Facebook bans post Holocaust pictures as "offensive"

Guest Post by Darryl Baker

I have just received a 30 day ban of Facebook for discussing the Shoah and survivors. I posted a picture of three brave Jewish women who proudly displayed the tattoos that were forced onto them by their German and their allied Axis captors. A discussion was held where I wanted to draw a comparison between the women now and how they would have appeared on liberation day.

For a variety of different reasons I think this is a lot worse than awful, and I mean a lot worse. I am an amateur historian and my speciality is the Eastern Front during the second world war particularly the Shoah, what led up to it, how it was commissioned and who was responsible for what happened.

 

I have noticed that over the last four years or so, it is becoming more difficult to find expressive and defining pictures of what the holocaust was or what it meant. It is as if a veil is being lowered over that entire era to conceal it from reasoned public discourse. Although reasoned historical interpretations are still in abundance, there seems to be a shift in the entire nuance. Gradually it is looking like the Shoah is being sanitised and covered over, changed and then turned into something else.

To me it seems like a new historical narrative is gradually being constructed to replace the one we know. Facebook seems to be playing a significant, if not one of the leading roles in the whitewashing of the Shoah. Sometimes it feels like we the Jews are the only people on the planet who are not allowed to define who we are or to speak openly about our own history.

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