Something remarkable about a moment of silence where a whole nation comes to a stop, gets out of their cars, and commemorates & remembers something as monumental as The Holocaust.
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Something remarkable about a moment of silence where a whole nation comes to a stop, gets out of their cars, and commemorates & remembers something as monumental as The Holocaust. I don’t need to say much here, I will let the article speak for itself: Podezin then ushered Margit and 15 of the more senior guests to a store room, gave them weapons and ammunition and invited them to “kill some Jews”. The prisoners were then forced to strip naked before being shot by drunken [...] I am preparing for Yom Kippur around the house and am listening to Fresh Air. It is a recap of an interview with Daniel Mendelsohn about his book The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. It is astonishingly moving. The pain of the missing of his greats and grands is palpable over the [...] Today is a bad day for Jews. Traditionally we are all sad because we lost our Temple. In general, the more, well, modern amongst us, see this as a time to be insightful and think about the big plan as manifested through events then, now and in the middle – we are talking about 2000+ [...] The trip was originally going to be Anthony, Roy, Dan and me, but circumstances dictated that only Dan and I would be able to go. The day of departure came and we had arranged to meet at 11 Madison Park for lunch, hop in the car to JFK, and be off for a great weekend [...] |
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Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. |
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