#Berlin Jews

[lifewithaview]

Der letzte Zug/The Last Train (2006)

Dir.Joseph Vilsmaier and Dana Vávrová

The year is 1943 and the last of the Jews are being evacuated from Berlin. They are locked in cattle cars with no food and little water. During the trip several of the characters are drawn out and vignettes of their lives are highlighted to restore some humanity to their animal existence aboard the train. The suffering and agony is palpable.

*During filming, director Joseph Vilsmaier fell out of a crane three meters up while shooting. He was hospitalized, but he recovered and resumed filming, with mild permanent injuries.

[official-oshun]

If you support blatant antisemitism such as Molotov cocktails being thrown at a synagogue (IN BERLIN GERMANY, NOT ISRAEL) then you should get curb stomped. U people say “punch a Nazi” until it’s actually time to punch a Nazi and stand up for Jewish people. Some of you are not anti-Zionist you are 100% anti-Jew.

Goyim who reblog and internalize this message will get my eternal thank you!

[secular-jew]

Ágnes Keleti (née Klein), survived the Holocaust, lived through the overthrow of communism in her native Hungary, and won 10 Olympic medals over the course of her career. At 103, she is the oldest living Olympian medalist alive today.

Born in 1921, Agnes became a star gymnast in her youth, winning national championships and at 15, participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. With the outbreak of World War II, Keleti concealed her Jewish identity and survived by finding work as a maid in a small village. Her father and other family members were murdered at Auschwitz.

After the war, Ágnes resumed her career and made her true athletic breakthrough. She missed the 1948 London Olympics due to a torn ankle ligament.

At 31, which is quite an ancient age for a gymnast, she won 4 medals at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, including the gold in the floor exercise.

In 1956, during the Melbourne Olympics, the USSR invaded Hungary, and Ágnes defected along with 4 other Hungarian athletes. The following year, she emigrated to Israel where she became the star of the 5th Maccabiah – מכביה.

Keleti collected more Olympic medals (10, including 5 gold medals) than Usain Bolt (9).

Photo: Agnes Keleti, the Maccabiah Archive

[mote-historie]

Ruth Jacobi, Spaziergängerin mit Gans, Humorous street snapshot from the Jewish Quarter of a woman walking a goose by the collar as if the fawl were her dog in the streets of New York City, 1928

Ruth Jacobi was the sister of Lotte Jacobi. Photography ran in the Jacobi family. Lotte and Ruth's great-grandfather, Samuel Jacobi, visited Paris between 1839 and 1842, where he obtained a camera, a license, and some instruction from L.J.M. Daguerre and then returned to Thorn to set up a studio. He prospered at his trade and eventually passed the business on to his son, Alexander. Alexander, in turn, handed the business down to his three sons, the eldest of whom was Lotte and Ruth's father, Sigismund. 

Ruth Jacobi emigrated in 1935 to New York, where she opened a studio together with her sister Lotte Jacobi.

[youliveveryday]

Day after day for decades, why you didn't condemn them? It's double standards.

[naipan]

It is fascinating how quickly people I knew—even in the city’s open-minded queer scene—turned against me for supporting Israel

BY

DANIEL-RYAN SPAULDING

“I see how these lies about Israel have poisoned an entire generation, and how it is escalating every day. It is an intentional ideological subversion of Western civilization. Terrorism isn’t just being normalized, it is being encouraged."

[postcard-from-the-past]

Synagogue of Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1906 to Berlin

[ivovynckier]

A scene from "Conspiracy" (HBO).

[head-post]

Islamophobic incidents in Berlin schools increasing – German Human Rights Group

A Berlin-based human rights group warned that German schools were witnessing a rise in Islamophobic incidents due to anti-Muslim sentiment increased against the backdrop of events in the Middle East.

The anti-discrimination centre ADAS had been receiving an increasing number of complaints in recent months from students as well as their parents about Islamophobic actions, insults and verbal harassment, director Aliyeh Yegane Arani reported.

More than half of the complaints we have received are about incidents of anti-Muslim racism. Considering that Muslims constitute 6 to 8 percent of the population in Germany, this is a rather high rate.

ADAS provides counselling and support to students, parents, teachers and school personnel who have experienced or witnessed discrimination. Arani stated that the vast majority of complaints related to incidents of racism against black people, as well as hate crime and discrimination against Muslims.

Read more HERE

[johnthestitcher]

Defiant Hanukkah 1932 in Germany - yes - this is a real picture.

[supercantaloupe]

though i don't consider it my all time favorite show ever i do think cabaret is at the very top of the list of shows i'm so abnormal about that if i see people being Wrong about it i will go the fuck off about it

[mental-mona]

[news4dzhozhar]

[robbinnnnn]

studying art in Germany has become hellish since Oct 7.

[fructidors]

seeing daniel kahn live would fix me. i would also settle for having a long conversation with him about jewry and yiddishism and radicalism and my own personal and familial history with those things

[slyandthefamilybook]

look dawg, the destruction of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute was an important moment in the Holocaust, but I feel like ever since goyische tumblr learned about it it's literally all they talk about. People have just instantly latched onto it because it's something that makes them feel connected. "Those famous pictures of Nazi book burnings are them burning gay and trans research" comes off as less of recontextualizing history and more of "omg that's me! I'm famous!". The fact that it's brought up in every conversation about the Holocaust now, even when the discussion is about the specific persecution of other groups, is highly suspect. When Jews talk about the Holocaust, we don't view the victims as people like us. They are us. They're our parents and grandparents, our great- uncles and aunts. In every generation we must see ourselves as if we left Egypt

JKR is engaging in Holocaust denial, but it's a soft sort of denial. Someone told her the Nazis hated trans people, and she responded "nuh-uh" because she didn't want to believe trans people have been around for that long. It's bad, sure, but we already knew she was a shitty person. I think it's a better opportunity to discuss the process of radicalization and closed-loop ideological thinking than to shit on the internet's favorite punching bag with your new favorite factoid. Jews right now are experiencing violent antisemitism. Bomb threats, death threats, rape threats have become the norm for a lot of us, but I have yet to see that discussed with the same fervor as JKR being shitty for the gajillionth time. If you truly want to make yourself a part of the living history of the Holocaust, you have to understand how to fight for what's important. You have to learn how to protect what you love, not just destroy what you hate. It's very important not to lose the plot here

It's crucial that we remember that the book burnings were primarily about Jews. Joseph Goebbels proclaimed in Berlin "The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path...The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character." The German Student Union described book burnings as a "response to a worldwide Jewish smear campaign against Germany and an affirmation of traditional German values." Science, study, reason, progress were all seen as Jewish plots to destroy society (wonder where else we've seen that). Magnus Hirschfeld was persecuted because he was gay and his Institute was full of gay and trans people, yes. But it was also because he was a Jew, and a man of science who was pushing the boundaries of medical care for LGBT people. Just. something to think about