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Hephaestion
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posted 29 January 2005 04:00 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sylvin Rubinstein: The cross-dressing Nazi slayer

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Sylvin Rubinstein, a 90-year-old transvestite flamenco dancer, is stamping and clapping his way across theatre stages in Germany to promote a film about his life as a Jewish resistance fighter who killed Nazis in occupied Poland as well as Berlin.

The seemingly incredible story of Sylvin Rubinstein, whose hands were as adept at lobbing grenades as they were at clicking castanets, is the subject of an extraordinary documentary drawing a cult following in German art cinemas. Audiences erupt into cheers as Rubinstein dances with ageless grace onto the stage to take his bows.


Gawd, I LOVED this story!

As linked by queerday.com to the original story at News 24

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Audiences are captivated as he talks of his war-time exploits, which included dressing up in slinky cocktail dress to gain entry to a Gestapo dinner party in occupied Poland where his "surprise act" consisted of lifting his skirt - to whip out two grenades which he then hurled at his stunned onlookers.

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It was through Werner that Rubinstein became an accomplished assassin and sabotage artist using the cover name Silwan Turski.

The filmmakers took Rubinstein back to Brodi and Warsaw and even back to a Polish village where even today the mere mention of the name Turski elicits excitement. It was Turski who throttled a Nazi SS advance guard soldier with his bare hands, thus sparing a village from a reprisal raid.


Man.... I'd LOVE to have a bottle of vino with that guy!!!


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skdadl
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posted 29 January 2005 09:46 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That is a very moving and finally joyful story, Heph.
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lagatta
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posted 04 February 2005 06:40 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
German boxer Max Schmeling, touted as the great Aryan hope, was another unlikely hero who resisted in his own way. He was relieved to lose to Joe Louis. An opponent of Nazism, he sheltered a Jewish friend and helped his two sons escape, and in post-war years, befriended African-American boxer Louis, who had fallen on hard times: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/1321910.stm

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