Tomorrow is the Holocaust Memorial Day, although from about 6pm onwards today all shops and restaurants closed down in anticipation. No chance of getting a shwarma tonight.
The local television stations are showing a wide variety of films and documentaries throughout tonight and tomorrow and i’ll probably hole up with The Reader.
At 10am sirens will sound and Israel will grind to a halt for 2 minutes in memory of more than six million victims.
Many Holocaust survivalists live in Israel. Many are in their eighties and there are now some 700 dying each month. Many were never able to rebuild their lives after witnessing these atrocities in their youth, and despite promises to the contrary by the successive governments, economic support has been sporadic at best.
"Many were never able to rebuild their lives after witnessing these atrocities in their youth, and despite promises to the contrary by the successive governments,economic support has been sporadic at best."
ReplyDeleteGood point. The Holocaust has been hijacked by politicians for their own ends. See Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry" for example-- his parents were holocaust survivors.
interesting story for sure. It's all a bit sick to use the Holocaust as a political tool
ReplyDeleteIt is. You see Hun Sen and others doing the same in Cambodia too.
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