Posted on 03/07/2006 10:01:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Wow.
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Now that story would make a heckuva movie. Maybe Spielberg can get his mind right again and look into it.
Maybe he could play the German Rabbi.
Great story. Why can't we get a movie made about this instead of the braindead crap Hollywood is producing? Do we REALLY need another movie re-make of some bad 60s sitcom? These kinds of stories are just screaming for Hollywood to produce. Instead we get "Hustle and Flow" and "Syrianna."
Anyway, God rest this brave hero.
Interesting background. Bel Air Camera was kind of a "mega store" setup before the Best Buys, etc., of the world took over. Very successful, if I recall. Good for him.
God rest his soul..How many of us could go through what these people did and survive?He is at peace now..
A great man has passed on.
It figures that the a rabbi would not believe such stories. I have little use for the rabbinical groups. Probably was a reformed rabbi too.
Bel-Air Camera is still a thriving concern.
A MUST-visit for shutterbugs while in West Los Angeles.
Prices are close to or just slightly higher than "big boxes" and service is
simply orders of magnitude what you'd get at the big boxes.
"Almost 50 years after escaping, Herskovic sat down with his film-producer daughter and wrote a memoir of the Holocaust. "
Does anyone know if this is in written form, for sale? I would like to be able to read it.
G-d rest your soul, Mr. Herskovic.
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I spent a lot of time and money at Bel-Air Camera in 70's and 80's. You payed a little more but the staff was very knowledgeable. I would guess there days are numbered because of all the discounters out there.
Let's hope Spielberg never hears about him.
Especially if Herskovic used *gasp* guns in his escape.
"It figures that the a rabbi would not believe such stories. I have little use for the rabbinical groups. Probably was a reformed rabbi too."
Oh please, this is the kind of bigotry that started the Holocaust in the first place. One rabbi does something, possibly out of great fear, and you're willing to blame all rabbis? Am I meant to blame the entire church because some priests collaborated in the Holocaust and others have been involved in child abuse? What about the many millions of gentiles who collaborated in the Holocaust? Am I meant to blame all of Christian Europe?
In any event, my guess is that you know next to nothing about rabbis, or indeed the Jewish religion, outside of the many prejudices that have been inculcated in you by others.
I think I would have to cut the rabbi a little slack.
The stories they told him were probably so monsterous as to be unbelievable to a rational person.
He probably just thought they were nuts.
Reading through some of your previous posts, I've just learned that you are Jewish.
Shame on you!
"He probably just thought they were nuts."
He was afraid for his life. Think about who he was and where he was living.
Yes, but I think the stories were just so unbelievable that he could not have fathomed that such things were actually happening.
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