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Holocaust Showbiz
‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ crowned in Israel, stirring smiles and controversy
Blake Sobczak, The Associated Press Jun 29, 2012 – 11:07 AM ET | Last Updated: Jun 29, 2012 11:11 AM ET
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and winner of the beauty pageant Chava Hershkovitz (C) stands during a beauty pageant for Holocaust survivors in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
HAIFA, Israel — Grinning and waving, 14 women who survived the horrors of World War II paraded Thursday in an unusual pageant, vying for the honour of being crowned Israel’s first “Miss Holocaust Survivor.”
Billed by organizers as a celebration of life, the event also stirred controversy. In a country where millions have been touched by the Holocaust, many argued that judging aging women who had suffered so much on physical appearance was inappropriate, and even offensive.
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and winner of the Holocaust survivors beauty pageant, Chava Hershkovitz, 78, is awarded during the beauty pageant in Haifa, Israel.
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“It sounds totally macabre to me,” said Colette Avital, chairwoman of Israel’s leading Holocaust survivors’ umbrella group. “I am in favour of enriching lives, but a one-time pageant masquerading (survivors) with beautiful clothes is not what is going to make their lives more meaningful.”
Pageant organizer Shimon Sabag rejected the criticism, saying the winners were chosen based on their personal stories of survival and rebuilding their lives after the war, and physical beauty was only a tiny part of the competition.
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Mania Herman, is honored during the beauty pageant in Haifa.
“They feel good together. They are having a good time and laughing in the rehearsals,” said Sabag, director of Yad Ezer L’Haver, or Helping Hand, which assists needy Holocaust survivors and organized the pageant.
“The fact that so many wanted to participate proves that it’s a good idea.”
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Israeli Holocaust survivors and beauty pageant contestants, wait for the pageant to start.
Nearly 300 women from across Israel registered for the competition and contestants were whittled down to the 14 finalists who appeared Thursday.
The contest, part of Helping Hand’s annual “cultural” night, included a lavish dinner and music at a Haifa reception hall. Some 600 people attended, including two Cabinet ministers, Moshe Kahlon and Yossi Peled, himself a Holocaust survivor.
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and winner of the beauty pageant Chava Hershkovitz, 78, stands during a beauty pageant for Holocaust survivors.
The women, ranging in age from 74 to 97, clearly enjoyed themselves. Wearing black dresses, earrings and necklaces, and sporting blue-and-white numbered sashes, they grinned and waved as they were introduced to the adoring audience. Music played as the contestants walked along a red carpet, introduced themselves and described their memories of World War II.
“I have the privilege to show the world that Hitler wanted to exterminate us and we are alive. We are also enjoying life. Thank God it’s that way,” said Esther Libber, a 74-year-old runner-up who fled her home in Poland as a child, hid in a forest and was rescued by a Polish woman. She said she lost her entire immediate family.
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Bracha Lahis, 82, (R) talks to her makeup artist ahead of the beauty pageant.
A four-judge panel consisting of three former beauty queens and a geriatric psychiatrist who specializes in treating Holocaust survivors chose the winner. Hava Hershkovitz, a soon-to-be 79-year-old, was banished from her home in Romania in 1941 and sent to a detention camp in the Soviet Union for three years. Today, she lives in an assisted living home run by Helping Hand.
“This place is full of survivors. It puts us at the centre of attention so people will care. It’s not easy at this age to be in a beauty contest, but we’re all doing it to show that we’re still here,” the silver-haired Hershkovitz said.
Wearing a glittering tiara, she was joined by her granddaughter, Keren Hazan. “I’m very proud of her because she’s the most beautiful woman in the room tonight,” Hazan said.
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Israeli Holocaust survivors and beauty pageant contestants rehearse ahead of the beauty pageant.
In addition to the contestants’ accounts of surviving Nazi ghettos and concentration camps, their later contributions to their communities were also considered, Sabag said. Physical appearance was maybe “10 per cent” of the criteria, he said, though a cosmetics company was recruited to help the women dress up for the occasion.
“We always tell them to dress well and look good. To think positive and to take care of themselves,” Sabag said. “Always look at life with a smile and continue to live.”
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Israeli Holocaust survivors and beauty pageant contestants dance during a Holocaust survivors beauty pageant.
The thought that physical appearance could even remotely be a factor rubbed some the wrong way. Avital, of the Holocaust survivors’ umbrella group, criticized the cosmetics company, saying it was using Holocaust survivors in a cheap marketing stunt to promote their products.
“Why use a beauty contest to show that these people survived and that they’re brave?” wondered Lili Haber, a daughter of Holocaust survivors who heads an Israeli organization that assists survivors from Poland. “I think it’s awful. I think it’s something a decent person shouldn’t even think about.”
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Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Jenia Schwartzbart, 89, is prepared ahead of the beauty pageant.
The Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany oversaw the systematic slaughter of 6 million European Jews, plays a unique role in Israeli society. The country gained independence in the wake of the Holocaust, serving as a refuge for hundreds of thousands of people who survived the genocide.
Nearly 200,000 aging survivors live in Israel today, and the country’s annual Holocaust Day is one of the most solemn occasions on the calendar. Restaurants and cinemas close, and the country comes to a standstill as sirens wail for two minutes. Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, frequently make references to the Holocaust when discussing the threat they believe a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to the Jewish state.
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Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Estee Lieber, 74, dances with Jenia Schwartzbart, 89, (R) during the beauty pageant.
Thursday’s contest was among the many unconventional beauty pageants that have sprouted up over the years. The war-torn countries of Angola and Cambodia have held “Miss Landmine” contests for survivors of land mine explosions, Star Trek fans enjoy the “Miss Klingon Empire” contest in Atlanta, and plus-sized women in Thailand compete for the honour of “Miss Jumbo Queen.” There are also a senior citizens’ pageants in the U.S.
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Israeli Holocaust survivor and winner of the beauty pageant Chava Hershkovitz (C) walks with competitor Klara Berkovitz (R) as they present themselves during the beauty pageant.
Gal Mor, editor of the popular Israeli blog “Holes in the Net,” said Thursday’s pageant was well-intentioned but misguided.
“Why should a decayed, competitive institution that emphasizes women’s appearance be used as inspiration, instead of allowing them to tell their story without gimmicks?” he wrote. “This is one step short of ’Survivor-Holocaust’ or ’Big Brother Auschwitz.’ It leaves a bad taste. Holocaust survivors should be above all this.”
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Holocaust survivor and beauty pageant contestant, Jenia Schwartzbart, 89, gets ready ahead of the beauty pageant.
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Holocaust survivor and winner of the beauty pageant Chava Hershkovitz (2R) and other contestants stand during the beauty pageant.
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Hava Hershkovitz, third from right, a Holocaust survivor and winner of a beauty pageant, speaks to the crowd.
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Holocaust survivor and winner of the Holocaust survivors beauty pageant, Chava Hershkovitz, 78, looks on during the beauty pageant.
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Re: Holocaust Showbiz
They keep looking younger every year. And so sveltely thin! ;->
The Jews are so turned on by the Holocaust Myth that future editions of the 'Diary of Anne Frank' will feature a centerfold.
Re: Holocaust Showbiz
I read several of the articles a Google search produced—there are thousands of them—searching in vain for material I might use on our “Strange Tales of the Holocaust’ thread, but no luck. Some of the articles said the contestants gave an account of how they escaped death during years of being under the control of history’s most efficient killing machine, the SS, but I haven’t found a report of the tales as they were spun in the contest.
I did learn that one of the finalists was what our fine friend, JohnRossTaylor calls a “Forest jew,” having survived the war by hiding in the forest of Poland. I wish I could find Esther Libber’s tale, because all the Forest jew tales are highly entertaining. When you consider the fact that many of the young, healthy and highly trained US Air Force pilots who undertake survival training are unable to complete the full SIX DAYS at a latitude almost exactly the same as the Polish woodlands Esther inhabited, you can get a full appreciation of the sheer heroism of a woman who could survive entire Polish winters as a 6 or 7 year old, clad only in street clothes, with none of the modern high tech clothing and equipment our sissified pilots have.
One of the Israeli papers said Hava Hershkovitz was “Sent to a camp in Russia,” and another says she ran away from her home in Poland and ended up in a Soviet camp. This makes Hava one of the thousands of the sainted survivors who were “Double holocausted,” suffering under the anti-semites of Poland, Hungary, Russia, et. al. as well as under the evil Germans. All of the blame for the horrors suffered by the jews who were double-holocausted lies with the Germans. None is ever ascribed to the evil anti-semites who abused them in other countries in Europe.
If anyone finds a link to the “Accounts” rendered as part of the beauty contest, please post it here. There’s gotta be some doozies among those tales.
"Migrants threaten our national identity "...Bibi Netanyahu
"This country belongs to us, to the white man."...Eli Yishai, Israeli Interior Minister
"...if everyone who claims to be a Holocaust survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?"..Norman Finkelstein (son of two survivors), in "The Holocaust Industry."
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This forest Jew, Misha Defonseca, later admitted that her best-selling Holocaust survival book was not for real either.Originally Posted by Edmund Ruffin
Holocaust wolf memoir a fake, author admits - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher
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Perusing all those photos of so many sensuous beauties, I was reminded of what Justice Potter Stewart wrote half a century ago:"Pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it."
"Migrants threaten our national identity "...Bibi Netanyahu
"This country belongs to us, to the white man."...Eli Yishai, Israeli Interior Minister
"...if everyone who claims to be a Holocaust survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?"..Norman Finkelstein (son of two survivors), in "The Holocaust Industry."
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She just over-reached, as members of her tribe are wont to do. It was the wolves that did her in.
Merely surviving winter in the forests of Poland as a prepubescent girl dressed in regular street clothes is no big thing. Many of the sainted survivors say the same thing and still bear the Kosher stamp of approval from the keepers of the fable.
She had already made more than a million bucks from book and movie royalties, when her ship ran aground. Some things are just too incredible even for credulous gentiles. She should've kept the wolves out of it.
"Migrants threaten our national identity "...Bibi Netanyahu
"This country belongs to us, to the white man."...Eli Yishai, Israeli Interior Minister
"...if everyone who claims to be a Holocaust survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?"..Norman Finkelstein (son of two survivors), in "The Holocaust Industry."
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Any books, stories, or personal accounts associated with the holocaust I automatically discount as exaggerations or lies!
It's getting downright bizarre as to what lengths these people will go in order to generate some sort of publicity about the so-called holocaust.
Personally I can't wait until the mainstream media announces the death of the very last survivor, who will no doubt probably live to the ripe old age of at least 175 years old with fake documentation and even eye witnesses. Anything to keep the myth alive!
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Well, we will just have to make more, then, won't we?
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Now for some real fun, lets see the pictures from the Swimsuit Event!
"Never stand and take a charge; charge them too."...Nathan B. Forrest
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