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February Layout 1 AMERICAN & INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR YAD VASHEM Vol. 42-No. 3 ISSN 0892-1571 January/February 2016-Shevat/Adar 5776 CEREMONY HONORING RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS IS A HISTORIC EVENT n extraordinary Yad Vashem honor and remember the unknown our children. carry a timeless lesson for us all.” A remembrance event took place and silent heroes of the Shoah. any elements of this ceremo- Pastor Chris Edmonds, who on Holocaust Remembrance Day at These were the rarest of men and “Mny make this so distinctive — accepted the Righteous Among the the Embassy of Israel in women who did not go along, or it is the first time in history that an Nations award on behalf of his late Washington, DC. Israeli Ambassador stand silently by, as their neighbors, American president has joined with father Roddie Edmonds said that “on Ron Dermer, joined by Yad Vashem friends, and countrymen were round- Yad Vashem to honor United States this noble occasion, my mother, Council Chairman Rabbi Israel Meir ed up and targeted for death. At risk citizens as Righteous Among the Mary Ann and our family are blessed Lau and American Society for Yad Vashem Chairman Leonard Wilf, hosted the posthumous bestowal of Righteous Among the Nations recog- nition upon four persons who risked their lives during the Shoah to res- cue endangered Jews. This was the first time that such a ceremony was held recognizing Americans as Righteous Among the Nations on U.S. soil. The ceremony was attend- ed by President Barack Obama. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chairman of the Yad Vashem Council and himself a Holocaust survivor who was res- cued by Righteous Among the Nations, in his speech recalled the terrifying six years he spent as a young child during the Holocaust, totally disconnected from the outside world. “But in this dark tunnel, there were some stars — the Righteous Among the Nations,” to whom many Jews owed their lives. “As far as we are unable to forget the horror, we (Left to right) Leonard Wilf, chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chairman of Yad Vashem’s Council, wel- are also commanded to remember come President Barack Obama to the Righteous Among the Nations ceremony. the people who risked their lives to to their own and their families’ lives, Nations; it is the first time that to receive the remarkable honor save us.” Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, American citizens are being recog- Righteous Among the Nations on Chairman of the American Society Lois Gunden, and Walery and Maryla nized on American soil; it is the first behalf of my father Roddie for Yad Vashem Leonard Wilf, in his Zbijewski were guided by a strong time a U.S. soldier has been so rec- Edmonds. remarks said, “In the very first years sense of morality to save Jewish ognized; and tonight we distinguish “Thank you, Yad Vashem and the after the Holocaust, when the Jewish children and adults, who survived the fourth and fifth Americans out of nation of Israel for bestowing such a people were still grappling with the and whose descendants and families more than 26,000 Righteous Among high honor on Dad. aftermath of the horrors they are here tonight. In doing so, they the Nations honorees. As the first U.S. serviceman to endured, there was an understand- are identified by Yad Vashem and “As the son of two Holocaust sur- receive the award, and the first recog- ing that along with memorializing and the State of Israel as Righteous vivors who grew up in this country, nized for protecting American Jews, documenting the mass murders and Among the Nations, true exemplars this event, with its bond to American our family is forever grateful. destruction, the Jewish people would of courage and heroism for us and citizens who demonstrated enormous We are proud of him and humbled acts of bravery, gives me a strong that he joins a small minority of ordi- sense of pride. My family and I have nary people who mustered extraordi- dedicated ourselves to furthering nary courage to uphold the goodness IN THIS ISSUE Holocaust research and education and dignity of humanity. Righteous Among the Nations ceremony is a historic event..............1, 8-9 both in Israel and in the United States. My Dad, like Ms. Gunden and the World marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day........................2-3 As chairman of the American Society Zbijewski’s are heroes! The Polish underground and the Jews..........................................................4 for Yad Vashem, I am humbled by the “In a defining moment, when evil The grandson of infamous Nazi is making amends......................................5 great task to which we commit our- demanded their conscience and their He escaped death at the hands of the Nazis ... and British bombers.......6 selves, to ensure that the world never very souls…they refused to follow the ASYV Professional Development Conference............................................. 7 forgets. crowd...but instead bowed to no Yad Vashem honors first Egyptian as “Righteous Gentile”..................... 10 “Tonight, not only do we give honor one…and did what was right... Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked................... 11 to these incredible men and women; My father’s legacy, like all of the The myth of the good Nazi...........................................................................12 we also proclaim that despite the “Righteous”, is the children, grandchil- Holocaust art collector seeks to repatriate works to Poland................... 16 years that have passed, these stories (Continued on pages 8-9) Page 2 MARTYRDOM & RESISTANCE January/February 2016 - Shevat/Adar 5776 WORLD MARKS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Poland — Under the imposing In an eloquent address, 86-year-old streets of Paris and Budapest and and the United Nations Outreach entrance gate of the Nazi extermina- Polish writer Halina Birenbaum, who London; once again, Jewish busi- Program has worked to educate tion camp Auschwitz, almost 300 sur- was led to the podium by her grand- nesses are targeted, and once again young people about the Holocaust, vivors and hundreds of dignitaries son, described Auschwitz as a “bot- Jewish families are fleeing Europe,” noting that many partners — including remembered its liberation 70 years tomless pit of hell that I couldn’t get he said. Holocaust survivors — continue to ago and paid homage to the 1.5 mil- out of,” recalling her impressions as lion Jews and other prisoners slaugh- an 11-year-old of the “grey bone faces tered there. with legs like sticks wearing muddy A huge tent spanned illuminated clogs, nothing reminding you of any- train tracks on which cattle trains had thing remotely human.” once brought prisoners from all over She said that even if she could Europe to the entrance, known as the have, trying to forget her experience death gate, at the very spot where had never been an option, because one former prisoner told an audience “it’s only in my memory that can I be of 3,000 he had witnessed enough next to my loved ones.” atrocities to “keep me awake until the She was given a standing ovation end of time.” by President Hollande and other urvivors from around 19 coun- guests, many of whom wiped away Stries and dignitaries — including tears. the French president, François inety-three-year-old Kazimierz Hollande, and the German president, NAlbin captivated the audience Survivors along with officials sit in a tent raised at the entrance of the Birkenau Nazi death camp. Joachim Gauck — crossed snowy with an account of his escape on the The screeching sound of the shofar, contribute to this work. train tracks to lay candles at the evening of February 27, 1943, one of a pitchless ceremonial horn, then “The memory of the Holocaust is a selection ramp where prisoners had the 10% of breakouts that were suc- filled the air, followed by a recitation of powerful reminder of what can hap- been chosen, often on the whim of SS cessful. He remembered the “excruci- the Kaddish. Survivors spontaneously pen when we stop seeing our com- guards, either for the gas chambers ating yell of the siren” as he ran embraced each other as David mon humanity,” he warned. “Let us all or for slave labor. through the icy river Sola, and named Wisnia, an 89-year-old survivor from speak out against anti-Semitism and An audience watched the moving Harald Fritz, the SS guard who had Philadelphia who as a teenager had attacks against religious, ethnic or scenes on television screens as greeted him and 727 fellow political been forced to sing for SS guards, other groups. Let us create a world grandchildren and children escorted prisoners as they arrived at Auschwitz chanted the funeral prayer “El Male where dignity is respected, diversity is their relatives across the concrete with the chilling message: “For the Rachamim,” his powerful voice celebrated, and peace is permanent,” platform, which glistened with ice and Jews, two weeks; for priests, a month; resounding around the tent’s walls. he concluded. falling snow and was flanked by a row for the young and healthy, three *** n a separate message, the UN of flags in the blue and white striped months … the only way out of here is USA — Marking the International IHigh Commissioner for Human material of the camp’s prison uni- the chimney.” Day of Commemoration in Memory of Rights said the Holocaust will “forever forms. Roman Kent, 86, fought back tears, the Victims of the Holocaust, United remain a terrible scar on the human The Polish president, Bronislaw his voice cracking, as he told political Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- conscience.” Komorowski, called Auschwitz a leaders to strive to ensure no repeti- moon urged everyone to denounce “Its hideous reality of planned and political and religious ideologies that deliberate mass murder must lead us set people against people.
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