Auschwitz – For the first time ever, German soldiers were among the thousands of young people who were participating in the March of the Living on Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Among those attending were Holocaust survivors and representatives of various European countries, as well as some 7,000 Israeli and Diaspora youth – many of the latter being non-Jews.
The marchers set out from the infamous iron gate of the camp – crowned with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei,” or “Work Sets You Free” – and began walking 3 kilometers to the sister camp of Birkenau, the site of wooden barracks and the ruins of the gas chambers.
Addressing the assembled crowd, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom compared Nazi Germany to the dangers posed to Israel today. The world, he warned, must internalize the lessons of the Holocaust and awaken to the truth of the Iranian threat.
Sad. we have come so far that german soldiers participate in the March of the Living but no one in the yeshivishe velt still isnt even goreis it.
You want logic from the yeshivish velt? They are too busy with the mixed seating on the buses.
The Shoah took the lives of over a million very frum yidden. It’s a terrible situation in our history that the main sector of worldwide Judaism that remembers and honors the memory of these people are the secular non-frum and often very anti frum people. Yad Vashem itself has so few references to the Litvish Yeshivas and Chasidish courts of pre-WW2 Europe. The average yeshiva bochur couldnt tell you the start date of WW2 nor whether it started in Poland, Hungary or Greece. An integral part of our very current, as a natuion, history will be forgotten in a few years.
#3 ‘The Shoah took the lives of over a million very frum yidden’.
Last time I checked it was 6 MILLION and they were ALL ‘KEDOSHIM’ each and every 1 of them. The point you are trying to make is negligible in light of your gross error.
It is not hatred rather sadness that your learn toran and wash you hand about the death of Jewish children in gas chamber, mother’s and fathers
The ignorance of some of the statements appearing can be highlighted by the fact that in Buchenwald communist, socialist and other anti-Nazi prisoners, Germans, Czech,Dutch, Russians and other nationalities shared their rations with starving Jewish children. I wonder how many of these daas torah commentators ever shared food with a starving person