Superior Responsibility of Israel

"It Came From Within ... 70 years since Kristallnacht"  "That was the heart of the problem of German Jewry: it was so much a part of German society that the Nazi blow hit it from within."

Prof. Walter Bacharach, Holocaust survivor

Alternate Read: It came from within ... so much 

a part of American society ...

that the realization must come from within.

ISRAEL MARKS HOLOCAUST DAY 

IN OFFICIAL CEREMONY 

AT YAD VASHEM

The State of Israel paused tonight at 8 p.m. in memory of the six million Jews who perished from 1933-1945, as the country marked the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The annual state ceremony ushering-in the start of the 24-hour commemoration began after sunset at Yerushalayim’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

The solemn hour-and-a-quarter opening event, broadcast live on television channels and radio stations, was attended by President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the chairman of the Yad Vashem Council and Holocaust survivor Tel Aviv Rabbi Rav Yisrael Meir Lau, as well as scores of dignitaries and ambassadors from around the world.

“The conference opening today in Geneva constitutes an acceptance of racism, rather than the fight against it, and its main speaker is Ahmadinejad, who calls for the annihilation of Israel and denies the Holocaust,” President Peres said.

Netanyahu directed a personal question at Swiss president Hans-Rudolf Merz, “I turn to you, the Swiss president, and ask you: How can you meet someone who denies the Holocaust and wishes for a new holocaust to occur?”

“We will not let the Holocaust deniers perpetrate another holocaust on the Jewish people,” Netanyahu said. “This is the superior responsibility of the State of Israel and of me as prime minister.”

“Israel,” Netanyahu went on, is “the shield and the hope of the Jewish people. Here we create for the glory of our people and all of mankind. The country’s achievements in every field - culture and science, medicine and security - are groundbreaking. We are a nation small in number but of great fortitude,” Netanyahu said.

In describing his experiences as an orphaned child in Buchenwald, Rabbi Lau spoke of "another child sitting in the dark, Gilad Schalit."

Six torches were lit by survivors in memory of the SIX MILLION JEWISH VICTIMS. The Chief Rabbis recited Tehillim as well as Kaddish.