RT.com
A museum in Tartu, Estonia, has sparked condemnation after a very unorthodox approach to Holocaust remembrance: by laughing at it. Among the exhibits is a scandalous video of children playing tag in a gas chamber, minutes before death.
RT has opted not to post any photos from the showing on ethical grounds.
There are a number of exhibits at ‘My Poland: Of Remembering and Forgetting’, which have aroused the anger of Estonia’s Jewish community. Another includes a mock-LA setting, with the giant word ‘Hollywood’ replaced by ‘Holocaust.’
The exhibition, set up to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps by the allies, is the first of its kind in Estonia, according to the local newspaper Express. It runs from February 7 to March 29.
There were upwards of 1,000 Estonian Jews who didn’t make it out of the country and faced death in the camps.
Rael Artel, who curates the “celebrated exhibition of modern art” at the Tartu Art Museum, appears to have a different mission entirely than the usual approach to the Holocaust as one of the most unspeakably dark chapters in human history. On the museum’s website, he explains how the museum considers it its mission to help artists see painful history through a different prism in order to be able to talk about it more comfortably.
“Humor and irony”, according to the coordinator of the exhibition, Julia Poluyanenkova, “is a way to overcome trauma. The intention here isn’t entirely to discuss the actual events, but to attempt to understand how the generations of us that remain deal with trauma, with events that have traumatized the human soul,” RIA Novosti quotes her as saying.
While those Eastern European countries are utterly anti-Semitic, who are you to say to leave the Palestinians to their games? The anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe is “very much in evidence” there? So is it in Israel-or have you forgotten the attack on the shul, where five innocent Yidden perished, z”l?
Perhaps Israel and the lobby in the US should realize that the real enemy is in countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland etc where anti-Semitism is very much in evidence. Go nuke these freaks and leave the Palestinians alone.
any tylenol around? im so…..disgusted/annoyed/angry/any other synonym
How can people have the nerve to do this?
what would the islam do in this case?
P.S. As someone who grew up in public school, where Jews were a minority, Holocaust jokes (even worse than this) have been around for a long time.
Barbaric and insane
Thank you for posting this Collive
And, there are people that tell holocaust jokes. The world seems to have lost its mind.
More cockroaches coming out of the woodwork. The phenomenon is frighteningly pandemic today. in Western Europe and the United States they call it anti-Zionism, in Estonia they’re obviously dressing it up as some psychological c–p and describing it as an artistic way to deal with holocaust trauma. Trauma? What trauma? Show me a viewer of this particular art exhibit who today feels traumatized by the fact that Jews were exterminated by the Nazis three quarters of a century ago and I’ll show you an almost non-existent anomaly. And sadly,Nero fiddles on… Aibershter, we may be asking for the wrong reasons… Read more »
this is disgusting. horrific and beyond description.
Wow. what the world can fall to…
BS”D that’s the depravity of the world we live in