Israel's Masada Unit, with the commanders Grandmother, a Holocaust survivor

Never Again Is Now

Am YIsrael Chai

#YomHashoa

"Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen". Unter diesem Motto erinnern heute (24. April 2025) die Jüdische Gemeinde #Duesseldorf & die Mahn- & Gedenkstätte an die 2.635 jüdischen Düsseldorfer Opfer der Shoah mit der Verlesung ihrer Namen. Ab 15 Uhr auf dem Rathausplatz
#YomHaShoa #Rheinland #NRW
A Prayer for Yom HaShoah | The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Read A Prayer for Yom HaShoah from The Rabbi Sacks Legacy.

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2 min sirens sounded in Israel, Yom Hashoah 2024.

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"Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen" Zu #YomHaShoah2024 wird heute ab 15 Uhr vor dem Rathaus @Duesseldorf mit der Verlesung ihrer Namen der #Düsseldorfer Opfer der #Shoa gedacht - Alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger sind zur Teilnahme eingeladen!
#YomHashoa #WeRemember #Niewiederistjetzt #mugduesseldorf #NRW

When I was sixteen I went on March of the Living to visit Poland—where my grandparents escaped but their families died in concentration camps—and then to Israel, where I was born.

Tonight is #YomHashoa. Jews globally are counting on you to *unequivocally* say #NeverAgainIsNow

Today is #YomHashoa, the day we commemorate the slaughter of 6 million Jews in Europe.

Thinking about how to ensure such horrors never happen again, I find Zygmunt Bauman's contribution incredibly helpful. Bauman, himself a Polish Jew, argues that the Holocaust was only possible because of the nature of modern bureaucracy, because of "just doing my job"--something I find to be as applicable to many of us in 2023:

Some quotes from "Modernity and the Holocaust":

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I first wrote this in 2020 in honor of Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’m sharing it today, on Yom HaShoah to remind us that though antisemitism has risen in the US over the last 3 years we can still fight it with education & the truth.

#YomHaShoa

https://demcastusa.com/2020/01/27/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-2020/

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020

It is up to those of us who remember the survivors, those friends and neighbors with numbers tattooed on their arms, to keep their memories alive.

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"Germans devised the Shoah, organised it, carried it out. It thus amounts to a miracle that Jews and Germans mark #YomHaShoa together" - Justice Minister Marco Buschmann took part in a remembrance service at Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum with Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor.