Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
You don't know what you're talking about.
The wealthy/successful Jews were often less likely to leave occupied countries because they would have been leaving almost everything they earned behind, and starting over. It's a lot easier to flee when there's nothing valuable you're leaving behind.
This is exactly what happened to my grandmother's family. My grandmother had relatively little, and the decision to leave Poland was easy. Her sister was married to a successful tire business owner, and they couldn't bring themselves to just run off and abandon everything.
Guess who survived WWII, and guess who was executed by the Nazis? Hint: It wasn't the rich sister.
Well that anecdote clearly proves your point. And apparently disproves Blakes point that very few Jews that died in the holocaust had relatives in the US.
There weren't that many wealthy Jews at the time to begin with.
So if we split the Jews to a strong half and weak half. Do you think that the survivor side is more likely 55-45 or 50-50?
Also if we are going by the origin story that Jews prospered through hard work, appreciating education and being community oriented wtf were they doing the 1k+ years before the 20th century? Were they just slacking, skipping school and generally fucking around? This rags to riches story becomes less impressive if we get to take 1k+ years.