Serge from BabkaAug 20, 2024

This article in Harper's about being a Jew in Auschwitz in 2024 is so important for non-Jews to read.

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/my-auschwitz-vacation-tanya-gold-tourism/

Please my non-Jewish friends who talk about the Holocaust, read it and spread it.

It speaks to how European "Jewish Heritage Sites" and "Holocaust Memorials" make a spectacle about Judaism, but they often rely on the same antisemitic tropes that Jews deal with today, how non-Jews are happy to talk about the Holocaust but don't want to deal with real Jews, and the reality of being an actual living Jew.

If you get even more curious about this phenomenon, please read "People Love Dead Jews" by Dara Horn.

It also speaks to the way Poland has worked so hard to rewrite its own history, to make itself both the victim and the saviors.

#Jews #Judaism #Holocaust #JewishHeritage #PeopleLoveDeadJews #Poland #Auchwitz

My Auschwitz Vacation, by Tanya Gold

On Holocaust tourism

Harper's Magazine
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@serge Had the privilege in 2019 to visit Warsaw and Krakow on a small group tour organized by https://taubecenter.org/. Now-Amb. #DeborahLipstadt, then still a professor at Emory, was the scholar in residence. There is an emerging Jewish community in Warsaw and, as the writer indicates, a thriving Jew-ish one in Krakow. Both cities have JCC’s — a newer one in Warsaw, a thriving one in Krakow. 1/4
Aug 20, 2024 at 9:24pmWeb