{"id":1258,"date":"2015-05-02T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:59:03","slug":"yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/02\/yom-kippur\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon reading\u00a0<em>Into Oblivion <\/em>of\u00a0<i>Berlin at War,\u00a0<\/i>I was shocked to read about the successful celebration of Yom Kippur. The extreme commitment to a faith, that for some unfair, unknown reason got others in their community imprisioned\u00a0in the first place, was shocking to me. On October 1st, 1941, when Jewish Berliners were celebrating Yom Kippur at\u00a0<em>Levetzowstrasse, <\/em>one of the last\u00a0synagogues in Berlin in useful operation, Gestapo officials showed up and not only closed down the synagogue, but started the official &#8220;resettlement&#8221; of Jewish Berliners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/67287918560951f4f3fa07287c10be88_w389_h268-300x206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17905 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/67287918560951f4f3fa07287c10be88_w389_h268-300x206-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Levetzowstrasse around 1935<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I am not one of strong or committed faith, I was shocked to learn that so many atrocities being committed, because of a religion, could mean that the religion could still bear a large following. While this is one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, I still do not know if I (like the majority of Berliners) could remain a committed Jewish person after seeing the crimes being committed to others in the same faith.<\/p>\n<p>Photo cred:\u00a0http:\/\/www.memorialmuseums.org\/eng\/staettens\/view\/1403\/Levetzowstra\u00dfe-Deportation-Memorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon reading\u00a0Into Oblivion of\u00a0Berlin at War,\u00a0I was shocked to read about the successful celebration of Yom Kippur. The extreme commitment to a faith, that for some unfair, unknown reason got others in their community imprisioned\u00a0in the first place, was shocking to me. On October 1st, 1941, when Jewish Berliners were celebrating Yom Kippur at\u00a0Levetzowstrasse, one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-field-studies","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/17906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}