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spectator.org - 4/21/2009
Holocaust Remembrance Day: The View from Israel
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HERZLIYA, Israel -- Yom HaShoa began on Hitler's birthday. Two groups of people were mindful of this dark coincidence. All Israelis -- or at least everyone I talked to -- knew about the ...
Obama to speak at Holocaust remembrance event
thehill.com - 4/21/2009
Obama to speak at Holocaust remembrance event
— thehill.com — President Obama will deliver a keynote address at a ceremony later this week remembering the 6 million... Jews killed in the Holocaust. Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins at sundown Monday for observant Jews and ends at sunset Tuesday. ... (more) Obama to speak at Holocaust remembrance event

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On Work and Freedom: For Holocaust Remembrance Day and Durban II
the-word-well.com - 4/22/2009
On Work and Freedom: For Holocaust Remembrance Day and Durban II
— the-word-well.com — My amazing grandmother, Esther Klein, is turning 91 next month. She was in her mid-twenties when she... was liberated by the Swedish Red Cross from an aimless, endless transport, after having spent several nearly lethal winter weeks in Ravensbrueck. ... (more) On Work and Freedom: For Holocaust Remembrance Day and ...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: The View from Israel
Israpundit — By Robert M. Goldberg, The American Spectator HERZLIYA, Israel — Yom HaShoa began on Hitler’s birthday. Two groups of people were mindful of this dark coincidence. All Israelis — or at least everyone I talked to — knew about the overlap. They thought it was both poetic justice and divine intervention. Hitler didn’t just want to destroy the Jewish people; he wanted the world to remember us. He envisioned creating a museum to house our corpses and conquered religious treasures — torahs, talmuds, menorahs, tallit (prayer shawls), etc. ...

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