Opinion | Term, Symbol - No Statistics | Israel today

It will take a few more years before the memory of the Holocaust, the memory of the six million, is blurred, and perhaps erased to the end.

But according to the biblical interview given by director David Fischer to Haaretz's "Gallery" supplement (13.1), there is a terrible fear that he will be perceived as helping Holocaust deniers.

Tonight, Fischer's documentary will be screened on HOT8, casting doubt on the fact that the number six million is indeed an exact number. It is very possible that Fischer will come to the conclusion in his investigations that not six million Jews perished, but "only" five million and another 50,000. Or "only" 200,000 were murdered. Will a different statistic dwarf in some way the horror of the horrific crime? And I tell David Fisher that any statistic that purports to be accurate, or one that detracts (and perhaps magnifies!) From the conventional count, hit symbolically, will not be remembered or replaced by the "six million." The accepted figure has been assimilated into world discourse since the end of World War II.

This is also the hazard of the doctoral dissertation submitted by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to Moscow University. The chairman of the Palestinian Authority is proud of this "finding", which helps other Holocaust deniers like him. As for the number of Jews who perished, I am reminded of a statement made by the late historian Prof. Yaakov Talmon, who was loved and revered by many of his disciples. But it was Moshe Rabbeinu's brother-in-law, whose name was also Moshe Rabbeinu. "

The common term "six million" was from the beginning a term over which a halo hovers in a status of holiness.

No other figure will replace.

How will we respond if an investigator is found, who after careful investigation will inform us that Pharaoh was not inflicted with ten plagues, as the Passover Haggadah tells us, but only eight plagues?

And perhaps the researcher will reason and say that the climatic conditions in Egypt, in the days of the Pharaonic dynasties, thwarted any possibility of landing ten plagues, but only eight.

If so, should not the "Ten Plagues" be investigated and clarified as well?

According to the contents of the interview with David Fischer, Yehuda Bauer, perhaps the most important of the Holocaust researchers, told him that "this matter, of the number six million, is completely irrelevant, and Fischer's questions are marginal. And what is important is that the Holocaust ".

After tonight's screening of "The Round Number," David Fischer's film, there will be room for anxiety that, as someone who grew up with a couple of Holocaust survivor parents, he will actually provide heavy ammunition to Holocaust deniers.

Whoever wanted to bless - is found cursing, and indirectly also denies.

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