When I was very young, I had elderly relatives with these numerical serial number tattoos on their arms, from their time in German concentration camps.
Never let anybody compare the Holocaust to their trivial problems. The horror stories, the witnessing of brutality and death over and over, were real. Attempting to co-op this for one's social or political gain is disgusting, and you should call it out every time.
Politicians are so fond of comparing their political squabbles, and social foibles, to the Holocaust. Every time they do it, they are making an anti-semitic statement, and minimizing the reality.
When I visited the set of Hogan's Heroes back in 1970 I was introduced to Robert Clary. I was told beforehand that he was a Holocaust survivor. My brother, Larry Hovis, reminded me that this meant to refrain asking about it and then I saw what I thought was a bunch of numbers on his left arm. I remember he asked me a bunch of questions but couldn't barely speak to him. Robert told me what fun it was, and a little bizarre, that he was on a television show that made fun of Nazi's. Robert lost a dozen of his family members but he and a cousin survived. John Banner, he played Scholz, was captured and spent time in an early version of the concentration camps for being in a theatre group that toured colleges in Germany. John's acting group did a few skits that made fun of the government and wasn't sanctioned, of course. he escaped to the U.S. before the war. John Banner and Werner Klemperer, Klink, both joined the Air Force. John Banner's parents died at a Polish extermination camp, Treblinka. After getting know some the cast I was privy to some their history.
I wouldn't be here, unless my Grandfather, already in the USA just prior to WWII, war drums already beating, had my Grandmother smuggled out through an "underground railroad" from Germany to a seaport in the Netherlands on to a steamer headed to America. He picked her up in NYC, took her back to Chicago, had a good life, great jobs: jump ahead one generation and myself and siblings were born. And true to old world tradition, after Grandma #1 passed away, he quickly married her sister two weeks later, leaving my mother to shout: I knew it ! Grandpa said when his family got to Chicago, 1800's, it was nothing but a small muddy cow town, but deep black soil for farming made it especially attractive to farmers.
the_red_scimitar on January 27th, 2022 at 14:59 UTC »
When I was very young, I had elderly relatives with these numerical serial number tattoos on their arms, from their time in German concentration camps.
Never let anybody compare the Holocaust to their trivial problems. The horror stories, the witnessing of brutality and death over and over, were real. Attempting to co-op this for one's social or political gain is disgusting, and you should call it out every time.
Politicians are so fond of comparing their political squabbles, and social foibles, to the Holocaust. Every time they do it, they are making an anti-semitic statement, and minimizing the reality.
bbqtom1400 on January 27th, 2022 at 19:43 UTC »
When I visited the set of Hogan's Heroes back in 1970 I was introduced to Robert Clary. I was told beforehand that he was a Holocaust survivor. My brother, Larry Hovis, reminded me that this meant to refrain asking about it and then I saw what I thought was a bunch of numbers on his left arm. I remember he asked me a bunch of questions but couldn't barely speak to him. Robert told me what fun it was, and a little bizarre, that he was on a television show that made fun of Nazi's. Robert lost a dozen of his family members but he and a cousin survived. John Banner, he played Scholz, was captured and spent time in an early version of the concentration camps for being in a theatre group that toured colleges in Germany. John's acting group did a few skits that made fun of the government and wasn't sanctioned, of course. he escaped to the U.S. before the war. John Banner and Werner Klemperer, Klink, both joined the Air Force. John Banner's parents died at a Polish extermination camp, Treblinka. After getting know some the cast I was privy to some their history.
SirGlenn on January 27th, 2022 at 20:13 UTC »
I wouldn't be here, unless my Grandfather, already in the USA just prior to WWII, war drums already beating, had my Grandmother smuggled out through an "underground railroad" from Germany to a seaport in the Netherlands on to a steamer headed to America. He picked her up in NYC, took her back to Chicago, had a good life, great jobs: jump ahead one generation and myself and siblings were born. And true to old world tradition, after Grandma #1 passed away, he quickly married her sister two weeks later, leaving my mother to shout: I knew it ! Grandpa said when his family got to Chicago, 1800's, it was nothing but a small muddy cow town, but deep black soil for farming made it especially attractive to farmers.