Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz- Page 4
Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
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#75re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/25/06 at 5:14pmLOL. I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend. I think it is photo-shopped but I found it very funny.
#76re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/25/06 at 5:15pm
Huh? I'm not offended; I would just be kind of disgusted if it actually *were* a real ad. The fact that it's fake allows it to be funny, though. 
#77re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/25/06 at 5:20pm
"Did anyone watch the follow-up that was just on?"
I started a thread on it just a few minutes ago.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#79re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/25/06 at 8:31pmMy commnet was stupid? I didn't mean that some of what she's doing is bad, I think it's great that she does things like that. I just think she comes across a bit insincere. And jealous I am not. I have no need for the kind of gifts Oprah gives, thank you.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#80re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/27/06 at 7:30pm
I did not see this segment but I have seen documentaries on PBS and have read many books on the Nazi concentration camps.
One of my most powerful experiences was walking through Dachau when I was in Europe studying. It was mind-numbing and its really difficult to put what I saw into words.
We say "Never Again" but have failed to do much in Darfur- makes me very angry.
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
#81re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/27/06 at 10:46pm
The girl who wrote the winning essay about Night goes to my school. I haven't been watching the Oprah going to Auschwitz segment(s), but I heard that the girl who wrote the essay was/is going to be on Oprah. Maybe I'll watch it then.
Being a Jew, the Holocaust is a sensitive subject for me. We had a Holocaust survivor named Clara Kramer (whose diary she kept while in hiding is going to be made into movie) speak to our Humanities class, and it was a very powerful experience, one that I'm glad was not interrupted by dumb comments. So I'm not sure if I really want to follow Oprah with this, judging by the responses here. *shrug*
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#82re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/27/06 at 11:02pm
blacks/whites
slavery/Holocaust
just swap the reactions of the seers and tellers
#83re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/28/06 at 10:31am
That billboard was real - not photo-shopped.
You couldn't pay me to have Oprah be my guide on a tour of Auschwitz. The idea makes me nauseous.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#84re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/28/06 at 5:19pmIf you are right,that's truly disturbing.
#85re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:18amguitar, there were 50 winners, not one......so one of the winners went to your school
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#86re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:45am
Elphaba, you listed the saddest thing in Polish history. One of the integral parts of Poland's lifeblood has all but been removed. After living there, I can definately say you feel the loss. It always upset me when I saw pictures of place where I had been, or things like the street I lived (Ulica Pulawska was right by one of my houses...it's one of the places featured in "The Pianist") with elderly Jewish people sitting at park benches, or children playing. From three million Polish Jews, I think only around 30 to 50 thousand remain.
I also think it is very important to remember that 3 million Polish non-Jews were also killed. People so easily forget that, and don't realise that Poland lost a third of its population due to World War II. A third.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all that perished in those awful years.
And it is true, you cannot prepare yourself for the horror of a concentration camp...it's the most awful place that can be imagined...
#87re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:51pmdoxie, a co-worker was in Warsaw last year, and she bought a book that shows various scenes of Warsaw right after the war, and today. It is truly shocking to see.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#88re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:29pmWhat was the exact quote? That Wiesel made about the Nobel Prize winners at age one...two. Cancer/AIDS cure...dreamers...something like that? I really want to find it!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#89re: Elie Weisel and Oprah at Auschwitz
Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:22pmI just bought tickets to see Elie Wiesel at the end of June. After seeing him on TV, I decided I have to see him in person. I mean, if he's that riveting on TV, how powerful must he be live? You simply can't let an opportunity to see someone of his caliber in person go unused.
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