#memorial holocaust day

[valcaira]

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

[nonbinary-vents]

Saw a post recently from @jewish-sideblog recently about how people view the scope of the shoah and it kind of solidified something that's been bothering me for a while now. I think one thing that goyim fundamentally don't understand about the shoah is that it had huge effects on Jewish communities in the whole world, not just Europe, and not just during the genocide itself. Like, two of my grandparents were born and grew up in the British mandate. Amin Al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem at the time, literally met up with Hitler to discuss the implementation of the shoah and a possible final solution in the Arab world. He also barred Jews from escaping to the mandate. If the shoah had just gone on a little longer, that part of my family would probably have been murdered

The shoah had gigantic ripples in the Middle East. Without it, the Mirzachi expulsion wouldn’t have been able to happen. And the expulsion still affects Mizrachim today. Most of us have bad family stories, most of us can't even visit the places we spent the diaspora in. The highest number of Jews in Islamic MENA countries is 10,000 in Iran, the place my family is from, where there used to be 100,000. In the Arab states it is so much worse, with the highest being around 1,00, but most countries having less than 50

That’s just one example, but there’s many more. This stuff went so far as to affect Ethiopia, which expelled its ancient community of Jews (or, at the very least, banned them from practicing or teaching Hebrew). Even years after the shoah, it caused so much suffering for Jews everywhere, wether Nazi countries or not. Frankly, it’s kind of baffling to realise that most people think it was a self contained event, when it was literally the climax of thousands upon thousands of years of violent and vitriolic Jew hatred— of course it would ripple. The shoah was an earth shattering event that changed Jews forever, it is something that every Jew, even ones who thankfully had no ancestors murdered because of it, feels so horrible deeply. Everyone, everyone, not just the Nazis, not just the Axis, was a part of it

#Holocaust memorial day #shoah tw #I feel like I could’ve written something way more powerful but it’s such a hard topic for me so here’s a ramble that barely makes sense #Jew hatred #antisemitism #vent ish #Jewish stuff

[queer-geordie-nerd]

Today, on International Holocaust Memorial Day, the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and in a time of a huge rise in antisemitic hatred and violence, I honour the lives and memories of the 6 million Jewish souls lost and I stand with the Jewish community, today and every day. Now more than ever, I vow to stand in solidarity and utterly reject the insidious bigotry that is baked into the very foundations of society.

NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN.

I honour too the lives and memories of those other souls caught up in the monstrous evil of Nazism - the lives and humanity of Rroma and Sinti, of Slavs, of disabled and queer people, of political prisoners and prisoners of war - all those human beings seen as disposable steps in the obsessive pursuit of their ultimate poisonous ideology of Jewish eradication.

We must remain vigilant and fight against hatred and dehumanisation every day.

#holocaust memorial day #may their memories be a blessing

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

Today, January 27, 2024, is Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the 6 million jewish people and other minorities who were victims of the Holocaust. This day always brings feelings of sorrow, loss, anger, fear, and resilience to the Jewish community, yet increased antisemitism from 2023-2024 will likely make those feelings even stronger.

If you can do nothing else, please reach out to a jewish friend or family member and show them that you care. A few kind words can go a long way.

If you are able to, consider donating to The Blue Card. They focus on providing aid to Holocaust survivors in Israel, including fulfilling medical needs, accessibility needs, providing food, helping with financial assistance, etc. They have been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The second link also includes a list of resources for Holocaust survivors and their families and ways that people can help them. It is focused on resources in the USA, but there are some resources outside of the USA as well.

https://bluecardfund.org/

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/resources

I am so, so proud of every Jewish person today just for living. We will not forget the atrocities that we went through and we will not let anyone else forget. Never again will this happen. Am yisrael chai ✡

#jumblr #jewish #holocaust memorial day #tw shoah

[healingordestroying]

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

[3cosmicfrogs]

This is an unfriendly reminder that exclusion of LGBTQ victims of the Holocaust is Holocaust denial.

#queer genocide under the Holocaust has only been recognised THIS century. #January 27 #every. Fucking. year. on holocaust memorial day. EVERY YEAR.

[kontrafantastisk]

The Holocaust Memorial in Oslo. Empty iron chairs without seats.

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

#photographers on tumblr #original photography #psychogeography #oslo #urban photography #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #black and white #Holocaust Memorial Day

[palaeoiris]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945. Today we remember millions of victims of the Nazi regime, including those that have often been missing when talking about the victims.

Gay men, lesbians and trans people were sent into concentration camps, marked by the pink or black triangles, tortured, kept in inhumane conditions, worked to death and exterminated, along with jewish people, romani, disabled people, socialists, communists, Slavs, and others.

On these slides we will quickly cover queer prosecution by Nazis, as well ways in which for them the discrimination didn't end with the Holocaust.

#HolocaustRemembrance #HolocaustRemembranceDay #queervictimsofHolocaust #queerholocaustmemory #queerholocausthistory #queerholocaustmemorial #pinktriangle #blacktriangle #Nazibookburnings #HirschfeldInstitute #HolocaustMemorialArt #HolocaustMemorialDayArt #queerholocaustart #originalartwork #Holocaust Remembrance Day #queer history #queer victims of Holocaust #Queer Holocaust Memory #Queer Holocaust history #Queer holocaust memorial #pink triangle #black triangle #Hirscfeld institute

[coochiequeens]

Never forget and never forget that the first victims of Auschwitz were young women.

When Nazi Germany occupied much of Poland at the outbreak of World War II, the parents of Erna and Fela Dranger sent their daughters over the border from their home in Tylicz to the eastern Slovakian town of Humenné. Their cousin Dina Dranger went with them. Erna, 20, and Fela and Dina, both 18, found jobs and settled in with the local Humenné Jewish community. At some point, Fela moved on to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava with a friend.

The girls’ parents thought they had sent their daughters to safety. But on March 25, 1942, Erna and Dina were among the nearly 1,000 teenage girls and unmarried young women deported on the first official transport of Jews to Auschwitz.

Told by Slovakian authorities that they would be going away to do government work service for just a few months, the Jewish girls and women were actually sold to the Germans by the the Slovaks for 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece as slave labor.

Erna Dranger (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)

Fela Dranger (Courtesy of Heather Dune Macadam)

Very few of the 997 girls on that first transport — or any of the other early transports — survived the more than three hellish years until the end of the war. Erna, Fela and Dina Dranger beat the odds, with the sisters going on to raise families in Israel and their cousin Dina settling in France.

The story of what happened to these and the other women on the first transports to Auschwitz is told in “999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz,” a compelling new book by Heather Dune Macadam. (The Nazis had planned to deport 999 Jewish women on the initial transport, but Macadam discovered typos on the list — now held in the Yad Vashem archives — making the actual tally 997.)

See rest of article

#January 27 #Holocaust Memorial Day #Women in war zones #Auschwitz #999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz #Heather Dune Macadam #Books about women #Books by women

[dougielombax]

That ghastly little stunt that Elon Musk pulled at Auschwitz was nothing more than a cynical PR move.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #elon musk #fuck elon musk #auschwitz #Holocaust Memorial Day #Holocaust #genocide #memorial #vent post

[my-jewish-life]

Today is the holocaust Remembrance day, and the hate is still growing.

Never again!

#converting to judaism #judaism #queer jews #trans jews #jewish #Never Again #holocaust remembrance day #holocaust #antisemitism #jews needs to stick together #holocaust memorial day #Yom Hashoah

[jewreallythinkthat]

Hearing someone on BBC Radio 4's phone in programme (any answers) describe Gaza as a "concentration camp" and "almost worse than the holocaust" is the worst thing I've heard on day. Twinned with the fact it's International Holocaust Memorial Day, this is one of the most vile things I've heard on the show. They then followed it up by saying that the jews control 80% of global politicians. Like, babe..., that's literal textbook antisemitism.

I respect the presenter for cutting them off and not giving them the oxygen of publicity

Like let's be clear, what's happening in Gaza is awful, and the humanitarian crisis unfolding before our eyes is heartbreaking and I want the death to stop. However, discussing it is entirely possible without resorting to holocaust inversion, and antisemitism.

(if anyone wants to hear it for themselves, it's BBC Any Answers, the final caller on the first topic, around 20 minutes into the show - I will also be sending an official complaint that this man was allowed to talk and no one has been allowed to respond to his racism)

#jumblr #antisemitism #i/p #international Holocaust Memorial Day

[queer-geordie-nerd]

Light a candle to honour a victim of the Holocaust

#holocaust memorial day #remember one

[holocaustremembranceday]

Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust. Holocaust Memorial Ceremony 2024.

The observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2024. It will be held on 26 January 2024 in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, under the theme "Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust".

Survivors of the Holocaust will share their testimonies along with invited speakers who include the United Nations Secretary-General; the President of the 78th session of the General Assembly (through recorded message); the Permanent Representative of Israel and a representative of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations. Ms. Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications will host the #ceremony.

#honor the victims #27 january #international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the holocaust #General Assembly hall #united nations secretary general #Youtube

[roamwithahungryheart]

Thinking about my Nana & Great-Grumps today 💔

#International holocaust remembrance day #may their memories be a blessing

[fanchonmoreau]

Dramaturgy Jason Schneiderman

I’m writing a play about a Kommandant at Auschwitz who recognizes one of the Jewish prisoners as a famous poet, and as the Kommandant has poetic aspirations himself, he pulls the prisoner away from the work detail to receive poetry lessons from the celebrated Jewish writer. The bulk of the play is their discussions of poetry, which the poet is initially reluctant to have, the power differential being so stark, and though he flatters the Kommandant at first, when he begins to see his Nazi pupil’s true devotion to the art, as well as his untrained and untapped talent, he goes to work in earnest, and at times they are both simply lovers of the German language, though the truth of their situation often interrupts. In the last act, the Kommandant is on trial for his crimes, and in the days before he is to be executed, he begs the poet to publish his work under his own name— the Nazi’s writing under the Jew’s name— because as a Nazi, he feels his own name is disgraced, but he believes so strongly in poetry that it matters more to him that his work survive than that anyone know it was his work. The play is pulled entirely from my imagination, a careful rereading of Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, and the poetic ideas of Rilke and Goethe, with a smattering of Nietzsche. In readings of the play, the Kommandant has seemed more noble than I had intended—in many ways, more noble than the Jew, because the Jew is suffering by no fault of his own, while the Kommandant is tortured by conscience, and driven by a sense of poetic calling that separates him from the Germans around him. On the morning of the third workshop reading, I watched a video of two Russians on an ice-dancing reality show performing as Jews in Auschwitz. I was sickened, even though I couldn’t follow the pantomimed action, and I wondered if I was producing Holocaust kitsch myself, if my work was as disgusting as theirs, though I knew if I asked any of my team, they would reassure me that I am doing important work that rises to the level of art. Last night, during a break in the workshop of the play, I told the story of how my grandmother, upon learning that her entire family had died in the camps, had burned the photo albums of everyone she had loved. I have told that story many, many times, without feeling much more than regret, or sympathy, but this time I broke down crying, and I couldn’t stop. Everyone at the table came to comfort me, and I felt ridiculous, but the only thing I could say was, “It’s time for us to go. This isn’t a place we can live anymore.” I left the studio embarrassed, and later that day, I resigned from the production. I don’t think they believed that I was serious, and they’ll expect me to show up at the next table reading. I won’t. The play will go on though I can have nothing more to do with it. This morning, after taking a shirt off the hanger, I looked in the mirror and realized I hadn’t put it on. Without thinking, I had started packing a bag.

(x)

#international holocaust memorial day was two days ago #and this about sums it up #“it's time for us to go. this isn't a place we can live anymore.” #thank you jason schneiderman #(my great-grandmother had the experience of finding out the family she left behind in Europe had all been murdered) #words #poetry #jason schneiderman #jewish things