Warsaw, Poland – Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again.
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Events Sunday took place at sites including Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former death camp where Hitler’s Germany killed at least 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, in southern Poland. Sunday is the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops in 1945.
In Warsaw, prayers were also held at a monument to the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
And in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI warned that “the memory of this immense tragedy, which above all struck so harshly the Jewish people, must represent for everyone a constant warning so that the horrors of the past are not repeated.”
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Too painful and graphic………………kedoshim
Let us not think that those who hate Jews and hate Israel would not like to see this happen again. I just amazes me that there are Jews who believe that this can’t happen again , won’t back Israel and side with its enemies. NEVER AGAIN!!
AS a survivor of 4 years concentration camp , thank you and as Edward
R. Murrow said when transmitted from Buchenwald , put down your food and listen
הי”ד
I worked with elderly holocaust survivors in brooklyn for a few years.
Every day is holocaust memorial day.
H’ yerachim.
every year there are less and less survivors. we, the children (or grandchildren) must remember and NEVER EVER FORGET.
Many survivors lived the remider of their years alone , some were lucky and were able to build families but the memories never fade and the ignorance I have encountered makes it harder even when covered up by torah