#('if it happens again and people find out my dad is jewish born and raised-----')

Anonymous asked:

I literally didn't know that keeping a "go bag" was an intergenerational trauma thing. I was always scared we might have had to leave, so at age four, I stuffed some clothes into a little bag and hid it behind my dresser. I always thought about where to hide or where to escape.

jewish-privilege answered:

This is super common and I’ve heard the same or similar from Jewish kids growing up now to people of my parents generation (70s and 80s). It’s the Jewish experience.

It surprises me every time to remember that not everyone went to a summer camp that had them reenact running away from the Holocaust as refugees.

loverofmythology

Bitch

What

WHAT???????

Generational trauma is a hell of a drug.

loverofmythology

WHAT KIND OF SUMMER CAMP IS THAT THO, LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

keshetchai

I know when Unorthodox podcast covered Summer Camps, I think(?) they mentioned this - they even spoke to someone who studies Jewish summer camp history, and Lilith magazine’s second to last recent issue’s cover page referred to an article “Holocaust Games at Summer Camp.”

tikkunolamorgtfo

I used to let my friends pretend to “hide me” from the Nazis :/

jenroses

My father was never a practicing Jew but he taught me how to camp, fish, wildcraft food, bake bread…. and made sure I had survival training.

I don’t even thing he was doing it consciously, but when Trump was elected, my FIRST reaction was ‘We need to leave’. I come from a long line of people who successfully ran away.

I was obsessed with being able to hide from infancy. (literally 2 months old the first time I managed to hide from my mother, rofl.)

jewish-privilege

“I come from a long line of people who successfully ran away.” #ThatJewishFeeling

fromchaostocosmos

I use to play who can we pass/pretend to be game with friends. As in as young children my friends and I would try to figure out if we could pass as looking not Jewish and who of us that wouldn’t work for.

Being around 8 years old and figuring out who in your group of friends has the highest chance of getting caught and killed is very much a part of growing up Jewish.

herwitchinesss

“if you bleach your hair, then maybe” was always what i was told and like, haha, never really questioned why i’ve wanted to do that very thing since i was very little but the two coincide in ways i don’t really want to think about.

queermachmir

Also gentile kids saying you’d be the first to get killed or “lucky you have blue eyes, maybe you’ll survive” 😬

narcolepticgnome

As a conversion student, I have no idea how to respond to this, but I feel the need to bear witness and not just let it float past my dashboard.

misanthropemom

amplifying voices

#izzyizumi jewish tag #jewish #intergenerational trauma #jewish intergenerational trauma #(THANK YOU to people in this fandom who reblog this)#(guess what exactly I THOUGHT when Tr*mp was elected and Charlottesville happened TOO)#('if it happens again and people find out my Dad is Jewish born and raised-----')#(among others on my Jewish side THAT ARE STILL ALIVE .... LIKE MY GRANDMA'S LIVING BROTHER TOO ..... LIKE MY AUNT TOO ..... ETC ETC ETC)#('I COME FROM A VERY VERY LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WHO SUCCESSFULLY RAN AWAY')#(literally my dad's words 'a very VERY long line of Jews' WE HAVE A FAMILY MENORAH that is GOD KNOWS HOW OLD)#(also Guess Who was sadly stuck having to attend a Catholic summer camp when I was Young Me during my early fandom days)#(NOT BECAUSE WE WANTED TO my mom was not that cruel but I HAD TO because there was NOTHING else nearby that had supervisors)#(GUESS WHAT . I HATED IT . and basically violently rejected anything heavily Christian or Catholic leaning since)#(I Am Legit Not Lying and this was when I was still in my Tamagotchis phase and they were my ONE major source of comfort while stuck there)#(that and playing board games by myself because whoaaaa no one light haired light eyed wants to play with the Quiet One who Looks Mixed)#(YEAH I HAVE EXPERIENCES TOO AND I'M MAD I HAVE TO DESCRIBE THEM FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE MY VIEWS SERIOUSLY)#(the literal last straw was when Tr*mp pulled his 'DISLOYAL JEWS WHO VOTE DEMOCRAT' sh*t because WHOOAAAAAA)#(MY FAMILY IS FULL OF DISLOYAL AMERICAN JEWS WHO VOTED DEMOCRAT BEFORE)#(idek anymore but YEAH I Feel This Post and I Am Scared Of Where The World Is Going)#(according to the antisemite neo nazi fascist who sent me hate some three weeks ago or so I'm ' Jewish Enough ' to be considered SO ......)#(I'm Still Mad About That Summer Camp Experience THANK GOD for This Series Saving My Views Of Summer Camps)#(I'm just glad I never had THIS experience because I'd ALSO VIOLENTLY REJECT '' Holocaust Games '' KNOWING MY OWN FAMILY'S HISTORY)#(like honestly idek how else to describe my experiences to people but it sure sucks not being taken seriously unless you disclose everything #(.... I also have considered packing a '' go bag '' just. just in case. It Got Even More Really Bad Again Than It Already Is but You Know.)#(me reading about antisemitism in history as Young Me and Current Me 'this was literally what my Grandma was experiencing .' 'lucky')#(anyhow I don't normally reblog posts like this over here but IMPORTANT and also PLEASE DO NOT ADD DUMB COMMENTS IF YOU'RE NOT JEWISH)#('oh but YOU DON'T LOOK like you have Jewish family' just . I'm Really Tired)#(listen I should NOT have to consider packing a '' go bag '' at ALL much less ALSO at points WHEN I WAS A KID learning about the Holocaust)#('tbh do I even pass????' 'very dark messy curly hair' 'very dark brown eyes that never photograph right' and I'm like 5'0'' idek anymore)