How we remember Shoa and other atrocities

then i do not know. sorry. someone posted the same issue in MC today as well. maybe software, idrk.


i have not seen the tattoo thread. please to link for me. would be interesting to see.

there is a MC WAYWRN poster who has a neck tattoo. i find that interesting. he should read this thread you speak of.

I wasn't the one who deleted the tattoo thread, but I did see it before the deletion. The OP in that thread was spam, and it had a bunch of links embedded in the post. If I had to guess, I'd say that's probably why it vanished.

FWIW, I also read the article you posted, and it was very interesting. It's a shame the post was made in a thread that (apparently) was spaminated.

It is actually a meaningful tattoo..

i dont want to reply here, and have a another chinese food like explosion in transmod, but its a very interesting topic. im hesitant to even talk about that stuff in a public setting, you never know what it may incite. but if you do restart the thread, lmk, or we can have a PM convo if you like.

There was a discussion about that article (and also a related film, I think) at lunch over the recent Sukkot holiday. Few had read the article, though more had a opinions. The opinions were all negative, though more out poignancy than real criticism.

imo, the most important opinion, is that of actual holocaust survivors. it is their feelings and emotions that matter most in this instance to me. what anyone else may say or feel on the topic, i think, is ancillary.

The survivors went through such horrific experiences I do understand they have a different view/angle to shoah issues than we have...

I'm a big fan of the History channels and my eyes are always watery when I see a documentary about the final solution ...

Watching in black and white pictures women carrying infants to the chambers just never fail to make weep..

The ones whose numbers being used are dead so their opinions are likely unknown.
Why one survivor's opinion about a subject determines how someone should memorialize a different survivor with whom that person has a personal relationship and who may have had a different opinion doesn't seem that relevant to me.

Obviously, if I were a grandkid, I wouldn't want my memorial to my grandmother to piss off my neighbor, but neither would I think it fair for some lady I don't know to tell me how to relate to my own relatives.

Each survivor is a person and each one, now living or dead, had his or her own opinions. They aren't a monolithic group that sets "survivor policy" nor could they be.

It is a very personal and sensitive issue..

Some survivors might have maybe been proud of that symbolic act of remembrance but I'm sure others will be horrified and saddened by such tattoos..

Collective memory is always a dangerous exercise ...

I call it the graveyard of personal feelings because so much hurt is always difficult to express collectivily or individually..

lasbar, i am "glad" you take the memory of the holocaust with the seriousness and emotion it deserves.

you make a solid point. i was unclear in my post. certainly i would not expect every survivor to have the same opinion, nor would i expect one survivor to have the right to tell someone else how to memorialize another relative survivor who may or may not share the same feelings as they do.

i just meant that for me personally, the opinion of the survivor that the tatto pertains to, that persons opinion (or their relatives opinion) is far greater than what someone else has to say on the matter. and we can all state our opinions, but any opinion that does not practically relate to an actual survivor, is kind of moot to me. pages and pages can be written, but in the end, all that matters is the feelings of each person that is being memorialized, and how their relatives chose to process that and hold onto their memories.

as to the fact that a tatto is a torah prohibition, and discussion about weather or not transgressing such a prohibition with the intent to memorialize someone who was jewish, and who may or may not be put off by being memorialized in way that they discourage, well, thats an entirely different discussion, and also none of my business. to each their own.

Every genocide is a tragedy and we need to continue to remind younger generations of them because they're still happening today...

Every survivor dying is a piece of history disappearing with them and too many people are too keen to wait long enough to be allowed to rewrite it...