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I don't care if they have weddings and bar mitzvahs there. I'm not visiting a death camp. If I'm ever in Eastern Europe, I'd visit my maternal grandmother's home town of Mezrycz, my maternal grandfather's birth place of Vilna, my paternal grandfather's home towns of Slonim, which might not exist anymore, and Odessa, as well as the Chassidic holy places of Lubavitch, Merzybusz, Uman, Czernobyl if it's no longer radioactive, Lublin, Nickoliasberg, Warsaw, etc.
1 posted on 04/05/2025 3:45:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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Maybe we could send Tren and MS 13 there.


2 posted on 04/05/2025 3:49:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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There is a classic Monty Python story about the time the comedy troupe was touring Germany. They were close by, so they decided to visit Auschwitz. But they arrived late in the day and were turned away at the gate. Graham Chapman, from the back of the crowd, yelled out, “Tell them we’re Jewish!” And then the guard let them enter the camp.


3 posted on 04/05/2025 4:03:10 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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my paternal grandfather's home towns of Slonim, which might not exist anymore

Both of my maternal grandparents were born in Slonim as well. It does still exist as a town in Belarus.

4 posted on 04/05/2025 4:10:18 PM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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It’s not a place that stirs the appetite

Do you or anyone else here know about the families that their ancestors were originally prisoners at these camps and some of these families stayed on to preserve them and do other things for the state after the war a lot of them because they had nowhere to go and even today, their grandchildren and great grandchildren are still there Does anyone else know about that? I saw it on YouTube the other day it was fascinating actually to be raised and living in such a place yet they were comforted by the familiarity

Of course, politically correct virtue signaling idiot people would tell me having been raised partially on my grandfather‘s home, which had been a plantation in Mississippi is just as macabre

Which is complete bullshit obviously


5 posted on 04/05/2025 4:10:41 PM PDT by wardaddy (The Blob must be bled dry)
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I don't care if they have weddings and bar mitzvahs there. I'm not visiting a death camp.

It wouldn't be on my list to visit unless I need to visit the site to conduct research for my dissertation or something like that.

6 posted on 04/05/2025 4:13:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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a nice (if belated) gesture, thanks to those that arranged this

and no, I have NO plans to visit a Nazi murder factory but it is well that it has not been hidden from view, imho


7 posted on 04/05/2025 4:20:01 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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It is just a museum, today. You won’t see the horrors governments inflicted on other people.
I used to keep a copy of the picture of the entrance to Auschwitz on my work computer terminal at the top of the terminal.
It really upset my So. African Director.
My comment was “Arbiet Mach Frei” keeps me focused on what is important. I knew he spoke German.


8 posted on 04/05/2025 4:21:01 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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"...visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals...."

That addresses my chief concern. Coffee or tea shouldn't be objectionable but they obviously would have to be very circumspect about any other food preparation methods that might produce any aroma of note.

21 posted on 04/06/2025 8:07:17 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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