tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post7028256590821973679..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Forensic Genealogy strikes againRandy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-77897118148452506152008-12-31T11:26:00.000-08:002008-12-31T11:26:00.000-08:00I first read about this story in one of those vira...I first read about this story in one of those viral e-mails that I get from too many people. I read it with interest and then thought to myself - no way! That is one helluva cosmic coincidence and there is no way this is not fiction. Literary license, I called it.<BR/><BR/>So I am not surprised at all that it's not true. I am not sure though why so many people are in such an uproar. There's a really easy way to handle the situation. Don't buy the book. Don't watch the movie. Simple.Abba-Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089473766267377501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-69008220262598172752008-12-30T00:55:00.000-08:002008-12-30T00:55:00.000-08:00This hoax is a tragedy. The Rosenblats have hurt...This hoax is a tragedy. The Rosenblats have hurt Jews all over and given support to those who deny the holocaust. I don't understand why Atlantic Pictures is still proceeding to make a film based on a lie. I also don't understand how Oprah could have publicized this story, 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/>There are so many other worthwhile projects based on genuine love stories from the Holocaust. 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. 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. Now that's a romantic love story! I also admire Dina for her tremendous courage 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/>Also, Dina's story has been verified as 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.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12018543585913676573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-7410190123007025322008-12-29T10:49:00.000-08:002008-12-29T10:49:00.000-08:00Hi, Randy! I just awarded you with the Proximidade...Hi, Randy! I just awarded you with the <A HREF="http://ancestories1.blogspot.com/2008/12/proximidade-award.html" REL="nofollow">Proximidade Award</A>.Miriam Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12021845886261585678noreply@blogger.com