(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Blaming the victims [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-26 Blaming the victims Re WW2. In short, one, from outside this unimaginable pressure cooker, can not judge a people forced into: hunger, dehumanizing, forced into slave labour, into a prison cell...by Nazis. Kapo in WW2: Jewish inmates who were forced by the Nazis to serve as "stand-in" guards. Most kapos were compassionate. They suffered from the Nazi bosses for that. Some were different. At one camp, where Rabbi Halberstam was interned, where he kept his best to strengthen the broken Jews, one day, the Kapo gave him a slap for not standing straight. It shook the Jews. One witness promised himself, if one day this Kapo gets into his hands, he will pay. After the war, time passed by, and the Jew who promised himself the above, riding a bus, happened to notice the aforementioned ex-Kapo. Noticing him, the ex-kapo hurried to leave at the very next stop. But the hero wasn't about to give up. The next stop he gets off, hails a cab, catches him, tells him, 'now you are going to pay,' you will come to a police station... The ex kapo breaks down and cries, that he is a repented Jew, etc... He is touched. Leaves him alone. Some time later, he sees rabbi Halberstam, tells him what happened and asks if he did the right thing. The Rabbi assures him he did right by him. Explaining: "Anyone, anyone, without exception, who was THERE , we can not judge." Period. Paldiel, M. (2017). Saving One's Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust. United States: Jewish Publication Society. books.google.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2154988/-Blaming-the-victims Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/