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and daughters of those who
survived its horrors, we
pledge ourselves to forging
our future by remembering
our past."
This April 22 is Yom Hash-
oah, the Day of Remem-
brance. Survivors light
Yahrtzeit candles and say kad-
dish for the dead. In Israel, a
siren goes off at 8 a.m. It is an
eerie sound, reminiscent of
deportation wagons in war
movies. All traffic stops ex-
cept for Arab buses and cars.
For a full minute, there is
silence. On the street, people
freeze as in a game of statue.
The soldiers in fatigue
uniforms, holding their guns
and plastic bags of yogurt,
hardboiled eggs, and oranges.
A gnarled old man bent over
like an ancient tree. The pea-
sant woman who sells buttons
and thread closes her eyes
and weeps. At the end of the
day, one of my Israel friends
mutters, "God, I'm shoah-ed
out."
Let us remember those who
perished in the Nazi Holo-
caust. Join us in paying trib-
ute to the 6 million Jewish
martyrs. We will not forget, we
will not forgive.
On the Day of Remem-
brance, an American flag flies
full mast at the entrance to a
temple. Inside, people wear
black-and-white stickers on
their lapels: "Remember
6,000,000." My mother is one
of 30 women who march in a
memorial candle-lighting. A
black lace veil floats over her
face as she lights a white can-
dle for the dead from her city.
There is a hierarchy of suf-
fering. Treblinka survivors
feel superior to the ones who
were in Terezin — summer
camp in comparison — who
are above those in labor
camps, who supercede the
escapees to Sweden, Russia,
and South America. The key
question is, "Where did you
spend the war?" The more
dire the circumstances, the
more family murdered, the
greater the starvation and
disease, the higher the rung
in this social register.
Suddenly, a nervous hush
fills the sanctuary. The spot-
light catches the dark, hol-
lowed sockets of his eyes, the
thin wisps of hair, his deeply
lined face and gaunt body. In
the realm of remembrance,
Elie Weisel is a superstar.
"Let us tell tales. . ." he
begins softly. The temple
reverberates with his chilling
voice. In 1983, the Times
published his Auschwitz
number, A-7713, as well as a
photograph of his barrack
with a dozen blank-eyed
skulls, a white circle drawn
around his recognizable face.
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