Holocaust Remembrance Day – A Hatikva of Hope in Bergen-Belsen
TODAY in Israel it’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. There is no escaping the Holocaust in Jewish history. It’s there. It’s always there. Can Jews move on? This is not a wish to deny it – only a conniving racist would side with the Nazis who make liars of the dead and the Islamists who think that it never happened but it would be good idea if it did. It’s a desire not to be defined by persecution and murder. Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. How can Jews move on? How can Jews not be defined by anti-Semitism?
A reader sends us this video of Hatikva at Bergen-Belsen. It’s April 20th 1945 in the death camp. Hope springs. Life endures…
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This document shows data and a handprint of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, part of a file that have been moved to the archives of Yad Vashem, the Israel Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 3, 2005. The decision to move Eichmann's prints and police mugshot coincided with the recent opening of a new museum wing at Yad Vashem and the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Posted: 19th, April 2012 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
