Also as someone who’s “people” were also targeted by the nazi regime, I literally don’t want to hear a damn thing about how “this is exactly the same!!! trump is hitler!!! this is how it starts!!!!!!!”
Grow up and show some damn respect. The holocaust doesn’t exist for you to pull out of your back pocket when you want to criticize the administration.
Taking the real life, actual story of Anne Frank, the actual human being Anne Frank who was murdered by the nazis for being Jewish, and changing the actual real story of the history of the Holocaust as experienced by Anne Frank to be about non-comparable Current Year events is antisemitism.
Every stupid motherfucker who supports this shit is required to give me 20 dollars
I was a bit sceptical considering the original screenshot looks like it was from Breitbart, where it states:
The production, directed by former Roseanne writer Stan Zimmerman and scheduled to run throughout September, “was inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a ‘Safe House’ for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by ICE.”
Naturally, my first thought was, “If the play is actually described as the retelling of a true story where a Jewish woman actually did make a safehouse for a Latina mother and her children, maybe it’s the Right-wing media that are being antisemitic and automatically jumping to Anne Frank for no reason?”
This is why it’s important to double-check these things, so I know whether to actually be outraged or not.
The Diary of Anne Frank is being produced by Pop-Up Playhouse in conjunction with Anne Kathryn Parma. Zimmerman’s unique take on the staging was inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a “Safe House” for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by ICE. Zimmerman states, “This made me think, what would happen if this Jewish woman handed out the play to families that she’s hiding and they all begin to read it aloud? Couldn’t the story of Anne Frank be extremely important today since a recent New York Times’ survey found the memory of the Holocaust is fading?”
No, OP is entirely right and this downright disrespect of Anne Frank’s memory, as well as the memories of everyone else that suffered in the attic, is absolutely abhorrent.
There is absolutely no reason why the play couldn’t be something new, based on that real story about the Jewish woman hiding a family from ICE instead of spitting on the dead and making light of Nazis.
I’m disgusted.
Jfc this is fucking stupid
Jews had lived in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, etc. for centuries. Their families had owned property. They developed and maintained their own businesses and banks. They were established, having bled, died, and fought for that soil. Their places of worship were destroyed, their citizenship denied, their homeland denied, their rights stripped, and their families torn apart, sometimes literally limb by limb. They were not new immigrants demanding citizenship of a foreign country. They had their very bloodlines infused with European land, it was theirs in every way your property is yours and mine is mine, they had every right to worship and own their property and it was violently revoked from them. Do not compare illegal immigrants to the persecuted Jews of Europe.
This?
This is a nightmare. People were actually rounded up from their own properties and slaughtered like pigs. They were separated from their children and shot into mass graves. There is absolutely nothing about this which you can compare to the crisis of illegals crossing the U.S. border. There is absolutely nothing here which is remotely similar, in any way or any sense. Illegals are not being sought from land they rightfully owned for generations to be slaughtered in death camps.
Shame on all of you who dare to make this comparison. You disgusting people will use any tragedy, even the genocide of millions of human beings, to advance your shit political agendas.
Wide Spread Interests 