Shoah Mention - Tumblr Posts

In case you didn’t know/as a reminder, do not use the word ‘Holocaust’, seeing as the word implies a ritualistic ‘holy’ burning/sacrifice in Greek. Neither Germans nor German and European Jews use the word anymore. Instead the word that is used and that you should use is ‘Shoah’.

Holocaust survivor, shown with numbers tattooed on his arm, working at a construction site, 1963

Felix Nussbaum, Orgelmann, 1943. Painted while in hiding from the Nazis. A year later he and his wife were found out and sent to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Ida Pollak

of blessed memory

Born 1890 in Wien, Austria,

Ida was killed in the Holocaust at the approximate age of 53.

If anyone is interested, please feel free to light a digital candle through Illuminate. I got a name a few years back, and it's a name I won't forget. May every name we have found be a blessing. May their names never be forgotten. May we never forget.

Never again means now.

Synagogue of Katowice, Poland, set on fire by Nazis in 1939

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1921 to France