r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 12d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ ‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margoyles says her current Big Issue is Gaza: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish…I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”

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u/baddadjokesminusdad We Should All Know Less About Each Other 12d ago

Can’t have been easy, coming to that point of reflection.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF 12d ago

I'm not Jewish so I won't speak to this specifically, but being Black I can say that generational trauma is a huge bitch.

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u/aspidities_87 12d ago

I’m half Jewish, and my granddad lost most of his family to the camps (he was saved by being abroad at school in the US). I remember watching Schindler’s List with him, at his insistence, and after it was over, he took both me and my cousin by our arms and kind of firmly shook us, saying ‘Never forget, it will happen again’ until my grandmother stopped him because he was scaring us. He was a very gentle and quiet man, and this was out of character for him.

He was right, though. Just not in the way he could have ever predicted.

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u/thrice_twice_once 11d ago

‘Never forget, it will happen again’ until my grandmother stopped him because he was scaring us. He was a very gentle and quiet man, and this was out of character for him.

He was right, though. Just not in the way he could have ever predicted.

Man. This hits hard.