tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344645.post2954973089851059825..comments2023-10-28T07:34:24.595-07:00Comments on AlotofGaul: Fiction V. Memoir--It's not rocket science!Vickey Kallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626852594829464240noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344645.post-74791436076690197032008-12-31T13:07:00.000-08:002008-12-31T13:07:00.000-08:00Thanks to both of you for stopping by. Dan, good l...Thanks to both of you for stopping by. Dan, good luck with your write-in campaign. Devin, thanks for that fascinating story about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt--I had never heard it before!<BR/>Apparently Dina is involved in a lawsuit, trying to get some of her own paintings back from the Auschwitz Museum. Stan Lee and other luminaries of the comics world support her--I found her illustrated life story at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdfVickey Kallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00626852594829464240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344645.post-24676169762269495752008-12-30T21:35:00.000-08:002008-12-30T21:35:00.000-08:00The Rosenblat story is so sad. Why is Atlantic Pic...The Rosenblat story is so sad. Why is Atlantic Pictures making a film based on a lie? Why didn't Oprah check the story out before publicizing it, especially after James Frey and given that many bloggers like Deborah Lipstadt said in 2007 that the Rosenblat's story couldn't be true.<BR/>Genuine love stories from the Holocaust do exist. My favorite is the one about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt - the beautiful young art student who painted Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on the children's barracks at Auschwitz to cheer them up. This painting became the reason Dina and her Mother survived Auschwitz. After the end of the war, Dina applied for an art job in Paris. Unbeknownst to Dina, her interviewer was the lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They fell in love and got married. It's such a romantic love story. Another reason I love Dina's story is the tremendous courage she had to paint the mural in the first place. Painting the mural for the children caused her to be taken to Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but bravely she stood up to Mengele and he made her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber. <BR/><BR/>Dina's story is also verified to be true. Some of the paintings she did for Mengele in Auschwitz survived the war and are at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum. The story of her painting the mural of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the children's barrack has been corroborated by many other Auschwitz prisoners, and of course her love and marriage to the animator of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Disney movie after the war in Paris is also documented. <BR/><BR/>Why wasn't the Rosenblatt's story checked out before it was published and picked up to have the movie made?? I would like to see true and wonderful stories like Dina's be publicized, not these hoax tales that destroy credibility and trust.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34344645.post-26903823832191945122008-12-30T04:05:00.000-08:002008-12-30T04:05:00.000-08:00Asking Oprah to invite Herman Rosenblat on her sho...Asking Oprah to invite Herman Rosenblat on her show one more time to apologize for his literary fabrication, explain why he did it, ask forgiveness<BR/><BR/>http://ijcm101.blogspot.com<BR/> <BR/>I am creating a national write-in campaign here with a grassroots effort to ask Oprah to invite Herman on her show in future to apologzie, ask forgiveness, explain why he did and how and ... to move on with his life quietly and out of the spotlight. <BR/><BR/>I have already been in touch with Oprah's producers and there is a good chance this might happen. Oprah will not attack Herman on air the way she did with James Frey after his deceptions were uncovered. In this case, she will allow Herman to answer to the public, explain himself, apologize and ask forgiveness, from Oprah and the public, for his literary faux pas.<BR/><BR/>PLEASE leave your comments below. You may frame them as a letter to Oprah, which her producers in Chicago will read online here, and you can make your voice heard about asking Oprah to invite Herman on her show one last time to explain himself, to apologize to Oprah and the public, to ask forgiveness and to move on with this life from the point onward. We believe that he is a good man, and that he just made a wrong decision by sticking with his made-up story for so long. Now that the fabrication has been exposed by the media and his book cancelled, it is time for Oprah to invite him on her show and let him explain himself to her and to the public. I think there will be a teaching moment here for everyone, for Oprah too, for Herman, too, and for the viewing public.<BR/><BR/>I am in touch with Oprah's producers by email and phone now, and am waiting word on what they will do with this suggestion. There is no group sponsoring this write in campaign, just one lone blogger following his heart.DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com