A Good Day
Jan. 27th, 2009 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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In other news, Holocaust memorial day today. Went out to the Imperial War Museum where I discovered one of the stone I'd meant for my trip to Auschwitz had taken refuge in pocket of the very jacket I happened to be wearing and this made a very nice offering on the memorial tree, I then gatecrashed the Mayor of Southwark's memorial tea (and made friends with just about everyone there and gorged myself silly on cake), chatted with two Holocaust survivors halfway through the appropriate exhibit (they complained it was too dark to see some of the artifacts) and went to watch KZ for the third time in as many years. This time I had better questions to ask than 'Why didn't you film the stairs of death?' which, lol, was my question two years ago at the same event. What happened in the meantime? I think I grew up. Lol.
Instead my question was a weird philosophical one 'How far is the society we live in responsible for our sorrow about the Holocaust?' Yes, the old nature vs nurture debate, but everyone (including the director Rex and the staff handing out the microphones) looked at me as though I really had just metamorphed into Mengele on the spot. It's just a question people! Anyway, lovely long discussion, which trailed on for half an hour afterward first with a woman who wanted to understand the Holocaust (uhh... which part?) and then tried to find a way of blaming the Jews for it, which I haven't seen happen since I watched that footage of the Nuremberg trials. Anyway, I then got around to talking to the director and we had a nice long chat and I got his card as well as an invitation to future showings and being put on the Imperial War Museum's mailing list.
A very nice, productive day, all the more worthwhile since I didn't pay a penny for any of it.
Incidentally, to all Londoners: Imperial War Museum has a free cinema with various war-based films ever day, often twice a day.
Also, slowly coming down from my year-long exploration of the Third Reich. Thank you for bearing with, it was very interesting.
In other news, Holocaust memorial day today. Went out to the Imperial War Museum where I discovered one of the stone I'd meant for my trip to Auschwitz had taken refuge in pocket of the very jacket I happened to be wearing and this made a very nice offering on the memorial tree, I then gatecrashed the Mayor of Southwark's memorial tea (and made friends with just about everyone there and gorged myself silly on cake), chatted with two Holocaust survivors halfway through the appropriate exhibit (they complained it was too dark to see some of the artifacts) and went to watch KZ for the third time in as many years. This time I had better questions to ask than 'Why didn't you film the stairs of death?' which, lol, was my question two years ago at the same event. What happened in the meantime? I think I grew up. Lol.
Instead my question was a weird philosophical one 'How far is the society we live in responsible for our sorrow about the Holocaust?' Yes, the old nature vs nurture debate, but everyone (including the director Rex and the staff handing out the microphones) looked at me as though I really had just metamorphed into Mengele on the spot. It's just a question people! Anyway, lovely long discussion, which trailed on for half an hour afterward first with a woman who wanted to understand the Holocaust (uhh... which part?) and then tried to find a way of blaming the Jews for it, which I haven't seen happen since I watched that footage of the Nuremberg trials. Anyway, I then got around to talking to the director and we had a nice long chat and I got his card as well as an invitation to future showings and being put on the Imperial War Museum's mailing list.
A very nice, productive day, all the more worthwhile since I didn't pay a penny for any of it.
Incidentally, to all Londoners: Imperial War Museum has a free cinema with various war-based films ever day, often twice a day.
Also, slowly coming down from my year-long exploration of the Third Reich. Thank you for bearing with, it was very interesting.
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Date: 2009-01-27 08:10 pm (UTC)I then gatecrashed the Mayor of Southwark's memorial tea
*snickers* I doubt that was half as James Bond-like as it sounds!
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Date: 2009-01-27 08:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-27 09:16 pm (UTC)