Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, begins Monday, April 20th at sundown (27 Nisan). On this day we remember those who suffered and died at the hands of a Nazi regime. Remembering alone, however, will not prevent another Holocaust. Remembrance coupled with education, prayer, and action can.
Children in the Ghetto, an interactive website for and about children, teaches about life in the Ghetto during the Holocaust.
READ FRED WERTHEIM’S STORY. After Kristallnacht, four months after his Bar Mitzvah, Fred’s family escaped Hitler’s Germany, and made their way to America. He became an American soldier, and ended up in a Nazi POW camp. Sustained by faith, Fred was eventually liberated by allied forces. He settled in New York, married, and raised a family. Fred faced another crises, however, when his grown son called to say that he accepted Jesus as the Jewish Messiah!
READ SYLA’S STORY As a child, Syla learned to speak German from neighbors. In 1941, when Syla’s village in the former Soviet Union was raided by Nazis, she was able to convince the soldiers that she and her family were German because she knew the language. Through her connection with the soldiers, Syla and her children helped untold numbers of Jewish families escape by warning families targeted by the Nazis.
Guardians of Israel provides basics, like food, medicines and blankets, to Holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Union.
Copyright 2009, Kathryn A. Frazier http://PreciousHolidays.wordpress.com
See also: Never Again! But what if. . . ?
“God Hates Jews!” Christian Antisemitism and Our Response
Pope Apologises for Rehabilitating Holocaust-Denying Bishop
Filed under: Antisemitism, faith, History, Holocaust, Interfaith Relations, Judaism, Messianic Judaism, Persecution, Religion, Shoah
