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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 3 months

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Rather proud of the post I made for JVP Boston for Holocaust Remembrance Day!

Antizionist Jewish Shoah survivors have always been some of my heroes.

And every one of them has been attacked and discredited by Zionists.

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valcaira · 3 months

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It is Holocaust remembrance day. Let us all remember those who survived the Shoah and those who did not. Let us also remember the many survivors who are no longer with us today.

May their memory be a blessing.

Never again is now.

#holocaust remembrance day #jumblr #shoah mention #am yisrael chai #yom hashoah #holocaust memorial day

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girlactionfigure · 3 months

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Never Again. Never Forget.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Tomorrow, January 27.

#Holocaust Remembrance Day #WW2 #Shoah #Never Again

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perfectlyvalid49 · 3 months

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Today is January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I'd like to get some stuff off my chest.

First, I'd like to take a minute to point out that it is not Yom HaShoah, which is the day Israel (and by extension large portions of the Jewish diaspora population) uses as Holocaust Remembrance day. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan, a date that was selected to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, centering Jewish resistance in our own story. That date was selected nearly five decades before the UN picked January 27th, which was selected to center our white saviors who came to liberate Auschwitz. This is utter bullshit. And no excuses for not being able to handle a moving date on the Gregorian calendar - April 19th would be the Gregorian equivalent, and it was not selected.

Having said that, given how many infographics I've seen over the last four months about how people are increasingly denying or doubting the Holocaust, I figure any day that acknowledges it is a good thing, so yeah, let's take two days to remember. I think it's worth it.

So given that this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day that centers our goyishe friends, let's talk about how our goyishe friends should observe the day.

1. It is likely that you never learned a lot of details about the Holocaust. Holocaust education usually boils down to, "and the Nazis put Jews in camps in order to kill them, and a lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers, and about 6 million died in all." Go learn some details. Read or watch an account from a survivor. Learn about the medical experiments, or the death marches. Learn some details about what the gas chambers were actually like. Try to understand the horror. Learn about the SS St. Louis or the Evian conference in 1938 where almost every country on Earth decided it was better to let the Jews die in Germany than to allow them into their own countries.

2. On that note, take the time to understand that anti-semitism neither began nor ended with the Nazis, and that even the "good guys" were incredibly antisemitic.Try to recognize that the antisemitism that was present where you live right now in the 1930s didn't just disappear, it just went into hiding. Think about where it might be hiding now.

Basically, because this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day for the goyim, I want to focus our remembrance of what happened on the goyim. What did they do? What could they have done to help? Why didn't they? We can come back in May for more Jewish focused learning, but the Holocaust could not have happened without A LOT of willing goyim, and I think we should spend the day remembering them and their actions.

And as a side note: if you happen to read this and you've chosen to spend the day engaging in Holocaust denial or Holocaust inversion, then know that my hope for you is that something happens in your life to teach you empathy and basic human decency. And I hope it isn't pleasant for you.

#holocaust remembrance day #antisemitism #I am expecting social media to be a NIGHTMARE today #it's going to be holocaust inversion all day long #and I'm not going to be surprised by it #but I am going to be infuriated #my hope is that this post reaches one person sometime in the future when the left has moved on to some other thing to be outraged about #and that it triggers growth in them - makes them take a minute to learn something about history #but I don't think that 2024 is gonna be the year for that #the jews are tired

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intern-seraph · 3 months

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in advance of holocaust remembrance day, a reminder for gentiles:

keep your hands off our dead. you are not entitled to our trauma, certainly not as a rhetorical tool. why are you so obsessed with using the jewish genocide here? why the jews? why US? is the holocaust the only genocide you know of? why do you want to weaponize the holocaust, specifically? is it, perhaps, so you can have an excuse to say "jews are the REAL nazis now!" or "did those jews never LEARN from the holocaust?" that's holocaust inversion. you are doing antisemitism. keep your hands. off our dead.

the holocaust was the culmination of over 2000 years of jew-hatred. 2000+ years of segregation, ghettoization, mass expulsions, forced conversions, massacres, etc. the holocaust is notable for the industrialization of genocide, the way that we were processed like cattle, the meticulous nature in which we were slaughtered. does the current situation have that same context? does it? no? then keep your mouth shut about our trauma and just use the word "genocide". the only reason you want to invoke the holocaust is because you want to weaponize jewish trauma.

"but michelle, these holocaust survivors said —" ARE YOU A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR? NO? THEN STAY IN YOUR LANE, YOU HAVE NO CLAIM TO IT.

#seraph speaks #holocaust remembrance day #hitting people with sticks

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bellabayushki · 3 months

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It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Honor the Jews but condemn Israel

Honor the Jews but condemn Netanyahu

Honor the Jews but condemn Zionism

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gay-jewish-bucky · 1 year

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80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: "The World Has to Know That We Did Not Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter."

April 19th, 1943 - May 16th, 1943 Warsaw, Poland

“The question is not why all the Jews did not fight, but how so many of them did. Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the strength, spiritual and physical, to resist?” – Elie Wiesel

In the morning of April 19th, 1943, on what would be the first night of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. German troops and SS entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants to the death camps.

In the summer of 1942, as Jews living in the Warsaw ghetto were deported to Treblinka, reports that made their way back quickly made it clear that "resettlement" meant mass-murder. In response to this, Jews citizens in the ghetto began forming organized resistance forces; the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW).

Following the January 1943 success of a smaller-scale resistance preventing a deportation attempt, an act that led to the suspension of such deportation efforts by the Nazis, the residents began to secretly build subterranean tunnels and shelters in preparation for a full-scale uprising.

Throughout April rumours swirled of a final deportation of the ghetto's remaining Jews. On the 18th it became clear that German forces, reinforced with artillery and tanks, were moving in to carry out their final action. The alarm was raised, and residents retreated to their underground shelters. They would remain here for the duration of the uprising, refusing to surrender themselves to deportation.

A group of around 700 Jewish resistance fighters, made up of the ŻOB and ŻZW and led by 24-year-old Mordechai Anilevitch, joined together to stage what would be their final stand against the Nazis. These brave young people were malnourished and lacked proper military training, they were equipped with nothing but poor-quality or even homemade weapons and their bare hands.

By contrast German forces numbered 2000, they were well-equipped and well-trained and had advanced knowledge of the existence of these resistance groups.

Despite this stark imbalance, on the first day of the uprising the ragtag Jewish fighters met the invaders head on and successfully forced the Nazis to retreat outside the city walls.

Amongst all of the chaos and destruction all around them, the Jews hiding in the tunnels and bunkers gathered together to celebrate Passover with what little they had, breaking homecooked matzah and drinking illicitly obtained wine.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising held strong for a full 27 days, coming to an end on May 16th, 1943. Unable to gain a full advantage, the Germans had resorted to burning the Warsaw Ghetto to the ground in an attempt flush out those in hiding so they could be rounded up.

In the months following the official end of the uprising some Jews remained hiding out in the rubble, periodically attacking German police on patrol.

This was the largest uprising by Jews during World War II and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe. It inspired many more uprisings, especially amongst Jews in camps and Ghettos.

May Their Memories Be a Revolution

Learn More: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Holocaust Encyclopedia Holocaust Survivors Describe the Last Passover in the Warsaw Ghetto Tuesday, Nissan 27, 5783 / April 18, 2023 - Jewish Calendar - On This Day

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phoukanamedpookie · 3 months

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PSA: The Holocaust was not a personal growth seminar.

Also: Judaism doesn't jibe with redemptive suffering.

#jumblr #holocaust #shoah #holocaust remembrance day #antisemitism #redemptive suffering

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magnetothemagnificent · 1 year

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Saw this on Instagram and I had to share:

Non-Jews put International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the day Auschwitz was liberated in order to fashion themselves the heroes of the story. I choose to remember their cowardice instead, the cowardice of the entire world in allowing atrocities to proceed and in closing their doors to us at the critical moment. We, not you, are the heroes of the story, because we are still alive and breathing oxygen into our ancient civilization. And we no longer have to ask for your permission first.

[credit: blakeflayton ]

#jumblr #antisemitism #holocaust #shoah #holocaust remembrance day #ihrd #international holocaust remembrance day #genocide #antiziganism

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jadeseadragon · 3 months

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#Repost @jewishvoiceforpeace

"Today as we recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are confronted with a devastating truth: What we vowed never to allow to happen again is happening, right now.

Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread — all of it turned to ash.

Today, Israel and the U.S. will share solemn words about the Holocaust. They will tell us that we must never again allow this kind of evil to occur — even as both countries stand trial, respectively, for carrying out and complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.

One of the worst truths of the Holocaust is that such horrors can happen. It is entirely possible for a genocide to be carried out while the world watches, and it’s happened more than once since the world vowed “never again.”

Nearly four months into the genocide in Gaza, this is what we know."

#gaza #free gaza #palestine #free palestine #stop the genocide #jewish voice for peace #not in my name #never again #anti zionisim #holocaust remembrance day

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historic-meme · 3 months

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This whole week l have been thinking alot about the Holocaust. So last night I re-read maus. One panel really stuck out to me during this reading. For context this is in Maus 2 when Art is talking to his therapist, a Holocaust survivor, about how he feels he could never measure up to his father who survived Auschwitz. At this point in the story his father had already past. May his memory be a blessing.

The dialogue, “but you weren’t in Auschwitz. You were in Rego Park,” hit me like a punch to the chest. I have no better way to explain the paradoxical guilt I felt and continue to feel as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. I did not live during the Holocaust. It had ended before my grandmother reached eighteen years old. And yet, the Shoah seems to loom over me. Forever a reminder, that I am alive by sheer luck. My great grandfather’s parents as well as two of his brothers were murdered in Auschwitz. My great grandmother’s twin sister was also murdered in the Holocaust. Despite hours of research, I still have no idea where exactly she died.

Using the term guilty for what I feel doesn’t seem exactly right but there is no better word in the English language. Maybe if I was smarter or more articulate I could find better words.

A key theme of this chapter is intergenerational trauma. This is the same chapter that has this iconic image.

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I simply want to acknowledge the real and extremely painful intergenerational trauma and inherited survivors guilt felt by descendants of Jewish survivors. I know I struggled in the past with feeling like I even have any right to feel this way considering I am three generations removed from any of my family that were murdered in the Holocaust. If any other Jews struggle with thoughts like this, I want to assure you that your feelings are valid and real. Intergenerational trauma is complicated and the feelings that come with it don’t simply disappear once a certain number of generations from the event pass.

This post is specifically about the Holocaust and jewish intergenerational trauma stemming from our persecution and genocide. If this post resonates with you as a non-Jew who has intergenerational trauma I am glad, but please do not derail this post.

#history #holocaust remembrance day #holocaust #shoah #intergenerational trauma #jumblr #jewish history #shoah mention #tw shoah #holocaust mention #tw holocaust #judaism #maus #antisemitism #jewish trauma #survivors guilt #mental health

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nazrigar · 3 months

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

As a gentile, there's many words I want to say, and it's hard because I want to make sure to give proper respect, especially since there are still those in living memory who has survived that horrific part of history, whose consequences still linger to this day.

To those whose lives are lost, may their memory be a blessing.

For fellow gentiles, (and that includes my fellow co-religionists (I'm a Muslim))... this day imo should be one for reflection, and a deep dive into just how deeply bigoted and antisemitic our cultures can be.

Listen and read about stories about what happened to Jewish survivors after the War, how even after surviving that, BIG section of Europe were either:

In Denial

Still Hostile

Took over their properties, forcing them to leave.

Meanwhile, one of the most horrifying things to me on a personal level, as a Muslim, is seeing other Muslims in full-throated denial about the historical mistreatment of Jewish people by the hands of our own co-religionists. I know, twitter isn't real life... but the sheer vitriol I've seen out there.

Example: I get that the Muslim empires were considered better than the Christian kingdoms in the medieval era for at different points of history... but guys... they still were considered second class citizens with no legal rights if a Muslim accused a Jew of a crime.

Us gentiles have to do better imo. We need to do a LOT more to challenge our internal biases.

#holocaust remembrance day

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spooniestrong · 1 year

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The murders of hundreds of thousands of disabled people seem to get overlooked when talking about the Holocaust. On #HolocaustRememberanceDay, I want to bring awareness to their existence. When disabled rights get trampled and ableism is allowed to run rampant, these are the images you need to remember.

#holocaust remembrance day #january #spooniestrong #spoonie #tw death

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healingordestroying · 3 months

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Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the 6 million Jews, and millions more, who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis.

As antisemitism rears its ugly head once again, and especially as we grapple with the atrocities of the October 7th Hamas massacre, we must speak out and send a clear message against hatred and terror to ensure that Never Again means something.

In the face of darkness, be the light.

#i stand with israel #israel #pray for israel #israel is under attack #hamas is isis #bring them home now #hamas attack #hamas massacre #hamas war crimes #pro israel #Holocaust Remembrance Day #Holocaust Memorial Day #never again #jewish

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girlactionfigure · 3 months

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January 27 marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This is a photograph of three year old Josef Schleifstein… taken on April 12, 1945.

This was the day that American soldiers came to liberate over 21,000 Jews at Buchenwald concentration camp… He is completely overwhelmed as someone gives him a sweet to suck on… He smiles uncertainly into the camera… and then begins to cry…

Josef… who was born in Poland on March 7, 1941… lived the first few years of his life moving from one Jewish ghetto to another as his family tried to survive the German occupation of Poland… In 1943… when Josef was two and a half years old…he and his parents were deported to Buchenwald concentration camp where his father was placed in the “line” for forced labor… his mother in another line to be sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp… and Josef was placed with the children and elderly to be killed… In the confusion of so many people Josef’s father grabbed him and put him in a large sack of tools he was carrying… with instructions to be very quiet…. For months Josef remained hidden and his existence was kept secret from all but a few sympathetic German guards…

After the liberation, Josef and his father went to Switzerland for medical treatment… They returned to Germany to find Josef’s mother and lived there until they all were able to emigrate to the United States in 1948.

We Remember

Via: HSA - Holocaust Social Archive

#Holocaust Remembrance Day #WW2 #Shoah #Never Again #Buchenwald #Auschwitz

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beta-lactam-allergic · 3 months

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It's nine minutes after midnight on the 27th of January where I am. The International Day for the Recognition of the Holocaust. The 79th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.

How many of my fellow goyim will treat this day with the respect it deserves? 6 Million Jews & 6 Million others died in the Holocaust. How many will pay respect to those who died? How many even remember what today is & how many who do know will ignore it?

#Holocaust remembrance day #international holocaust remembrance #79 year anniversary #so much death #shoah mention #antisemitism #lest we forget

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