Holocaust
Remembering means being “unapologetically Jewish,” the ambassador said in Poland.
“The Jewish people have proven that this time, we have the ability to defend ourselves and repel any danger,” Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York, stated.
The virtual program will feature researcher Sandra Lanman, who traces her grandmother’s escape from Nazi Germany to Manila and the hardships Jewish refugees faced under Japanese occupation.
“We have a state, we have an army and we are capable of standing against anyone who seeks to harm us,” said Yoav Kisch.
“I believed that the slogan of ‘Never Again’ truly meant never again. Well, I was wrong,” said WJC Israel president Sylvan Adams ahead of the March of the Living in Poland.
The siren tradition began in the 1960s and has become one of the country’s most solemn national rituals.
Had the IDF failed to act, “Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Parchin might have been remembered eternally in infamy, just like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor,” said the Israeli premier.
At Yad Vashem’s Yom Hashoah ceremony, PM links lessons of the Holocaust to Israel’s war against Iran
“As prime minister of Israel, I have promised: ‘There will not be a second Holocaust.’ This year, we turned that promise into reality,” Netanyahu said.
Joel Greenberg of Art Ashes told JNS that “it sends a very important message to the world that the crimes of the Holocaust, no matter how many years have passed, will not be forgotten.”
“We need to be remembering the memories of those who were killed in the Holocaust, my grandfather being one of them,” Julie Menin, the New York City Council speaker, told JNS.
“From the ashes, the loss, and the devastation, a clear cry arose: to be a free people in our land,” the IDF chief of staff wrote.
Survivors warn that rising global antisemitism echoes lessons the world still struggles to learn.
