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| Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst New York.
and has worked in the ophthalmology
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We shall never forget the Holocaust
This past week an important movie was released based on true stories, “Woman in Gold”. The main characters were Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
We went to view the movie with family and friends and coincidentally this week was the National Remembrance week for all the Holocaust survivors and for those who perished so many years ago.
Yom Hashoah was observed all over the world this week and the movie brought home what events happened to the people in Europe when the Germans started to take over the Jewish population. All of their belongings, including famous artwork was confiscated by the Germans in Austria and the population of Jews were led off to the concentration camps.
A Must see heartfelt short 2 minute YouTube of this past Yom Hashoah in Israel' (Everything stops!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guvGPIxa0hI
The woman, Mrs. Altman that Helen Mirran played and her husband living in Austria escaped the Germans one night before the family home was taken over. The family home and the rest of the people living there including her parents were taken away. Ryan Reynolds played a young lawyer who went to the ends of the earth to reclaim the artwork that was worth millions, especially the painting made by an artist of her sister that was made of gold.
Through the red tape that took years to unravel, it finally came to be and the artwork was brought to NYC to be enjoyed by all. A large sum of money was given to Helen Mirran, Mrs Altman for her donation. Today the real person whom the movie portrayed lived to the age of 94 and just recently passed away.
This movie was a good way to once again help those that need to remember what happened to a race of people during the 1940’s. All of the survivors are getting very old and one by one we are losing them.
The Altman’s who were the family that recovered the paintings along with Mr. Schoenberg used some of the money to fund the new Holocaust museum in L.A. that we had the privilege of visiting this summer. He not only donated 7 million to start the museum, he is active in its operation today.
This movie should be viewed by everyone as it shows man’s inhumanity to man and what could actually happen again with anti-Semitism rising in our country as well as others.
We shall never forget what happened to our ancestor’s 70 years ago.
P.S.
Check out the YouTube movie trailer of 'Woman in Gold';
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJeX6iIlO0
A Must see heartfelt short 2 minute YouTube of this past Yom Hashoah in Israel' (Everything stops!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guvGPIxa0hI
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