The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory | The Listening Post
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2023
- Politicians have long had a tendency to frame the past in a way that suits their political agenda in the present and the Holocaust is no different.
In this special episode of The Listening Post, Johanna Hoes reports on historical revisionism in Poland; the governing right-wing Law and Justice party’s attempts to portray all Polish people as heroes or victims while concealing an uncomfortable truth: that some Poles collaborated with the Nazis and were complicit in crimes against Jews.
Contributors:
Nelly Ben-Or - Holocaust Survivor & Pianist
Mindu Hornick - Auschwitz Survivor
Pawel Sawicki - Press Officer, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Jan Grabowski - Professor of History, University of Ottawa
Katia Patin - Multimedia Editor, Coda Story
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Now tell me how many Polish people were actually murdered in Auschwitz? Two of my family memberes were murdered there, so have some effin respect!
These wombats are in an alternative reality.
My grandpa killed there, uncle there and Sachsenhausen, another uncle killed Lublin Castle. Don't uou there speak about Polish people. Mum born in German camp!!!!!!!!!!!
Ten thousand Polish Jews survived the war in Poland. 250,000 Polish Jews survived by fleeing into Russia. At the end of the war, there were 260,000 Polish Jews. Postwar attacks by Polish Catholics reduced the number of Polish Jews to 30,000. A Polish government antisemitic campaign in 1967 reduced the number of Polish Jews to 3,000.
I used to be a far right ideologist.
I didn’t hate people.
I hated “them who came to threat us”.
Me and many like me, economically and socially precarious people who worked for a meager black wage, considered “these people” a threat.
They say “in the fog of war..”
I say “in the fog of ignorance, propaganda blinds us all”.
Honestly, this war in Ukraine profoundly changed everything I believe in about politics, history and society.
My advice is that if you’re a victim of an idiot, instead of being outraged, invite them home. They will see where you eat, brush your teeth, sit on the toilet, sleep just like them.
It will make a crack in their concrete eye-blinders.
Words can be hurtful. But sometimes bad manners and insensitivity are not racism.
They are just bad manners and insensitivity. Point that out.
The greatest lie ever created was that Fascism is a creation of the right. I implore you to look at history and learn of the birth of fascism and it's ties to socialism. Mousolini and Karl Marx were bosom buddies... The only difference was Fascists have a twinge of nationalism and less a rift between classes... Just like nationalist Mandela. Your right leaning predilections are ones that value the importance of the rule of law, individual freedom, capitalism. The Nazis were national socialists and under scrutiny resemble Democrats.
Bottom line is.... "Judge carefully the ideology you subscribe to, there must be at the basis of any ideology something that benefits humanity, not something that destroys humanity " Nelly Ben-or ❤💯✌
This camp should be moved to germany as germans built it .
I don't want my country Poland associated with this barbaric camp any longer
Almost half of the murdered Jews were Polish citizens.
its cannock shopping centre i see there in background
We condemn hitler holocaust but what about Palestine holocaust-palestine genocide by zionist is hardly seen any confrontation from modern world specially us or their allies.
Wtf is wrong with u dude
Uhhh probably because there is this group called Hezbollah and other factions, that are embraced instead of exiled.
There are seven times as many "Palestine refugees" in 2023 as there were in 1948.
Jewish genocide in Arab countries, they are almost near to extinction.
Most people who were murdered didn't die in deathcamps or Auschwitz. Ostarbeiter (eastern workers), Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and other forced labourers who were forcibly rounded up and brought into work camps from the east. These were separate from the SS-run concentration camps, where prisoners were also forced to perform labour. There were 11,283,000 people the Nazis killed through institutional practices, such as forced "euthanasia" and forced labour. Auschwitz became a symbol as it omitted the 20 million Soviet Slavs murdered through forced labour and murdered through disease and starvation. Through concentrating on Auschwitz the untold horrors of ethno nationalism can be ignored and pigeon holed as " and others". And 3 million non Jewish Poles murdered by Nazis disappear into a memory hole.
What piece is the lady playing on piano at the beginning at 0:45 ?
It scares me sometimes how we humans are capable of producing such evil. But thank God on the other side humans still surprise me with their resilience and owe, such as these survivors. Great report, thank you The Listening Post.
Such as the brave Palestinians.❤❤❤
Never again 😢.
Not only China, what about Israel and the Palestinians?
Important to preserve history as it is we can't let our politics distort it otherwise we're doomed to repeat the same events
The Shoah does never justify the Nakba.
People of gaza going thru same behavior passed on.. same with african American constantly under attack.. interesting world
this is simply wrong. you cant compare the holocaust with what is happening in gaza. the holocaust is probably the worst mass killing genocide in human history.
what happens in gaza is very sad, but its not near the same level with what happened during the holocaust.
This is just plain wrong. You're comparing with the struggles of African-Americans with the Holocaust? This is so disgusting I can't describe how abhorrent this is.
But rewriting the Past does not just occur concerning Holocaust
Peace, freedom, prosperity and independence for Palestine and its people.
No Palestine Arab wants peace or freedom. They want another Syria, Iraq, Lebanon. First World prosperity requires cooperation and trust, concepts which do not exist among Levantine Arabs.
UNRWA is the best thing that ever happened to Palestine Arabs. They want UNRWA and the present low level war to go on forever.
No
Is that what your mossad handler told you to say?@@headshot690
@@headshot690found the Shekelstein. How much shekels are they paying you?
@@AhmedKhan3.14 for what?
Without causing anyone any offence if i do its not my intention but this reminds me of what’s happening in Palestine, does anyone agree…???
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if Aljazeera remake or aupdate this program please also mention about Gaza Genocide
And the genocide is happening again 😢
As relevant today as 50 years ago and 50 years on
Not really.
its data theft and cowwards who are surely ? in many number of secure mass out numbering the victim o phee
What happened to Namibian genocide by the Germans?
I suspect this exist
about khazarian jews vs middle-east jews.
Dear Al Jazeera, I think that matching Polish institute of history not responding to your request for interview with Turkye refusal to acknowledge its genocide of Armenians is manipulative at least. Poland has many issues with the past, the current right wing government is using history to build nationalistic narratives - all that is very true. Pointing out all problems with the way Poland and Polish society approaches its sins is always a good thing to do. But making comparisons with a nation that actually committed genocide on another nation is not acceptable.
I have to add a thing about the Uyghurs. After living peacefully among Han Chinese people for decades, during the mid 90's and early 2000's the Uyghurs started aiming for independence from the PRC. They started out peaceful, but got more and more militant over time, up to the point where Uyghur terrorist groups killed hundreds of Han Chinese in attacks. This was the point where the Chinese central government had to intervene. When you look for example at the Chinese province of 'Inner Mongolia' where a majority of ethnic Mongolians live, they can speak Mongolian among eachother, and use the Mongolian script. They are not put into 'reintegration camps', and are not being monitored more then a regular Han Chinese person. This is because they are not aiming to create an independent state (or join Mongolia), and certainly not through means of violence, which some Muslim Uyghurs do and did. The lack of information in documentaries like this are creating turmoil around the world, and are portraying governments the West doesn't like as being autocratic, while this isn't always the case.
Aiming for independence doesn’t justify imprisonment or forced sterilisation!
Isreal's far right is the worst example of this audacity!
Free Palestine.
Free your brains
You can openly challenge the existence of God but not the holocaust, i really wonder why.
Because god isn't real and god strike me down if this isn't true. Really. Right now. Do it or no balls god. No? Kthx
Coz Holocaust happened
God isn't real
You're too old for an invisible friend, who is going to smite all of the other kids in the playground for you.
Man's stupidity leads him to pathlessness
and his heart rebelled against Yahweh.
Polaks be Polaks
Shut your Jew mouth up. My family members were murdered in Auschwitz, because they were people of influence, your people died there because they were pests.
Seems you don't struggle any more! God abandoned you.
@Lublin1976
The G-d of Israel has not abandoned his children Israel.
The reestablishment of the modern state of Israel 🇮🇱 is proof of his eternal covenant with the Jewish People ✡️.
@@ProudJew-ls1948 Were is your masssiah then? Build on blood and tears! No struggle! God left you!
@Lublin1976
The Moshiach is here and will reveal himself when the time is right.
The Jewish People ✡️ have returned, reconquered, reclaimed, and resettled their ancestral homeland of Eretz Yisroel according to G-d's commandment and his eternal covenant with the Jewish People ✡️.
Bloodshed and tears are part of the price for the reestablishment of the modern state of Israel 🇮🇱 just as joy and success are a part of the process.
It is called human life.