Comments on: Defamation http://www.jewdas.org/2009/06/defamation/ radical voices for the alternative diaspora... Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Shtekhler http://www.jewdas.org/2009/06/defamation/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Shtekhler Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:57:08 +0000 http://www.jewdas.org/wordpress/?p=582#comment-64 Your point about the Aushwitz trips rings especially true for me after I visited the "Rediscoveing Traces of memory: the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia" exhibition currently showing at that miserable and paranoid place they call the "London Jewish Cultural Centre". The exhibition which, uncharacteristically for the centre, is absolutely free (apparently it was all paid for by other instituutions) is a very poignant set of photos from the present that show elements of the Jewish past in Poland - and to some extent the renewal of jewish life. There is one image that really jars with the rest of the exhibit, which shows a group of Young Jews walking out of the Auschwitz gates carrying a sefer torah and others behind them carrying an Israeli flag - as if frumkayt and Zionism truly represent the victims - many of whom were secular and many of whom were non/anti-Zionist. The commentary with the picture explains that these young people go straight to Israel from Auschwitz, as part of this programme to celebrate Israeli independence day, which it adds "is unquestionably powerful and life-changing for these young people". Those who regularly accuse others of abusing the memory of the Holocaust ought to look in the mirror occasionally Your point about the Aushwitz trips rings especially true for me after I visited the “Rediscoveing Traces of memory: the Jewish heritage of Polish Galicia” exhibition currently showing at that miserable and paranoid place they call the “London Jewish Cultural Centre”. The exhibition which, uncharacteristically for the centre, is absolutely free (apparently it was all paid for by other instituutions) is a very poignant set of photos from the present that show elements of the Jewish past in Poland – and to some extent the renewal of jewish life.

There is one image that really jars with the rest of the exhibit, which shows a group of Young Jews walking out of the Auschwitz gates carrying a sefer torah and others behind them carrying an Israeli flag – as if frumkayt and Zionism truly represent the victims – many of whom were secular and many of whom were non/anti-Zionist. The commentary with the picture explains that these young people go straight to Israel from Auschwitz, as part of this programme to celebrate Israeli independence day, which it adds “is unquestionably powerful and life-changing for these young people”.

Those who regularly accuse others of abusing the memory of the Holocaust ought to look in the mirror occasionally

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