📝 Plot: During World War II, SS officer Kurt Gerstein discovers the horrific reality of the Nazi extermination camps. Determined to expose the truth, he seeks help from the Vatican. A young Jesuit priest joins his struggle, but political caution and diplomatic silence obstruct their efforts, raising profound questions about responsibility, faith and moral courage.
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Nazis Studied America’s Racial Laws: A Warning for Our Democracy Today
Nazi leaders examined U.S. segregation, immigration quotas, and eugenics laws as models. History proves democracies can drift. Vigilance and civic engagement are essential now.
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Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. So your art history post for today is this Hanukkah Lamp, made in a concentration camp, carved wood, 1942, designed by Arnold Zadikow (1884-1943) and carved by Leopold Hecht (1912-1994), 20 1/2 × 22 × 10 in. (52.1 × 55.9 × 25.4 cm), now in the collection of The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, after many years of use at Congregation Beth Hillel (which has since merged with Mount Sinai Jewish Center). #arthistory #hanukkah #chanukah #holocausthistory
From the website: 'This Hanukkah lamp with the Hebrew inscription "Who is like you, O Lord, among the celestials?" (Exodus 15:11) is a rare example of Jewish ceremonial art created during the Holocaust. The sculptor and architect Arnold Zadikow was deported to the camp-ghetto Theresienstadt in May 1942 and assigned to work in the Lautsch Workshop, which made decorative arts for the Nazis. Zadikow was aided by a young woodcarver interned in the camp, Leopold Hecht, who stole the wood for the lamp from the Germans. The lamp was made for the boys' residence, to enable the children to celebrate Hanukkah and to teach them about Judaism, since Jewish instruction was forbidden. It was hidden all year and taken out only during the holiday. Zadikow died at Theresienstadt, but his daughter Marianne and wife, Hilda, also an artist, survived. The lamp was found in the camp after the war.’
“I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.”
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The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
Death of the Holocaust Industry
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The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
Tonight is Holocaust Memorial Eve in Israel – /'e-rev yom ha-sho-'ah/ עֶרֶב יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה –
And tomorrow we mark /yom ha-sho-'ah/ יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It’s a day that stops an entire country in its tracks.
A siren will sound and life will pause – cars will stop, people will rise to their feet –
And we remember.
We remember not only the six million who were murdered.
But the lives they lived.
The dreams they dreamed.
The songs they sang.
We remember the strength of those who survived and rebuilt – against all odds – lives, families, futures.
In Israel, the memory is not distant history.
It’s personal.
It’s stories passed down around dinner tables.
It’s a middle name given to honor someone lost.
It’s the silence in a grandparent’s eyes when they hear a certain melody.
Today and tomorrow, we honor.
We remember.
And since Oct 7, it is very clear that sadly, never again is now.
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42 likes, 0 comments - hebrewbyinbal on April 23, 2025: "Tonight is Holocaust Memorial Eve in Israel – /'e-rev yom ha-sho-'ah/ עֶרֶב יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה – And tomorrow we mark /yom ha-sho-'ah/ יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s a day that stops an entire country in its tracks. A siren will sound and life will pause – cars will stop, people will rise to their feet – And we remember. We remember not only the six million who were murdered. But the lives they lived. The dreams they dreamed. The songs they sang. We remember the strength of those who survived and rebuilt – against all odds – lives, families, futures. In Israel, the memory is not distant history. It’s personal. It’s stories passed down around dinner tables. It’s a middle name given to honor someone lost. It’s the silence in a grandparent’s eyes when they hear a certain melody. Today and tomorrow, we honor. We remember. And since Oct 7, it is very clear that sadly, never again is now.".
Drei eindrucksvolle #Ausstellungen im UN-Hauptquartier in New York! Anlässlich des Internationalen #HolocaustGedenktag 2025 & 80 Jahre nach dem Ende der #Shoah und des #WWII.
📅 Bis 21.02.25
📍 UN Visitors' Lobby, New York
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My hometown hosted the Jewish refugees the US allowed in during the war. Thanks to homegrown Nazis and Fascists, there were only a few over 1000.
My town was mixed Haudenosaunee and white, and was famously on the Underground Railroad to such a degree that the officials were in on it. Almost all old houses in the town still have secret rooms.
None of these conditions should have been necessary, but the truth is that nowhere else wanted to take them.
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day.
Explore life stories of survivors and those who were murdered and create your own #memorial page @ https://www.hmd.org.uk/take-part-in-holocaust-memorial-day/memorialpages/
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