They paid dearly for this, too.
Keeping their culture intact and avoiding assimilation, it made it far too easy to paint them as "The Enemy Within" every time it suited some despot's political purpose.
The picture of one such tantrum that I unsuccessfully try to forget is a humble little thing.
A pile of prisoners' shoes at the Holocaust Museum in DC.
There is something so pathetically tragic about that one image, all those shoes, each pair with a story.
Am Y'srael Chai.
"A pile of prisoners' shoes at the Holocaust Museum in DC.'
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Was it just Jews who were killed in the death camps?