#yad vashem

[matan4il]

I think one of the worst things I've heard from the head of Yad Vashem's International Education Department (YV is the Holocaust research and education center dedicated to the Jewish POV during that time, the IED is in charge of seminars for teachers and educators on the subject of the Holocaust from all over the world), is that some teachers and educators are no longer teaching the Holocaust since Oct 7. A part of them decided on this of their own accord, others because they say the students / principals at their schools refuse to have it taught.

It reminded me of that time when in YV's IED survey of UK teachers and educators, many chose to answer the question, "Who was Anne Frank?" with "A girl hiding for her life from the Nazis." When asked about the omission of the specific reason why Anne had to hide (meaning, why did they leave out that she was a Jew and was in danger because of it), their replies indicated that if students hear that Anne Frank was Jewish, then they're no longer interested in learning about her. I'll admit, I was shocked by this. If you leave out that Anne was a victim of specifically antisemitism, because of the students' antisemitism, what are you even teaching them anyway?

Similarly, in YV's IED international surveys of teachers and educators, when asked to choose a definition for what the Holocaust was, the most popular answer is the one that doesn't mention Jews.

Basically, the anti-Israel crowd isn't the start of the All Lives Matter'ing of the Holocaust, erasing Jews out of the story of our own persecution and genocide (which you can see even in the fact that too many don't realize 'The Holocaust' is a term coined to specifically talk about the Nazis' crimes against the Jews, and that there are other terms for the Nazis' crimes against other populations). But the anti-Israel crowd isn't just hijacking the Holocaust, it's also actively weaponizing it to be used against Jews, and it is even actively preventing Holocaust education altogether.

This should infuriate everyone.

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#israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #holocaust #yad vashem #shoah

[hindahoney]

This is Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese diplomat during WWII that saved thousands of Jews by issuing visas. It's estimated that he saved around 5,000 Jewish people, but other sources say it was tens of thousands, all at the detriment to his life and career. He is presumed to be the first diplomat to help the Jews during the Shoah, and has been named Righteous Among the Nations.

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #antisemitism #jewish history #jewish art #judaica #shoah #jew tag #j tag #yad vashem

[wolrith]

הלכתי ליד ושם לא מזמן - למי שלא בישראל אבל איכשהו יודע לקרוא עברית, זה המוזיאון שואה הגדול שלנו בירושלים. המבנה בנוי בסגנון ברוטליזם, הראשון שראיתי שבאמת יש לו פילוסופיה ולא סתם נראה כמו גוש בטון מכוער. בפנים יש מאות תצוגות שמספרים את אירועי השואה בסדר שהן קרו בערך, מהעלייה של היטלר לשלטון עד לצעדות המוות והקמת מדינת ישראל בסופו של דבר.

אני הסתובבתי שם עם מדריכה שהסבירה על כל תצוגה לעומק, מהנעליים של הנספים עד לשלטי הפגנה של נאצים, שכתבו דברים כגון "חזרו לפלסטין" וכזה. התעמולה של הנאצים מאוד מזכירה לי, כמובן, את התעמולה כיום. המדריכה אפילו הסבירה קצת איך חלק מהתעמולה השתחלה לעולם כיום.

יש שם גם חדר שמציג את תגובת העולם לשואה - איך שאפילו כשהיה ברור מה קורה, התגובה הייתה חלשה וחסרת מאמץ. איך שהמלחמה הייתה מרוכזת בלקחת את השטח בחזרה ולהפיל את היטלר, אבל אף פעם לא בכוונה להציל יהודים. היהודים שנוצלו היו במקרה מטוב לבם של חיילים או פשוט כתוצאה מניצחון לפני שהספיקו להרוג אותם במחנות. העולם כולו עמד בשקט בזמן שרצח העם הכי גרוע בהיסטוריה קרה מולם, ולא עשה כלום עד שהיה ברור שהיטלר ישפיע גם עליהם לרעה.

קיבלנו את מולדתנו אחרי שנים של סבל ודיכוי כל מאמץ ציוני - רצו שנהיה מפוצלים וק��ים להשמדה. רק כשיצאנו מהשואה ונלחמנו הסכימו לתת לנו מדינה תחת תנאים קשים, רק כדי להוכיח שהם לא כמו נאצים. מיד אחרי ההקמה, נשכחנו. או שהדעה הייתה נגדינו, או שלא זכרו אותנו כלל. במלחמות היינו לבד נגד אויבים רבים. כל מדינה אחרת שהייתה נתקפת כמו שאנחנו נתקפנו מספר פעמים, הייתה מקבלת תמיכה בין לאומית מוחלטת ועזרה צבאים בימו. בשבילנו עשו את המינימום - נאלצנו לעבוד ולהפוך אותנו לבעלי תועלת. למדנו שלעולם לא נתקבל בקהילה הבין לאומית, לעולם לא יעזרו ליהודים מרצון. הפכנו את עצמינו ליקרים למערב רק כדי שלא נדאג מהשמדה בכל רגע. לעולם לא יקבלו אותנו בציבור למה שאנחנו, אבל כלקוח צבאי אמריקאי, או מבצר במזרח התיכון, אי אפשר לנטוש אותנו שוב. היהודים למדו שכדי למנוע אסון, אנו צריכים להיות יקרים מלנטוש ולהשמיד.

המילים האחרונות של אחד מקורבנות השואה מוצגים על שלט גדול לקראת היציאה של יד ושם. אלו מילים שמהדהדות כיום ומצלצלות לי בראש. המילים האחרונות שלו לפני שנספה ברצח עמו, בבדידות מהעולם לפני רצח קהילתו ומשפחתו:

זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק.

#jumblr #hebrew #non english #yad vashem #holocaust #long post #text post #rant

[mioritic]

Nathan Rapoport and Leon Suzin, "Monument to the Ghetto Heroes" 

Originally completed in Warsaw, 1948; copy installed in Jerusalem, 1976

Photographed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, 09.11.22 (Fujifilm X100V)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April - 16 May, 1943

#warsaw ghetto uprising #nathan rapoport #leon suzin #yad vashem #jewish history #jewish art #jumblr #my photo #yidishkeyt #israel

[cowfoodisgoodfood]

Just went to Yad Vashem. I think all of tumbler needs to go there.

#yad vashem #is the most important holocaust remembrance museum #israel #antisemitism #the things i saw there were truly horrifying but you should all see them

[girlactionfigure]

#Palestinian #Samer Sinijlawi #Yad Vashem

[eretzyisrael]

#yad vashem #menachem shimoni #caledar #yom kippur #bergen-belsen

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Israeli-American journalist Caroline Glick gives her take on the recent controversy concerning Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan. In this video, she explains the key role that Jerusalem Mufti Hajj- Amin al-Husseini played in the Nazi Holocaust and subsequently as a leader of the Palestinian national movement.

Caroline Glick points to Dani Dayan's refusal to hang a picture of al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941 in the Yad Vashem museum, as he confirmed during an interview with Haaretz in 2022. This refusal, she argues, is political-- even though Dayan claimed he would not hang the picture because that request was political.

This is information that western pro-Palestinian self-described allies will never mention (nor will the mainstream media), as it exposes precisely why Palestinian terrorists and leaders (who are often one and the same) have consistently rejected peace in favour of war, even if their own people suffer as a result.

When you understand the depth of al-Husseini's hatred for the Jewish people (he condemned groups of European Jewish children to death by preventing them from being transferred to Mandatory Palestine) and the admiration with which he is held by subsequent Palestinian leaders, there's simply no way to heap the blame on Israel, or even the territorial dispute over the West Bank, for there being no Palestinian state. There's also simply no way to separate anti-Zionism from antisemitism either, once you understand why al-Husseini is revered to this day by Palestinian leaders and presumably many Palestinian civilians.

And, unfortunately for UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, there's no way to equate Arab suffering during the 1948 War with the Holocaust by claiming they are both defining events. The displacement of Arabs between 1947-1949 came as a direct result of the Arab desire to destroy the Jewish State and kill its citizens, and al-Husseini was one of those who urged that desire, which is precisely why he was supportive of Hitler's extermination plan in 1941.

There's also no way to accuse European Jews of colonialism, either. While al-Husseini was in Iraq, he incited a massacre of the Jews in Farhud in 1941, the very year Hitler planned his 'Final Solution'. Glick says that around 900 Iraqi Jews were murdered. Over the next few decades, over 800 000 Jews would be persecuted and violently expelled from Arab lands in plain violation of the Balfour Declaration. Many of those Jews naturally moved to Israel. This is why today, a slight majority of Israelis are descendants of Jewish exiles to neighbouring lands.

Holocaust education can only succeed if the whole truth is told. While we live in an age where people are constantly demanding that such-and-such a history be re-examined in light of modern views, it's strange to see the director of Yad Vashem conceal vital facts for fear of causing offence.

Glick says that Dayan isn't even a scholar of the Holocaust; it appears his appointment was political.

Perhaps it is time for Yad Vashem to find a director who will tell the truth without fear.

#holocaust #yad vashem #palestinian #hajj amin al-husseini #arab #hitler #nazi #nazism #nazi germany #1941 #farhud #iraq #pogrom #history #israel #jewish news syndicate #inconvenient truth #jumblr #Youtube

[ahopefulsoul]

Isreal 🇮🇱

28/28

#aesthetic #countries #israel #middle east #Asia #christianism #holy land #judaisim #islamic #yad vashem #masada national park #western wall #dome of the rock #jerusalem #telavive #dead sea #temple mount #nazaré #old city

[totallyhussein-blog]

When “all the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed”, what is to be done?

Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Schindler’s List is the incredible true story which follows the enigmatic Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.

It is the triumph of one man who made a difference and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did. Schindler’s List is a powerful story whose lessons of courage and faith continue to inspire generations.

Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist, moved to Kraków and assumed responsibility for the operation of two formerly Jewish-owned manufacturers of enamel kitchenware. He then established his own enamelworks in Zabłocie, outside Kraków. That factory became a haven for about nine hundred Jewish workers, providing them relief from the brutality of the Płaszów labor camp nearby.

In October 1944 Schindler was granted permission to relocate his defunct enamelworks to Brünnlitz, Czechoslovakia—this time as an armaments factory—and to take with him the Jewish workers from Zabłocie. He succeeded in transferring to Brünnlitz approximately eight hundred Jewish men from the Gross-Rosen camp and three hundred Jewish women from Auschwitz, ensuring their humane treatment and, ultimately, saving their lives.

In 1962, Yad Vashem awarded Schindler the title “Righteous Among the Nations” in recognition of his humanitarian contribution, and in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council posthumously presented to him the Museum’s Medal of Remembrance. This medal, rarely presented, is intended to honor deserving recipients for extraordinary deeds during the Holocaust and in the cause of Remembrance. Emilie Schindler accepted the medal on behalf of her husband at a ceremony in the Museum’s Hall of Remembrance.

The Płaszów camp was established in 1942 under the authority of the SS and police leaders in Krakow. It was initially a forced-labor camp for Jews. The original site of the camp included two Jewish cemeteries. From time to time the SS enlarged the camp. It reached its maximum size in 1944, the same year that it became a concentration camp. Until that time, most of the camp guards were Ukrainian police auxiliaries chosen from among Soviet soldiers in German prisoner-of-war camps and trained at the Trawniki training camp in Lublin.

The German industrialist Oskar Schindler established an enamelware factory in Krakow, adjacent to Płaszów. He attempted to protect his Jewish workers, some 900 people, from abuse in Płaszów and from deportation to killing centers. When he moved the factory and his Jewish work force to the Sudetenland in 1944, he prevented the deportation of more than 1,000 Jews.

It soon became clear that her marriage would have both its passions and its betrayals. Yet Emilie stayed with Oskar through his growing involvement with the Nazis, working for counterintelligence with him. She first, then he later, came to realize the costs of the Nazi takeover and became witnesses to its terrors.

Through their work together at their two factories, saving the Jews became paramount for the Schindlers. Emilie nursed the Jewish factory workers when they fell ill, often saving their lives. She risked imprisonment or worse for her activities in the black market to feed them.

Where Light and Shadow Meet chronicles the Schindlers' flight after the war, the loss of almost all their possessions, and their eventual emigration to Argentina. There they settled on a farm, but barely scraped together an existence. Oskar returned to Germany, leaving Emilie to manage on her own. This is the story of one woman's daily acts of bravery during Hitler's reign and why it mattered.

#schindlers list #Holocaust Memorial Day #United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #hmd2023 #manchester #education #oskar schindler #emilie schindler #ww2 history #uk #ww2 education #argentina #yad vashem #social media #books #book club #bookshops #germany #europe #media #film #BBC News #bbc iplayer

[laineystein]

I had the bizarre privilege of taking a group of lone soldiers to Yad Vashem today. I haven’t been to Yad Vashem in over a decade and it was…an experience. I forgot how dense it was. Overwhelmingly thorough. Gut-wrenching but wonderfully done. And then you leave and there’s this beautiful view and it’s such a moment of gratitude. The weather has been horrible here recently but for a moment the sun came out and the wind stopped and all of my chayalim paused and looked out onto the Jerusalem hills and were silent for the first time today. I sometimes forget how blessed I am to be back here and how magical it is that Israel exists. We have our home back. We are safe here. Am Yisrael Chai ✡️🇮🇱

#yad vashem #idf things #my heart my home #we love to see it #עם ישראל חי

[187days]

Day One Hundred Forty-Seven

The Principal and Dean 1 both came to see me at separate points in the day today. The student who put his hands on me when I broke up the fight is meeting with the admins tomorrow to discuss his return to school, and The Principal wanted to make sure that I would still feel safe if he was back in the building. I said I would because I think his actions were dumb, not malicious. Even so, I asked that a condition of his return be that he stays away from my classroom (which is reasonable since he has no classes nearby), and The Principal agreed to stipulate that. Dean 1 wants the student to reflect on what he did and write a formal apology, so that’s what he came to tell me. It’s not necessary for my peace of mind, but think it’s a good practice, and I said as much. 

Anyways. 

I taught a solid lesson in World about WWII. I started where I left off yesterday: finishing an article about the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust, Students had so many questions and comments about the article and the video I showed afterwards (Yad Vashem’s “Auschwitz Album”). I think I said this in my last entry, but I appreciate the seriousness with which they approached the subject matter. We went on a few tangents about the Nuremberg Trials, Neo-Nazism, modern genocides, and other things, and then I had them annotate an article about how the Allied victories in Europe and the Pacific were achieved. We’ll tackle the aftermath of the war next class. 

My APGOV students did the MCQ section of their final practice test, and they’ll do the FRQ section tomorrow. Most of the scores look really good, a couple do not, and I’m formulating a lecture about study habits and choices. The real exam is coming up fast!

What else? 

Practice today was chilly- it’s back in the forties!- but it was quick because there’s a meet tomorrow. Sprinters did accelerations and took a few block starts, the 4x100m teams did hand-offs, and that was that! 

#teaching #teacher #teachblr #edublr #educhums #education #high school #social studies #Dean 1 #The Principal #yad vashem #coaching #track #day one hundred forty seven

[holocaustremembranceday]

'Remember our name'.

An extraordinary exhibition will open for the first time in the world, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 January 2023.

#exhibition #united nations headquarters #Holaucaust Remembrance Day #Holocaust victims #Holocaust servivors #yad vashem #Book of Names

[girlactionfigure]

Names of Righteous by Country

#Yad Vashem #Righteous Among the Nations #Holocaust #Shoah

[eretzyisrael]

The Israeli Police made this powerful video for this year's commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).

The lady in the video is Holocaust survivor, Gita Koifman. She is a board member of Yad Vashem and a board member of the Center for Organizations of Holocaust Survivors.

Uri Gobey

#Yom HaShoah #Yad Vashem #Never Again

[jontycrane]

West Jerusalem

The relatively newer part of the city, the development of West Jerusalem was a focus for the newly formed state of Israel. It lacks the history of the Old City but makes up for it in a number of worthwhile sights, though most take some effort to get to as they’re spread out and not always close to public transport. The Machaneh Yehudah markets are among the best I’ve been to anywhere in the…

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#Holocaust Museum #Israel #Israel Museum #Jerusalem #Machaneh Yehudah #Monastery of the Cross #photography #Rehavia Park #Sacher Park #travel #West Jerusalem #Yad Vashem