#children and the holocaust

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Children's Play in the Holocaust

Even in the extermination camps, the children who were still healthy enough to move around played. In one camp they played a game called "tickling the corpse." At Auschwitz-Birkenau they dared one another to touch the electric fence. They played "gas chamber," a game in which they threw rocks into a pit and screamed the sounds of people dying. One game of their own devising was modeled after the camp's daily roll call and was called klepsi-klepsi, a common term for stealing. One playmate was blindfolded; then one of the others would step forward and hit him hard on the face; and then, with the blindfold removed, the one who had been hit had to guess, from facial expressions or other evidence, who had hit him. To survive at Auschwitz, one had to be an expert at bluffing - for example, about stealing bread or about knowing of someone's escape or resistance plans. Klepsi-klepsi may have been practice for that skill. In play, whether it is the idyllic play we most like to envision or the play described by Eisen*, children bring the realities of their world into a fictional context, where is it safe to confront them, to experience them, and to practice ways of dealing with them. Some people fear that violent play creates violent adults, but in reality the opposite is true. Violence in the adult world leads children, quite properly, to play at violence. How else can they prepare themselves emotionally, intellectually, and physically for reality? It is wrong to think that somehow we can reform the world for the future by controlling children's play and controlling what they learn. If we want to reform the world, we have to reform the world; children will follow suit. The children must, and will, prepare themselves for the real world to which they must adapt to survive. * In the remarkable book Children and Play in the Holocaust, historian George Eisen, using diaries and interviews of survivors as evidence, described play among Jewish children in Nazi ghettos and concentration camps.

Free to Learn by Peter Gray Chapter 8: The role of play in social and emotional development

[agentfascinateur]

Six-year-old Mohammed Naeem al-Najar has died of starvation at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

[girlactionfigure]

Holocaust - the children

Some 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Romani  children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children..

Nazi persecution, arrests, and deportations were directed against all members of the targeted families without concern for age.

Plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods, many children had witnessed the murder of parents, siblings, and relatives. Many faced starvation, illness and brutal labor, until all of them were consigned to the gas chambers.

They lived and died during the dark years of the Holocaust and were victims of the Nazi nightmare …

[i-am-aprl]

Everything completely destroyed💔🥺

Explanation via IG: @princekouta

[mileenaxyz]

Fuck Mayim Bialik

[its-zaina]

“From Columbia to Brown,

we will not let Gaza down“🇵🇸.

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Texts: A father in #Gaza: "I did the strangest thing today - I exchanged my children with my brother's. I took two of his children, and gave him two of mine. So in case I get bombed, one of mine will survive & if he gets bombed, one of his will live on."

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[hussyknee]

Just saw an article by a neoconservative "historian" that's gone viral on twitter saying Hamas is worse because Nazis never imprisoned babies and the elderly or used them as human shields. This same talking point was in a twitter essay by a Zionist rabbi retweeted by Amy Schumer weeks ago.

I'm not even Jewish and I'm just sitting here like. What. The everloving fuck.

The levels of Holocaust minimization and revisionism by Zionists need to be documented and studied. Most virulent antisemites couldn't come up with the kind of Nazi apologia and Holocaust victim degradation that I've seen both Jewish and gentile Zionists enthusiastically cosign and boost the last few weeks.

[charlesoberonn]

When you thought anti-vaxxers couldn't get any more reprehensible they start inciting straight-up murder.

[psychologeek]

counting cycle (remember the names)

Goyim and outsiders would talk about the Holocaust, as if -

They know a single thing about it.

(How old were you when you learn that eating after long time of starvation can kill you?)

Calling it "excuse" and "whining" as,

My Arab grandma fast on Tevet 10th, in the memory of her stolen family.

(fifty generations and continents apart. It doesn't matter.)

Talk about the holocaust as if-

You ever looked at the attic and thought

(will they find me?)

Teenagers, born after the 09/11, claim that Bin-Laden was right.

I've heard that,

Most of young Americans

Don't know what those numbers mean -

(6,000,000; 1,500,000, 1945)

I think about never ending things: the sand, and the sea, and a prayer.

(you won't get it)

I guess

Children memorize capital cities

(I was seven when I memorized: Auschwitz-Birkenau-Treblinka-Sobibor-Belzec-Chelmano-)

They say "Kill the jews, save Ukraine Palestine!" And the year is 1919 2023.

(Olga was three, Isac was seven, Fruma was twenty one-)

"Go back to were you came from!" My great grandfather heard in 1932, as he was fired.

The whole community came to say goodbye to the fools, going to Eraz Israel with 4 young children.

(The youngest was so small, he spent the voyage in a basket.)

My gradpa's family was the only one left.

(Mathel from Germany was 4 months, Sara from Poland was 1, Sara from Ukraine was 2, Annie Julie from Algeria was 3, Kaitl from Greece was 4, Rozher from Morocco was 8 -)

I don't have a point, I think

I just remember, as far as our collective memory can reach-

"שבכל דור ודור עומדים אלינו לכלותנו"

(עייפתי)

[agentfascinateur]

Israeli attacks have damaged or destroyed:

• 380,000 housing units

• 412 schools and universities

• 556 mosques

• three churches

• 206 archeological and heritage sites

• knocked 32 hospitals and 53 health centres out of service

• 126 ambulances also targeted

All violations of the Geneva Convention

#NoOneAboveTheLaw

[i-am-aprl]

[artcinemas]

if you support israel "retaliate" against hearsay terrorism (which they created, funded and openly supported until "oct 7"), you are the one supporting antisemitism AND genocide. lol. there i said it.

[its-zaina]

#غزَّة.

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