LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Raquel

Life is beautiful
 

We find ourselves in the year 1939, the year in which ends the wars and World War II begins. An era characterized by totalitarianism as Italian Fascism.
The film Life Is Beautiful the could be divided into two very distinct parts: a first in which there is a cross between comedy and romance, and a second in which dominates the rawness of Fascist Italy in the Second World War and its consequences for Jews.In the first part, we Güido, a young man who comes to Arezo, a small town in Italy. Güido moves in with his uncle, and gets to work in his restaurant. There with his charm and wiles, enter into a relationship with a doctor who later will serve the Nazi army.Güido Dora falls deeply in love Arezo a young teacher. In his stratagems and clever cortejeos get conquer, get married and have a son named Joshua. By then, are the first actions of the fascists against Jewish interests.From this moment begins the second part of the film, Güido, owns a bookstore that will be the target of the Nazis.Before the German invasion, all Jews were deported to concentration camps and including Güido, Joshua and his uncle using them in labor for armament factories.Dora, the wife of Güido not Jewish, but does not allow separate from her husband and son and requires soldiers to stop the train and up.Here begin the most dramatic scenes in the film but the director and actor, with great skill, manages to hide the pain, anguish and fear of the Jews.On the way to the camp, with his extraordinary character Güido based on lies deceives his son Joshua to not be aware of the place where they go. Making use again of his wit, get your child to take this deportation as a game that must be accumulating points to win the magnificent tank, with both dreamed.The Nazi military separating men and women, "eliminating" all those who do not are useful: children, elderly, sick ...A Joshua does not like this place, you can not go out and play, go hungry, wants to go with her mother ... , But again the power of imagination father Joshua manages to keep taking this as a game.One night, he found Güido Nazi military that he met while working at the restaurant. He asks for help and he asked to work as a waiter at a party they were going to organize the great military leaders of the field. Güido access and from this time is when the hope of getting out of that place began to emerge. The protagonist prepares the next night for dinner and takes to take his son with him and put him in the tables of the children to eat well for a day.One night there was an uproar in the field: bonfires in the yard, discriminated shooting, racing, trucks up and down ... and Güido imagining that everything is the result of the withdrawal of the Germans, the entry of the allies and therefore, the end of the war, hides his sontelling him not to leave the place until you hear any noise. Once your child safe from the military Güido goes in search of Dora, but can not find it and it caught and shot by the Germans.The next morning, after disappearing all Nazi forces began to emerge all those who had been hiding all night in order to leave the place and head home. Joshua followed his father's warnings, when there was no sound came out of that place carefully where he had been hiding all night and the first thing I saw is a large tank, which addressed him. His father was right, they had won "the prize" and on the way back home up to "your tank" found his mother.

Here you have the trailer of the film and some photos:

SCHINDLER´S LIST

Raquel

Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, an Australian novelist. The film tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel (SS)-officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. John Williams composed the score.
Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden were proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell the story of Schindler. When executive Sid Sheinberg sent a review of Schindler's Ark to Spielberg, the director was fascinated by the book. He eventually expressed enough interest for Universal Pictures to buy the rights to the novel. However, he was unsure about his own maturity about making a film about the Holocaust. Spielberg tried to pass on the projects to several other directors before finally deciding to direct the film himself after hearing of the various Holocaust denials.
Filming took place in Poland over the course of 72 days, in Kraków. Spielberg shot the film like a documentary, and decided not to use storyboards while shooting Schindler's List. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to give a timeless sense to the film. Production designer Allan Starski made the sets darker or lighter than the people in the scenes, so they would not blend. The costumes had to be distinguished from skin tones or colors being used for the sets. In composing the score to Schindler's List, Williams hired violinist Itzhak Perlman to perform the film's main theme.
Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993 in Washington, D.C. and it was released on December 15, 1993 in the United States. Regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, it was a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards (seven BAFTAs, three Golden Globes). In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time (up one position from its 9th place listing on the 1998 list).

Here you have the trailer of the film and some photos:

 

THE FINAL SOLUTION

Raquel

WHAT IS THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWS?    

The Final Solution, also known as Final solution to fhe Jewish problem is the name of Nazi
Germany's plan to run the systematic genocide of European Jewry during the Second World
War. Its implementation, later known as the Holocaust or Shoah, involved the systematic
deportarion and later killing all classified as ethnically Jewish person, regardless of their
religion. The term was coined by Adolf Eichmann, January 1 Nazi official who oversaw the
campaign in the first instance, which used to be called "resettlement".

HOW MANY JEWS WERE SENT TO ASCHWITZ?

The Auschwitz Museum has provided the following estimates, which have remained largely unchanged since 1989. Number of people sent to Auschwitz): approximately 1.3 million - over 85% of them Jews.

WATH HAPPEN TO THE JEWS WHEN THEY GO TO THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

When they go Auschwitz the Jews were sorted into two groups.

Those who were chosen go to work. The rest were gassed as soon as possible. Kids under 15, pregnant women and the elderly were gassed as unfit for work.

TEREZIN

TEREZIN CHILDREN DRAWING   
Raquel

Terezin (Theresienstadt in German) is a town in the Czech Republic, especially known for the concentration camp installed on an end during World War II, to which was the German name of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Its name comes from the Empress Maria Theresa.

AUSCHWITZ-BIKENAU

THIS IS A VIDEO OF THE ANSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU (MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM).
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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM.IRENE.

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Information about the museum:

Yad Vashem, Israel’s main Holocaust remembrance and education center is situated on the green slopes of Har HaZikaron, (the Mount of Remembrance) in Jerusalem.

Israel’s Holocaust commemoration project began in 1953 with the task of perpetuating the memory of Holocaust victims and documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust so that it will be remembered by future generations. This project was an important step for the young nation of Israel at the time and was significant for the citizens of Israel, particularly for the survivors of the ghettos and concentration camps.