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Sunday, November 09, 2008 10:14:11 PM
Most of us were not here & I am sure if any were They have not Forgotten ...
Today is the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht--the "Night of Broken Glass".
Capital of Europe marks 70th anniversary of ‘Kristallnacht’ and promotes tolerance
On Monday, a special event promoting tolerance will be hosted by the European Parliament (picture) in Brussels.
BRUSSELS (EJP)---A series of events will be held Sunday and Monday in Brussels, seat of the main European Union institutions, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogroms in Germany and Austria that culminated in the Holocaust, and to promote tolerance across the continent.
They will be attended by several hundred of political and Jewish leaders from across Europe, members of the European Parliament, diplomats, as well as Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses of ‘Kristallnacht’.
On the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, a coordinated series of pogroms were perpetrated by the Nazis in the Germany and Austria against Jews, their synagogues, their businesses and their homes.
The anti-Jewish riots came to be known as 'Kristallnacht' or Night of Broken Glass, a reference to the great numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centres and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Tens of thousands Jews were attacked, killed or deported to the concentration camps.
That night marked the beginning of the atrocities that were to progressively intensify and become the full horror of the Holocaust.
On Sunday, the European Jewish Congress, a pan-European Jewish representative body, will organize a memorial service at the Brussels Great Synagogue.
The service, to be attended by Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Arthur Schneier from the Park East Synagogue in New York, and Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, will be co-organized by the Conference of European Rabbis, the World Holocaust Forum (WHF), Yad Vashem, and the Jewish Community of Belgium.
On Monday, the EJC will host a special event promoting tolerance in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The event will be held under the auspices of the president of the EU assembly, Hans-Gert Poettering. Speakers will include European Commission President José-Manuel Barroso, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who chairs the recently launched European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), Lluis Maria de Puig, Spanish President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe, and Rabbi Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor.
Explaining the motivation for these commemorations in the city which hosts the European Commission, the European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, EJC President Moshe Kantor said: "Intolerance is unfortunately a recurring phenomenon. With these events, we want to emphasize that the lessons of ‘Kristallnacht’ must be learned again and again, and that forgetting what happened in 1938 means allowing discrimination and persecution spread again."
“Europe’s political leaders need to heed the lesson of 1938 and be at the forefront of fighting for human rights and dignity," he added.
"On this anniversary it is important to take time to reflect on the events of 70 years ago but also to look forward to work towards eliminating the causes of xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, and to promote tolerance and respect amongst all the peoples of the European continent."
On Monday evening, EU Commission Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of enlargement, Guenter Verheugen, will address a diplomatic dinner
http://www.ejpress.org/article/31779
..I stole photos from Debbie Schlussel, I just didn't want to make this 'controversial', however - because it IS personal to DEBBIE - she has the most intimate expressive view of it & original photos ...
Photos from Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938: Jews Arrested and Sent to Concentration Camps, Synagogues and Jewish Businesses Destroyed . . .
It was a loud disruption to the cocooned view of German Jews that they were cultured and mostly assimilated and, many of them, wealthy, and that their fellow Germans would never harm them. On that night, they finally realized that, in fact, they were not the equals in society they'd believed for centuries that they were. As many of my readers and friends have noted this week, these German Jews have their contemporaries in the liberal Jews who voted for Barack Obama and the party dominated by anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment, the Democrats.
They are the same Jews who constantly do "outreach" to Muslims who openly hate them and praise Hezbollah and HAMAS and homicide bombings. They are also the same Jews who love to mindlessly utter the tired "Never Again" phrase, but gladly associate with those who will ensure that in a generation or two it very likely could happen again.
Left out paragraph or two here ...
Yes, the "comfortable" German Jews have been reborn (with apologies to the German Jews of those days who even themselves didn't behave like the Arthur Horwitzes of today). And they have forgotten the sounds of the breaking glass, of the 20 Jewish suicides of that night seventy years ago, of the screams of 30,000 people arrested and sent to the camps, just because they were Jewish.
While there are no Kristallnachts here right now, and Americans from the center to the right--who are not of the Pat Buchanan bent--are largely philo-Semitic, we also saw, just two weeks ago, "Hit a Jew Day" at a St. Louis public school and have seen increasing incidents of anti-Semitism all over America and violent brutal attacks against Jews all over Europe, particularly in France.
Left out another paragraph here ...
Seventy years and many have forgotten. I haven't forgotten. I have the photos of my late maternal grandmother, Adela, and her friends in their Nazi-imposed Gold Jude star patch. And I have the memories of the many stories my late maternal grandfather, Isaac, told me over the years of his struggle to survive in the death camps and his many close calls with it as he subsisted as a bag of bones working in many camps, including Dora.
My Grandmother Adela (2nd Row, Third From Left)
& Her Fellow Yellow Star Wearing Seamstress Friends
Far too many of us have forgotten. Fortunately, a few of us remember.
There are many famous pictures of what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews on that particularly night 70 years ago in Germany and for years to come all over Europe, while Muslims--including Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem--begged them to speed up the Final Solution and export it to include the Middle East and North Africa.
My late father, H.L. Schlussel, MD, used to point to the picture of a Nazi SS soldier pulling a rabbi by his beard. He would juxtapose it with his favorite photo by Allan Tannenbaum, of bearded religious Jews in Israel's Judah and Shomron--the so-called "West Bank"--protecting their homes and lives with M-16s. "That Was Then, This is Now," was the slogan my father would put on the makeshift copies of the two photos he put together.
Sadly, as my dad lamented, even the "now" may soon be the "then" because my fellow co-religionists, both in Israel and here in America, do not learn from history. They ignore it.
70 years, but that's in the past. It could never happen now . . . . Right?
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
---Sir Edmund Burke
This Is Now, But it Could Soon Be "Then" . . .
My Dad's Favorite Photo: Allan Tannenbaum Photo of Religious Jewish Settler with M-16, Elon Moreh, Israel, 1988 - Copyright, Allan Tannenbaum.
Posted by Debbie at November 9, 2008 12:59 PM
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/70th_anniversar.html
Today is the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht--the "Night of Broken Glass".
Capital of Europe marks 70th anniversary of ‘Kristallnacht’ and promotes tolerance
On Monday, a special event promoting tolerance will be hosted by the European Parliament (picture) in Brussels.
BRUSSELS (EJP)---A series of events will be held Sunday and Monday in Brussels, seat of the main European Union institutions, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogroms in Germany and Austria that culminated in the Holocaust, and to promote tolerance across the continent.
They will be attended by several hundred of political and Jewish leaders from across Europe, members of the European Parliament, diplomats, as well as Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses of ‘Kristallnacht’.
On the night of 9 to 10 November 1938, a coordinated series of pogroms were perpetrated by the Nazis in the Germany and Austria against Jews, their synagogues, their businesses and their homes.
The anti-Jewish riots came to be known as 'Kristallnacht' or Night of Broken Glass, a reference to the great numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centres and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Tens of thousands Jews were attacked, killed or deported to the concentration camps.
That night marked the beginning of the atrocities that were to progressively intensify and become the full horror of the Holocaust.
On Sunday, the European Jewish Congress, a pan-European Jewish representative body, will organize a memorial service at the Brussels Great Synagogue.
The service, to be attended by Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Arthur Schneier from the Park East Synagogue in New York, and Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, will be co-organized by the Conference of European Rabbis, the World Holocaust Forum (WHF), Yad Vashem, and the Jewish Community of Belgium.
On Monday, the EJC will host a special event promoting tolerance in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The event will be held under the auspices of the president of the EU assembly, Hans-Gert Poettering. Speakers will include European Commission President José-Manuel Barroso, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who chairs the recently launched European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), Lluis Maria de Puig, Spanish President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the 47-nation Council of Europe, and Rabbi Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor.
Explaining the motivation for these commemorations in the city which hosts the European Commission, the European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, EJC President Moshe Kantor said: "Intolerance is unfortunately a recurring phenomenon. With these events, we want to emphasize that the lessons of ‘Kristallnacht’ must be learned again and again, and that forgetting what happened in 1938 means allowing discrimination and persecution spread again."
“Europe’s political leaders need to heed the lesson of 1938 and be at the forefront of fighting for human rights and dignity," he added.
"On this anniversary it is important to take time to reflect on the events of 70 years ago but also to look forward to work towards eliminating the causes of xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, and to promote tolerance and respect amongst all the peoples of the European continent."
On Monday evening, EU Commission Vice-President and Commissioner in charge of enlargement, Guenter Verheugen, will address a diplomatic dinner
http://www.ejpress.org/article/31779
..I stole photos from Debbie Schlussel, I just didn't want to make this 'controversial', however - because it IS personal to DEBBIE - she has the most intimate expressive view of it & original photos ...
Photos from Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938: Jews Arrested and Sent to Concentration Camps, Synagogues and Jewish Businesses Destroyed . . .
It was a loud disruption to the cocooned view of German Jews that they were cultured and mostly assimilated and, many of them, wealthy, and that their fellow Germans would never harm them. On that night, they finally realized that, in fact, they were not the equals in society they'd believed for centuries that they were. As many of my readers and friends have noted this week, these German Jews have their contemporaries in the liberal Jews who voted for Barack Obama and the party dominated by anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment, the Democrats.
They are the same Jews who constantly do "outreach" to Muslims who openly hate them and praise Hezbollah and HAMAS and homicide bombings. They are also the same Jews who love to mindlessly utter the tired "Never Again" phrase, but gladly associate with those who will ensure that in a generation or two it very likely could happen again.
Left out paragraph or two here ...
Yes, the "comfortable" German Jews have been reborn (with apologies to the German Jews of those days who even themselves didn't behave like the Arthur Horwitzes of today). And they have forgotten the sounds of the breaking glass, of the 20 Jewish suicides of that night seventy years ago, of the screams of 30,000 people arrested and sent to the camps, just because they were Jewish.
While there are no Kristallnachts here right now, and Americans from the center to the right--who are not of the Pat Buchanan bent--are largely philo-Semitic, we also saw, just two weeks ago, "Hit a Jew Day" at a St. Louis public school and have seen increasing incidents of anti-Semitism all over America and violent brutal attacks against Jews all over Europe, particularly in France.
Left out another paragraph here ...
Seventy years and many have forgotten. I haven't forgotten. I have the photos of my late maternal grandmother, Adela, and her friends in their Nazi-imposed Gold Jude star patch. And I have the memories of the many stories my late maternal grandfather, Isaac, told me over the years of his struggle to survive in the death camps and his many close calls with it as he subsisted as a bag of bones working in many camps, including Dora.
My Grandmother Adela (2nd Row, Third From Left)
& Her Fellow Yellow Star Wearing Seamstress Friends
Far too many of us have forgotten. Fortunately, a few of us remember.
There are many famous pictures of what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews on that particularly night 70 years ago in Germany and for years to come all over Europe, while Muslims--including Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem--begged them to speed up the Final Solution and export it to include the Middle East and North Africa.
My late father, H.L. Schlussel, MD, used to point to the picture of a Nazi SS soldier pulling a rabbi by his beard. He would juxtapose it with his favorite photo by Allan Tannenbaum, of bearded religious Jews in Israel's Judah and Shomron--the so-called "West Bank"--protecting their homes and lives with M-16s. "That Was Then, This is Now," was the slogan my father would put on the makeshift copies of the two photos he put together.
Sadly, as my dad lamented, even the "now" may soon be the "then" because my fellow co-religionists, both in Israel and here in America, do not learn from history. They ignore it.
70 years, but that's in the past. It could never happen now . . . . Right?
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
---Sir Edmund Burke
This Is Now, But it Could Soon Be "Then" . . .
My Dad's Favorite Photo: Allan Tannenbaum Photo of Religious Jewish Settler with M-16, Elon Moreh, Israel, 1988 - Copyright, Allan Tannenbaum.
Posted by Debbie at November 9, 2008 12:59 PM
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/70th_anniversar.html
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