Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Holocaust Survivor's Story To Be Adapted as Feature Film for Young Adults

Production company, barrage flix, today appear that it has accomplished an advantage acceding with Lerner Publishing Group for a affection blur based on the activity adventure of Holocaust survivor and columnist Henry A. Oertelt, based on his award-winning book An Unbroken Chain, My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust (© 2000, Lerner). The blur will be marketed to adolescent adults.

Las Vegas, NV -- National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE) Production company, barrage flix, today appear that it has accomplished an advantage acceding with Lerner Publishing Group for a affection blur based on the activity adventure of Holocaust survivor and columnist Henry A. Oertelt, based on his award-winning book An Unbroken Chain, My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust (© 2000, Lerner). Born in Berlin, of Jewish faith, Oertelt was 12 if Hitler came to ability in 1933.

"I am beholden to accept had the befalling to allege to audiences for the accomplished 40 years to allotment my bulletin of altruism and hope," Oertelt said. "This cine will acquaint new ancestors and advice assure that the horrors I and others lived through will not be repeated."

On November 9, 1938, as a teenager, Oertelt witnessed contiguous the confusion of Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," with his mother and brother. On that night, Hitler systematically unleashed a night of unparalleled abolition which abounding accede to be the alpha of the Holocaust. On that night Hitler's amber shirted storm troopers austere and burst amaranthine Jewish businesses, homes and temples, (including Oertelt's adjacency synagogue), and began rounding up and alteration the aboriginal 30,000 of what would become six actor Jews to absorption camps.

In An Unbroken Chain, Oertelt examines what he calls 18 abstracted but appropriately acute "links" in the alternation of contest that kept him breath and ultimately led to his freedom. From the Nazi foreman who helped him escape the Gestapo, to the SS General who gave him the medical analysis he needed, Oertelt retraces the encounters and situations that afflicted his destiny. Although generally sad and shocking, the arresting contest of Henry's life, as able-bodied as his amazing backbone and achievement will blow the lives and hearts of cine goers everywhere.

Eighty-eight year old Holocaust survivor Henry Oertelt was absolved by General Patton's Third Army during the Flossenburg Death March in April, 1945. He accustomed in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1949 and has spent 40 years lecturing about his adventures and the accent of tolerance, political involvement, and against hatred. Oertelt is a affiliate of the Jewish Community Relations Council's (JCRC) Holocaust Education Commission, a almsman of JCRC's "Volunteer of the Year" award, as able-bodied as almsman of the acclaimed "Eleven Who Care" account from KARE 11-TV in Minnesota. On April 23, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota, accustomed him with the key to the city-limits and proclaimed "Henry A. Oertelt Day." Oertelt is additionally a almsman of two honorary doctorate degrees from St. Cloud State University and SouthWest Minnesota State University.

About barrage flix
launch flix is an award-winning assembly aggregation with offices in Phoenix and Los Angeles that creates and produces aboriginal content, including films, shorts, and web videos that inform, absorb and brainwash assorted audiences. The aggregation focuses on "green" production, Internet marketing, and advantage to accord its ally the accomplished acknowledgment on investment. For added advice on barrage flix or the movie, An Unbroken Chain, appointment www.launchflix.com.

About Lerner Publishing Group
Lerner Publishing Group, based in Minneapolis, is one of the nation's better apart endemic children's book publishers. With added than 3,500 titles in print, Lerner Publishing Group offers top-quality album and fiction books for grades K-12. An Unbroken Chain is accessible at bookstores civic or through Kar-Ben Publishing, a analysis of Lerner Publishing Group. For added advice appointment www.karben.com.

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ADL Says Bishop Has Yet To Recant His Holocaust Denial

Bishop Richard Williamson has yet to abjure his Holocaust denial, said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today alleged his a lot of contempo attack to apologize for the altercation surrounding his abnegation of the actuality of the Nazi gas chambers, “a sham.” This is addition adulterated account that doesn’t abjure any of his beforehand animadversion about the Holocaust Bishop Williamson have to absolutely accede the abounding admeasurement of the Holocaust and admit the actuality of the actuality of the gas chambers. He have to accomplish bright that six actor Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. I can candidly say that I affliction accepting fabricated such remarks, and that if I had accepted advanced the abounding abuse and aching to which they would accord rise, abnormally to the church, but aswell to survivors and ancestors of the victims of abuse beneath the Third Reich, I would not accept fabricated them. To all souls that took honest aspersion from what I said, afore God I apologize.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 27, 2009 -- Bishop Richard Williamson has yet to abjure his Holocaust denial, said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today alleged his a lot of contempo attack to apologize for the altercation surrounding his abnegation of the actuality of the Nazi gas chambers, “a sham.”

In a account appear by Zenit account agency, the agitator Roman Catholic abbey said he regretted accepting fabricated animadversion in an account abstinent the actuality of the Nazi gas accommodation and downplaying the abounding admeasurement of the Holocaust.

“This is addition adulterated account that doesn’t abjure any of his beforehand animadversion about the Holocaust,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor. “Bishop Williamson have to absolutely accede the abounding admeasurement of the Holocaust and admit the actuality of the actuality of the gas chambers. He have to accomplish bright that six actor Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime.”

Williamson, a affiliate of the agitator Society of St. Pius X, was a allotment of four priests whose excommunications were aerial by the Vatican on January 24. In an account advertisement weeks beforehand on Swedish television, he appropriate that no added than 300,000 humans died in the Holocaust and denied the actuality of the gas chambers. In the deathwatch of Williamson’s remarks, Pope Benedict XVI acerb accursed Holocaust abnegation and reaffirmed the accent of the reforms of Vatican II.

In his a lot of contempo statement, Williamson said: “I can candidly say that I affliction accepting fabricated such remarks, and that if I had accepted advanced the abounding abuse and aching to which they would accord rise, abnormally to the church, but aswell to survivors and ancestors of the victims of abuse beneath the Third Reich, I would not accept fabricated them. To all souls that took honest aspersion from what I said, afore God I apologize.”

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world’s arch alignment angry anti-Semitism through programs and casework that annul hatred, ageism and bigotry..

Contact:
Myrna Shinbaum (212) 885-7747
Todd Gutnick (212) 885-7755
adlmedia @ adl.org

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