Walter Suskind: A Dutch Holocaust Hero
From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel
Source: timesofisrael.com
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From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel
Haim Roet, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Dutch village, came up with the simple but powerful idea of memorializing Jewish victims of the Nazis by intoning their names.
Since he first read the names of people murdered by the Nazis at a protest in 1989, the practice has become a part of memorial ceremonies around the world.