#polish jew

[girlactionfigure]

[polishwomenartists-sztukakobiet]

What would you do in the face of certain death? Would you accept your fate or fight until your fleeting breath? For Franceska Mann, or Franciszka Mannówna, a Polish-Jewish dancer on her way to the Auschwitz gas chamber, the answer was a no-brainer.

www.vice.com/en/article/a3n7ja/the-polish-ballerina-who-shot-nazis-on-her-way-to-the-gas-chamber @abwwia

Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg (4 February 1917 – 23 October 1943), AGE JUST 26, better known as Franceska Mann, was a Polish Jewish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, Josef Schillinger, while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded at least one other, Wilhelm Emmerich. Her actions are said to have sparked an uprising among fellow female Jewish prisoners before she herself was killed. Via Wikipedia

Other names : Lola Horowitz, surname also spelled as Man, Mannówna, or Rosenberg-Manheimer

#justice #stopwaronwomen #PalianShow #protectthegirls #protectwomen #womensrights #polishfeminists

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's become extremely obvious over the past 15 months that the only reason much of the Western world ever basically agreed that the Holocaust was bad and was willing to teach about it is because for a brief period of time, Jews and gentiles in most of Europe + America had a common enemy in the Nazis. But this acknowledgement of Nazi antisemitism was only ever the same kind of acknowledgement of antisemitism that we get right now, where people are only willing to acknowledge the antisemitism of the people they already had a completely separate reason to dislike or fear. Antisemitism in this worldview is just a tool, a secondary accusation one can lodge at someone who is already for different reasons an enemy. It is never acknowledged as a form of bigotry in and of itself, that exists on its own and not as a follow up to another "more serious" form of oppression or bigotry against gentiles.

Obviously any Holocaust education we do get in Europe and the US has very much been the result efforts by Jews and our allies in a practical sense, but it is undeniable that there was a brief 70 or so year period where the white Western consciousness found it valuable (or at least politically convenient) to recognize antisemitism as wrong and the Holocaust as horrific. As true, original-brand Nazism fades, though, we see opposition to antisemitism and the Holocaust becoming less and less valuable to the white Western identity, as actual threat of Nazi occupation fades to historical memory. Newer, rebranded neo-Nazis and leftist Hamas supporters pose little to no threat to white Western gentiles. And thus, we see now not only a growing acceptance of antisemitism, but also a growing hostility towards the idea that we should study or condemn the Holocaust as anything particularly terrible. The Holocaust no longer represents a way for gentiles to additionally condemn an ideology that also threatened them, that also killed their families, that also resulted in their own countries and communities being occupied or destroyed by foreign fascist governments. It no longer represents to them an ideology that is in any way a threat to their own safety or way of life.

This is why we see such a massive rise in Holocaust denial among Gen Z, and, even more broadly than overt Holocaust denial, the rejection of the idea that the Holocaust should be particularly studied or condemned. More and more, we see people "questioning" the "propaganda" of The Jews Crying Victim All The Time, we see young people wondering why they are so cruelly forced to acknowledge on very rare occasion the suffering that the Jewish people went through in their own homes and towns. Often this is framed not only as intellectual bravery but moral bravery, as if this new generation rejecting Holocaust education is somehow fighting back against the unfair valuing of Jewish tragedy above gentile tragedy. What they don't understand, of course, and what many Jews up until now didn't understand either, is that no one ever valued the Holocaust because it WAS a uniquely horrific event in history, because it WAS the first and only industrialized genocide that gassed millions to death on a scale we can only pray the world will never see again, because it WAS only 70 years ago and is still a living part of the history of many Western countries. No. The Holocaust was only ever given the acknowledgement it was because it represented, at one time, an ideological threat that also included gentiles, though less overtly than it targeted Jews.

That ideological threat against Jews has not gone anywhere, and is in fact is seeing a new glory day dawning with the rise of fascism worldwide and the normalization/glorification of antisemitism on the left. But this new form of antisemitic hatred, be it neo-Nazism or support for Hamas, does not represent a threat to white Western gentiles, their way of life, or the integrity of their governments. And so we as we see the decoupling of the Holocaust from something that also incidentally threatens gentiles, we see standing against the Holocaust and antisemitism as a symbol of white Western identity disappearing as fast as it came.

[jidysz]

Polin museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

It's a great place, very worth seeing

[sefardimjew]

Photography of different Jewish family including ashkenazi,Sephardic and mizrahi.

[barszcz-czerwony-i-biali]

People straight up think since they are okay with diaspora Jews that they aren't antisemitic as it's just "criticism of Israel" but like bro

It's like saying I don't hate you I just hate half of your family.

And then saying

I am okay with you, but just denounce your family

I am okay with you, but just cut all ties to your family home.

[bixels]

bit of an insane request but i love your au a lot and im hoping you have one palestinian-american character in it! im palestinian and i have family in america who have been there since the 1910/1920s. im unsure if you have any arab characters, but i suppose itd be fun?

I actually do have a character planned. Doctor Whooves is gonna be a Palestinian engineer and scientist who immigrated to America.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

"The end of liberalization in Poland, like its beginning, was accompanied by anti-Semitism. During March of 1968, an organ­ized “anti-Zionist” (a euphemism for anti-Jewish) campaign was launched against those self-defined Poles whom Polish society as a whole tended to regard as nothing but Jews. It turned into one of the most extensive witch hunts in the history of that country. The harassment began with an attack on and purge of a few people in top positions in the party, in the government, in the army, and in public life, but soon it broadened to include individuals of Jewish origin in all walks of life. They were pressured to provide proof of loyalty to the state and party, proof which, when given, failed to exonerate them. Anti-Semitic insults were hurled at individuals of Jewish descent. The students protesting peacefully against the end of liberalization and the tightening of controls in Poland were alleged to be misled into insurrection and counter-revolution by clever, traitorous Zionist plotters. They were mercilessly sup­pressed. When interrogated by the police, arrested students of Jew­ish or mixed parentage were repeatedly asked to state their nation­ality, and their response 'Polish' was rejected as not true. Others who were 'real Poles' were asked, 'why did you tie yourself to these filthy Jews?' or, 'why did you allow yourself to be used by these kikes?' Their 'Zionist' leaders were arrested and put on trial. The parents of these stu­dents—sometimes prominent Communists—were removed from their jobs, as were other individuals of Jewish origin. All of these were urged to leave Poland, but permission to do so was given to them only if they renounced Polish citizenship and applied for exit to Israel."

Celia Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars, pg 299.

[secular-jew]

Polish people made themselves the cities of their minority Jewish population and told Jews to go back to Eretz Y'Israel. At least they knew where the Jews were indigenous to.

Since England controlled and blocked immigration of Jews to Palestine, the Jews were literally sitting ducks.

The Poles then abetted the Nazis in murdering 2.25 million of the 2.5 million Polish-Jewish population.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

My first chanukiah! This was in my shul's small judaica for sale collection, and I think it's vintage. I was told many of the objects have been in the display cabinets since the 1960s, and since I can find no evidence of this chanukiah online, I'm inclined to believe it. If so, this is older than my dad is!

[chanaleah]

my maternal great-great grandma was born in Warsaw in the late 19th/early 20th century. When she was a little girl, her family emigrated to the United States to escape violence and for better opportunities.

3 million polish Jews were killed in the shoah. I know for almost a fact that if my family had not left, I wouldn't be here writing this right now.

Even after the holocaust, Jews still faced violence in Poland. In 1946, (yes, that's only one year after the shoah) a pogrom in Kielce ended with 37 murdered Jews.

So no, don't tell Jews to go back to Poland.

[littledesertfox]

Aaand that's another one for the block list

[rudegoose]

currently googling “how to survive thanksgiving dinner with my dad’s polish-jewish family and my mom’s italian (sicilian)-catholic family”

[jidysz]

Drawing by Klaudia Kiercz-Długołęcka 

Sztetł

Yiddish - שטעטל

English transcription - Shtetl

Meaning - a town

Sztibł

Yiddish - שטיבל‎

English transcription - Shtibl

Meaning - a house or a room used for communal Jewish prayer

Jesziwa

Yiddish - ישיבֿה

English transcription - Yeshiva

Meaning - a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of the Talmud

Mykwa

Yiddish - מיקווה

English transcription - Mikvah

Meaning - a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion to achieve ritual purity

Synagoga (this one is in Polish)

Yiddish - שול

English transcription - shul

Meaning - synagogue

Macewa

Yiddish - מצבֿה

English transcription - Matzevah

Meaning - a headstone or tombstone marking a Jewish grave

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Ida Kamińska

Actress, director, and producer Ida Kamińska was born in 1899 in Odessa. Kamińska dedicated her life to Yiddish theater, become one of its foremost actresses. She performed in over 150 shows and produced more than 70 plays. In the 1930s, Kamińska started her own theater troupe in Poland, and continued to translate, adapt, and stage European and Jewish dramas despite rising antisemitism in the country. She fled Poland during the war, but returned in 1946 and worked to rebuild Jewish theater. In 1950, Kamińska became head of the State Jewish Theater in Warsaw. Among both Jews who remained in Poland and Holocaust survivors throughout the world, she became revered for continuing to create in the Yiddish language and contribute to the culture. Kamińska also acted in film, earning nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her role in The Shop on Main Street in 1965.

Ida Kamińska died in 1980 at the age of 80.

[dear-ao3]

Katya are u slavic?

yes?

why?