To celebrate her 104th birthday, #Auschwitz survivor Shoshana Ovitz asked all her descendants come together to #Jerusalem for prayer at the Western Wall.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
During the #Holocaust Jews in the concentration & labor camps celebrated #Hanukkah despite the difficult conditions & with ferocity obtained olive oil for lighting. Such was #Westerbork camp from which Jews were sent to the extermination camps, among them #Annefrank . 12.1943
For all of the names, hashtags, and pictures of detained or murdered Iranians you see, remember that there are thousands more whose names and stories never made it to social media.
Shoah survivors lighting Hanukkah candles in Fürstenfeldbruck displaced person camp, in the presence of the American military commander. Germany, 1945.
Maryam Vahidian, a labour journalist, was arrested at her home by security forces on Nov 27, her birthday. While searching her home, her phone & laptop were taken away. Her guests were questioned & their phones were taken away, except for 3 people. #IranRevolution#مهسا_امینی
Iran has sentenced standup comedian Zeynab Mousavi, known as Empress Kuzcoo, to 2 years in prison, she said on Instagram. Mousavi also said that she spent 25 days in solitary confinement. Mousavi is among thousands arrested in Iran’s ongoing crackdown.
#mahsaAmini
The funny thing about taking a Roman literature class is reading how much they complained about my people “flooding into their cities” in the first and second century after their empire completely destroyed our homeland and took 97,000 of us as slaves. And now we got Pizza bagels