Why is this Thursday, April 16, marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United States and elsewhere?
The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday. When it falls on a Sunday, Yom Hashoah is observed on the following Monday. ~United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Father Gabriel Haddaf, head of the Christian Empowerment Council states:
Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. As a Christian, a leader of my flock, I remind my people that we live in a world where the Holocaust, the unthinkable, is distorted, cheapened and trivialized. With bitter irony and blazon lies the very enemies of the Jewish people now sinisterly claim that they are the ones undergoing their own Holocaust perpetuated by none other than the Jewish people.
As a Christian, a leader of my flock, I am appalled by a Church which has engaged in a spiritual triumphalism, charging the Jewish people with the murder of Christ – a theology which lead to ignorance to pave the way for the eventual attempted destruction of the Jewish people.
As a Christian, a leader of my flock, I charge my people to remember the Holocaust to remind ourselves what humanity is capable of. We are morally obligated to do this so that the unspeakable and unmatched evil against the Jewish people and humanity the world over, will never happen again.
Benjamin Netanyahu facebook page:
In the years before World War II, the free world tried to appease the Nazi regime, to gain its trust, to curry its favor through gestures.
There were those who warned that a compromising policy would only whet Hitler’s appetite, but these warnings were ignored due to the natural human desire for calm at all costs.
Many around the world claim that the lessons learned then are still valid today.
They affirm: “Never again!”
They declare: “We will not turn a blind eye to the expansion aspirations of a violent tyranny.”
They promise: “We will oppose evil things as soon as they begin.”But as long as these announcements are not backed by practical actions – they are meaningless.
Did the world truly learn a lesson from the inconceivable universal and Jewish tragedy of last century?
I wish I could tell you that the answer to this was positive.
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