Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Today, survivors of the Shoah gathered in Poland to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"'From this damned ground of Auschwitz and Birkenau and the other death camps rise the voices of millions of our brothers and sisters of our people who were suffocated, burned and tortured in a thousand different and unusual deaths," Netanyahu told the crowd in Hebrew.
After brief remarks in English, Netanyahu switched into Hebrew, saying he wanted to use "the newborn language of the people whom the Nazis sought to exterminate" and chanting the first line of the Jewish prayer for the dead.
"My murdered brothers and sisters and brothers who survived the inferno, I came here today from Jerusalem to say to you we will never forget," Netanyahu said. "We will not allow Holocaust deniers and desecrators of grave stones to erase or distort the memory.'"...
In other news, a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, France, was desecrated and Ahmadijenad predicted the destruction of Israel.
I don't know what to say here. But, I feel like crying.
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