In Israel, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day took place from sundown Sunday to sundown yesterday. At 10:00 am yesterday, the entire country paused in commemoration, to never forget…
Israelis across the country paused for two minutes Monday morning in memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in Europe under Nazi rule as a siren pierced the clear blue sky in an annual marking of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Video from the Times of Israel via William Koenig’s World Watch Daily
Citing recently released UN documents that show the Allies were aware of the scale of the Holocaust in 1942, some two years earlier than previously assumed, Netanyahu said this new research assumed “a terrible significance.”
“If the powers in 1942 had acted against the death camps — and all that was needed was repeated bombing of the camps — had they acted then, they could have saved 4 million Jews and millions of other people.”
“The powers knew, and they did not act,” he told the audience at the national ceremony at Yad Vashem.
In a bleak address, the Israeli prime minister said that the Holocaust was enabled by three factors: the vast hatred of the Jews, global indifference to the horrors, and “the terrible weakness of our people in the Diaspora.”
As we survey the rising tensions, growing anti-Semitism, civil unrest and culture clashes around the world, we can’t help but wonder… is the darkness descending again?
