Today is the Israeli national memorial day of the Holocaust

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"Children, grandchildren born to survivors, Marg, are our only, our best, vengeance!"

I couldn't agree more! And every tiny act of kindness, of goodwill, of acceptance, which crosses those many many lines which the NAZIs drew to divide and oppress humanity, is a testament to the power of love and life to conquer even such hatred as the Holocaust.

It is of such acts of loving-kindness towards those not 'ours' which will enable the Messiah to come to the world.

the "messiah" can't get through the door. the israelis are blocking it with hundreds of dead palestinian children.

Our nation is strong enough to overcome anything.

 

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Israelis from the Golan to Eilat stood still for one minute Monday morning in memory of the Holocaust martyrs.

Photos by Flash 90.

I posted an article about Hanna Szenes yesterday.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSlAS6VUeE&feature=player_embedded]Chief of Staff Leads IDF Delegation Through Auschwitz - YouTube[/ame]

 

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Thanks for the video!

 

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Poland pays homage to WWII Jewish ghetto fighters...

Poland remembers Warsaw ghetto and its fighters
Apr 17,`13 -- Israel's ambassador to Poland opened a 3-D show of Warsaw ghetto photos on Wednesday as part of observances marking the 70th anniversary of the ghetto's ill-fated revolt against Nazi Germans.

The 48 pictures shown at Warsaw's Fotoplastikon are images of people walking or begging in the streets, street vendors, German troops and the Jewish cemetery. Most of them were taken between 1940, when the ghetto was set up, and 1945, when almost nothing remained of Warsaw's Jewish district. Some of the images are very poignant, like one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes.

Ambassador Zvi Rav-Ner said the photos are proof of the immense suffering of the Jews in the ghetto and a warning against nationalist violence. "It is very important that these pictures show how it really was, how they all suffered," Rav-Ner said in Polish. "And then there was this great heroism. This was the first uprising against the Nazis in occupied Europe." On April 19, 1943, a few hundred poorly armed Jews put up resistance to the German forces, who were sending ghetto residents to death camps. The revolt was crushed in May, and the ghetto was razed to the ground, its residents killed.

The two-dimensional photos were supplied by the family of Polish resistance photographer Stefan Baginski and turned into stereoscopic images that, when viewed through binoculars, offer a 3-D effect. Some of the photos were taken by German soldiers and some by a Polish photographer, Mieczyslaw Bil-Bilazewski, who apparently worked for both the Nazi occupiers and the Polish resistance. The show was organized by the Warsaw Rising Museum as part of observances marking the ghetto revolt anniversary. The 1944 Warsaw uprising was a separate city-wide revolt.

Museum Director Jan Oldakowski said the two uprisings are often confused: the ghetto revolt being better known in the world, the Warsaw-wide uprising better known in Poland. "They are both the heritage of Warsaw, and this is what we want to say through this picture show," Oldakowski said. Earlier Wednesday, Poland's parliament adopted a resolution honoring those who suffered and died in the ghetto. It "pays homage to the victims and heroes of the uprising whose courage and sacrifice have earned admiration, respect and the memory of generations that came after them." State observances will be led by President Bronislaw Komorowski on Friday.

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