YAD VASHEM In a Dark Corner

 

Yesterday,  on Yom Hashoah, I took a couple of tourists to visit Yad Vashem.

When we entered the museum I whispered to them that they were going to see something that other visitors do not see.

They were curious and felt special. (this  is  a great shtick for guides - the tourists will feel that their guide is unique.)

I proceeded slowly and deliberately to make sure not to miss the item I promised they would exclusively see.

I found it.

It was sandwiched between walls of prominent German Nazis.

The Nazi I was seeking was not German and is hidden from the pubic.

I refer of course to Haj Amin Husseini, father of the Palestinian people" and  Arab  partner with Hitler in the "Final solution”

I explained to my guests why the prominent photo of Husseini and Hitler was removed from Yad Vashem after Oslo and replaced with a photo of Husseini and HIMMLER in a dark corner that no one besides them will see this day.

They were shocked.

I explained that Yad Vashem denies there ever was the original photo with Hitler.

They were further shocked.

I wonder, how many of my guiding colleagues are also shocked or even think it is an issue worthy of discussion?

I wonder as I have been told, at times that perhaps I am really an extremist and should just let it go?  Should I?

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Blog owner addition:

The following (link below) is an official German record of the meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin. (Source: Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945, Series D, Vol XIII, London, 1964.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/

In addition:

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Haj-Amin el-Husseini played many parts, but his whole life was dedicated to the fight against Jewish immigration and to te persecution and extermination of Jews in Palestine and all over Europe. He aborted a promising attempt to save a number of Jewish children, who then were killed. At the end of the war, the Mufti succeeded in escaping Germany, and was not arrested and prosecuted by the Allies, although they could have done it. He finally arrived in Egypt in 1946, and continued his activities which included organizing murders of political opponents, like the President of Lebanon and King Abdullah of Jordan. Haj-Amin died in his Beirut home on July 4, 1974. Prominent among his family mourners was Yasser Arafat. 

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