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Family Shoots 'I Will Survive' Video While Visiting Auschwitz

Posted by samzenpus on from the was-that-wrong? dept.

Jane Korman is taking some heat for posting a video of her family dancing to the disco hit, I Will Survive while on a trip to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. The Kormans are Jewish; Jane defends the recording, saying the video, which includes her 89-year-old father who survived the holocaust, was "a celebration of life and survival."

26 comments

  1. I'll say it, congrats! by Umuri · · Score: 1

    This is art at it's best. Maybe a bit too satirical/ironic for people's tastes depending on your viewpoint, but personally it looks like the survivor in the video is getting a blast out of it, so great for him. and if he's enjoying it you all should too. :)

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    1. Re:I'll say it, congrats! by ArieKremen · · Score: 1

      Good for them! I wish I could have taken my relatives to the various death-camps for a celebration like this one!!!

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    2. Re:I'll say it, congrats! by OddThinking · · Score: 1

      I agree. If anyone can decide what is acceptable, it would have to be those that were victimized. I don't see it as satirical or ironic, more of as a celebration. Not only did he survive, but it looks to me like he didn't let it prevent him from enjoying life, either.

    3. Re:I'll say it, congrats! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In my experience with meeting survivors of various concentration camps (among others, I know/knew a couple of ex-prisoner professors), they tend to be people with an optimistic outlook and generally enjoying their lives. They seem calm, not easily worried by anything.

      And in a way, that makes a lot of sense. When a person has gone through horrors like those of the Holocaust, what in the modern world should scare them? Where the average person might be very stressed by the prospect of losing their job and having to move to some crappy hostel, that's absolutely nothing compared to what survivors went through. Which is why they're optimists.

      Sorry for the anonymous post.

  2. I am a jaded racist prick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    by today's standards and I was moved to tears by this. Great for him. Great for his family. Great for the generations of his family to come. God bless them.

  3. It's like mocking the guy by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The part where they are dancing in front of Hitler's intended 'museum to an extinct race' says it all. They are dancing in front of the failures of a guy who tried to destroy them and utterly lost. It's like pissing on the grave of your tormentor. Check out the old guy's dance moves at 3:00, he's happy to have survived.

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  4. One more "Job Well Done" by cfulton · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you live through a Holocaust then dancing to "I will Survive" in the place of you torment is an appropriate response. Hope he went and danced on Hitlers grave too.

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    1. Re:One more "Job Well Done" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      " Hope he went and danced on Hitlers grave too."...

      do you know where that is then? :)

      I read somewhere that he was cremated and his ashes were dunked in a river

    2. Re:One more "Job Well Done" by MRe_nl · · Score: 1

      There's no such thing as "Hitlers grave", the allies made damn sure of that.
      They where afraid it might turn into a shrine for die-hard Nazi's.

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    3. Re:One more "Job Well Done" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Probably Hitler himself made sure of this, as he didn't even want a street or building named after him, to prevent the allies to use the destruction of these as a propaganda material.

    4. Re:One more "Job Well Done" by interval1066 · · Score: 1

      "...the allies made damn sure of that."

      To be precise, it was the Soviets who did that, under direct orders of Stalin. The Soviets were actually given the task of taking Berlin, American & British troops did not take part in the Battle of Berlin until after the Soviets won it, they only cut up and occupied the four sectors along with France afterward. The Soviet 3rd Shock Army took the Reichstag and discovered the charred bodies of Hitler and Braun in the rear grounds. He decreed in secret order that the remains were to be disposed of, and no mention of this was to be made to the British and American forces. When asked directly by the Allies the Soviet 3rd SA commander Kutznetsov shrugged and said he didn't know anything about Hitler or his whereabouts. To this day scholars are still trying to understand Stalin's reasoning for the secrecy.

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  5. God damn APRA by wtfmang! · · Score: 0

    Sadly "This video is no longer available due to claims by APRA"


    Motherfuckers

  6. Forget Hitler, Copyright is what they should fear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They might have survived Hitler, but the APRA killed 'em dead. ;)

  7. Youtube Removed, Alternate Found by hawleyal · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQ7rTyKzBc

  8. What in the world? by billsayswow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can someone tell me why the Australasian Performing Rights Association has any reason to order the takedown of a video containing a song performed by American Gloria Gaynor, written by Freddie Perren, American, and released on Polydor Records, British?

    1. Re:What in the world? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's easy to explain. DMCA made it easy to censor *any* content on behalf of the copyright holder without his knowledge and without explanation.
      The onus of proof should be on the person requesting the takedown not the oposite.
      And for sure Google has to issue and comply with fake requests all the time and should take to court unfounded request because for sure they are making them to loose money by using their employees time.
      But hey, it's the corporate world... and salut to servers in Russia!!!

    2. Re:What in the world? by operagost · · Score: 1

      Hitler has nothing on the MAFIAA.

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    3. Re:What in the world? by PachmanP · · Score: 1

      Can someone tell me why the Australasian Performing Rights Association has any reason to order the takedown of a video containing a song performed by American Gloria Gaynor, written by Freddie Perren, American, and released on Polydor Records, British?

      They're Nazis

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  9. Good on 'em by Chemtox · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for "The Chubb Chubbs are coming... to Palestine" next.

  10. Functioning links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Current up at YT:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PtrFJtseg

    Download:
    http://fileups.net/19VJ6

    Download HQ:
    http://fileups.net/194VA

  11. Spelling NAZI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hi,

    You Americans speak English like we do in New Zealand, Ozzie and England, but your spelling is wrong, APRA should be spelt wankers!

  12. This video is no longer available by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by APRA.

    Survive this

  13. song not performed by gloria gaynor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so thats one possibility

  14. I will survive, but will APRA? by Trogre · · Score: 1

    "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by APRA"

    Bastards

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