(((I Will Outlive)))

people on this website will say "THE MEDIA ISN'T TALKING ABOUT THIS #YOUKNOWWHY" and then not even know what the media IS talking about because their sole news source is the destiel meme

hey shoutout to this person in the notes. you’re not like other tumblrinas you’re actually, somehow, worse

#saying ‘i get my news from youtubers’ that is info you couldn’t waterboard out of me

Students and teachers of the exiled Mir Yeshiva study in the sanctuary of the Beth Aharon synagogue on Museum Road in Shanghai, Japanese-Occupied China; 1942. x

Established in 1815, the Mir Yeshiva - located in the town of Mir, which is currently part of Belarus - was one of the top institutions for studying Torah in the world at its time.  When Mir was captured by the Soviet Union in 1939 and Judaism was forbidden as a result, the students and teachers of the Yeshiva moved to Vilna, Lithuania instead.  In early 1941, they were able to flee Vilna by securing travel documents from the righteous gentile Chiune Sempo Sugihara. who was working as Japan’s Consul to Lithuania at the time.  The Mir Yeshiva joined the over 21,000 Jewish people living in Shanghai during World War II and was the only yeshiva to escape the Holocaust intact.  The Mir Yeshiva continues to exist to this day and runs three yeshiva schools; one in Jerusalem and two in New York City.

The Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, Czech Republic; 2004. x

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.  Though it was not the first Jewish cemetery in Prague, it is the most important as numerous important Jewish figures are buried here; such as Rabbi David Oppenheim, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and Jewish community and business leader Mordecai Meisel.  It is uncertain what year the cemetery was started.  Although the earliest dated grave belongs to Rabbi Avigdor Kara, who passed away in 1439, the cemetery is believed to be much older than that.  The final gravestone in the cemetery is dated 1787; three years after Emperor Josef II banned burials inside Prague due to fear of bubonic plague.  The cemetery exists to this day and is administered by the Jewish Museum of Prague.