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Commemorating the Shoah 1 Commemorating the Shoah The changing face of Holocaust memory A Politically Incorrect view By Jerry Klinger "It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation -- that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people."1 David Irving, Speech in Portland, Or. September 18, 1996 1 http://www.adl.org/Learn/ext_us/irving.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpic ked=2&item=Irving 2 Never Again Cambodia Never Again Bosnia Never Again Rwanda Never Again Darfur May never forget mean more than never again. Thank you to those who keep the memory from dying, so that others may live on January 26th, 2005 קצירה (Ketzirah (Carly "Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran) spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity, and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere, have you no shame? Have you no decency?" Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Binyamin Netanyahu at the U.N. Sept. 25, 20092 The weather was perfect – clear skies, warm, in the 70’s, a perfect Sunday to be out and enjoy life. In the morning, Adas Israel Congregation, the largest Conservative Congregation in Washington, D.C., held it’s Garden of the Righteous Ceremony in Commemoration of Yom Hashoah. Later that afternoon, the Washington Jewish Community held its annual Yom Ha'Shoah v'Hagvurah Community-Wide Holocaust Memorial Observance. Yom Hashoah was on Monday April 12. Conveniently Sunday was the 11th. It was close enough to ensure better attendance. ------------------ May 8, 1945, World War II in Europe officially ended. The President of the Flensburg government, the successor government to the Nazis, Admiral Karl Donitz, unconditionally surrendered to Allied forces in Reims. Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker April 30, 1945. Millions of people in Europe, the U.S. and around the world, celebrated. The War was over! The War was over! 2 http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/09/25/quote-of-the-week-binyamin-netanyahu-at- the-un 3 Life, the future, will begin again. For one third of world Jewry there would not be a rebuilding of life. The Final Solution had been final. They were dead, murdered. The shock, the horror, the magnitude of the crime against the Jewish people was not comprehended, little less understood. The survivors of the Final Solution looked for what was left of their lives, their families. They dazedly tried to peer from behind the barbed wire of the Death Camps at an uncertain future. They knew there was a past. They knew there was a life that was gone. They could not just forget it. Most survivors internalized their trauma. Most were not able or did not want to speak about it. The reality was too overwhelming. Many a survivor’s child grew up in a home of silence. There was no past to speak of. Some survivors could not forget. They would not forget. They owed it to their families, their friends, their communities and to the future, not to forget. The process of knowing, remembering and not forgetting began almost immediately. Inside Death Camps, almost from liberation, homemade and personal memorials were erected. Permanent memorials were quickly erected by survivor communities. They structured themselves into Irgunim of mutual support, such as the World Federation of Bergen Belsen Associations. A Congress of liberated Jews, in the British Zone, mainly survivors of Bergen Belsen, was held September 25, 1945. Belsen was a site of unspeakable horror. More 30,000 people, primarily Jews, had been murdered there. At liberation, thousands upon thousands of bodies lay strewn about the Bergen Belsen, unburied, decaying, festering, when the British soldiers arrived. The Germans had planned a final act of extermination for the starved, emaciated still surviving inmates. They had stored “white powders”, as a former Jewish prisoner described it. It was a poison to be mixed with a large ration of food the Nazis had hoarded for a special purpose. The Nazis planned give it to the walking near dead and those still clinging to life in the camp. The Germans methodically planned to complete their objective, to exterminate the last Jews of Bergen Belsen. They would have succeeded except for the rapid disintegration of German military resistance and the speedy approach of the British. The Nazis fled Belsen, unable to complete their plans, running to save their own lives. The white powder was never distributed. Even after the British arrived, the Belsen victims died daily from typhus, starvation and the effects of the Nazi death machine. The British did what they could. It was a terrible struggle to try and save lives. The bodies continued to pile up as typhus spread. Orders were issued – burn the camp. Take all survivors out and nurse them as best as possible. Burn the camp. The bodies, strewn in heaps about the camp were ordered pushed into huge mass graves by bulldozers guided by British soldiers with white surgical masks on their faces. Mound upon mound of mass graves sprang up around the camp site, five hundred here, two thousand there, five thousand….. Five months had passed since liberation. The Jewish Congress that met that September decided that they had to remember, to commemorate, not forget the dead of Bergen Belsen. 4 Bergen Belsen April 15, 1945, one year after liberation, a large stone and concrete memorial was erected in the camp area. A large concrete ball capped the memorial – a symbolic world globe. On its sides, carved in pain, the words cried out: “Israel and the world shall remember Thirty thousand Jews Exterminated in the Concentration Camp Of Bergen Belsen At the hands of the murderous Nazis Earth conceal not the blood Shed on thee! First anniversary of liberation 15th April 1946 /14th Nissan 5706 Central Jewish Committee British Zone" The need to remember, and not forget, never left survivors. It never left them even as they struggled in a post-War world that still did not want them. Some went to America. Few could and did return to their former homes. With the American doorway and Western Europe unwelcoming, most chose to resettle in the only place that did wan them – Israel. How to remember the Holocaust was not the most important thought in the early years after the war. There was no ritual, no commemorative date, no liturgy, secular or religious, nothing that comprehensively responded to the need for memory. The first permanent interpretive memorial, a museum of pain and expression, appeared in Jerusalem in 1949. June 1967, heavy fighting took place outside of the Old City’s Zion Gate. The Ottoman stone walls were heavily pock marked from bullets. Israeli troops fought their way into the city 5 through the ziggurat entrance. Fighting, they pushed through the very gate the Jewish refugees of Jerusalem were ejected through by the Jordanian Legion eighteen years earlier, when the city fell. The scarred walls of the gate are flanked today, by the reputed grave of King David and a dark museum. Some religious Jews come to pray at David’s Tomb even though archeologists suggest that the site dates from the 4th century AD. The tomb may have been a Judeo-Christian religious site. On the opposite side of the road, though a small steel arched portico and cinder blocked low grey walls, a courtyard opens to the reconstituted 1949, Chamber of the Holocaust. Chamber of the Holocaust – Jerusalem’s Old City Within the courtyard is a rectangular memorial erected by the Jew’s of Bergen Belsen. The Chamber of the Holocaust is a dark memorial. It descends below ground level into a series of foreboding, depressing rooms of Holocaust artifacts, art, and tombstones of destroyed communities. There is little attempt to ease the impact of the Holocaust, its images, the feel or the environment. In the Chamber of the Holocaust, the Holocaust is what it was – a chamber of horror. Both locations are maintained by the Diaspora Yeshivah. Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura, (The day of Shoah (Destruction) and Heroism (Resistance), Remembrance), was created by the Knesset in 1951. The name is contemporarily truncated to Yom Hashoah. The imagery of Jewish resistance, Jews as freedom fighters, has faded into the background. Political correctness and turmoil as to the character of Israeli self defense and militarism have become confused. Equal emphasis on Jewish resistance and Jewish survival through defensive strength has been muted. The 27th of the Hebrew month of Nissan corresponds to the Gregorian calendar as a floating date in April or May. It became the designated compromise date for Yom Hashoah observance. The young State of Israel, with its huge survivor population, needed to commemorate the Holocaust and at the same time interpret the Holocaust with a context of positive Zionist rational. The 14th of Nisan was originally proposed for Yom Hashoah. It was the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943). The religious community strenuously objected. 6 The 14th of Nissan was the day before Passover. Even the 27th was a difficult compromise for the religiously observant when proposed.
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