Simon Trakinski - Antisemitic jokes in the partisans
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Simon Trakinski - Antisemitic jokes in the partisans
Simon Trakinski - Antisemitic jokes in the partisans
Transcript: There was a member of my group was a fellow from Belarussia who was from Polish extraction and he like very much to tell anti-Jewish jokes especially about Jews who were afraid to fight and so on. But at heart he was a coward. So we were marching ...he was very disturbed at who knows what will happen to him and I was laughing at him. Says why you laughing, you know, you can get killed. So I says Walkof, was his name, I says Walkof, I am only a Jew I have nothing to worry about, you worry. He was very, you know, when the showdown came he showed what a coward he was. That's why he used to tell a lot of jokes about cowardly Jews.
Transcript: There was a member of my group was a fellow from Belarussia who was from Polish extraction and he like very much to tell anti-Jewish jokes especially about Jews who were afraid to fight and so on. But at heart he was a coward. So we were marching ...he was very disturbed at who knows what will happen to him and I was laughing at him. Says why you laughing, you know, you can get killed. So I says Walkof, was his name, I says Walkof, I am only a Jew I have nothing to worry about, you worry. He was very, you know, when the showdown came he showed what a coward he was. That's why he used to tell a lot of jokes about cowardly Jews.