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Behind the Aegis's JournalArchivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, just 400,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive.
Simone Marienberg, a five-month-old baby, had been born in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, a hilly village in France. Salomon Ieoyda, who was close to 90, came from Thessaloniki in Greece. At least 40 members of the Horovitz family arrived from Hajduhadhaz in Hungary. There were more than 9,300 Davids and 14,400 Esthers.
The 1.1m people killed at Auschwitz, an extermination camp in occupied Poland, were born as far away as Finland and Morocco. Most of the victims, after journeys of brutalising squalor, were led directly from the trains to the gas chambers. When the Red Army liberated the Third Reich’s biggest death factory on January 27th 1945, 75 years ago this week, it found 7,000kg of human hair shorn from the corpses.
The tally of the dead is hard to comprehend. Of the 9.5m Jews in Europe before the war, 6m were murdered. If you spent five minutes reading about each of them, it would fill every waking hour for 90 years. The overall civilian death toll attributed to the Nazis—including Gypsies, disabled people, gays, prisoners and bystanders to combat—was perhaps three times greater.
Yad Vashem (“A Memorial and a Name”), a museum in Israel, is determined to commemorate Holocaust victims as individuals. In 1946 Sarah Friedlander, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen, became the first director of its archive, which documented Jews’ lives using testimonies from relatives. In 2004 Yad Vashem published its database of victims online. Since then, it has grown from 2.7m people to 4.8m, thanks to digital analysis of the museum’s 210m documents. The records include 736,000 murdered Jews who were sent to Auschwitz.
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**Note, this is from last year, but answers a question many have...how many survivors still live.
Facebook debuts new fact check box to combat Holocaust denial
People who search for information about the Holocaust on Facebook will now be prompted to visit a website on the genocide curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Starting Wednesday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, users will see a box labeled “Learning About the Holocaust” when they search Holocaust terms. Similar boxes with resources pop up after searching about things such as the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. elections.
“The Holocaust was the organized persecution and killing of 6 million Jewish people, alongside other targeted groups, by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II,” the box reads. “Learning about the Holocaust can help prevent future genocides and other acts of hatred based on religion, ethnicity or other differences.”
There is a link to aboutholocaust.org, a joint WJC and UNESCO site.
WJC President Ronald Lauder said the new tool could help counter Holocaust ignorance among the young. A study last fall on Gen Z views on the genocide found a widespread lack of subject on the subject — 11% of respondents thought that Jews caused the Holocaust.
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Because...what the fuck...
Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust
More than one in 10 American adults under 40 believes that Jews caused the Holocaust.
That’s one finding from a survey published Wednesday trying to gauge Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Generation Z, a cohort ranging in age from 18 to 39.
The survey found that most respondents had heard of the Holocaust and 37% knew that 6 million Jews died. Slightly more than half could name at least one concentration camp or ghetto.
But 11% of the respondents believed the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust, 15% said they thought the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated, and 20% said people talk about it too much. Nearly half said they had seen Holocaust denial online.
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Yup...sounds about right. 
History repeats (or echoes): The Smithsonian Channel's "America' Hidden Stories". Two new episodes.
The second season of "America's Hidden Stories" has dropped two titles that are very relevant to today. The first is about a Nazi plot to interfere with an American election, FDR's. Sound familiar? The second is "The Klan Makes a Movie." Think it is about "Birth of a Nation"? It ain't! It is about a movie called, "The Toll of Justice". Throughout the Smithsonian program, it demonstrates how the reconstituted Klan struggled, then worked to rebuild the Klan into a more "sympathetic" group. See, the Klan wasn't really a hate group, it was interested in the health and well-being of the American nation and her people. Sound familiar?
I learned a new term, Miafa. It was a rebranding of the KKK. It means, "My interests are for America." Coming to a MAGA rally soon?
I really do suggest you watch both if you are able to do so. The historical relevance is fucking scary!
Neo-Nazi influenced by Trump that promoted extermination of LGBTQ people sent to jail
Luke Hunter "promoted killing techniques and encouraged the killing of Jews, non-white races and homosexuals" after becoming infatuated with Donald Trump's politics in 2016.
23-year-old Luke Hunter was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for seven terror-related offences, including encouragement of terrorism, disseminating terrorist publications, and broadcasting violent material.
Hunter used his influence on thousands of social media users between Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Discord and Telegram to promote the extermination of Jewish people, non-white people, and LGBTQ people. He also celebrate mass murderers such as Dylann Roof and David Copeland, and assist in the operations of the Nazi groups, including one ran by a 13 year old.
Hunter was sentenced by Leeds Crown Court in England. He was first arrested by police in October 2019 after the extremist watch group HOPE not hate notified authorities of out of the ordinary behavior by Hunter online, sending fears that he might take action on his beliefs.
Unbeknownst to them, Hunter’s father was a retired officer with the Counter Terror Command of the Metropolitan Police, and he was still working as a civilian for the department at the time of Hunter’s arrest.
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Anti-Semitic fliers calling Antifa 'Jewish anti-Nazi militia' posted around New Dorp
Anti-Semitic fliers claiming that “Antifa [an anti-fascism group] is a Jewish communist militia” were spotted in the New Dorp area on Saturday morning.
In bold text, the fliers read, “The original Antifa was a Jewish anti-Nazi militia... There is a war against all non-Jewish European-American nationalists.”
Anti-Nazi, according to the flier, means “anti-white nationalist, anti-American, anti-Christian.” The flier also maintains that anti-fascism is equivalent to communism.
The Advance/SILive.com observed four fliers in total on the commercial stretch between Sterling Ave. and Penn Ave. on Hylan Blvd.
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