FROM ONE HERO TO ANOTHER, Recognition and Thanks for a Different World

"It is difficult to be here in Auschwitz - a place where I witnessed such death and destruction," my grandfather said while standing on the train tracks at the camp entrance, "but it is an honor to be here today, with you, the Israel Defense Forces." My grandfather was born in Os...

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Published inThe Jewish exponent Vol. 234; no. 4
Main Author Greenberg, Sara
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Jewish Exponent 25.04.2013
Subjects
Armed forces
Grandparents
Holocaust
Jewish people
Travel
Poland
Auschwitz Poland
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Summary:"It is difficult to be here in Auschwitz - a place where I witnessed such death and destruction," my grandfather said while standing on the train tracks at the camp entrance, "but it is an honor to be here today, with you, the Israel Defense Forces." My grandfather was born in Ostrowiec, Poland. In 1938, when he was 12, he remembers the Zionist leader, Vladamir Jabotinsky, visiting the town to warn the 15,000 Jews living there of the threatening Nazi storm. "The catastrophe is coming closer," Jabotinsky cautioned in a speech in Warsaw that same year, and each person must "save his life while there is still time." "The state of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust," President Barack Obama said a few weeks ago during his trip to Israel, "but with the survival of a strong Jewish state of Israel, such a Holocaust will never happen again."
ISSN:0021-6437