On your behalf, I swore to remember and remind that the Jewish people was not born at Auschwitz and that our spiritual, religious and political character was not formed there.” “You Holocaust survivors, heroes of our rebirth, who found the fortitude to get up from the ground soaked in blood and tears, to look forward, to choose life, to love, to laugh, to enjoy, to believe, to build and to create. This evening, our hearts are with them and their families.” But the final battle of their lives was fought with them bewildered and isolated, behind masks and gloves, yearning for contact but parted from their loved ones. “They survived the ghettoes and the death camps, the immigrant ships and the internment camps. “Nine hundred Holocaust survivors passed away just in Israel as a direct result of the pandemic,” Rivlin said in his address. The ceremony included the lighting of the traditional six torches by Holocaust survivors to honor the memory of the six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. The central theme for this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day is “ Until the Very Last Jew: Eighty Years Since the Onset of Mass Annihilation.”
President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both delivered remarks Wednesday evening at the opening ceremony in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum that served as the launch for the next 24 hours of events. At present, there are 174,500 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, according to data provided by the government Authority for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors. At least half a million Israelis are expected to participate in these encounters, some of which are being organized by agencies in local authorities.ĭuring these events, hosts screen or read testimonies of Holocaust survivors when possible, hosts have invited Holocaust survivors and/or their descendants – or an academic expert – to speak personally with those gathered. Thousands of encounters are taking place this evening and tomorrow (Thursday) to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day in a project called “ Zikaron B’Salon” (Memories in the Living Room) that gathers people to hear the personal experiences of Holocaust survivors.
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