Edward Rothstein asks whether Holocaust museums should be more parochial than generalized, in their telling of history. Prompted by a visit to the recently opened The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, by Belzberg Architects.
Edward Rothstein asks whether Holocaust museums should be more parochial than generalized, in their telling of history. Prompted by a visit to the recently opened The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, by Belzberg Architects. More in the NYT. Previously.
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TREBLINKA by Jean-Francois Steiner is the best book I read on the Holocaust.
THE WANNASEE CONFERENCE the best film...
Remembrance. Of my friend Gunter. As a small child he escaped the TREBLINKA camp. He survived because he was buried under dead bodies which protected him from bullets. TREBLINKA was the only camp that Jews revolted in and 300 did escape. The Nazi's later tried to destroy all traces of the camp, presumed to erase any memory of such unbelievable resistance.
In America Gunter became a professor of philosophy at Univ of Colorado. One of his friends was Claude Levi-Strauss. He was fired after he protested against the Vietnam War and Nixon by laying down across the street, blocking the presidential route.
He ended up opening up Gunter's, a restaurant cafe on Abbot Kinney in Venice CA. Gunter would arrange videotaping his guests dinner conversations which failed as an experiment (people are not profound when drunk, even with good wine).
Later, for two weeks during the 1984 Olympics in LA his cafe was one of five video linked 'hot spots' for live video transmissions and communication to and fro the five venues. It was an early experimental video version of the internet cafe. It was a SCI-ARC hangout for a while.
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