“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Monday, May 20, 2024
New Iran President No less a Sadistic Murderer Than Raisi
The young SS "helpers" at Auschwitz concentration camp .. History Repeating Itself on the Streets of New York and other Major Cities in the Free World!
A play that has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, "Here There Are Blueberries," is now telling the story of the historians and archivists who uncovered the identities of the people in the haunting photographs.
The play's title comes from a series of photos in the album— young secretaries who worked under Karl Höcker are seen eating blueberries. A caption next to the photographs reads, "Here there are blueberries."
"And outside of the frame, there's 1.1 million people who are being killed," playwright and director Moises Kaufman told Anderson Cooper.
"So how do you lead your daily life and at the same time participate in one of the largest killing machines in the history of mankind?"
Kaufman's co-creator, Amanda Gronich, said she couldn't help but wonder what the young women in the photographs knew about the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz while they were there.
"And one of the things the play explores is, 'How much did they know? How much did they know about what was going on?'" Gronich said.
Rebecca Erbelding is a historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. She received the Höcker album in the mail in 2007. "Here There Are Blueberries" is based on her and her colleagues' investigation of the album.
Cooper viewed the Höcker album with Erbelding at a high-security facility in Maryland where the museum's collections are stored. As she turned the yellowed pages, she revealed the smiling faces of Auschwitz's "helpers" in the "Blueberries" series of images.
"They were called 'Helferinnen,' or 'helpers.' And they weren't just young women who got drafted and sent there," Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.
"These were young women who were true believers, who grew up with Nazi ideology."
Erbelding explained that many of the women who applied to serve as "helpers" were members of the women's division in the Hitler Youth program, Bund Deutscher Mädel, or the League of German Girls.
BDM members were required to have "Aryan" parents, to ensure racial purity according to Nazi racial theory. They were instructed from early ages to adhere to Nazi ideals and find "appropriate" partners. The intention behind the program was to create a future generation of Germans who were faithful to Nazism.
The "helpers" of Auschwitz worked in communications, as telephone, telegram, and radio operators. They would report back to superiors in Berlin with information about the camp's operations.
"Part of the communication that they had to do was communicating the arrivals of trains, how many people had been selected for work, and how many people had been selected to be gassed," Erbelding told Cooper.
Erbelding thinks the "helper" holding the blueberry bowl upside down and mock crying in one of the photographs is Ruth Astrosini.
After Auschwitz, Astrosini worked at Bergen-Belsen, another infamous concentration camp where tens of thousands of prisoners died from starvation and disease. Astrosini was eventually arrested when the British liberated the camp and sentenced at a trial in Krakow, Poland, in 1948.
Another woman believed to be in the photographs is Charlotte Schünzel Bartsch. She testified at the trial of Karl Höcker that she had informed her superiors in Berlin about the trains arriving at Auschwitz and how many prisoners had been sent to the gas chamber.
"They were doing monstrous work," Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.
Irene Weiss is a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor. She and her family were sent to Auschwitz when she was 13 years old. Most of her family died in the camp. She is one of the few who survived.
Weiss said she wasn't shocked by what she saw in the Höcker album. She had seen that dark side of humanity at Auschwitz.
Weiss told Cooper that all it takes is "permission" from a higher authority, a government, or a leader, for people to turn on their friends and neighbors.
She recalled testifying at the trial of two former guards who had worked at Auschwitz. She said one of the guards, even in old age, in her view, had taken a position during the trial that he was "following orders" and was just doing what was expected of him.
"They were taught that they were doing it for a higher purpose," she said. "The propaganda, patriotism of his kind was so strong… [he] couldn't let it go."
The video above was produced by Will Croxton. It was edited by Sarah Shafer Prediger. Georgia Rosenberg was the broadcast associate.
Photos courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and video courtesy of USHMM, gift of Julien Bryan Archive.
Toldos Avraham Yitzchok Rebbe Recklessly Advises Chassidm to go to Miron on Lag Be'Omer
The תוספתא (Shabbos 7:1) enumerates practices
that are אסור to do because they are considered דרכי אמורי.
One of them is clapping, or dancing in front of a fire.
Dancing in front of a fire would be an איסור דאורייתא
of ובחקתיהם לא תלכו.
There will be those who will claim that dancing in front of
a fire is an accepted מנהג בישראל and argue that it can't be
wrong when you have thousands of Yidden & Rebbes dancing
around the fire.
The same argument was probably also used when
there were thousands of Yidden worshipping the
עגל הזהב.
Perhaps, those planning to dance in front of the fire
should ask their מורה הוראה if this איסור דאורייתא is no
longer applicable today and why not?
see below excerpts of שו"ת שבט הלוי ח"ז קל"ו
*בליל שבת בבית שמש:
האדמו"ר קרא לעלות למירון ▪︎ "ירו כבר הרבה לאזור, ושום דבר לא נפל"*
Iranian Jewish community mourns death of Pres. Ebrahim Raisi While the Rest of Iran Celebrates
The Iranian Jewish community headed by its Chief Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, published in the name of the "Agudat Kiliman" (the community's nickname) a bereavement notice following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's Foreign Minister, and several others in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
"We are filled with sadness and sobbing following the deaths of the holy ones of the Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the nation and the servant of the Iranian people, together with other diplomats and officials of Islam, the Iranian Republic, and the Supreme Leader of the Revolution and all the people of his land," the announcement read. "Without a doubt, Iranian history will never forget the memory of the modest and tortured President."
"The Kiliman community of Iran mourn the sudden lost of their President and other national servants who were killed. Together with all Iranians, we ask the One Above for the highest honors for the princes of this land."
Last year, Rabbi Gerami, leading a delegation of rabbis which included the heads of Jewish communities, met Raisi at a meeting of religious leaders.
During that meeting, Raisi mentioned Israel, saying, "Those who are oppressing the oppressed people in Palestine, in the name of the Jews have no connection to the Jewish religion and the followers of the Prophet Moses today. Those who oppress people in any place in the world in the name of Christianity have no connection to Christianity because all of the prophets hated oppression."
Meanwhile in the rest of Iran
As soon as the news broke on Sunday that the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had crashed far north-western corner of the country, Iranians began to celebrate. Celebrations then only increased after the President was announced to be dead.
Bat Yam rabbi: No 'Tachanun' prayers following Raisi's death
Rabbi David Chai Hacohen, dean of the Netivot Hatora yeshiva in Bat Yam and a neighborhood rabbi in the city, has instructed his students to omit the "Tachanun" prayer during Monday's morning and afternoon prayers, following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The Tachanun prayer is a prayer of supplication, which is not said on festive days or days of thanksgiving.
"The President was a very 'special' hater of israel, and he was the greatest of all the Iranians. And may it be G-d's will that the wolves in the forest where he fell will eat him. This is good news for the Jewish people. Even more than Haman - if we make a festive meal on the day he was killed - then even more so, we should not say Tachanun. It is mentioned in the Mishna Berura that on the first day of the intermediate days of Passover he was hanged, and therefore we should add a special dish."
A prayer of thanksgiving, with song and dance, was aslo held at the yeshiva.
Ha Ha Ha ... Chilonim Screaming At Pro-Hamas Chareidie Protesters "Shabbos" "Shabbos" !!!!
עולם הפוך ראיתי
It's in the first few seconds of the clip!
Iranian President ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Confirmed DEAD!
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed on Sunday when a helicopter carrying him crashed.
Iranian semi-official broadcaster Tasnim reported that the President was on board the helicopter when it was involved in an accident in the East Azerbaijan province in northwest Iran.
Live updates:
Monday:
7:30 a.m.: Iranian state media has confirmed that President Raisi is dead, writing: "Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi Khadim al-Reza (peace be upon him), the eighth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who suffered an air accident on Sunday evening, May 30th, on his way back from the opening ceremony of the Qiz Qalasi Dam to Tabriz city, in Warzaghan region of the East Azerbaijan province, together with all his companions, has reached the lofty position of martyrdom at the same time as the night of the birth of Imam Rauf Ali Ibn Musa al-Reza (peace be upon him)."
The report added: "Local sources who are currently present at the scene of the helicopter carrying the president confirmed the martyrdom of the president and his companions."
Marco Rubio SHREDS NBC Anchor When Asked if He Will Accept Election Results
Sen. Marco Rubio obliterates Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker when she asks "will you accept the election results of 2024 no matter what happens?" pic.twitter.com/l8SPWAjsTd
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