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'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive'

“Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive” features our family — three generations — improvising a dance to Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 anthem 'I Will Survive'.

The video shows my father, Adolek, dancing alongside me and five of his six grandchildren at Auschwitz — a place where he never imagined joy could exist, let alone celebration. It is this very site where every effort was made to annihilate his people 65 years earlier.

We danced not only at Auschwitz, but also across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic — at places where my parents -- still teenagers -- had once been enslaved by the Third Reich during the Holocaust.


This video is a celebration of life and a tribute to my father’s survival. Because he survived, my sister Celina and I were born — and so the generations continued...

! עם ישראל חי

Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive

Survivor

'Survivor'. 3 generations ( L->R) Gil, Jane, Gil, Justine, Adolek, Yasmin, Sunny, Coby). On the railway tracks at Auschwitz extermination camp

'TO WRITE POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ IS BARBARIC'. A quote soon after the liberation of Auschwitz by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, member of the Frankfurt School. On the railway tracks at Auschwitz extermination camp, the site where Adolek last saw his mother and members of his family

'ART MUST GO ON EVEN AFTER AUSCHWITZ.' Quote by Theodor Adorno decades after the war

Three generations in front of the cattle wagon that transported the Jews and gypsies to Auschwitz L->R Justine Peleg, Yasmin Vinkler-Korman, Adolek Kohn, Sunny Inbal-Korman, Gil Korman & Jane Korman

Kaddish before the dance

Dad says Kaddish at Auschwitz before we danced

I Will Survive. Screenshot 1

Dancing in front of the gates of Auschwitz with the sign 'WORK MAKES YOU FREE'

Still from the video 'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive.' At Theresienstadt Ghetto in the fortress town of Terezín, in the annexed Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, (after the German occupation of the Czech lands).

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Still from the video 'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive.' At Theresienstadt Ghetto in the fortress town of Terezín

I Will Survive. Screenshot 6

Still from the video 'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive.' At Auschwitz

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Still from the video Dancing Auschwitz: 'I Will Survive.' At Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezín.

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Still from the video 'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive.' At Dachau concentration camp, Germany Adolek & Yasmin

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Dancing at Dachau Concentration camp, Germany Adolek & Jane

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Still from the video 'Dancing Auschwitz: I Will Survive.' At Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezín. Sunny,Yasmin & Gil

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