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#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is a good time to remember that the Soviet Union made a secret deal with the Nazis to carve up Europe
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@mfa_russia @RussianEmbassy The Soviet Union delivered raw materials like petroleum and grain to Nazis for years, keeping the German war machine running
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@mfa_russia @RussianEmbassy In 1941, two whole years after the WWII started, the Nazis were still welcomed guests in Moscow
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In the 1930s, the Jewish population in Europe was almost 10 million.
By 1945, 60% had been murdered, decimating communities that had lived there for centuries.
This is the story of the #Holocaust.
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By 1945, 60% had been murdered, decimating communities that had lived there for centuries.
This is the story of the #Holocaust.
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Jewish communities in Poland date back at least 1,000 years.
3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before the war.
Over 3 million were murdered by the Nazis.
Today, only a few thousands remain.
3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before the war.
Over 3 million were murdered by the Nazis.
Today, only a few thousands remain.
The first Jews arrived in Ukraine in the 4th century BC.
1.5 million were murdered during the Holocaust.
Many were killed at the hands of Einsatzgruppen, or "Death Squads".
This includes the Babi Yar massacre, killing 35,000 and decimating Kiev's Jewish community.
1.5 million were murdered during the Holocaust.
Many were killed at the hands of Einsatzgruppen, or "Death Squads".
This includes the Babi Yar massacre, killing 35,000 and decimating Kiev's Jewish community.
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I want acknowledge that part of my dedicated interests in traditional Jewish foodways drew inspiration from Joan Nathan's recipe adaptation of the Beigel family challah. Its my favorite and it was saved by a family decimated in the Shoah.
So for me, I understood what it meant to grasp onto these culinary memories because they represented people and life beyond trauma. People living from day to day. It was this inner dialogue that fertilized my work interpreting the food and lives of the American enslaved.
u know, this isn't a brag. Its hard to confess that u are already complete but u also feel this urge to belong& share&adapt&be a part of something only exceptional when practiced right--America. The jewelry, the prize is to tell the story better than when it was told to u.
Morgen ist der #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay. 2021 wurden 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland und 30 Jahre jüdischer Zuwanderung aus der ehem. SU gefeiert. Heute sieht #NieWieder auch so aus: ca. 70.000 jüdische Senior:innen leben in #Altersarmut.
#Altersarmut betrifft jüd. Zugewanderte überproportional im Vergleich zur Gesamtgesellschaft: 93% von ihnen beziehen Grundsicherung, deren Regelsätze deutlich unter der Grenze zur Armutsgefährdung liegen. Zum Vergleich: Selbes gilt für nur rd. 2,4 % der deutschen Rentner:innen.
Ursachen für #Altersarmut unter jüdischen Zugewanderten: Brüche in der Erwerbsbiografie durch die Nichtanerkennung ihrer Abschlüsse und Arbeitsleistung vor der Migration: 69% der vor 1954 Geborenen haben einen akad. Abschluss; in 78% der Fälle wurde er in Dtl. nicht anerkannt.
One awkward thing about #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is that people cite the entirely made-up stat that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. WRONG. 6 million Jews were killed by gas, bullets, fire, and starvation, along with no more than 500,000 non-Jews.
The Holocaust was a uniquely Jewish tragedy and citing the 11 million number has the effect (and sometimes the intent) of universalizing the Holocaust. Some people, more provocative than I, refer to this as "all lives matter"-ing the Holocaust.
The 11 million number comes from famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who chose it because 5 million was close to, but crucially not more than, 6 million. He hoped to elicit non-Jewish sympathy, by helping them see themselves in the tragedy, without outnumbering Jewish victims.
On #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, we resolve that each new generation learns about and never forgets the tragedy of the Holocaust.
We remember and honor the lives of the 6 million Jews who were murdered — and understand that it is our responsibility to confront the troubling rise in anti-Semitism we have seen here in Michigan and communities across the country in recent months.
I’m pleased that tonight we will be voting on the Never Again Education Act, a bill I co-sponsor to support continued education on the Holocaust, so that future generations will #NeverForget.
1/ Look at these faces.
The clothes are a little different from ours. But they're not that different from us.
It's a mother and father. Aunt and uncle. Brothers and sisters.
It was the last photo they'd take together before they were all sent to concentration camps.
The clothes are a little different from ours. But they're not that different from us.
It's a mother and father. Aunt and uncle. Brothers and sisters.
It was the last photo they'd take together before they were all sent to concentration camps.
2/ Some of them perished. Others lived.
My grandmother was the girl in the top row. She and my three other grandparents all survived the camps.
On this #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, I remember them.
And I give thanks that I was born in a land of freedom.
My grandmother was the girl in the top row. She and my three other grandparents all survived the camps.
On this #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, I remember them.
And I give thanks that I was born in a land of freedom.
3/ But on #HolocaustRemembranceDay 2018, I'm thinking of others as well.
I'm thinking of a President who calls Neo-Nazis "very fine people."
Of politicians in both parties who seek to ban refugees fleeing death merely because of their religion.
I'm thinking of a President who calls Neo-Nazis "very fine people."
Of politicians in both parties who seek to ban refugees fleeing death merely because of their religion.
