President of the Bundestag in the Knesset: "We will not understand how much we destroyed and murdered"
Barbel Bass said during a "memory in the living room" event at the Knesset that "I always ask myself why such a thing happened. What life stories do you carry."
The event was attended by Knesset Speaker Miki Levy and dozens of high school students from all over the country. Rabbi Lau: "My mother pushed me out of the car and waved goodbye to me."
Yaki Adamkar
27/04/2022
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 21:36 Updated: 22:03
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In the video: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2002 - a snapshot of the survivors (Photo: Reuters, Reuven Castro, Shutterstock, AP, Knesset Channel, etc.)
The president of the German Bundestag, the German legislature Barbel Bass, said tonight (Wednesday) in the Knesset that "it is not perceived, how much we have destroyed and murdered, what life stories you carry. I always ask myself why such a thing happened."
President Bass made the remarks during a "memory in the living room" event at the Knesset, during which former Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau spoke about his experiences during the war.
The event was attended by Knesset Speaker Miki Levy and dozens of high school students from all over the country joined via an online video call.
Rabbi Lau turned to the Knesset Speaker and said that "The dedication you said in the Bundestag, I said about my mother when I was a child."
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"We exist, despite Auschwitz and despite Majdanek."
Bass and Levy (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Knesset Spokeswoman)
The Speaker of the Knesset asked the rabbi what message he was interested in conveying to the young people who participated in the conversation, to which he replied that "one must not forget, and one must not lose faith.
We exist, despite Auschwitz and despite Majdanek.
We returned to Israel after two thousand years of exile and persecution.
What keeps us going is tradition.
The matzah and the bitterness, and the menorah.
The miracles and memories.
It is tradition that has allowed us to return home, and to keep the prophecy of Jeremiah "and bring sons back to their borders."
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