Uncletim! But it is not quite clear to me, what group of people do you mean? Germans? Uncletim means Jews, of course. Are they learning the entire story or just parts of it? IDo you mean the whole story of Holocaust with Poles in it?
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Post by pjotr on Sept 12, 2010 11:11:04 GMT 1
Like Uncle Tim said, you should show both sides, but I am absolutely Pro these plays!
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 14, 2011 22:30:01 GMT 1
A town of Reszel has been staging reconstructions of witch burning since 1981 on every 14 August. Today is the 200th anniversary. The mayor says he won`t give up the controvercial tradition though it is heavily critisized, among others by Equality Minister who claims such reconstructions are improper and disgusting. The mayor replies it is just history.
Barbara Zdunk, (1769 – August 21 1811), was an ethnically Polish alleged arsonist and witch who lived in the city of Reszel, now in Poland but between 1772 and 1945 part of Prussia. She is considered by many to have been the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. This is doubtful because witchcraft was not a criminal offence in Prussia at the time.[1] It is thus likely that she was convicted, formally at least and most probably wrongly, of arson.
In 1806, a devastating fire ravaged the city of Reszel, which burnt almost entirely to the ground. Zdunk, who was a maid known for her fondness of magic, was blamed. She was arrested in 1807, and imprisoned in the Reszel castle. With no evidence of substance available, she was still accused and found guilty of causing the fire. Zdunk was executed by burning on a funeral pyre on a hill outside Reszel in 1811, though she was apparently strangled to death by the executioner before the fire was set. It is believed today that a group of Polish soldiers were the actual arsonists. There is uncertainty as to the true reason for Zdunk's conviction, which was upheld by several appeal courts, up to the king himself. Revenge on Poland on the part of the Prussian authorities or a concession to an outraged public may have played a role, or that she was a 38-year-old woman who had a teenage boyfriend.[2]
Similarly to the execution of Anna Göldi in 1782, who is frequently claimed to be the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Europe, it is dubious whether the trial of Barbara Zdunk can be counted as a witch trial in a legal sense. www.tvn24.pl/0,1713998,0,1,dzieci-zaczna-sie-bawic-palac-lalke--kota-albo-kolezanke,wiadomosc.html
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Post by Bonobo on Aug 14, 2018 18:20:34 GMT 1
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Post by naukowiec on Jan 2, 2020 13:32:09 GMT 1
I wonder if it wasn`t too drastic for youngest kids, especially gassing victims. I'm in two minds about it. The past should never be forgotten, and it's right that people of the region should know their history, but not sure if perhaps these kids are a little young to be doing this kind of thing.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 2, 2020 18:29:12 GMT 1
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