20 Photos that Change the Holocaust Narrative

[Just_A_Guy]

See here.

[pam]

Awesome pictures.

[applepansy]

Amazing pics. Thank you for sharing. The stories behind the pictures are amazing too.

[NeuroTypical]

Great photos of great historical importance. I'm not sure how it changes the narrative though.

[ploomf]

Very cool pictures, thanks for sharing.

[BadWolf]

I. Love. This.

[talisyn]

Thanks for finding this, it was great. The photo of the woman and child brought me to tears, you just knew from looking at her that she has spent most of her time trying to keep that little girl alive.

[classylady]

The link isn't working for me.

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

Just reading the title of this thread, before looking at the pictures, I wondered, as Loudmouth did, what "changing the narrative" meant. I thought it possible that someone not necessarily the OP, was trying to white-wash the Holocaust...say it wasn't so bad, etc.

Then I looked at the pictures, and read the intro by the person that put them together. My feeling now is....the point about changing the narrative is simply (yet powerfully) to say, We are not victims but survivors.

For those who have not experienced trauma the difference may seem like semantics, but really it isn't. Victim evokes pity and suvivor evokes empathy, and perhaps respect. Therefore, if you have experienced trauma, which label would you want applied to you?

I do use both terms...I might talk about Hitler's victims, because Hitler's survivors wouldn't make sense. Besides saying Hitler's victims seems to better illustrate my disgust for him. On the other hand, I would also say survivors of the Holocaust, or Anne Frank and Corrie ten Boom are two Holocaust survivors I really admire. In that sense, I would feel as if I were insulting them to call them victims.

So I think "changing the narrative" means particularly to Jewish people, but the rest of the world as well...to stop seeing them as victims, and see them as the survivors that they are.