RE: [Cz-L] Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Day

Anny..we know how you feel....but do not tell those coming behind us bits
that are not true. The British intercepted the ships,but did NOT sink
them,and thousands died in Transnistria,not millions.The definitive British
"White Paper" was issued on 17th May 1939,not in 1920 when the Jewish Sir
Herbert Samuel ruled Palestine. Things were bad enough..but the kids need to
learn the events of those days correctly,if only to make sure they do not
ever recur!! Cornel...who also lost family in the Shoah!

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Subject: [Cz-L] Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Day

Here in Israel Holocaust day is being commemorated by the whole country
with the whole nation partaking. It hasn't been so until Menachem Begin
became Prime Minister. Before and after our Independence, Ben Gurion
decided that our past be left in the Diaspora, who really wants to know?

The "Yishuv"=Israelis didn't want the suffering be heard - we are a free
people here and the "wandering Jew" had had a home to come to but could
not leave the "fleshpots" behind, now this "Packel Zures"(bondage) is to
be left behind (that's why Moses dragged the oldies through the desert
so they could die out and a new generation be born). Well, it did
work.

UTTER SILENCE!!! no one spoke and no one wanted to hear. For
reasons best known to them the Sochnut ( kind of Government in exile
having no country to govern yet, headed by Ben Gurion and the Russian
immigrants 1900s) felt guilty because, as they were representing the
Jews in Palestine their protests and appeals had not been heard little
was done to save however few. Of course, there was illegal immigration
but most ships were intercepted and sunk by the British who, in
1920, due to Arab pressure, issued the "White Paper" limiting to a
minimum Jews settling here.

A defence force "Haganah" was created, no arms - not really an official
military force - and officially accepting British rule while quietly
acquiring weapons and home producing them. Then there were the militants
"Irgun Zwai Leumi (Ezel)" led by Benachem Begin and "Irgun Lochamei
Israel (Lechi)" led by Yair Stern who were unwilling to bow to the
Birtish demands and those of the Mufti of Jerusalem, sitting next to
Hitler. They became, In the eyes of the Yishuv, the troublemakers
"Zealots". The rest is history.

Now I come to my personal history. There are millions of untold stories
by survivors. Now that stories ARE to be told so that the second, third
and hopefully never ending generations can try to visualise
and comprehend the incomprehsenible High School Children are taken to
Auschwitz / Bergebelsen (which I call "the cherry on the cream")
because millions got killed in Transnistria, being buried alive in the
streets of Warsaw, entire villages in Eastern Europe whose names I
discover by chance when and if, one of our "travellers", Christian,
Edgar and others, share their experiences with us. Who will ever know
how many nameless are buried where? Shot by a passer by who was drunk?
by a German whose revolver had too many bullets? "OUR unknown soldiers"
no graves no names "gone and forgotten", but at least something is being
done to keep the Holocaust alive, to honour the dead.

So, I am looking for my stepbrother's last years. He was an Icon for me
and all I know is that he died in Auschwitz APRIL!! 1945!!! another week
and he would be alive??!! I don't cry any longer, there is too much
suffering and we live on a "time bomb" all the time.

Yesterday they showed the French deportation from Darcy and I was
looking and searching in vain for ONE face only milling about the camp.
Tears in my eyes. 68 years!!! I just can't forget. I light a memorial
candle think and in my dreams -which I sometimes have- he stretches his
hand out to me and asks me, I never know what for.

Anny Matar

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