Sacrilegious Comparison: Holocaust 2.0
From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel
From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel
From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel
Bar-Mitzvah in front of the Auschwitz entrance The scale of the Shoah prevents us from perceiving it in a whole. Human psyche’s self-defence mechanism is evoked, often blocking us from absorbing it in its enitre shocking volume. We know its methodic plan and idea. We also know the incomprehensible outcome of it. It comes as facts of history. But what connects us with our brethren perished in that unspeakable crime is the way of personal identification with real people from those six – and in all likeness, more – million murdered Jews. That’s why many of us randomly adopt one Jewi...