Showing posts with label yom ha'shoah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yom ha'shoah. Show all posts

Apr 14, 2026

IDF Rabanut and Shai Abramson: VNikeiti Damam (video)







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Apr 19, 2023

Picture of the Day



That is the exiled crown Prince of Persia, the eldest son of the last Shah, Reza Pahlavi, with his wife, at the Kotel, wearing an Iranian lapel pin, standing for the minute of silence on Yom Hashoah (not Yom Hashah, haha - maybe I should have titled this Yom Hashah). Pahlavi posted several comments online about his brief trip to Israel, especially about water technology that he would like to learn from Israel about to help his people...




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Apr 18, 2023

Tweet of the Day




Yisrael Diskind, a political media advisor, posted a picture stating "me and my grandfather getting revenge on Hitler...


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PM Benjamin Netanyahu Yom Hashoah speech at Yad Vashem (video)







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Lenny Solomon Live - Yom Hashoah (video)







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Apr 28, 2022

PM Bennett's Holocaust Remembrance speech at Yad Vashem: "We cannot become divided from within”. (video)







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Apr 11, 2021

Headlines Podcast: 4/10/21 – Show 317 – Yom Hashoah - Should we commemorate? (audio)







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Apr 8, 2021

never again: they fought the Nazis, now it is our turn (video)







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official Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem (video)








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Apr 22, 2020

French Jewish Spy Who Survived the Holocaust Celebrates 100th birthday (video)







The 100th birthday of a Holocaust survivor and former French-Jewish spy who went behind Germany enemy lines was feted with an appropriately socially distanced parade of cars. Marthe Cohn sat in her driveway in Los Angeles wearing a face mask and gloves as cars full of people drove by wishing her well, shouting through rolled-down windows and sun roofs. A banner hanging on the garage door behind her read “Happy 100 Birthday Mrs. Cohn.” Neighbors stood in their driveways holding signs bearing well-wishes, too. A letter of congratulations from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was read over a bullhorn and Cohn later received a phone call from both Rivlin and the president of Germany, as well as hundreds of emails. A new documentary, “The Accidental Spy,” tells her story, and Cohn co-wrote a memoir in 2002, “Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany.” Marthe Cohn was born Marthe Hoffnug in Metz, France, on April 13, 1920. She was one of seven children in her Orthodox Jewish family. They lived on the border of France and Germany, so the family aided Jewish refugees on the lam. “There was antisemitism in Metz, but very low-grade,” Marthe recalls. “In September 1939, before the war started, the French government demanded that the people who could afford to do so move to Poitiers [400 miles to the southwest]. My two brothers were in the French army; my oldest brother was on the Maginot Line and my youngest was in Tunisia, where he was doing his service, until 1940, then he was sent back because Jewish kids were not kept in the French army anymore. My oldest brother was taken prisoner on the Maginot Line. He was in a camp in Strasbourg, and he overheard the Germans say that the next day they were going to be transferred to a camp in Germany so he escaped that night and he was able to come home. He joined us in Poitiers in December 1940.” “My sister, Stephanie, and I were helping a lot of people who wanted to escape to unoccupied France. We had the assistance of Noel Degout, a farmer in the small village of Dienne, near Poitiers, who helped thousands of people cross through his property, which was partially in both zones. He never asked for one penny and posthumously received the title of Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem after they read my book.” In June 1942, Stephanie was arrested and sent to Route de Limoges camp, a camp for foreign Jews in occupied France. “We were able to organize her escape from the camp, but she refused to escape because she told me that if she did, we would all be arrested, but the rest of us decided to escape from occupied France,” Marthe says. Stephanie was then transferred to two other French internment camps, and then deported on Yom Kippur 1942 to an unknown destination — later, her family found out she had been sent to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. After Stephanie’s arrest, Marthe and her family escaped occupied France with the help of a city hall employee: “He told me that he could provide us with identity papers without the stamped ‘Jew.’ When I asked him how much it would cost, he started crying and he said, ‘I do not want to be paid. I do this to save you.’ He gave me all the identity cards.” They first went to Arles, to join two of her brothers, then Marthe went on to Marseille to finish her nursing studies. After completing her studies, she went to live with her sister, Cecile, in Paris in September 1943. Paris was liberated in August 1944 — and Marthe immediately tried to join the army. In November 1944, she joined the French Army as a nurse, but was soon transferred to the army’s intelligence service. She was nicknamed Chichinette, for “little pain in the neck.” She tried 13 times to cross the front; on the 14th try, she crossed the border into Germany and took up a cover identity of a German nurse searching for her missing fiancée. She was 24 years old, and 4 foot 11 inches tall. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” Cohn said. “I’m not a liar or an actor, but when your survival depends upon it… I did it for what Germans had done to us.” She spent three weeks in Germany, on the front lines, as the war was winding down. Thanks to her covert mission, Marthe reported two critical pieces of information to the French intelligence: one, northwest of Freiburg, the Siegfried Line had been evacuated and two, the location of where the German army laid in ambush in the Black Forest. In 1945, the French Army awarded Marthe the Croix de Guerre, a French military decoration. Yet, after the war ended, she didn’t talk about what happened. “I always felt that people wouldn’t believe me. They would think it was tall tales,” Marthe said.

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Police in Beitar Ilit salute local Holocaust survivor during Yom Hashoa Siren (video)

Wow!




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Yonina- Mekimi (video)

beautiful rendition

Mekimi, words from Psalms, composed by Yosef Karduner. During holocaust Memorial Day, we sat together and watched the national broadcast .While listening to the haunting stories told by the survivers, concluded with modern pictures of them with their large families here in Israel, we thought of this song- "Mekimi"- from Psalms (to the beautiful tune of Yosef Karduner), translating- You raise me up from the dust...and set me with princes. Today is the first of a few national days in the upcoming month, which mark a journey- from the memory of the holocaust towards the national days celebrating the revival of the Jewish people in our land- yom ha'atzmaut and yom yerushalaim. From darkness to light





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Apr 21, 2020

Rabbi Lau: Learn a lesson from coronavirus - no discrimination (video)







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PM Netanyahu's Speech at Yom HaShoah Ceremony (video)








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El Male Rachamim for Holocaust Victims - Shai Abramson (video)







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May 2, 2019

Quote of the Day

When I work in my current position as Minister of Transportation around Israel to build roads, ports, airports, and train tracks, I know that this is the real victory over what the Nazis tried to do. Each new rail line is the answer to those train lines that transported helpless and hopeless Jews to their deaths..

  -- Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz

Had those train lines broken down as frequently as the new high speed train between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv does, who knows what might be..



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Yom Ha'aztmaut: To Thank and to Praise (video)







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PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem (video)







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Six13 - Gam Ki Elech (video)

On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), our people mourns millions whose lives were ended simply because they were Jews. More than ever, the pain and loss that this memorialization embodies feels tragically relevant, as the unspeakable events in San Diego and Pittsburgh reminded us all too recently that there are still those who seek our senseless destruction. May our melody, our voices and the ancient words of Psalm 23 offer a sliver of comfort to all those who mourn, and a modicum of light into a world that feels so in need of it. This is dedicated to all those we have lost and to all who have lost someone.





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Yonina- Ani Maamin (video)








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