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We are Israeli Consul General Shlomi Kofman & UC Berkeley Professor of Jewish History John Efron, here to answer questions about the Holocaust, European Jews in WWII, & the Righteous Among the Nations. May 2nd is Yom HaShoah, a day of commemoration for those lost in the Holocaust - Ask Us Anything!
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Until well into the nineteenth, and in many places into the twentieth century, the bulk of world Jewry was yet to be legally emancipated. However, by the 1860s and 1870s, legal emancipation throughout western and central Europe was a fact and Jews became increasingly secure and confident of their place in a secular, democratic, political order. Believing that they had succeeded in becoming European by adopting the languages and cultural mores of their gentile neighbors, Jews now expected that the reward for their efforts would be an end to Jew hatred. Quite the opposite happened. Jewish adoption of European culture coupled with the retention of Jewish group identity led to the emergence of a new European-wide discourse about Jews known as the “Jewish Question.” For many political actors and agitators, the mode of Jewish integration (long demanded of Jews by both friends and enemies alike) engendered a backlash, one fueled by hatred and envy. Antisemites believed that the successful project of Jewish acculturation was a product of the supposedly unique racial qualities of the Jews combined with a belief in their conspiratorial agenda.

Yom HaShoah is Israel's day of commemoration for the six million Jews and five million others who have perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories. Given the important day and the "Lest We Forget" Holocaust survivor exhibit at San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco's Israeli Consul General Shlomi Kofman and UC Berkeley Professor of Jewish History John Efron are here to answer questions about the Holocaust, European Jews in World War II, the Righteous Among the Nations, and the importance of fighting anti-Semitism. Ask us anything!

Edit: Proof: https://imgur.com/7MF7i1s Proof: https://imgur.com/cQjm1mK

Edit 2: Thank you all SO much for your very interesting and inquisitive questions. It was a pleasure to interact with all of you. Please keep listening to survivors and passing on their stories. Future generations will not be able to hear their stories, so it is our duty to keep telling them. Thank you again! - John and Shlomi

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