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| Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 | ||
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| Topic Started: 23rd January 2016 - 08:07 PM (427 Views) | ||
| DaveIronside | 23rd January 2016 - 08:07 PM Post #1 | |
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Bendix Landau (1880-1939)
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27th January is International Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year either as a teacher or now in the military I've done something to remember it and this year Yad Veshem in Israel is encouraging everyone to take part in an event. Yad Veshem is a memorial, museum and edcuation centre all in one and I was privileged to spend two days there last year. The name Yad Veshem comes from a verse in the Torah "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a "yad vashem")... that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5) As a result Yad Veshem have tried to create a memorial to all effected by the Holocaust and have a collection of all victims names. As a result they are asking this year that for the day everyone wear a badge stating the name of a victim of the Holocaust. I'm currently putting together a list of 600 names for people on our base to wear if they choose, theoretically we can all wear a different name. I'm doing it on Google Docs so once I've done I'm going to post the link here. I just thought it would be nice on that day if everyone picks a name and wears it. I'd be interested to see how it goes. |
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| Sparta | 23rd January 2016 - 08:11 PM Post #2 | |
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I'll change my member title to one of the names |
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| DaveIronside | 23rd January 2016 - 08:20 PM Post #3 | |
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Bendix Landau (1880-1939)
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That'd be a cool thing. I hadn't thought of that | |
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| Luvonia | 24th January 2016 - 01:12 AM Post #4 | |
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+ Burn the Heretic. Kill the Mutant. Purge the Unclean. +
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I'll do the same as Sparta | |
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| CGJ | 24th January 2016 - 10:12 AM Post #5 | |
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From an admin perspective, please do not try to change your actual username. I'd recommend instead using the 'Member Title' badge instead. Otherwise...this looks like a great idea!
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| DaveIronside | 26th January 2016 - 09:42 PM Post #6 | |
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Bendix Landau (1880-1939)
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vnnu5sDuW7CPnLG9dIypbSr0DKpFatM6Ln83yvQg_tM/edit#gid=0 - This has the link to the database of some 300 (Thankfully didn't need 600) names of victims I put together using the Yad Veshem database. For each person I have a name, place of birth and date, the date of death (as much as we can know) and the location where they died. For many I have also been able to give a little more information. Tomorrow at flag parade I have been asked to give a little speech about the day and it's meaning. For anyone interested this is what I will be reading. "On 17 August 1938 the Nazi government of Germany decreed that all Jewish men and women bearing what they deemed to be non-Jewish first names had to change them by the new year, hence forth the men would bear the name Israel while the women the name Sarah. While this was not the first anti-Semitic action against the Jews of Germany it was a major step in taking away the identity of the Jews, this process saw them completely dehumanised, considered little more than "vermin" by the Nazi's and their supporters across Europe. In the end many Jews of Europe found themselves in a series of camps stretched across Europe with their names completely gone, replaced by numbers, soon after their very lives were taken from them. The Torah and Old Testiment says in Isaiah 56 ""I will give them in My house and in My walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters; an everlasting name I will give him, which will not be discontinued." Today we have that opportunity to provide those victims of Nazism with that everlasting name and in doing say pay our respects to those who suffered at the hands of the Nazi's and their supporters. Each of us will today carry with us the name of one victim of the six million Jews who died during the Holocaust, we should also remember that those belonging to other groups such as the Roma, Sinti, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and many others deemed either a threat or inferior by a fascist regime lost their lives. By carrying this name we keep their memory alive as not as a number, not as one of six million, but as an individual who had their own unique life and story. Today I will be carrying the name of Bendix Landau, a World War One veteran who fought for his beloved Germany. He was wounded during an action that earned him the Iron Cross for bravery, this however did little to earn him the right to call himself German under the Nazi's. In 1938 he and his wife Eleanor were transported to Theresnstadt Concentration Camp. There Eleanor died after two weeks due to Typhus, sometime in early 1939 Bendix contracted TB and died at the age of 59. I ask that we all bow our heads and take a minute to remember the men, women and children that we carry with us today in the knowledge that it is our duty to make sure such events never happen again." |
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| Sparta | 27th January 2016 - 03:42 AM Post #7 | |
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It's great that so many are participating.
Edited by Sparta, 27th January 2016 - 03:43 AM.
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| Yolotan | 27th January 2016 - 05:07 PM Post #8 | |
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I will change my member titel to a national hero of my country: Anne Frank
Edited by Yolotan, 27th January 2016 - 05:07 PM.
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| Gadshack | 3rd April 2016 - 05:34 PM Post #9 | |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4d67or/iama_holocaust_survivor_who_just_turned_92_i_have/ this is new and interesting | |
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| Astetoth | 4th April 2016 - 06:12 PM Post #10 | |
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Interesting point as one of the resident Jews. Yad Vashem literally means 'a hand and a name' most translations provide an equivalent that makes more sense to a non-Hebrew speaker, but basically what the verse says is that HaShem has given us strength (a hand) and glory (a name) in spite of our persecution and degradation at the hands of others. So naturally a very fitting name for our most important Holocaust memorial and research centre. |
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