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I just read testimonies of some of the survivors. :(

#hersh #bring them home now #bring them back #bring the hostages home

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Olamot-con safety debrief: Accessability notes in bold. Safe zones in orange, evacuation area (my personal recommendation) in yellow, exit/entry in red.

אם יש כאן עוד חרדתיים כמוני שמגיעים לעולמות, סימנתי על המפה בבירור את הכניסות (באדום) - שימו לב לשינויים! אין כניסה מהאשכול השנה, אבל יש מרחוב שפרינצק.

+ מרחבים מוגנים (כתום)

+ חלוקה בערך של אזורים ולאן/איזה כיוון מתפנים משם. (כתום בהיר) - זו רק המלצה שלי, פשוט כי יודעת שברגעי אמת אני נלחצת אם יש לי כמה אפשרויות. רשימה למטה, הדגשתי כניסות נגישות.

חלוקת איזורי מיגון, לדעתי האישית:

1. חצר ראשית/דוכנים, קופות - כניסה ראשית לעירוני, מרחב מוגן ליד חדר קוספליי. יש מדרגות.

2. כניסה משפרינצק/ מאחורי העירוני - כניסה נגישה למרחב מוגן. מרחב מוגן ליד חדר קוספליי.

3. המתחם הקהילתי, חנייה (כניסת חירום), דוכנים ליד העירוני בצד של העירוני - כניסה לעירוני, מרחב מוגן במדרגות - לא נגיש!

4. אשכול+דוכנים בין אשכול לעירוני (צד אשכול) - מרחב מוגן באשכול 1 (באודיטוריום). הכניסה לאשכול נגישה, ויש מקומות לכיסא גלגלים בשורה הראשונה למעלה (נגיש). הרצאות למעלה: יש מעלית למי שצריכים נגישות, תהיו בקשר עם נציגי נגישות/א. מעלית. פרטים ניתן לקבל בדוכני המודיעין (בכניסה וליד האשכול)

#עולמות #פסח #בטיחות #חרבות ברזל #שונאת שאני עושה את זה #safety #safety debrief #olamot-con #ישראבלר

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Nice childhood memories

"Have you tried not to be weird, so ppl won't bully you?"

(well I'm sorry that I'm autistic.)

For those who missed it, a Jewish man was threatened with arrest in London this weekend for being "openly Jewish" (that's a quote form the policeman who stopped him) while being near a pro-palestinian protest. He was then abused and harassed by protestors. The policeman said that the man's presence could lead to a "breach of the peace"

The police proceeded to release the most victim blamey apology I've ever seen - one so bad that they then had to withdraw it and issue a second apology

The original apology talks about a "new trend of those opposed to the main protests appearing alongside the route to express their views", and "knowing their presence is provocative".

The guy the police stopped was literally walking in London post shul. Not on a counter demonstration, not on a free the hostages demo, or a pro Israel demo. He was just there, and wearing a kippah.

Like I'm sorry but saying Jews being obviously Jewish is causing a breach of the peace when near a pro-palestinian protest makes it very clear that the police know that these are not actually peaceful.

I'm sure a huge number of people on these demos are not actually antisemites and have no intention to harm Jews, however herd mentality can make even the most reasonable person into a bigot, and frankly if people are afraid to stand against the antisemites, it shows that they now how dangerous the people around them are - so WHY are they still there?

#antisemism #london

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Columbia: Go Back To Poland!

Poland:

My og post

This is your daily reminder that in Poland, it's still illegal to mention that the polish were anything but poor victims of the nazis.

This is your daily reminder that many polish were, in fact, pretty happy in this part of the Nazi ideology, and even Partizans (who fought the Nazis) would occasionally bring the jews they found tho the local police in exchange for a Kilo of sugar.

I can’t get over how the students at Columbia screamed “Go back to Poland” to American Jews. Not even Israelis (though that wouldn’t be okay either). American fucking Jews.

Way to tell me that you don’t want me in your country and think my family and I would be better off dead. You’re such an activist, gleefully screaming for the ethnic cleansing of your country’s own populations.

Get absolutely fucked, you monsters.

#holocaust #Poland #i have a deep anger about them #antisemism

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Oh yes, the Jewish experience of going into a mall/train station/etc. and feel unsafe bc WHERE IS THE SECURITY, GUYS?? WDYM THERE ISN'T ANY!???

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Since I was little kid, I remember my shul having police cars outside to protect us during high holy days, someone always monitoring the door, and security cameras showing all the entrances. After the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburg, it heightened. My rabbi and cantor were once in the news after spending a day testifying against someone who had threatened to bomb our shul.

I was a bit older when I found out that churches don't have security. I was shocked. "So, you can just go in whenever you want? They don't even lock the doors?" I remember asking. The mom of a goyische friend of mine was equally shocked to discover that shuls do have security. "Why would they need security?" she asked me.

It was then that I realized that the amount of security we had - and every other shul had - was not the norm.

#jewish experience #jumblr

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They pulled out their teeth.

Did you know that?

Those who had golden teeth had those pulled out to be melted, for maximum profit.

Do you wear glasses?

Those who did, had those taken away.

Do you like your hair?

Too bad.

It's shaved now.

Do you like your clothes? Do you like your necklace? Your earrings?

Shnel, hand this over!

You aren't a Human Being now.

This is a factory. An industrial complex.

Main product:

Death

Holocaust (and culture appropriation)

(TW: holocaust, death camps, sexual assaults, rape, industrial murder. I will put the graphic shit undercut. Include children death and human experiments).

Sometimes I think about how fucked up it is that for most non-jews (and some jews) "The Holocaust" is Anne Frank and Auschwitz "where they killed people".

I think about the fucking, the goddamn AUDACITY some people have to take our trauma and use it as a tool. As a lesson.

People that for them the holocaust is nothing but a story, a bunch of facts, probably as aware of it as they're aware of the crusaders.

(Once upon a time, in a far away land, there were Troubles)

People who didn't hear about it as children, who didn't grew up with six million and one-and-a-half million and yellow stars and quiet ceremony and Yizkor (remember).

That.

Would look at a pile of hats and bones and wigs and hair and make it about them.

But also

Sometimes I think about how wild it is, that this looks so horrific to them.

(And they never heard about half of it.)

Like.

Dear.

Deary.

We are used to death. We are so used to being murdered, and loosing loved ones by hate, that half of our culture is basically based on it.

I think about how non-jews keep talking about the holocaust, like it's a clean cut, like it's a thing that was, like it's that's all that was - there were people hiding, and there were gas chambers, and that's it.

And I remember being a kid (maybe 10 yo?) reading a kid/ya book that was an autobiography, and I remember the writer (who was a young teen at the time, and pretended to be a Christian German) wrote about someone came into the shower and touched him. (Writer) Panicked, and turned around - and then the other man asked him "wait- are you jewish?"

As a kid, I remember that this is all that was in it.

As an adult, I remember that scene, sometimes. And I can have a pretty clear idea on why the older man didn't tell about the kid.

I remember, several years ago, reading about a therapy group for holocaust survivors that were sexually assaulted.

I remember reading about an old lady, that (70 years later) told about what happened to her when she hide away with her sister, (I think they were two, or three girls?) she was sixteen, or maybe fourteen. I remember

"I did it so they'll share their food with us".

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I think about people talking about the "death camp" Auschwitz, and how someone said (those who went there, were the lucky ones. When the newbies asked what happened, where are their families? We just pointed at the burning chimneys of Birkenau ,and the smoke.)

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I remember the HUNDREDS who died once the camps were "freed", because they didn't know the dangers of eating two pieces of bread after a long period of starving.

I remember the massive Jewish community of Poland that was just. Erased. 99% of 3 million population pre-war. Whole communities we only remember and mention as the community's name (and even that is a very long list.)

I remember how people remember it as "German jews" (and some Poland) - but it's not. My grandma had cousins in Debretsen, Hungary. And it's Ukraine and France and Morocco and Greece and Lybia and Lithuania and Latvia and almost everywhere in Europe and North Africa

(except for Denmark. we love Denmark. My grandad's step-grandma survived there. She immigrated to her family in Israel after that.)

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Idk if Goyim ever heard about Mangele. I wonder, how many of them heard during their childhood about:

The eye experiments, where he injected serums in people's (living) eyes, to see what would happen?

His obsession about twins. The toddlers that got their back skinned, then stitched together in "to see what will happen".

(They died after four days of misery.)

#holocaust #jewish history #goyim can reblog #but not add #except Roma #many tw #auschwitz birkenau #we don't talk about Sobibor #i guess #or babi yar #or the way survivors were murdered when they tried to go back home #Goyim be like “oh you don't learn from the holocaust” #well actually #we did #we learn that we'll always be haunted and killed #that there'll always be a new excuse to kill us #we were called communists in the USA and in the USSR we were called capitalists #this is every day for as.

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1.

Btw: those numbers are way lower now. In Yemen there's 1 jew, imprisoned after he helped the last jews escape.

Also if you wonder about Saudi Arabia, it's bc they murder/exiled the 14 Jewish tribes that lived there (mostly in the Hijaz area) at the 7th century.

(not) Fun Fact: ever heard about Medina?

It used to be called Yithrib, and was a home to three Jewish tribes. Archeological examinations found Jewish artifacts from the 5th century.

But of course, that was Before.

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2.

Speaking of Mizrahim, one thing often ignored is the holocaust in the Magrab (North Africa)+The Farhud (in Iraq).

I'm talking concentration and work camps in Morroco and Lybia, and trains to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Holocaust wasn't a "white ppl thing" or "in Europe".

It was everywhere the Nazis got - which means everywhere controlled by Germany or Italy*

*with the exception of Ethiopia, that was controlled by Italy at the time but didn't get the full death-idustry experience. Many reasons that also includes unique environment and community I won't get into now.

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3.

This is also a good time to remind that when we talk about Ashkenazim, we talk about holocaust survivors and people with near-holocaust experience. Personal, or families, or been there. We are talking families that took in relatives and friends that came from There, from The Horrors, and all that it means.

We are talking about high rates of mental illnesses. Merhavim (Be'er Ya'akov) mental health hospital has started with the attempts to take care of people who Struggled in.... massive amounts.

40% of the Jewish population WORLDWIDE were erased.

I want you to look at the data for a second, and think about it

40%

WORLDWIDE

And I can't talk for everyone, but-

We still mourn of The Destruction, that happened 2,000 years ago. Even those who didn't live in Israel then. Even those who lived in Bavel (Babylon), or what now called Yemen, or Italy - we still mourn it.

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4.

Who are we talking about, when we say "Ashkenazim"?

OG Ashkenaz* includes parts of (nowadays) Germany and France

But nowadays it used as an umbrella-term for "Europe-based communities". And yes, communities in different areas are adjusted to different things and has different Hilchatic rules.

*One of the unique traditions I've found is Netilat Yadayim before Kiddush.

5.

Holocaust survivors and communities -

Yes, that includes those who came from German and Poland -

But also those who came from Ukraine and Italy and Lithuania and the Netherlands

(and Denmark, which is our Kharvona - remembered for good! They actually put effort in helping their neighbours, giving a 95% surviving rate! Good job Denmark!)

So, many immigrants after That.

On top of that, you have the geo-political environment in the area. After war, but still a lot of hate towards Jews

(because it's easy. Bc we're always there to blame. Because years of propaganda.)

6.

Poland, as always, giving some good examples about what happened to some of those who tried to come back.

You know, just to see if anyone else might have made it.

(Poland, to be reminded, has an official law forbiddening to claim they might been anything but poor victims of the German.

Unfortunately, it DOES effect the actual knowledge. Also giving beautiful things like this.

Yes, Poland, I will mention this shit everywhere. 92% of the greatest Jewish community, 3 million people, are gone. 7% managed to escape.

So, out of this huge big country... Less then 30,000 were hidden.

(That number includes Partizans and those who lived under false names.)

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7. (Tw: mention of SOAP ( if you know, jew know), pogroms, holocaust and post-holocaust mindsets, based on things I've heard/read from survivors. Disclaimer: Holocaust was my Special Interest during elementary and middle school, and is still something I care and learn a lot about.)

Also, we're talking about a time with very poor communication.

So, your family is gone. But you know there's a cousin, or maybe your sister's in-low, or maybe someone that left the community and immigrant years ago, and-

(maybe you won't be alone. Maybe they Know. Maybe?)

So you take what little you got to call your own.

You take the old gown from the camp, or maybe the notebook your sister hid Before, or the old paper your bedmate wrote the prayers on. You got it after he was sent in the Aktion.)

(or maybe a pile of ashes, that might be your family's. Or maybe the hard soap you held on to, because the guard who dropped it complained about how you "wouldn't even make a good soap", and you got the little piece later from the dirty ground. And you promised to burry them. You don't know who they were, but you couldn't die, because you promised you'll give it a proper burial somewhere Outside. That at least in death, they'll be free.)

Or maybe you have nothing but the gown you left the camp in.

Or the dress you wore when the people you can't remember dropped you, as a three years old. As the woman that hid you in a closet for years bribe her way, exchanging you for another kilogramme of sugar.

(She said this is all you had when you got there, and she refuse to spend anything more on you.)

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8.

I am mixed. I have many heritages, each and every one I hold dearly.

Each and every one of my roots has a unique-yet-common history of being hurt and exiled and forced and refused

(because they were Jewish).

I am Jewish, and I carry my ancestors' blood inside of me.

(I live, and I stand.

Even if it's hard.

Even if it hurts.

I will not be cast away

Never again, Metzada will fall.)

in light of Columbia University including ashkenormativity -- albeit defined poorly -- in their dictionary or DEI words, here are some things that people (jews and non-jews) say that are ashkenormative.

"All Jews are white european colonizers!" - While this doesn't even apply to Ashkenazim, it especially doesn't apply to Mizrahim, most of whom's families never stepped foot in Europe.

"Falafel, shawarma, hummus etc aren't Jewish foods!" - This erases this culinary traditions of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews by claiming that the only Jewish foods are Ashkenazi ones. Hummus is just as much of a Jewish food as Babka is.

"Jews should just go back where they came from." - While an Ashkenazi Jew might (but not definitely - ie Ukraine) be able to go back to where our recent ancestors lived, most Mizrahim and Sephardim definitely could not.

#jumblr #north africa #jewish stuff #holocaust #the unique experience of justified paranoia #is it really paranoia if I have many reasons to worry? #the unique experience of living your life while knowing people would try to kill you #and you just live with it #wdym it's not normal? #or just enslave you or hurt you or #you know #if you target a spesific group that your group has history of harassing #are you a rebel or just repeating your ancestors' steps? #Magrab #mizrahi jews #Ashkenazi jews #different flavours of the same soup #i have too much knowledge about Jewish misery through history #feel free to ask about this #history #history lesson #yes another one

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"lol jews find so many loopholes in their own religion they must hate being jewish" damn just say you're uncreative and have never examined your own religious texts further than the exact words written down on the paper. just say you take everything at face value and you never enjoy reading between the lines to gain a new understanding of something. it's ok, we all see it already

#jewish #jumblr #religion #being Jewish is arguing #and learning about people who died hundreds of years ago #who argued with (or defended of) people who died centuries before said Posok was even born #(yes I'm talking about Ramban)

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Sounds like a great wheekend!

Do you have any guinea pigs you hang out with on the regular?

I sadly do not rn but im going to volunteer with piggies for a day soon! and maybe go back on other days after that wheek wheek.

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From Moses to Moses, there's no one like Moses

(ממשה עד משה, לא קם כמשה)

I am being bullied into becoming Moses

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So

Looks like Tumblr is mostly youngest/oldest sibs.

(And now I remember there are families with. 2 kids. So every child answer that. Well.)

Also it's very complicated for those with many sibs.

I have sibs with 2-13 age gap, and one of my cousin have gap with her sibs of 2-21 years.

Saw a sibling poll and needed to expand it because I fit, like. Mid youngest, youngest in theory only child in practice, and adopted. And I think they all have their own unique parts in the sibling ecosystem.

#age gaps #oldest #eldest daughter syndrome

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This is your friendly reminder:

Dust isn't Hamets!

TLDR: throw away what you have that contains Khametz (check if it has Gluten), or put it in a locked cabinet and do Mechirat Khametz for it.

Just don't open that cabinet, and use your Pesach (or disposable) kitchen aid.

Also, the basics are: not own, and not eat it.

If you live with non-jews, they can have their own. They aren't Jewish. Just make sure to put your kosher things in spesific area.

If you struggle with the cleaning, the rule is "ראוי למאכל כלב" "worthy for dog's feed"

So no, the crumbs under your bed and the curtains are fine.

It's okay if you can't shine it all. It's okay if you struggle. This is why we do Bdikat Hamets and Bitul Hamets -

כָּל חֲמִירָא וַחֲמִיעָא דְאִיכָּא בִּרְשׁוּתִי, דְלָא חֲמִתֵּיהּ (או: דְּלָא חַזִיתֵיה) וּדְלָא בִיעַרְתֵּיהּ, לִבְטִיל וְלֶהֱוֵי [הֶפְקֵר] כְּעַפְרָא דְאַרְעָא". (בעברית: כל חמץ ושאור שישנו ברשותי, שלא ראיתיו ושלא ביערתיו, ייבטל ויהיה הפקר כעפר הארץ).

"Kol khamira VeKhami'a de'ika birshuti, de'la Khazityah U'de'la bi'arteya, livtil velhevey hefker ke'afra de'ar'a"

English: every Khametz or leavant in my possession, that I have not seen and haven't destroyed, may it be null and Hefker (free for taking, ownerless) like the dust of the earth.

You can say it in any language

We say "that's it, I've done my best" - and Hashem says "I know, and I love you, and it's okay".

Jew haters: what are those dastardly scheming greedy Jews up to now… planning on kidnapping and killing our children and how to take over and enslave the world no doubt…

Jews: WE NEED TO GET RID OF EVERY FUCKING CRUMB IN THE HOUSE AND COVER IT ALL WITH ALUMINUM FOIL!

#pesach #Passover #friendly reminder #chametz #Khametz

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"Allergy" is my go-to reference.

"for the next days, I can touch or own any Hamets" (depends on your thoughts/level of comfort with roomie about explaining.

(Also, if your kitchen isn't kosher/have questions about this, feel free to @/dm me. Just dropping it as suggestion, since I have knowledge and it can be a Pain. feel free to ignore.)

sending my goyische roommates texts telling them that I will be kicking them out of the kitchen tonight while I cook for pesach while trying to not sound insane is so hard. like yeah you've gotta stay out of the kitchen so you don't get a couple crumbs in here which will mess up my food and also don't put a cup on the counter I just heated it up a lot and your cup hasn't been heated so it'll mess up my counter. yes this is a completely normal thing for jewish people to do don't worry about it

#jewish #jumblr #pesach #Passover

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Uh, yes.

A fun little game called "where were my ancestors exiled from".

(also I have posted a lit version of the genetic study done on Y-chromosome in different ethnicities. (Un)Surprisingly, jews from different backgrounds were more geneticly similar to other jews then to Goyim from similar background).

I am allowed to call myself a Spanish jew and so are other sephardim. non-sephardic jews are allowed to do that as long as they recognize that I am more closely related to them in culture, religion, ethnicity, and genetics (for born jews) than I am any goyische spainard or *turkish person. goyim are not allowed to call me a Spanish jew because they really dont have a clue how much weight that phrase carries

*sephardim come from a lot of places! not all of us are Turkish, however I am :)

#jumblr

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This feels like a Jumblr post, for some reason.

(Hillel and Shamai?)

(though the pettiness kinda reminds me of Ramban's reactions to RZH.)

omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this

#jumblr #not really but feels like

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Holocaust (and culture appropriation)

(TW: holocaust, death camps, sexual assaults, rape, industrial murder. I will put the graphic shit undercut. Include children death and human experiments).

Sometimes I think about how fucked up it is that for most non-jews (and some jews) "The Holocaust" is Anne Frank and Auschwitz "where they killed people".

I think about the fucking, the goddamn AUDACITY some people have to take our trauma and use it as a tool. As a lesson.

People that for them the holocaust is nothing but a story, a bunch of facts, probably as aware of it as they're aware of the crusaders.

(Once upon a time, in a far away land, there were Troubles)

People who didn't hear about it as children, who didn't grew up with six million and one-and-a-half million and yellow stars and quiet ceremony and Yizkor (remember).

That.

Would look at a pile of hats and bones and wigs and hair and make it about them.

But also

Sometimes I think about how wild it is, that this looks so horrific to them.

(And they never heard about half of it.)

Like.

Dear.

Deary.

We are used to death. We are so used to being murdered, and loosing loved ones by hate, that half of our culture is basically based on it.

I think about how non-jews keep talking about the holocaust, like it's a clean cut, like it's a thing that was, like it's that's all that was - there were people hiding, and there were gas chambers, and that's it.

And I remember being a kid (maybe 10 yo?) reading a kid/ya book that was an autobiography, and I remember the writer (who was a young teen at the time, and pretended to be a Christian German) wrote about someone came into the shower and touched him. (Writer) Panicked, and turned around - and then the other man asked him "wait- are you jewish?"

As a kid, I remember that this is all that was in it.

As an adult, I remember that scene, sometimes. And I can have a pretty clear idea on why the older man didn't tell about the kid.

I remember, several years ago, reading about a therapy group for holocaust survivors that were sexually assaulted.

I remember reading about an old lady, that (70 years later) told about what happened to her when she hide away with her sister, (I think they were two, or three girls?) she was sixteen, or maybe fourteen. I remember

"I did it so they'll share their food with us".

~

I think about people talking about the "death camp" Auschwitz, and how someone said (those who went there, were the lucky ones. When the newbies asked what happened, where are their families? We just pointed at the burning chimneys of Birkenau ,and the smoke.)

~

I remember the HUNDREDS who died once the camps were "freed", because they didn't know the dangers of eating two pieces of bread after a long period of starving.

I remember the massive Jewish community of Poland that was just. Erased. 99% of 3 million population pre-war. Whole communities we only remember and mention as the community's name (and even that is a very long list.)

I remember how people remember it as "German jews" (and some Poland) - but it's not. My grandma had cousins in Debretsen, Hungary. And it's Ukraine and France and Morocco and Greece and Lybia and Lithuania and Latvia and almost everywhere in Europe and North Africa

(except for Denmark. we love Denmark. My grandad's step-grandma survived there. She immigrated to her family in Israel after that.)

~

Idk if Goyim ever heard about Mangele. I wonder, how many of them heard during their childhood about:

The eye experiments, where he injected serums in people's (living) eyes, to see what would happen?

His obsession about twins. The toddlers that got their back skinned, then stitched together in "to see what will happen".

(They died after four days of misery.)

#holocaust #jewish history #goyim can reblog #but not add #except Roma #many tw #auschwitz birkenau #we don't talk about Sobibor #i guess #or babi yar #or the way survivors were murdered when they tried to go back home #Goyim be like “oh you don't learn from the holocaust” #well actually #we did #we learn that we'll always be haunted and killed #that there'll always be a new excuse to kill us #we were called communists in the USA and in the USSR we were called capitalists

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I wish

you think people actually have sex? naked and everything? I have to laugh.