Our April 2025 protest took place on Yom HaShoah, a day when people who died during the #Holocaust are remembered. We said "Never again!" to #genocide as we protested the Chinese government's genocide of its #Uyghur population.
#YomHaShoah #TikkunOlam #HumanRights #China #Xinjiang #EastTurkistan #NeverAgain
A new wave of research into genocide is overturning stories about victims going meekly to slaughter.
Resistance was frequent, both among the Armenians (against whom the Turks began a genocide #OTD in 1915) and among Jews during the Holocaust.
Any #YomHaShoah commemoration last week which failed to acknowledge that #Israel is perpetrating a #genocide in #Gaza and the #WestBank was a hypocritical mockery of #Holocaust remembrance and an abject failure to uphold its prime directive, #NeverAgain.
The Holocaust propaganda drummed into my head throughout childhood insisted the point of remembering the Holocaust is to prevent future genocides.
What's the point of remembering the dead if we refuse to learn from what happened to them?
Today is Yom HaShoah, which is the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day of remembrance and reflection for the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. In Israel, Yom HaShoah is a national memorial day. #FactsMatter #YomHaShoah
"Eichmann in My Living Room —How watching his 1961 trial helped me better understand my parents"
https://momentmag.com/eichmann-trial-on-tv/
#YomHashoah #HolocaustMemorialDay
From Jimena, for those still on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/jimena_voice/?hl=en
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#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #YomHaShoah #JIMENA #MENA #Sephardi #Mizrahi
On #YomHaShoah יום השואה my fondest wish is that we not repeat the horrors that we today commemorate.
I am not optimistic.
#Shoah #Holocaust #democracy #impeach47 #defundICE #ruleoflaw
3 Ann Jaffe shared her story at over 450 events so future generations would never forget. She passed away in April 2024 at 93. Her life was a testament to resilience, truth, and love. Honor her by remembering. Teaching. Resisting hate. May her memory forever be a blessing. #YomHaShoah #NeverAgain
Another work for Yom HaShoah, also known as Martyrs and Heroes Day, which ends this evening at dusk. #YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembrance #arthistory
Below, drawn by Hedwig Brahn in 1944, included in Philipp Manes' memoirs, the 'Tatsachenbericht - Terezín Street, which documents life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
From “Holocaust History: Concentration Camps,” Chapman University, Orange, California. “Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp were located in Terezín, Czech Republic, in a former military fortress. Initially, it was established as a ghetto for Czech Jews. Later, it served as a concentration and transit camp for German and Western European Jews. In 1942, SS authorities deported Jews to concentration camps, forced-labor camps, and killing centers. In the camp itself, thousands of people died from disease or starvation.
In 1944 the Nazis temporarily beautified Theresienstadt to deceive an investigating committee from the International Red Cross to make a film that pictured the ghetto as a 'spa town' where elderly German Jews could retire. The barracks were removed, houses were painted, and gardens planted, however, this was an elaborate hoax. The Nazis staged social and cultural events for the visitors. The facts were very different. Of the approximately 140,000 Jews transferred to Theresienstadt, 33,000 died, and 90,000 were deported; only about 19,000 survived. Children were sent to Theresienstadt. About 15,000 children passed through, and 90 percent of these children perished in the killing center.”
A new wave of research into genocide is overturning stories about victims going meekly to slaughter.
Resistance was frequent, both among the Armenians (against whom the Turks began a genocide #OTD in 1915) and among Jews during the Holocaust.
#ArmenianGenocide #YomHaShoah #NeverForget
https://theconversation.com/genocide-resisters-long-overlooked-by-history-step-into-the-spotlight-202311 #Histodons
The #Holocaust was the first widely photographed mass atrocity. The #LastSeen project is collecting images of Nazi deportations, often the last photos of victims before their deaths.
The project aims to give previously faceless victims names and a voice. #YomHaShoah #NeverForget
https://theconversation.com/newly-discovered-photos-of-nazi-deportations-show-jewish-victims-as-they-were-last-seen-alive-246929
Today we pause for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Honouring the memory of those lost and the courage of those who survived. Never forget. ✡️🕯️ #YomHaShoah
"Decades ago, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Hannah Arendt wrote that 'the death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs about a culture about to fall into barbarism.'
I wish more people could see what I see, what I learned to see on that long ago Yom HaShoah..." https://forward.com/opinion/714463/the-profound-yom-hashoah-lesson-we-desperately-need-to-remember-under-trump/
Tamar Manasseh, founder & president, Mothers Against Senseless Killings https://www.ontheblock.org/
#YomHashoah #HolocaustMemorialDay
📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-04-24, Yom HaShoah)
- https://bsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3lnknfr24w22d
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La Journée du Souvenir de l'Holocauste et de l'Héroïsme, ou Yom HaShoah, est un jour de profonde douleur et de réflexion pour les Juifs.
Pendant ces 24 heures, qui commencent au coucher du soleil et se terminent au coucher du soleil le jour suivant, les Juifs honorent l'acte de mémoire, un enseignement fondamental.
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Dans les décennies qui ont suivi la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, certains croyaient que le type de racisme ayant conduit aux meurtres systématiques de 6 millions de Juifs et de millions d'autres victimes ne pourrait jamais se reproduire.
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L'Europe avait été laissée en ruines.
Les économies étaient en fort déclin.
Des communautés entières, des mondes, avaient été déchirés, détruits.
Qui pourrait jamais refaire une guerre de cette ampleur ?
Il semblait que certaines leçons sur le prix de la suprématie avaient été clairement comprises.
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De l'autre côté de l'océan, dans un contexte différent, Martin Luther King Jr. disait aux Américains que l'arc de l'univers moral est long, mais qu'il penche vers la justice.
C'était une conviction puissante, qui parlait d'une bonté inhérente en nous et dans le monde qui nous entoure.
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Mais comme certains l'ont noté, l'arc moral ne bouge pas tout seul, et il ne peut se plier que lorsque des individus décident de le faire.
En ce jour de souvenir, imaginons une nouvelle leçon tirée des horreurs de l'Holocauste, l'un des moments les plus sombres de l'antisémitisme et de la suprématie raciale.
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Imaginons une leçon qui nous enseigne le pouvoir que nous avons de plier cet arc.
Nous devons agir face aux horreurs non seulement parce qu'elles causent des souffrances indicibles, mais parce que nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre de déshumaniser.
De l'autre côté de l'indifférence se trouve le choix, un choix que nous pouvons tous faire.
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Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, is a day of deep Jewish pain and reflection.
In these 24 hours, which begin at sundown and end at sundown the following day, Jews honor the act of remembrance, a key teaching.
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In the decades following the end of World War II, some believed that the kind of racism that led to the systematic murders of 6 million Jews and millions of other victims could never be repeated.
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Europe had been left in shambles. Economies were in major decline. Whole communities and worlds had been torn apart, destroyed. Who could ever go to war like this again? It seemed as if certain understandings about the toll of supremacy had been made clear.
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Across the ocean, in a different context, Martin Luther King Jr. told Americans that the arc of the moral universe is long but that it bends toward justice. It was a powerful conviction, one that spoke to an inherent goodness in us and the world around us.
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But as some have noted, the moral arc doesn’t move on its own, and it can only bend when individuals decide to bend it. On this day of remembrance, let’s imagine a new lesson from the horrors of the Holocaust, from one of the darkest moments of antisemitism and racial supremacy
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Let’s imagine a lesson that teaches us the power of our own bending of the arc. We must act in the face of horrors not only because they cause immeasurable suffering, but because we can’t permit ourselves to dehumanize. On the other side of ambivalence is choice, which we all can make
Today on #YomhaShoah I am releasing this very special piece called Resist Zionism. It is not available on any streaming application. It is a remix of an episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
#Zionism #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree
Heute ist der Gedenktag #YomHaShoah , mit dem in Israel & vielen jüdischen Gemeinden der sechs Millionen Jüdinnen und Juden erinnert wird, die von den Nationalsozialisten ermordet wurden
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. People there remember the horrors of Naziism in Europe, and how Jewish people fled to a place where they would be protected.
Few Israelis want to think of or admit the horrors they're inflicting on their neighbours today.
Never again is now.
Today at sundown, Yom HaShoah, Israeli Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, begins. This commemoration is a time to remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered, honor the survivors and recognize both the resilience and courage during Holocaust.
#YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembrance #JewishHistory #NeverForget #HolocaustEducation #WarsawGhettoUprising #NeverAgainIsNow
