I would like Ukrainians to learn more about this day. Today we commemorate six million Jews killed by the Nazis, and remember the heroes who fought for their lives and the existence of the Jewish people.
During the years of the Holocaust one-third of all Jews, who lived on the planet, was destroyed. For many years, the world did not want to notice how people were humiliated and killed because of their origin. In the center of Europe the ghettos and concentration camps were created, hundreds of thousands of women and men, children and the elderly, those who wore the Star of David on their clothes were killed. The international community preferred “not to see” the details. Only when Europe itself appeared to be in flames, when the truth became impossible to hide, people finally believed in the genocide against Jews.
When on this day in Israel we talk about the heroism, we commemorate the citizens of the Warsaw Ghetto, who, being in actual custody, having lost everything, being on the verge of life and death, managed to find the strength to resist the Nazis. In April 1943, Jews, who lived in the Warsaw ghetto, headed by Mordechai Anielewicz revolted. The uprising lasted for a month and ended with the actual destruction of the ghetto.
When on this day in Israel we talk about the heroism, we commemorate the citizens of the Warsaw Ghetto, who, being in actual custody, having lost everything, being on the verge of life and death, managed to find the strength to resist the Nazis. In April 1943, Jews, who lived in the Warsaw ghetto, headed by Mordechai Anielewicz revolted. The uprising lasted for a month and ended with the actual destruction of the ghetto.
Of course, one and a half thousand people - exhausted, hungry, without weapons, in fact, - could neither win nor break through the barriers of the Nazis. But this uprising was a turning point in the minds of Jews: they believed that even a small force, supported by faith, can do the impossible. It was then that Jews realized that they could and had to defend themselves, they could only rely on their own strength. Mordechai Anielewicz wrote about this event the following: “The fact that we had experienced, exceeded our wildest expectations ... The main thing is that the dream of my life came true, I lived to see the day when the Jews of the ghetto rose to their defense and led the struggle in all its greatness and glory.”
Lviv ghetto was the third biggest ghetto after Warsaw and Lodz, whose Jews were killed in Yanovky concentration camp. There were no gas chambers or crematoria on its territory, on the paper it was just a labor camp. But the soil in the Death Valley where mass executions took place soaked with blood for one and a half meters deep.
History of Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day is learned from young childhood. Ceremonies, remembrance gatherings take place this day, and national flag is raised only to the half of the pole, television covers only shows devoted to European Jews during the World War the Second. In the area of "Warsaw Ghetto" at the "Yad Vashem" memorial in Jerusalem held a meeting, which is attended by those who survived the Holocaust. Specially for this day the prayers, psalms are performed and songs are sung. People who survived the Holocaust and their relatives in the second and third generation lit six torches in memory of six million victims.
Every year on Memorial Day in Chagall Hall at Knesset a ceremony "Every person has a name" takes place: the names of Jewish victims of the Holocaust (Shoah) are read. This year the theme of the ceremony will be "Everything is forbidden to us, but we do it all" that mark the spiritual resistance of the Jews during the Holocaust, the struggle at Jewish ghettoes and camps for human dignity and spiritual freedom, in the inhuman conditions of the Holocaust.
Memorial Day Celebrations end with a rally of young people passing near the monument erected in memory of Mordechai Anielewicz in Yad Mordechai Kibbutz. Also ceremonies are held around the world. From year 1988 “Marche of Life” takes place, from death camp in Auschwitz to death camp Bikaner in Poland.
I am sure, that more frightening than Holocaust itself can be only forgetting of this fact. Hundreds of thousand innocent victims must not be forgotten. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Babi Yar, Buchenwald, Yanovsky death camp – we should remember what happened there. This memory should be honored and passed to further generations to prevent the repeat of the history.
Lviv ghetto was the third biggest ghetto after Warsaw and Lodz, whose Jews were killed in Yanovky concentration camp. There were no gas chambers or crematoria on its territory, on the paper it was just a labor camp. But the soil in the Death Valley where mass executions took place soaked with blood for one and a half meters deep.
History of Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day is learned from young childhood. Ceremonies, remembrance gatherings take place this day, and national flag is raised only to the half of the pole, television covers only shows devoted to European Jews during the World War the Second. In the area of "Warsaw Ghetto" at the "Yad Vashem" memorial in Jerusalem held a meeting, which is attended by those who survived the Holocaust. Specially for this day the prayers, psalms are performed and songs are sung. People who survived the Holocaust and their relatives in the second and third generation lit six torches in memory of six million victims.
Every year on Memorial Day in Chagall Hall at Knesset a ceremony "Every person has a name" takes place: the names of Jewish victims of the Holocaust (Shoah) are read. This year the theme of the ceremony will be "Everything is forbidden to us, but we do it all" that mark the spiritual resistance of the Jews during the Holocaust, the struggle at Jewish ghettoes and camps for human dignity and spiritual freedom, in the inhuman conditions of the Holocaust.
Memorial Day Celebrations end with a rally of young people passing near the monument erected in memory of Mordechai Anielewicz in Yad Mordechai Kibbutz. Also ceremonies are held around the world. From year 1988 “Marche of Life” takes place, from death camp in Auschwitz to death camp Bikaner in Poland.
I am sure, that more frightening than Holocaust itself can be only forgetting of this fact. Hundreds of thousand innocent victims must not be forgotten. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Babi Yar, Buchenwald, Yanovsky death camp – we should remember what happened there. This memory should be honored and passed to further generations to prevent the repeat of the history.
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