Tag: Warsaw Ghetto
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust And I Feel That Shadow Growing
It isn’t all that surprising that a racist knuckle-scraper like Marjorie Taylor Greene would compare being compelled to wear a face mask to being sent to Auschwitz. In her heart, you just know Marjorie’s a Holocaust denier. Hell, I bet if Marjorie could go back in time to the Holocaust, she’d be thrilled. The biggest…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust And I Feel That Shadow Growing
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road. Throughout most of Europe’s history, Jews were kept apart. In Venice, Italy, they put them on their own little islands and called that area — where the Jews lived — “ghetto”. That’s where the…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away.…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away.…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. I grew up in the 1960’s & 1970’s in a Jewish suburb…
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I Grew Up A Child Of The Holocaust
I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. You might think such an awful memory — so close in our rear view mirror — would have made my community so horrified that they couldn’t bear to discuss it. We went completely in the opposite direction. I wouldn’t say we…
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I Grew Up In The Holocaust’s Shadow
I grew up in the 1960’s in a mostly upper middle class Jewish suburb in northwest Baltimore. Pikesville was so predominantly Jewish that the area — and its Junior & Senior High Schools — were known as ‘Kikesville’, get it? World War II ended 14 years before I was born. By the time I started…