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Exciting: On the 80th anniversary of the "Vanza Conference", a special ceremony was held at the Holocaust Museum in Paris, with the participation of Holocaust survivors, religious leaders and representatives of Jewish organizations.

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Aryeh Zamir, in collaboration with Shuva Israel

23/01/2022

Sunday, 23 January 2022, 11:42 Updated: 11:48

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In the video: 80 years of the Vanza conference at the Holocaust Museum in Paris (courtesy of KTO)

"Throughout the ages there were signs before they came to destroy us; the destruction that took place on Tisha B'Av began with the siege imposed on Jerusalem on the 17th of Tammuz and thus throughout history the world has seen manifestations of hatred and hatred before the miner rose and remained silent.

The whole world has a responsibility to be vigilant and fight any manifestation of anti-Semitism with determination immediately without hesitation, "said the Vice President of the European Rabbinical Conference and Rabbi of France Rabbi Chaim Corsia at a special ceremony held at the Holocaust Memorial in Paris on the 80th anniversary of the Vanza Conference. The Third Reich decided on the "Final Solution".

Holocaust Museum in Paris: 80 years of the Vanza Conference (Photo: Alan Azaria)

Holocaust Museum in Paris: 80 years of the Vanza Conference (Photo: Alan Azaria)

The ceremony was attended by Holocaust survivors, the president of the Consistory in France, Eli Corsia, and religious leaders, representatives of Jewish organizations, and about a hundred twelfth-grade students from the schools; The students lit memorial candles around the perpetual flame of fire and the military cantor of Strasbourg and the Rhine region.

Archbishop Conference President Mullah Bufar said at the ceremony that "Catholics have a heavy responsibility to fight anti-Semitism with great determination - our shame and sorrow for Catholics has a long 2,000-year tradition against Jews and the responsibility obliges us to act in every manifestation of anti-Semitism and eradicate it."

Protestant Federation President Francois Cloroli said that "we must focus our work mainly on young people who will show maximum vigilance and immediately cut off any antisemitic activity they encounter."

Vice President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Special Assistant to the Rabbi of France and Rabbi of the French Gendarmerie Rabbi Moshe Levin, one of the organizers of the ceremony, said that this special event takes place for the first time in the presence of religious leaders. In anti-Semitism.

Rabbi Levin expressed his gratitude to all the organizations that helped produce the rare event, including the Vice President of the Jewish Congress in Russia, Mr. Gabriel German Zakhareev, initiates the idea of ​​"Liberation and Rescue Day" The Nazis.

Holocaust Museum in Paris: 80 years of the Vanza Conference (Photo: Alan Azaria)

Holocaust Museum in Paris: 80 years of the Vanza Conference (Photo: Alan Azaria)

Auschwitz survivor Esther Snow moved those present when she said that all her life and especially in this ceremony she feels obligated to keep the will of her sister Fanny who was murdered along with her two brothers and parents in the Auschwitz death camp in Birkenau.

"She told me before she was led to the kilns - 'Esther swear to me that you will do anything to tell the whole world what happened here' - and here I stand before you, telling the bloody story of my family and people and asking to remind the whole world where hatred can go."

Dr. German Zakhareev said that on this day it is important for us to internalize that the terrible Holocaust left the Jewish people bruised and angry and untrained towards the whole world, which remained silent.

This event is consistent with the overarching goal of the "Day of Release and Rescue" foundation.

In a world where faith reigns, there is room for all of God's creatures. Yes our activity is to reshape the world collective memory, in praying for the future and acknowledging salvation. Nazi and paid for it with their lives.to drain the bitter sediment and the freezing and paralyzing memory, to a channel of faith and reconciliation - because there is one leader to the world who does everything.We will focus the human lens on distinguishing between good and evil, not "Nazis" but "Nazism". We must loathe the evil ideologies that caused what happened.The message is not to deal with the dark past but with a future that can illuminate.

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