#holocaust

[fanchonmoreau]

Went to a gathering at a synagogue this afternoon to mark Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. A survivor, his name was Martin, told the audience about how his family snuck under some broken wire to escape their Polish ghetto. They lived in the forest on whatever they could find for months. Later, they found out that not long after they escaped, the Jews in their ghetto were marched to a local church, forced to dig their own graves, and shot en masse.

At the end of his speech, he thanked us for listening, as if we had done him some great kindness. Then he looked out over this audience of Jews and said:

Have long lives.

#jewish things #holocaust #jumblr #antisemitism #yom hashoah #antisemitism for ts #yeah so that broke me

[matan4il]

Today is Erev Yom Ha'Shoah (Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day) in Israel. It will be observed by Jews outside of Israel, too.

The Hebrew date was chosen to honor the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It's also a week before Erev Yom Ha'Zikaron Le'Chalalei Ma'archot Yisrael (Eve of Israel's Memorial Day for its Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims), which is itself observed a day before Yom Ha'Atzmaut Le'Yisrael (Israel's Independence Day). A lot of people have remarked on the connection between the three dates. On Yom Ha'Atzmaut, we celebrate our independence, which allows us to determine our own fate, and defend ourselves without being dependent on anyone else, right after we remember the price in human life that we have paid and continue to pay for this independence, and a week before we mourn the price we've had to pay for not getting to have self defence during the Holocaust. NEVER FORGET that in one Nazi shooting pit alone (out of almost two thousand) during just 2 days (Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur 1941), more Jewish men, women and kids were slaughtered than in the 77 years since Israel's Independence War was started by the Arabs. This unbreakable connection between the living and the dead, between our joy and our grief, is often addressed with the Hebrew phrase, במותם ציוו לנו את החיים, "With their death, they ordered us to live."

On this Erev Yom Ha'Shoah, I'd like to share with you some data, published on Thursday by Israel's Central Bureau for Statistics (source in Hebrew).

The number of Jews worldwide is 15.7 million, still lower than it was in 1939, before the Holocaust, 85 years ago (that is what a genocide looks like demographically).

7.1 million Jews live in Israel (45% of world Jewry) 6.3 million Jews live in the US (40% of world Jewry)

Here's the data for the top 9 Jewish communities in the world:

There are about 133,000 Holocaust survivors currently living in Israel. Most (80%) live in big cities in central Israel. Around 1,500 are still evacuated from their homes in northern and southern Israel due to the war (back in January, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, there was a report about 1,894 survivors who also became internal refugees due to the war. Source in Hebrew). One Holocaust survivor, 86 years old Shlomo Mansour, is still held hostage in Gaza. He survived the Farhud in Iraq.

I haven't seen any official number for how many survivors had been slaughtered as a part of Hamas' massacre, despite everyone here being aware that Holocaust survivors had been murdered on Oct 7, such as 91 years old Moshe Ridler. Maybe, as we're still discovering that some people thought to have been kidnapped during the massacre, were actually killed on that day, no one wants to give a "final" number while Shlomo has not yet been returned alive.

Out of all Israeli Holocaust survivors, 61.1% were born in Europe (35.8% in the countries of the former Soviet Union, 10.8% in Romania, 4.9% in Poland, 2.9% in Bulgaria, 1.5% in Germany and Austria, 1.3% in Hungary, 4.2% in the rest of Europe), 36.6% were born in Asia or Africa (16.5% in Morocco, 10.9% in Iraq, 4% in Tunisia, 2.6% in Libya, 2.1% in Algeria, 0.5% in other Asian and African countries) and 2.3% were born elsewhere.

Out of all Holocaust survivors in Israel, 6.2% managed to make it here before the establishment of the state, despite the British Mandate's immigration policy against it (up until May 13, 1948). 30.5% made it to Israel during its very first years (May 14, 1948 until 1951), another 29.8% arrived in the following decades (1952-1989), and 33.5% made Aliyah once the Soviet Union collapsed, and Jewish immigration to the west (which included Israel) was no longer prohibited by the Soviet regimes (1990 on).

The second biggest community of survivors in the world is in the US, the third biggest (but second biggest relative to the size of the population) is in Australia. I heard from many Holocaust survivors who chose to immigrate there that they wanted to get "as physically far away from Europe as possible."

For a few years now, there's been this project in Israel, called Maalim Zikaron, מעלים זיכרון (uploading memory. Here's the project's site in Hebrew. In English it's called Sharing Memories, and here's the English version of the site) where Israeli celebs are asked to meet up with a Holocaust survivor (it's done in Hebrew), and share the survivor's story and the meeting on their social media on Erev Yom Ha'Shoah (which is today). Each year, there's also one non-Israeli Jewish celeb asked to participate (in English. This time around it's Michael Rapaport, he's meeting Aliza, an 81 years old survivor from the Netherlands, who was hidden along with 9 other Jewish babies for two years. He uploaded a preview of his meeting with her here, where he asked her what it means to her to be a Jew, and from what I understand, he will upload more today to the same IG account). This year, there will be an emphasis on Holocaust survivors who also survived Oct 7 (with 6 of the 20 participating survivors having survived Hamas as well). Here's a small bit from an interview with one such survivor, 90 years old Daniel Luz from kibbutz Be'eri:

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Today is holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel

I’ve been trying all day to gather my thoughts and write something , and how can I when there are currently holocaust survivors held captive by Hamas .A few were also murdered on October 7th.I’m so glad the holocaust survivors in my family are not alive to see what’s happening right now.

The posts here tagged with the word “holocaust”are antisemitic and just vile. Nothing had to do with the actual event .

I did however encounter plenty of denial, ignorant comparisons and the claim that Jews/ Israelis are weaponising it to their advantage.

Let me make it clear- The situation in Gaza is horrible but cannot be compared to the holocaust . The holocaust was a systemic & planned genocide against 6 million Jews.

In times where Jews worldwide aren’t safe, Never again is now. Stop spreading misinformation and blood libels. Stop with the dog whistling , mockery and comparisons to the holocaust .We’re not “weaponising it” by saying it happened. demonising Zionists,/israelis/jews as a whole is antisemitic and wrong.

If Jews tell you you’re antisemitic, you are.

If Jews aren’t safe, believe them.

Some of you here literally spread Nazi propaganda (both intentionally and unintentionally ). Do better.

#antisemitism on tumblr #holocaust Remembrance Day #holocaust #israel #jewish #israeli #jewblr #israel palestine conflict #טאמבלר ישראלי #ישראל #middle east #עברית #jumblr #current events

[girlactionfigure]

Holocaust - the children

Some 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Romani  children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children..

Nazi persecution, arrests, and deportations were directed against all members of the targeted families without concern for age.

Plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, many children had witnessed the murder of parents, siblings, and relatives. Many faced starvation, illness and brutal labor, until all of them were consigned to the gas chambers.

They lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi nightmare …

#yom hashoah #Holocaust #The Children #NeverAgain

[lostinsidelostoutside]

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#holocaust remberance day #holocaust #anti semitism #jew hatred #israel

[proudzionist]

Yom HaShoah 🕯️

#Holocaust #never forget #israel #jumblr #pro Israel #pro zionist #holocaust remberance day

[alwaysisrael]

#never forget #never again #holocaust #jewish history #antisemitism #jumblr #israel #holocaust remembrance day

[secular-jew]

Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day

In memory of the six million Jewish men, women, the elderly and children who were starved, tortured and mass murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

Also remembering the millions of non-Jewish victims, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Roma etc. that were exterminated based upon Germany’s virulent genocidal racial policies.

Let's also remember that Islam also attempted to kill as many Jews as possible and partnered with Nazi Germany. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem went to Berlin and trained Islamic troops with the Nazis in order to kill Jews wherever they could find them in the indigenous Jewish homeland.

#israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #mufti #grand mufti #Nazi #shoah #holocaust #Germany #aushwitz #death camps #Nazis #Holocaust rememberence day #yom hashoah

[eretzyisrael]

Source

#holocaust #kato bernath #miklos bernath #kato and miklos bernath #nazis #szikso

[hebrewbyinbal]

As we approach Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, I can't help but reflect on my family's own tragic history during that dark time.

Some survived and many others perished in the horrors of the Holocaust.

But from that darkness emerged a profound lesson: the importance of having a homeland, a place where we can proudly stand as a people, with our own army to defend us, and the importance of fighting anywhere against antisemites.

Today, as I see images of Holocaust survivors standing next to posters of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas, it strikes a deep chord within me. The parallels between past and present are undeniable.

These so called "protests", these acts of aggression, they're not about political disputes. They're attacks on our identity, on our existence.

You can't tell me that the chants of today aren't fueled by the same hatred that once fueled the Nazis.

We see through the veils of rhetoric; we know exactly who you are—the new Nazis of 2024.

But we will not be silent. We will not let history repeat itself. We stand strong, united, and determined. We remember the far and the recent past, not just to mourn, but to ensure it never happens again.

We honor the memory of those who perished by fighting against those who would seek to erase us.

Today, we remember, we mourn, and we vow: never again. Just watch us.

#Holocaust #holocaust memorial #shoah #never again is now

[simplysiriuslyjoking]

Reminder that it's the official Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel.

Remember what happened to our people.

Keep the stories of the survivors going because they deserve to have their stories heard because the world has seemed to have forgotten.

Tell the stories of your grandparents, your neighbours, your families, and your friends because we are seeing the result of the Holocaust studies being banned in school.

Remember 1933-1945 as the biggest reason why Israel is the only home Jews can be free in.

יהי זיכרם ברוך, אנא שמרו עלינו מלמעלה ובקשו מאלוהים לשחרר גם הפעם את עם ישראל משבי אכזרי ע"י הנאצים של היום.

#israel #ישראבלר #tumblr #טאמבלר ישראלי #antisemitism #terrorism #judaism #holocaust #always remember #never again

[the-ind1gen0us-jude4n]

Palestinian hypocrisy and the Holocaust

For far too long now I have seen pallywood islamist-marxist-woke-idiots claim that Israel is repeating the Holocaust on the "Palestinian" people, yet these same people block Jewish students from entering universities, boycott Jewish businesses, burn Israeli flags, and discriminate against Jews.

This is becoming far too hypocritical.

The Holocaust doesn't just refer to the process of killing over six million Jews, it also refers to the period where the Nazis systematically institutionalised antisemitism and anti-jewish policies. It refers to the horrific legal, social and physical challenges of German Jews, and later other Jews.

To say that Israel is doing the same thing to "palestinians" is not only bullshit, it spits in the face of Holocaust victims, and Arabs who live normal, peaceful lives in Israel.

The global Jewish population is STILL PRE HOLOCAUST LEVELS, the end of the Holocaust was nearly 80 years ago. Jewish people also face immense intergenerational trauma from the Holocaust. Meanwhile the "Palestinian" population has grown to seven million, at least seven times its estimate back in 1960. That is not a Genocide.

One group still hasn't recovered from the most horrific genocide in human history, the other has grown so much in just over fifty years. You cannot compare the two and say "they're both the same".

People must have such audacity to compare the two.

#palestinian hypocrisy #Palestinian lies #holocaust #never again #nakam #israel #i stand with israel #jumblr #hamas is isis #antisemitism #am yisrael chai #leftist antisemitism #palestine

[bill-the-dog-for-the-check]

Today was Yom HaShoah, the day that Jews remember the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the industrialized genocide of the European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators from 1941-1945.

This is a really simple opening statement, but bear with me--I think it gets a lot more... 'yeah, buts' than most people may realize. And I think a good way of illuminating that is to break down the difference between how gentiles and Jews commemorate and remember it.

In my experience, gentiles seem to view the Holocaust as the ultimate example of mankind's barbarity to mankind. Like, the distillation of evil, the most obvious example of dehumanization and bigotry brought to its horrifying and extreme conclusion. They emphasize Nazi Germany's responsibility, elevate the instances of non-Jewish Frenchmen and Poles and Germans who made efforts to save Jewish lives, and generally view Nazi oppression as a catastrophe of whom Jews were one of many victims. And they emphasize the Allied Powers' role in ending it by liberating the camps and invading Germany. Hence why International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on January 27th, the day Auschwitz was liberated.

But Jews have a different perspective.

We view the Holocaust as the most extreme manifestation of--but far from the conclusion to--mankind's barbarity to Jews. Not to his fellow man, per se, not to some universalized insert minority here slot, but to Jews, particularly and deliberately. The Nazis could never have accomplished their genocide were it not for the two millennia of anti-Jewish hatreds and dehumanization embedded deep in the institutions and political structures of European society. They didn't have to persuade Europe that the Jews were incurably evil, the Europeans already believed that. The Nazis had 99% of their work done before they'd even come to power, work that was done by the the Russian Empire, the Romans, Martin Luther, Christian Passion Plays, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the centuries of blood libels, the Fourth Lateran Council, the New Testament, the Spanish Empire, and on and on and on and on. It's as if some people think Hitler just woke up one day, out of the blue, with a total hatred of Jews and managed to use propaganda to convince the previously 100% tolerant Germans to hate Jews, too. Antisemitism did not begin or end with the Holocaust.

The sole responsibility of Nazi Germany in the Holocaust is also just... not true. Vichy France rounded up 13,152 Jews in the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, with not a single German participant, and sent them off to be murdered in Auschwitz. Vichy passed antisemitic legislation without any outside coercion--French Jews were hiding as much from the French police as they were from the Gestapo. France, of course, was the home of the Dreyfus Affair--antisemitism was and is a deep part of French society. And it isn't just France. Ukrainian nationalists participated in the Lviv pogroms, killing maybe around 8,000 Jews, Poles perpetrated the Jedwabne pogrom, and that doesn't even bring in that countries like the US, Switzerland and Ireland and Britain blocked Jewish emigrants, and I could just keep going on, but I think you get the point. Quite simply, six million Jews interspersed throughout Europe don't get murdered if it isn't without the collaboration of--or at minimum, silent assent and indifference--of all of their neighbors. The Nazis were the primary perpetrators of the Holocaust, of course, but almost all of Europe collaborated on some level, too. And this is a history that gets wiped away in favor of the comforting narrative of the Allied Powers bursting into Auschwitz, killing Nazis, and being horrified by what they've found, and then the poor people in the surrounding towns having NO IDEA about what had been going on. I think this narrative is why gentiles have International Holocaust Remembrance Day when Auschwitz was liberated--when they 'came to the rescue'--and why we have Yom HaShoah on the day in the Jewish calendar that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began--when we died on our own terms in spite of our murderers.

Think of the tiny, unwritten, centuries old minhagim of small Jewish shetls and towns like Trochenbrod, which were entirely annihilated. The end of the burgeoning Yiddish cinema. Yiddish going from 13 million speakers to 600,000 today. See how many entries in this list of shetls end with "town/city survived, but all/most Jews exterminated." Imagine for a moment, the potential rabbis and scholars and actors and scientists and artists who could have lived, had they survived or been born of Jews did. Three and a half million Polish Jews, to around 15,000 to 20,000 Polish Jews today. Imagine if Thessaloniki were still a majority Jewish city. How many Jews worldwide would be alive today had the Holocaust never happened? I've heard estimations of 32 million, compared to the real life 16 million. To kill such a massive number of people from an already tiny minority group--that has real consequences. The cultural loss for the Jewish people is staggering and beyond human comprehension.

And yet, the Nazis deliberate targeting of us is, in many ways, being pushed aside. Magnus Hirschfeld was gay, yes, and advanced the Institute of Sexology way ahead of its time and yeah, the Nazis were homophobic. But they were homophobic for antisemitic reasons. They viewed his work as Jewish perversions BECAUSE Dr. Hirschfeld was Jewish. In fact, they viewed homosexuality as a creation of the Jews. But so many progressive queer people, especially those who run in antizionist circles, seem to be trying to co-opt the Holocaust as being their trauma, downplaying Hirschfeld's Jewishness and holding the Institute up as proof that queer people were the 'real' victims of the Holocaust, entirely shutting out the millions of Jews, Sinti, Roma, and Slavs who were murdered. You can also see this in anti-mask conservatives comparing masking mandates during the pandemic to anti-Jewish legislation in the Holocaust, or the comparisons of the ongoing war against Hamas as being a 'modern day Holocaust.'

This phenomenon, Holocaust universalization, gets so much pushback from Jews for a reason--it downplays the anti-Jewish character of the Holocaust. It's softcore Holocaust denial. And it's so ridiculous we even have to say that, as the whole point of the Holocaust was to be anti-Jewish, to be the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." It's 'All Lives Mattering' the Holocaust. Holocaust universalization, and Holocaust inversion--the phenomenon of talking about Jews, Zionists, or Israelis as perpetrating a 'new Holocaust'--minimizes and trivializes the astounding damage and traumas and death and destruction wrought by the Holocaust. It's a polemical lie, so incendiary and so insulting--imagine telling a sexual assault survivor that they're morally no better than their rapist--that the only thing it can be is antisemitic. It is beyond reprehensible to talk like that, but it's so mainstream and acceptable to do it. Activists who say these things need to examine their own rhetoric, because it's dangerous, antisemitic, and adjacent to Holocaust denial. Not a place I think anyone should want to be.

The Holocaust is not a lesson Jews should have learned, an educational seminar, a 'card' Jews play, a choose your own adventure novel, a philosophical meditation on the nature of mankind's evils, or an empty slate upon which to project modern politics, warfare, or your ideology onto.

The Holocaust is, quite simply, the industrialized genocide of the European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators from 1941-1945. And today was Yom HaShoah, the day we remember that.

#antisemitism #jumblr #leftist antisemitism #left wing antisemitism #right wing antisemitism #jewish #judaism #holocaust #yom hashoah #antizionism #the holocaust is 'events that happened' #it isn't a narrative or a story which is meant to have a point or some moral to it #and it is not--it is NOT--your rhetorical gotcha or talking point to throw in the faces of the group who experienced it #holocaust inversion #holocaust universalization #holocaust denial #jewish traumas need to be treated with dignity and respect not used as a political cudgel against us #i don't think that's an overly complicated or difficult thing to demand

[mental-mona]

If you were to ask what our response to the Holocaust should be, I would say this: Marry and have children, bring new Jewish life into the world, build schools, make communities, have faith in God who had faith in man and make sure that His voice is heard wherever evil threatens. Pursue justice, defend the defenceless, have the courage to be different and fight for the dignity of difference. Recognise the image of God in others, and defeat hate with love. Twice a year, on Yom HaShoah and the Ninth of Av, sit and mourn for those who died and remember them in your prayer. But most of all, continue to live as Jews.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, Radical Then, Radical Now p. 184

#rabbi lord jonathan sacks #jumblr #judaism #yom hashoah #holocaust #holocaust remembrance day

[enjymemink]

The fact that those israzionists chose holocaust memorial day to bomb Rafah tells you how evil those creatures are. Not only are they making a mockery of the holocaust, they're inflicting the same pain and fear to the people of Palestine. May those zionists never be happy, never find peace and may their reign of terror ends.

Palestine will be free.

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #palestine resources #social justice #gaza genocide #gaza strip #imperialism #israel is a terrorist state #holocaust #rafah massacre #rafah

[proudzionist]

Moshe Ridler 💔💔💔

Can you imagine surviving the Holocaust and coming to Israel your ( ancestral homeland) just to be murdered by the" new Nazis " Hamas !!

It disgusts me .

Hamas are nothing but cowards who preyed on children, the elderly ,women and innocent men .

May Moshe's memory be a blessing 🕯️

Please pray for his family 🙏

Oct 7th will NEVER be forgotten!

#Moshe Ridler #israel #gaza #palestine #hamas #hamas massacre #jumblr #hamas is evil #pro Israel #pro zionist #i stand with israel #pro israel #stand with israel #hamas is isis #jewish #antisemitism #holocaust remberance day #Holocaust