The Holocaust

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2024 Days of Remembrance Commemoration

Each year during Days of Remembrance, the nation commemorates the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the other victims of Nazi persecution. Their history warns us of the consequences when antisemitism remains unchecked and inspires people everywhere to confront hatred. Preserving their memory—while also honoring survivors, rescuers, and liberators—provides an opportunity to learn about how and why the Holocaust happened and to reflect on our common humanity. The national ceremony will feature remarks by President Joseph Biden. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will also participate.

https://www.ushmm.org/watch/2024-days-of-remembrance-commemoration?

ps:So where is the cult leader? For someone that keeps talking about "Loving the Jews more than Biden" he can't be bather to attend this Commemoration program!!!!! By the way it's very lengthy.

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The Youngest Holocaust Survivor

Erika Nissanoff wasn’t yet born when World War II broke out. Her father’s parents, Ferenc and Aranka, were well-to-do Hungarians. They owned a mill where the entire community brought their grains to be processed. They also owned the local tavern at the corner. The townspeople would come to process their grain by day and enjoy drinks at night.

https://aish.com/the-youngest-holocaust-survivor/?

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He was orphaned in the Holocaust and never met any family. Now he has cousins, thanks to DNA tests

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Shalom Korai never knew his real name or his birthday. He was saved from the streets of a burning Warsaw neighborhood while he was a toddler during World War II, when the rest of his family was killed by Nazis in Poland.

https://apnews.com/article/holocaust-orphan-survivor-found-family-7b00af200ff75b745b25396e14f98f8b?

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When Swiss Banks Held Money of Jewish Victims

Before the Holocaust, many Jews deposited their money in Swiss banks in an attempt to secure their families’ future. It took decades and lawsuits for the heirs to recover the money. Some of them never did.

https://aish.com/when-swiss-banks-held-money-of-jewish-victims/?

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Liberation of Nazi Camps

The first major Nazi camp to be liberated was Majdanek, located in Lublin, Poland. It was liberated in the summer of 1944 as Soviet forces advanced westward. The previous spring, the SS had evacuated most of the Majdanek prisoners and camp personnel. The evacuated prisoners were sent to concentration camps further west, such as Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen. As the Soviet troops approached Majdanek at the end of July, the remaining camp personnel hastily abandoned the Majdanek concentration camp without fully dismantling it. 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/liberation-of-nazi-camps?

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Sticking Together in Dangerous Times

Even amid the unimaginable suffering and loss of the Holocaust, there were glimmers of hope. Victims and survivors banded together even in the most dire of circumstances, forming bonds of solidarity and strength. Brave individuals risked their own lives to protect their Jewish neighbors—and sometimes total strangers—from the Nazis and their collaborators.

https://engage.ushmm.org/20240812-SCDigest-Calendar.html?

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A German court upholds the conviction of a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, age 99

A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. Read More.

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Finding My Bubby in Auschwitz

I’ve just returned from a trip to Auschwitz. We were 70 women strong on a journey to this surreal planet of death and devastation. I was asked to lead a group to this place where man descended to the darkest abyss, even though I had never set foot here before. How would I feel? What would I think?

https://aish.com/finding-my-bubby-in-auschwitz/?

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Fritz Gluckstein Reflects on the Nuremberg Race Laws

When Fritz Gluckstein was a child, his father—a decorated World War I veteran—used to proudly display his German flag and taught him how to salute it. This all changed after Hitler came to power. Listen to Fritz describe the Nuremberg Race Laws, which essentially legalized antisemitism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Holocaust Survivor Lily Ebert’s Enduring Legacy

“My number is A-10572. That is what I was. They didn’t call me. I was not my name. We were not humans. We were only a number, and we were treated only like numbers.”

https://aish.com/holocaust-survivor-lily-eberts-enduring-legacy/?

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Kristallnacht

On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht?

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The Rabbi of Buchenwald

Liberating the concentration camp changed Rabbi Herschel Schacter's life.

https://aish.com/the-rabbi-of-buchenwald/?

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The Liberation of Auschwitz, 80 Years Ago

The Allied soldiers who liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 discovered an unprecedented factory of death.

https://aish.com/the-liberation-of-auschwitz-80-years-ago/?

Born in Auschwitz

A woman's miraculous birth in the death camp of Auschwitz.

https://aish.com/born-in-auschwitz/?

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Auschwitz commemorations

World leaders are gathering in Poland today to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Nazis murdered more than 1 million people at the camp over five years from 1940 to 1945, part of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. The UN declared January 27 the International Holocaust Memorial Day in 2005. This year's commemoration comes as the number of survivors is rapidly dwindling and as antisemitism is on the rise — especially in Australia, Europe and the Middle East. Britain's King Charles, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are among those attending the event today.

 

🕯️ Auschwitz liberated 80 years ago today

During a tour of barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum in October, visitors pass a stop sign that used to warn prisoners to stay away from an electric fence. Photo: Russell Contreras/Axios OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum today marks the 80th anniversary of Soviet forces liberating the German Nazi camp — the last major observance any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, Axios' Russell Contreras reports. Only a few dozen Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz remain — the youngest of the 7,000 who were liberated on Jan. 27, 1945. Advocates are racing to record their testimonies. 🌐 The big picture: The anniversary, which also commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, comes amid rising antisemitism worldwide and on social media. Keep reading. Museum security staff handle wreaths as survivors and relatives stand at the Death Wall during a ceremony today. Photo: Oded Balilty/AP Today, elderly camp survivors — some wearing blue-and-white striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms — walked together to the Death Wall where prisoners were executed, including many Poles who resisted the occupation of their country. Today's commemorations ... Photo essay. The sun shines through trees by a guard tower at the former extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, today. Photo: Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Grzegorz Celejewski via Reuters Context: More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, where most had been brought in freight wagons, packed like livestock, Reuters reports. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust across German-occupied Europe. More photos from today. Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. https://apnews.com/article/auschwitz-nazi-germany-oswiecim-anniversary-c339ec8bc7c26834fb0137cb22de35fb?

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Moving experience

While hiding from the Nazis, Anne Frank and her family lived inside a tiny secret annex atop an Amsterdam home. That famous space can now be explored remotely in New York.

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🕯️ Anne Frank replica opens in NYC

"Anne Frank: The Exhibition" in Manhattan during its opening yesterday. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in Manhattan yesterday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Why it matters: The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History represents the first time the annex has been completely recreated outside of Amsterdam, where the space is a central part of the Anne Frank House museum. More photos ... Keep reading.

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A Day to Remember and Never Forget

 

Christians need to know that Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration camp in Europe
during World War II.  More than 1,100,000 men, women, and children lost their lives here
including many family members of our ministry staff.
 

Tonight begins a solemn Hebrew day of remembrance in Israel, Peter – Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).

 

The Israeli flag will be lowered to half-staff, and prayers recited.  Six Holocaust survivors will light the six torches that symbolize the Six Million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust under Hitler's Final Solution.

 

And even though Israel is celebrating its 77th birthday this year, the sentiment is bittersweet.  Former Israeli president Reuven Rivlen echoed these feelings at a previous memorial ceremony,

 

"You know better than anyone that the state of Israel is no compensation for the Holocaust.  The Holocaust of the Jewish People threatened in the most tangible way our ancient vision, our 2,000-year-old vision for the return to Zion in Jerusalem.

 

"The final solution sought to bring an end to our national dream, and as such created the urgency to create an independent state of Israel."

 

The Nazis packed Jewish people like cattle into railroad cars as they shipped 
them to their final destination at labor and extermination camps.  Those camps 
were part of Hitler's "Final Solution" to kill all of the Jewish People.
 

Those who arrived in the fledgling state of Israel in the 1940s from Europe were only a small remnant of the Jewish nation.  Two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry died in the Holocaust.  Multiple tracks led from all over Europe to concentration camps like Auschwitz.

 

Jewish people were crammed into cattle cars and shipped to these death camps.

 

The Nazis intended that no one survive.

 

Many were gassed immediately upon arrival and their bodies burned in ovens.  Those who were healthy enough to work when they arrived were literally worked to death.

 

The shoes of those Jewish souls who perished in Nazi death camps.
 

This horrible, unfathomable number — six million murdered — does not count the many Jewish children who will never be born because of this genocide.

 

Whole families were destroyed.  Some Jewish people who came out of the Holocaust were the sole survivor of their families.  They were left completely alone.  Many communities were utterly erased.

 

Some of those who perished were the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles of our Bibles for Israel Ministry staff.

 

May We Never Forget.

 

Take a moment to pray for the survivors and families of survivors, and the emotional scars they carry.

 

A Holocaust survivor shows the Nazi identification number tattooed on his arm.

 

"The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD.   Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing."  (Isaiah 51:3)

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A museum opens at a former factory in the Czech Republic where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

The opening was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. It was also in May 1945 that Schindler received a golden ring from grateful Jewish survivors, made with gold taken from their teeth. The ring was inscribed with the Hebrew words from the Talmud, saying “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” Read More.

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How a Hidden Dutch Village Saved Jews during the Holocaust

One of the Netherlands’ tourist attractions is a village hidden deep in the woods, between Vierhouten and Nunspeet. Built in 1943 by members of the Dutch resistance, the village provided shelter to more than a hundred people, most of them Jews.

https://aish.com/how-a-hidden-dutch-village-saved-jews-during-the-holocaust/?