I’m Jewish. As some of you might know, after my years with HU is that My father, aunt and grandparents were Holocaust survivors. On this evening of May 5th starts Holocaust Remembrance Week. This year is the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The important thing I want to point out is that tho Jews were the main targets of the Nazis, there were many other groups of people impacted as well. For our HU community, unfortunately people with mental health issues were targeted by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930’s and sent to camps. The most important thing now is that we are tolerant of one another. The support I have received from HU members since 2020 has helped me immensely.
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Religion can impact on mental health for better or for worse and is certainly not banned by the HU rules unless someone is trying to recruit members from this group which is out of order.
Though the Jews were targeted for the final solution, the Nazis targeted many groups of people such as Romani - AKA Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, LGBTQ and the list goes on. They also first targeted people with mental health issues in Germany in the 1930’s.
you are correct. Anyone who was considered impure for the Aryan race was targeted. For the Jews they called it Judenrein - cleansing of the Jews from the Aryannrace.
Thankyou for your informative post and it is a reminder of tolerance x we are all different religions and races and all of that but we all bond over our similarities not our differences x I hope you celebrate the survival of your relatives in this important week for you x
Thank you for your support. This is also a week that triggers my PTSD. Unfortunately, my granny Dora had terrible survivor’s guilt. When she would light the candles on Friday nights, to bring in the Jewish Sabbath, she would weep inconsolably in Yiddish - the language that many Jews spoke in Poland. She felt guilty that she couldn’t have saved her parents and family from the Nazis. This behavior went on for years. The older I get, the more I realize how it negatively impacted me.
My parents were Holocaust survivors. I've had some severe anxiety recently on top of my long-term depression because of anti Semitic actions on campuses. I will see my psychiatrist in a few weeks to determine the best medication for this.
So happy that you are seeing your psychiatrist. So sorry about your recent anxiety. Totally understandable. What’s happening on many college campuses is very scary. One of the biggest reasons that I have for being on HU, is communicating with people from diverse backgrounds.
The cruel behaviour towards Jews, Poles, Russians and others that took place during WW2 is horrifying and the 'Never again' message is so important.But it is happening again right now and when the dust settles there will be a new generation who have experienced the trauma and unspeakable cruelties that will lead to mental ill health issues among those fortunate enough to survive.
And the hatred and fighting and destroying continues. When I was young and hopeful I thought people would learn from the horrors of all the past waves, wars, crusades, etc whose aim was to crush ‘different’. Now at 73 my depression has deepened because I’ve realized history is a loop.
We must never forget. Remember, apart from God who loves you with an everlasting love, you are loved and should be loved by all of us Christians. Jesus was Jewish. Personally, l have great respect for your courage and abhor the persecution that you have to suffer continually. There is so much wrong with this world, but God will put it right. His timing is perfect. He is more powerful than all of this evil. Trust and faith in Him. God bless and keep you safe. ❤️
Thank you for bringing up this discussion of the holocaust and prejudice. I am also Jewish, but my family had already left Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Unfortunately, today many people have no idea what the holocaust was and some deny that it occurred. There is a great deal of antisemitism around the country, and it seems to be increasing at this point. It seems like humanity is becoming more and more tribal with less consideration of the world in general and what would be good for the human race and our planet.
Stoics said that one should not waste one’s time trying to fix or control things that are out of one’s control and should focus on the things that one can control. This forum represents an example of people trying to help each other rather than trying to change the world. This is probably the best we can do to help each other and make life more tolerable. If you can help even one person to feel better and have a better life, then you have accomplished something.
Well spoken. When Moses was given the Ten Commandments, one was for us to love one other. God gave us these Commandments so that we would have joy, peace and a fulfilled life. Keeping these Commandments is the only way to gain what God promised us and to live life in peace, the way he intended. He made the beauty of the earth and gave us life to share it with one another and He shared it with us. Man has sadly destroyed this gift.
what a profound saying. There is another that goes to save a life is as tho U R saving the whole world. U R correct, this forum is a place where we support each other. I have met people who have found out that I am the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Sometimes they want to know how my relatives survived. I give them a general answer I don’t want to trigger anyone if I don’t know them. There were some horrific things that happened. I won’t discuss them here as well. I don’t want to trigger anyone. What I can say is that for part of WW, my family lived in hiding in Poland. My grandfather had American dollars, diamond jewelry and gold coins among other things. He gave some of these possessions to his Catholic friends who hid my family from the Nazis and Polish collaborators.
You can go to a Holocaust Remembrance event this week. You will learn more of what happened to populations directly impacted by the Holocaust. If you have Facebook or on Social Media U can bring this up as a topic to talk about.
Thanks. I will look up events. I know a lot about what happened to the populations impacted by the Holocaust. I have been alive a long time and have read a lot of books. However, I can always learn more. Unfortunately, I don't really participate in social media.
sounds like a good idea to look up events. It is very admirable that you have knowledge about the Holocaust. This gives me hope. It is a painful part of history. However people need to know what happened. And there were many allied soldiers during WW II who developed Shell Shock. What is known today as PTSD. Many of these were American soldiers who liberated the concentration camps. Unfortunately, because of the terrible racism that was going on in the U.S. during the 1940’s Black, Brown, Native American and Japanese-American soldiers who liberated camps and assisted Holocaust survivors after the war were not given credit for their bravery. Kareem Abdul Jabbar the great basketball star, his father was a Black G.I. After the war befriended a young Jewish male survivor. The survivor went to Israel. After Jabbar’s father died, he looked up the family who his father befriended. Tho the Jewish survivor was dead, Jabbar met the man’s family in Israel. It was a very touching encounter.
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