2007-10-28 14:00:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As has been mentioned by others here, the Jews who suffered through the Holocaust weren't comitting any sin by having tattoos forced on them by those savages. That being said, even for Jews who go and get tattoos of their own Free Will, it's an old wive's tale (a bubbe maiseh?) that such a Jew cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery. I'll tell you what I told someone else who was asking about whether or not they could convert to Judaism despite having a tattoo:
"I'll give you a little inside info (shh, don't tell anybody!): It's widely believed among Jews that if you have a tattoo, you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery. But apparently, that's not true. I just found this out. It started out as something Jewish mothers would tell their kids to prevent them from getting tattoos, and eventually people mistook it for the actual halacha. Who knew?"
I hope this helps clear things up.
2007-10-29 10:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holocaust Tattoos
2016-10-04 12:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those were forced upon them. Voluntarily getting a tattoo is forbidden in Judaism.
2007-10-28 14:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by drex540 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
People are not judged for what they had no control over. Even if someone was not a practicing Jew and got tattoos, they would still be allowed to get buried in a Jewish cemetary
2007-10-29 08:49:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the same way people without a tattoo get buried. you're not forbidden from being buried in a jewish cemetery just because you have a tattoo.
2007-10-28 17:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whoa! I'm nowhere near knowledgable on the subject, but surely that would be overlooked? It's not as those these poor people were willingly tattooed :(
2007-10-28 14:05:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Same as any other Jew. The tattoos forced on the Jews in concentration camps were done TO them and not taken voluntarily.
I've personally known only two survivors...both had full Jewish burial rites and in consecrated ground.
2007-10-28 14:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't like they had a choice to get the tattoo.
2007-10-28 14:04:38 · answer #8 · answered by tugar357 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
They didn't want the tattoos..They didn't want to be dragged out of their homes and loaded in to railway cars and be butchered. How can you live with your self. Have you no shame?!?
2007-10-28 14:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those tattoos where forced upon them it was not of their free will to be marked. It is the sin of those that did the tattooing not those they tattooed by force.
2007-10-28 14:04:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 13⤊ 0⤋