Another one of those “I was the only survivor of my family” stories.
By the way, what are the chances of persecution occurring when there are so many cases like this? What Jewish community was completely exterminated? It seems that none were and they are still preserving their local traditions.
I don't understand what is supposed to be funny? Some especially traditional societies have very large families. One person surviving out of a large family isn't all that amazing either. Sometimes people's families get massacred and are the only survivor.
fireofice wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:38 pm
I don't understand what is supposed to be funny? Some especially traditional societies have very large families. One person surviving out of a large family isn't all that amazing either. Sometimes people's families get massacred and are the only survivor.
Sometimes the biggest diaspora event in world history happens with a particular group scattering everywhere and dying of myriad causes either during the war or in the decades thereafter, only for one of their [likely multiple] surviving relatives, 70 years later, to say they were all 'gassed' in chambers.
fireofice wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:38 pm
I don't understand what is supposed to be funny? Some especially traditional societies have very large families. One person surviving out of a large family isn't all that amazing either. Sometimes people's families get massacred and are the only survivor.
Sometimes the biggest diaspora event in world history happens with a particular group scattering everywhere and dying of myriad causes either during the war or in the decades thereafter, only for one of their [likely multiple] surviving relatives, 70 years later, to say they were all 'gassed' in chambers.
I smell a whole lot of double/triple/20x/50x/1000x counting going on here.
For starters how do these people have 93/175/760 family members to start with. Unrealistic.
Then if you take each of those people stating they never saw family members again the numbers multiply enormously because they have all been counted over and over.
Of the four million jews under German control, six million died and five million survived!
Probably the most dramatic case is that of Norm Finklestein - from the video
"My father was in Auschwitz"
"My mother was in Majdanek"
"Every single member of my family, on my father's side and on my mother's side, was exterminated."
The miracle? Finklestein was born in 1953 !