Holocaust
Yom Hashoah started at sundown with the annual ceremony at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
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The survivors were set to light memorial torches and share testimonies during Israel’s annual tribute to those lost in the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.
Hitler’s Third Reich “was uniquely evil, full stop,” the former vice president said. “But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil.”
“From the ashes and destruction, the State of Israel arose, and out of it grew the IDF,” said Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
A new report, titled “Vanishing Witnesses,” suggests that just half of the world’s 220,000 survivors will remain in the next six years.
A directorial debut, “Unbroken,” which chronicles a filmmaker’s search of her family’s history, starts streaming this week on Netflix, timed to Yom Hashoah.
Swedish police were called to a highway leading to the capital after unidentified individuals hung large red swastika flags from a bridge over the road.
This year’s theme is “Out of the Depths: The Anguish of Liberation and Rebirth.”
“The mural must live because it was vandalized, and so it will live, and everything related to memory and what I have personally experienced must live,” said 93-year-old Holocaust Survivor, the subject of the piece.
“I am proud to commend and recognize Hanna for a century of courage, service and inspiration,” Rep. Grace Meng stated.
“We have a sense, I think, of paying a long overdue debt to these men,” Shalom Lamm, the chief historian of Operation Benjamin, told attendees about Pfc. Adolph Hanf and Pvt. David Moser.
