‘Sarah’s Key’ (J-Scam) Review: Moving Take on Little-Known Holocaust Event

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July 29, 2011, 08:48:38 PM
<:^0  Like where's the Palestinian version?  :shh:
[youtube:3c28byxr]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzDZ9e3mGRE[/youtube]3c28byxr]


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'Sarah's Key' Review: Moving Take on Little-Known Holocaust Event
by Darin Miller

The words "Never forget" are inscribed in a Paris memorial honoring the victims of the "so-called 'government of the French state'" during World War II. The memorial rests on the spot of the government's most notorious act of villainy, the infamous Vel d'Hiv roundup of July 1942. On July 16, French police under Gestapo orders lockedthousands of Parisian Jews in the Vélodrome d'Hiver sports stadium for days, in horrible conditions, then transported them to the Drancy holding camp before finally sending them to their deaths at Auschwitz. There were almost no survivors.   <:^0


Released last week in Los Angeles and New York City, and this weekend in select cities nationwide, the 2010 French film "Sarah's Key" brings that tragedy to the screen. "Sarah's Key" is based on author Tatiana de Rosnay's New York Times bestseller by the same name, and follows two lives, decades apart, connected by a long-kept, horrible secret. Sarah (Mélusine Mayance), a young Jewish girl taken with her parents to the Vel' d'Hiv, fights to return to Paris where her brother is locked away in a secret closet in their apartment, hiding from the police. Years later, in modern day Paris, American journalist Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) begins to research Sarah's story while struggling with the decision of whether to keep or abort her baby – a baby that her husband does not want.

The film, like the book, flips between 1942 and modern-day France and New York, defying traditional World War II films, since over half of the story takes place in the 2000s. Co-writer and director Gilles Pacquet-Brenner added a few scenes to flesh out Sarah's history, and streamlined Julia's relationship with her husband and fellow journalists, but left the bestselling story largely intact.

Young Sarah, played by a brilliant French actress named Mélusine Mayance, has haunting eyes and maturity beyond her years. As Pacquet-Brenner says, "She's a great actress. She's not a child who acts." Coupled with the stunning, mysterious Charlotte Poutrel playing a grown up Sarah, Pacuqet-Brenner presents an unforgettable character who endures almost incomprehensible tragedy. Kristin Scott Thomas also delivers a moving performance as the journalist Julia, and between Thomas and Aidan Quinn, they keep an emotional ending from becoming melodramatic.

Pacquet-Brenner presents the roundup and holding scenes at the Vel' d'Hiv roughly, pushing the camera right into the crowd, below the adults, giving the audience the perspective of a little child. Later, when mothers and children are torn apart at Drancy, he does it again. The unsettling style drives the scenes home.

"Sarah's Key" draws a comparison between what happened during World War II to our lives today in a very unique way, showing how lives can intertwine and impact, even when separated by the years. "It was very interesting to show how the facts of the past can affect the present and how you need to know, understand and face your past," said the director recently in an interview with BH. "Because we in the present come from the past; the past is what defines us."

In "Sarah's Key," Julia's quest to discover Sarah's history becomes not only an effort to keep the horrific truth of the Vel' d'Hiv roundup from dying, but to illustrate that the Holocaust's detestable devaluation of human life is not forgotten, and that through remembering, there is "the hope of what we can become" – better, changed people ourselves. It is a moving reminder to never forget this tragedy, and to value every life.

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dmill ... ust-event/
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

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July 29, 2011, 08:55:53 PM
QuoteTheodor Dannecker

 (27 March 1913 in Tübingen – 10 December 1945 in Bad Tölz) was an SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) and one of Adolf Eichmann's associates.

After completing trade school, Dannecker first worked as a textile dealer, until he became a member of the NSDAP and the SS in 1932.

In 1934, Dannecker became a member of the SS-Verfügungstruppe, a special combat support force, and a year later in 1935, he also became a member of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (SD, Security Service was primarily the intelligence service of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany). In March 1937 came Dannecker's transfer to the Judenreferat ("Jew Unit") in the SD's main office. From September 1940 until July 1942, Dannecker was leader of the Judenreferat at the SD post in Paris.

The Final S(cam)olution

Owing to misuse of his position, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942. From January 1943 Dannecker was the highest German official in charge of the Final Solution, in all the Bulgarian territories.[1] During March 1943 11,343 Jews were deported from the occupied Bulgarian terriritories of Greece and Yugoslavia to Auschwitz and Treblinka. Only twelve survived.[2] His attempt to deport Jews with Bulgarian citizenship from old Bulgaria failed due to widespread opposition led by heads of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Bishops Stephan and Kiril from Sofia and Plovdiv, and by prominent politicians such as vice-president of the parliament, Dimiter Peshev. Danecker continued to deport the Italian Jews between September 1943 and January 1944, and Hungarian Jews between early 1944 and summer of the same year.

In December 1945, Dannecker was interned by the United States Army, and a few days later he committed suicide.

Theodor Dannecker developed under Adolf Eichmann into one of the SS's most experienced experts on the "Jewish Question", and his involvement in the annihilation of European Jewry was one of primary responsibility.

A passage from a 1942 report by Dannecker illustrates how the "Jewish Question" was handled in France:

QuoteSubject: Points for the discussion with the French State Secretary for Police, Bousquet... The recent operation for arresting stateless Jews in Paris has yielded only about 8,000 adults and about 4,000 children. But trains for the deportation of 40,000 Jews, for the moment, have been put in readiness by the Reich Ministry of Transport. Since the deportation of the children is not possible for the time being, the number of Jews ready for removal is quite insufficient. A further Jewish operation must therefore be started immediately. For this purpose Jews of Belgian and Dutch nationality may be taken into consideration, in addition to the former German, Austrian, Czech, Polish and Russian Jews who have so far been considered as being stateless. It must be expected, however, that this category will not yield sufficient numbers, and thus the French have no choice but to include those Jews who were naturalized in France after 1927, or even after 1919.[3]

Ironically, Danneckers first girlfriend, Lisbeth Stern, was Jewish.[4]  :wtf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Dannecker
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

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July 29, 2011, 08:57:53 PM
'Sarah's Key,' on France's role in Holocaust, opens in South Florida
 
The theme of the new movie 'Sarah's Key' — France's role in Holocaust — is one that still resonates in South Florida

By Rene Rodriguez
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/24/2 ... le-in.html
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan
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