saying she is fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea of allowing middle schoolers to be taught that some enslaved people benefited from enslavement.
"Obviously, I'm not Black. But I'm Jewish. Would someone say, about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for Jews, right? While you were hanging out in concentration camps, you learned a strong work ethic, right? Maybe you learned a new skill?" she said. Greg Gutfeld hosts"Gutfeld!" at Fox Studios on October 12, 2022, in New York City. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum rebuked Gutfeld's remarks about the Holocaust on July 24, 2023, on The Five.Gutfeld, another co-host of The Five, responded by saying that some scholars have made the case that individuals in concentration camps needed to develop skills to survive.Vik Frankl talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills.
He referred to the autobiography of Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and survivor of the Holocaust, who detailed how he found personal meaning through his experiences in concentration camps. His remarks drew rebuke from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which in a lengthy statement posted toWhile it is true that some Jews may have used their skills or usefulness to increase their chances of survival during the Holocaust, it is essential to contextualize this statement properly and understand that it does not represent the complex history of the genocide perpetrated...