Posted on 04/28/2008 12:05:40 PM PDT by Borges
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3297686,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
Today is the centennial of Oskar Schindler's birth.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Schindler’s List was an incredible movie!
He is the mirror image of the Lieberals who think their good intentions compensate for their disasterous policies. Think Jimbo Carter.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that made Wallenberg an Honorary U.S. Citizen
Ralphe Fiennes unforgetable performance as Amon Goeth is haunting.
Wallenberg’s story was Big News at one time.
I must admit that I was too involved with my gf to really pay attention to the movie...
Doing the right thing for the “wrong” reasons is far, far, far more praiseworthy than what the liberals do - which is the wrong thing for the “right” reasons.
In the end, does it really matter what else the man was? Warts and all, he did more than most others could or would have done in that same situation (see Krupps or Mercedes), at great risk to himself. In the end, he did the job placed before him, whatever his motivation. And that’s all that matters, really - isn’t it?
There was also a Japenese diplomat stationed in Europe who wrote false visas for thousands of Jews to get them away from the NAZIs. I can’t remember his name.
There were many others, lots of whom died for it.
I must admit that I was too involved with my gf to really pay attention to the movie...
I understand. Missed a few movies myself over the years for the same reason.
Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara was his name.
Here is a website telling the story of this man who understood what must be done and did it:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
From the end of the web article:
“... Sempo Sugihara was no ordinary Japanese man and may have been no ordinary man. At the time that he and his wife Yukiko thought of the plight of the Jewish refugees, he was haunted by the words of an old samurai maxim: “Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.”
A Final Tribute: Righteous Among the Nations
Today, more than 50 years after those 29 fateful days in July and August of 1940, there may be more than 40,000 who owe their lives to Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara. Two generations have come after the original Sugihara survivors, all owing their existence to one modest man and his family. After the war, Mr. Sugihara never mentioned or spoke to anyone about his extraordinary deeds. It was not until 1969 that Sugihara was found by a man he had helped save, Mr. Yehoshua Nishri. Soon, hundreds of others whom he had saved came forward and testified to the Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial) in Israel about his life saving acts of courage. After gathering testimonies from all over the world, Yad Vashem realized the enormity of this man’s self-sacrifice in saving Jews. And so it came to pass that in 1985 he received Israel’s highest honor. He was recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Yad Vashem Martyrs Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.
By then a old man near death, he was too ill to travel to Israel. His wife and son received the honor on his behalf. Further, a tree was planted in his name at Yad Vashem, and a park in Jerusalem was named in his honor.
Forty-five years after he signed the visas, Chiune was asked why he did it. He liked to give two reasons: “They were human beings and they needed help,” he said. “I’m glad I found the strength to make the decision to give it to them.” Sugihara was a religious man and believed in a universal God of all people. He was fond of saying, “I may have to disobey my government, but if I don’t I would be disobeying God.”
Consul Chiune Sugihara, age 86, died on July 31, 1986. Mrs.Yukiko Sugihara had her 88th birthday on December 17, 2001. She now lives in Fujisawa, Japan.”
Isn’t that a Seinfeld joke?
Yep. A storyline actually.
I must admit that I was too involved with my gf to really pay attention to the movie...
I understand. Missed a few movies myself over the years for the same reason.
Wow! You two had the same GF? Awesome.
Yes it was. Very good soundtrack too. I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWVV_GnRIA
Itzhak Perlman and John Williams.
And then there was George Schwartz (Soros)…Schwartz was his real last name before his father changed it to Soros…who at 14 years of age pretended not to be Jewish and fingered all his Jewish neighbors to the Nazis.
How many hundreds, George Schwartz, were you responsible for sending to the gas chambers and ovens?
The only good thing about Jimmy Carter is that once he was bought he stayed bought. Remember when his brother Billy got caught taking kickbacks from Arab oil sheiks? Check out the donations to the Carter Foundation. Jimmy was bought with Arab oil money and he stayed bought.
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