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"He got into argument with someone at Temple who insisted that getting the hostages back should be Israel's number one priority. He told me on the phone afterward 'Martha's grandmother died in Auschwitz but she's totally fine with starving little children.'"
"But if you go to Auschwitz, or the Museum of Tolerance, or the Anne Frank House, or listen to any of the Jewish groups that have done an excellent job of maintaining this horrible part of history, their point is never, "Jews have had it worse than anyone else." Their point is, "If this happened to u"
"The commander who liberated Auschwitz was a Ukrainian Jewish officer named Anatoly Shapiro. Another Jewish officer under his command, Georgii Elisavetskii, recalled: 'When I entered the barrack, I saw living skeletons lying on three-tiered bunks... Finally, as if the barrier collapsed, they rushed t"
"I had seen the progression over the last couple years through his posts, started on more innocuous conservative boomer shit then went full wignat, talking about wooden doors at Auschwitz, "why don't you hear Hitler's speeches in English, just asking questions", 19th century race science, that kind o"
"The other day another friend went on a trip to Poland. While hammered he talked to his hotel receptionist and made an appointment with her to visit Auschwitz the next day. However, instead of going there, they ended up getting drunk and fucking."
"Obviously the Holocaust was fucked up and had higher numbers, I went to Auschwitz as a kid and it was a humbling experience."
"My parents are of retirement age now and my dad works like 110 hrs/week - the same hours Auschwitz prisoners were expected to - and I'm pretty sure they have no savings and if anything happened to him everything would go to shit as she's too stupid to live independently"
"I have the perfect joke. They'll call me Jew Boy and I'll say "That's not funny, my grandfather died at Auschwitz!" They'll say "really?" or "no he didn't" or something to that effect, to which I'll reply "Yeah, he fell from one of the guard towers.""
"Then the gestapo find them in August of 1944. And they get the last train from Netherlands to Auschwitz. Fucking kidding me? His wife, his daughters, his friends, his friends' son.. all dead. But he lives."
"I went to Auschwitz as a kid and it was a humbling experience."
"That's not funny, my grandfather died at Auschwitz!"