Lest we never forget

27 Jan

We are all mediators, translators.  – Jacques Derrida

Today is the Holocaust Rememberance Day, known in Hebrew asYom HaShoah. The death of six million Jews is remembered today. But, above all, we should remember that the force of hatred can lead to cruelty of monstrous proportions. 

I have here a lullaby in Yiddish, the Hebrew that was spoken among German and Eastern European Jews, dedicated to all those children who died in the Holocaust. There are also two interviews with holocaust survivors:

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