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DredZedPrime t1_j1gycaq wrote

Reply to comment by westbee in Volunteers deliver thousands of free Hanukkah meals to Holocaust survivors in New York City by AmethystOrator

Really doesn't seem that far fetched to me. You've probably never been in NYC. The Jewish population is pretty damn big, and it is one of the places where a hell of a lot of survivors settled, since it's where a lot of them would have entered the US.

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westbee t1_j1hdlcu wrote

Did you look at the numbers?

141,000 people in the city of New York are 85 plus years old.

10%+ of those people are holocaust survivors? No fucking way.

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jayb556677 t1_j1hml8w wrote

Jewish people make up 13% of NYC so the idea that they make up 13% of the 141,000 seems reasonable

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westbee t1_j1i3z12 wrote

Are you saying that every single Jewish person is a holocaust survivor?

The only way that would make sense is if 100% of Jewish people are holocaust survivors.

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coat_hanger_dias t1_j1i4dn0 wrote

Sure, but for this to hold true, 100% of the 85+ year old Jewish population would need to be holocaust survivors, which just isn't possible. Being a Jewish person that was alive somewhere on earth during the years the holocaust happened does not make you a "holocaust survivor".

I'm not a survivor of the war in Ukraine, for example, just because I'm alive and living life completely unaffected on the other side of the planet.

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