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P

esach is a joyous Yom Tov for the
Jewish people, especially when
we sit at the seder table with our
family and friends. The children ask
the Mah Nishtanah (the four questions)
“Why is this night of Pesach different
from all other nights?”
The father answers
because we were slaves
in Egypt.
The king of Egypt,
Pharaoh, enslaved the
Jewish people thousands
of years ago.
Our generation also
had a Pharoah. His
name was Hitler. He also enslaved the
Jewish people.
The Jews lived in Europe 800-900
years and obeyed the laws of the land
in whatever country they lived in. On
the eighth day of Pesach in 1944, 74
years ago, I was davening with my
father when a man came in to tell us
that flyers were pasted all over town,
two of them on our shul door. It read,
“Tomorrow on Sunday, on the day after
Pesach, each Jew must leave home and
go to the school building.”
From there, they took us Jews to

the ghettos such as Budapest, Kiev or
Munkacs.
Then the Nazi governments of
Europe and the volunteers who joined
them — Hitler didn’
t do it by himself —
took us to Auschwitz, Majdanek, Buna
and many other camps where we found
factories equipped with gas chambers
murdering Jewish people … where
our parents, our families, our children
…. our people … were murdered and
burned to ashes in the crematorium.
During our history, the Jewish peo-
ple have had many tragedies, but the
Holocaust has no equal. It is and always
will be the worst human rights viola-
tion in the history of the world. The
whole world stood by in silence while 6
million Jewish people were murdered.
The world heard their screams from the
gas chambers, but they pretended they
could not hear. The world smelled their
flesh burning in the crematoriums but
turned away because they were Jews.
On Yom HaShoah (May 2), we
remember our family members who
died during those awful years. I am
sure it is a mitzvah to remember the
neshamas (souls) of the 1.5 million
children who died; their memories will

forever live in our hearts.
On a morning in May 1945, the gates
of Buchenwald opened and in came
tanks, soldiers and guns. We thought
they were going to level the camp and
kill us all, but we found out this was the
American army who came to liberate us
and give us back our lives. We were like
dead people walking, skin and bones.
If they would have come a few months
later, not one survivor would have been
left.
Thousands of years ago, God sent
Moses and his brother Aaron to
Egypt to take His chosen people out
of slavery from King Pharaoh and, in
May of 1945, God sent the American
Army, led by General Patton and
Rabbi Shekhter, the chaplain of the
unit, to take His chosen people out
of the gas chambers. Seventy-five
years later I say that unit was led by
God and Moses … and the soldiers
were God’
s angels. ■

Michael Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, is a
speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington and author of the book Chimneys
and Chambers.

Michael Weiss

essay
Remember Yom HaShoah
and the 6 Million Kedoshim

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An Alternate Dayenu
Regarding the “Dayenu 2019” in
the April 18 Detroit Jewish News, here is
an alternative version:

A Dayenu for this Passover
If President Trump had only
moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
— Dayenu.
If President Trump had only rec-
ognized Israeli sovereignty over the
Golan — Dayenu.
If President Trump had
only appointed Nikki Haley as
Ambassador to the U.N. — Dayenu.
If President Trump had only closed
the PLO office in Washington, D.C.
— Dayenu.
If President Trump had only
stopped giving U.S. tax dollars to the
PLO — Dayenu.
If President Trump had only been
the first sitting U.S. President to pray
at the Western Wall —Dayenu.
If President Trump had only can-
celled the disastrous Obama Iran
nuclear deal — Dayenu.
If President Trump had only
placed crushing sanctions on Iran —
Dayenu.
If President Trump had only insist-
ed that the ICC not target Israeli sol-
diers and diplomats — Dayenu.
If President Trump has only
banned the BDS founder from enter-
ing the U.S. — Dayenu.

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