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Excerpts of address by the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katsav, in Auschwitz, January 2005, to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation The mind of man refuses to grasp the great horror, which took place inside these fences. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most horrendous crime scene in the history of humanity. Birkenau is the largest graveyard of the Jewish people. Here we are witness to the remnants of the gas chambers and the crematoria. We see the barracks, the fences, the guard towers, the final station of the railway tracks, which brought the condemned from the far corners of Europe to the burning ovens. It seems as if we can still hear the dead crying out. Beyond all differences of opinion, we are united in our memory of the horror and we share the moral lesson. Humanity must pass on the awareness, the knowledge, the uniqueness and the lessons of the Holocaust from one generation to another. Where was the world? 4
Holocaust Memorial Day 2006 Children of the ghettos No one saw me take this picture. I took it from the inside of a building, looking down onto the street. I shook with anger to see children harnessed to carts like animals. Here, people are slaves. I’m determined to make copies of this photo. I will give prints to my friends and I will hide the negative. One day the world will find out the truth of how these innocent boys suffered. Children of the Ghetto – a cursed generation that played with corpses and death, that knew no laughter and no joy – children who were born into darkness and terror and fright; children who saw no sun. David Wdowinsky People started to talk about the ghetto. I had no idea what it meant. I had never even heard the word. After a few weeks it became clear. Liliana age 13 Dear Diary, We’re here five days, but word of honour it seems like five years. I don’t even know where to begin writing, because so many awful things have happened since I last wrote in you. First, the fence was finished and nobody can go out or come in…From today on, dear diary, we’re not in a ghetto but a ghetto camp, and on every house they’ve posted a notice which tells exactly what we’re allowed to do…Actually, everything is forbidden, but the most awful thing is that the punishment for everything is death. It doesn’t actually say that this punishment also applies to children, but I think it does apply to us too. Eva age 13 Fear Today the ghetto knows a different fear, Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe. An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake, The victims of its shadow, weep and writhe. Today a father’s heartbeat tells his fright And mothers bend their heads into their hands. Now children choke and die with typhus here, A bitter tax is taken from their hands. My heart still beats inside my breast While friends depart for other worlds. Perhaps it’s better, – who can say? – watching this, to die today? No, no, my God, we want to live! Not watch our members melt away. We want to have a better world, We want to work – we must not die! Eva Pickova age 12, Nymburk 5
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