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unionist
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posted 20 April 2008 04:39 AM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Last commander marks 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

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The last commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Marek Edelman, on Saturday honoured the memory of his comrades who died fighting Nazi Germany in the doomed Jewish stand against the Holocaust. ...

Braving driving rain, the silent participants first laid flowers at the monument.

The frail Edelman, 85, was then pushed in his wheelchair to the site of the bunker where the leader of the revolt, 24-year-old Mordechaj Anielewicz, and 80 comrades had committed suicide as Nazi forces closed in.

The crowd then walked to the site of the "Umschlagplatz", the railway siding from which the Nazis sent more than 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp in northeastern Poland. ...

The ghetto fighters first clashed with the Nazis on January 18-22, 1943, managing to hinder the deportations.

On April 19, 1943, they took up arms again, as the Nazis moved to wipe out the remaining 60,000 ghetto dwellers....

The fighters held out as 3,000 Nazi troops razed the ghetto with explosives and fire.

Following Anielewicz's suicide on May 8, Edelman and several dozen comrades escaped through the sewers. The Nazis marked their "victory over the Jews" by blowing up Warsaw's main synagogue on May 16.

Around 7,000 Jews died in the revolt, most of them burned alive, and more than 50,000 were sent to Treblinka.

Besides denting the Nazis' sense of superiority, the fighters managed to inflict some damage, killing and injuring a combined 300 troops.


Zichronam livrachah.


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Fidel
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posted 20 April 2008 12:24 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Blessed Be Their Memories
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posted 20 April 2008 01:04 PM      Profile for Coyote   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bless them all.
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posted 20 April 2008 04:29 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Never Again!
Used to have this in Polish and Yiddish, perhaps someone knows the originals.

Became (entre autres):

Plus jamais ça! (French antiracist campaign - police murder of an innocent student of Algerian origin)

¡Nunca Mas! - Campaign against vicious military regimes in the Southern Cone... www.nuncamas.org

Never forget...

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posted 20 April 2008 07:03 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by lagatta:
Never Again!
Used to have this in Polish and Yiddish, perhaps someone knows the originals.

With the greatest of respect, lagatta, I really have trouble with this slogan as applied to the Nazi genocide(s) - just as I have with the term "Holocaust".

I was the child of survivors, but I never heard either the word "Holocaust" or the slogan "Never Again!" in this context before (I believe) the 1970s - not in English, not in Yiddish - we used "hurban" (destruction, an adopted Hebrew word. I don't recall ever hearing the word in English usage all those years.

As for Never Again, the very first time I recall hearing this expression was as the slogan of the fascist Jewish Defence League. I believe its founder (Meir Kahane) coined the slogan. Of course, it meant to commit terrorism against "our enemies" (Arabs, etc.) before they can kill "us".

If I'm wrong, I'd truly like to see the evidence. But you know, given what has happened in recent decades, I have no clue what "Never Again" is supposed to mean.

Does anyone actually have evidence of "Never Again" being applied to the Jewish genocide prior to about 1970?


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