Oh, for the pity of it all.

 

Gebet für das Vaterland – "A Prayer for the Fatherland ".

From Siddur Sephat Emeth, 1938,  the  last siddur ever published in German before the Shoah.  Based on translation by I. M. Gantwerker.

"We raise our hands and our hearts to the one who guides all human destinies. Father of mercies, source of all blessings! You pour peace out on  the turmoil of the ocean waves. In Your hands rest the destinies of all that have a soul. A thousand years in your sight are like yesterday now gone, like the watch in the night (Tehilim 90:4)."

 

“May Your mercy be upon our birth land, the land of Germany (may her grace be lifted), to repair her breaches, and to establish her and dignify her and improve her and strengthen her on a support never to fall. Remove from her land’s pleasant places disease and sword and famine and sorrow, that all her children may rest in peace and quiet, and may no destroyer touch their tents.”

 

“Let violence never be heard within our borders. Banish the war to the ends of the earth, that every person  in their home be established in the peace of their own vine and under the shadow of their own fig tree. Speedily bring salvation to Judah, and may Israel dwell in security. Let the Savior come towards Zion.

 

May this be your will. Thus we say Amen! "

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          THE MAKING OF SCHINDLER'S LIST: 

 https://youtu.be/QbZlsL0AD4o?si=s8CmF4CMMsJwCbeL

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 Question: What is your obligation in terms of commemorating the Shoah?  Answer:  you have the obligation to meet any remaining survivors that you can, because in your lifetime they will not only disappear, but those who claim the Shoah never happened will increase in number and power. It will be your job to fight those who deny the Holocaust happened as best you can.

 

“We teach American high school students how the Greeks thought,  how the Romans fought, and how the Jews died.”

—Dr. Gary Porton

 

“The Chicagoland Jewish community  spent a total of $45 million to build a Holocaust museum in Skokie. Completed in 2009,  the Illinois Holocaust Museum has many plaques with donors’ names,  a board to direct it, parking lots for school buses, online admission tickets, and even a book shop.  Adults and children of all backgrounds can go to Skokie and learn very well how Jews died in the camps, and this lesson is one that must be taught.  But how we lived as Jews—and how we continue to live as Jews— of these a Jew will learn little at such a museum,  where it is as if the Jewish people came into existence in Europe only to perish at the hands of the Nazis, vanishing as quickly from history as they appeared.”

--Dov Berger, Spertus College