ToxicBanana69 t1_jbon4zm wrote
I sometimes forget that the Holocaust was less than a hundred years ago…
MyownLunasea t1_jbox57c wrote
I feel the same way. Almost like something this horrific had to be way back - like it sort of excuses them in an odd way or something because we couldn't be that shitty now - I know it is incorrect and that horrible still goes on- not sure why my brain wants to interpret that way.
dreamsofaninsomniac t1_jbpdi0r wrote
Making historical photos black and white when color photography was available can be used as a propaganda tool for that reason. It's why you see a lot of Civil Rights photos in the '60s in black and white when color photography was available.
monsterscallinghome t1_jbqqfbs wrote
Time to remind everyone that Ruby Bridges is still alive and only in her mid-60's, and therefore the teens throwing rocks at her are in their mid-70's; that MLK, Anne Frank, Ursula K LeGuin and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year, and King was assassinated mere months after he shifted his organizing focus from race to economic inequality and began working across racial lines to demand things like public housing, universal health care, and universal basic income.
beastmaster11 t1_jbpvwe9 wrote
The last nazi death camp was liberated when she was 15. So not like she was an infant that didn't remember the horrors.
But in all honesty before I did the math I though she would be older. To me, all senior citizens were alive at the time but I am realizing that we will soon be in a situation where nobody that was a victim of these horrors will be around to tell us about them making it easier to downplay
Curiosities t1_jbqhtfu wrote
My boyfriend's grandfather died back in early 2020 at around 100. He was a camp survivor and lost much of his family there. We met briefly, before he retired and moved, but it really does drive home how things are still within living history. At some point, his grandfather recorded his story for the Shoah Foundation.
With all of the antivax stuff in the news, it made me think of my teacher disabled by polio, and out of sight, out of mind, because no one under 40, basically, remembers what that looked like. So they are more susceptible to anti-science.
blackbirdbluebird17 t1_jbq5h0j wrote
Auschwitz was liberated 78 years ago, as of the end of January.
I’ve met and spoken with survivors. My grandfather lost extended family. It is very much still in living memory.
cloudsoundproducer t1_jbqg0yh wrote
If you visit them it’s shocking how modern the buildings look
Mtnskydancer t1_jbop261 wrote
Why is that?
Is it how it’s taught, or not, in school? Do you live in an area with few Jews? (That you can tell, many of us aren’t stereotypical in looks)
ToxicBanana69 t1_jbopmbc wrote
No reason other than it was such a horrific time period, so I sometimes just think of it as something that happened a long time ago, if that makes sense.
HaloGuy381 t1_jbpcgor wrote
If you’d like a reminder of how little time has passed: I’m 25. My father was the first of his line born in the US back in 1969 to someone who immigrated to the US after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
The Holocaust was not so long ago. That we seem to have so many eager to repeat that horrific atrocity, whether toward Jews or another minority scapegoat, is deeply disturbing.
Mtnskydancer t1_jbot7iq wrote
Sort of.
Horrific is always happening, though.
ToxicBanana69 t1_jbovj2l wrote
Oh yeah, for sure. But it’s easier for me to look at current events as…well, “current”. But things that happened in the past always seem much more distant to me than they actually are. Take Princess Diana’s death, for example. I usually, subconsciously think of her death as happening long ago, like the 60’s or 70’s or something, when the reality is she died less than a year before I was born.
Past events just mess with my sense of time, I guess
Mtnskydancer t1_jboxj30 wrote
I was in university then. Somehow I got it in my head that she and Mother Theresa died the same day. Nope.
Real_Life_Firbolg t1_jbrdjno wrote
My grandpa was born 2 years after the titanic sunk and I’m only 25, he waited until he was in his 40s to have kids and my mom had me in her 40s, I have pictures from him that he took while stationed in Normandy after D-Day, it is very shocking to a lot of people when I tell them that, only 2 generations of that side of my family in the last century, if I’m lucky and live as long as he did I’ll make it to 2091 and then that 2 generations will have almost stretched out to 2 centuries, about 23 years short of 2 centuries, but 2 decades short of 2 centuries in only 2 generations won’t be that bad right.
Edit: Telling this reminded me of one of the photos he took of an elderly couple in front of a destroyed house, it said something like Mr. And Mrs. Family name they gave me food, no idea who that French elderly couple was but their kindness meant enough to my grandpa to show a picture of them to his grandson 60 years later
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