#tw shoah

[thatmezuzaluvr]

i watched the “is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?” episode of big questions and i am appalled.

i couldn’t even believe that this would even be a question?

first of all, jewish voices need to be centered within these conversations. i don’t care what some random guy who claims to be a human rights expert has to say. not when there are jewish people (SOME OF WHICH WHO ARE LITERAL VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS) who are being talked over and disregarded.

second, talking about the holocaust, how it was even possible, and the extent of the violence, DOES NOT somehow put it above other genocides. believe it or not, but jewish people are not always vindictive and greedy for attention.

lastly, there genuinely is no point to this question. the jewish community will not stop talking about this, not any time soon. we can never forget what happened and all of the lives lost, families shattered, and people traumatized during the shoah.

#never again #shoah mention #tw shoah #tw holocaust #jew #jewblr #jewish #jewish tumblr #jumblr #antisemitism #goyim dni #goy shut up #goyim don't touch #never forget #am yisrael chai

[fromgoy2joy]

To all my fellow people converting- this is a Call-in post

We are going to be a part of this community, as dictated by Jewish law, once we enter the water of the Mikveh, it will be as if we were Jewish all our lives.

That doesn’t erase the fact that we come from different backgrounds. Most of us didn’t have our grandmother escape genocidal countries. We didn’t grow up around the dinner table hearing holocaust stories about family and friends. The legacy of our families was not split between two choices of what opened up first for amnesty- Israel or the United States.

Our love for Judaism originates from studying theology, culture, and warm moments in the community- not clinging onto it in a generational storm where at any moment you can be expected to run.

Israel has been there for the Jewish people demonstrably, in a world where a Jewish child is taken aside at a young age and told “one day, they could come after you”.

In response, Israel has said “and we will be there to catch you.” This has rung true for the Jewish exile out of Middle Eastern countries, the fleeing from the USSR, and yes- Ethiopia.

Mistakes were made along the way. Tribalism between Jewish religious and geographical sects came up. Refugee camps in the newly established country were a mess- with high rates of death from sickness occurred in the Mizrahi resettlement. Where Ethiopian Jewish women’s translation failed as they were told they were being out on temporary birth control as to not overcrowd struggling camps.

But you don’t get to shake this in their faces. Not when the descendants of those Jewish people know Israel to be what saved them. What gave them life. And what has been threatened everyday by rockets in the sky and terrorist organizations on every side that promises for the painful death of them and their families.

You are under no obligation to support the actions of the Israeli government. But you have to understand why the country was founded, and especially why it was set up in 1948 after the largest slaughter of Jewish people had just ended, where it wasn’t clear if this could happen again the very next year.

You have to see the connection to the land, where Hebrew coins get dug up from thousands of years ago on a daily basis. Even if that’s not apart of your personal practices, you must learn of the background to many of our stories. What Jewish people longed for as they were ostracized and humiliated globally.

This doesn’t come at the price of not sympathizing with the Palestinians. Just as you can hold Jewish pain close to your chest, so can you the pain of Palestinians. The good news is, life isn’t a sports game with your team and their team. The bad news is, that makes it a whole heck of a lot harder.

That being said, we do have the extra responsibility of accurately representing the people we will hopefully call our own one day, BH.

Edit-born Jewish people, if this post speaks to you on any level, feel free to reblog. Your family histories deserve to be represented in our community.

#jumblr #jewish convert #jewish conversion #jewish #jewblr #tw shoah #tw shoah mention #fromgoy2joy thoughts #tw antisemtism #antisemitism

[historic-meme]

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

[notaplaceofhonour]

I understand and agree with pointing out that the Holocaust didn’t just affect the Jews that lived in Europe, and shedding light on the stories of Jews in other territories under Axis control. Every life lost or uprooted in the Holocaust matters and deserves to be remembered, not just Ashkenazim.

However, I’ve been seeing a bit of an overcorrection to the point that this valid & important point get twisted by some into the idea that Ashkenazim weren’t actually all that affected by the Holocaust at all and may have actually been safer than other Jews due to being White/European*, and I wanted to walk through exactly why that is so far from the reality and gets into really dangerous Holocaust Distortion.

The fact is that the vast majority of Holocaust victims were Ashkenazim. How do we know this? Well, first and most obvious without even getting into the numbers: the Nazis were most active in Eastern Europe, where most Jews were overwhelmingly Ashkenazi. Germany had colonies elsewhere and the affect the Holocaust had on Jews living in Africa and Asia is not any less important (and the fact remains that their stories are a genuine gap in Holocaust education that needs to be filled), but this doesn’t change the fact that the center of Nazi activity was Europe, and thus that is where their impact on Jews was most intense. But it’s important to not just go off of what seems “obvious” because what’s obvious to any given person is subjective and subject to bias. So let’s look at the numbers:

Estimates prior to the Holocaust put Ashkenazim at 92% of the world’s Jewish population (or roughly 14 million of the 15.3 million total Jewish population), meaning that it would be physically impossible for less than 4.7 million (or 78%) of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to be Ashkenazim.

Even that number is only possible to reach by assuming that only Ashkenazism survived and literally every non-Ashkenazi Jew died in the Holocaust, which we categorically know is not the case due to the continued existence of Sephardim & Mizrahim, as well as other Jews. So the number has to be higher than 78%.

Additionally, the fact that the proportion of the world’s Jewish population that was Ashkenazi fell so drastically during to the Holocaust and still hasn’t recovered (from 92% in 1930, only recovering to close to 75% in the last couple decades) means that not only a higher overall number of deaths were Ashkenazim, but that a higher proportion of the total Ashkenazi population died than from other groups.

We also know that 85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Yiddish-speakers. The fact that Yiddish is endemic to Ashkenazi culture (and not all Ashkenazim would have even been Yiddish-speakers) due to assimilation means that at least—and most likely more than—85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Ashkenazi.

So, no, Ashkenazim were not some privileged subcategory of Jews who avoided the worst of the Holocaust. They were the group most directly devastated by it.

That doesn’t change the fact that the devastation the Nazis and their allies wreaked on other Jews is every bit as important to acknowledge and discuss, and must not fall by the wayside. The stories and experiences of all victims & survivors deserve to be heard, remembered, and honored, not just the most common or most statistically representative of the majority of victims. However, we can (and must) do that without allowing the facts of the Holocaust to be distorted or suggesting Ashkenazim were somehow less affected by the Holocaust or more privileged under the Nazis. The Nazis hated all Jews. Antisemitism affects all Jews. Period.

*without getting too deep into how categories like Ashkanzi/Sephardi/etc. don’t map neatly onto race like so many people seem to want them to. that’s a different post, but just pointing that out

#antisemitism #holocaust distortion #tw shoah #tw holocaust #ashkenazi #ashkenazim #minhag

[all-your-favs-are-jews]

I’m taking a Holocaust and Modern Genocides class and before we get into the the actual genocide my professor has been going into the history of Pre-Holocaust European antisemitism and Jewish life. This is because she said that she wants us to A)Understand the attitudes that built it up and B) So that the class would understand the casualties as real lives lost and not just numbers in a book.

It’s so strange hearing my goyishe classmates like actually audibly have break throughs about the diversity and actual life that existed within the European Jewry. Like it is so clear that none of them have ever thought of us AS anything more than numbers and sad faces to exist in movies. Like some people were legitimately shocked to find out that there are different branches of Judaism or that Ashkenazim and Sephardim have different cultures and traditions.

To make a long story short the guy who sits close me in that class said he didn’t know Jewish people had different political opinions or what Yiddish was but that’s a different story and I feel entitled to compensation because of it

#personal #tw antisemitism #nazi tw #tw nazis #holocaust tw #tw Holocaust #shoah mention #tw shoah #shoah tw #shoah #Holocaust

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Tonight at sundown Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is commemorated around the world.  

If you want to to honor the memory of one of the victims by lighting a candle, you can do that at the Illuminate website.

It will give you the name of one person for who you can viritually light a candle. If you want, you can also learn a bit about their life and share a small message.

Currently, there are over 800.000 candles lit. The goal is to reach 6 million to honor each and every vicitim.

#tw shoah #tw holocaust #there was another post with the link but i sadly lost it #mine every year is for Jozef Westfried

[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

[rotzaprachim]

I think a lot of people have been engaging in various forms of extreme Shoah denial over the last year. One is the total descontextualizaron of antisemitism as a fhe center of Nazism. Another is treating Nazis as a decontextualsied evil action movie situation - Nazis are so obviously evil it couldn’t be them!!! I think a lot of people engage with Nazism as a kind of closed off lil situation of people who personally signed up to evil, versus the Good Human Masses you could have faith in humanity about, or the righteous non-capitalist proletarian, or whatever. But the Shoah was societal. It was entire societies ripping Jews from their fabric. They don’t see it how Jews see it, that the Shoah involves the world, the diaspora we had been living in, turning their backs on us. Jews were taken from their dining rooms while neighbors watched. Peasantries acquiesced and joined in the killing. I see people who seem to think Jews got righteous and unlimited revenge on our killers after the war, without understanding that if that was true, there would be no Europe. Very often there would be no Them. There would have been no way for Jews to kill or get revenge in every single person who hurt us. There still isn’t. That’s what we live with. I do not think they know how much “Grace” Jews gave the world.

#Tw Shoah

[spale-vosver]

reading up on Jewish history for a class I'm in and...fuck. learning about the complete and total extermination of the shtetl is breaking me. I don't have Shoah trauma nor do I ever expect to (my family is Catholics all the way down) but seeing these artistic depictions of vibrant Jewish life in Europe hurts my heart; it's the same when I watch Fiddler. I don't know that we'll ever have it back and it makes me cry.

#antisemitism #jewish #judaism #jewish convert #jewish tumblr #jumblr #shoah mention #tw shoah #shtetl

[avi-on-jumblr]

Keep calling us Goy and see how quickly your gonna wish those fucking camps were real....

wow we got a 2-for-1 over here! a fun little "the holocaust didn't happen but also it would have been great if it did and was even worse"

anyways guys what do you think:

#also‚ no‚ goyim is not a slur‚ it literally just means people/nation and is used for describing non-jews #antisemitism #jumblr #tw shoah #tw holocaust #avi answers #avi answers antisemitism #avi polls #polls

[jewish-culture-is]

Tw: the holocaust, mentions of the current war, bad spelling/grammar, trauma dumping (I’m sorry)

Jewish culture (with parents from Russia/Ukraine) is growing up with stories of antisemitism from your family, growing up being told/thinking you were safe in the US, only to be proven wrong again and again and again

Jewish culture is being one of two Jewish kids in your middle school, when your teacher decides that ‘boy in the striped pajamas’ is a good source to use to teach the holocaust (and then vaguely bonding with the other Jewish kid over history class, because even though you’ve only spoken like 5 times before that, the constant camping out in the bathroom with nothing to do facilitated a mutual kindness and respect)

Jewish culture is having to explain why you can’t have pizza or breadsticks during Passover every year

Jewish culture is being happy every time a new friend asks about your dietary restrictions, because even though they know you’re Jewish, they don’t really know what that means, but they want to. Because they care about you.

Jewish culture is seeing ‘protesters’ with anti-Israel and holocaust denial signs outside your synagogue every week for years, even before the current war (and then being told that it’s free speech when it’s brought up to city council)

Jewish culture is being proud of your Jewishnis, and then being told by your parents that you have to hide it, for your own safety.

Jewish culture is being happy any time your friends remember your dietary restrictions, or holidays, or stand up for you

Jewish culture is wanting to wear heels to synagogue, but also worrying in that back of your mind that you can’t run in heels very well

Jewish culture is loving the massive Minora(?) your synagogue lights up outside every year, but also checking behind you every few seconds to make sure everyone is safe

Jewish culture is not knowing how the F to spell any Jewish words (holidays, places, objects, food, ect.) because each one has like 17 different spellings, and you’re dyslexic, so you just throw letters on a page and hope autocorrect understands (it doesn’t)

Jewish culture is finding this blog and being so happy you almost cry 💙

we love you here, don't worry!! your grammar was perfect and your spelling wasn't too bad, just two words I noticed! (jewishness and menorah). I am so glad you found my blog, I am so glad I made this blog. every time I get a long ask like this, I almost light up with joy because it makes me so happy to know people feel safe to submit their stories like this, so thank you too!! <33

also don't worry, nobody knows how to spell a lot of the words, as long as the sounds are close enough we'll understand!!

#jewish culture is #judaism #jewish #jumblr #antisemitism #holocaust #shoah #shoah mention #tw shoah #kosher #chanukah #hanukkah #pesach #passover

[fromgoy2joy]

Me, naively at 10: oh hey I just read a bunch of books about people surviving the holocaust. This antisemitism thing is pretty bad. But where could it be coming from? All the Nazis are gone and we hate them. Everything is fine now right?

Me, at 19: oh fuck- it is everywhere. It has weaseled its way into the core of every social movement, if it didn’t start out like that in the first place. It is in every political talking point about how there’s a “secret entity” ruling America. It’s in calls for death or violence against “Zionists” and their “organizations” without the definition of what that means. It’s in the acceptance of antisemitic people and movements as long as they have other desired components. It is everywhere and there is no inclination to stop it.

#tw antisemtism #antisemitism #tw holocaust #tw shoah #shoah mention #jumblr #jewish #jewish convert #jewblr #jewish tumblr #fromgoy2joy thoughts

[the-one-eyed-seer]

Deeply fucked up how gentiles will weaponize the Holocaust against us as a gotcha, and not just white supemacists, but like your average gentile. Do y’all not consider that there’s a real person on the other side of the screen who has to wake up and be instantly reminded of the mass death of their people and family? Take a second to imagine that’s the first thing you see when you log onto social media. Not a thoughtful reminder, but a callous description of how people like you were killed. How does that feel?

Remembering the Holocaust is probably the easiest task I’ve ever been given because y’all just can’t wait to remind me about it every single day. It’s like y’all are bubbling with anticipation over getting to talk about the Holocaust and it’s weird

#antisemitism #tw shoah

[benevolentbirdgal]

just 18 FREE ways you can be an ally to the Jewish people

Something I’ve heard a lot of gentiles express as of late is that they’d like to be an ally to Jews, but they don’t know how. It’s not your fault for being born into a society with entrenched antisemitism and that many mainstream social justice spaces largely ignore, erase, and deprioritize Jews and antisemitism, nor is it your fault that resources on how to actually be an ally to the Jewish community are relatively sparse. 

That doesn’t mean, however, that there’s nothing to be done - here are a few ways you can get started on being an ally to Jews.

Usual disclaimers that I am only one Jew out of roughly fourteen million (and thus not claiming to represent all Jews everywhere) and that this list is not exhaustive. 

1. Care about Jews and antisemitism when it’s not about the Holocaust. Engage with the reality that other forms of antisemitism exist, and actually listen to us when we talk about antisemitism. Even if we say it comes from a person or entity you like or otherwise have sympathy for, or is in a form that you are not previously familiar with. [Note: in Judaism we believe that teshuvah is possible - someone saying or doing an antisemitism rarely means they’re irredeemable - just that they need to stop and make good and not do it again]. 

2. Don’t immediately ask, upon meeting someone Jewish or finding out they’re Jewish, their opinions on the Holocaust and Israel. 

3. Read about Jewish history, beliefs, and culture from Jewish sources. (Sefaria, myjewishlearning, jewfaq, books written by Jews). 

4. Don’t project your ideas about one religion (usually Christianity) onto all religions, including not doing this to Judaism. Judaism does not equal Christianity minus Jesus, we don’t believe in original sin, blind obedience to Gd is not our thing, the views of [particular brands] of Christianity do not represent Jewish ideas about LGBTQ rights or women, we don’t evangelize, etc. 

5. Learn about antisemitism from your own country’s and culture’s history. Don’t assume it’s not there - it takes 30 seconds to google “the history of the Jews in x” or “y [religion/culture/subculture] and antisemitism.” Recognize a Jewish person calling out antisemitism from a country or culture is NOT an indictment of that whole community, but an ask to address a harmful aspect within it. 

6. Learn about the Jewish calendar, back up Jewish classmates or coworkers if they need time off for the holidays. Stop calling the Gregorian calendar the “secular calendar.” 

7. If you are a creator, include Jewish characters in your works (and get Jewish sensitivity readers). 

8. Don’t police the language of Jews when we talk about our community. Goyim is NOT a slur (literally means “nations”), Jews is an appropriate ethnic demonym (you can use Jewish community if you prefer, but DO NOT police Jews who say “Jew”), the word antisemitism was literally created to describe the hatred of Jews, etc. 

9. Learn about kosher, how it works, and common heckshers [kosher marks for processed foods]. 

10.  Learn about antisemitic stereotypes and canards. Call people out when they perpetuate antisemitism. 

11. Don’t appropriate Jewish practices. If you want to go to a seder, find an invite to a seder. Ask a local synagogue (or if you’re a student, a campus organization) if you can go to theirs if you don’t have a friend who will invite you. Hop on zoom to a live stream. Don’t just declare Jewish practices your own to do with as you please.

12. Include Jews in your activism and antisemitism in the lists of hatreds you disavow. I mean this in the bigger picture too, but also literally when it comes to lists on posts and bios of safe spaces for x groups and y forms of hatred are not tolerated. 

13. Learn about the Shoah/Holocaust from Jewish sources, preferably those curated by survivors and their families. If seeing/hearing a survivor in person isn’t an option (as time passes, this is increasingly the case), watching videos of and read books written by survivors. 

14. Divorce the assumption that everyone knows about the holocaust and extent of its horrors. Holocaust education is not mandatory in most states or countries and frequently downplays how much it was about Jews specifically. Holocaust denial, minimalization, and insentience that it wasn’t really about the Jews runs rampant. Call out lies about the Holocaust when you hear them.  

15.  Be mindful when making comparisons to the Shoah [holocaust]. Is the thing you are comparing legitimately comparable to the physical, cultural, linguistic, and spiritual genocide of millions of people? I posit (and some Jews disagree) that there are things that absolutely are, but the vast majority of comparisons are clumsy at best, actively antisemitic at worst, and most often simply inaccurate and insensitive.

16.  Accept that Jews have generational trauma and the Holocaust was not a one-off.

17. Acknowledge and understand the prevalence of antisemitism today. When you hear statistics and stories about antisemitism, don’t assume they’re being exaggerated, immediately pivot to making it about all hate in general (or all anti-religious-bias hate in general), or assert that other forms of anti-religious hate are a bigger concern. Don’t speak over Jews and claim that oh-this-other-thing-is-the-real-problem when we cite that anti-Jewish hate crimes have been more than half of anti-religion-bias hate crimes in the U.S. since at least 1996 and that antisemitism continues to rise globally.

18. Remember that the Jewish community is diverse both demographically and philosophically diverse - Jews and Jewish communities are not a monolith. 

#jumblr #jewish allyship #jewblr #allyship #shoah #holocaust #tw shoah #tw holocaust #tw antisemitism #antisemitism

[thecorvidforest]

leftist jewish culture is trying to call people in about their antisemitism and their defense always going like

“omg ME?? i’m not antisemitic!! sure i’ve never bothered to learn about antisemitism or jewish history beyond a class about the holocaust in high school, and honestly i don’t think antisemitism is that big of a problem, and i think the people who talk about antisemitism are just trying to distract from palestine, and i think a lot of the conspiracy theories are actually correct, and i call everyone i disagree with a nazi, but i think the holocaust was bad so of course i’m not antisemitic”

#corvidforest #i’m. so so tired #jumblr #leftist jew #antisemitism #tw antisemitism #tw holocaust mention #tw shoah

[thatmezuzaluvr]

CW TW SHOAH INVERSION

the caption is “they turned into what they feared” like huh????

edit: i’m not blocking their name out because this is dangerous. just block, antisemites don’t deserve our time

#jumblr #i stand with israel #jews #jewish history #jewblr #pro israel #jewish tumblr #jew #jewish #antisemitism #shoah mention #tw shoah #shoah cw #holocaustmention #tw holocaust #goyishe bullshit