{"id":1179,"date":"2016-07-01T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/?page_id=1179"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:07:45","slug":"the-new-documentary-short-taking-the-stand-we-have-more-to-say","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/the-new-documentary-short-taking-the-stand-we-have-more-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Documentary Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cYou don\u2019t see the chimney and the fire and the smoke? There go your parents! And when you go through the chimneys,\u201d [the guard] said, \u201cyou will be reunited.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u201cIf I started blaming God, then I was going to excuse men, and this was really done by men, by humanity.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\nRen\u00e9e Firestone, Jewish Auschwitz survivor; her life story was part of Steven Spielberg\u2019s Oscar-winning documentary The Last Days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prisoner was manacled with a chain on his back and hung up. We hung on the stake for an hour \u2026\u201c<\/strong><\/em>
\nRichard Rudolph, Bible student (one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses) and conscientious objector; as \u201cA Victim of Double Persecution\u201d he spent almost nineteen years in Nazi camps and German Democratic Republic prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I went to bed, I thought to myself, \u2018You\u2019re a dead man on vacation. You\u2019ll never get out of here.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\nAdolf Burger, Jewish Auschwitz survivor & counterfeiter in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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\n\u201cI feel victorious. I won. I did not give in.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\nLeopold Engleitner, Bible student (one of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses) and conscientious objector; who at 107 years old, was the world\u2019s oldest known male Nazi concentration camp survivor and Holocaust teacher.<\/p>\n

When hatred, prejudice, and bullying threaten, whose voices will we turn to? The voices of the survivors must never be silenced even if they are no longer among us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nine Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi tyranny [Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Sinti, and a political prisoner] from 5 different countries (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, USA) have ‘taken the stand’ to give their testimony as a legacy for future generations.<\/p>\n

All in all, they were interned in fifty-four camps or institutions, they were imprisoned for 44 years, and all together they can provide outstanding life experience totaling 806 years. Those whose voices are heard range from an average housewife to active Holocaust teachers and even the subjects of Oscar-winning films. Survivors were interviewed according to a catalog of questions, unique in the world, consisting of questions from schoolchildren and students from 61 schools and universities in 30 countries on 6 continents.<\/p>\n

\u201cRammerstorfer contributed a new scientific and human dimension to our understanding of the Nazi regime and its victims and martyrs.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\nProfessor Lorenz Reibling, Boston College<\/p>\n

Written, produced, and directed by Bernhard Rammerstorfer
\nNarrated by Frederic G. Fuss
\nEdited by Anton Kapfer
\nRunning time: 29:59 minutes<\/p>\n

Film Awards and recognitions:
\n“Official Selection” at the “Long Island International Film Expo 2016”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

Order the film as online digital download here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t see the chimney and the fire and the smoke? There go your parents! And when you go through the chimneys,\u201d [the guard] said, \u201cyou will be reunited.\u201d \u201cIf I started blaming God, then I was going to excuse men, and this was really done by men, by humanity.\u201d Ren\u00e9e Firestone, Jewish Auschwitz survivor;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","prodpage-style2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1179\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imzeugenstand.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}