in the raw

So since most of you  don’t know I’m just gonna set this up right qwik. There’s a city near mine that’s pretty-really-very Jewish. Lots of families and stuff, it’s just part of the community. It’s pretty unique in that sense. Great bagels and lox. Anyway, this one family is taking in a German exchange student next year to live with them and other families are not asking why did you pick him? but rather how could you pick him?

I just did a giant face palm when I heard that. Like wuuut? I’ll never forget my friend from Hamburg explaining that for the life of her, she didn’t understand why the Holocaust was held over her generations heads. She wasn’t weird to talk about it, she was very informed on the topic but couldn’t understand. To be honest I don’t either. People act like young Germans today had something to do with what happened 70 years ago…minus the fact they weren’t even born. It’s just weird. She said that’s something that her generation really feels the impact of even today, being made to feel guilty for something she wasn’t even around for. I’d like to ask that family how they even managed to ask that.

The Holocaust sucked, you know it more than sucked. It sucked every profane word you can think of. Only very recently has the Swiss government contacted my family about abandoned safety deposit boxes left by my relatives who died in the Holocaust. It obviously still matters a lot today, but I don’t at all understand why young Germans are being treated like Nazis. I just find it interesting, why in the world people feel the need to reinforce such a horrible thing.