HOLOCAUST REMEMBERENCE DAY

ISRAEL PERSECUTED WORST IN HISTORY YET

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

ISAIAH 14:12-15
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

REVELATION 12:4-6,13-17
4 And his tail (SATANS) drew the third part of the stars of heaven,(1/3RD OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL WHO ARE DEMONIC FALLEN ANGELS-DEMONS) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (ISRAEL) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(SATANS LAST HOLOCAUST TO TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL FOREVER)
5 And she brought forth a man child,(MARY DID-JESUS WHO IS (JEWISH) who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman (MARY WHOS JEWISH REPRESENTING ISRAEL)fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.(3 1/2 YRS)
13 And when the dragon (SATAN) saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman (MARY) which brought forth the man child. (JESUS IS JEWISH)(ISRAEL PERSECUTED THE WORST IN HISTORY YET)
14 And to the woman (ISRAEL) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.(PROTECTED FOR 3 1/2 YRS IN PETRA JORDAN)
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.(A TSUNAMI I BELIEVE SATAN WILL TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL WITH)
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.(GOD PROBABLY CREATES A QUAKE TO STOP THE TSUNAMI WATERS)
17 And the dragon (SATAN) was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,(ISRAELIS)(SAVED) which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Netanyahu: World not doing enough to avert new holocaust

PM decries indifference to Iran’s call for Israel’s demise, links ‘disproportionate’ treatment of Israel to anti-Semitism

By Times of Israel staff January 27, 2014, 6:10 pm 8

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday berated the international community for showing indifference to the threat posed by Iran, comparing Tehran to the Nazi regime and implying that the world was not fulfilling its obligation to prevent a second Jewish holocaust.“Even today when there is broad agreement that the Holocaust that took place should have been prevented, the world doesn’t feel any sense of urgency regarding a regime that calls for our annihilation, and even welcomes with open arms the man who represents it,” Netanyahu said, referring to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.“They all just clear their throats and greet [his] smiles with smiles of their own,” he said in comments released to the press for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Netanyahu added that Israel received “disproportionate” treatment, which “shows us that persecution of the Jews perpetuates 2,000 years of anti-Semitism.”A statement issued by the office of President Shimon Peres struck a decidedly different note, calling on global citizenry to “not be satisfied by condemning the Holocaust but rather join our hearts and hands to ensure that we live in a world where another Holocaust is impossible.”“The Holocaust is a great warning to us all,” the president wrote. “Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember and remember to love and respect everyone no matter the color of their skin or the origin of their birth. Moses taught us that every human being was made in the image of the Lord; no one has the right to take that away. We have a duty to remember the past but also to improve the future; this is not just a memorial day but a call to us all to move ahead, never forgetting the past but never losing hope in the future.”Earlier Monday, opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) spoke at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland and vowed that Israel would continue to fight against racism and its consequences.Speaking to a group that included nearly half of Israel’s parliament, marking the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp, Herzog said it was the Jewish state’s mission to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and combat injustice.“In the name of the State of Israel, I declare that we will continue in every way our life’s mission — to learn and to teach the lesson, to improve the world with righteousness and justice, with benevolence and mercy,” he said.Herzog led a group of 54 MKs from both sides of the aisle on a trip to Poland to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Israeli lawmakers were joined in Poland by dozens of Holocaust survivors, Israeli dignitaries and servicemembers, Polish parliamentarians, members of the United States Congress and the European Parliament. Later, the MKs and Polish MPs will hold a symbolic joint assembly in the nearby city of Krakow, Ynet reported.

“We came here in order to feel for a moment the corrupted air, to taste from the poisoned cup, to feel the pain. We stand here not as individuals, but rather as representatives of the nation which makes its way on an arduous and painful trek of remembrance, a trip to the depths of evil and to the foundations of Jewish and human existence,” Herzog said.

UN hasn’t learned from Holocaust, Israel envoy says

At ceremony in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ron Prosor blasts Palestinian incitement

By Marissa Newman January 27, 2014, 10:46 pm 0-The Times of Israel

The United Nations has not assimilated the lessons of the Holocaust, Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor said on Monday at a special UN ceremony in New York commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day.“The UN marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but the hatred that is disseminated by governments only shows that the organization has yet to internalize the lessons of the Holocaust,” Prosor said. “Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, we are still witnesses to the phenomena of racism and anti-Semitism that rears its head around the world.”Prosor also accused the Palestinian Authority and Hamas of perpetuating anti-Jewish propaganda.Anti-Semitic sentiment is rampant in textbooks, religious sermons, and political speeches around the world, Prosor said. In the Palestinian Authority, “children learn that the lives of Jews are worth less,” he continued.Prosor went on to list the grievances perpetrated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to demonize the Jewish state and deny the Holocaust.The incitement in Gaza is proclaimed publicly, Prosor said, on podiums, on TV, and at cultural events. He also maintained that similar messages were aired throughout the Arab world.Prosor’s statements echo reports published by Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz in early January decrying incitement in Palestinian textbooks and media.The ambassador concluded his speech by praising Jewish resilience and emphasizing the importance of a self-reliant Israel, stressing that a “strong and thriving” Jewish state served as “a testament to the triumph of the human spirit.”“The State of Israel is the only guarantee that the future fate of the Jewish people will be held in our own hands,” he said.

At Auschwitz, Israeli leaders take an intimate journey

For survivors, the Nazi death camp is no categorical evil — it is a memory, an experience, and sometimes even reason to smile

By Haviv Rettig Gur January 28, 2014, 1:44 am 2-The Times of Israel

AUSCHWITZ — In a small, closed-in courtyard in the oldest part of the Auschwitz death camp complex, an area hemmed in by the brick outer walls of blocks 10 and 11, stands a low wall known to survivors as the “wall of death.” It was the place where inmates were executed by SS officers for disciplinary infractions.

Now adorned with wreaths during the visit of dozens of Israeli Knesset members in honor of International Holocaust Commemoration Day Monday, the site lies still and quiet in the white frost of a Polish winter — until the sight of the wall elicits a muffled chuckle from octogenarian Moshe Haelion.“They beat me here many times,” he recalled proudly on a slow walk around the death camp with fellow survivors, members of the Knesset and other parliaments, journalists and family members.Haelion may be a “survivor,” but he speaks with a gleam in his eye, an undefeated pride.“They caught me writing a note to a girl,” he said cheerfully. “I wrote many times; finally they caught one [letter].”What did you write? The Times of Israel asked.“She had written to me, ‘We’re all going to die here. We have no hope of getting out.’ And I wrote her back: ‘The Jewish people are used to being taken [captive]. We’ll get out of here too.’”When the note was seized, he was taken in for a hearing before an SS officer and sentenced to a beating.“And when the German officer gave me my punishment in a trial in block 24, he laughed at me. ‘What is this?’ He said to me. ‘You’re getting out of here?’ He didn’t believe what I said in my note.”Haelion then shook his head, as though pitying the poor SS officer who didn’t understand that Jews always outlive their tormentors.

The incident, the unexpected, matter-of-fact cheerfulness, the way the principled declaration melded seamlessly with the most intimate and personal, set the tone for the visit.Auschwitz is no categorical evil for survivors or their descendants. It is a fact, a memory, full of detail and all the nuance of experience.Another survivor, Pnina Segal, has a miraculous story to share. Transported to Birkenau in July 1944, alone at just six years old, she survived six months in inhuman conditions until the camp’s liberation. She doesn’t understand how.Then, “the day after liberation, a woman from a local village came to the camp,” Segal recalled to The Times of Israel. “She wanted a younger sister. She said, ’would you come live with me?’ I said yes. So I went with her.”But Segal lived with the young woman for only a brief period. “After the war, my mother went looking for me. She had heard that many children were sent to Auschwitz, so she came here. Then she asked after me.”After six weeks of searching, Segal’s mother showed up at the young woman’s house and took her away.“How many mothers found their children after the Holocaust?” She asks. “Mine did.”

Terribly close to home

But it wasn’t just the survivors who gave the death camp a human immediacy. The Israeli leaders on the trip shared their own deep-rooted feelings. One after another — at Birkenau in the afternoon or in a joint parliamentary meeting with the Polish parliament in Krakow in the evening — they began to tell of their own ties to the Holocaust.In speech after halting speech throughout a day of touring and memorial services, it was hard to find an MK for whom the Holocaust wasn’t first and foremost a personal experience, a name of a family member lost in the flames.Michal Rozin (Meretz) spoke proudly about her father, who survived seven camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau, and then went on to make aliyah on the famous Exodus ship in 1948. He later became a doctor, published books of poetry, and lived to see his great-grandchildren.

Tzachi Hanegby (Likud) spoke movingly about his grandfather, who left Poland just ahead of the Nazi invasion, leaving his entire family behind.“There’s a chilling feeling to being here,” Hilik Bar (Labor) told The Times of Israel. “We are witnesses here to this atrocity, for my grandfather, his father and mother and his sisters, all of whom survived Auschwitz. It’s shaking me to the core.”Bar’s grandfather fought as a partisan in the frozen forests of Poland, battling the Nazi occupation that had taken away his parents to die.MK Menachem Eliezer Mozes (United Torah Judaism) nearly wept when he spoke of the “70 souls from my family” who perished in the Holocaust, including at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Eli Ben Dahan (Jewish Home) recalled his wife’s grandfather, a rabbi, who died with the hope and belief that Jews would continue to be Jews, Ben Dahan said.“I remember the words of my mother-in-law who for years taught my daughters that we must never travel to Poland, to that impure land. She was herself [an inmate] at Auschwitz. Since then she hasn’t returned. On the other hand, I’m here as a deputy minister now, as an MK, as a representative of the government of Israel. There is no greater revenge. We’re here to teach the world that we live. Here you can feel that fact in the depths of your soul.”Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) spoke of his grandparents who perished, while opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) spoke of his aunt.Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beytenu) read a list of the names of family members who were killed during the Holocaust. Her husband’s father, she told fellow MKs, was rescued from Auschwitz at the end of the war — by which time he weighed just 35 kilograms.And Eitan Cabel (Labor) spoke of being “the messenger for a subject that became taboo” in his wife’s family: the family members killed in the Holocaust. “We’re here to retrieve their memory, as brothers and sisters of our people,” he said.

Maybe you noticed…

It was Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein who first noticed the refrain: the incredible closeness of so many MKs to actual victims of the Holocaust.“Maybe you noticed,” he said to Polish lawmakers when the two parliaments met in Krakow Monday night, “that the Israelis are all telling similar stories. The personal family stories, they’re not coordinated. They come from deep in the heart, from the DNA of our experience.”

And he added his own connection: “Most of my wife’s extended family was lost in the Shoah in Poland. My grandfather and grandmother were shot in a mass grave in a village in what was then east Poland, today Belarus. My own father survived the war serving in the Polish army, and then came to Israel.”

PM Says: The Holocaust Could Happen Again-DEC 27,14-INN

PM Netanyahu spoke in honor of the anniversary of the Holocaust, "Even as we speak, the Iranian villain is stirring up justifications to persecute and destroy the State of Israel and all its civilians in a nuclear Holocaust. The world knows this and imposes futile sanctions and issues fake smiles and coughs uncomfortably. Wake up before it's too late."

Knesset MKs Visit Auschwitz

Landmark delegation of MKs, Polish MPs, Israeli and Polish governments visit Auschwitz for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.-By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 1/27/2014, 5:51 PM-Israelnationalnews

Knesset, Polish Parliament march through Auschwitz-Flash90

Dozens of Knesset MKs traveled to Poland Monday, to tour Auschwitz and participate in a special ceremony commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The MKs were joined by over 50 members of the Polish parliament; several Israeli and Polish government ministers; and Holocaust survivors.
At the ceremony, several MKs spoke about their personal connections to the Holocaust. "Today I closed my eyes and saw you, Annette, my aunt who was 20 years old when you were captured while trying to escape from the Nazi occupation of France and transported here in a cattle car," Chairman of the Opposition Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) said. "It is an unimaginable nightmare. Thousands were with you; in there furnaces you were lead to death. My eyes closed and for a moment I was marching there with you - fathers and sons, daughters and mothers," he added.Holocaust survivor Noah Kliger recalled his horrifying experiences during a death march, when Nazis marched them to Auschwitz as the Soviet Union's Red Army was approaching. "When the Red Army came, we were on a death march," Kliger recounted. "The Germans retreated before the onslaught of the Red Army and took with them 57,000 of the last survivors of Auschwitz, to employ them in the camps. They were in trucks and vehicles and we had to walk at a rate that none of us could keep up with. Those who could not keep up were shot."Today, 69 years after leaving this hell called Auschwitz we are here as citizens who are proud of the new state that was established on the ruins of European Jewry," Kliger added. "[It is a] strong state, a democratic state, a liberal and developed state."Kliger then made the traditional blessing over new experiences: "Blessed Are You. . .who has allowed me to live and exist and experience this [special] time." The Director of the Auschwitz Museum, Piotr Cywinski, spoke about the visit in terms of historical perspectives. "When we look at people's faces from 70 years ago, we sadly realize they were not long for world, as 400,000 people died within 3 months," Cywinski explained. "In summer 1944, 67,000 Jews were transported here from Lodz; later, 4 shipments of people would be brought here from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." "Next year we note 70 years since the victims of this place were liberated," he continued. "We ensure that survivors of this hell, their human testimony, will be remembered - thanks to those who are not indifferent to our future." MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beytenu) thanked Cywinski, then spoke on Israel's behalf at the ceremony. "We stand at the gate of hell on earth," Levin said. "The visit by a delegation of the parliament of an independent and strong Jewish state, together with survivors who were here, symbolizes Israel's total commitment to the protection of the Jewish people."The Holocaust will never be forgotten and its lessons will continue to be studied for generations to come," Levin vowed.
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Op-Ed: Holocaust Awareness Arrived Late in Western Europe

Published: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:25 AM

Manfred Gerstenfeld speaks to Prof. of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Amsterdam University, Johannes Houwink ten Cate. For International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

“It took a long time until Holocaust awareness developed in Western Europe. Academics studying this subject found that much went terribly wrong in these societies during the initial post-war decades."This manifested itself in several ways. One was that prominent European politicians promoted self-images of heroic resistance against the Nazis. Another was that these politicians were unwilling to help Jewish survivors financially."They shifted responsibility for the persecution and extermination of the Jews as much as possible onto the Germans. This meant ignoring the huge assistance that the Germans received from many members of the occupied nations in their expropriations and deportations of the Jews.”

Johannes Houwink ten Cate is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Amsterdam University. He specializes in the history of anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany in the occupied Dutch territories.“The only comparative study of how elites in Western Europe dealt with the memory of Nazi occupation, including the Holocaust, was written by eminent Belgian historian Pieter Lagrou. In his book, The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965, Lagrou noted that there was a marked difference between the Netherlands on one hand and Belgium and France on the other."In the Dutch case, the occupation was ‘experienced as a collective affliction for the whole of society, an external aggression and a moral outrage to a country that saw itself as a model pupil in the school of nations.’”[1] Houwink ten Cate adds: “This last view has not changed. The Dutch still regard themselves as a ‘model pupil in the school of nations,’ even if the rest of the world does not agree.“Lagrou furthermore wrote: ‘In the austere reconstruction ethic that dominated Dutch society in the first two post-war decades, the war was presented as an ordeal that had strengthened social cohesion and national identity.’[2] This national memory was – to quote Lagrou again – ‘harsh’ towards those who had suffered more than others.
"‘The Jewish survivors of the genocide in particular suffered from a lack of recognition (…), from a lack of support,’ both in material terms and in terms of ‘their need for integration.’[3] Thus, the few Jewish survivors – 75% of Dutch Jewry was deported to Eastern Europe in order to be murdered – ‘struck a bad deal,’ according to the impartial Lagrou: ‘no solidarity for them, no consolation.’"[4] “Lagrou contrasted the Dutch perception of Nazi occupation with its Belgian and French counterparts. In these states, ‘the cacophony’ of commemorative narratives set different victim groups ‘in macabre rivalries and opposition.’ Nevertheless, this offered Jewish victims more recognition and more consolation than the ‘austere consensus’ in The Netherlands.[5] “In the 1950s, the Dutch portrayed themselves as a nation unified in resistance against the Nazis, a view that was actively supported by the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (then called RIOD, nowadays NIOD), which in its research focused on the three strikes during war time.“In France in 1987, eminent historian Henry Rousso coined the neologism ‘Résistancialisme’ to describe the Gaullist effort to lump together Resistance, nation and state, [6] but this effort was not as dominant as its Dutch counterpart. Nevertheless, for 35 years, French historians ignored the co-responsibility of the Vichy government for persecution of the Jews. It was not until 1981 that American historian Robert O. Paxton and his Canadian colleague Michael R. Marrus, fully described this co-responsibility.[7] “The situation was not fundamentally different in West Germany. It first became a habit of the authorities in various states of the Soviet bloc and later of the German left to correctly proclaim that the track record of the German Federal Republic in bringing Holocaust perpetrators to justice was poor.[8] It was as poor as the actual performance of the French, Belgian and Dutch states in bringing their bureaucrats who had aided the Germans, to trial. These civil servants went unpunished as a group.“Nowadays, ironic descriptions of states which portray themselves as ‘nations of heroes,’ be it the Dutch, the French or the Germans, have become a sort of genre. But Rousso’s book marked the birth of Post-Holocaust studies as an academic field in its own right.“Post-Holocaust Studies as a field have slowly widened and become more academic. More recent publications – such as the book by Lagrou – are often based on many years of research in the archives of states and civil society organizations.”  Houwink ten Cate concludes: “These studies on national self-image are part of the developing discipline of Post-Holocaust Studies. It is greatly enriched by input from scholars who are either legal experts, or have a marked sensitivity and understanding of legal issues. This branch of learning covers many other areas such as education, psychology, contemporary history, etc. There are many varied publications in the field of Post Holocaust Studies. However, it is not structured academically, e.g., there are no chairs for its studies."Yet if they were established, it would give this important discipline the support it needs.”

Sources:

[1] Pieter Lagrou, The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 293.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Lagrou, 293, 295.

[4] Lagrou. 303.

[5] Lagrou, 303-304.

[6] Henry Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy: (1944-198..) (Paris: Seuil, 1987).

[7] Michael R. Marrus, Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1981).

[8] Dick de Mildt, In the Name of the People: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Reflection of their Post-War Prosecution in West Germany. The ‘Euthanasia’ and ‘Aktion Reinhard’ Trial Cases (The Hague/London/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996), 18-40.