That is an interesting take and I can’t say I disagree. When I think of a holocaust survivor, I think of someone like Viktor Frankl. He lived in a concentration camp and survived it.
I am not trying to bash this woman in any way but the people who survived the camps are different. I have friends who had families survive the camps; they were not Jewish but Polish.
I think people often forget the scale of the camps and the number of people who were put there for many reasons.
DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
Yeah. All respect for her family for dodging the horrible fate of the camps. It was surely not a small feat. And I can’t imagine living in constant fear like that. But I’ve never seen holocaust survivor used before for a person not in, or on their way to the camps.
Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com 2 days ago
And that’s a fair criticism. Sometimes we use terms vaguely. I am a veteran of the 1st gulf war but I wasn’t in the army during the war. I joined after the war but we will are considered veterans.
My friend is a veteran of Vietnam but her served in the Mediterranean Sea.
When I think of a holocaust survivor. I think of someone who survived the camps. Otherwise everyone who lived during that time is a survivor since they rounded up a lot of people. Jews, priest, homosexuals, Slavic people, etc.
People don’t grasp the size of the camps or the number of people killed outside of the Jewish people.
It truly was a horror that should never be forgotten.