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When 'The Holocaust Is Fake' Shows Up on Your Street Corner

JL;DR SUMMARY The essay by Aviya Kushner explores the painful yet essential act of responding to Holocaust denial, highlighted by her personal experiences encountering denialist stickers in Chicago and reflecting on family history in Germany. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish IdentityHolocaust DenialTeshuvaHolocaust MemoryLea GoldbergAviya KushnerKristallnacht AnniversaryTrauma And Response

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"But gratitude wasnt what I was feeling when I saw that The Holocaust Is Fake sticker on my street corner and all over the far north side of Chicago, traditionally a Jewish neighborhood."
Bremen, Germany
"I have since returned to Bremen again and again, and I am grateful that I have been able to do that, because each visit deepened my understanding."
Hamburg, Germany
"One chapter features a story about the narrator and her mother taking a quiet train north from Hamburg to Bremen, retracing the steps of their familys past."
Israel
"In Israel, the released hostages are slowly sharing harrowing details of what they experienced."

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