Sunday, November 10, 2013
My Identity
This weekend are two huge memorials, and I have been reading articles and seeing posts on Facebook, and it is really touching me deep inside about how our veterans are treated in America, and how Jewish people are treated all over the world. The Jewish Journal this week has some amazing articles about Kristallnacht, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht. The theme in all of the articles is that people survived and thrived. This amazing victim of the Holocaust became part of the U.S.A. Allied forcers and went back to fight and liberate Jews from the horrors of World War II. http://www.jewishjournal.com/lifestyle/article/kristallnacht_witness_joined_allied_forces_against_Germany. If you pick one up or go online, it is pages 18, 19, 20, and 21, blew my mind! One of them talks about the star of Fiddler on the Roof, he was just honored in Austria, where he was born. His family fled to Israel after the Nazi's annexed Austria in 1938, they were strong Zionists.http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/austria_to_honor_bikel
I was reading that after Kristallnacht, the rest of the world basically looked the other way, and many historians say this was the beginning of the Holocaust. There was a young Jewish boy that lived in Paris, he fired a weapon into the German Embassy, and the crazy part of it all is that nobody cared, and he was given over to Germany, he stood up for the Jewish people and is a hero.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/herschel_grynszpan_the_boy_avenger
Here are a few more articles that were really interesting, informative, and touching,
http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/75_years_after_kristallnacht_time_to_toughen_up_and_reclaim_our_memory
http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/whats_in_a_name_the_false_narrative_of_kristallnacht
What is my identity?
I am Jewish first
A Woman Second
An American Third
A Russian-Jewish Immigrant Fourth
In Russia, Judaism was my nationality, In America it's my religion, we all have to find who we are to ourselves. I feel so connected to my ancestors and my roots and to God, life is such a blessing.
Let us NEVER FORGET,
and Treat our Veterans and Survivors with Respect, and learn from them,
http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/sophie_zeidman_hamburger_survivor_94
Coach Yulia
(The article below I couldn't find online, I scanned it, so powerful for Veteran relations, he is a hero)
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