#Eva Heyman

[dalekofchaos]

I feel like Mercedes Moné is being set up for failure in AEW.

Her promos are scripted WWE 2019-2021 era WWE and I mean that in the most derogatory way I possibly can.

Mercedes personal writer is bad and she is doing Mercedes absolutely no favors and just feels like she is being set up for failure before she can actually wrestle.

I like Mercedes, but she’s really showing how much WWE protected her short comings.

Mercedes walks and talks like a heel, but portrayed as a babyface. So full of herself and vain, yet Tony wants her to be a face?

Tony Khan has been the anti Paul Heyman with Mercedes to where he's been showing off weaknesses and hiding strengths.

She's never been a strong promo, yet that's all they have her do even putting her on commentary. Her strengths are her in ring wrestling, and her physical charisma with her presentation, yet they haven't had her do any of that.

If she wasn't cleared to compete, then why would you rush her out so soon? Why make her wait TWO MONTHS to fucking wrestle? If it were up to me, I would've debuted Mercedes at Dynasty after Willow won the title and give the tease to Mercedes and Willow.

I mean for fuck's sake, they had Mercedes put the moan in Moné.

Will Ospreay out of all the signings has been the only one used properly. Mercedes is ice cold, Jay White is a random filler midcard guy stuck in purgatory, Okada is now just a background faction stooge for the Bucks.

Just absolute mismanagement, that would be like HHH having Jade not get any big theatrical entrances to show off her physical charisma, and asking her to work 20 minute call it in the ring matches instead of doing setpiece spots in the ring. Or HBK having Giulia come in and just cut live promos instead of wrestling and having elaborate entrances. Tony Khan is like that sports gm that will spend the money to bring in the talent, but doesn't know how to utilize them properly being the anti Paul Heyman he does the opposite of what made the talent good in the first place.

AEW having Mercedes do a lot of the one thing shes the worst at. Like I’m sorry, she’s hit or miss on the mic, especially as a babyface. and she’s the case of “sometimes wrestlers need scripted promos” Where this woman truly shines is in the ring.

And that’s the thing. Between WWE and AEW, WWE are good at playing to someone’s strengths and hiding their weaknesses because the people making them decisions are experienced at this. Can’t say the same about AEW and BOY does it really show.

She was moaning in a bad scripted segment last week and that was NOT A MOAN OF PAIN. For someone who’s been in The Mandalorian, she sure is bad at acting.

AEW is not WWE. AEW has an audience that cares more about the wrestling than the talking and Mercedes is already ice cold.

It was a dumb idea to bring in Mercedes before she was cleared to compete and she is getting blown out of the water by Willow Nightingale.

Just feels like Mercedes is either being set up for failure or she is so arrogant and vain that she actually feels like acting like Eva Marie is good heat.

#AEW #Mercedes Mone #Sasha Banks #Willow Nightingale

[magnetothemagnificent]

This might be a bit sensitive topic, so you don't have to if you don't want to, but could you recommend some holocaust literature? I've come to realize the representation of it in the media isn't always that great, and well, thought you might have an opinion

Absolutely!

Some websites:

Yad Vashem- The World Holocaust Remembrance Center.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Some books written by or on behalf of Holocaust survivors:

"Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live", by Lily Ebert

"Man's Search for Meaning", by Victor Frankl

"The Redhead of Auschwitz", by Nechama Birnbaum on behalf of her grandmother, Rosie Greenstein

"Night", by Elie Wiesel

"A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’", by Otto Rosenberg

"I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror", by Pierre Seel

"The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir", by Tova Friedman

"An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin", by Gad Beck

"The Diary of Éva Heyman," by Eva Heyman, published posthumously. She was murdered during the Holocaust.

"The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow", by Krystyna Chiger

"A Teenager in Hitler's Death Camps", by Benny Grunfeld

Some books written about the Holocaust:

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Pharrajimos: The Fate of the Roma During the Holocaust

The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration

Doctors Under Hitler

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

The Suffering of the Roma in Serbia during the Holocaust 

Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust

Films:

Survivors Testimony Film Series

Numbered

Secret Lives: Hidden Children and their Rescuers in World War II

Shoah

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

A People Uncounted

Media to avoid:

Historical fiction written by non-Romani, non-Jewish authors that focuses more on the Germans than on their victims. "Number the Stars" and "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" are the biggest offenders.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I tried to make it as thorough as possible.

#holocaust #shoah #holocaust education #jumblr #antisemitism #violent antisemitism #racism #nazis #resources #antiziganism #porajmos #genocide #education

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Eva Heyman & Anne Frank

#Holocaust #anne frank #eva heyman #ww2 #world war 2 #vintage #vintage girl #vintage clothing #1940s women #20 century #girl art #sad art #sad girl #dark drawing #dark girl #war art

[pierreism]

Eva Heyman died in Auschwitz on October 17th 1944 at the tender age of 13. This week, to mark Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, a bold new experiment for the social media age re-imagines her side of the story through first-person Instagram posts, letting viewers experience the last few months of her life as if in real-time.

The multi-million dollar production, which includes extras dressed in Nazi regalia riding armoured tanks, is the brainchild of Mati and Maya Kochavi. Presented through the lens of a smartphone (and delivered initially with the kind of convivial narration you’d expect from a typical 13 year-old), each unfolding episode allows us to witness the slow-motion atrocity with a renewed and uncanny sense immediacy. To see clips of her frightening ghettoization amidst the usual glossy plastic detritus that populates the Instagram feed is jarring to say the least — which I guess is the point. The digital space is an area defined by disruption. In appropriating phone cameras and citizen journalism; by hacking into our obsessive need to look to the future to instead show us the past, eva.stories disrupts our attention — and our comfort — for a cause worth paying mind to.

Watch her story in its entirety on the eva.stories Instagram. Or if you don’t have an account it’s currently viewable here: storiesig.com/?username=eva.stories

#Eva Heyman #eva.stories

[writinglionqueen]

RAW Recap (9/20/21)

~kicking things off with the New Day reunited!!

~they celebrate their reunion and also Big E’s win

~Big E calls out the Bloodline who comes out

~The Bloodline vs The New Day in a 6-man tag team match

~Bobby Lashley comes out and interferes, attacking everyone

~Due to the distraction, Roman Reigns pins Xavier Woods

~Bobby spears both champions

~Bobby is still after Big E

~Eva Marie vs Doudrop

~Doudrop wins

~Heyman, on behalf of Roman tells Adam Pierce and Sonya Deville that Roman wants Bobby

~Big E wants Bobby and is told by Adam and Sonya that there shall be a triple threat

~Randy Orton (accompanied by Matt Riddle) vs AJ Styles (accompanied by Omos)

~Omos gets ejected to the back for tripping Randy but he doesn’t leave before punching Riddle

~Randy gets the pin

~Nia Jax vs Shayna Baszler

~Shayna gets the win

~Shayna stomps on Nia’s elbow even as Nia begs for mercy

~Mustafa Ali and Mansoor vs Humberti Carrillo and Angel Garza

~Humberto gets the pin

~Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley come out for their match against Tamina and Natalya

~They compete for the tag team championships

~Nikki gets the pin for her and Rhea to become the new women’s tag team champs

~Alexa Bliss invites Charlotte Flair to her Playground

~They throw insults at each other ending up in a fight where Charlotte decapitates the Charlie doll and tries to do the same with Lily before Alexa saves the doll

~R-Truth, Drake Maverick, Akira Tozawa and Drew Gulak devise a plan to trap Reggie to get the 24/7 championship that fails

~Jeff Hardy vs Sheamus with the stipulation that if Jeff wins he will be added to the match at Extreme Rules with Sheamus and Damian Priest

~Damian watches from commentary

~Jeff gets the pin and shall be an addition to the Sheamus and Damian match at Extreme Rules

~Sheamus and Damian go at each other

~Roman Reigns vs Big E vs Bobby Lashley in a triple threat match

~Bobby attacked Big E straight out of the gate

~Roman gets the win

#raw #raw recap #wwe #wwe recap

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[smarkbomb]

WWE hopes no one remembers Reigns and Lesnar have faced off 100 times before Crown Jewel

With a major title match pending between two of WWE’s biggest heavyweights, WWE has somehow not mentioned all the times these two wrestlers have fought over a title in the past.

WWE is about to have their first event in Saudi Arabia in a while and their big match is Reigns and Lesnar fighting over the Universal Championship. This promises to be a major match between two of the most dominant superstars in the history of the WWE.

But the weird thing is that WWE hasn’t really mentioned the fact that these same two wrestlers have faced off over a title on numerous occasions. Even implying Reigns is afraid of Lesnar is makes no sense given that he has already beaten Lesnar for a title.

It’s reaching a point where fans are starting to question reality itself. Did any of those matches even happen? Did Roman Reigns famously defeat Lesnar for a title? Is Paul Heyman a real person? Can Eva Marie actually wrestle and fans are just delusional?

The answers to those questions are yes, yes, yes, and dear Lord, No. 

#WWE #Roman Reigns #Brock Lesnar #Wrestling #Satire

[scifigeneration]

Video games can bring older family members' personal history back to life

by Bob De Schutter

History can come alive. Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock.com

It is one thing to learn about history in a classroom. But as any visitor to a living museum or historic site can tell you, a fantastic way to learn is to make a personal connection.

In early 2019, media entrepreneur Mati Kochavi and his daughter Maya brought the stories of Eva Heyman, a Hungarian Jew who was murdered in Auschwitz, to social media with the simple question, “What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?” “Eva Stories” was a one-day project told through Instagram stories that amassed 200,000 followers before the morning it began and reached 1 million by its end the next day.

Regular people care about the past, and can now engage with it in new ways. As a researcher of games and aging, I’m noticing a trend emerging that has the potential to build even more powerful emotional connections with its audience, through the crackling voices of people who lived through important historical times and events. My fellow game designers and I refer to it as “gaminiscing” – using the tools of video games to share personal history.

These projects, including my own, combine audio recordings of their subjects with modern gameplay, letting players explore a virtual environment to hear – and sometimes even experience – meaningful life stories that are told to them by the older adults who lived through them.

Connecting generations

In general, few video games portray older characters accurately. Often they’re presented as a cartoon, or an over-the-top caricature or in a dehumanizing way. Before gaminiscing, there was almost no opportunity for older people to use their own voices to tell authentic, personal stories.

An early trailer for ‘Grandma Game.’

“Grandma Game” is the working title of an intergenerational game by brothers and media artists James and Joe Cox, in collaboration with their grandmother, Barbara. The game is a walking simulator, a popular genre of video games in which players trigger stories by exploring 3D environments. In “Grandma Game,” players find themselves inside the watercolor paintings done by Barbara and her grandsons, while hearing her tell stories of what the images and places mean to her.

The game intentionally limits a player’s interaction, to make it more fun for Barbara herself to play it. “We want the game to be playable (and enjoyable) to her, so we have to design the controls and play around what she can understand and handle,” James told me in an email. “She sees it as a way to preserve her family’s history and as an opportunity to share skills with, and learn from, her grandchildren. Both our watercolor painting sessions and audio recording sessions have given us the chance to spend … quality time with our grandmother – time focused on creating work together as artists.”

Looking at history

Other games have emerged that take on more expansive historical topics, though still using very personal experiences.

“Memories of Manzanar and Tule Lake” is the working title of a game aiming to recreate the stories of the game designer’s Japanese American grandparents during their time in an internment camp following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the game, players will be able to direct their own journey, interacting with other internees and learning about personal experiences with pivotal events in history, like the infamous loyalty questionnaire, and joining the U.S. Army.

Similar to the Cox brothers, game designer Brent Shiohama wishes to honor his grandparents, the bravery of interned families, and the Japanese Americans who served in the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.

A virtual reality game explores one boy’s experience of World War II in France.

“La Peur Bleue” tells the stories of the creator’s grandfather in World War II France. The artist states, “By focusing on specific, emotional moments from my grandfather’s past, you are given the opportunity to experience the context of the war and empathize with the emotions my grandfather felt.” Players interact with objects in recreated locations and hear a grandfather reminisce about his past, adding another layer of historical immersion by using virtual reality rather than just a computer screen.

My own game, the forthcoming “Brukel,” uses recordings of my grandmother’s own voice, to tell stories of her childhood growing up on an occupied farm in Belgium during World War II.

As the player, you enter the Brukel farmhouse equipped with your smartphone camera and a vague list of topics that your grandmother told you about. By photographing items that match well with each topic, you unlock audio recordings in which she reveals her past to you.

However, when it eventually gets dark, you find yourself trapped in the house as the ghosts of the past come to life. Through a series of survival-based vignettes, you must try to outlast some of the horror stories that my grandmother lived through as a teenage girl, while slowly learning about how the war deeply affected everyone in the family.

A Belgian grandmother tells the story of her childhood in ‘Brukel.’

A welcoming response

Even before the release of “Brukel,” I have been able to showcase it, most notably at an event at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in early August 2019. So far, playtesters have told me they appreciate its ability to engage the player through the use of modern technology.

Because of my own research, I had anticipated that older gamers would appreciate “Brukel” for its meaningful engagement and mature story. Those are two qualities that my research has shown are paramount to older gamers. In particular, for my qualitative work, I met a number of older adults who deliberately sought out games that would meaningfully contribute to their interest in the post-World War II era.

For example, an 82-year-old Belgian man told me, “I barely remember the Second World War but I was a child back then. What I remember is extremely vivid, though. The lights, the bombings, the noise. Airplanes flying over our house and being shot down. I can still see it. It was an adventure, and I relive that adventure by playing games about it.”

Similarly, another Belgian man, aged 62, explained, “I recently went to Normandy; it is amazing to visit places in games that you can later on visit in real life. You have never been there but you know the place from the game. They can be so realistic.”

However, I had not expected the response that “Brukel” received from children. At the Smithsonian event, people from all age groups – including pre-kindergartners and octogenarians – played “Brukel.” As a group, pre-teens turned out to be most engaged with the game, spending the most time playing it and even returning multiple times over the two-day event to play it again.

When I spoke with the parents of these young gamers, the general theme of their response was that they loved how engaged their children were with “Brukel” while learning about history. One parent told me, “They’re going to play video games regardless, so it’s great that they’re drawn to something educational.” Another parent who said his child was on the autism spectrum and had trouble concentrating in school praised “Brukel” for its ability to engage with his son. He said his son was more comfortable learning through playing the game because he was familiar with using a keyboard and mouse, which he found far less stressful than being in a classroom.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that many of these gaminiscing projects are centered around war. The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II will be in 2020; as those who faced its terrors firsthand die, the stories of their experiences are fading away. The risk – and my concern – is that society collectively will forget the lessons and the promises of “never again.”

About The Author:

Bob De Schutter is a C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Applied Game Design at Miami University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 

#video games #technology

[carapostsblog]

Eva Stories - Project Research

What if a girl during the holocaust had Instagram? This is what came up as a suggestion on my Instagram feed a few weeks back. Intrigued, I clicked onto the page and started watching the stories. I binged all 70 clips, I couldn’t look away, but it was a hard watch. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, Eva Stories was released back in May 2019, specifically for the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Based on the true story of Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jew living in a Nazi-occupied Hungary. 

We see her life (performed by actors) through her video diaries where we experience the life of a pretty normal teenager, going to school, playing with friends and having a crush on a guy, typical things. As the videos go on, the presence of the Nazis becomes more involved in her life to the point where she and her family are forced into a concentration camp where she is murdered. 

What I particularly loved about this concept was how personal it felt, instead of seeing it as an event in the past we saw it through a teenager’s personal experience, capturing moments of her life as many of us do today through Instagram. What was a historical event that happened decades ago, retells the story in a more familiar platform that still gets across the importance of what happened. 

This story has inspired me to think about creating an interactive game for my project proposal. Perhaps done in a similar way, creating a story world like this where everything the viewer sees is the player’s personal videos. Maybe the viewer makes the choices for the player or solves clues/puzzles? Just brainstorming ideas, but I definitely want to do an interactive game on either Snapchat or Instagram in this video diary format. 

Below are some articles I read about the making of the stories and the controversy/praise it has attracted. 

https://www.unian.info/society/10849178-story-of-holocaust-on-instagram-how-eva-stories-was-created.html 

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/05/231775/what-is-eva-stories-holocaust-instagram-controversy 

Her account is @eva.stories if anyone wants to check it out. 

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Digitális platformokon „megelevenedő” tinédzser Holokauszt-áldozatok

21. századi vlogginggal és Insta-profillal emlékeznek a Holokauszt áldozatainak millióira. A 13 éves nagyváradi Heyman Éva története után most a Hollandiából 15 évesen elhurcolt Anne Frank filmre vitt utolsó hónapjai is megelevenednek a digitális médiában.

A koronavírus nemzetközi jelenléte magasabbra, pontosabban túlnyomórészt a digitális platformokra tette a lécet idén a megemlékezés terén.…

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#Anne Frank #Eva Heyman #Holokauszt megemlékezés #Jom HaSoah #napló #videó

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Eva Stories

Eva.Stories erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen, ungarischen Mädchens während des Holocausts und zwar so, als ob es vor 75 Jahren Smartphones und Instagram gegeben hätte. #evastories

Der instagram-Account “Eva Stories“erzählt furios die Geschichte eines jungen Mädchens während des Holocausts und zwar so, als ob es damals Smartphones und Instagram gegeben hätte. Eva, deren Geschichte zu sehen ist, gab es wirklich. Der Account basiert auf den Tagebüchern von Éva Heyman, einer 1931 geborenen ungarischen Jüdin. Im Herbst 1944 wurde sie in Ausschwitz ermordet. Vor der Deportation…

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#Auschwitz #Eva Heyman #Eva Stories #Holocaust #Instagram #Jüdin #Mati Kochavi #Maya Kochavi #New York Times #social media #Yad Vashem

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Eva Heyman – The Anne Frank of Eastern Europe

Eva Heyman – The Anne Frank of Eastern Europe

Eva Heyman and the Tragedy of the Jews in Eastern Europe

Young Eva with her teddy bear

World War II was a horrifying time for Jews in Eastern Europe and Eva Heyman is a representative figure of that tragedy. The Jewish population throughout the region suffered as the Nazi regime and its allies worked to implement the Final Solution. Northwestern Transylvania, which had been detached from Romania…

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#Diktat of Vienna #Eva Heyman #Jews #Oradea #Transylvania

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today is yom hashoah, the jewish holocaust remembrance day.

my great-grandparents escaped europe with the clothes on their backs, and today they have ten happy and healthy great-grandchildren, half of whom (my siblings and i) live in israel and speak hebrew. we're all proud to be jewish, and remain so even when the poway shooting from just a few days ago reminds us that the nazis never truly went away.

@eva.stories on instagram tells the story of eva heyman, a thirteen year old hungarian jewish girl who was murdered in auschwitz...if instead of a diary, eva had an instagram account, like thirteen year old girls today. watch her story and make the memory real. know that if she could have, eva would have had an instagram full of her crushes and besties and trips to the ice cream story.

with today's political environment, people always tend to mean never forget the nazis when they say never forget. today take a moment and remember the victims. they were people. they had dreams and likes and they desired all things ranging from peace and safety to coffee and strawberries. never forget what ignorance, hatred, and indifference did and can do to the jewish people but also, remember the people themselves.

#lizo talks #yom hashoah #so i have about a thousand followers and i am going to reblog this enough so they all see it #eva's instagram is a brilliant initiative and i think everyone should follow it #if you'd like you can also look at my hashtag poland trip from my holocaust tour of poland two years ago #i will be reblogging those as well

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I survive

3 years old. I made my first friends.

Monique Cofman died in 1942.

4 years old. I played with my cousins.

Heide Goebbels died in 1945.

5 years old. I started loving animals.

Marlène Chicheportiche died in 1943.

6 years old. I had fun with my friends.

Leana Münzer died in 1944.

7 years old. I went to my first memorable vacations.

Hermelie Braunstein died in 1942.

8 years old. I did theater.

Alice Apfeldorfer died in 1942.

9 years old. I had my first crush.

Rosette Krzuk died in 1942.

10 years old. I lost my grandma.

Jacqueline Brentse died in 1944.

11 years old. I made a real best friend.

Eva Beem died in 1942.

12 years old. I started finding myself.

Helga Goebbels died in 1945.

13 years old. I found out I was bisexual.

Éva Heyman died in 1944.

14 years old. I lived the best year of my life so far.

Czesława Kwoka died in 1943.

15 years old. I went to high school.

Anne Frank died in 1945.

16 years old. I discovered a new passion.

Lea Deutsch died in 1943.

Next year I'll be 17 years old. I survived.

They didn't.

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So it's a very special text today. I thought it was very important to post it because what I wrote here has actually been in my mind for about two years but I only wrote it now. It's different because it's about young girls who died because of the second World War. So anyway I hope you liked it because this means a lot to me

#text #world war two #life