[Sarah]

Dena, I'd like people who don't believe in the Holocaust to talk to my grandmother. She saw her sister killed beside her. Her father, grandfather, 2 aunts, 3 uncles, and numerous cousins were alive in 1938 but were dead by 1942. She lived in a Polish forest for 2 years and at times ate only grass for days at a time. A kind Polish family ended up allowing her to hide out in their attic until the war ended. My grandfather had 2 parents, 5 siblings, a baby niece, and numerous cousins in 1938. By 1942, he had a sister and brother who miraculously survived. Where did all of these relatives disappear to if the Holocaust didn't happen? My grandmother (and my grandfather when he was alive) turned down all German offers of reparations because they didn't want to take what they felt to be dirty money. Others did take it because they felt that although what had been taken from them could not be returned, at least there was some kind of renumeration for what they had suffered. This is a very personal choice, but it is most definitely not extortion. As for your other points, as others have addressed, many Jews fought along with African-Americans for civil rights. I just made plans to meet an African-American friend this Sunday for dinner. As for being pro-Palestine, the country of Israel isn't equivalent to the Jewish religion. Anti-Israel doesn't mean anti-Jewish. (And by the way, Arabs are Semites, too!) As for Jews beginning slavery, I don't even know how to begin addressing this; look at Exodus, where the Jews were slaves in Egypt! There may have been Jews who owned slaves in the south, but there were far more Protestants who were slaveowners. I'd think it had more to do with the culture at the time than religious beliefs.

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Name : Sarah, Gender : F, Religion : Jewish, Age : 27, City : Baltimore, State : MD Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

[Sarah]

If the Holocaust did not happen, what happened to my grandparents' parents? What happened to their siblings? Their friends? Did my grandparents just make up their horrible stories? How do they explain the 'disappearance' of millions of people?

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Name : Sarah, Gender : F, Religion : Jewish, Age : 27, City : Baltimore, State : MD Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

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