“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

                                                                                                                                                                   Dr Viktor Frankl

                                                                                                       Author of bestseller „Man’s Search for Meaning”

For some time, for the end of this year, I have wanted to write something for Ples i Grad, which could have a place on our blog, but also in the Pravo i Zdravo section (this part is only in Serbian language).

Unfortunately, the news appeared that belongs to both section of our web site. News with a very important message.

A well-known DJ, dancer and producer Stephen “tWitch” Boss committed suicide. Just three days after celebrating his wedding anniversary with his wife, Allison Holker, also a dancer. The couple often posts videos together on TikTok and Instagram and has a large following. They released a dance video together just two days before his death!

tWitch and his wife, both dancers who appeared on the competition series “So You Think You Can Dance?” and “Dancing with the Stars.” He was also DJ in famous TV show of Ellen DeGeneres. The couple married in 2013 and marked their ninth wedding anniversary this week. They share three children. Obviously, he was a very successful and famous. Apparently, nothing has indicated that he is going to take his own life.

This also can be said for many famous people who committed suicide: Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Robin Williams and many more others.

On World Suicide Prevention Day, the World Health Organization warns that around one million people take their own lives every year. In Serbia, the number is quite frightening and statistics say that around 1,500 people commit suicide every year. (source: prevencija samoubistva – Žena.rs (blic.rs).

Look up for telephone numbers where you can reach for help in your own country (data for Serbia are given in Serbian text on this blog).

Take care of yourself and your loved ones, that’s our message for the end of 2022!

“The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire“ Viktor Frankl.

Sources:

Viktor Frankl – Wikipedia

Man’s Search for Meaning – Wikipedia

Stephen “tWitch” Boss – Wikipedia

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, dancer and “Ellen” show DJ, dead at 40 – CBS News

List Of Famous People Who Committed Suicide (thefamouspeople.com)

Za Tebe #VAZNOJE | Facebook

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Rosie Glaser was a magnetic force – hopeful, exuberant, and cunning. An emancipated woman who defied convention, she toured Western Europe teaching ballroom dancing to high acclaim, falling in love hard and often. By the age of twenty-five, she had lost the great love of her life in an aviation accident, married the wrong man, and sought consolation in the arms of yet another. Then the Nazis seized power. For Rosie, a nonpracticing Jew, this marked the beginning of an extremely dangerous ordeal. After operating an illegal dance school in her parents’ attic, Rosie was betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover, taken prisoner by the SS and sent to a series of concentration camps.

But her enemies were unable to destroy her and, remarkably, she survived, in part by giving dance and etiquette lessons to her captors. Rosie was an entertainer at heart, and her vivacious spirit, her effervescent charm, and her incredible resourcefulness kept her alive amid horrendous tragedy. Of the twelve hundred people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, only eight survived.

She ‘danced with the enemy’ both literally and figuratively. To survive! 

“Dancing with the Enemy” recalls an extraordinary life marked by love, betrayal, and fierce determination.

Author of the book Paul Glaser, raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, was shocked to learn as an adult of his father’s Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father’s secrecy, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family during World War II and what had caused the long-standing rift between his father and his estranged aunt, Rosie, who moved to Sweden after the war. Piecing together his aunt’s wartime diaries, photographs, and letters, Paul reconstructed the dramatic story of a woman who was caught up in the tragic sweep of World War II, but managed to survive it thanks to dance and defiant power of her spirit, as we call it in logotherapy.

Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Enemy-Gripping-Instructor-Auschwitz/dp/1632205815

https://dancingwiththeenemy.net/

https://youtu.be/92rOYP9ORzw

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