This behavior is an insult to Jewish women who are made to feel undesired.
Intermarriage too often begins with a visit to a stripper.
Before visiting Bergen-Belsen, check out the Yelp reviews (all in German). Before visiting the Majdanku death camp, check out the Yelp reviews. Before visiting Auschwitz, check out the Yelp reviews.
If only there had been Yelp in 1943, four million Jews might not have died.
Tim: “I’m sure first lady Eleanor Roosevelt would have posted a selfie in support, and Hitler would have seen the light.”
According to Trip Advisor, the Treblinka Nazi Camps Tour is ranked #26 of 72 activities in Warsaw.
I can’t find any tours of the Katyn Forest massacre site. However, according to Trip Advisor, the “Katyn massacre WWII memorial” is ranked #102 of 156 attractions in Baltimore.
Chaim Amalek: “This could be your calling. As a travel agent specializing in tours of massacre sites. You could have them for Jews, Armenians, Africans, Poles, etc.”
If only Archduke Ferdinand had decided against visiting the scene of his near fatal encounter in 1914, 100,000,000 might not have died.
A group of Israeli teens traveling through Poland on a pilgrimage to major concentration camps spent the night after visiting Auschwitz in their hotel rooms being entertained by Polish strippers–both male and female. Reports throughout Israel were swift and alarmist. The behavior of these kibbutz teens reflected the wider moral decline of Israeli society. No longer a nation of puritanism and self-sacrifice, the Wall in Jerusalem now wails not because of a fallen temple, but because of Wall Street’s corrupting influences in turning Israelis into consumers of pornography and victims of rising crime.
There were other theories offered to explain this embarrassing event. Some argued that this had nothing to do with dishonoring the Holocaust and everything to do with celebrating the hormones. Teenagers so far away from home are bound to have flesh on their minds. Even a visit to Auschwitz isn’t going to turn that off. Indeed, it might have had quite the opposite effect. After all, the camp itself had once been a place where stripping–not for entertainment purposes but as a prelude to death–took place throughout the day with factory precision. Auschwitz may have put an idea into the heads of these teens.
Still others blamed the overbearing presence of the Holocaust itself on a nation that owes its moral survival to the annihilation of European Jewry. The youth of Israel have no doubt become bored and numb with the repetitiveness and dominance of the Shoah in their lives. With slogans like “Never Again” having been rammed down their throats for so long, and Masada complexes burned into their psyches, the Holocaust no longer has emotional resonance for them, whereas Polish strippers, which so few Israeli teenagers have experienced, do.
Others were more sympathetic. Perhaps given all the symbols of mass murder that they had seen in Poland, an entirely different kind of emotional outlet was required in order to deal with such profound feelings of collective loss and grief.
