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Wednesday 29 January 2020

Remembering the Shoah for a better future

ORANJESTAD — The Beth of Auschwitz – Birkenau: "... world was gone. And I was
Israel Synagogue in Oran- The field guard who came also about to disappear,
jestad will dedicate the to open the gate said: so no… I didn't feel sorry to
Kabbalat Shabbat of Fri- You are free, and you can feel that I was destined to
day, January 31st, 2020 to leave. All the guards disap- die. I felt sorry for their be-
the remembrance of the peared with the dogs that ing late, not for me, too
liberation of the Extermi- were always standing in bad for being late to save
nation Camps. Everyone is the corner - everything dis- the world. "
welcome to join at 7.30pm appeared as if it had never "I think the grief was never
at the synagogue. existed. That was one of so great that this holiday ..."
the miracles! The Russians - Miriam Akavia - Survivor.q
On Monday 27 of January came in - and we were in a
2020, the whole world but state that nobody moved,
especially Jewish commu- nobody left. A soldier was
nities around the world take very happy because it was
a moment to remember the first camp in which he
the Holocaust.On this Holo- found people still alive.
caust Memorial Day, every- He began to cry, and we
one is to recall the millions didn't. He cried and we
of people murdered during didn't ... " - Bela Braver –
the Second World War, un- Survivor
der Nazi persecution. This
year we will mark the 75th "... I thought I should be
anniversary of the libera- happy, I felt the tears, but I
tion of the Extermination knew I had to rejoice. I start-
Camps and our communi- ed to cry, I thought: What
ty. Together we can make did I have left? And the first
sure that such atrocity will thought that went through
never happen again. my mind was: what a pity,
that they arrived too late,
Some testimonies everyone was destroyed,
75 years of the liberation everything worthy in the