Comfort O Comfort My People: Yom HaShoah 2018

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Yom HaShoah 2018

Derived from Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald, George Segal's sculpture, "The Holocaust," stands in San Francisco's Legion of Honor Park, incongruously overlooking a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Insight to Anti-Semitism

"...they are the bearers of God’s word. And deep down in our hearts we hate them for it. For we hate God and do not want to follow His Law."

Pierre van Paassen, Zionist and uniquely insightful European war correspondent recalls the words of a visiting Huguenot minister to his family home in Holland following a prayer meeting for the return of the People of Israel to their Holy Land. Caspar Daubenton’s words carried the clear-sighted edge of the prophetic to fifteen year old Pierre in 1910, who would witness their unfolding in the decades to come.

“There is,” he said, “a mystery about the people of the Jews, a mystery which both attracts and repels us. Sometimes I think,” he went on, “that the mystery resides in the fact that they, unconsciously perhaps, as a people, are the bearers of God’s word. We know they are... We feel they are. And deep down in our hearts we hate them for it. For we hate God and do not want to follow His Law. In their mere presence there lies always, I find, a subtle, often unavowed and undefinable challenge to us, something of a reproof, an accusation. They remind us of something of which we do not like to be reminded.

I think,” he said, “that there sits the core of the secret of Jewish persecution in Christian lands.”

And then he went on to speak about the dread possibility of that mentally reserved hatred awaking some day in Europe. “Some incident, insignificant in itself,” I remember him saying “may very well bring it into the open. Not long ago we saw it come snarling to the surface with Dreyfus affair in a country as civilized as France. Who knows when and where it will break out again? And so long as that hatred persists in our hearts,” he said gravely, “the Jews are not safe anywhere, not in Russia, not in Germany, not in Holland, or in that far-off America to which so many of them are fleeing these days from Russia.”

Excerpted from “Our Forgotten Ally” by Pierre van Paassen, Originally Published 1943, Republished by Top Executive Media, 2005, Shoebat.com

ANIMATED MAP OF CAMPS

ANIMATED MAP OF CAMPS

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims—six million were murdered across Europe in highly efficient killing centers. Most people are unaware of the vast number of concentration camps that dotted Europe, bordering towns and villages, and employing or involving massive numbers of civilians to run...

— US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Comfort O Comfort My People

Pages

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Yom HaShoah 2018

No comments:

Post a Comment

HIJACKING THE HOLY LAND

The Guilt of Christianity Towards the Jewish People

Blog Archive

The Latest Weapon Against Israel

Service of Repentance