Rewriting Redemption: The Messianic Experiment in Modern Jewish Literature | 
pickThis short non-fiction piece follows the actions of an American who helped Jewish people and dissidents escape the Nazis, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. It highlights that the narratives we have constructed around the Holocaust (such as "we didn't know") aren't always as simple or true as they seem
(Tagged under another title while Litsy adds this one) #nonfiction
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danistclair "The inevitability of murder...is the premise of all narratives of Holocaust rescue...Someone has to die, the thinking goes, and the only remaining dilemma is who will get the last seat on the lifeboat...But these questions fall short by assuming that the perpetrators were irrelevant. As long as we are questioning the choices that are made, shouldn't we be considering the possibility of the Holocaust not happening at all?" Loc. 396 #nonfiction 8y
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