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Maus: Suffering only teaches suffering, even those who have survived the Holocaust need to check themselves for bigoted beliefs.

Zionists:

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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.

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But Art Spiegelman literally write a book about how comparing people to mice is a horrifying bad idea. He opened Maus with this:

The IDF did not get the memo.

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This is Binx! Binx is made of faux sherpa fabric with polypellets in her paws and poly fill in the rest of her. She is very soft and perfectly shaped to drape over your shoulder

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this is going to reduce me to tears like i cant handle this image

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avoidance has saved me from everything it's also killed me a hundred million times

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Not my meme but figured I'd share for those about to ride out the storm

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🌀 ⚠️

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This is good advice before any storm! Insurance will probably be a pain anyway, but at least you'll have something documented.

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I'm emailing people I know live in Florida to check in, but sound off if you're one of my followers there, and I don't have your number. If you don't have people to check in on you, I'll be your people.

Also pulled this from my Twitter. Reblog all around:

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If you live in the path of Hurricane Milton, you need to evacuate asap!

Hurricane Milton has explosively intensified -- it went from a category 1 hurricane at 5am today to a category 5 hurricane at noon.

it is expected to decrease in intensity before it makes landfall, but it is integral to keep in mind that 1: models are sometimes wrong, 2: the area it is going to hit is roughly the same area of Florida that just got walloped by Helene, and 3: category only measures wind speed, not damage potential -- Katrina in 2005 was category 3 when it hit too.

Currently, the storm has sustained wind speeds of 175mph. Tampa is expected to get hit by 8-12ft of storm surge. 6 million people are under evacuation orders.

also yes i know this isn't anywhere near what this blog is about, but i have more followers here than on my main and i want to make sure as many people as possible see this.

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My mind is blown that Florida is experiencing two powerful hurricanes within days of each other. Milton is a Cat 5. This is going to be extremely dangerous. The Tampa mayor just straight up said if you don't leave, you're going to die.

Please, please evacuate if you can.

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i love this gif im posting it everywhere today

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Thank you all

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MS PAINT COMMISSIONS OPEN!

ya have an oc you want to see drawn in someone elses style? maybe youd like a ref sheet? or a pet portrait?

well, youre in luck!

i have talked about Shima's fundraiser several times before on my blog. She and her family are stuck in Gaza right now and they desperately need money to survive and get out. all you have to do to claim a comm is dm me with proof of donation to her fundraiser!

i mostly do warrior cats but i am open to feral in general, anthro, and humans too:)

right now Shima's fundraiser sits at ONLY $463 OUT OF $30 000!!!!! every donation counts!

tagging people ive been commissioned by before and some other blogs i hope might help this post gain traction, i am so sorry for the inconvinience but i just dont know what else to do to help these lovely people

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