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Robert Clary, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes, died today, November 16, 2022, at 96 years old.
In addition to being a beloved performer for decades, he was a survivor of the Holocaust during World War 2, but he lost almost all of his family. He was only 16 years old when he was arrested in Paris and deported.
"....[W]e were not even human beings. When we got to Buchenwald, the SS shoved us into a shower room to spend the night. I had heard the rumors about the dummy showerheads that were gas jets. I thought, this is it. But no, it was just a place to sleep. The first eight days there, the Germans kept us without a crumb to eat. We were hanging on to life by pure guts, sleeping on top of each other, every morning waking up to find a new corpse next to you.
"....The whole experience was a complete nightmare, the way they treated us, what we had to do to survive. We were less than animals. Sometimes I dream about those days. I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I'm about to be sent away to a concentration camp. But I don't hold a grudge because that's a great waste of time. Yes, there's something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That's why when you find those who are, you cherish them."
~ Robert (Widerman) Clary
Only three of Clary's 13 siblings survived the Holocaust. On the wall of the apartment building on Rue des Deux Ponts in Paris where he grew up, there is a memorial plaque that reads:
"A la mémoire des 112 habitants de cette
maison dont 40 petits enfants déporté et
morts dans les camps Allemands en 1942."
In memory of the 112 inhabitants of this house,
including 40 young children, deported and dead
in German camps in 1942.
Adieu, Monsieur Clary. Merci, et shalom.
Historia Obscurum
May his memory be a blessing.
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Sarah Halimi her life mattered 💔
Can you imagine surviving the Holocaust then having anti semitic degenerates decades later kill you ?
Jewish people have been experiencing this for centuries .
This hatred for the Jewish people only makes them stronger 💪
#Holocaust survivor#israel#gaza#palestine#stand with israel#anti semitism#israel lives#jewish people
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by Emily Schrader
Lucy Lipiner is no stranger to antisemitism. A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, she was forced to live through one of the worst atrocities to ever take place in human history. Yet her lived experience still hasn’t prevented the torrent of antisemitic abuse that she, and all Jewish people, currently are experiencing on social media – in particular on Elon Musk’s “X” (formerly known as Twitter). This week was no exception.
“I was appalled at the rise in antisemitism that seemed more blatant – less hidden than in the past and more like what we had seen before the war in Europe. … I felt, as a survivor, compelled to speak up,” she told Ynet.
And she has definitely spoken up. Lipiner regularly uses social media to call out Holocaust denial and revisionism, using her own personal story from Nazi-occupied Poland, as well as her own collection of family photos from the Holocaust, to share the truth.
From taking on former UFC fighter Jake Shields for spreading antisemitic conspiracies to calling out anti-feminist right-wing pundit Pearl Davis for her antisemitic song, to exposing the antisemitism in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s tweets, Lipiner is extremely active in the conversation on the X platform.
Lipiner considers anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.
“I also thought the rise of BDS was simply a veiled form of antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism, which increasingly felt like nothing less than today’s version of age-old hatred of Jews,” she said.
This week, when she published a post on X about the anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, she was met with a massive onslaught of white supremacist antisemitism in response. The result was a community note – a fact-checking tool meant to add context to tweets - which incorrectly stated that Leo Frank, the victim of the lynching, murdered and raped a 13-year-old girl. In fact, Frank was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, in a case that is widely believed to be permeated with blatant antisemitism akin to the Dreyfus affair.
“I tweeted about the 108th anniversary of the lynching of an innocent Jewish man Leo Frank who was accused of murder amidst a horrifically antisemitic community environment. His lynchers were never brought to Justice. A community note says it all: antisemitism is still alive and kicking today,” she said.
Beyond the community note, the responses to her tweet were also antisemitic. One comment read: “Gee it’s almost like they were kicked out of 109 countries for a reason…” Another: “You don't have to be in colonized Palestine to defend the indefensible, you simply have to be a zionist.”
While hundreds pushed back and eventually the X platform removed the community note, the evidence of the antisemitic mob remains. Lipiner said that she routinely receives ugly antisemitic threats and messages in her private messages on social media as well, including users mocking her with Holocaust jokes about gas chambers.
“Hate-filled trolls seem to enjoy engaging with me. Mostly they deny the Holocaust ever happened or diminish it, compare it to other events- or a favorite of trolls is to co-opt the term Nazi, using it to describe Israel and its right to defend itself against terror,” she said.
In another message, Lipiner shared with Ynet, an X user wrote to tell her that she is “not a real Jew” and that “the Torah says the Jews were and are a black race of people. You're not black so stop spreading lies to the public. …We are sick and tired of you stealing our history.” Not the real Jews is a phrase most commonly used by Black supremacists – including Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrews movement - claiming Black people, and not Jews, are the true chosen people of God.
Yet in the face of such vile conversation, Lipiner isn’t backing down; instead, she’s doubling down.
“The trolls honestly don’t bother me. I’ve dealt with so much worse, and I guess I must be relevant,” she joked. But she is concerned about the level of vitriol on social media, in particular X.
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The soul knows, who has suffered, that you simply don't do it to others.
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The Israeli ultra-nationalists need to listen to their elders. Instead they have usurped their martyrdom for nothing good. Shame on Netanyahu.
#palestine#palestinians#gaza#genocide#childrens holocaust#israeli apartheid#israeli occupation#war crimes#free palestine#free gaza#right wing extremism#ultranationalism#idf terrorists#iof terrorism#humanitarian crisis#world central kitchen#aid workers#civilian deaths#ethnic cleansing#icj#justice#settler colonialism#illegal occupation#illegal settlements#annexation#annihilation#mass murder#innocent lives#holocaust survivor#racism
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Seven-time Grammy Award winner, Alanis Morissette discovers her family's Jewish roots on #pbs celebrity #geneology series "Finding Your Roots."
She learned that in 1944 the Nazis deported her maternal grandparents to an unknown destination. The grandparents somehow survived the atrocities and her mom was born in Hungary after the war.
Because her family's experience in the Holocaust was so traumatic, they kept their Jewishness a secret for many years. Her grandmother wanted to shield her family from antisemitism. Morissette learned about being Jewish when she was in her 20’s.
She has performed in Israel many times.
#secular-jew#israel#jewish#judaism#israeli#jerusalem#diaspora#secular jew#secularjew#islam#alanis morissette#shoah#shoah mention#holocaust#holocaust survivor#rock n roll#grammy winner#7-time grammy winner#never again#never again is now
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In human history, it is rare for evil to appear in its pure form; usually, it is mixed with justifications, with subterfuges, with reasonable words.
Primo Levi
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Thanks to @rstabbert for his post about Gad Beck, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. His story is both sad but reaffirming.
Here’s a link to the original post.
And here’s a link to Gad Beck’s wiki entry…
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Albrecht Becker
#mygirlhatesmyheroin#vintage#albrecht becker#photographer#actor#holocaust survivor#lgbt#tattoos#body mods
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Our hearts go out to the family and loved ones of David "Dugo" Leitner, a Holocaust survivor who initiated the tradition, in which people around the world participated, of eating falafel to commemorate his 1945 march from Auschwitz. He passed away on July 26th at the age of 93.
May his memory forever be a blessing.
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When I was 7 I met a holocaust survivor for the first time (my own grandmother, a holocaust survivor, having died long before I was born). As a little Jewish girl, I was already very aware of what the holocaust was and I was in awe of him. The next day at school I drew a picture of him dancing on nazi graves. My teachers were horrified and I was just like, I don’t understand what’s wrong with this. I’m not sure what my mom’s reaction was when they told her, all I know that I didn’t get in trouble for it. Kinda wish I still had the drawing though
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This Week is Holocaust Remembrance Week.
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