Holocaust ‘joke’ by online group condemned
'Imagine what it must feel like for Holocaust survivors in Australia—some of whom lost their entire families ... to see that indescribable agony turned into a joke online'
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich has condemned a Holocaust “joke” made by online group YeahMad, calling it “moral vomit dressed up as content”.
The joke, delivered by Katherine Andrew in a segment from 14 May, asked: “What’s the difference between me in Year 8 and a Jew?” The punchline was: “I came home from camp.”
Abramovich said the group had “crossed into uncharted territory of cruelty” by trivialising the murder of six million Jews.
“A ‘joke’—if you can stomach calling it that—delivered by Katherine Andrew, trivialised the slaughter of European Jewry,” he said. “She made them a punchline. She grinned. She clapped. The room erupted.”
Abramovich described the segment as standing “on the bones of Jewish victims—whose last words were screams in the gas chambers—and twisting their deaths into entertainment”.
He expressed particular concern for Holocaust survivors in Australia, saying the joke was “a wound reopened” for those who lost families in Nazi death camps.
“Imagine what it must feel like for Holocaust survivors in Australia—some of whom lost their entire families in the Nazi death camps—to see that indescribable agony turned into a joke online,” Abramovich said.
He called on Little Me Media Pty Ltd, which owns the YeahMad Facebook page, to remove the content and issue a full apology.
“Your platform enabled this obscenity. You gave this rot a megaphone,” he said. “Take down this content. Issue a full apology. End your partnership with those who turn atrocity into amusement.”
The AJN has contacted Little Me Media for comment.
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