Comments on: An invite to an exhibition http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Club Troppo » Art Exhibition at the Jewish Museum on the Dunera http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/#comment-330268 Club Troppo » Art Exhibition at the Jewish Museum on the Dunera Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:07:20 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=6101#comment-330268 [...] mentioned an art exhibition by a ’second generation Dunera Boy’ in an earlier post and I went along on Sunday. I found it very affecting and bought a painting - they’re very [...] [...] mentioned an art exhibition by a ’second generation Dunera Boy’ in an earlier post and I went along on Sunday. I found it very affecting and bought a painting – they’re very [...]

]]> By: Rafe Champion http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/#comment-324343 Rafe Champion Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:37:25 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=6101#comment-324343 One of the chilling things about the Holocaust was where it happened - that kind of thing might have been expected in places like Poland and Russia (not to mention less civilised parts of the world) but not in a nation with the high culture and intellectual record of Germany. Someone was comparing Germany and Russia with the comment that some kind of normal life persisted in parts of Germany because the terror had weird limits. She described an episode where a relative was in social company with a high officer of the SS and the relative mentioned that one of her (non-Jewish) friends had been beaten up in the street by SS troopers. The officer promised that the men would be punished if she could provide more information about the episode. One of the chilling things about the Holocaust was where it happened – that kind of thing might have been expected in places like Poland and Russia (not to mention less civilised parts of the world) but not in a nation with the high culture and intellectual record of Germany.

Someone was comparing Germany and Russia with the comment that some kind of normal life persisted in parts of Germany because the terror had weird limits. She described an episode where a relative was in social company with a high officer of the SS and the relative mentioned that one of her (non-Jewish) friends had been beaten up in the street by SS troopers. The officer promised that the men would be punished if she could provide more information about the episode.

]]> By: Fred Argy http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/#comment-324113 Fred Argy Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:27:16 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=6101#comment-324113 Very moving, Nicholas. Very moving, Nicholas.

]]> By: FDB http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/#comment-324112 FDB Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:22:57 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=6101#comment-324112 Thanks for this Nick - I'll be going for sure. Thanks for this Nick – I’ll be going for sure.

]]> By: James Farrell http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/14/an-invite-to-an-exhibition/#comment-324110 James Farrell Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:04:21 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=6101#comment-324110 Isn't it completely natural to be 'strange' about the holocaust? You don't even need to have had family caught up in it, though that would obviously intensify it. Perhaps it's something about growing up in idyllic Australian suburbia in the 1960s and '70s. To people middle aged or older, it was a fresh memory, but something they were happy to forget. For us, curious just by virtue of being children, it was at once near at hand and awful beyond comprehension, hence fascinating and even tantalising. Isn’t it completely natural to be ‘strange’ about the holocaust? You don’t even need to have had family caught up in it, though that would obviously intensify it. Perhaps it’s something about growing up in idyllic Australian suburbia in the 1960s and ’70s. To people middle aged or older, it was a fresh memory, but something they were happy to forget. For us, curious just by virtue of being children, it was at once near at hand and awful beyond comprehension, hence fascinating and even tantalising.

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