"The film shows three generations of an Australian family dancing to the Gloria Gaynor song "I Will Survive" in front of the infamous rail tracks and "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign.
Artist, Jane Korman, filmed the video last summer on a trip to former concentration camps with her three children and her father, Adolek, who is 89 and a former prisoner at Auschwitz.
It has prompted fierce debate on YouTube, but most responses have been sympathetic from people who say they have been moved by it."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/ … t_sl.shtml
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jew … z-1.301096
"Many Jewish survivors have reacted gravely to the video, accusing her of disrespect. Yet Korman told Australian daily The Jewish News that “it might be disrespectful, but he [her father] is saying ‘we’re dancing, we should be dancing, we’re celebrating our survival and the generations after me,’ - the generation he’s created. We are affirming our existence.”
When the video was first released in December 2009, Melbourne media reacted strongly to the video and even accused Korman of using the Holocaust to promote her art.
“I wanted to make artwork that creates a fresh interpretation of historical memory,” Korman told Jewish News."
Artist, Jane Korman, filmed the video last summer on a trip to former concentration camps with her three children and her father, Adolek, who is 89 and a former prisoner at Auschwitz.
It has prompted fierce debate on YouTube, but most responses have been sympathetic from people who say they have been moved by it."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/ … t_sl.shtml
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jew … z-1.301096
"Many Jewish survivors have reacted gravely to the video, accusing her of disrespect. Yet Korman told Australian daily The Jewish News that “it might be disrespectful, but he [her father] is saying ‘we’re dancing, we should be dancing, we’re celebrating our survival and the generations after me,’ - the generation he’s created. We are affirming our existence.”
When the video was first released in December 2009, Melbourne media reacted strongly to the video and even accused Korman of using the Holocaust to promote her art.
“I wanted to make artwork that creates a fresh interpretation of historical memory,” Korman told Jewish News."
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