On April 24th Israelis will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. This is not the same date as the International Holocaust Memorial Day. This date was chosen to emphasize the place of the Holocaust in the story of the Jewish people.
We do this by first celebrating Passover. One week later, we mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Exactly one week after that is Memorial Day for IDF soldiers and victims of terrorism. The following day is a joyful celebration, Israel’s Independence Day.
This pattern is deliberate. The message is very clear. The exodus from slavery to freedom is an on-going journey. As we acknowledge during the Passover Seder: “In every generation [enemies] rise up against us, to destroy us, and every time God saves us from their hands.”
In other words, our very existence is a miracle.
The Passover story is relevant to our modern experiences. The lessons remain the same. The defiance…
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apr. 24, 2017 @ 07:56:48
I visited the Sinti-Roma Documentation Center in Heidelberg a few days ago. It was a sobering visit. 500,000 Roma were killed in the Holocaust camps, properties taken, medical experiments done on children. After the war they received little attention or empathy and remain to this day ignored and discriminated against. Having visited Dachau, Struthrof (concentration camp mainly for the French Resistance in France), Hitlers Eagle’s Nest and redoubt in OberSalzburg, Berlin’s War Holocaust Memorial, and Nuremberg including the fair grounds and courtroom 7, I will be remembering and praying for all those who were killed during this horrific time, and praying that we humans stop creating such mass despair.