Holocaust Seminar – What made me want to go to Poland.

The world should keep in remembrance, not forgetting what could not be allowed any more in the future.
It should be part of the curriculum that youngsters go to visit one of the camps or a holocaust-museum.

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In the article:

1. The Holocaust seminar really an important experience
2. To see it in a completely different light than ever before
3. An intense experience  and preparing mentally and emotionally for what was to come
4. Holocaust survivor by the name of Marta Weiss (born October 8, 1934) gave testimony
5. Casual conversations about planned attacks on Jewish ghettos and warning people of these attacks.
6. Saved by a bunch of planes flying over the camp, and Nazis didn’t want the planes to see the smoke
7. Marta and Eva kept in Mengele’s medical experiments block with twins and dwarfs
8. Misleading the Red Cross
9. Marta and Eva miraculously survived through the liberation
10. (Marta is the 7th child from the left)
11.  (Marta is third adult from the left)
12. Replica of a train car that took people to the concentration camps.
13. The tree that Schindler had planted at Yad Vashem.
    

     

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Please do find also to read:

1. Yad Vashem: Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future
2. Anti-Semitism ‘on the rise’ in Europe
3. Governments need to be more proactive to ensure racism is kept in check
4. Holocaust remembrance statue not desired
5. Zionism comments and the place of Jerusalem in the world
6. Palestine, Israel, God’s people and democracy
7. Uncovering the Foundations of Faith
8. Two State Solution
9. Presentation: Crisis in the Middle East – Bible Expectations
10. Patriarch Abraham, Muslims, Christians and the son of God
11. Are the Jews really God’s Chosen People
12. Apple of Gods eye
13. The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
14. A Holy week in remembrance of the Blood of life
15. High Holidays not only for Israel
16. Hanukkahgiving or Thanksgivvukah
17. Stand Up
18. American atheists most religiously literate Americans
19. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews

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You may also find the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem:

Yad Vashem World Centre for Holocaust Remembrance

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  The new holocaust is not standing with Israel, withholding the Good News from them and not being available to the God of Israel.

  …We owe Jewish people a debt. When are we going to repay it. We need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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  In the movie scene, where Gotfried is shot by Amon Goeth, Spielberg deviated from the real life story in order to make a point that is essential to the theme of the movie: Oskar Schindler was an exception. For the most part, the Nazis were depraved degenerates who were incapable of changing their ways. In a key scene in Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler attempts to teach Goeth that he would have “real power” if he would choose to pardon prisoners for minor infractions instead of summarily executing them. Goeth tries this suggestion, and even practices his pardon demeanor in a mirror, but he cannot overcome his intrinsic evilness. He pardons his 14-year-old groom when his work performance does not meet his standards, but then shoots him in the back with his high-powered rifle.

• Schindler’s List (h16m.wordpress.com)
  Schindler moved to Argentina to try and raise chickens but this didn’t work out well for him, resulting in he and his wife moving back to Germany where he suffered a heart attack. Schindler died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, a very high honor. He was considered Righteous Among the Nations for the courage that it took to defy a party he was dedicated to and to save thousands of lives, even though he always felt like he didn’t do enough. Although the novel is considered fiction, the people in it are real. The movie adaptation is based on entirely factual events and the actors are playing people, or characters based on multiple people.
• Family of first Arab Righteous Among the Nations rejects Israeli recognition (haaretz.com)
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BEN ZANDER'S GAP YEAR BLOG

The Holocaust seminar was really an important experience for me. I know about the Holocaust and I’ve been to Yad Vashem before, but this time it was different. Maybe it was the fact that I’m living in Israel that made it more meaningful. Perhaps it was the fact that I am 18 now, and I’m much more mature and can understand it better than before. Was it because two full days were devoted to focusing on the bigger picture instead of learning about it for a few hours and then moving on with my day? I don’t know. But what I do know is that I am seeing it in a completely different light than ever before.  In fact, it was the events that took place over the course of these two days that brought me to making a very meaningful decision – Signing up on the Year Course trip…

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