by Pier Marton | Sep 26, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Eco, Film, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women
Her organization saved 2,500 Jewish children. Sendler with some children she saved, Warsaw, 2005 From Wikipedia: In 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo, severely tortured, and sentenced to death. ?egota saved her by bribing German guards on the way to her...
by Pier Marton | Sep 24, 2010 | Asia, Film, History, Ideas, Idées, Time, Travel, Women
From Rossellini’s historical films, through Makaveyev’s Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, to Mizoguchi, Ozu and Kurozawa, tons of generally unseen and unknown treasures waiting to be discovered. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Sep 24, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Shoah
His latest interview, with Der Spiegel. “… Salmen Lewenthal, a member of the Jewish work commando that had to dispose of the bones of those who were murdered and incinerated. He and fellow prisoner Salmen Gradowski secretly wrote a sort of chronicle of...
by Pier Marton | Sep 20, 2010 | Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Mystery, Sci/Nat
For five more days, a BBC re-broadcast of The Feynman Variations. + this bonus: the Nobel Prize winner wants his orange juice. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Sep 20, 2010 | Afri, Art, Asia, Doc, Future Tech, History, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Photo, Roma, Time, Travel
The BBC program on The Archive of the Planet (more than 50 countries with more than 72,000 autochromes + 100 hours of film): millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn who, between 1908 and 1930, used his personal fortune to generate what is now...
by Pier Marton | Sep 16, 2010 | Asia, Dance, Death, Ego, Ideas, Mystery
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