I’ve been trying my best not to obsess about the news lately, which is why I’ve been spending less time here. (Blogging and obsessing about the news have always gone hand in hand with me.) On the plus side, this reallocation of bandwidth has given me more time to spend time with my family, take […]
Tag Archives: holocaust
Watching The Pawnbroker and Blade Runner back to back
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Blade Runner, emotions, humanity, pawn shop, replicant, Rod Steiger, Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer, Sol Nazerman, Spanish Harlem, stigmata, The Pawnbroker 71 Comments
My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, Wöbbelin, World War II 7 Comments