Never Forget.

Never Again.

ocdkomaeda:

Hey friends, I need your help getting this Kickstarter shut down, and preferably the funds sent to people affected.

I’ve talked to my friends, and we really are at a loss as to what else we can do. We’ve contacted the people who made the Kickstarter and are contacting Steam, but there simply isn’t enough response.

What is the project?:

The project is this visual novel called “Mein Waifu is the Fuhrer.” It is supposedly a parody, but you can never really tell.

Here is the link to the Kickstarter, which is unfortunately already at nearly $88,000.

What’s bad about it?:

This project has real world Nazi killers as Cute Anime Girls.

These people committed real crimes against my people. They may have committed real crimes against your people. They not only have Hitler himself as one of the girls, but four other criminals who committed atrocious acts.

To add insult to injury, they have rewards such as body pillows of the Hitler girl and some of the others, as well as keychains and patches. You can also get a soldier in the game added to look like you.

Why is this harmful when WWII was so long ago?:

Nazis, to be blunt, are still out there.

The Holocaust’s effects are still lingering. We have survivors out there, but their numbers are dwindling. We have people making the same mistakes that lead up to it.

The Jewish population has not yet even reached the number we had before the Holocaust. We have high rates of intergenerational trauma. This was so triggering to one of my friends and I that we decided we had to do something. I believe the same is true of the Romani people, who were also targeted for their race.

There were, and are many other people murdered by the Nazis. (May their memories be a blessing). Political prisoners, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people. Their contributions were also buried, just like Jewish ones were. 

If I donated, what can i do?:

We all make mistakes, and I am not expecting everyone to understand the realities of global antisemitism and anti-Romani racism. I am not calling you a Nazi or even a bad person if you supported this. However, please consider making an equivalent donation, or educating yourself on these topics.

I would encourage donating to a Holocaust education center. There are a lot of small ones, so you could probably even find one in your area. People are beginning to forget and deny this tragedy in greater and greater numbers, so this is important work that you could really help!

You can also donate to a local Jewish organization! Contrary to what you may have heard, most of us aren’t rich, and our organizations need funding just like any other.

A lot of us donate in multiples of $18 because “18″ and “life” sound the same. It would be an extra nice gesture to send $18, $36, or $54…though obviously any amount is good!

You can educate yourself by reading about the Jewish and Romani people and seeing what our cultures are like and all the important contributions we have made!

you kids know i don’t normally reblog stuff like this but i have 10,000 of you and i need to share this. you don’t have to reblog it yourself or anything i just want people to see it.

tallnoser:

today (27 Jan) is International Holocaust Memorial Day, so I’ve compiled a list of charities you can donate to which help to preserve European Jewish culture as well as supporting living Jewish communities, especially in Eastern Europe, as a way to honour victims of the Holocaust both by preserving their memory and by supporting the European Jewish communities that the Nazis aimed to destroy.

-YIVO[Link]; founded in Vilne, Lithuania in 1925 and now based in New York, is one of the largest organisations for the preservation and education of Yiddish, as well as hosting the largest archive of Eastern European Jewish materials (23 million items) - including many which were rescued from Nazi book-burning by Jewish resistance. It is the ONLY prewar Jewish library and archive to have survived the Holocaust.

-World Jewish Relief[Link], formed during the Holocaust by the UK Jewish community to aid the evacuation of German Jews. The majority of their modern day work focuses on aiding vulnerable Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. They also provide aid to refugees, disabled and elderly people, and respond to international disasters across the world.

-The Yiddish Book Centre[Link] hosts an online archive of hundreds of digitised Yiddish books (many with translations), as well as a video oral history archive with 1000+ Jewish people of all ages and backgrounds telling their own stories, many in Yiddish (with subtitles). They also train new Yiddish translators and run lectures, education programs, film screenings, music festivals, and the world’s first Yiddish museum.

-The Together Plan[Link] supports post-Soviet Jewish communities, especially in Belarus due to the current instability there. As well as supporting Jewish communities with aid, education, and community building; they also record and translate Holocaust testimonies, preserve Jewish graveyards, and run education on Jewish Belarus.

-The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative[Link] works to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries, particularly in countries whose Jewish populations were decimated by the Holocaust, which left cemeteries to be vandalised and fall into decay. This is an important act in honouring the dignity of the dead, as well as witnessing and preserving the presence of lost European Jewish life.

If you have no money to spare, consider spending some time browsing the testimony and history hosted on YIVO and the Yiddish Book Centre as an act of memorial instead.

“800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car with another load, and so on.”

Source: Inside the Concentration Camps

FUN FACT: Kids who read Maus don’t grow into adults who constantly compare minor inconveniences to the Holocaust.

~ @Malecopywriter

sunder-the-gold:

kali-writes-meta:

During WWII the US Army Signal Corps documented everything the advancing troops found, including the concentration camps. This film was shown in civilian theatres at the time so everyone would understand what they found and be unable to deny what happened. The fact that it was made and shown at that time is documented. It would have been impossible to fake with the technology of that era.

Some leader on the ground allegedly told his men to take all the pictures they could, because he knew people would try tomorrow and in the future to deny what had happened there.

Yeah, that “some leader” was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces General Eisenhower, who also ordered that every troop should tour a camp at their earliest convenience and brought over reporters and government officials.

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

During WWII the US Army Signal Corps documented everything the advancing troops found, including the concentration camps. This film was shown in civilian theatres at the time so everyone would understand what they found and be unable to deny what happened. The fact that it was made and shown at that time is documented. It would have been impossible to fake with the technology of that era.

Not to cause offense, I love my jewish brothers and sisters, but what do you mean by survivors? I get the oppressors bit, even if I don’t agree with it. I have never heard of those arguments however. What did you survive besides Hitler, like a few other persued groups? If I may ask?

@mayora97

Antisemitism neither began nor ended with the Holocaust.

Here’s a quick primer, read it in its entirety before you downplay antisemitism again. It’s called “the oldest hatred” for a reason. 

Also, don’t decenter the Jews from the Holocaust. Antisemitism is at the core of Nazi ideology. We weren’t “one of” the groups persecuted by Hitler. We were the primary group targeted. The only other group that was targeted for total annihilation by the Nazis were Romani people. Two out of every three Jews in Europe were murdered. 6 million. 

historicity-was-already-taken:

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. As a Holocaust Historian, I have specifically devoted myself to working on the history of women and gender in the Holocaust, and bringing those histories ever-closer to mainstream historical memory.

So, I’d like to link you all to a few pieces of writing I’ve done on the topic.

An 11-part post series about Vladka Meed, a Jewish woman who smuggled explosives into the Warsaw Ghetto in preparation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A profile of Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jewish paratrooper who worked behind Nazi lines in services of the SOE (Special Operations Executive, same as Peggy Carter and Noor Khan).

A thinkpiece about how we misuse the memory of Anne Frank.

An assessment of how Holocaust memory is shaped by male experiences, and an analysis of what we miss through this centering of the male experience.