Jan 27, 2021
Roses with a note saying #weremember , are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day today in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) A Jewish prayer for the souls of people murdered in the Holocaust echoed today over where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world paused by the coronavirus pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online this year due to the virus, including the annual ceremony at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp, where Nazi German forces killed 1.1 million people in occupied Poland. The memorial site is closed to visitors because of the pandemic.
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My late mother, a Polish Holocaust survivor, was always cautious, even in the face of positive events. If you predicted something good would happen, she would utter the Yiddish word “
kinehora,” which means “to ward off the evil eye.” In essence, she did not want something discussed, lest it may not happen.
Given the traumas she endured, I understood why her skepticism, even in good times, was warranted. And lately, I have been thinking about the many times in recent months she might have found new reasons to say “
kinehora.”
kinehora.”
kinehora.”
kinehora.”
kinehora.”
Today’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day comes exactly three weeks after the United States Capitol was stormed by a mob of Trump supporters, many of whom were affiliated with groups expressing racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic and xenophobic fury. The sight of Confederate flags and a Camp Auschwitz shirt in the halls of the Capitol, and the construction of a makeshi
On January 6 the world watched as domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. The pictures seared into our memories of this day are replete with symbols of hatred, racism, and extremism: The Confederate battle flag, the white power hand gesture, and the gallows erected near the Capitol reflecting pool.
What many may not have noticed within this sea of white supremacy was the prominence of anti-Semitic images: the black sweatshirt reading “Camp Auschwitz, Work Brings Freedom,” and T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan: 6MWE = “6 million wasn’t enough” above Italian fascist symbols. Those who wore these shirts invoked the Holocaust, not to deny it, but to promote the continuation of its aims and ideology.
By GILLIAN BROCKELL | The Washington Post | Published: January 27, 2021 Nathan Lewin s mother kept up with the news. Unlike other Jews in Poland, she had been born in the Netherlands, and even attended the University of Berlin, before marrying a Polish Jew Lewen s dad and immigrating. Because of this experience, she was perhaps more aware than others around her of the threat of Adolf Hitler. She made my father promise that when and if Hitler crossed the border into Poland, we would immediately try to escape and leave Poland, Lewin, now 84, said Monday at a virtual reception via Zoom. When Hitler invaded in September 1939, they did just that. Lewin, then 3 years old, was carried in the night through the forest to Lithuania with his parents, maternal grandmother and an uncle.