What did the Jews mock in the fields? | A 7 …

How could Jews confined in ghettos and fields laugh? Exactly, they had no other way out. Humor was a stimulating attitude; they knew that they were risking freedom and life, but, as one survivor said, "we felt that the Nazis had the last bullet, but we had the last word." The joke made in the heat of hell was not the product of frivolity, but of a compelling need to keep balance in front of the NOTHING. That those who have not suffered jokes about things of the Holocaust are perverse, but that those who played there have laughed, it is sublime.
The lexicon created in the ghettos and the fields is rich, with ironic punches of untranslatable words and a humor that expresses above all in a singular slang used by the Jews between them, slang which, because of its isolation, was several ghetto ghetto, for example, in Lodz, called "feigalaj", "birds", bombers and bombs called "kneidalaj", for those balls of dough that are eaten with broth, especially during the Pbadover. In other ghettos, the "kapos" were called "shadjunem", "matchmakers" because they combined the marriage of the people with the angel of death. They called their miserable striped uniforms "bigdei maljus", "the dress of kings". For a hidden radio, they called it "afikoimen", for the piece of unleavened bread that, in Pbadover, is usually hidden as a game that children can find. They called "actor", "actor", the Jew who pbaded on the Aryan side because he had to pretend to be a non-Jew. Forced to wear the yellow star, they said it was not a medal for merit, but a medal for the Semitic. They also said that, thanks to this imposition, the Warsaw Ghetto looked like Hollywood. Wherever you look, you see stars.
Jewish humor, also in these circumstances, was first expressed with ironies about themselves. Thus, they described their life in the ghetto: "We dress like Purim, we live like in Sukkot and we eat like Yom Kippur". Remember that Yom Kippur is a day of fasting. In Sukot, you live in precarious huts and in Purim, a sort of carnival, people dress up.
At the cynical poster placed by the Nazis at the entrance of the fields "Arbet macht frei", "the work frees", the Jews added "fun lebn", "libera, de la vida" . Inmates of the Sobibor ghetto painted on the road sign the legend "The path of paradise". When the Germans were preparing to liquidate the Vilna ghetto in July 1944, when the Red Army was advancing to liberate them, the Jews in the ghetto described their situation as follows: "We have the redemption on the nose and the dagger on the neck … "
They commented: "The Germans bomb London and the British, Berlin, to save fuel, they should accept the British bombing of London and the Germans, Berlin …"
Here, for example, are some jokes from the repertoire of concentration:

– Kohn meets Goldstein in a ghetto street and tells him that Rubinstein has just died. Raising his shoulders, Goldstein comments:
-… Well, he had the opportunity to improve his situation …

– Two Jews, hungry and anemic, cross a street in the ghetto and one of them sees that the other one is adjusting the buckle of the belt.
-What do you do? -He asked him.
-Nothing is my lunch

They say that the Nazis have the intention of destroying the Jews and the alphabet.
– Why the alphabet?
-Because it's as simple to destroy as the Jews.

– A Gestapo agent questions a child:
-Dime, do you have a portrait of Hitler hanging in your house?
No
"And do they have hanging portraits of Goebbels and Goering?"
"No," the boy replies, "but Dad said that as soon as he gets out of the concentration camp, he will hang them all."

– Before the Jews are expelled from schools, in any of them, on the day of Hitler 's birthday, a teacher harangues his students:
-Our dear Führer is more than a leader; He is a father to us. Tell me, if your father really was and everyone could ask him what he wants most, what would they ask him?
"I would like you to make me captain," exclaimed little Franz.
"And to me, make me general," shouted little Kurtz.
"And to me, make me a minister," shouted little Fritz.
"And for me, make me an orphan," cried little Moses.

– Goebbels was fascinated to talk to the mbades and Goering, to show their uniforms. The Jews imagined them in hell and each received the worst of punishments:
For Goebbels, a thousand radios and no microphone. For Goering, a thousand uniforms and no mirrors.

– Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Moishe and Saúl find jokes to survive:
-And you know that joke in which Hitler, Goering and Goebbels die, and …
No
– Me neither, but it would be great, right?