I am totally shocked to find frum "heimishe" Yidden on social media placing "We Stand with Ukraine memes" on their pages be it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter!
Have we forgotten that the Ukrainians were worse than the Nazis?
The US State Department said on Wednesday that Putin has a "Hit List" of Ukrainians, well I hope that the list is very very long. I pray that Putin troops go from house to house and pulls out entire Ukrainian families and marches them to Babi Yar!
וינקום לעינינו נקמת דם עבדיו השפוך
I know what the problem is.. it is the lack of Holocaust studies in Frum Yeshivois. We children of survivors really didn't need any Holocaust Studies, we lived it on a daily basis. We lived in neighborhoods that were inhabited totally 100% by survivors. But our children need to study this!
I remember when survivors were begging the Rabbanim to make Holocaust Studies a curriculum in the yeshivois, the Rabbanim would say "Holocaust Studies and Museums" are for the Reform & Conservative Jews, we frum people have the Torah, that is our revenge." The gemarrah is our "Museum!"
These Rabbanim never encouraged any of their students and followers to visit Yad Ve'Shem, saying "Yad Ve'shem doesn't give the frum point of view!."
Frum point of view? What?????
Frum Jews have another point of view of Nazis killing all types of Jews? The Nazis shoved Zionists and Satmerers in the same oven! You think that a Nazi cared if the Jew wore a gartel or had a "chup?"
You want a "frum point of view?" Then put your version of Holocaust Studies in Yeshiva curriculums!
It is that attitude that has Frum Jews feeling bad for the descendants of these murderers! I saw on a Yiddish chat on WhatsApp just this Friday a Frum Naive Chassidishe Jew who is now in Ukraine say that "we have to help our goyishe neighbors, they are so nice"
The Ukrainians that grabbed this Jew in the Photo below, were also very nice.They murdered him after torturing him!
It is Rabbanim who never learned what really happened to us just 75 years ago that encouraged the Jews of Ukraine to remain, never having learned about the "gedoilim" that advised Jews to remain in Europe even while Hitler ym"s was nipping at their heels.
It won't be very long when books will come out denying that these Rabbanim ever said that, just like they deny that the pre-war Gedoilim ever said that their followers should remain in Europe! What sheer Chutzpah! Even while there are still Holocaust survivors around, books have come out saying that Rabbanim never advised them to stay!
I was recently talking to a reader of DIN who reached out to me and who doesn't agree with me 99% of the time, and he remarked to me that it "isn't true that Rabbanim told their followers to remain in Europe." This guy is a very learned man and "a seeker of the truth" and he is telling me, a child of survivors who heard this about the pre-war Rabbanim, straight from the mouths of the survivors, that it isn't true, even though he and his entire family are Yankees going up to George Washington, and were in the USA while my grandparents were being murdered!
Chassidishe Jews have made an entire industry fixing up Cemeteries and building Shuls in the Ukraine. Plane loads of frum Jews now fly on a weekly basis and spend millions of Jewish dollars in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Rumania.. Ukraine's filthy earth is soaked with Jewish blood, yet Jews will spend their hard earned money to go visit a country that murdered their grandparents. Just last month, a Rebbe, "Christened" a shul in Szegid! I say "Christened" because I couldn't find a better word in the English lexicon.
G-d forbid they should visit the graves of Avraham, Yitzchok, Yaakov, Sarah, Rivka and Leah! Rachel, our mother lies in Beis Lechem crying for her children to come home, but her tears are all in vain as her children are by R' Shayele Krastirer z"l, buried in a town that murdered all its Jews. Abaye and Rava, Rav Ama and Rav Asa, R' Chiya and his children are all lying there lonely while the Jewish people are busy financing the economies of people that hate them!
G-d forbid that they go up to Har Herzl where thousands of Jewish Soldiers are buried, most of them, teenagers that gave their lives for the Jewish people. I wonder how many of those who go to the graves of R' Shayele, the Baal Shem Tov etc ever even thought of visiting their brothers and sisters who sacrificed their young lives so that Jews can have a country for them to run to when they will be thrown out of their countries!
Frum Jews sincerely believe that everything that occurs in the world has something to do with Jews.
I am not a prophet nor am I a son of a prophet but I can tell you that Hashem doesn't want any Jews visiting any cemeteries in Europe. Hashem want Jews to come home and if you can't then at least come to the Mekoimos Hakdoishim in Eretz Yisrael. R' Shayele doesn't want you to visit him, he wants you in Israel!
I hope Putin when he is done with Ukraine, marches into Poland, Hungary, Romania!
Are you crazy? Oh! You want Russia to dominate Europe and the world?
I don't care about the world, the world never cared about us!
Good luck Putin. here is at least one Jew that wishes you Hatzlacha!