Remembering Auschwitz and the Holocaust - Why Have We Forgotten
Show Notes
Reflecting on a journey of remembrance, we share our deeply moving experiences walking through the haunting grounds of Auschwitz and Birkenau. The stories from Holocaust survivors like the late Yosef Lefkowitz have left a profound imprint on us. We solemnly honor the memory of those who endured unimaginable suffering and stress the critical importance of preserving the truth of these historical events. As we mark this somber anniversary, we're compelled to address the controversial remarks made by Irish President Michael Higgins, who compared the Holocaust to current conflicts, exposing ongoing anti-Semitic sentiments in Ireland. We express our frustration with such dangerous comparisons and the need for vigilant remembrance.
Our conversation takes a candid turn as we examine the persistent issues of Holocaust denial and historical distortion. We underscore the essential role of education in combating misinformation and highlight the perils of equating the Holocaust with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By critiquing figures like Higgins, we spotlight the danger of distorting history and the responsibility we all bear in preserving the truth. Join us in this thought-provoking discussion as we explore the extensive impact of these atrocities and underscore the need to resist historical revisionism, honoring those whose lives were forever changed by the events of World War II.
00:00:03.411 --> 00:00:10.627 Wow, you know it's another day in paradise.
00:00:10.627 --> 00:00:13.904 It's under 80 degrees in South Florida.
00:00:13.904 --> 00:00:18.928 I got a sweatshirt on and I'm starting to look like David Hamlet from the North.
00:00:18.928 --> 00:00:22.728 You know you need to stay warm.
00:00:22.728 --> 00:00:25.547 Can't stay warm down here anymore.
00:00:25.547 --> 00:00:26.661 Gonna have to.
00:00:26.661 --> 00:00:29.451 You know, get heavy sweaters, david Tenney one.
00:00:29.451 --> 00:00:35.273 You know it's Monday noon in the Eastern time zone.
00:00:35.880 --> 00:01:30.936 And you know there are still ripples flying in the ocean between North America, the rest of Western Europe and the world, and a little tiny place that's had lots of conflict with the British government in years past called Ireland a haven for tech billionaire companies, tax shieldings, you know, amongst many other very interesting political positions in years past, and you know Michael Higgins, not normally a major person in the world news with contrarian views, until this Sunday where I think media again has forgotten to bring up news.
00:01:30.936 --> 00:01:37.927 David and I have been doing this for nearly five years.
00:01:37.927 --> 00:01:43.358 Next month and you know, yeah, it's going on a fifth year, it's like nearly five years.
00:01:43.358 --> 00:01:50.503 And you know, I don't think we've ever talked about ireland.
00:01:50.503 --> 00:01:53.409 I think rarely, uh, we've even mentioned, uh, this country ever.
00:01:53.409 --> 00:01:55.132 So it's a first for us.
00:01:55.132 --> 00:02:06.415 But it's not about donald j trump, it's not about the bidens or the harrises, it's about ireland and the stupidity of some of the leaders.
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00:02:32.664 --> 00:02:37.503 David, you know this is no joking matter.
00:02:37.503 --> 00:02:38.968 You know.
00:02:38.989 --> 00:02:45.349 Typically, you know, I like to be a little more playful than David and David likes to be more playful on picking on me.
00:02:45.349 --> 00:02:46.926 But I think today is a little different.
00:02:46.926 --> 00:03:19.953 You know, in the Green Room, david reminded me that it is the anniversary of the Holocaust and, on its eve, the desecration of the concept that 6 million Jews, 22 million people, died as a result of some crazy individuals that were called Nazis and the world turned a blind eye for nearly half a decade.
00:03:19.953 --> 00:03:43.199 But the comparison of one genocide to another genocide or a genocide to a conflict in response to an act of war is just mind-bogglingly insane and, david I, I am, like you, deeply and utterly annoyed.
00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:50.312 David, would you like to get into the meat on our wonderful, illustrious Ireland?
00:03:51.841 --> 00:03:53.587 No, I don't want to talk about Ireland, because they're gross.
00:03:53.587 --> 00:03:56.007 That's not the point of this rant today.
00:03:56.007 --> 00:04:05.768 Ladies and gentlemen, the point of the rant today is that we are 80 years since the end of the Holocaust, 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
00:04:05.768 --> 00:04:12.506 Now Stuart says that he likes to kid and joke, but on this topic I can't.
00:04:14.122 --> 00:04:29.204 I went to these concentration camps in Poland Auschwitz, birkenau and a few others and, unfortunately, when you go to Auschwitz today, you would say it looks like a museum, because that's really what they've done.
00:04:29.204 --> 00:04:37.723 They put the countless shoes that they've collected behind glass Suitcases, behind glass, the barbed wire.
00:04:37.723 --> 00:04:41.432 It feels it looks like and touches like a museum.
00:04:41.432 --> 00:04:56.870 And so you would say to yourself you know, wow, and on top of it all, the Polish government has decided Auschwitz is not a Jewish concentration camp but it's an international one, because not only Jews were killed and it's managed by the Polish government.
00:04:56.870 --> 00:05:00.788 And so when you go to Auschwitz you don't get it.
00:05:00.788 --> 00:05:15.595 But when you go to the sister side of it, what used to be called Auschwitz II or Birkenau, and you walk and you see what was there, it's less of a museum and more of a reality.
00:05:15.595 --> 00:05:32.372 But, stuart, what was different for me, my wife and the full busload of Montrealers who went at the time, back two summers ago, was we went with a now unfortunately recently deceased Holocaust survivor named Yosef Lefkowitz.
00:05:32.372 --> 00:05:36.911 Yosef Lefkowitz, the Honolulu Hub, passed away only a couple of weeks ago.
00:05:38.139 --> 00:05:48.307 Survivor of six different concentration camps, stuart Walked with us in Auschwitz and pointed at the picture and said that's me in the picture.
00:05:48.307 --> 00:05:56.696 And when you hear his stories of what he went through, the museum disappears.
00:05:56.696 --> 00:05:59.846 But the stories are just.
00:05:59.846 --> 00:06:02.660 Epic is not right, but horrifying.
00:06:02.660 --> 00:06:07.420 Epic is not right, but horrifying.
00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:28.250 The world doesn't understand the depth of the hate that the Nazis have brandished all across Europe, taking Jews from Europe, asia, all over Europe, into Poland, germany, into concentration camps, with the absolute purpose and goal of eradicating the entire Jewish race.
00:06:28.250 --> 00:06:37.791 That was Judenreich, that was the idea, and over six years governments refused to help the Jews.
00:06:37.791 --> 00:06:42.675 When FDR had a chance to drop a bomb on Auschwitz, he said no, it's for the war effort.
00:06:42.675 --> 00:06:46.824 Had a chance to drop a bomb on Auschwitz, he said no, it's for the war effort.
00:06:46.824 --> 00:06:56.528 When you look back, stuart, you talk to Holocaust survivors and my wife goes every Tuesday and she sits with Holocaust survivors here in Montreal and talks to them about their stories.
00:06:56.528 --> 00:07:03.670 It's frightening what they went through, the depth of their horror we don't have enough time in this rant to go through.
00:07:03.670 --> 00:07:08.341 So on this day it's very hard for me.
00:07:08.341 --> 00:07:15.326 You know, having gone to these concentration camps, spoken to survivors, listened to stories, I can't make a joke of it.
00:07:17.211 --> 00:07:35.442 But I'm sickened today by the president, as you said, of Ireland, michael Higgins, who decided that instead of honoring the lives of those who died, he wanted to remind the whole world about Gaza, because Ireland is ripe with harsh anti-Semitism.
00:07:35.442 --> 00:07:37.716 It's the new Germany people.
00:07:37.716 --> 00:07:41.800 You can't go around there without hearing about anti-Semitism.
00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:42.975 Anti-semitism is the norm.
00:07:42.975 --> 00:07:46.954 Anti-semitism is good, no problem, from the president on down.
00:08:25.403 --> 00:08:31.076 I met one of Oscar Schindler's survivors, by the way, stuart, so it was a true story.
00:08:31.076 --> 00:08:31.899 It isn't some fiction.
00:08:33.789 --> 00:08:42.205 What's pissing me off, stuart, is that the education system has abandoned an entire generation of people who should have learned about this.
00:08:42.205 --> 00:09:08.423 Because when you start talking about words like genocide, which has been properly defined since the Holocaust, we've had too many genocides, real genocides, and we still have genocides in Africa, in Sudan, in other parts of Africa, where they're literally gathering people up to kill them, that's a genocide, people.
00:09:08.423 --> 00:09:16.741 What Prime Minister, what President Michael Higgins did, was absolutely lie to an entire nation.
00:09:16.741 --> 00:09:19.274 There's no genocide in Gaza.
00:09:19.274 --> 00:09:20.655 Sorry, there's no genocide in Gaza.
00:09:20.655 --> 00:09:22.539 Sorry, there's no genocide.
00:09:22.539 --> 00:09:25.432 By every definition, there's no genocide.
00:09:25.432 --> 00:09:34.214 But how dare he desecrate the memory of those who died at the hands of the Nazis, the communists, the Ukrainians?
00:09:34.214 --> 00:09:55.001 How dare he go out and really compare the political movement of the Nazis, the decision to eradicate an entire race globally, to what Stuart said was an attack on October the 7th, the worst day on Jews since the Holocaust?
00:09:55.549 --> 00:09:57.878 Well and proportionally, to comparing it to September 11th Absolutely Okay.
00:09:57.878 --> 00:09:59.965 Now you know, I'm going to give you something which will add some levity to it.
00:09:59.965 --> 00:10:01.450 Unfortunately, comparing it to September 11th Absolutely Okay.
00:10:01.450 --> 00:10:05.301 Now you know, I'm going to give you something which will add some levity to it.
00:10:05.301 --> 00:10:19.183 The definition of Michael Higgins ignorant, lacking knowledge and awareness, in general, unsophisticated, and is basically, as a word to use, consistently ignorant or stupid.
00:10:20.091 --> 00:10:28.331 And David, my neighbor neighbor, was a Holocaust survivor growing up in Montreal, lived three, three doors down next to uh, trying to think who the house was.
00:10:28.331 --> 00:10:33.602 Uh, renata, renata's next door neighbor, was a Holocaust survivor, a husband and wife.
00:10:33.602 --> 00:10:34.972 They had tattoos on their arms.
00:10:34.972 --> 00:10:37.217 They escaped Auschwitz, okay.
00:10:37.217 --> 00:10:52.642 And so I grew up with stories on uh Saturdays and Sundays and, and every year, the, you know, the school used to have a group that used to go over to the house and hear them talk about stories that we used to get, I don't know, weekly, monthly, you know, on a daily basis.
00:10:53.323 --> 00:10:56.432 You know it is sad, it's pathetic, it is disgusting.
00:10:56.432 --> 00:11:02.427 Uh, and I hope you like the levity of me giving the definition of Michael Higgins.
00:11:02.427 --> 00:11:10.764 I think I'm going to add it to Wikipedia as the definition so we can add some more levity to the world's stupid people.
00:11:10.764 --> 00:11:15.658 You know hatred is something that's ran throughout history.
00:11:15.658 --> 00:11:22.761 Jealousy has run just equally as quickly from Adam and Eve going all the way to today.
00:11:22.761 --> 00:11:29.496 Whatever religion you follow, if it all begins in JL Christian, it begins in Adam and Eve and jealousy there began.
00:11:29.496 --> 00:11:33.158 You know the hatred is more of jealousy.
00:11:33.158 --> 00:11:46.385 I think people are people that portray German, germanic, nazism-like behavior are just ignorant.
00:11:49.076 --> 00:11:50.461 I think it's a cop-out.
00:11:50.461 --> 00:11:52.335 Tell me ignorance is a cop-out.
00:11:52.335 --> 00:11:56.535 It's an actual no, but sorry.
00:11:56.535 --> 00:12:08.865 I think it's not fair to real ignorance, because I think that the people in Ireland, in other places you can't claim ignorance anymore because you're consciously deciding that you're not going to educate the people with the truth.
00:12:08.865 --> 00:12:11.717 And it's the same thing that's happening in the United States today.
00:12:11.717 --> 00:12:13.817 It's the same thing that's happening in many parts of the West.
00:12:13.817 --> 00:12:17.101 When you go and you ask an average person today, what is the Holocaust?
00:12:17.101 --> 00:12:19.427 Way too many people don't know.
00:12:19.427 --> 00:12:21.572 You talk to kids today.
00:12:21.572 --> 00:12:47.908 I mean, stewart, you and I both grew up in different education, different education systems, but we knew what the holocaust was for common sense, I guess the the onset of dei trying to make excuses for dumb ass people isn't exactly going to fly, but it predated dei steward, it pred Well, dei goes to the 60s, david, so it doesn't predate it.
00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:50.034 It's something that started at Harvard in the 60s.
00:12:50.034 --> 00:12:52.950 But again, david, we're not trying to talk about DEI.
00:12:52.950 --> 00:12:54.133 We're talking about the Holocaust.
00:12:54.133 --> 00:12:57.331 We're talking about, you know, people that are Holocaust deniers.
00:12:57.331 --> 00:13:00.668 We're talking about people that are prejudiced or hostile towards Jewish people.
00:13:00.668 --> 00:13:15.807 We're talking about the ignorance of this Irish president, michael Higgins, which goes far beyond it, because even to some school boards that are around in Montreal are continuing to propagate more hatred, not just Montreal.
00:13:15.846 --> 00:13:16.849 You got every school.
00:13:16.849 --> 00:13:20.798 Look at the school boards across the Western world.
00:13:20.798 --> 00:13:32.193 You know I've seen in Toronto, I've seen it in New York, chicago, others that the education system has been seized by people who want to rewrite history, who want to talk more about racism.
00:13:32.193 --> 00:13:36.610 You know whether it's African-American racism, whatever you want to go with it.
00:13:36.610 --> 00:13:38.071 And you know what.
00:13:38.071 --> 00:13:40.134 You can't rewrite history, sorry.
00:13:40.134 --> 00:13:41.312 No, you should not rewrite history.
00:13:41.331 --> 00:13:41.755 You shouldn't know.
00:13:41.755 --> 00:13:42.825 You should not rewrite history.
00:13:42.825 --> 00:13:45.753 You should not, it's not, you shall not.
00:13:45.753 --> 00:13:49.062 And that is where the definition is now skewed.
00:13:49.062 --> 00:13:52.232 You know, you shall not rewrite history.
00:13:52.232 --> 00:14:00.056 Is what the word and definition should be but it's fascinating, based on facts, which is where the news has disappeared to as well.
00:14:00.056 --> 00:14:02.812 We've just four years.
00:14:03.989 --> 00:14:04.831 Look, we're going to see it.
00:14:04.831 --> 00:14:12.470 Today, Some idiot, some news broadcaster, some other politician educators are going to go.
00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:17.910 Well, you know, the Jews had a genocide, but you know what they're causing a genocide right now, and we're going to see that.
00:14:17.910 --> 00:14:23.754 And it's the distortion of fact, the distortion of history, and it's a complete unfair comparison.
00:14:23.754 --> 00:14:53.636 You know, Stuart, I'm going to tell you just one thing when you go to Auschwitz okay, actually, you go to Birkenau, not Auschwitz when you go to Auschwitz and you go into the barracks where they were there, where they were so-called sleeping In the back of a barrack and I would show this picture, you know, you want to talk about how inhumane the Nazis treated the Jews.
00:14:54.326 --> 00:14:59.833 The reason they tattooed them with numbers was to get rid of their names, to simply erase their dignity.
00:14:59.833 --> 00:15:13.450 And then they went a step further and if you look in the back, there were dozens and dozens of holes, almost like a bowl built into concrete, and that's where Jews had to go, pee and defecate.
00:15:13.450 --> 00:15:19.129 It was so demeaning and degrading what they did to them.
00:15:19.129 --> 00:15:26.049 And to sit here today and to say, well, that's what Israel's doing to Gaza, you can't do that.
00:15:26.049 --> 00:15:29.131 People, Wake up, open your eyes.
00:15:29.131 --> 00:15:31.291 That's not even close.
00:15:31.291 --> 00:15:33.692 It's not even a fair comparison.
00:15:34.826 --> 00:15:39.854 David, it's ridiculous to even make this comparison, and any moron that does is just literally deaf.
00:15:39.854 --> 00:15:42.991 This is what we're dealing with and the Michael Higgins of the world.
00:15:42.991 --> 00:15:49.504 What the Jews and the Israelis have done to Gaza is, in response to this bloodshed and massacre.
00:15:49.625 --> 00:16:05.365 It's no different than the United States dropping bombs on Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq or any of these things, but this, stuart, and this I'll wrap up Six million perishedished, over one million children.
00:16:05.365 --> 00:16:08.691 You know you talk about women and children in gaza.
00:16:08.691 --> 00:16:22.220 You're talking about millions of women, seniors, children were perished because they were jewish or had some lineage of being jewish.
00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:28.207 They were Jewish or had some lineage of being Jewish.
00:16:28.207 --> 00:16:28.607 That was it.
00:16:28.607 --> 00:16:28.869 That was it.
00:16:28.869 --> 00:16:32.856 And to those who think that that's not utter racism and genocide, then you know what.
00:16:32.856 --> 00:16:35.908 You don't deserve any recognition.
00:16:35.908 --> 00:16:40.554 And Michael Higgins, the president of Ireland, I hope one day.
00:16:40.554 --> 00:16:43.820 One day you need a Jewish doctor.
00:16:43.820 --> 00:16:47.552 I hope one day you need Israel for something.
00:16:47.552 --> 00:16:49.437 God help you.
00:16:49.806 --> 00:16:54.308 Well, listen, david, they all do, and that includes Africa, and they still go to United Nations.
00:16:54.308 --> 00:16:56.916 Or the joke of nations in Voters Dam.
00:16:56.916 --> 00:16:59.010 Anyways, that brings this to a close.
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00:17:42.426 --> 00:17:49.337 But as, as we exit, I'd like to take a moment uh for everyone to uh reflect what?
00:17:49.337 --> 00:17:49.598 What?
00:17:49.598 --> 00:17:58.015 80 years of uh persecution of the modern era, and let's call it a wrap.
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