Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Olivier Melnick, a Jewish believer in Jesus, commemorates this day set aside to remember victims of the Holocaust. He is the author of "End-Times Anti-Semitism: The Latest Chapter in the Longest Hatred."

"Wednesday, April 27, at sundown marked the beginning of Yom HaShoah, which lasts through Thursday, April 28, until sundown. Yom HaShoah is the day Israel and the world commemorates the Holocaust and remembers its victims.

In 1951, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion established this day as a yearly memorial in Israel for the Six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Eight years after the close of World War II, Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day became an official national memorial day. Since then, every year all over the world, Jewish people remember the Shoah, or "Catastrophe," as they perpetuate the memory of their lost loved ones. In Israel, on that day, two minutes of silent reflection are observed at 10 a.m., as a siren is heard all over the country. It isn't unusual for motorists to stop in the middle of the road and get out of their cars to observe that solemn moment. The observance became law when the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, v**ed on it in 1959.

In 2022, more than ever, it is critical to reflect on what Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, U.S. Five-Star Gen. Dwight Eisenhower decided to do when he first visited the concentration camps. General Eisenhower caught the importance of documenting and remembering the Holocaust the minute that he walked inside the camps.

Buchenwald (German; literally 'beechforest ') was a N**i concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill, a wooded hill about 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps built upon Germany soil, within their 1937 borders. Prisoners were brought there from all over Europe and the Soviet Union.

As he visited one of the sub-camps of Buchenwald with Gens. Bradley and Patton, General Eisenhower started to realize the magnitude of what he was witnessing and immediately wrote a letter to the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George Marshall:

"… The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. … I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'"

And yet, despite the prescient efforts made by the then future 34th U.S. President, General Eisenhower, as well as many others, the Holocaust today is under siege by many who fanatically deny that it occurred, and it runs the risk of being forcefully relegated into some obscure corner of history. Far worse, even today, ignoring all evidence, there are those who are so blinded by hatred, they have deliberately chosen to believe that it simply did not happen.

There are several things we shouldn't do on such an important historical memorial day as Yom HaShoah.

Do not misappropriate the Holocaust: For some very morbid reason, there are people around the globe who distort the Holocaust by using its symbols inappropriately. The yellow star of David identity patch which the N**is forced Jews to wear during World War II has been misused in many ways over the years, but in 2020-22, is being used in the context of C***D as a horrific yellow star with the words C***DCAUST in it. This is a case of cultural appropriation done in very bad taste.

Do not use double standards: Nobody is denying that the Cambodian genocide of 3,000.000 (1975-1979), the Armenian genocide of 1,500.000 (1916-1922), or that the Rwandan genocide of 650,000 (1994) took place, and have a legitimate claim to history. Yet, for some unexplained reason, many pseudo-historians feel compelled to spend their time and resources attempting to prove that the Holocaust never happened. Why would people be so focused on one single ethnic cleansing and never question the others? Is it possible that since the Holocaust targeted Jewish people, and anti-Semitism is alive, well, and rapidly expanding today, the t***h of the Holocaust is suffering at the hands of historical revisionists in order to promote their xenophobic agenda of hatred?

Do not minimize the Holocaust: Historically speaking, the Shoah is a unique genocide for a horrid reason. It is the only attempt at annihilating a people group – the Jews – by even going outside of the area where they resided to gather them and bring them back to their preplanned death. It was an orchestrated, organized attempt at the total destruction of European Jewry. With all other genocides, as brutal as they might have been, there was always a way for potential victims to escape and/or immigrate. This was minimally ever the case for any avenue of escape for the Jews during the Holocaust years.

Some claim that the Holocaust never happened; some claim that it was greatly exaggerated; some claim that it was used as Jewish propaganda; and some think that it is overly discussed. The frightening t***h is that according to a recent survey by the ADL, one-third of the world's population believes that the Holocaust is a myth … one-third! With the remnant of survivors dwindling to a handful of nonagenarians (90 years old and older), it is a dire situation for the accurate historical preservation of the Jewish Catastrophe, unless people of good will speak out to preserve the t***h.

This year, on Yom HaShoah, wherever you are in the world, won't you take two minutes in your day at 10 a.m., and spend it in prayer for the Jewish people?

Pray that history will not be revised.
Pray the remaining survivors would have opportunities to tell their stories to their communities.
Pray that Holocaust deniers would be silenced or have a miraculous change of heart.
Pray that the Jewish people would find their Messiah in the person of Yeshua/Jesus of Nazareth.

In memory of my Grandfather Maurice Weinzveig, born Dec. 4, 1898, Olikka, Russia, who perished in Auschwitz.

One in 6 million.

NEVER AGAIN!"

Liberty Tree

Thanks for posting this. Everyone should visit a holocaust museum to learn the true story of what happened.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

“And all Israel will be saved”!
Romans 11:26
and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written: “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”

Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle

If the Jews were obedient to God, they'd have never settled in Germany. They would have been in an Isreal that was never delivered to the Romans, or any others.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

You're right. More than any other method of learning, seeing is still believing.

In the last twenty years, hatred of the Jewish people, and of Israel has visibly increased across the world, even in the United States, to a veritable crescendo.

The source of much of the hatred toward Jews is straight from the beliefs of the Muslim faith in the Middle East, taught by the pages of the Qur'an which teach that all Jews must be k**led.

Those of other beliefs outside Islam are without excuse. Much seems to be jealousy... of Jewish wealthy people, of those Jewish people who are perceived to have power and influence, whether real or imagined, and of Jewish business owners.

For this pettiness, there are those who deny history, and even attempt to erase all knowledge of the t***h, attributing Jewish success to wild conspiracy theories, instead of the years of study and hard work, as the actual reason they succeed.

Visiting Yad Vashem, located in Jerusalem on the Mount of Remembrance, which houses several museums, memorials, and monuments to honor those who perished in the Holocaust, and seeing the childrens' art - primitive drawings by young children before their deaths in the German and Polish Concentration Camps, found by liberating soldiers, was to me a testimony to the beauty God has placed within the souls of children, regardless of their circumstances.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

A fascinating point...

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

I agree, but I don't know if I could stomach the depravity inflicted on the Jewish people without becoming sick.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Well, Sonny, Israel was God's teaching video to the world of man's inability, no matter how many self-imposed rules they subjected themselves to, to ever please Him without a "Savior."

"Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before." (Isaiah 47:14)

God has, however, after allowing the Israelis for 1,900 years to be "wandering Jews," returned their land to them, and in fulfillment of all Biblical prophecy, is now returning them to their land.

IF we in the United States were capable of being obedient to God, we would not now be in the process of being replaced in our own land, after being turned over to governing authorities with a reprobate mind who have seen fit to open wide our national borders to invading armies who are, according to empirical evidence, about 80% (percent) composed of "refugees" - military age young men, able bodied males under the age of 35.

Nor would we, IF we were capable of being obedient to God, consistently elect those of a reprobate mind to the Senate who confirm to the U.S. Supreme Court, godless d*****t Jurists who after first decreeing death to God's gift of the fruit of our own womb, applaud, praise and enable evil rulings in favor of those who have given a thumbs down to God and to lovers of God, and to lovers of the Family structure of male and female - God's nucleus foundation for any society, culture, or country in the world.

As an analogy, consider this… what does a drowning person need?
Do they need a coach? Someone who can explains to them the most efficient way to tread water so they can hang on as long as possible.
Do they need a motivational speaker? Someone who can spur them on and encourage them to just keep kicking no matter how tired they get.
Do they need an adviser? Someone who can analyze their problem and suggest possible ways to improve the situation, maybe use the eggbeater instead of the scissor kick.

Or does a drowning person simply need a savior? A lifeguard… who can save them from a situation in which they can not save themselves?

If we change the context to considering life in general, the Bible informs us that we are each in a desperate situation.
We are in deep waters, a thousand miles off shore and our strength is rapidly failing. We are drowning in sin and the effects of sin upon our lives.
No matter how hard we try to do good, be good and experience good, we are a broken people trapped in a broken world and the conscience with which we are each born lets us know this.
No matter how hard we try to save ourselves we always come up short, and we always will.

There was a time when those who reside in the United States understood this.

We need a Savior! A lifeguard who can save us from a situation from which we can not save ourselves.

God’s solution for Israel and for our own problem was to send a Savior.

Israel failed to recognize their Savior when He first appeared, but they are now eligible for the same Salvation we are.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Well, then, my dear, there are events now coming rapidly upon this earth, from which you may well "swoon."

My advice to you, regardless of your g****r, is to "man up," to look up, and to pray to the One true God, although you've never met Him.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

God dispersed the Jews. First the 10 tribes and twice the rest. Romans finished the dispersal in AD 70, and they were all over the world since then.
1948 was the resurrection of the nation Israel and Germany was no different than any other country. It’s the remnant that God has always, and will always, protect.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

...and all God's people said "Amen and Amen!"

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

God stands outside of time, seeing the end from the beginning and calling those things that are not [yet], as though they exist. He knew Israel could not/would not perfectly obey the laws he gave then, because of mankind's self-will, and that they had no prayer of fulfilling the plethora of man-made laws their power hungry "Religious" leaders imposed on the common/ordinary [normal] citizenry.

Isaiah 46:9-10
"Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me.
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come.
I say, "My purpose will stand, my plan will take place, I will do all my will."

From the very first Word He spoke to humanity in Genesis 1:3, when 'He said, " let there be light," and there was light, and God saw the light that it was good'....

God saw the light before He spoke it into being; Nine times in the creation, God demonstrated this as He created everything that is found in Genesis, chapter 1.

No one and nothing can surprise God.

Red cloud Loc: Turtle Island

currahee506

Thanks for the Post.

We must also remember the 8 million others, including Christians whom Himmler had k**led, along with the 70 million attributed to the c*******t regimes of the Jewish-born Lenin and Chinese-born Mao Tse Sung.

The Psuedo-c*******t philosopher Karl Marx, grandson of a long line of Rabbis, through the writing of Engles, the deadweight "wrastral" of a middle-class industrialist, gave a bunch of lazy middle-class children, sons and daughters of elitist of universities in London and New York a philosophy of hell to unleash upon hard-working middle-class societies.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

The Righteous Gentiles who perished in Europe while assisting the Jewish people are included in Israel's Day of Remembrance/Yom HaShoah.

I am sure that all the "middle-class children, sons and daughters of elitist" as you stereotype them, are not all lazy. Everyone is an individual, some more motivated than others, some more ambitious than others, and some more aggressive than others.

If there are annual days of commemoration for those k**led by Mao Zedong, or by Joseph Stalin, or specifically for the Christians k**led by Hitler, I have never seen them.

There are 365 days on every years calendar, and no reason they would all be honored on the same day of the year.

I assume you have knowledge of such commemoration/anniversary/memorial dates, for these other events, since it appears to be of great importance to you, and I am sure you have and will post a notice of them on the appropriate dates.

Mao Zedong is the world's numerically greatest mass murderer. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 60 million people in China. I have never seen a day of commemoration for that event listed on any calendar, nor is there any response to an online query.

N**ism within Germany existed for 12 years, whereas C*******m and the USSR existed almost 69 years, and had a much larger population.

Soviet (USSR) dictator Joseph Stalin, k**led more innocent people than did Hitler, many of them as part of a terror famine. He is responsible for the deaths of forty million of his own people.

The German N**i body count of non-battle deaths caused by Hitler's N**i Germany between 1933 and 1945 is over thirty million. This included genocide, execution of civilians and POWs, forced labor that resulted in deaths, the bombing of civilian populations, imposed famine and resulting diseases, and the forced "euthanasia" of Germany's elderly and handicapped, the "useless eaters," as Hitler called them.