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Holocaust Memorial Day 2010 – Yom HaShoah – יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers
From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam,
And because we are only made of fabric and leather
And not of blood and flesh,
Each one of us avoided the hellfire
– Moshe Szulsztein, Yiddish Poet
Never, ever forget.
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BBC Reports Peres’ Holocaust Memorial Day Visit as Traffic Hassle
Stay classy. Symbolic address as Israel’s President speaks in Berlin today. But the BBC thinks it little more than an inconvenience:
It is a sign of the times that when the Israeli president makes a state visit these days, unprecedented security measures are put in place.
So ever since Shimon Peres arrived in the German capital on Monday, Berliners have had to put up with road closures and traffic jams in the centre of the city – these road-blocks will be in place until Thursday.
Berlin’s Taggespiegel daily newspaper said Shimon Peres “was the most endangered political leader in the world after the US president”. Read the rest of this entry »
