Amira Hass Giornata della memoria dell'Olocausto quest'anno: un fronte di indifferenti
Questi sono i giorni per fermarsi a pensare alla gente comune che si è abituata. Questi sono i giorni per pensare alle persone che non erano a favore, che non partecipavano attivamente, ma non potevano emigrare, e vivevano mentre i loro vicini ebrei venivano banditi prima dai marciapiedi, poi dalle cliniche e dalle biblioteche, poi dalla strada e dalla città e, alla fine, dalla mente.
Nei prossimi due giorni gli schermi, i siti web e le trasmissioni radiofoniche in Israele crolleranno quasi sotto l'effusione visiva, verbale ed emotiva dei ricordi del numero sempre minore di sopravvissuti all'Olocausto . Tuttavia chiunque sia nato da una famiglia sopravvissuta ai vagoni bestiame non ha bisogno di questi due giorni per ricordare. La nostra conoscenza non ha bisogno di nuovi dettagli. È impresso in noi, anche se non vogliamo che lo sia.
Le gambe aperte di ufficiali armati e in uniformi che ridevano mentre guardavano le donne nude in piedi accanto alla fossa, sono evocate dalla nostra memoria acquisita ogni giorno. I binari della ferrovia e le camicie a righe suscitano sempre la nausea, anche se i nostri occhi vedono normali binari ferroviari e camicie a righe insignificanti. I nostri genitori sono morti molto tempo fa, ma di giorno in giorno diventiamo meno capaci di capire come hanno resistito al gelo, su assi insieme ad altri cadaveri viventi, bruciati dal tifo. Nessun nuovo studio e nessun memorial day risponderanno alle domande che non abbiamo potuto formulare, o che non abbiamo insistito nel porre, nella nostra infanzia.
Il cuore va ai sopravvissuti, che sono commossi dall'attenzione che ricevono un giorno all'anno. Il cuore è ammalato dalla commercializzazione; perché il Giorno della Memoria dell'Olocausto è uno dei più efficaci modellatori dell'ethos nazional-sciovinista israeliano. Tra interviste e film e la sirena si sentiranno discorsi carichi di pathos e insincerità, disseminando veleno demagogico.
Ancora una volta useranno le nostre famiglie assassinate per glorificare l'esercito israeliano e il suo eroismo contro Gaza e contro il villaggio di Bilin , a difesa dell'avamposto di Esh Kodesh e dell'insediamento della Sussia . Ancora una volta tracceranno una linea retta ,come un serpente t,ra gli assassini tedeschi e ucraini e i palestinesi, che nel 1948 cercarono di difendere la loro patria da coloro che venivano a espropriarla.
I nostri cuori vanno a loro. Il loro anonimato è molto personale ed è presente in ogni succulento fico d'India ai lati della strada, nelle case in pietra con archi di 90-150 anni e nella dolce collina dove si possono ancora vedere le rovine di un villaggio.
Nei prossimi due giorni sarà difficile sfuggire al rumore rauco del vittimismo bellicoso e commercializzato. Un possibile rifugio è pensare alla gente comune che taceva.perchè avevano figli da crescere e nutrire, un lavoro e una madre anziana,persone che non hanno appoggiato , ma si sono abituate.
La sopravvivenza in una marcia della morte è difficile da comprendere. Nessuna cellula del nostro corpo può capire la catena di montaggio dell'omicidio e degli assassini. D'altronde tutti condividiamo e conosciamo il meccanismo dell'abitudine al rumore della strada, all'edificio che ci blocca la vista, alle rughe, alle direttive sul coronavirus. L'abitudine fa parte della nostra esperienza quotidiana.
Nei 12 anni compressi della sua esistenza, la Germania nazista riuscì ad attuare parte del suo piano di genocidi. Israele, diventato un rifugio per gli ebrei fuggiti nel tempo, e per i sopravvissuti, esiste ormai da 73 anni. La sua occupazione militare esiste da 54 anni. Con la sua condotta Israele dimostra quotidianamente che l'espropriazione e l'espulsione del popolo palestinese dalla loro patria è parte integrante della sua identità.
Gli oppositori del regime nella Germania nazista rischiarono la prigionia, la tortura e la morte. Non c'erano informazioni e foto accessibili sui social network. Il potere di realizzare il cambiamento non era nelle loro mani.
Qui il potere di realizzare il cambiamento è nelle nostre mani. Proteste, opposizioni e denunce non comportano un prezzo particolarmente alto: una risposta piena di odio su Internet, bugie di un'organizzazione di coloni, percosse da parte di teppisti timorati di Dio,licenziamento dalla scuola. Niente di tutto questo è sufficiente a spiegare la scarsità di attivisti israeliani che si oppongono alla politica di espropriazione ed espulsione o al fatto che coloro che non si dichiarano razzisti, si sono abituati alla realtà razzista e al costante deterioramento.
In questo giorno gli israeliani che si sono abituati e quelli che tacciono devono almeno mostrare comprensione, persino empatia, per i comuni tedeschi di quei tempi.
These are the days to stop and think about the ordinary folk, who became inured. These are the days to think about the people who were not in favor, who were not active participants, but couldn’t emigrate, and just lived on while their Jewish neighbors were banished first from the sidewalks, next from the clinics and the libraries, and then from the street and from the city, and in the end, from the mind.
In the next two days screens and websites and radio broadcasts in Israel will all but collapse under the visual, verbal and emotional outpouring of the memories of the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors. But anyone who was born to a family who survived the cattle cars doesn’t need these two days in order to remember. Our knowledge has no need of new details. It is etched in us, even if we don’t want it to be.The spread legs of armed and uniformed officers, laughing as they looked at naked women standing alongside the pit, can pop up from our acquired memory any day. Railroad tracks and striped shirts always arouse nausea, even if our eyes see ordinary railroad tracks and unremarkable striped shirts. Our parents died a long time ago, but by the day we become less capable of understanding how they endured in the freezing weather, on planks alongside other living corpses, burning up from typhus. No new study and no memorial day will answer the questions that we couldn’t formulate, or didn’t insist on asking, in our childhood.
The heart goes out to the survivors, who are moved by the attention they get one day a year. The heart is sickened by the commercialization; because Holocaust Remembrance Day is one of the most effective shapers of the Israeli national-chauvinistic ethos. Between interviews and films and the siren, speeches filled with pathos and insincerity will be heard, disseminating demagogic poison.
Once again they will use our murdered families in order to glorify the Israeli army and its heroism against Gaza and against the village of Bilin, in defense of the Esh Kodesh outpost and the settlement of Sussia. Once again they will draw a line as straight as a snake between the German and Ukrainian murderers and the Palestinians, who in 1948 tried to defend their homeland from those who came to dispossess them.
Our hearts go out to them. Their anonymity is very personal and present, in every succulent prickly pear at the sides of the road, stone houses with arches 90 to 150 years old, and a gentle hill where the ruins of a village can still be seen.
In the next two days it will be difficult to escape the raucous noise of the commercialized, belligerent victimhood. One possible refuge is to think about the ordinary people who were silent. Because they had children to raise and feed, a job, and an elderly mother. People who did not support, but became inured.
- Palestinians pay the price for Israel’s slavery to the memory of the Holocaust
- Netanyahu exploits the Holocaust to brutalize the Palestinians
- Between the trauma of the Holocaust and the trauma of Nakba
Survival on a death march is hard to comprehend. Not a cell in our bodies can understand the assembly line of murder and the murderers. On the other hand, we all share and are familiar with the mechanism of becoming accustomed: to the noise in the street, to the building that blocks our view, to wrinkles, to the coronavirus directives. Becoming inured is part of our daily experience.
In the 12 compressed years of its existence, Nazi Germany managed to implement part of its genocides plan. Israel, which became a refuge for Jews who fled in time, and for the survivors, has existed for 73 years by now. Its military occupation has existed for 54 years. By its conduct Israel proves on a daily basis that dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homeland is an integral part of its identity.
Opponents of the regime in Nazi Germany risked imprisonment, torture and death. There was no information and no photos accessible on social networks. The power to bring about change was not in their hands.The spread legs of armed and uniformed officers, laughing as they looked at naked women standing alongside the pit, can pop up from our acquired memory any day. Railroad tracks and striped shirts always arouse nausea, even if our eyes see ordinary railroad tracks and unremarkable striped shirts. Our parents died a long time ago, but by the day we become less capable of understanding how they endured in the freezing weather, on planks alongside other living corpses, burning up from typhus. No new study and no memorial day will answer the questions that we couldn’t formulate, or didn’t insist on asking, in our childhood.
The heart goes out to the survivors, who are moved by the attention they get one day a year. The heart is sickened by the commercialization; because Holocaust Remembrance Day is one of the most effective shapers of the Israeli national-chauvinistic ethos. Between interviews and films and the siren, speeches filled with pathos and insincerity will be heard, disseminating demagogic poison.
Once again they will use our murdered families in order to glorify the Israeli army and its heroism against Gaza and against the village of Bilin, in defense of the Esh Kodesh outpost and the settlement of Sussia. Once again they will draw a line as straight as a snake between the German and Ukrainian murderers and the Palestinians, who in 1948 tried to defend their homeland from those who came to dispossess them.
Our hearts go out to them. Their anonymity is very personal and present, in every succulent prickly pear at the sides of the road, stone houses with arches 90 to 150 years old, and a gentle hill where the ruins of a village can still be seen.
In the next two days it will be difficult to escape the raucous noise of the commercialized, belligerent victimhood. One possible refuge is to think about the ordinary people who were silent. Because they had children to raise and feed, a job, and an elderly mother. People who did not support, but became inured.
- Palestinians pay the price for Israel’s slavery to the memory of the Holocaust
- Netanyahu exploits the Holocaust to brutalize the Palestinians
- Between the trauma of the Holocaust and the trauma of Nakba
Survival on a death march is hard to comprehend. Not a cell in our bodies can understand the assembly line of murder and the murderers. On the other hand, we all share and are familiar with the mechanism of becoming accustomed: to the noise in the street, to the building that blocks our view, to wrinkles, to the coronavirus directives. Becoming inured is part of our daily experience.
In the 12 compressed years of its existence, Nazi Germany managed to implement part of its genocides plan. Israel, which became a refuge for Jews who fled in time, and for the survivors, has existed for 73 years by now. Its military occupation has existed for 54 years. By its conduct Israel proves on a daily basis that dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homeland is an integral part of its identity.
Opponents of the regime in Nazi Germany risked imprisonment, torture and death. There was no information and no photos accessible on social networks. The power to bring about change was not in their hands.Here, the power to bring about change is in our hands. Protest, opposition and reporting do not involve a particularly high price: a hate-filled internet response, lies by a settler organization, beatings by God-fearing thugs. Dismissal from school. None of these suffice to explain the paucity of Israeli activists opposing the policy of dispossession and expulsion, or the fact that those who are not declared racists have become accustomed to the racist reality and the constant deterioration.
On this day the Israelis who have become inured and those who remain silent must at least show understanding, even, empathy, for the ordinary Germans of those times.
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