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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How old are these survivors?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

I read an interview with a 102 year old, she was 12 when the Nazis rose to power and 25 when she was liberated from Theresienstadt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

And in 80 years we'll be doing it again... "never again" my ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Soon we're going to be ran out of everyone who was alive that served WWII. There are no more Civil War and even WWI veterans to help remember. Once the last WW2 veteran is gone, everyone will forget (if they hadn't already, it's been 80 years or closing on to it). Then we'll be off on people who think they know how it all went and the re-writing of history will commence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There are no WW1 survivors around, no one has forgotten about that.

We have people alive during this and there are currently multiple genocides going on.

Everything you’ve said is straight up wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It’s literally happening today.

No one learns from this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Interesting timing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

An anniversary date is interesting timing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think they mean with all of the genocide going on at the moment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You mean war crimes. Not even ICJ is calling it genocide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

No, I mean genocide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

They haven't ruled on that yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hey but at least we haven't forgotten about how horrific past genocides are as we support current genocides.

[+] [email protected] -51 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No birthday cake for you ever again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dafuq are they popping fireworks about on July 4th amirite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a good example, as murican celebrations end up reverberating all over the internet. I hate it when videogames force their holiday decorations, I don't want my horror scenario to have christmas lights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't like it when they insert cringe festivities into pron. Who tf wants to see them doing the hoo-hah while wearing bright red Santa costumes or lame ass skits going like trick or treat? Aha you want the trick 😫. Cringe af.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

To celebrate white land owners being given free reign to manifestly genocide their way westwards I presume. Idk I'm not American.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[+] [email protected] -12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And my point is that this isn't even a landmark celebration year (e.g. 50th, 75th, 100th), whilst we're in the midst of genocide actively being carried out makes this post feel more like an effort to detract from current crimes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Some things really should be remembered annually.

This is one of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All the more important to remind the genociders that they were the genocidee in living memory.

This is one of the very last Holocaust Memorial Days with some actual survivors still present. Those who were 16 when they were liberated are 95 now. Not many who were younger then actually survived, and not many who were older then are still alive now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Are there Holocaust survivors opposing Israel's crimes against humanity?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Ask them while you can.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Most victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish.
Of course there are plenty of Jewish holocaust survivors who are opposed to war crimes in Gaza. They've been criticising the Israeli government for longer than you've even been aware of this conflict. For example.
You don't seem to understand what it's like to survive the holocaust. These are deeply deeply traumatised people who are now being confronted with war again. Plenty of them want to die. Plenty are suffering severe PTSD and flashbacks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ohh... Jewish Voice for Peace consists of descendants of Holocaust survivors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Malding genocide supporters coping with the idea that they can't possibly in the wrong and all decades of this is because of Hamas. Somehow all human beings in Palestine just happened to deserve to die

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fuck you and your whole family , you terrible person

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Ich stimme zu. Wir sollten jedoch aufhören kleinen, schleimigen Wichsklumpen die Aufmerksamkeit zu geben nach der sie gieren.

Lass ihn einfach in die Leere kreischen. Nichts was du sagst kann ihn schlimmer bestrafen als seine eigene, lieblose Existenz.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yes I’m terrible because I don't find an almost 80 year old event newsworthy compared to genocide occurring today.

I can only hope you feel that strongly about the Palestians being genocided that your government is throwing under the bus to support Israel for.

Last month was the 86th Anniversary of the Beijing massacre, one part of a genocide against millions of Chinese. You had an anniversary event to commemorate them, right? Or are you a terrible person and a massive hypocrite?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I knew comments here would be terrible, but you managed to limbo even under my extremely low expectations. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's no need to downplay the significance of past genocides just because of present-day genocides. Remembering the past is important: it's no coincidence that fascism is on the rise again just when most of the people who remember living through it in Europe are gone. Remembering is necessary if we are to learn from the past, but it doesn't guarantee we will, as Israel's actions today show.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Im not downplaying it anymore than you are when you don’t make news of the anniversary of the Beijing massacre.

If remembering is so important to you, why aren’t you also remembering them?

What im doing is exactly the same as you do to every other genocide from the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is stopping you from remembering or orginazing a ceremony? Orginaze one or participate in a ceremony of your choice. Don't be bitter because people remember this specific holocaust. It is important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If remembering is so important to you, why aren’t you also remembering them?

If you're talking to me, where do you get the idea that I'm not remembering that? Plenty of people make a big noise about it every year. But it feels like you're trying to change the subject.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So you’re telling me every year on December 13th you celebrate the victims of genocide in China?

Bullshit you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, the edginess is just bleeding through you, isn't it? Having those rebellious friday up all nighters afterschool before coming online to shitpost on the weekend? What a waste of a life.