Holocaust and Humour.

I realize that this blog will probably cause some controversy, but bear with me. I do not intend to disrespect the survivors, on the contrary I always do my best to honour them and aim to remind everyone  to how these people suffered. Nor do I want to diminish the horrors of that darkest era of human history.

The movie “La vita e bella” (Life is beatiful) is a good example where the Holocaust was portrayed in a humorous way and yet very sad and poignant.

People often cope with dire circumstance by applying their sense of humour and I am sure this wouldn’t have been different during the Holocaust. If you just look at the amount of Jewish comedians, it is clearly an indication that the Jewish people have a great sense of humour.

Victor Borge, Mel Brooks, the Marx Brothers,George Burns were all comedic geniuses.

And even nowadays…