In honour of #Chanukah, this is a THREAD with some of the most powerful Chanukah images (c/- @yadvashem) from 'Before, During and After the Holocaust'.
Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)
Have you heard the incredible story about Joseph and Rebecca Bau, who survived Auschwitz, were immortalized in Schindler's List film, moved to Israel and then made the most indelible contribution to the Jewish state and the Jewish people?
This is their story.
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1. Joseph and Rebecca, both originally from Poland met in Plaszow death camp near Krakow, where they fell in love and were secretly married – an act for which if found out, would incur certain execution.
2. Joseph had actually dressed as a woman to sneak into the camp, in order to have a makeshift wedding. Their wedding was immortalized in the iconic film ‘Schindler’s List’.
#OnThisDay (1938), we mark 82 years since #Kristallnacht, when Nazis (and their enablers) across Germany & Austria razed synagogues, smashed windows and murdered almost 100 Jews in a violent pogrom - known as ’Night of Broken Glass'.
1. Kristallnacht, was a murderous example of the capacity of humans to escalate from harassment, indifference, demonization and singling out of Jews - to violence.
First by words and through dehumanization, and then through the Nazi infrastructure of death.
2. In the weeks that followed #Kristallnacht, approximately 30,000 Jews were transported to concentration camps — a sorrow foreshadowing of the further evil that would soon ensue.
A few thoughts on @gidonsaar, but first PM Netanyahu:
1) I have great respect for PM Netanyahu and believe he has made an indelible contribution to Israel’s security, our diplomatic achievements & economic strength. I also believe he has been unfairly treated by the media.
2. But at some point, every leader must recognize that the party (and country for that matter), are bigger than they are.
Whereas for many years it was BiBi who brought the Likud to power, it is now also BiBi who is the one holding them (and the Right) from power.
3. Yes, PM Netanyahu is also entitled to full presumption of innocence, but at same time, cannot devote his full attention to his duties as Prime Minister, while also fighting these very grave charges.
@netanyahu 1. “Considering indicting”? Really? Seriously? How weak, pathetic.
If the AG was so confident, he should’ve have just issued the indictment.
@netanyahu 2. But 40 days out from election to say you will at some stage - maybe - indict, pending a hearing in the future *after* the election? What sort of a reckless political malfeasance is that?
It is eerie & immensely empowering to be in Vienna on #HMD2019, standing before this moving monument to Austrian Jews murdered in the #Holocaust.
Austria not only gave birth to Hitler, but is birthplace of modern Zionism, as envisaged by Herzl.
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74 years after the end of the #Holocaust, Hitler's dream to annihilate the Jewish people has been dashed, while Herzl's dream to establish a Jewish state has been fully realized.
That not only did we survive, but that from the graveyards of Europe and the depths of despair, we went on to re-establish the Jewish state, in our ancestral homeland, Israel. #HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2019
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