Nazi-Era Snapshots and the Banality of Evil

A collection of photos reveals the everyday existence of the Third Reich.

No Lakotas in the picture. (All photos courtesy of Daniel Lenchner's collection)

“Do you know about the Lakota Indians?” 

asked Daniel Lenchner, handing me a slightly faded photograph from the early 20th century. 

It was a class portrait with a location printed at the bottom: Lakota, North Dakota.

“Now,” challenged Lenchner, “can you find an Indian in this picture?”

I scanned the rows of Caucasian faces.

“Not going to happen,” he continued. “We got rid of them, you know. No more Lakotas in Lakota. It looks like a class portrait, but you could also say that this is a picture of genocide.”

That theme of implicit absence dominates Lenchner’s found-photograph collection. Scouring flea markets, estate sales and the internet, Lenchner has collected over 500 snapshots of Nazis taken by Nazis that document their daily lives: their families, their friendships and their leisure activities.  

As a Jewish man with ancestors who perished in the Holocaust, these intimate glimpses into the daily lives of his family’s persecutors bring him face to face with what political philosopher Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil”.

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Nissim Black's new song for Hanukkah: Eight Flames

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Meah Shearim Guy Wanted by police Arrested after being tricked that his mother is in the Hospital

Yershalyim guy from Meah Shearim wanted by police got arrested after police trapped him in a sting.

Police, tricked him into thinking that they are from Ichud Hatzala  and that his mother is on her way to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital unconscious ...

Like a good son he arrived at Shaarei Tzedek only to be put in handcuffs...

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Zera Shimshon .... Va'Yeshev..... Chanukah

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Song of "Niddah"

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Funny Video for Yiddish Speakers

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My Hasidic community taught me to avoid non-Jews, but I decided to live differently. What if they were right?

NEW YORK (JTA) — While a shooter was firing rounds of ammunition into two Jews in Jersey City, New Jersey, a kosher market worker and a police officer simply for who they are and where they were, I was halfway around the world, in Paris. 

More specifically, I was hurrying past a Parisian cafe where I was made to feel humiliated for being visibly Jewish exactly a year prior. 

The attack felt more personal to me, a proud Brooklyn Jew. The Jewish community in Jersey City is comprised largely of Hasidic Brooklyn Jews who can’t afford living across the bridge. An anti-Semite went after my home community, the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel. 

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Jason Greenblatt: Israel can count on Trump, not Sanders, when under attack

The rocket attack Wednesday by Palestinian terrorists on an Israeli city where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was appearing at an election campaign event is just the latest example of how the Gaza Strip has become a base for anti-Semitic murderers out to kill as many Jews as possible.

Fortunately, Israel’s Iron Dome defense system – supplied by the United States – destroyed the terrorist rocket in midair, before it could kill or injure anyone in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Thanks to President Trump and his strong support of Israel’s right to self-defense, the Jewish state can count on America as its most powerful and reliable friend.

Netanyahu was rushed offstage and into a bomb shelter when the incoming rocket was detected. This was the second time he had to be rushed to a bomb shelter while campaigning, following an earlier incident in September.

Israel responded forcefully and justifiably to the unprovoked rocket fired from Gaza. Israeli Defense Forces fighter jets and helicopters attacked targets used by the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, including the group’s military complexes.

Let’s imagine for a moment what the reaction of the United States would be – under any leader who takes the security of Americans seriously – if a rocket attack was launched toward a campaign event being held by a presidential candidate.

What would America or any other nation do? I think it is fair to say that the reaction to such an attack would be quick, decisive and punishing.

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77 Year-Old Richard Rappaport Marries 26 Year-Old Israeli and She Tries Ripping Him Off For $1 Million ....

You think he learned his lesson???

A newly married 26-year-old Florida woman was arrested for allegedly trying to grift her 77-year-old husband out of $1 million.

Lin Helena Halfon attempted to cash the whopper of a cashier’s check at a Tampa bank last month, claiming she was going to use the money to buy a yacht in Miami with her businessman hubby Richard Rappaport, authorities said.

When bank employees refused, she allegedly left, but came back later that day with three checks, each for $333,333. Staffers didn’t cash the checks and called the cops.

Investigators notified Rappaport about what his wife was doing, and he said he wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and didn’t want her to be deported to her native Israel, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Two checks worth about $666,000 were eventually cashed by an Orlando business. Investigators got a warrant to freeze the third check.

Asked later if he felt he was the victim of fraud, Rappaport told investigators, “yes,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

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