Maybe some of you have seen this already but I just saw it and though it was pretty cool.
Adolek Kohn, a 89-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp is in a new video dancing with his daughter and 3 grandchildren at the camp to the tune of "I will Survive".

I think is pretty damn awesome and life affirming thing to do but apparently it's sparked a debate given the gravity of the location and the solemnity it demands.

What are your thoughts?



http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/da ... 2F19558297

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Hold my beer and watch this...

I fully endorse any and every concentration camp survivor to dance to I Will Survive upon returning to the place they feared they might lose their lives.

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mechaphil

I think he can do whatever he wants. I see it as giving a big middle finger to Hitler and the Nazis.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I agree to both of what Phil and Alex said.

For anyone to survive that ordeal, let them do whatever the fuck they want, they lived through something they shouldn't of lived through.

No one today knows what he went through, so fuck anyone who hates on it.

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I'm with all you guys. IMO, the only people who have any right to bitch would be other survivors. Everyone else can stfu.

Alright, he has every right to do that. He can do what ever he wants.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

Ironically, the loudest whiners ARE the survivors. I understand where they're coming from, but I feel where Kohn is coming from even more.

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mechaphil

It would be eerie to go to that place, even without knowing any family affected by it; although i'm sure I had family affected bu it because my whole family on my mothers side is polish. Damn Nazis...

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"Ah...composite sticks...you can't beat 'em...unless you have a wooden one..."-Harry Neale

In Pegula We We Trust!

I really think that's fantastic and completely approve.

That sentence looks awkward and "I'm trying to be ironic!"ish, but I promise I mean it.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

It sounds like it's in bad taste, but if there's anyone who can dance at a concentration camp, it's a Holocaust survivor.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

It's all fine and good for the survivor himself, but try to put yourself into someone else's position. let's say both your parents, your aunts and uncles were gased at Auschwitz. Now along comes this guy releasing a music video dancing to "I will Survive" at the camp. Might that not seem a little heartless to you?

I support anyone who survived that place to do whatever they want. Nobody who wasnt there has any right to say shit.

(On the other side, I wish that place was razed to the ground. I know that there's something to be said about reminding people of what happened there so it's never forgotten, but it just sickens me in a way that a place where so many people were brutally murdered is effectively a tourist attraction.)

I don't know, I think memorializing something like that is a good thing, if nothing more than to keep the human race accountable a provide a constant reminder of evils that should never happen again.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Well the same thing can be said about a lot of historic sites though.
Gettysburg, Omaha beach, pearl harbor etc.

I think the lessons history has to teach us are much more powerful when the places can be experienced rather then just read about.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

I agree about experiencing and remembering places. But let's use Omaha Beach as a parallel example. You're from a military family Cross. Don't you think there might be some relatives that would think it's in bad taste if somebody made a video of themselves dancing on Omaha Beach to say, "Blitzkrieg Bop"?

eeeghhhh....maybe.
I see this a bit differently though. Maybe there's not a good analogy for this situation since battlegrounds, while being places of immense death and suffering are also places where both sides paid a price.

Making it out of a one sided death factory and thumbing your nose at your would be killers is different than celebrating the outcome of a battle.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

I think different people have different ways of remembering/grieving/gaining closure or cathartically addressing their past.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

absolutely he can do that. hes not some jabroni off the street, he is a survivor. and he has every right to celebrate his survival in a place where all remaining prisoners were ordered to be executed when the nazis realized the soviets were approaching. its damn spectacular he survived.

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Respect for using jabroni rofl

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mechaphil

Yeah, congrats to this guy for pretty much giving a giant f-u to the nazi way of thinking/hatred. Plus, the fuckin dude is 89 goddamn years old, let him do whatever he wants as long as it doesn't involve driving.....

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