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Twenty years ago, my grandfather,
Peter Weisberg of blessed memory, gave
me his taus and I promised to wear it on
High Holidays and special occasions. I
decided this special Shabbat warranted
getting it out.
Standing next to the Torah, there I
was, chanting the aliyah and then read-
ing from our sacred text. I finished,
looked up and saw Lori, Jessica and
Madeline looking down from the
women's section, smiling, knowing this
was a very special moment for me and a
birthday I'll never forget.
The rabbi then chanted the tradition-
al Mi Shebeirach prayer recited after each
aliyah and a special one for each mem-
ber of my family. The whole congrega-
tion began singing "Siman Toy U Mazel

We were able to tour the area that was
once the Warsaw Ghetto. More than
300,000 Jews at one time lived in the
ghetto, and more than 100,000 died
there from disease or malnutrition or
were murdered for being in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
At the northern end of the ghetto was
the Umschlagplatz, the "resettlement"
plaza. From there, most Jews were sent
to Treblinka, where the Nazis killed
thousands every day. Today at the
Umschlagplatz are the names of the
countless people sent to their deaths.
There are no words to describe this
place; one where families were separated
and then sent on cattle cars to their
deaths.
We left Poland, following in the foot-

steps of almost every Jewish survivor.
Sixty-six years ago, 3.5 million Jews lived
in Poland. Today, there are less than
5,000.
Years ago, my mother watched one of
my children in a model seder at Hillel
Day School. She leaned over to me to
say: "Hitler didn't win." I believe our
trip was my way to reaffirm that mes-
sage.
Hitler and the Germans did, for all
practical purposes, destroy Jewish life in
Central and Eastern Europe, but my
mother did not succumb.
She beat Hitler because her children
and grandchildren know how to read
from the Torah, in Detroit and in
Warsaw. They know how to lead active
Jewish lives and this year will visit Israel
on Detroit's Family Mission.
Every year, we read in the Torah
about the murderer Amalek. We are
instructed to wipe out the memory of
Amalek: 'And you shall not forget."
It is a contradiction to wipe out the
memory of evil and yet not forget, a
contradiction to revisit ultimate human
darkness at Majdanek and yet the next
day celebrate life by reading from the
Torah.
Yet every year we remember Amalek,
Haman, Hitler and the evil that seems
to follow us in every generation. Then
we celebrate like children on Purim.
That is the message from the ashes of
Poland. Remember the past, but cele-
brate life; because we're on borrowed
time, and each day is a gift to be cher-
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This article is excerpted from a sermon
given just before Purim at Congregation
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