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Poland - Former Auschwitz inmate’s celebration of beating the Nazis clocks up 500,000 YouTube hits
A Jewish Holocaust survivor who danced with his family at the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp and other Nazi death camp memorials has attracted a growing following on the internet with a film of their performance.
Adolek Kohn, 89, a former Auschwitz prisoner who is now an Australian citizen, said the video, which shows him, his daughter Jane and her three children bopping to Gloria Gaynor’s hit song I Will Survive, is meant as an affirmation of life and stands as a celebration of his own survival.
But the so-called Auschwitz Dance film, which has clocked up around 500,000 hits on You Tube, has attracted a whole gamut of responses from viewers, ranging from disgust to admiration.
One viewer called it offensive and “disrespectful to all those who perished”, while another said it was a “life-affirming middle finger to the Nazis”. Another said it had moved him to tears of joy.
The family is shown doing a line-dance at the gates of Auschwitz in Poland in front of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign, in Terezin in the Czech Republic, Dachau in Germany, and various synagogues, wearing T-shirts bearing the slogan Survivor. In some scenes they are wearing Jewish stars of David sewn into their clothing, the symbol Jews were forced to wear during the Third Reich.
At the end of the video Kohn is heard saying: “If someone would tell me here, then, that I would come, 60-something-three years later, with my grandchildren I’d say ‘What you talking about?’ So here you are. This is really a historical moment.”
His daughter, an artist, said she suggested the project to her father, adding it was created in defiance of the adage that there could be “no art after Auschwitz”.
“It was important to create something that gave a fresh interpretation of the Holocaust because for the younger generation the word and images you see of the Holocaust are numbing,” she said.
“It wasn’t easy to ask my father, but I had to do it.”
She recorded the dance sequences on her laptop during the trip, which took place last summer.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:30 AM David Says:Report as Inappropriate
I saw the video, and really wasn't sure what to make of it. I think it's clear enough that the people involved meant no disrespect to the memory of any of the victims of the Holocaust.
While I do understand why some people would disapprove, I think one should be very careful before deciding to criticize the way in which a Holocaust survivor chooses to express his feelings about survival. Simply put, his perspective is probably not something we can hope to share.
I'm glad he survived to dance, and I wish the others had, as well.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:31 AM wombatstein Says:Report as Inappropriate
He should have used more haimishe music like Lipa. Perhaps they haven't heard of him down under.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:39 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
very touching
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:59 AM Godol HaDor Says:Report as Inappropriate
Every penny spent in eastern Europe, especially Poland and the Ukraine goes to support the direct descendents of the 2 legged animals that murderd, tortured our parents and brothers and sisters including a million children.
Think about that next time you take a tour of Poland
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM Ephraim Says:Report as Inappropriate
Baruch Hashem most or all of the people who can and will comment about this, did not have to go through what this person did. Knowing this, please keep all negative comments to yourself.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:14 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
When I went with my Yeshiva, we did the same thing (albeit with different music...) We did it because true nekomoh against the Nazis ym"sh, was the fact that we were there, 2 generations past, singing "Utzu aitoh v'sufar" at the top of our lungs.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM 2nd Generaration Says:Report as Inappropriate
One should never question anything that a survivor does as he is a holy person.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
To dance in Auschwitz is gross and an insult to those who died there. Maybe some of you could on the treifene internet and click on Auschwitz album. Small children were pushed into the gas chambers, Kanada group inmates searched the orifices of the gassed for jewelry, dead children had to pried from clinging to their mother, teeth [gold] were removed from the gassed Jews mouth and converted into gold bars kept in Swiss vaults and now Jews a dancing. This is the largest cemetery of Jews in world , gross , sickening and reflects the pathological status of some surivors, shame
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:39 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
When I was in Auschwitz with a group, we stood by the Death Wall and 3 of us said kaddish. Then we sang the famous Ani Maamin composed by R' Azriel Fastag hy'd in a cattle car going to Auschwitz. Yes the greatest revenge we have is that we are alive and raising doros yeshorim meverochim.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:39 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Netzach Yisrael !!! I can understand how this Gentleman at 89 would wish to express his simchas hachayim with his family in his personal way before his 120 years pass. I pray that his family -- and really all of us -- be zocheh to take this lesson to heart and have HaKaras HaTov to HKBH for all the good we have received. I am certain that the neshamas in that Holy Bais Olam were there with him and were happy that he remembered them and wanted all of us to watch that video and learn the lesson of Netzach Yisrael.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:40 AM Asher Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
Only a sick perverted person will dance on a blood soaked cemetery where thousands of Jewish children were murdered
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:40 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
If Lipa sang "I will survive", it would be fitting. I hope this family's survival dance brings comfort amid the tragic memories. It IS a victory over Hitler for this family to go there of their own will, celebrate their freedom, and then leave under their own power.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:45 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
60 years after.... My mother (tzu langeh yurin) had her sons organize a siyum shas for "closure". Thirty days later, her sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, and landslight over three continents, completed all six sederim of Mishnah, on the 19th of Tammuz, the (held) yahrtzeit for her family.
Yet another way to acknowledge her survival and how she built doros.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM David Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Every penny spent in eastern Europe, especially Poland and the Ukraine goes to support the direct descendents of the 2 legged animals that murderd, tortured our parents and brothers and sisters including a million children.
Think about that next time you take a tour of Poland ”
I see you've learned your bigotry well. Well, think about it this way-- some of the money you will spend in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, goes to support the direct descendants of the selfless heroes who, at the risk of their own and their families' lives, saved our parents, brothers and sisters. Get this through your skull-- you weren't born on the moral high ground, and the fact that someone's ancestors did something wicked (or, as the case may be, noble) is not something for which that individual may be held to account. Take your prejudice elsewhere-- it discredits you (and, for that matter, the parents and teachers who raised you).
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM David Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ To dance in Auschwitz is gross and an insult to those who died there. Maybe some of you could on the treifene internet and click on Auschwitz album. Small children were pushed into the gas chambers, Kanada group inmates searched the orifices of the gassed for jewelry, dead children had to pried from clinging to their mother, teeth [gold] were removed from the gassed Jews mouth and converted into gold bars kept in Swiss vaults and now Jews a dancing. This is the largest cemetery of Jews in world , gross , sickening and reflects the pathological status of some surivors, shame ”
It would be an insult for you or me to dance there. As far as I'm concerned, that man earned the right to dance wherever he damn well pleases. And you should show a bit more humility.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM Asher Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
I was not in Auschwitz my brother and cousins were gassed but I was for 4 yes four years in concentration camps and the statement I madeis based on testimony from survivors which I in course of my work I did have to read.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM 5T Resident Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Every penny spent in eastern Europe, especially Poland and the Ukraine goes to support the direct descendents of the 2 legged animals that murderd, tortured our parents and brothers and sisters including a million children.
Think about that next time you take a tour of Poland ”
People tour Poland? What exactly is there to see in Poland, especially for frum Jews?
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Jul 15, 2010 at 12:44 PM esther Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I see you've learned your bigotry well. Well, think about it this way-- some of the money you will spend in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, goes to support the direct descendants of the selfless heroes who, at the risk of their own and their families' lives, saved our parents, brothers and sisters. Get this through your skull-- you weren't born on the moral high ground, and the fact that someone's ancestors did something wicked (or, as the case may be, noble) is not something for which that individual may be held to account. Take your prejudice elsewhere-- it discredits you (and, for that matter, the parents and teachers who raised you). ”
hey pal,hundreds of years of torture,pillage,rape and murder are a good indication of what a specific culture is like.soryr if that isn't pc but it's the truth.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 12:54 PM Godol HaDor Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I see you've learned your bigotry well. Well, think about it this way-- some of the money you will spend in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, goes to support the direct descendants of the selfless heroes who, at the risk of their own and their families' lives, saved our parents, brothers and sisters. Get this through your skull-- you weren't born on the moral high ground, and the fact that someone's ancestors did something wicked (or, as the case may be, noble) is not something for which that individual may be held to account. Take your prejudice elsewhere-- it discredits you (and, for that matter, the parents and teachers who raised you). ”
You're a moron.
Precious few poles and ukrainians did anything but look on with glee, at best, whike their animal cousins murdered millions and millions of Jews.
Only someone who can appreciate the preciousness of a Jewish soul, a jewish child would understand.
Someone demented like you who is concerned about the material welfare of an infitismal part of a blood soaked earth
Needs to do some serious introspection.
I would also suggest you check your geneology, I doubt you have Jewish blood flowing in your veins.
Pick yourself up and go back to Lodz or kiev or Berlin you will find your long lost relatives and feel much more comfortablel
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Jul 15, 2010 at 01:03 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
It is not allowed to dance and sing during the nine days but I understand his feelings
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Jul 15, 2010 at 01:28 PM Shmoo Says:Report as Inappropriate
reply to #15 David: Well said. He certainly has. May he continue dancing til "120".
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Jul 15, 2010 at 01:37 PM bigwheeel Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I see you've learned your bigotry well. Well, think about it this way-- some of the money you will spend in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, goes to support the direct descendants of the selfless heroes who, at the risk of their own and their families' lives, saved our parents, brothers and sisters. Get this through your skull-- you weren't born on the moral high ground, and the fact that someone's ancestors did something wicked (or, as the case may be, noble) is not something for which that individual may be held to account. Take your prejudice elsewhere-- it discredits you (and, for that matter, the parents and teachers who raised you). ”
I don't speak for poster # 4. But what he is saying is true. The poison of anti-Semitism and prejudice continues in that country down through the generations. If today's generation would apologize for the sins of their (proverbial) parents and recognize their guilt, then it shouldn't be held against them. But the sad reality is, that they are no different than those who --for the most part-- eagerly turned over Jews to the nazis. And in many cases murdered them before the nazis even occupied their town.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 01:39 PM Paskunyak Says:Report as Inappropriate
Holocaust Survivors are permitted to dance anytime and anywhere they please. They suffered many more "9 days" and "Tisha B'avs" than we will ever know. Those days of suffering should be replaced with days of Happiness for them until 120. How can you tell that they are permitted to celebrate their survival? The permit number is tattooed on their arm!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 01:45 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
this is not real revenge... the real revenge will be when the big day of revenge will arrive n hashem himself will take the big revenge of all the murdurers as it says in Hazini "ki yoim nukom belibi" n as we say in Uvini Malkeini "Nekoim nikmas dam avudechu hashufich"
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:02 PM BenB Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ It is not allowed to dance and sing during the nine days but I understand his feelings ”
Just because your reading this today during the 9 days does not mean it happened yesterday. They worked on this video and then aired it on you tube where it was then picked up by "The Gaurdian" and then picked up by the vaunted eagled eyed reporters of VIN News to bring you this inspiring video.
Yes, there are those of us frum yidin (who represent: at best; 2 million out of the worldwide 14 million Jews) may not celebrate the "rejuvenation of Jewry after the Holocaust" this way, but keep on mind that most of the survivors and their offspring are unfortunately not religious and while there are B"H those that make a siyum hashas in memory of the kedoshim, there are others who express their "pintele Yid" in other ways. And let the RBSO arrange the letters as he see fits.......
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:08 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ It would be an insult for you or me to dance there. As far as I'm concerned, that man earned the right to dance wherever he damn well pleases. And you should show a bit more humility. ”
I was 15 when I was deported to Lodz Ghetto and liberated in Buchenwald with in between stops of different gehenims. Yes, dance but have seichel not to dance on the blood soaked earth of Auschwitz. I lost uncles and aunts , cousins and my brother there. So my opinion is not of reading but as a witness
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:11 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Life is for the living!! As Shlomo said, Isn't a live dog, better than a dead lion? What a true testament to Simcha and Survival!!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:14 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ It would be an insult for you or me to dance there. As far as I'm concerned, that man earned the right to dance wherever he damn well pleases. And you should show a bit more humility. ”
I was in concentration camp and I am different than you because I stood on selektions, I was beaten and saw which I don't wish to talk about so before you sound off learn perek where don eyz kol odom l'kaf tzichus and al todon eyz chaveiro at shetigia limkomo,I certainly don't your instruction probably my grqandchildren are older than you and one more I davened in Buchenwald between the dying and hungry
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:19 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
all you wise chachomim since make comments you must have access to the internet . Click on google and type in Auschwitz album maybe and that is a maybe you will understand the reason for not dancing in Auschwitz during the nine days or any other time
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:40 PM lawrence yid Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Holocaust Survivors are permitted to dance anytime and anywhere they please. They suffered many more "9 days" and "Tisha B'avs" than we will ever know. Those days of suffering should be replaced with days of Happiness for them until 120. How can you tell that they are permitted to celebrate their survival? The permit number is tattooed on their arm! ”
I totally agree. It is his way of of showing that "Bchol dor vador oimdim aleinu lechaloseinu, v'hakodosh boruch hu matzeeleinu meeyadam. He survived, and he is showing the world that we Jews no matter what will have the last laugh in the end. All you close minded naysayers can keep your opinions to yourself. As a survivor of that hell on earth, he has earned the right to dance , sing, or do what ever he pleases to make himself happy, so long as he doesn't break any laws, or does something immoral. As far as the 9 days are concerned, this was shot a long time ago. Furthermore, even if he is totally irreligious and he did dance in the 9 days, it is not up to anyone to judge a survivor's religious level. The only one who may do so is the one above.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:42 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Mixed dancing?
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Jul 15, 2010 at 02:50 PM judith Says:Report as Inappropriate
A moron. He survived but that gives him no right to party on the ground where millions were tortured and killed, experimented on and starved.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 03:00 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Holocaust Survivors are permitted to dance anytime and anywhere they please. They suffered many more "9 days" and "Tisha B'avs" than we will ever know. Those days of suffering should be replaced with days of Happiness for them until 120. How can you tell that they are permitted to celebrate their survival? The permit number is tattooed on their arm! ”
You hit it on the head. I work in an office with a survivor who B"H is in good health and she tells me every fast day that she was yoitze all her fasting in the camps. She keeps shabbos, a kosher home, tznius, etc. but she was yoitze enough fasting. The one fast she does keep is yom kippur. Ad me'ah v'esrim shonoh!!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 03:44 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ A moron. He survived but that gives him no right to party on the ground where millions were tortured and killed, experimented on and starved. ”
Who the heck gave you the right to call him a moron ? Do you know what motivated him to that .Be careful, you never know .
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Jul 15, 2010 at 04:57 PM Milhouse Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ A moron. He survived but that gives him no right to party on the ground where millions were tortured and killed, experimented on and starved. ”
It certainly does give him the right. That ground belongs to him as much as it does to them.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 05:13 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
with project witness and all the renewed efforts to keep the memory of the holocaust alive...i find myself thinking alot about the yidden who went through the holocaust and its beyond my imagination as to how much the suffered....the physical, and emotional pain....the degradation... how did they deal with little childen,,,just writing this now makes me shudder..i dont know how they survived...(obviously miracles..yad HaShem for each survivor...) and how they had teh will to survive and live hrog all the loss of life...oyy....
what really blows my mnd is how can humans treat humans the way the gemans did???? how???its mind boggling!!!!! we all feel pain....its really not to be believed...yet unfortunately it is true...
every holocaust survivor is a tzaddik just for the pain they went through and we can never judge their behavior...
i have a relative who is a bit rough round teh edges and i always despisd him and one day i realized how much he suffered (he is BH 80 now till 120 healthy) and what he went through by age 7 he had no childhood and i started really feeling bad for him....now when he gets angry or yells i just attribute it to risiduals of his horific experience
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Jul 15, 2010 at 05:14 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ To dance in Auschwitz is gross and an insult to those who died there. Maybe some of you could on the treifene internet and click on Auschwitz album. Small children were pushed into the gas chambers, Kanada group inmates searched the orifices of the gassed for jewelry, dead children had to pried from clinging to their mother, teeth [gold] were removed from the gassed Jews mouth and converted into gold bars kept in Swiss vaults and now Jews a dancing. This is the largest cemetery of Jews in world , gross , sickening and reflects the pathological status of some surivors, shame ”
ain hachi nami it was totally wrong gross disturbing what the Nazis yimach shimum but it's not a insult to those that died rather it's showing them that they didn't die in vain that the yidden are still around and frum ,their death is a musser to all yidden still alive . the only people it's an insult to are those that killed the people that they didn't succeed and we did!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 05:38 PM OMG Says:Report as Inappropriate
As a first generation of parents who survived, and my mother (RIP) who actually survived the left line in Auschwitz, I could understand this man and his family dancing; on the other hand I do understand the people who are enraged about his actions, as the song goes, damed if I do, damed if I don’t. The only thing that comes to my mind is, Yisgadal v'yiskadash shmai raba.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 06:02 PM Outraged Says:Report as Inappropriate
Please; this is a spoiled, secular American liberal "artist" exploiting Auschwitz under the guise of her father's "revenge.".
Playing Gloria Gaynor's "I survived" has nothing to do with Yiddishkeit and the survivors- its pure shtick.
This is a gross insult to the millions who perished and whose ashes and blood lie unmarked in the ground on which they danced.
My grandfather and grandmother, saintly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz, singing Ani Maamin, not an American rock song. They did not even have the decency to put on a yarmulka in the world's largest Jewish cemetery.
Can one imagine doing this at ground zero? they would be run out of town, and far less people dies there and at least efforts were made to recover the bodies and remains and bury them elsewhere.
Ah Shanda! Shame!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 06:02 PM Ephraim Says:Report as Inappropriate
I said it before and I will say it again, Dont judge someone until you've been there. Someone before said it very well, he has his permit to sing whereever he pleases on his arm! I was there in Aushwitz for the first time this year. What I saw, the pictures, the exhibits, the "live" evidence of what happened there, made me believe that the lucky ones were killed before they got to the camps. The fact that he can sing and dance in front of those gates proves that they did'nt die in vain.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 07:28 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ You hit it on the head. I work in an office with a survivor who B"H is in good health and she tells me every fast day that she was yoitze all her fasting in the camps. She keeps shabbos, a kosher home, tznius, etc. but she was yoitze enough fasting. The one fast she does keep is yom kippur. Ad me'ah v'esrim shonoh!! ”
With all due respect and sensitivity, where in the Torah does it say that one is exempt from fasting because they went through hell on earth or for any other reason?
Even if one cannot dare condemn a survivor or anyone else for that lack of observance, however, it is still against halacha to not observe any mitzva, regardless of past experiences.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 07:39 PM Asher Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Please; this is a spoiled, secular American liberal "artist" exploiting Auschwitz under the guise of her father's "revenge.".
Playing Gloria Gaynor's "I survived" has nothing to do with Yiddishkeit and the survivors- its pure shtick.
This is a gross insult to the millions who perished and whose ashes and blood lie unmarked in the ground on which they danced.
My grandfather and grandmother, saintly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz, singing Ani Maamin, not an American rock song. They did not even have the decency to put on a yarmulka in the world's largest Jewish cemetery.
Can one imagine doing this at ground zero? they would be run out of town, and far less people dies there and at least efforts were made to recover the bodies and remains and bury them elsewhere.
Ah Shanda! Shame! ”
From Vienna to Lodz and then to Buchenwald and on the way I saw shooting, children thrown on trucks and horrible feaful look of those taken away on selektion and I give you sincere kol hakovod , yes it is prost, grob and downright an insult to those who went through agonizing death of Zyklon B . We worry as I said of playing music during the nine days, and here we read this stupidity. Again I urge everybody click on google and you find the Auschwitz album in possession of the Yad Vashem, watch it. I saw and smelled the smoke stacks in Buchenwald and lost my family. I have respect for you and be matzliach, thank you
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Jul 15, 2010 at 07:58 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Only a sick perverted person will dance on a blood soaked cemetery where thousands of Jewish children were murdered ”
when you stand in his shoes you can comment. until then, shut up. you don't have the right to criticize you am oretz.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 08:07 PM I mean, seriously? Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ It is not allowed to dance and sing during the nine days but I understand his feelings ”
you are an idiot.
This is all you take away from the article, that there is singing and dancing on the nine days?
You were in such a rush to criticize and find fault in others, you didn't even bother to read the article to the end.
This video was taped last year when the family was on vacation.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 08:12 PM brooklyn mom Says:Report as Inappropriate
I just saw this video and i want to say that it was one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen--this 89 year old ( biz 120) showed us all that we will survive. I found myself wishing I had been there with them because I too would have gotten up to dance. I banged my fist on my computer desk somehow hoping that I could be part of this.I showed to my 88 year old mother (biz 120) an Auschwitz survivor from Lodz--I saw tears in her eyes and she told me she was proud of that man !!!!! So--Adolek Cohn--I hope you dance the rest of your life--with your family--at their weddings and simchas--biz a hundret un tventsik !!!
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Jul 15, 2010 at 08:17 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I was 15 when I was deported to Lodz Ghetto and liberated in Buchenwald with in between stops of different gehenims. Yes, dance but have seichel not to dance on the blood soaked earth of Auschwitz. I lost uncles and aunts , cousins and my brother there. So my opinion is not of reading but as a witness ”
Shut up already with the same schtick . You are not the only one who went through gehinom. he can dance wherever he da.. well wants to . You blew it . You called him a pervert . You should apologize . Az punim ........
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Jul 15, 2010 at 08:40 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Only a sick perverted person will dance on a blood soaked cemetery where thousands of Jewish children were murdered ”
Only a sick perverted person has the chutzpah to call a fellow Yid, a fellow Auschwitz survivor names like that. Where is your seichel . I, too was in in Auschwitz, Warshau , Dachau, Kaufering .What I wouldhave given to have been part of this wonderful family .You think ,the only way to pay tribute to the victims is by crying moaning and whispering to the goyim and begging for rachmones .No, a thousand times no ! Laugh in the enemy's face .Sing and dance show them that they will never destroy our spirit .Groups of children in Kinderlager in Auschwitz were singing on their way to the crematorium .This is the least or the best homage that we owe them . Zchor.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 09:30 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Please; this is a spoiled, secular American liberal "artist" exploiting Auschwitz under the guise of her father's "revenge.".
Playing Gloria Gaynor's "I survived" has nothing to do with Yiddishkeit and the survivors- its pure shtick.
This is a gross insult to the millions who perished and whose ashes and blood lie unmarked in the ground on which they danced.
My grandfather and grandmother, saintly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz, singing Ani Maamin, not an American rock song. They did not even have the decency to put on a yarmulka in the world's largest Jewish cemetery.
Can one imagine doing this at ground zero? they would be run out of town, and far less people dies there and at least efforts were made to recover the bodies and remains and bury them elsewhere.
Ah Shanda! Shame! ”
You, are a fool .This is something that is bigger than life . It strikes a chord in our cumulative conscience . i don't care about their motive . i don't care care about the song . i don't care about the yarmulke . i do care about the symbolism and the spirit of our fellow Jewish survivors .You.are a pain in the bum .
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Adolek Cohn, you are my hero .I'yh after tisha b'av I will buy the record and dance ,albeit alone .
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:19 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
my father o'h, when asked in which camp he was in, he use to say "i've been in all the hotels", he use to tell me,that the only reason that he survived is, because he was never meyayesh, and every morning when he woke up, he looked at the nazi yimach shemo vezichro into his face and told him (quietely of course so that the nazi couldn't hear him) OIF TZI LEHUCHES, ICH VEL DIR IBERLEBEN....
yhe zichro burech, because that was a generation with so much emunah, that we will never see that type again.
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Jul 15, 2010 at 10:48 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ One should never question anything that a survivor does as he is a holy person. ”
Holy. that is a misnomer . I don't feel holy . I don't think a survivor should be put on a pedestal .Millions of people suffered during WWII. How do you measure degrees of suffering . There is a reason why one survived .Just as there is a reason why so many didn't.
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Jul 16, 2010 at 02:59 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ From Vienna to Lodz and then to Buchenwald and on the way I saw shooting, children thrown on trucks and horrible feaful look of those taken away on selektion and I give you sincere kol hakovod , yes it is prost, grob and downright an insult to those who went through agonizing death of Zyklon B . We worry as I said of playing music during the nine days, and here we read this stupidity. Again I urge everybody click on google and you find the Auschwitz album in possession of the Yad Vashem, watch it. I saw and smelled the smoke stacks in Buchenwald and lost my family. I have respect for you and be matzliach, thank you ”
"Yes ,it is prost and grob " . Too bad Mr. Cohen doesn't hail from Wien a city known for its great Kultur and even greater Judenhas . He is a proster Yid .So you conclude that he must be a pervert and grober ying .You are an alter 2 ches