North African Holocaust survivors to receive restitution

[Ambrosio Spinola]

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/5611.htm

This, according to a decision of the German government, after it held negotiations with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also known as the claims conference.

This compensation would come in addition to a 50 percent increase in home-care payments for Holocaust survivors around the world, raising the total to nine million euros (approximately $11.25 million) a year. The claims conference distributes the money, which is meant to provide aging survivors the assistance they need to remain in their own homes, to 43 aid organizations in 17 countries. About half the money goes to Holocaust survivors in Israel

[Lenny]

Why are Jews who spent time in a concentration camp more than six decades ago-- and their descendants-- entitled to "restitution" :confused: Don't the Jews realize that this action only hurts their image in the world (see below)

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[Starr]

Why are Jews who spent time in a concentration camp more than six decades ago-- and their descendants-- entitled to "restitution"

The jews are entitled to anything and everything they want. Only an anti-semite, like you, would disagree.:mad:

[Lenny]

The jews are entitled to anything and everything they want. Only an anti-semite, like you, would disagree.:mad:
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[Ambrosio Spinola]

What are they going to do when there is no more greezer to lock up or survivor to gift some cash?

[ironweed]

What are they going to do when there is no more greezer to lock up or survivor to gift some cash?

They're one step ahead of you. :rofl:



http://www.holocaustechoes.com/4hogman.html

The study of the interplay of the three generations gives the opportunity to outline the evolution of identity through generations of trauma; it also enables to examine family dynamics. Although parents are very conscious about not repeating the mistakes of their parents, and attempt to provide for their children what they didn't have themselves, children are often induced to adopt parental conflicts and fulfill their parents' wishes.



One woman, 19-year-old Tina, immediately launches into gory details about her grandparents' stay in, and escape from, Sobibor. She obviously knows the story by heart, and this is interesting for someone who for many years disavowed her Jewishness. The rest of the story comes in bits and pieces, it's about struggles with identity conflicts. When did she hear about the Holocaust? "I always knew about it," she says, "my connection to Judaism was that my grandparents had escaped a camp." She adds, "My mother was very spiritual: her connection to Judaism was through food and song," but still Tina was ashamed of the whole thing; she felt different from her schoolmates, hated when her mother imposed the religion on her by making her attend a temple; in school she didn't want to admit she was a Jew: "Part of me grew up wondering about the Holocaust, part of me wanted to throw up; I grew up as first generation in this country, and there was no family; it made me feel a little bit like a victim."


Her mother tells about her own chaotic childhood. She was born in Europe right after the war: she tells of the escape from the Poles who tried to kill her and her parents, how she was instrumental in saving her father, the DP camps where they felt unsafe - perhaps that makes her daughter both a second and third generation survivor; she describes her parents' struggles to make it in America; her anger at her mother who daily spoke of her time in Auschwitz; she also felt very sorry for her parents and afraid for her mother who used to get depressed and even tried to commit suicide.

There's lots more sentiment just like it. through the article. I don't consider myself the least bit anti-Semitic, yet even I am a bit put off by this business of it somehow going on from generation to generation.

And as an aside, WTF is this all about...

She wanted to be slapped by her mother when she started to menstruate. Mother refused: "My parents never taught me any religious practises." Her mother never discussed the topic with her though that was what Helen wanted. "She couldn't - she doesn't have the words to convey it, she says to me, so she made a bath with rose petals to welcome me into womanhood."

Some weird Jewish custom regarding slapping your daughter when she gets her period? :confused:

[Schnee Weiss`]

What a bunch of psychologically messed up *hit!! These people are truly insane.