Perspective: Anti-vaxxers are comparing themselves to Holocaust victims — who relied on vaccines to survive
A woman wears a"No Vax" sign on her backpack in West Nyack, N.Y., on March 28, during a demonstration after officials in Rockland County, a New York City suburb, banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces. By Helene Sinnreich Helene Sinnreich is director of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld program in Judaic studies and associate professor of religious studies at University of Tennessee.
Jews were forcibly interned in Holocaust-era ghettos where diseases ravaged the population. The ghettos they were crammed into averaged four to eight people per room, and offered inadequate access to sanitation facilities, medicine and food. These conditions left them particularly vulnerable to epidemics of deadly communicable illnesses. The yellow stars on their clothing were not a choice. They were forced to wear them, and to live in horrific conditions that bred infectious disease.
In his Lvov ghetto diary, David Kahane recorded that the bodies of the dead were “carted off to the graveyard every day, sometimes even several times a day,” and noted that few of the deceased were being ritually prepared for burial. This work had been done by rabbis, but all the rabbis in Lvov had either been deported or died of disease or violence at the hands of the Nazis.
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