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Pets are being left behind after ICE raids from eloons place (Original Post)
irisblue
Jul 2025
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irisblue
(37,051 posts)1. The Fate of Pets in the Holocaust
https://ofthingsforgotten.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-fate-of-pets-in-holocaust.html?m=1
Snip-There was no consistent Nazi policy for treatment of Jewish owned pets before the spring of 1942. The question arose quiet often when dealing with the segregation or deportation of Jews, since they owned pets just as commonly as any other group. Most often, Jews were banned from bringing their pets along and had to find foster families for their dogs, cats or birds within a very short time. This was the case, for example, in the uprooting of Jews from the shoreline of the Netherlands in 1941.
As long as the deportation had been announced a few days prior, finding a solution for domestic animals was the responsibility of the owners. But in an event of sudden mass-deportation or sealing of a Jewish neighborhood as a ghetto no time was given for such actions, and the problem thus became very much that of the authorities. In Eastern Europe, for example, Jews sometimes naively brought their pets along to the roundups prior to Einsatzgruppe executions, believing they were being resettled."
Source-https://ofthingsforgotten.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-fate-of-pets-in-holocaust.html?m=1
More there
There are photos of people & their pets, some in the Ghettos themselves.
History may not repeat, but it sure echoes
Snip-There was no consistent Nazi policy for treatment of Jewish owned pets before the spring of 1942. The question arose quiet often when dealing with the segregation or deportation of Jews, since they owned pets just as commonly as any other group. Most often, Jews were banned from bringing their pets along and had to find foster families for their dogs, cats or birds within a very short time. This was the case, for example, in the uprooting of Jews from the shoreline of the Netherlands in 1941.
As long as the deportation had been announced a few days prior, finding a solution for domestic animals was the responsibility of the owners. But in an event of sudden mass-deportation or sealing of a Jewish neighborhood as a ghetto no time was given for such actions, and the problem thus became very much that of the authorities. In Eastern Europe, for example, Jews sometimes naively brought their pets along to the roundups prior to Einsatzgruppe executions, believing they were being resettled."
Source-https://ofthingsforgotten.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-fate-of-pets-in-holocaust.html?m=1
More there
There are photos of people & their pets, some in the Ghettos themselves.
History may not repeat, but it sure echoes
Figarosmom
(10,427 posts)2. I was thinking about this.
I wondered how many were left in homes for days because their owner was taken somewhere and could not call someone or go home. Or may never be rescued because the person grabbed had no one to miss them, so the house and pets are just left.
People like thise thugs lifting people from the streets that could care less about these pets have no redeeming qualities they're evil to the bone.
