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Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

by tikun | April 20, 2009 at 10:40 am

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Israel marks Remembrance Day as the country shuts down all entertainment centers. Tomorrow at 10 AM Israel Time there will be a 2 minute siren. During this time all transportation will stop by the side of the road while everyone stands next to their cars or where ever they may be in remembrance of the 6 million Jews that perished and all of the other victims of the Holocaust. There will be special public programs through out the day.

Ronen Medzini

Published: 04.20.09, 20:26 / Israel News

"Nazism was defeated, but anti-Semitism is still alive. The gas has evaporated, but the poison remains," President Shimon Peres said on Monday evening in his address at the state ceremony marking the commencement of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"The conference that opened in Geneva today is the acceptance of racism, not the fight against it. And its key speaker, (Iranian President) Ahmadinejad, who calls for the extermination of Israel and who denies the Holocaust, it's shameful, a disgrace," said Peres.

"Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish disease, and those who need to cure it are those from whom it comes. It is hard for us to understand why the biggest tyrants, the Nazi Hitler, the Bolshevik Stalin, or the Persian Ahmadinejad chose the Jews to focus their hatred, madness and violence on. Perhaps their objection to the Jewish people is due to its spiritual strength."

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Yuliya Talmazan

at 13:17 on April 20th, 2009

A very sad commemoration, considering the speech that was given earlier at the UN. I only wish other victims of Holocaust: Gypsies, Poles, Soviets, disabled people and homosexuals would have been mentioned more often. So many more countries and citizen groups would unite in grief if the global society were to be inclusive of all the Holocaust victims, in my opinion.

tikun

at 21:10 on April 20th, 2009

I agree yuls.source. Thanks for the comments.

Uwe Paschen

at 18:17 on April 20th, 2009

It is important to remember all the 17 million victims of the Holocaust for all times to come.

We still have to remember all those we forgot for they have no voice.

My family had to deal with both sides of the spectrum and maybe why we learned to look at it from several angles and not blind fold our self to the reality that we Human are capable of both extremes.

My great Grand Father and two of my Great Uncles where deported and died in the KZ camps, all three of them Socialist and denounced as traitors and enemies of the NAZI by my Great Grand Father youngest Son who joined the Waffen SS wile my Grand Father sabotaged German Tanks and trucks wile being Wehr Macht Officer.

I do not think that Germans will ever forget nor want this to ever be able to be repeated or done by any one onto any one ever again. at least for the waste majority of Germans.

Yet, I deplore that we do not remember in the same fashion all victims of that time and other times as well such as other genocide's, for they do still happen.