Nation mourns six million Jews killed in Holocaust

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 19, 2004 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS

[yonif]

The nation stood in silence for two minutes Monday morning, as sirens wailed marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Traffic came to a standstill nationwide as drivers stopped their cars and stood in attention, while workers exited their stores, and passersby stood motionless in their place.

In a day filled with somber ceremonies, the names of the Jews known to have been killed in the Holocaust were read out at Yad Vashem and at the Knesset, as the Israeli flag flew at half-staff nationwide.

Throughout the day, as the various memorials went on, radio stations played mournful music, while television stations broadcast Holocaust-related documentaries and movies.

In Poland, thousands of Jewish teens, draped with Israeli flags, marched through the Auschwitz concentration camp for the annual March of the Living on Monday afternoon.

Back in Israel, a street in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev was named in honor of a Swiss righteous Righteous Among the Nations who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

The city ceremony honoring the late Paul Grueninger, a former Swiss police commander who provided more than 3,600 Jewish refugees with desperately-needed papers, was boycotted by the Swiss Ambassador to Israel, Ernst Iten, because the street is located in an area of Jerusalem made part of the city after 1967.

Despite the Swiss government boycott, a group of 15 Swiss educators on a two week Holocaust seminar at Yad Vashem's International School pointedly took part in the modest ceremony, which was hosted by Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, after reading of the incident in Monday's Jerusalem Post.

The day's events were officially closed with a ceremony at the Ghetto Fighters House at Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot near Nahariya.

[wagglebee]

Great post! I kind of doubt it will get much play with Rather, Brokaw and their crowd. In fact they'll probably say Knesset was ignoring the plight of the Palestinians just to drudge up ancient history.

[gortklattu]

It was Bush's fault.

and

It didn't happen.

[wagglebee]

They will probably say that Halliburton built the ovens.

[tet68]

May there be abundant peace from Heaven, and life

upon us and upon all Israel.

Amen.

[yonif]

An Israeli survivor of the Holocaust attends a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem

An Israeli flags seller (back-ground) stands next to his bicycle as the wail of memorial sirens brings Israel to a standstill for two minutes on April 19, 2004.

Ultra Orthodox Jews and an Israeli soldier observe two minutes of silence in downtown Jerusalem to honor the victims of the Holocaust Monday, April 19, 2004, as Israel marks its annual day of remembrance for the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.

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Mourners retrace footsteps of Auschwitz victims

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Young Jews from around the world joined Holocaust survivors on Monday in a march at the former Auschwitz death camp to mourn millions of Jews killed during World War Two by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

[jaz.357]

"NEVER AGAIN"

[Salem]

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them." (Numbers 6:22-27)

[Ukiapah Heep]

I saw it on the news with my daughter. She is currently undergoing intensive multicultural and peace indonctrination. I pointed out to her that both her grandfathers fought against Hitler, and that it took a lot of fighting, not peace marches to put an end to Nazi Germany.

[Joee]

As a young person growing up in the 30's and 40's, I never personally had any real idea what the Nazi's were doing to the Jew's and other races. However, I now bear guilt for NOT finding out. I don't know what I could of done, but anything would have been better than the "nothing" most of us did. In what's left of my future, I will become much more active when it comes to racial hatred and bias, but education of our youth is a major starting point. God loves all the peoples of the world.

We are mow engaged in a religious war and I doubt if any living today will see the end of it.

[Skooz]

[Happy2BMe]

NEVER Again!

[Lijahsbubbe]

Thank you for the pictures.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Very beautiful.

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