#my family is in a concentration camp

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Me, while manically cleaning my room at 3:27am: I should make several large, life-changing, irreversible decisions.

#so ive been in a bad mental state lately #because of many things. but the biggest being (yes i know ive complained about this in multiple other posts) #that my best friend and my ex gf were fucking. without even asking or telling me. i got no heads up. just figured it out on my own #which sucked and now im not speaking to either of them #and when i first found out i was in a bad place physically too #i had a terrible ear infection that was so fucking painful #and i realized i could concentrate on both things. so i focused on healing #and then i remembered ny family is coming to visit for Christmas #and thats a lot to deal with. so now im focusing on cleaning the apartment. specifically my bedroom #so im manically cleaning at 3:30am while angry and stressed and trying not to focus on this thing that makes me really upset #and in the middle of cleaning ill suddenly think 'should i quit my summer camp job?' or 'should i move states again?' #its not good. but i havent acted on anything #AND in the middle of cleaning i found all of my meds #i havent been taking them for months. but i decided im gonna start taking them again #i have a few refills left but then ill have to find a psychiatrist. i dont want to. but its definitely for the best #im trying to get my life back on track and build and better it #but then something hits me and completely derails everything and makes everything so hard #so anyway im gonna go do some more cleaning and try not to make life-altering decisions. and maybe build a desk #btw i have to get up at 9am to take out my puppy. and at 11:35 i have to get ready for work. again its 3:30am #and im full of manic energy #tomorrow is going to be very bad but at least I'll have a semi-clean room

[fitgothgirl]

Just purchased! (Second pic is a sticker 10-pack)

#i'm doing more than just buying stuff haha (emailing reps etc) just wanted to show this off #love the olive branch on the shirt #isn't it ironic how palestine is known for their olive trees/olive oil and the olive branch is also a symbol of peace? #disclaimer/reminder though that i am only culturally jewish - doing my own thing religion-wise #but i feel like it's so important to use my heritage to speak out and show that many jews are against this #also i did have family literally in concentration camps so yeah #mine #jews for palestine #jews against israel #jews against genocide #jews for ceasefire #not in our name #not in my name

[lunityviruz]

Me watching some Jewish people come out and cry antisemitism when people talk about the freedom of Palastine while also watching how other Jewish people come out and say how they fell for zionist propaganda:

#rants n rambles #literally on my fyp it's nonstop jewish people saying it's a literal holocaust towards the Palestinians #how gaza is a concentration camp not an open air prison #im seeing elderly jewish people who had their family members killed by nazis say how can you do this to another group

[tkc-info]

The carranzas civil war WIP may have a better ending

#you see #my uncle told me a story #because there was a civil war division in my paternal family #one brother fought for the republican side and another for the sublevados #the sublevado got caught by the republicans and was supposed to get killed but the republican brother saved him #after the civil war the republican brother got exiled to france #and ofc while ww2 was going on the republican brother fought against the nazis #but he got caught and sent to a nazi concentration camp #and then his sublevado brother pulled some threads and got him out of there as a thank you for his republican brother saving him back then #I mean don't get me wrong the fact that the sublevado had threads to pull is *yk* but yeah #might delete later lol

[hahahax30]

This book is going to leave me a tad bit scarred I see

#I started reading one that revolves around the spanish prisoners in nazi concentration camp #the book starts off talking about 'french uncles' (aka the men who were exiled from Spain because Franco didn't want them at home) #and how this book is for those 'french uncles: #and there's one such french uncle in my family #he had to flee spain after the civil war went to france fought against the nazis and then was put in a concentration camp #he narrowly survived (apparently one of his brothers helped him but I Doubt That™) and then went to france because Spain wouldn't take him

[barbarastreisandof]

Blocking out her name and picture to protect her from harassment, but this is a Palestinian journalist reporting out of Gaza who I've personally had contact with through Twitter.

Money and aid is not getting through. Crowdfunding is not helpful. Ordering things is not helpful. Buying keffiyehs that say the money goes to Gaza is not helpful.

Gaza is a concentration camp - nothing is getting in or out that Israel does not approve of and right now Israel wants people dead or dying.

Most of social media, and tumblr is no exception, skews toward "taking action" being things that put you at zero risk and only ask for money or bits of time, or sometimes just doing nothing and calling it a boycott. "Call your rep!" "Buy this thing!" "Share this link!"

The reality is that you get out what you put in and if it was easy and low risk and comfortable for you to do it, then that is the level of impact it is having - low, comfortable to ignore, and flimsy.

Palestine, Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, NEEDS real help and the reality is we do not have the power as individuals to give it.

We DO have the power to band together and influence things collectively and the best way to do that is to loudly unequivocally express our anger and clarity of purpose.

So that does mean calling reps and being polite and firm and brief and giving your real address because otherwise they can't confirm you're a constituent and they'll ignore you. "Hello, my name is ______ and I am calling as a constituent to demand representative/senator _______ support aid to Gaza and to call for an end to support for all support to Israel."

It is important that your support for Gaza include opposition to Israel - there is no supporting Gaza while supporting Israel, it genuinely is one or the other.

Tear down pro-Israel posters. Tear down those fake kidnapped propaganda posters. Show up to rallies and marches where you can and if you can't, find out who's organizing them and get in touch to offer your support and help. Talk to family and friends. LEARN! Read up on these things and teach yourself history so you can better advocate and push back on propaganda.

Be willing to have people not like you. Losing friends over this is, and I don't mean to be cold here, nothing. It doesn't matter. Fuck em. If advocating against genocide costs you friendships and gets people calling you antisemitic, fuck em, good riddance. Privately process the loss of those relationships if they really matter to you, but publicly don't give it air because this is not a time to be focused on the feelings of people who cannot bring themselves to oppose ethnic cleansing.

The culture is shifting, support for Palestine is growing and it NEEDS to continue and we have the power to make sure it does.

#israel #palestine

[tamarrud]

Love how this suddenly became *my* fault and *Palestinians* became the obstacle to peace. As if your Israel didn't expel my family multiple times, made them refugees, destroyed their crops and seized their land, put some of them in literal concentration camps during the Nakba and continues to terrorise and kill them and steal their land to this very day. It still amazes me how you lot don't see the irony in your failed arguments that you keep shamelessly recycling.

Anyway, in an alternate reality I won't be in Jerusalem kicking it with someone who put the blame on my people while they endured a literal genocide. I would instead be in Safad with my great grandfather's goats, but you evil scum killed all of them.

#المهم انشالله يضيع مفتاح البنكر تبعكو #blocked #text: palestine

[vtoriacore-rbs]

me pretending to be very far left to argue with very far right people to make them say controversial statements so they can get slandered for their horrible beliefs (i love arguing w people on politics):

#nah frrrr i got someone on fucking Pinterest come out and say they're a neonazi #they told me hitler should've put my family in a concentration camp in the 40s ive never seen someone get #mass reported so quick it was glorious 💓

[identity-cry-sis]

Just casually looking into my family tree and my mom mentions that one of my relatives brothers all died in concentration camps

#Idek #Like I knew about the concentration camps #But I never knew any of my family died in them

[bugpov]

i am floored

#major tw #tw abuse #tw rape #it took 2000 years to figure out how jesus was talking to god and the archangels #if someone had just figured it out a long time ago #a lot of bad things wouldn't have happened #and now i feel sick thinking about it #no one questioned it and that is why people are still in literal concentration camps still #like bruh #literal proof that god exists has been all around us #and i know im not hallucinating ok this shit is uncanny and denying it feels absurd to me now #how did anyone think jesus was talking to god and the archangels ??? a voice ? u mean these voices right here ? #everything hurts #and it took me having to come down here and figure it all out by myself and my brain isn't even fully developed #and im traumatized by my family and my rapist older brother who is literally the devil #my 3 yro neice who is also his daughter even said so herself #like she said it right to his face one time that he looked like the devil #n he abuses her and ive done literally everything i can to stop it #but my family just doesn't give a fuck and they're lost in their own indulgence #snail sounds #my older brother is truly demonic and he always has been #he hurt me when i was a child and i didn't realize it until recently cuz i was knocked out the entire time #but the aftermath is something i chose to ignore for years cuz i didn't understand but now i know that he hurt me #and i was living with him and my family for a long time after that and he would abuse everyone there cuz he thinks he has control #over my elderly parents #my family refuses to acknowledge what i went through despite speaking up many times #i fucking remember what happened cuz ive been reliving the same traumatic event in my head for years now . just over and over again #but i passed it off as nothing but anxiety #but now im starting to think i have ptsd

[honeyrisuke]

researching history and castles and nobility and kingdoms around the area im from is super fun and cool bc essentially there were an insane amount of tiny kingdoms within the shortest distance, sometimes only like 3 towns and a castle, and they all hated each other

...but then you get to the 1900s and its like "were the living royals in that chateau that still stands today nazis??" and the answer is literally always "yes" to some degree

and then I feel weird about making an old vampire live there

#i only have one that i gotta place but i think im gonna leave him in Schlosshotel Kronberg #bc they are a little more complicated about the whole nazi thing and kinda got sent to concentration camps?? #and also im just gonna say he was in the basement doing his Nachzehrer hibernation #and thats it #my current plan for the nazi thing is to vaguely brush the topic #not making a big deal about it within the lore bc it feels inappropriate #like obviously its not avoidable but i dont wanna be like 'the vampires were hunted down' #bc real people who are still alive went through that or had family die during that #like it would be fucked up to have it in but damn i dont wanna blindly write a vampire basically being an old nazi baron

[antifainternational]

"My late father was in Auschwitz. My late mother was in Majdanek concentration camp. Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. And it's precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians. So I refuse any longer to be intimidated or brow beaten by the tears. If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians, not for what you have done." - Norman Finkelstein responding to a Zionist detractor at a university lecture.

#antifa #zionism #norman finkelstein #free palestine

[jewish-sideblog]

During last year’s Chanukkah, I toured Yad Vashem. My tour guide ended with a story that will probably stick with me for the rest of my life.

A Jewish father and his son are held prisoner in Auschwitz— they are lucky, all things considered. Most Jews were gassed upon arrival. The Nazi guards instruct the prisoners that they have to dig mass graves for their fellow Jews every day. The father is appalled by this, of course, but he doesn’t have much choice. A week goes by, and the father and the son are subjected to horrors they could not have imagined before. The first Friday evening in Auschwitz, the father goes to his son and says, “I cannot work on Shabbat. I will not dig graves for Jews on Shabbat. For all my other reservations, I cannot do it, because the Talmud forbids it.” The son is barely fourteen, but he knows that if his father refuses to work, then his father will die. So he goes to meet another prisoner, a former Rabbi. The son pleads with the Rabbi to help his father see sense, and so the Rabbi and the son go together to meet with the father.

“The Talmud forbids us to work on Shabbat,” the Rabbi says, “but pikuach nefesh overrides Talmudic law when a life is in danger. Your life is in danger. Your son’s life is in danger. You are allowed to work on Shabbat.” The father begrudgingly agrees, and he saves his family’s life by digging mass graves on the day of rest.

A few months go by, and the Nazis are running low on food, so they start grinding pig hooves and guts into the slop that gets fed to the prisoners at Auschwitz. The father finds out about this and begins to starve himself. “G-d commands in the Torah us not to eat pork,” he says. The son, out of concern for his father, gets the Rabbi again. “Pikuach nefesh overrides the Torah as well as the Talmud. You must eat, for your life and for your son’s sake. Eat what is given to you. G-d will overlook violating kosher if it means surviving in a place like this.” So the father starts to eat what he is given.

Miraculously, the father and the son survive until winter. There’s never enough food for all the prisoners in Auschwitz to eat, and so there are frequent fights over scraps, but the most valuable thing in the slop is fat. Fat can keep you warmer in the winter, and it can be used to cover up and heal small injuries. If the Nazi guards noticed so much as a scratch on you, they would send you to the gas chambers that same day. Fat was gold in Auschwitz. At some point, the son noticed that the father had been ignoring food and collecting fat. He wasn’t trading it for scraps or favors, he was just keeping it. And he was starving to keep it. So once again, the son and the Rabbi approached the father.

“I’m turning it into a candle,” he said, “for Channukah.” The son and the Rabbi were appalled. The Rabbi said, “Channukah is a cultural holiday. It is not ordained by G-d. Neither the Torah nor the Talmud command you to celebrate it. Why in G-ds name would you sacrifice your food for that?” The father replied,

“You can live three days without water. You can live three weeks without food. But you cannot live three minutes without hope.”

The son and the Rabbi helped the father fashion wicks from rags and clothes, and helped steal small bits metal of metal off corpses and guards to make a spark. They lit Channukah candles in the middle of a Nazi concentration camp. The father and the son survived off of hope for the rest of that year, and they both lived to see the liberation of Auschwitz. The father died soon afterwards, but the son, Hugo Gryn, went on to become a Rabbi himself. In fact, the Rabbi of West London Synangoue, and the leader of the British Reform movement. He was described as the most beloved Rabbi in the country. He never lost sight of hope.

#Channukah #hanukkah #jumblr #shoah mention #Auschwitz mention #tw ed #I think I convered all the relevant triggers but please reach out if I’ve missed one

[anyab]

An instagram story by i.anasmatar that reads:

"I am now in Jabalia. Saying that people are dying is an understatement. This morning, I did few lapse around the neighborhood looking for a single slice of bread, but to no surprise to me I had no luck finding a single crumb. What is left on the shelves is merely bits of candies that are inedible and few expired canned food that has quadrupled in price.

The tragedy is so beyond my reckoning that I have witnessed a family slaughtering a donkey to feed hundreds of displaced people who migrated South. To put things in perspective, a bag of flour is now 1000 sheikles.

Thousands of families, living in Jabalia, were forced to leave to a "safer" place leaving behind all resources including their food and pantry items.

Thousands were forced to leave from the shelters they had originally fled to for a "safer" heaven, and are now having to move again to 10 centralized concentration camps in the Northernmost areas of Sheikh Ridwan.

The genocide is continuous. The new reality is that the bombed houses are now by default becoming the grave yard for the families residing there, as the means to rescue the casualties are exhausted and all means of medical help and ambulances are all bombed, are over capacity or are simply destroyed."

December 12 2023. 19:10 Palestine time. (17:10 GMT)

[transmascpetewentz]

Respectfully, from someone who is jewish.. You are born jewish. You cannot "Convert" its insulating to jewish families. If you could "Convert" My family would have to have not been put in a concentration camp.

You are born Jewish. Like how you are born Gay, Trans, white or black. You cannot convert to Jewish.

I'm going to tag jumblr in this post because L + ratio + ur wrong and the vast majority of jews accept converts + jews always come to back me up when someone says something like this.

#asks #judaism #jumblr #jewish

[hahahax30]

Sometimes there are just members of your family you're drawn up to because of their history and it's so frustrating that you can't learn more about them

#this is certainly about my great uncle who fought for the republicans during our civil war #and then got exiled to france where he was kept in a french concentration camp #and then fought against the nazis #and then was sent to a nazi concentration camp #and then he survived all that because his brother somehow managed to safe him #and then when ww2 drew to an end he stayed in france with a random french family #and then when he died he left his house to my father and his brother and cousins #I yearn so much to know about that man