Birkenau Poland – A senior Israeli rabbi attending a memorial march for Holocaust victims in Poland on Thursday renewed condemnation of German Noble-prize winner Günther Grass for a poem he wrote criticizing the Jewish state.
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Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem institute that commemorates Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II, asked whether Mr. Grass was “following in the footsteps of his Führer?”
Speaking to thousands of participants in a march between the German death camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the rabbi, who is a former chief rabbi of Israel, also underlined Mr. Grass’s membership in the Hitler Youth and the Waffen SS.
He is modern orthodox, not really chareidi – he grew up chareidi
what should i tell ppl that say that the hitler youth were not responsible?
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HE GREW UP IN BERGEN BELSEN AND BIRKENAU!!
You grew up in boro park, flatbush, lakewood, monsey, williamsberg etc. etc.
Where does someone like u get the audacity to comment on someone who went through his experiences!!
Rav Lau does not identify with any particular camp, and he is appreciated by all except a handful of laydigeyers who have little to do with their lives.