Bizarre Beauty Pageant
Israel Hosts Holocaust Survivor Beauty Pageant
By Gilad
Atzmon
June
30, 2012
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Chava Hershkovitz, first MHS of Israel
"It iss a miracle!"
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Hava Hershkovitz, right, a Holocaust survivor and winner of
a beauty pageant is congratulated by another participant, in the northern
Israeli city of Haifa, Thursday, June 28, 2012. Fourteen women who lived
through the horrors of World War II paraded on stage Thursday night in an
unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being Israel’s first “Miss Holocaust
Survivor.” (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
89-year-old contestant Jenia Schwartzbart
gets ready ahead of the beauty pageant, on June 28, 2012 in Haifa, Israel.
The Huffington Post reported yesterday that
“Hava Hershkovitz, 79, was crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ at a pageant held
in Israel on Thursday.”
On Thursday, in a most unusual event, 14 Jewish women who
survived the horrors of the Shoa paraded vying for the honour of being crowned
Israel’s first “Miss Holocaust Survivor.”
Billed by the organizers as a ‘celebration of life’, the
nearly 300 women from across Israel who registered for the competition were
whittled down to the 14 finalists who appeared on Thursday.
As ever, suffering, victimhood and survival were shown to be
at the heart of Jewish and Israeli culture. “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.
The Miss Holocaust Parade seems to be one of the last
remaining opportunities to extort cash out of the elder community. Today,
nearly 200,000 aging survivors live in Israel ~ enough to keep some businesses
afloat and I guess it is only a matter of time before we learn from the Huffington
Post about the Shoa bodybuilding contest. (I understand that some survivors
like my great uncle Yanka’le still visit the gym once a week). Such a contest
could be endorsed by food supplement and weight lifting equipment companies ~
ideally Germans.
Contestant Bracha Lahis, 82, (R) talks to her
makeup artist ahead of the beauty pageant.
Apparently, Gal Mor, editor of the popular Israeli blog “Holes in the Net,” has already
envisioned such a development, Yesterday, he pointed out that the Miss
Holocaust pageant was misguided.
This is one step short of `Survivor-Holocaust’ or `Big Brother Auschwitz.’ It leaves a bad taste. Holocaust survivors should be above all this,” he wrote.
Actually, I disagree. The Israeli TV should seriously
consider launching such a Shoa reality-TV show. They could call it ‘Big Mirror’
and in it they could, once again, incarcerate elder survivors ~ but this time in
Gaza or Guantanamo Bay.
Sitting comfortably on our sofas with a pizza and a beer, we
could watch our Jewish heroes 24/7. And we can learn from them, the very people
who survived Hitler, how to survive in our Zionized universe. Such a program
would clearly yield huge revenues as well as being educational and ethically
driven.
Legendary Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban must have seen
it all coming when he coined his famous adage ‘there is no business like Shoa
business.
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