The heroes of the Spanish Embassy in Nazi Budapest. But Tom Doniphon John Wayne -literally hidden in the shadows- is really the man who shoots him. Doniphon is the unsung hero. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend1Β».
Errol Morris, The Ashtray. When the legend becomes fact, print the legendΒ». I took the long way to Budapest. The reason for my trip was Angel Sanz Briz, the young diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in the terrible Hungarian winter of I was going there to tell his story and my concern was to make it a happy one.
There were some happy stories in the Shoah. Striking, insignificant. The importance of the Shoah, and its significance, lies in the Nazi success. It was. Hence, anyone wishing to write a pleasing, even optimistic and uplifting, episode about the Jewish genocide must first establish how rare this is. The story of Sanz Briz, like so many other heroes from the European winter, is interesting. But far less significant than the vast, mute piles of bodies that nobody could save.
However, it was not enough for me to simply state this. So, I chose to travel with a body. From the early morning of July 16th, seven thousand Jews many of them children were hoarded together, with practically no food or water, in a heinous act of inhuman contempt. Like many of those detained, Aly was transported to the concentration camp of Drancy, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris. There on the site of a modern and well-intentioned social housing estate under construction, French collaborationism had organized its main point of departure for the killing camps.
My problems began straight away. First with the photographs. La muette is actually a housing estate today and the sole sign of the tragedy that occurred here is a set of sculptures commemorating it with an allegorical train on a track to nowhere. There is a sign stuck to the wagon that reads:. Since the sky is stormy and sharp August light shines, I take a few style photos.
