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Holocaust survivor notes buried at Western Wall "Thank God you helped me get out of hell" | Israel today

2021-10-24T09:11:36.512Z


During the Corona period, surviving notes were collected from Florida residents, some of whom had never visited Israel. • Norman, one of the seniors, wished in a note that he wrote: The hope


When they were 90 years old and older, their dream came true:

77 years after surviving the Holocaust concentration and inferno camps, this week, for the first time in their lives, notes of dozens of Holocaust survivors from the United States were buried at the Western Wall, with the assistance of the Israel Department

World Zionist Organization.

At a special event of the department in collaboration with the organization "Holocaust heroes worldwide", the notes were buried at the Western Wall, while the survivors themselves watch the ceremony using the zoom.

The notes were collected during the Corona period over the past year and a half from Holocaust survivors living in Florida.

Most of the survivors never came to visit Israel.

Others will no longer be able to come to visit because of the corona or because of their advanced age.

The survivors said that burying the notes in the Western Wall, a remnant of the Jewish Temple, was for them a dream come true and a turning point in their lives.

Elderly people watch Zoom at the ceremony, Photo: The Zionist Council of Israel

Sally Dauman, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor from Miami, opened what she wrote in her note in the chilling words "Thank God you helped me get out of hell alive, thank you for the health you give me."

A note written by Norman, who also survived the Holocaust, reads: "I hope that the memory of the Holocaust will remain a memory of life long after we are no longer here. May there be world peace and peace for the Jewish people and future generations will remember to open their eyes and watch what happens. Again to no one and no people. "

Hundreds of notes were buried at the Western Wall, Photo: The Zionist Council of Israel

The burying event took place in the presence of Tova Dorfman, Deputy Chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Head of the Department for Israel and Holocaust Remembrance in Israel and the Diaspora, and Sarit Hendenkopf, Director General of the Israel and Holocaust Remembrance Department in Israel and the Diaspora.

The event was moderated by Moran Alfasi, founder and head of the Holocaust Heroes worldwide organization.

The event was broadcast on Zoom and was watched by excited Holocaust survivors from their homes, and at the end it spontaneously stood and sang the Israeli national anthem together.

The notes on the way to the Western Wall, Photo: The Zionist Council of Israel

"We are happy for the privilege of allowing Holocaust survivors living in the Diaspora to deliver requests and prayers to the Western Wall and get excited along with them," noted Tova Dormpan.

"At the beginning of next year, we will mark 80 years since the Nazis' decision on the 'final solution' to the extermination of the Jewish people, and when the last Holocaust survivors living among us get to pray near or far in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish state, it is a message of victory."

Source: israelhayom

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