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Ethics of the Fathers, opening paragraph!

Intro to Pirkei Avot/Ethics of the Fathers. What is Oral Law and the Mishnah?

These Holocaust survivors lost nearly everyone they loved—just because they were Jewish. It's not a conspiracy. There is no debate. Reply with a candle to show you will remember. 🕯️

THE JEW'S HOLOCAUST;He was offered his life, his freedom, and a way out, but he chose to walk into the fire because he couldn't bear the thought of a child being afraid in the dark alone. They went to their deaths not as prisoners, but as a family, following the only man who ever told them they were loved. Janusz Korczak, the famous Polish-Jewish doctor, author, and director of a large orphanage in Warsaw, dedicated his life to fighting for children's rights. When the Nazis invaded Poland, he moved his 200 orphans into the cramped, starving Warsaw Ghetto. On August 5, 1942, as the orphanage faced "liquidation" and the children were to be sent to Treblinka, Korczak was offered a "Sanctuary" pass by Nazi authorities, which he tore to pieces, refusing to abandon his children. He led them on a "trip to the countryside," dressed in their cleanest clothes, holding two of the youngest children's hands as they marched through the ghetto toward the trains. Even at the station, a German officer's attempt to pull him from the line was met with a simple shake of his head before he stepped into the airless cattle car with his children. He stayed with them until the very end, comforting them in the darkness of the gas chambers, telling them stories until the air ran out, choosing to die as a father to the fatherless. This image captures the "Final Walk of the Just"—a poignant testament to human goodness, a story that breaks the heart but heals the soul, proving that the light of one man’s love can outshine the darkness of a thousand cannons. Today, against the Jew, the same annihilation is crafted every other day. THE ISLAMIC WORLD, LEFTIST REGIMES AND REST OF THE DEMONISED BEINGS HAVE CONNIVED AGAINST ISRAEL. IT'LL NOT HAPPEN!

U.S. soldiers look at bodies stuffed into an oven in a crematorium in April of 1945. Never forget🕯️

I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. My grandmother, Rifka, was married with four children when the Nazis murdered her husband. Alone with children to raise, her young son Avrumi, 12 years old, took her shift working so that she could prepare for Passover with her other children, sister and sister’s children. When shouts of “Yudenrein!” “Jew round up” rang through the streets, Rifka took the children to the empty space below the floor boards to hide. As she was closing the hatch, Avrumi ran into the house. “Come! Come!,” she called frantically. “I can’t,” he said. “The Germans saw me, if I don't come out, they will know there is a hiding place. I just came to say goodbye.” When the Nazis barged in, Rifka listened through the floorboards as her son told them he had run into the house in a random search for food. She would never see him again. Two more of her children as well as her sister, nieces and nephews were killed in subsequent round ups. Her brother had been killed earlier in the war. Rifka was left with one son, Shlomo. 14 years old. They worked and hid in farms, in hay stacks and behind false doors. Exposed in the fields one day, they ran together, chased like animals by the Nazi’s. Shlomo told his mother, “If you don't let go of my hand, we will both die.” He let go. Shlomo went one way, Rifka went the other. The Nazis shot him in the back. With no husband or children to live for, Rifka joined the Partisans in the woods. After the war, she lay sick in bed with no will to live. Shlomo, meanwhile, had survived the gunshot. After the war as he searched for family, he heard a woman singing a familiar song. “Where did you hear that song?” he asked her. She told him a woman who lay dying had been humming it. “Is she still alive? Please, bring me to her.” And so Shlomo was reunited with his mother. In a displaced persons camp in Germany, Rifka married a man named Zalman whom she had met in the partisans. Zalman had lost his wife and three children to the Nazis but had one surviving son, Al. Together, Rifka and Zalman had two more children. Shep, born in the DP camp and Fayge (my mother) born in Bolivia where they moved after being sponsored by cousins. Zalman fell ill and the family moved to NY for treatment. Unfortunately he died when my mother was 2.5 years old. Left alone with children to raise, Rifka bought a farm in NJ. Back then, being a single parent meant your children could be taken from you. She needed a husband fast. A man named Berche, also a survivor, whose wife and two children were murdered, remarried after the war and had a daughter. His second wife, Dubye, died on the boat to America. A widower with a daughter to raise, he needed a wife to keep his daughter from a state run orphanage. Someone introduced Berche to Rifka and they married. I was raised with their memories. Their tears and their fears. There was no Sabbath when my grandfather didn’t cry, no day my grandmother didn’t stare silently into a past I could not accompany her to. Each spoke 4- 5 languages. Each had rebuilt their lives over and over again...But despite their pain, they were full of love. Their pride in their families, their belief in goodness...I cannot imagine the depth of their loss and how much strength it took to simply continue breathing. Believing. Hoping. And loving. I grew up with a family of half, whole and step siblings. A grandfather with whom I shared no blood but with whom I shared a heart. Cousins who drove me nuts but drove hours to see me. Aunts who were crazy and who I was crazy about. Uncles who slobbered me with kisses and showered me with love. I grew up in a family that understood love and loss, the value of sacrifice and the vital importance of loyalty. I love them all for who they are and who they are to me. They are all part of the story and part of who I am. #YomHashoa

When most people envision the Holocaust, they picture death camps. Cattle cars. Selection lines. At least 1.5 million Jews never saw a camp. They were marched to the forests at the outskirts of their own towns, ordered to undress, and shot at point-blank range into lime pits. There were no survivors to testify. No memorials. Just a mass grave in the tree line that their neighbors blithely walked past for over eighty years. That is what happened to my family. I grew up believing we were "lucky." I was named after my great-grandmother, Lily, a survivor of Lithuanian pogroms who fled to South Africa decades before the Shoah. I was under the impression that the rest of my family followed suit, save for a few distant cousins who remained unaccounted for. This Yom HaShoah, I finally know the truth. With the help of @yadvashem's digital archives, I've found records identifying over 50 relatives murdered by the Einsatzgruppen and their local collaborators. Let this be a reminder that "Never Forget" is an imperative; not only to share the stories we've been taught, but to ensure that others are not lost. yadvashem.org/archive #yomhashoah

Ephraim Hertzano,a Romanian born Jew living in Israel, invented Rummikub in the 1940s.He developed the game as a workaround to a ban on card playing under Romania's Communist regime. Later licensing the game to become an international hit.

Sylvester Stallone on standing for the Jewish people: “People don’t know this, but in my family there are Jewish roots on my mother’s side. My mother, Jackie Stallone, was born Jacqueline Labofish. That family story has always reminded me that the Jewish people have gone through centuries of struggle, persecution, and resilience… and yet they are still standing. When I think about that, I feel respect. A lot of respect. The story of the Jewish people is the story of perseverance. From the ancient patriarchs to the modern State of Israel, there is a chain of faith, identity, and survival that has withstood everything. And I’ll say something clearly: antisemitism has no place in this world. Hatred against Jews is something humanity should have overcome a long time ago. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that supporting Israel and the Jewish people is not only a political issue. It’s about recognizing the history, the culture, and the right of a people to exist, live in peace, and feel proud of who they are. If you are Jewish, be proud. Your history is a story of survival, of faith, and of light. And the world needs more light.”

A pile of human bones and skulls at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland, in 1944. Never forget.

Holocaust survivor with the Israeli Special Forces. Never again will the Jewish people be defenseless.

Of all the horrific things done by the German Nazis and their collaborators, the most unfathomable is what they did to 1.5 million Jewish children. Every person who operated one of these trains, every soldier on the sidelines, every bureaucrat--they all knew what was done to Jewish children and participated in the mass killing of one and a half million Jewish children. We will never forget. Photo: deportation of Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp from the ghetto in Siedlce, 1942.

A child in the Warsaw Ghetto collapsed on the street from starvation. Never forget🕯️

Chiune Sugihara, Japan’s consul in Lithuania during WWII, defied orders and issued 2,000 transit visas,saving over 6,000 Jewish lives. He and his wife Yukiko wrote them day and night. “If I don’t disobey my government, I will be disobeying God.”

So beautiful ❤️

DOUGLAS MURRAY: IT’S TIME TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE TAKEOVER OF BRITAIN! He’s Had Enough. The British People Have Every Right To Defend Their Traditions, Holy Places, And Holy Days Without Being Branded Far-Right Extremists In a powerful and unapologetic exchange on Piers Morgan’s show, Douglas Murray strikes back against the constant barrage of insults and defamation directed at ordinary Britons who simply want to protect their own culture and heritage. He makes it crystal clear that the public should no longer silently endure being smeared for daring to stand up for what belongs to them. “The British public should not endlessly be putting up with being insulted and defamed. My belief is we have a right to stand up for our traditions and a right to stand up for our holy places and our holy days,” Murray declares with conviction. He then lays bare the outrageous double standard that has poisoned public discourse: “People will say the people who defend it are far right extremists, by the way something they would never say against the people, the other way around, who had defaced the Cenotaph.” This selective outrage is no longer tolerable. While British identity, history, and sacred symbols face daily erosion under waves of unchecked immigration and cultural replacement, defenders of the nation are vilified, yet those who attack its monuments are excused or ignored. He draws a firm line in the sand: Britain is being taken over, and the time for passive acceptance has ended. It’s time to push back boldly and unapologetically before it’s too late.

They left their shoes behind but their souls will never be forgotten! On the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, 60 bronze pairs of shoes stand as a silent witness to a tragedy!! In 1944-1945, thousands of Hungarian Jews were ordered to take off their shoes before •being shot into the icy river! Today, we give them back their faces. We remember their lives, not just their absence and we thank Hashem that we have our homeland back! Never again is Israel Never again is the IDF! Never again is NOW! Post by @adidvashai ❤️🙏

After the liberation of Buchenwald, the Allies took videos of the survivors, but the sound did not survive. Israeli TV @kann_news used AI to read their lips and reconstruct the sound.

Israel just stopped another October 7 attack, and you’ll never hear about it. Palestinian bloodlust must be stopped.

Between 1939–1945, children in concentration and labor camps were stripped of their names - turned into numbers. (Holocaust in Color) We will never forget.