There was a book I read and ended up reading more than once.
It is one of those books that does not really get talked about and that Hollywood will never be interested in.
It is painful read. Potentially triggering read.
It is about a Jewish woman who is married to a Nazi officer.
She was able to hide her identity by using a friends identity. She was working as a red cross nurse and when she met her first husband. She did tell him she was Jewish and he hid that. That was the only kind thing he did.
He was abusive and cruel and she was trapped. She could not just leave as that was not really an option for her as Jewish woman hiding her identity married to a Nazi officer who knew that.
If you can read it I think you should again keeping in mind of potential triggers. It is called the Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn-Beer and it is about Edith Hahn-Beer's story.
When these Hollywood type of stories, the best seller list type of stories are created the are made up and not true.
They also hide the actual truth of what was going on. The loss, destruction of families, the destruction of love that already existed, and the horrific amounts rape and sexual assault done to adults and children as well as sexual slavery.
Not only that it sends a message about what love is worthy and who is worthy of being seen as heroic. There many stories of heroes in the Holocaust. And far too many of them are not often talked about because the heroes are Jews.
There are also stories that are about love enduring in the Holocaust about Jewish love finding a way and enduring.
Romantic love and also familial love and platonic love and love of Judaism. There are many stories of love of different kinds finding a way to endure.
But those don't get showcased and told because everyone in those stories are Jews. Jews who behave like Jews, sound like Jews, do things is a very Jewish way, you know Jews being Jews and that just isn't marketable.
In the actual stories, the real stories, the true stories there is love, there is pain, there loss, there is the rawness and complexity that real life has because it is real. It is stories about real people.
And we also see in these stories the big ways and little ways that Jews fought back, the big and little rebellions Jews had, because this idea that Jews just went like meek sheep to slaughter is a myth.
We have never been meek. We did not just accept dying, we did not just take it.
Rather at some point many Jewish people were surrounded by so much death during the Holocaust that it broke them to see it and know it. Which is very understandable. The psychological toll that those conditions had on them broke people's spirit and took away any though of fighting back.
But no one started off that way. They had to be brought to that point, that had to be conditioned to get to that state.
And all of that never gets told. Rather what gets told is made up stories to make children and grandchildren of the world who knew what was happening and decided that as long it was happening to the Jews and Romani it was not their problem feel better.
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