{"id":177770,"date":"2018-10-16T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177770"},"modified":"2018-10-18T04:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T04:19:54","slug":"israel-crowns-93-year-old-as-miss-holocaust-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177770","title":{"rendered":"Israel crowns 93-year-old as ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters — Oct 14, 2018<\/h1>\n
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Miss Holocaust Survivor crowned. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A 93-year-old great-grandmother was crowned \u201cMiss Holocaust Survivor\u201d on Sunday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to put a smile on women who endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n

A dozen contestants cautiously trod the catwalk – at times assisted – in the city of Haifa, with hair coiffed, make-up applied and sashes adorning their dresses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several generations of relatives, along with well-wishers, cheered and snapped pictures, underscoring the organizers\u2019 message that the contest bestows glamour and honor on the dwindling number of those whose youth was stolen in wartime Europe but who went on build new lives for themselves in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy. It\u2019s something special,\u201d said the new Miss Holocaust Survivor, Polish-born Tova Ringer, who lost her parents, four sisters and a grandmother in Auschwitz death camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have words for the people working here. They gave so much … heart for us,\u201d she told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Miss Holocaust Survivor contestants on the catwalk. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t believe that at my age I would be a beauty,\u201d the former jeweler laughed, her tiara perched on her white hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other contestants included a retired gynaecologist and gas technician, both 81 years old, and two authors of Holocaust memoirs. The youngest, 74, still works as a teacher despite complications of pneumonia she suffered as a baby in Romania.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some commentators and survivors worry that the event cheapens the memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.<\/span><\/p>\n

But one German spectator deemed it \u201ca wonderful celebration\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important for my generation to know the history of the Holocaust, of the Shoah, and it is important for me to support these people,\u201d said Jan Fischer, a 52-year-old credit card manager from Munich.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wish that this (genocide) won\u2019t happen again – never.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does this say about the conventional Shoah narrative? When the slaughter of Russian Jews by Nazis is largely ignored, while events like this are celebrated? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177774,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177770\/revisions\/177774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}