#holocaust survivors

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I think this is Stephen Kapos, who has protested with his family and other survivors and their children many times:

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So many Holocaust memoirs contain sentences like:

"She was my dearest friend. She ended up in Switzerland after the war. I received from her one letter, but then heard from her no more."

and

"It was a beautiful friendship, but after the war I don't know what happened. We fell out over something like a broken vase. She lives in Australia now."

and

"After the war she no longer wanted to be associated with us. She wanted nothing to do with Judaism."

and

"I met her after the war, and there were two whole years she couldn't remember. Two years just gone from her mind, lost."

That's the thing with Holocaust survivors. So many of them had to kill the past versions of themselves to make a life for themselves after. They had to purge their minds of memories they couldn't cope with and block it all out. Sometimes I wonder how many of these people truly survived, and how many were simply going through the motions of living, despite having died long ago.

Like the cousin of my grandmother's. Who had to bury his mother by night in a Polish labor camp after she'd taken cyanide. He got into a car accident in the 50s after relocating to New York. Drove into a tree.

If you ask me, it wasn't an accident.

Sorry I'm really emotional right now. I've gotten very good at compartmentalizing this stuff and haven't truly cried while researching since I was 23, but I'm pre-menstrual right now and this thought process just broke me a little.

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So, how do we feel about the fact that for decades, Holocaust survivors and their descendants call what Israel is doing to Palestine a genocide? Or, are we just supposed to ignore that?

So, how do we feel about the fact that for decades, Holocaust survivors and their descendants has immigrated to and lived in Israel?

As a matter of fact, 49 percent of Holocaust survivors live in Israel. Or, are we just supposed to ignore that?

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Yom HaShoah 🕯️🕯️🕯️

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To Our Dear Israeli Soldiers,

We are a group of Holocaust survivors who live in South Jersey. There is important information we wish to pass on to you in this time of tragedy and horror. We are horrified by Hamas’ brutal and inhumane attack on innocent civilians in Israel. We cry for their families and our Homeland Israel. We cry for Jews everywhere. We are witnessing our 2nd Holocaust.

You do not need to pray for strength. You do not need to work to achieve a strong heart or a strong will. You especially do not need to ask for courage. You already have these attributes. They were placed in you while you were still in your mothers’ wombs. Your mothers and fathers received them before they were born. They have been passed on from generation to generation of Jewish people and will forever be passed on. You have already passed these on to your children and grandchildren.

Our ancestors, from over 5,000 years ago, survived 40 years in the desert before they reached Eretz Israel. They fought hostile people who tried to kill us even back then. In every generation someone has tried to destroy us, but they did not succeed. We survived and thrived. We survived the modern-day Haman and the Nazis along with their collaborators. We survived the Communist rule. Your ancestors survived the ancient Greeks, Babylonians, Inquisition, expulsions from country to country and many pogroms.

After the Shoah, so many of us lost everything, but created our own futures, and the futures of our children and grandchildren by using our brains, our “Yiddishe Kopf.” We learned how to adapt to a new country, language, customs, and neighbors. Our courage, stamina, and will to live helped to overcome all obstacles that were placed in our way so we viewed them as mere “stepping stones.”

Our will to survive cannot be learned. It is inborn, and it is in you and everyone worldwide fighting for Israel. You did not have to work for it or to earn it as it is part of your Jewish heritage, and it is thousands of years old.  It is in your genetic code, and the rest of the world is always amazed when they see the evidence of this tremendous intelligence and strength, but we are not. Because we know who we are, where we came from, and what we are capable of overcoming.

We, who have lived through impossible times and seen evil throughout our years want you to recognize how special you are. We believe in you and know that you will triumph against Hamas and their collaborators. We have already done it and you will too. Am Yisrael Chai!

With Our Love, Support and Prayers-May Hashem Watch Over You and Keep You Safe!

B’Shalom,

Ruth, Survivor of Austria

Joel, Survivor of Germany, Theresienstadt Concentration Camp

Nella, Survivor of Poland as a Hidden Child

Diana, Survivor of Ukraine

Inge, Survivor of Germany

Izrail, Survivor of Leningrad Siege, Russia

Ludmila, Survivor of Russia

Galina, Survivor of Belarus

Lev, Survivor of Russia

Rabbi Yaakov Jungreis, Survivor of Hungary, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Inna, Survivor of Russia

Florence, Survivor of Poland

Fred, Survivor of Holland, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Rachel, Survivor of Germany

And, all of the Holocaust Survivors in our South Jersey community

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Source : DiploAct on Instagram.

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From: Retroactive Continuity, Holocaust Testimony, and X-Men’s Magneto, by Charlotte F. Werbe.

Highlighting my own.

Doing some reading for my Magneto lecture, and God it is affecting

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FtM (Camden) member Stephen Kapos and his daughter at the National March for Palestine on Saturday 30 March with the Holocaust Survivors Group

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Holocaust Survivers and Recreational School Survivers: Yeah this is a genocide.

Zionists: NNOOOO YOU JUST HATE YOURSELF!!!😡😡😡

People are wild man.

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I read a book a Holocaust survivor wrote, about his experience in the concentration camps. I read about his suffering. I read about the apathy of the others around.

And I read, and I wonder, why?

I stand during the minute of silence. My nose itches, and I think about the people that were too hungry to move. Someone coughs.

And I think, and I wonder, why?

I sit in the sports hall near my school. There's a ceremony. A teacher reads the Yizkor. The students read their texts. Their words are hollow, there's no feeling to it. I drift off.

And I hear, and I wonder, why?

The ceremony is over. Students walk back to their classes, and so am I. They talk around me. I hear them laugh.

I don't talk. I don't laugh. I sit in the corner, staring at my phone. I think of the things I have to do later. I want to sleep.

I don't feel. And I wonder,

why?

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