Word: vashem
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...Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People." The high point occurred at Yad Vashem, the memorial for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. There, British Baptist Minister David Pawson preached fervently on Christian identification with Jews...
...search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other stains on history's map. That was some 40 years ago, but to look at the survivors now, wandering and embracing in the open space of the memorial Yad vaShem, the Holocaust could have happened yesterday. Thus inadvertently the point is made: Israel has already witnessed the end of the world. When it attacks an incubative Holocaust, it does so because it has seen a future that has worked too well. Now its clarity forces clarity on everyone else: Shall...
...meeting opened on a note of scarcely tolerable grief as the participants huddled in the vast plaza of Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem documentation center dedicated to Holocaust victims. In tears, they watched a sound-and-light show of the German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
Portions of the memoir will be contained in an updated Hebrew edition of Hausner's 1966 book on the trial, Justice in Jerusalem, which will be published in Israel this March. Hausner, who is now chairman of the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire manuscript should not be published on the grounds that it is rambling, repetitive and stuffed with what he calls the typical Nazi "jargon of violence." Besides, adds Israel's former Attorney General, "I felt that Eichmann had ample opportunity to make his defense during the trial...