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Every step I choose to take begins to set the world aflame!
And the soldiers march behind me,
I can hear them beat their spears!
And for the first time in all my life,
I know I'm more than what I fear!
Happy Glorious 25th of May!
How do they rise up?
They rise up:
heads up!
hands up!
arms up!
knees up!
arse up!
before yom hashoah ends, i want to remind folks that sephardi, maghrebi, and mizrahi jews were also deeply affected by the holocaust.
this is by no means inclusive of all communities who were affected by the holocaust and its aftermath, i do not have the emotional bandwidth for that, but hopefully this gives you some insight into jewish experiences outside of what's usually talked about.
the jews of morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, and italy were all subjected to the racial laws of the vichy regime or fascist italy, which prevented them from attending educational institutions, holding public office, and owning businesses and sometimes property. moroccan jews were protected from some of the violence faced by other jews of the mediterranean and north africa because of the moroccan sultan mohammed ben youssef, who was vocally opposed to the anti jewish laws. he reportedly told the vichy government, "there are no jews in morocco. there are only moroccan subjects." he believed he had a god-given responsibility to protect moroccan jews. "moroccan jews are my subjects, and it is my duty to protect them against aggression."
unfortunately, other jewish communities did not receive that kind of protection. algerian jews faced a pogrom by the local arab population in constantine, killing 25 and destroying several jewish homes and businesses. 2000 algerian jews were sent to concentration camps in bedeau and djelfa, where many died from hunger, exhaustion, disease, or beatings. 5000 tunisian jews were forced into labor and detention camps where over 400 of them were killed. in libya, there was a violent pogrom which killed 500 jews out of a community of 4000. 2600 of the survivors were sent to the giado concentration camp, of which 526 died. in tunisia, there was a violent pogrom which killed over 130 jews (including 36 children), injured hundreds, and left 4000 homeless. italian jews faced pogroms, the jewish ghetto in rome was raided and over a thousand jews were detained and sent to concentration camps. a total of 7680 italian jews out of a population of nearly 45,000 were killed.
in greece, thousands of jews were deported to auschwitz. as many as 50% died en route, and only 10,000 out of over 75,000 survived, a nearly 90% death rate. their homes were looted and their property was stolen, and when the few survivors tried to return after the war (a difficult task as the greek foreign ministry attempted to delay or prevent their return to greece), most were unable to regain their property and possessions, forcing most to seek asylum in israel or other countries.
egyptian jews were not directly affected by the axis powers, but extremist organizations like young egypt and the muslim brotherhood sympathized with the nazis and even secured nazi funds to distribute thousands of antisemitic propaganda pamphlets. sporadic pogroms took place throughout the 40's, stoked by political leaders like mahmoud an-nukrashi pasha who said to the british ambassador, "all jews were potential zionists" and dr heykal pasha who said "if the u.n. decides to amputate a part of palestine in order to establish a jewish state, ... jewish blood will necessarily be shed elsewhere in the arab world ... to place in certain and serious danger a million jews." this political extremism prompted the 1948 cairo bombings that killed 70 jews and wounded 200, with many more being killed in the riots following, and eventually led to the expulsion of nearly all egyptian jews, whose money and posessions were all confiscated by the egyptian government.
similar political persecution was directed at iraqi jews, leading to the farhud, a pogrom which killed 180 jews and forced tens of thousands to flee. though there were many who did not support the nazi regime or agree with their views, there were just as many in arab countries who did, in no small part because of active effort by the nazis to gain sympathy from arab populations who already did not get along with their local jewish populations. this led to several other pogroms that took place in the 30's and 40's across lebanon, syria, and british mandate palestine, including a pogrom in jaffa which killed 9 jews and forced 12,000 jews to flee, and another in tiberias which killed 19 jews (including 11 children), most of whom were stabbed to death.
it's understandable that most of what the general public knows about the holocaust is the stories of ashkenazi jews from central and eastern europe, because they comprise the vast majority of the victims. hopefully, this encourages you to do further research into the ways other parts of the diaspora were also affected.
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i’m going to let this video speak for itself. bc i don’t even know what to say anymore. i don’t know how we come back from this level of radicalization among young people to the point where holocaust denial has become the norm.
White supremacists would be fucking *delighted*. Hell, *are* delighted.
To add to this:
Not only were two-thirds of European Jews killed, but the ones who remained faced violence and antisemitism even once they returned home from the camps. There were even two massacres of Jews who'd returned to their towns post-Holocaust; I have a friend who's descended from one of the survivors of the Kielce pogrom, in which the town's non-Jews forced the town's Jews into a barn and set it on fire. Most Holocaust survivors didn't feel they could stay, and left. Those in the Soviet Union who stayed experienced a cultural genocide where their Judaism was outlawed.
What this means is that the entire European Jewish civilization of language, art, folklore, foodways, literature, theater, and traditions was basically destroyed. The legacies of some of these things persist in a fractured manner, but something of great is now gone with no hope of true recovery.
It was also not just the Ashkenazi world. Salonika (now called Thessaloniki) in Greece used to be a Jewish city. In the 16th century it was known as "Sabatopolis," Shabbat city, because ships passing by on Friday nights noted the city was dark because lights could not be lit on Shabbat. It was a center of Jewish culture and scholarship, with Jews from the Ashkenazi world coming to study there. By the 20th century, it was majority non-Jewish and the centers of Jewish scholarship had moved to places like Lublin and Vilna, but it still had a large Jewish population.
87% of the Jews in Greece were killed. Do you understand? Only 13% of Greek Jews survived the Holocaust. This is what a campaign of extermination means. The goal of the Nazis was to kill every last Jewish man, woman, and child. In the world.
On that note: I want people to realize that before the Holocaust, there were only 16.6 million Jews in the world. Killing six million meant that more than a third of our global population was gone in just four years. In the ensuing decades, many Jews married non-Jews and raised their kids non-Jewish with the goal to intentionally assimilate for safety so their descendants would be unharmed in the event of another Holocaust. Some of these people kept their Jewishness secret from their families and only revealed it on their deathbeds. They figured, better to hide and lose their identities than to die.
We have not yet been able to recover our population. As I mentioned, before the Holocaust, there were 16.6 million Jews in the world, and just a few short years later, there were less than 11 million. Today, there are still only 15.7 million. After 80 years, there are still fewer Jews in the world than there were before the Holocaust.
The other thing I would like people to understand is that the Holocaust was not a one-off; it was an escalation. Jewish life in Eastern and Central Europe was marked by periodic massacres and constant persecution. The middle ages were especially bad, with a number of large massacres. There were also discriminatory laws in many times and places, for example ones disallowing Jews from owning land. In the late 19th century, pogroms (which were violent riots in the Jewish sections of towns) flared up. This is what spurred the wave of immigration to the US around the turn of the 20th century; that and the fact that we could sense that something horrific was on the horizon.
Also, in Yuval's video, he mentions that the Holocaust was purely based on hatred, and not out of motivation to steal money or land. I don't actually agree; Jews had to surrender their possessions and bank accounts, and I assume that was used to further the Nazi war effort. Everything was taken from them; even the glasses off their faces and the hair off their heads, the latter turned into socks and mattresses. Their homes were also immediately taken from them by their neighbors; some did not even wait until the Jews were out of sight before beginning to loot the possessions left behind, and then moving in.
On a personal note, my maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. My grandfather had a wife and two children who were killed on arrival at Auschwitz. This was normal; even at work camps, children and their mothers were gassed on arrival. His son, my uncle, Usher Meilich was ten when he was murdered; his son Yehuda Yaakov was nine.
My grandmother was one of seven siblings; only three (herself, her brother, and her sister) survived the Holocaust. Her sister, my great-aunt Rochel, was gassed at Auschwitz along with Rochel's two-year-old son, Zelig. Her parents, my great-grandparents Henna Taltza and Moishe Yehuda, were murdered as well. When I was a little kid I asked my mother if she had grandparents; she had to explain to me that they'd all died before she was born.
I am telling you this not because you deserve me opening up my heart and scooping out the names of half my family tree gone to serve you on a silver platter, but because some part of me believes that having names to attach will break someone's hard shell and inspire some compassion. But it feels degrading to need to do this at all, and maybe it won't even help. I hate having to turn out my pockets like this.
Look. I have no interest in claiming that the Holocaust was "the worst tragedy to happen to humanity," whatever the hell that means. But I am desperately trying to convince people that it was a real tragedy that happened to real people and that we bear the scars and wounds to this day; from intergenerational trauma (a term coined to describe the effects of Holocaust trauma on the grandchildren of survivors, before it was coopted on social media to describe the negative cycles of every dysfunctional family everywhere), to massive language loss, to loss of art and folklore and theater, to our non-recovered population numbers, to the cemeteries left unprotected against local populations destroying them and turning Jewish gravestones into paving stones to be walked upon, to the trauma that manifests itself in catastrophic violence against Palestinians.
also wanna add--the world population in 1930 was only 2 billion. today, it's over 8 billion. the world population has quadrupled, and the population of jews worldwide STILL has not recovered. the ENTIRE WORLD has 4x as many people as there used to be, and it still hasn't recovered. just to give some scale
reblogging this again bc ppl should know that after this creator posted this video, he was bombarded with harassment and accusations of him being a “zionist” despite the fact he’s an outspoken antizionist, accused of being racist because he didn’t say that slavery was worse than the holocaust (in a video where he says he doesn’t rank tragedies), and had his jewishness picked apart by gentiles for weeks. gentiles are deeply uncomfortable with the scope of the horrors of the holocaust, and they take that discomfort out on the jews who try to talk about it, which is why holocaust remembrance day is so important. sit in your discomfort and learn how to deal with it.
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If you were born in the 17th Century, why would you have died?
Statistically, in childbirth
Due to untreated illnesses/conditions
Due to injury which could not have been treated then
In a conflict happening at the time
WITCHCRAFT (burnt)
Old Age >:)
Other (tags?)
It is likely I could not have been born (mixed, IVF baby, etc.
Results/I am simply immortal
I think I have a shot at old age!
“Mothership” 🖖🖖
In 2022 I did a cute woodland Hanukkah series. Last year there was no way I had any room in my heart to think about it again, but this year I have a little light to share.
Me over the last day: Obsessed with these Art Nouveau beaded chandeliers that use long rods of glass to catch and distribute light in amazing ways
"Where do you get your ideas?" people ask. Well let me tell you. The ideas mug me in alleyways and sleep on my stoop. I'm on as much ADHD medication as won't make my heart go a million miles an hour. GETTING ideas isn't hard. It's making them stand still long enough to be useful that's the hard part.
If anyone wants to spend $600-2000, Vakker Lighting has several versions of this...
Does anyone else remember the Robert Pattinson GQ interview he did mid lockdown where he giggled maniacally as he almost blew up his microwave while making some made up culinary horror while the poor interviewer had to watch in shock over zoom
We need more men like this in hollywood
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