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Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day

Posted by timethief • 4/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: anti-semitism, holocaust and ghetto revolt remembrance day, mahmoud ahmadinejad, racism, yom hashoah

Truth and Lies
At a ceremony opening Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would "not allow the Holocaust deniers to carry out another Holocaust against the Jewish people."

Meanwhile Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested the Holocaust never occurred and repeatedly has called for Israel's annihilation.

Delegates from 23 European nations rose with dignity and filed out of the hall. The diplomats pointedly passed his podium on the way out. Nine countries, including the United States and Israel, boycotted the conference.
Read more --> Europeans bolt UN conference as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls Israel racist www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/20/2009-04-20_ahadinejad_calls_is...

Facts
The Nazis wiped out a third of world Jewry during World War II. It has been over 60 years since the Holocaust. An estimated 250,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel, roughly half of those still alive worldwide.

To survivors, the Holocaust remains real and ever-present, but for some others, sixty years makes the Holocaust seem part of ancient history. Year-round we try to teach and inform others about the horrors of the Holocaust. We confront the questions of what happened? How did it happen? How could it happen? Could it happen again? We attempt to fight against ignorance with education and against disbelief with proof.

Commemoration
On April 12, 1951, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) proclaimed Yom Hashoah U'Mered HaGetaot (Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day) to be the 27th of Nissan. The name later became known as Yom Hashoah Ve Hagevurah (Devastation and Heroism Day) and even later simplified to Yom Hashoah.

Yom Hashoah is today April 21, 2009.

There are various beliefs about what is and is not appropriate on this day - and many of them are conflicting. In general, Yom Hashoah has been observed with candlelighting, speakers, poems, prayers, and singing. Often, six candles are lighted to represent the six million. Holocaust survivors speak about their experiences or share in the readings. Some ceremonies have people read from the Book of Names for certain lengths of time in an effort to remember those that died and to give an understanding of the huge number of victims. Sometimes these ceremonies are held in a cemetery or near a Holocaust memorial.
read more --> Yom Hashoah history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm

REGISTRY OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
In 1981, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors established a national registry to document the lives of survivors who came to the United States after World War II. In April 1993 the Registry was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Although most of the survivors who have registered live in North America, the Museum includes the names of survivors from all backgrounds living all over the world. The Registry now includes over 196,000 records related to survivors and their families.

The Museum honors as survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding.
read more -->
www.ushmm.org/remembrance/registry/

I'm sorry to say that I only discovered that this was Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day. I have visited sites and viewed and read their contents and I have wept. Man's inhumanity towards mankind must stop. Tonight I will light candles and remember those who were lost and pray for world peace.

Discussion questions:
Did you know that today is Holocaust and Ghetto Revolt Remembrance Day?

Will you join me today in remembering and in praying for peace?

User Comments

4/21/09

Floormodel

I am reading and sending the message along.

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1. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  @floormodel
  Thanks for doing that. I really regret not knowing ahead of time so I could have published a post. After my customers leave and I get the washing up done I may be able to slide one in.
4/21/09

Stillthinking

Holocaust deniers are everywhere. I personally know of several. I do not count them among my friends.

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1. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  I don't know any personally. However, there was a shameful examples of a Holocaust denier who was a schoolteacher in Alberta.
4/21/09

Arcticulates

Yes! I just got back from a Holocaust Remembrance candle lighting ceremony on the Army post near us, of which my husband was the Emcee. My heart cries for those who lost their loved ones then and for the atrocities that are happening on this earth even now

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1. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  @arcticulates
  I'm glad to hear you had a community event to attend. We didn't have one here. I'm going to look into making sure we do have one next year.
4/21/09

MrsBlog

Thanks a lot for bringing this up, TT

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4/21/09

aningeniousname

"Meanwhile Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested the Holocaust never occurred and repeatedly has called for Israel's annihilation."

That is not true and is a gross mistranslation of his words for dubious political purposes, can we stop repeating it and giving it credence.

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1. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  @anin
  I'm so sorry if what I said was inaccurate. I took that quote from the NY daily News report that I linked to above and I have no intention of stirring up any controvery.
  
  Now I have found these:
  Ahmadinejad dropped Holocaust denial from speech
  www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-NABlEjaGSsDBh_qdpdNmX7V6VwD97M...
  
  Told you so, Harper says as Iran stirs UN uproar
  VIDEO: Iran's leader sparks Western walkout
  Verbal attack on Israel sparks chaos at event boycotted by Canada
  www.thestar.com/News/World/article/621648
  
  FACTBOX: Reactions to Iran president at UN racism meet
  uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE53J5L520090420
2. 4/21/09
  
  MrsBlog
  
  mistranslation? I think it's pretty obvious what he's saying! www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30304767/
  p.s. by the way, do you speek persian yourself?
3. 4/21/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  You can read the text of his properly translated speech here:
  www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025
4. 4/21/09
  
  aningeniousname
  
  @Mrsblog
  Where exactly does he deny the Holocaust in that speech?
  
  Edit
  Why have you now changed the link from the full transcript of his speech to a piece by MSNBC?
  Maybe because your own link disproves your point?
  At least read through them first.
  This was your original link
  www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92046
5. 4/21/09
  
  MrsBlog
  
  @aningeniousname - not at all - I changed the link as I was not sure for a moment if it was the right speech to cite.
  The original speech without any comments is under www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92046 and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's position towards Israel is more then obvious. You may argue that this time he didn't mention Holocaust by a name - and you'll be right. But I think it's not about playing a word-game here.
  
  His view on Israel is typical for the 'pro-Palestinian' countries and individuals, but unfortunately not correct from the historical point of view.
  I would recommend checking this link fun.mivzakon.co.il/flash/video/2673/2673.html
  and no, it's not an Israeli propaganda. Every fact of this film can be checked and confirmed...
6. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  @anin & mrsblog
  I really value the friendship that you both extend to me. I respect and admire you both very much. I hope you will not be offended by this request. Tomorrow I do think it will be important for you to sift through this and find out what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad really did say. All I'm asking for is a time out for today.
7. 4/21/09
  
  MrsBlog
  
  you're right, TT, done my end
4/21/09

weblogian

@ TT
The world knows and I fully believe that there was a Holocaust.
I wondering why some people( mostly Jews) are hurt by the words of the deniers.

What the use, I don't think we can put anyone (deniers) in the court of law now.

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4/21/09

voodooKobra

Man, how stupid do you have to be to deny the Holocaust ever took place? I should mention them in my next rant.

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1. 4/21/09
  
  voodooKobra
  
  moved
4/21/09

timethief
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1. 4/21/09
  
  voodooKobra
  
  I'll do one better: Instead of praying for world peace, I'll work for it.
2. 4/21/09
  
  timethief
  
  Thanks voodoo. I have been involved in Amnesty International for decades now. Some of the friends I made through our work there will join me tonight to honor of this special day.
3. 4/21/09
  
  voodooKobra
  
  Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. Let us never forget.
4/21/09

polybore

Lest we forget.

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4/21/09

fruitcake

This was a sweet idea TT. Thanks for sharing! I'm bookmarking all the links to read when I have more time.

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4/21/09

harveyavatar

When we finish our prayer, let's start realizing those who backed every butcher of the 20th century, are still in power(or at least their ideological sons). Else we be "doomed to repeat", in a prophetic third world war - the real "war to end all wars". Get up to speed! Now!

www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/index.html

reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/

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