Dan Jurgens
Dan Jurgens
What DO We Read on the Back of the (In)famous Photograph?
A small but intensely focused audience gathered to hear Professor Dan Porat, author of The Boy: A Holocaust Story, deliver a recent public lecture hosted by the Illinois Holocaust and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois together with the Jewish Federation of Chicago.
Readers may recall the report of my earlier "conversation with the author" http://www.articlesbase.com/literature-articles/conversation-with-professor-dan-porat-author-of-the-boy-a-holocaust-story-3810859.html
I attended Professor Porat's lecture thinking I might have missed something from our first meeting or that he would raise some new issues. As it happened, he did.
There was an obvious propagandistic quality to the photographs the Nazis routinely took to document their "war against the Jews", to borrow a phrase from historian Lucy Davidowicz. Professor Porat referred to it as the "imbalance of Nazi photography".
Characterizing the infamous photo of "the boy" as "iconic" from the perspective of Jewish victimhood, Professor Porat pointed out something quite extraordinary: the image of "the boy", standing in the foreground (with his hands held up as a sign of surrender) who became the "poster child" for the 1,000,000-1,500,000 Jewish children victims of Nazi genocide, was hardly exceptional to the Germans at all.
On the contrary, it was one of many pieces of photographic evidence Jurgen Stroop, commander of German forces assigned to destroy the Ghetto, used to document the "thankless job" of turning Warsaw into a "Jew-free" zone. General Stroop hoped his dedication to task would win him the kudos he felt he so richly deserved for directing the murder of tens of thousands of Jewish children, women and men.
Striking a classic "heroic" pose, wearing knee high black boots, his right foot slightly forward (in an attempt to appear dashing), surrounded by his heavily-armed guards (one of whom was Joseph Blosche, the soldier pictured with his rifle at the ready standing behind "the boy") Stroop pridefully surveys the "prize" of his "Pyrrhic" victory after ordering the immolation of residential buildings in the "Jewish Quarter" of Warsaw.
Seeing terror in the eyes of a Jewish child did not move the Nazis emotionally; on the contrary, the extermination of Jewish children was prerequisite to the full implementation of the "Final Solution".
We should, therefore, not be aghast to learn that General Stroop included the photo of "the boy" in the three copies of his report (two of which he sent to his superiors, keeping the third for himself) wherein he announced the end of the Warsaw Ghetto and its Jews.
The "imbalance of Nazi photography" was a predictable extension of the Nazi campaign to degrade the Jews to such a base level that ignorant onlookers would accept the "truth" of Nazi racial theory and its characterization of Jews as "untermenshen".
The fact stubbornly remains that Nazi thugs, such as Blosche and Stroop-who tortured, beat, starved and otherwise terrorized Jews before murdering them-are responsible for the very degradation they so insidiously created and disingenuously condemned.
Our complicity lies in the uncritical acceptance of the inversion of truth. Perhaps we can take the first step toward redeeming our humanity by learning a lesson or two from these sordid chapters of history: to think for ourselves rather than being "thought for", to never cloud the difference between "right" and "wrong", and to step forward as a "mensch" when and where there are none.
The human shame of the Holocaust was NOT that there were no good (wo)men but that there were so few. As for the rest of us, the burden of "the boy"-then and now-sits squarely on our shoulders.
Alan D. Busch
alandbusch@aol.com
01/02/11
About the Author
Alan D. Busch is an independent writer in Skokie, Illinois, married to Kallah and the father of Benjamin, Z'L, Kimberly and Zac. He is currently working on the completion of his second book, a memoir about his late father and enjoys the good fortune of being published in a variety of media in both prose and poetry. His writing is centered upon though not limited to Jewish themes. Reach Alan at alandbusch@aol.com. Please 'google' his name for more details or contact him on Facebook. He is the author of Snapshots In Memory of Ben, Water Forest Press, 2007, a contributing author to Everyone's Got A Story, edited by Ruchama King Feuerman and a community member contributing writer for the Chicago Tribune's Triblocal.com for Skokie, IL.
What is my Comic book value?
A while ago I was given a stash of 3D comics from a family member. One of the comics in their was Superman Red/Superman Blue with a 3D front cover. It is signed by Dan Jurgens, Joe Rubenstein and Brett Breeding. It is the 2,642nd copy out of only 8500 signed by these 3. Issue 1, 1998. I don't plan on selling it, but any idea how much it is worth?
Neither Comicspriceguide.com nor comicbookrealm.com list a limited edition signed & Numbered version, just a regular 3-D version and a non-3D version. Ditto my copy of the Overstreet Comiic Book Price Guide. All list the 3D version at around $5 in near mint condition.
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Why Your Chances of Success as a Writer are Better Than You Think
In his book, "No B.S. Business Success in the New Economy," marketing guru Dan Kennedy writes:
"To succeed as an entrepreneur requires decision and determination—total, unwavering commitment…you have to develop and embrace attitudes, habits, and behaviours that are markedly different from those of most of the people you've known."
Perhaps you haven't thought of yourself this way, but if you want to write and sell novels or screenplays you will have to be an entrepreneur. You will have to convince first an agent, and then producers and studio or network executives that your product–your script–is what they need. You will have to do this in a very competitive field. And if you succeed, your rewards will be substantial.
But Kennedy is right: you won't get there if you think and act like most people who set out on this journey. The good news (for you) is that most of your competitors will fail. Here's what they will do, and how you an end up in the to 3% who succeed. We start with 100% of the people who have thought about writing a screenplay.
* They will have an idea for a movie and they'll talk about it to anybody who will listen. About half of them will never do anything more. That gets us down to 50%.
* Half of that 50% will buy a book on screenwriting, read part of it, and decide it's too hard or unfamiliar. That gets us down to 25%.
* Of those, about half will start to write a script but will get bogged down and never complete it. That gets us down to 12.5%.
* Of those, half will make a half-hearted effort to get it to an agent or production company and will give up when nothing happens. That gets us down to about 6%.
* Of those, half will continue to write more scripts, learning from each one they write, will read everything they can about screenwriting, will attend workshops, and will make a sustained effort to get an agent or to get their material seen by producers. It is this 3% who will have a career as a screenwriter.
These percentages are just based on my observation of aspiring writers over the years, but I think they're pretty accurate. What's more, I bet the same percentages apply to aspiring actors, painters, internet marketers, or any other free-lance field.
If these figures discourage you, I respectfully suggest you consider taking up another activity. If they excite and encourage you because you know in your heart that you can be one of that three percent, welcome, you're in the right place!
About the Author
Jurgen Wolff has been a script doctor on movies starring Eddie Murphy, Kim Cattrall, and Michael Caine, and written a miniseries starring Rob Lowe ("Midnight Man") and TV movies for the Olsen Twins, as well as more than 100 produced episodes of television (including 9 episodes of "Relic Hunter"). He teaches screenwriting internationally and his books include "Your Writing Coach" (Nicholas Brealey Publishing). His screenwriting site is http://www.ScreenWritingSuccess.com, where you can find more tips and also sign up for his free monthly screenwriting success newsletter.
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