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A model and activist is launching a unique global website to remember the Holocaust in a bid to educate people after a rise in anti-Semitism and Kanye West ‘vomiting his dangerous views’.
Elizabeth Pipko, 27, a 2016 campaign staffer who previously posed for Maxim, announced the launch of So people don’t forget earlier this week, allowing people to share artifacts and memories of the horrors that occurred less than a century ago.
Pipko has deliberately released two alternative domains for the project: EducateKanye.com Y EducateYe.com.
While the project is in part about West’s behavior, which included him saying he “likes Hitler” and flirting with notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, Pipko laments the lack of education among young people in general that led to its creation.
Elizabeth Pipko (pictured left), a model and former member of the 2016 Trump campaign, is launching a unique global website to remember the Holocaust in an attempt to educate people after the rise of anti-Semitism and Kanye West (pictured right) ‘vomiting his dangerous opinions’.
The daughter of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Pipko said her parents “always taught me where we came from as a family and as a people.”
“The Kanye thing came up last fall, throwing out all his… shall we say dangerous views,” Pipko told DailyMail.com on Friday.
“I’ve been a huge fan, so to see him take that stance was sad for me, he has a lot of fans specifically young people who are the demographic that knows the least about the Holocaust,” he added. “If anyone was going to have an impact in this space, it had to be with the youth.”
He specifically noted speaking to teenagers who not only didn’t know about the Holocaust, they didn’t know who Adolf Hitler was, and thought that “only 100” Jews had been killed in the concentration camps.
Pipko, who is currently working on a graduate degree in social policy and practice at the University of Pennsylvania, said this is an opportunity to bring together several of her identities: as an activist, a student, a proud Jew and someone who works in space without profit.
I was so disappointed and bummed out as someone who had not only been a fan of West and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, but also someone who had known them previously.
“Many of his followers know about him but not about politics,” he added, saying it was impossible to see his recent turn coming, especially his association with Fuentes, a known white supremacist and anti-Semite.
Pipko has deliberately brought up two alternative domains for the project: EducateKanye.com and EducateYe.com
While the project is in part about West’s behavior, which included him saying he “likes Hitler” and flirting with notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, Pipko laments the lack of education among young people in general that led to its creation.
West has been seen fooling around with Fuentes (pictured right), a known anti-Semite and white supremacist, in recent months.
The Lest We Forget Project has already produced tons of letters from the concentration camps. Pipko’s goal is to keep the domain and site running for as long as the Internet.
She sees the project as a way for the young, who understand technology, to collaborate with their elders, who have a better understanding of the historical atrocity that was the Holocaust.
While the project started as a way to celebrate her beliefs, she said one of the highlights of the project has been the response from people of all faiths.
“I would say overall it was actually the response I got from non-Jews, there’s a couple of letters and things, we want it to be a slow release, there’s a letter from Auschwitz from a prisoner who was number 46, one of the first people in the camps.Seeing that was pretty scary.
He called the overall responses “really beautiful” and made her proud.
The Lest We Forget Project has already produced tons of letters from the concentration camps. Pipko’s goal is to keep the domain and site up and running for as long as the Internet.
She sees the project as a way for the young, who understand technology, to collaborate with their elders, who have a better understanding of the historical atrocity that was the Holocaust.
When asked what he would say or ask West if he saw him again: “I think I would ask him where he got his information from, because the Holocaust is pretty well documented, as much as anything else.”
“I would probably ask you to take a moment and at least look at the images on my website and take a moment to see what happens and you’ll quickly realize the power behind your comments,” he added.
Ultimately, he hopes this will inspire ‘those in power’, such as world leaders and especially those who run social media companies, where he has seen ‘too many swastikas’, ‘will step up’.
Pipko noted that the project will launch just 10 days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
“He was chosen to encourage the world to come together, commemorate the loss of 6 million Jews, and start a movement that inspires more people around the world to fight to protect and share this history.”
Pipko is a model, author, and activist who has posed for Maxim magazine in the past.
He also previously revealed that he worked as a staffer on President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
When asked what he would say or ask West if he saw him again: “I think I would ask him where he got his information from, because the Holocaust is pretty well documented, as much as anything else.”
They hope to receive letters, photos, documentation and testimonials, which anyone can submit, and ‘inspire young people to take action and be proactive in preventing the efforts of those who came before them from being wasted’.
“I hope that with the help of this project, younger generations will take responsibility for getting involved, uniting and ultimately leading the way in the fight to preserve this history.”