(Auto)ethnography
Step FOUR:
Check out the following web-link:
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm
Look at all the different kinds of memorials - share your thoughts with the group in regards to the materials used, the forms appropriated, the texture, the artists.
Anthing that you might find offensive/left-out perhaps?
posted by belag at Wednesday, March 29, 2006
10 Comments:
just a thought, and i hope you hear it:
do not entrap your arguements in a double-bind wordage, meaning - this happens, and they exploit it, but really they have been exploiting everything/everyone since the beginning of time; as a fledgling intellectual look/support your examples with facts that feed in and of a historical paradigm, that challenge it rather than do the same as other side, play the victimization card.
as far as the comment regarding fathers/sons, i do hear you but since none of us, and i repeat none of our group, has gone through anythign similar, i am more than a little hesitant when it comes to such certainty - that we are better, that we would nver do something as horrible as that.
as i said, all important opinions, but careful when it comes to supporting them and not perpetuating 'it'.
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006
you will - but as they say patience is a vertue; in the meantime, get started, if that is your preference (the Ruskies), on Sholohov's The Quiet Donne
Wednesday, 12 April, 2006
I think that learning about the Holocaust and the camps through pictures and images is much better than just reading about it. The main difference is that if you read a history book, you will see only numbers and you won't get the actual image of personal struggle. This is related to Stalin's comment "one death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic". By looking at these pictures we can see the eyes of the survivors or of those about to be executed, and this can tell much more about their story in the camps than any book or other kind of retelling can do. Ultimately, to avoid other such montruous onslaughts in the future, I think that learning about this period of history visually (at least in part) can affect a person's character and ethics more deeply than in other ways, producing people that are more conscious and moral in their opinions and lives.
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
Awful!!!At the sight of these pictures,i was amazed but in a very negative way!Some of them were quite similar but there were also some that reach deep down to one's soul.Some of the pictures that will stay encripted in my mind are the pictures with the hair of the people and all their objects carefully classified and organized.This shows even more the dexterity with which this event was planned.To think that the ones who organized this had no heart but just organized the objects in such an orderly way is just inhumane.And yet they did so.Bags made of human hair???Had these people no respect of the person to whom this hair onc e belonged to?It seems not.Then another thing that stays in my mind is the actual treatment of these people and the dark vividness of these images.It feels like you are actually there observing,and it makes it easier for one to imagine it although this can never be complete.The crematoria is disgusting,same goes for the conditions that these people lived in.These impressions stay strong in my mind especially after seeing the pictures from the memorial centers.The order in which all of this was conveyed is simply terrifying,to think that people just like us were there.And this wasn't so long ago,it still was the 20-th century...It just can't be described.No words can truly convey what i felt but it was far away,and very far away(!)from something pleasant.All i ask now is why?But i guess it's a retorical question...
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
The impact that the pictures have on you is unbelievable. The gruesome reality that one can imagine in the treatment towards the jews is accurately shown through the capturing of history in picture form. All these galleries reveal the crimal actions of the Nazis on towards the Jews and are emotional. Especially the ones which have children in them because we can relate to them personally.
The pictures of the deportation system was similar to the images we had in our mind while reading "This way for the gas ladies and gentelmen." But seeing the real-life images hit hard and really leave an impression.
ok that was jess, now it's my turn.
i cant say that was shocked by these fotos because i have seen the most gruesome of the pictures. the one that really shocked me today is the faces of german people witnessing the Nazi crimes for them selves. I have been defending the german side since forever but I NEVER defended the Nazi regime and its crimes. so this is solid proof that the germans did not know the real version of the camps and ghettos. But how could they. every thing was covered by propaganda and fear and terror of the SS and SA.
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
Seeing the photos from the holocaust I felt an avalanche of feelings. The horrors of a few single pictures are enormous. Gas chambers looking like regular tunnel, in which a huge number of people lost their lives. A big gate with a sign which meant death to many, now stands as a remembrance. If it wasn't for these pictures and the work in school i would never know about the dreadful events. On the other hand, i also saw German officers and officials standing proud with what they were doing. The monuments should stand forever to remind us what mankind is capable of doing. This should be an experience which every future generation should have, in order to stop the repeat of history, at least this part. The millions of people shouldn’t be forgotten, nor should humanity allow this again. HORRIBLE, DISTURBING !!!!
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
The first thing we saw when we went to the Auschwitz pictures was it looked friendly and welcoming. The people coming in would have had the same feeling and a sense of hope. However, the moment they were past the gates, they entered into a hell unlike that of anything before or ever again. The next thing that truly blew us away were the dog cages. The German's dogs were fed better and had better living quarters than the inmates. The dogs were viewed as more important and human than the people that were in the camp. The level of dehumanization was so deep in the guard's eyes that they had no problem with this. In Buchenwald, there was a zoo for the families of the guards. The bear in this zoo was fed better than the jews and other inmates.
What also left a deep impression were the ghettos. The ghettos show the level of organization on the German's part and the sick efficiency of their compartmentalized, fragmented minds. The WW2 Holocaust was terrible tragedy and we need to go beyond our power to make sure that this never happens again.
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
Well...when i first saw all those pictures...i was shocked!!! I knew much about the holocaust before but never have i seen pictures!! and so many! The murders,suicides,ghettos,germans,etc. i was shocked by it all! The picture that will stay in my mind is one of around 50 children being loaded into a truck to be taken to a concentration camp where they would be killed! I have a six year old brother and i'm very protective of him..and to think that then, no one could help those poor children! Most expressions on their faces and of others i couldn't make out, although, you can see that they were suffering and it was the STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL...
Wednesday, 04 April, 2007
Seeing these galleries I think is crucial for our understanding for the Holocaust as one event that happened to many people during WW 2. Just reading is not enough for us to be able to experience in a way what happened in the years around the 1940’s.
The contemporary pictures of the concentration camps are just too pretty to be true. A person could never suspect that something as horrible as the Holocaust could have happened there. These camps are the only place in the world that look better when they are empty than when they are full.
It is nice to build memorials all around the world to remember this gruesome act, but I think that the memorials built on the exact location of the camps have the greatest influence. One of the best memorials according to me and a picture that I will always remember is the one of the clock on the gate building at Buchenwald 2 which has stopped at the exact time when the U.S army liberated the camp.
One of the more disturbing pictures in these galleries are the ones from the remains from the people that were killed in the camps. Hair, glasses, rings, shoes and the prosthetic legs remain as a remembrance for the millions of people that were killed simply because they were considered as different from the rest.
Friday, 06 April, 2007
In terms of censure; I'd call it guided view, since the purpose of auto/ethnography includes commemoration, I felt it was necessary for you to attest to the ways in which humanity has chosen to memorialize this event. But, by far, it is not an exhaustive view of the magnitude of the event. And no representation can ever be.
Monday, 09 April, 2007
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