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““Not everybody went like sheep, as people say,” he comments. He tells me of his wartime life with pride and spirit, but also as if he were answering some kind of unspoken reproach, as if the victims should be ashamed of their defenselessness. This is a problem many Jews struggled with after the Holocaust. I myself remember discussions with my Haifa uncle, Pinio or Pinchas Rottenberg, who left for Palestine before the war. I was furious that he could consider it unworthy that people go to their death without resisting, holding their mother or child in an embrace.”
— Anna Bikont, “The Crime and the Silence, Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne” (via ruby-dreams)
#book recs#informative#jewish#jewish history#jewish community#history#jewish communities#poland#polish jews#jedwabne#death#death mention#pogroms#poland pogroms#jewish resistance#jewish survival#holocaust#shoah#jewish intergenerational trauma#1941#1940s#*Goyim DO NOT DERAIL#I WILL BLOCK ON SIGHT#*Reblogging for Archival#antisemitic beliefs#historical revisionism#oppression#i was furious that they could consider it unworthy that people go to their death without resisting#*To Read#i am jewish and angry and i will say it
