26 Jan The Holocaust

Because of the sensitive nature of the enclosed photos, I only make them available with discretion; Tisha B’av and Holocaust Remembrance.

There’s a unique Hebrew term ‘pakod yifkod’ . It doesn’t simply meant ‘to remember’, but ‘to remember deeply’. We see this as it relates to Pesach, and we can see it relevant to the events of the Holocaust…. and to remember; ‘Never Again‘. The purpose of remembering deeply is to have an emotional and intellectually understanding , to know what was , and to transform what is, and in doing so incorporated Hashem in to our lives and the world.

There was no event as tragic as the Holocaust. Where there may be comparisons made of modern day events to the Holocaust, they may be only superficial circumstances… an academic exercise. The Holocaust was no such event.

I believe it would be inappropriate to use such a tremendously sensitive tragedy as the Holocaust to further an-other agenda. Doing so can cause a desensitization of the tragedies of Holocaust and I believe is disrespectful to those that have perished, those who will remember…and those in the future who may need to remember. G–d willing it should never be repeated.

Those who survived the camps and were liberated, received photo records that the Germans had kept of the atrocities of the Holocaust. The following authentic photo’s were given to my Aunt Esther upon being liberated from Auschwitz. She continued to speak on the Holocaust until she was 99 A”H. The first photo is perhaps the most perverted of all. It is a life size ‘model’ of prisoners torture in the camp, displayed as a source of ‘pride’ of the Nazi’s in the reception area of Auschwitz, for all visiting ‘dignitaries’ to see.