Posted on 04/05/2025 3:45:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Eighty years after Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis, Jews who make a pilgrimage there can eat kosher food.
A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals for the first time at the Auschwitz Jewish Center — now a museum and the only surviving synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish town renamed Auschwitz by the Nazis.
The kosher concession will open in time for Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, beginning on the night of April 23. The day is marked in Poland with the March of the Living, in which thousands of people march from Auschwitz to Birkenau. The Auschwitz Jewish Center will also add prayer services to its program ahead of the occasion.
This year, 80 Holocaust survivors will join the March of the Living, making it one of the largest gatherings of survivors at Auschwitz in recent history. The march also includes Jewish teens from around the world.
Before the Holocaust, Oświęcim was more than half Jewish, a small town with over 30 synagogues. Kosher butchers, bakeries and restaurants were commonplace. But this year, only one Jew is reported to live in Oświęcim — and she works at the Auschwitz Jewish Center. Hila Weisz-Gut, whose grandmother survived the camp, moved there in 2023 to join her Polish boyfriend. Many other members of her family were among the 1 million Jews killed at Auschwitz.
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Maybe we could send Tren and MS 13 there.
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.
Both of my maternal grandparents were born in Slonim as well. It does still exist as a town in Belarus.
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
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.
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
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.
Quite right. But trying to make it into a theme park just does not sit well with me. Will there be rides? A gas chamber with non-toxic but similar-smelling Zyklon B fake gas? Not going there, I don’t care how good the hashgacha is in the kosher concession.
My father told me the Nazis destroyed the place. They must have rebuilt.
Wow, what a breakthrough. Who would have thought 80 years after Liberation that Kosher food is now available, hopefully nowhere near the grounds of the camps.
It just proves the theory about how Jew-haters disappear from the face of the Earth (wish that was true) while the Jews can now buy Kosher food near a camp designed to erase them from history.
All the Empires collapse before the Chosen People, question is, how much do the Jews need to endure before that happens?
Excuse me !!!
Why are you posting this me ??
Btw, let me assure you, my post was in no way meant to be disrespectful in any way.
Besides 3 other languages, I speak German, that’s the reason I posted to you.
If you look at my posting history, you will see how much I oppose and fight to expose the neo-Nazi trash.
Understood. I’m not going there either
Didn’t occur to me to take offense. We’re good.
I can manage Platt Deutsch by taking all the Hebrew and Slavic words out of my passable Yiddish, so I can understand a lot of German tourists when they come around here. Berlin Prussian is too hard for me phonetically, all those umlauds and compounded consonants.
If you look at post #12 from Netz, I wanted to make sure my post is not twisted into a “I hate Jew” pretzel.
I speak Platt Deutsch, as well.
To me, it’s not just a dialect, it’s a completely different language.
Let’s say, you talk Platt Deutsch to someone from Frankfurt or even further north in Hamburg, Berlin.....they have no clue what you’re talking about. 🤷♀️
I’ve worked on dairy farms in the Florida Panhandle where the backwoods dialect spoken by some very skilled workers was incomprehensible to me.
I have the same problem with Berliners.
Dialects are sometimes confounding. My own English varies between Nyawkese and flat midwestern. But I can fake some British and Australian.
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