Summer Nights Under The Stars

Lost and Found

here, I did the shipping dynamic thingie

Do you know what this is? This is The Heart from Auschwitz.

An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death.

On December 12, 1944, locked inside Auschwitz, Polish teenager Fania turned twenty. After spending a year in a concentration camp, Fania didn’t expect her birthday to even be remembered - but her best friend, Zlatka, risked everything to make her a birthday present, a paper heart. 

Simply making the heart - or carrying it - could get either of them killed.

The heart was signed by many of their friends, bearing notes in Polish, German, French, and Hebrew that announced "When you get old, put your glasses on your nose, take this album in your hand and read my signature again,“ and “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” It was an act of great sacrifice and love for a friend.

Less than 40 days later, they began the Death March from Auschwitz to Ravensbruck, and from Ravensbruck to freedom. Fania carried the heart under her arm the whole time. And survived.

And the fact that never talked about it, they just used Sunday’s pictures for a stupid videogame. This was a woman’s tragic end, not some videogame plot.

the daughter of the victim made two tiktoks (@/oddkidizzy) recently about the situation. the first being her comparing the posters and the second one going in depth with the whole thing.

the way she reacted proves that neither her, or her family were aware of dontnod using her mom’s story and death for a fictional character in a video game. AND they seem to ignore her when she just wants answers as to why they did it.

apparently, someone in a reddit thread about the situation said that they might’ve just wanted to use the poster as a visual reference, as sunday blombergh’s missing poster was on one of these free-to-use images websites (first of all, what the fuck?), but if it was really the case, was it REALLY necessary for them to use the same phone number, same missing date, same tattoos? it’s so disrespectful and the fact that the studio never made a statement about it or credited sunday’s name anywhere in the making of this game is revolting.

those details being taken off sunday’s story shouldn’t have been there. there’s no reason for the date, phone number and tattoos to coincide. literally none. it doesn’t change anything to the storyline if she went missing on april 23, instead of 22. or if she didn’t have the star tattoo on her wrist.

if you don’t understand that it’s disrespectful to use someone’s missing case and death as a plot element to a video game (or regardless of the medium, that is) without the acknowledgment of her family OR crediting anything related to her during the development and final result of the game, then i can’t do anything for you.

yeah because when you see this

tell me you don’t get annoyed.

tumblr’s algorithm only cares about posts that are reblogged, it doesn’t count likes. posts don’t get promoted or circulated when they only have likes (the way instagram functions), only reblogs matter for increasing reach on tumblr as a platform.

but yeah, tumblr’s system definitely doesn’t advantage non-popular artists, but there’s a big problem from within the community too. i have over 400 followers and i consider myself lucky when more than 2 people reblog my art, so imagine how much worse it is for people with even less followers.

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