Tag: holocaust

jewish-privilege:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Today we remember the more than 11 million people, Jewish and Gentile, who were slaughtered in the death camps, who succumbed to disease and the elements in concentration camps, who were sterilized to prevent the “dilution” of the “Aryan race,” who were worked to death, or nearly, in the works camps, who were imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs, who were sterilized or killed for being considered disabled, who were gassed to death in the Einsatzgruppen mobile gas chambers, who were shot into graves they had been forced the dig, and those who managed to survive all of that and were forced to remember the horrors they had seen and experienced.

May they rest in peace, may their memory be a blessing, may peace be upon them, and may we all say Never Again.

Wait whats wrong with boy in the striped pyjamas?

thezoharofficial:

Welp you could check the “Critic’s Reviews” section of the Wikipedia page for a really easy explanation:

“Some critics have called the premise of the book and subsequent film – that there would be a child of Shmuel’s age in the camp – erroneous. Reviewing the original book, Rabbi Benjamin Blech wrote: ‘Note to the reader: There were no 9-year-old Jewish boys in Auschwitz – the Nazis immediately gassed those not old enough to work.’ Rabbi Blech affirmed the opinion of a Holocaust survivor friend that the book is ‘not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation’. Blech acknowledges the objection that a ‘fable’ need not be factually accurate; he counters that the book trivializes the conditions in and around the death camps and perpetuates the ‘myth that those […] not directly involved can claim innocence’, and thus undermines its moral authority. Students who read it, he warns, may believe the camps ‘weren’t that bad’ if a boy could conduct a clandestine friendship with a Jewish captive of the same age, unaware of ‘the constant presence of death’.”

Everything is fucking wrong with it, to put it simply. The author is an non-Roma goyische Irish guy who (allegedly) wrote it in two and a half days, which, from a writer’s standpoint, means he did no fucking research. Which he couldn’t have, because if you had, you would have known that every Jewish child was murdered as soon as they walked through those gates.

It is a story about Jewish suffering written by a goy for the consumption of goyim. It’s disgusting. The premise itself is that this imprisoned boy becomes the playmate of a Nazi’s kid. He serves as a literal servant for this Nazi’s kid, entertaining him and being his “friend.” It is collusion with Nazis that a goyische author decided to make a fake situation with a Jewish child and then proceeded to strip away his humanity to the point where he is just a puppet or plaything for this goyische (and of Nazi parents) boy.

Shmuel becomes an object, not an actor, and how could Boyne avoid this? There are no accounts of how Jewish children acted in death camps because they were murdered.

Our lives aren’t for goyische entertainment or consumption. Anyone who likes this book is colluding with nazis and doesn’t care about Jewish people one bit. This book was shit the moment a non-Roma goy decided to write about the Holocaust.

I can’t say enough bad things about this shit novel,

It’s bad to me as an author and a Jew and as a Jewish author. It is an abomination and I hope all of Boyne’s teeth fall out, except one to give him a toothache. 

loon-whisperer:

Remember that before the Holocaust, there were 18 million Jews in the world. They killed a third of us.

Remember that pre-war Eastern Europe was the center of world Jewry, and it had a thriving Jewish society with Yiddish theater, poetry, literature, art, and political activism. An entire society was destroyed.

Remember that before the war, a third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish. The vast majority of those Jewish residents were murdered.

Remember that Salonika (Thessaloniki) was a city in Greece that had a Jewish majority for hundreds of years. It used to be known as Sabatopolis – the Shabbat city – because before electric light, ships going by on Friday night would see a dark shoreline because the residents could not light lights. In the 16th century, it was known as the “mother of Israel” and was a center of Jewish life where Eastern European Jews would come to visit and study. Fewer than 1800 Jews from Salonika survived the Holocaust.

Remember that in Krakow, what used to be the Jewish quarter is now a tourist trap for the groups who come to look at what once was. The Jewish community owns several beautiful synagogues but only regularly uses one because there are so few Jews left. Without the tour groups who regularly pray with them, they would have trouble getting a quorum of ten men by the beginning of the Shabbat service. The other synagogues are museums now.

Remember what we lost.

loon-whisperer:

Remember that before the Holocaust, there were 18 million Jews in the world. They killed a third of us.

Remember that pre-war Eastern Europe was the center of world Jewry, and it had a thriving Jewish society with Yiddish theater, poetry, literature, art, and political activism. An entire society was destroyed.

Remember that before the war, a third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish. The vast majority of those Jewish residents were murdered.

Remember that Salonika (Thessaloniki) was a city in Greece that had a Jewish majority for hundreds of years. It used to be known as Sabatopolis – the Shabbat city – because before electric light, ships going by on Friday night would see a dark shoreline because the residents could not light lights. In the 16th century, it was known as the “mother of Israel” and was a center of Jewish life where Eastern European Jews would come to visit and study. Fewer than 1800 Jews from Salonika survived the Holocaust.

Remember that in Krakow, what used to be the Jewish quarter is now a tourist trap for the groups who come to look at what once was. The Jewish community owns several beautiful synagogues but only regularly uses one because there are so few Jews left. Without the tour groups who regularly pray with them, they would have trouble getting a quorum of ten men by the beginning of the Shabbat service. The other synagogues are museums now.

Remember what we lost.

girlactionfigure:

Jane Haining taught at a Jewish school in Nazi-controlled Hungary. She was ordered to return to Scotland and abandon her girls.

Jane refused.

After four years of fighting, Jane was arrested and murdered in Auschwitz. Her writings were recently discovered in a church archive. Jane wrote, “If these children need me in days of sunshine, how much more do they need me in days of darkness.”

Her bravery protected 315 girls from the Nazis. Thank you, Jane Haining.

History Bites

prairieblooms:

for those who don’t know: today was Yom HaShoah, holocaust remembrance day. since it was may 4th this year, Yom HaShoah has been very much pushed under the rug by all the star wars content

if you haven’t already, please take this time to reflect on how exactly we can prevent antisemitism in our communities. what actions can you take to support and uplift your Jewish siblings? whether it’s standing up for a Jewish coworker who “takes too many holidays off” or refusing to laugh at an antisemitic joke from a friend, it is critical that all non Jews do your part to stamp out antisemitism.

thank you

eretzyisrael:

Holocaust Told in One Word, 6 Million Times.

There is no plot to speak of, and the characters are woefully
undeveloped. On the upside, it can be a quick read — especially
considering its 1,250 pages.

The book, more art than literature, consists of the single word
“Jew,” in tiny type, printed six million times to signify the number of
Jews killed during the Holocaust. It is meant as a kind of coffee-table
monument of memory, a conversation starter and thought provoker.

“When you look at this at a distance, you can’t tell whether it’s
upside down or right side up, you can’t tell what’s here; it looks like
a pattern,” said Phil Chernofsky, the author, though that term may be
something of a stretch. “That’s how the Nazis viewed their victims:
These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass
we have to exterminate.

“Now get closer, put on your reading glasses, and pick a ‘Jew,’ ” Mr.
Chernofsky continued. “That Jew could be you. Next to him is your
brother. Oh, look, your uncles and aunts and cousins and your whole
extended family. A row, a line, those are your classmates. Now you get
lost in a kind of meditative state where you look at one word, ‘Jew,’
you look at one Jew, you focus on it and then your mind starts to go
because who is he, where did he live, what did he want to do when he
grew up?”

Read more here