22:22 04/05/2005
PM at Yad Vashem: We will never again be caught unprepared
By Haaretz Service
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem opened Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday evening with a government ceremony attended by President Moshe Katsav and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Jews will never again be without a home, without a safe refuge, without
protection," Sharon said at the ceremony. "We will never again be caught unprepared. Never again."
Six Holocaust survivors lit torches to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will take part in the March of the Living ceremonies at the Auschwitz and Birkenau extermination camps in Poland on Thursday.
Sharon will depart for Poland late Wednesday evening, and will head the Israeli delegation, which includes ministers, public figures, and Holocaust survivors and their families.
Sharon will fill a central role in the March of the Living ceremony at Birkenau, and then will continue on to Auschwitz, where he will affix a mezuzah at the Jewish pavilion and light a memorial candle in the crematorium. He will then participate in the closing ceremony of the March of the Living.
Before returning to Israel, the prime minister will meet with Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and possibly also with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.
Meanwhile, two other Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies have decided to focus their memorials on children in the Holocaust.
A ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak is dedicated to children after the liberation, including those who died in concentration camps and those who survived by hiding in convents or by illegally entering Israel.
The stories of children in the Holocaust will also be commemorated in a ceremony that will take place, for the first time, at Ben-Gurion International Airport. The ceremony is being organized by 84 youths from communities located near the airport who took part in a trip to concentration camps in Poland sponsored by the Airports Authority.
The youth will read pieces they have written about the trip, and the names of children who died in the Holocaust will be read aloud.
Other students will visit the concentration camps after Holocaust Remembrance Day, in a one-day trip coordinated by the Issta travel agency, El Al airlines and the Beit She'an municipality.
The 11th graders from Beit She'an will visit the Jewish quarter and synagogues of Krakow, and the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps on May 17. The project is aimed at allowing youth from outlying areas to participate in the annual trips that many high schools take to Poland.
The costs of the week-long trips, which go for about $1,200-$1,450 per student, can be prohibitive, but the one-day, partly subsidized trip will cost only $100. El Al is providing free flights.
"The socio-economic situation of youth from the periphery does not permit them to be connected to the topic of the Holocaust like their friends from the center of the country are," said Shimon Siboni, chairman of Issta.
But while Israeli students go to Poland to see the places where some of the atrocities of the Holocaust took place, many of the Holocaust survivors, like Ze'ev Rosenberg, live in Israel and are commemorating the day here.
Rosenberg, who will be lighting one of the Remembrance Day torches, recounted his childhood in World War II Poland. Born in Warsaw 72 years ago, Rosenberg stayed in the ghetto there until he decided it was too dangerous and escaped. His Aryan looks and the fake name he used helped him link up with other Polish youths and join the underground army in the forests of northern Poland. He then returned with others to Warsaw, where he relayed messages to the underground army and was badly wounded.
After the war, Rosenberg tried returning home to see if anyone had survived, but no one was there.
He then immigrated to Israel and later married and raised two sons. He now lives in Kfar Vradim, has seven grandchildren and is spending time on his sculpting hobby.
PM at Yad Vashem: We will never again be caught unprepared
By Haaretz Service
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem opened Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday evening with a government ceremony attended by President Moshe Katsav and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Jews will never again be without a home, without a safe refuge, without
protection," Sharon said at the ceremony. "We will never again be caught unprepared. Never again."
Six Holocaust survivors lit torches to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will take part in the March of the Living ceremonies at the Auschwitz and Birkenau extermination camps in Poland on Thursday.
Sharon will depart for Poland late Wednesday evening, and will head the Israeli delegation, which includes ministers, public figures, and Holocaust survivors and their families.
Sharon will fill a central role in the March of the Living ceremony at Birkenau, and then will continue on to Auschwitz, where he will affix a mezuzah at the Jewish pavilion and light a memorial candle in the crematorium. He will then participate in the closing ceremony of the March of the Living.
Before returning to Israel, the prime minister will meet with Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and possibly also with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.
Meanwhile, two other Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies have decided to focus their memorials on children in the Holocaust.
A ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak is dedicated to children after the liberation, including those who died in concentration camps and those who survived by hiding in convents or by illegally entering Israel.
The stories of children in the Holocaust will also be commemorated in a ceremony that will take place, for the first time, at Ben-Gurion International Airport. The ceremony is being organized by 84 youths from communities located near the airport who took part in a trip to concentration camps in Poland sponsored by the Airports Authority.
The youth will read pieces they have written about the trip, and the names of children who died in the Holocaust will be read aloud.
Other students will visit the concentration camps after Holocaust Remembrance Day, in a one-day trip coordinated by the Issta travel agency, El Al airlines and the Beit She'an municipality.
The 11th graders from Beit She'an will visit the Jewish quarter and synagogues of Krakow, and the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps on May 17. The project is aimed at allowing youth from outlying areas to participate in the annual trips that many high schools take to Poland.
The costs of the week-long trips, which go for about $1,200-$1,450 per student, can be prohibitive, but the one-day, partly subsidized trip will cost only $100. El Al is providing free flights.
"The socio-economic situation of youth from the periphery does not permit them to be connected to the topic of the Holocaust like their friends from the center of the country are," said Shimon Siboni, chairman of Issta.
But while Israeli students go to Poland to see the places where some of the atrocities of the Holocaust took place, many of the Holocaust survivors, like Ze'ev Rosenberg, live in Israel and are commemorating the day here.
Rosenberg, who will be lighting one of the Remembrance Day torches, recounted his childhood in World War II Poland. Born in Warsaw 72 years ago, Rosenberg stayed in the ghetto there until he decided it was too dangerous and escaped. His Aryan looks and the fake name he used helped him link up with other Polish youths and join the underground army in the forests of northern Poland. He then returned with others to Warsaw, where he relayed messages to the underground army and was badly wounded.
After the war, Rosenberg tried returning home to see if anyone had survived, but no one was there.
He then immigrated to Israel and later married and raised two sons. He now lives in Kfar Vradim, has seven grandchildren and is spending time on his sculpting hobby.
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