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tackle today’s challenges.
I believe that among both 
Jews and Arabs, “partners” 
do exist, people who believe 
that despite our differences 
and our disagreements we can 
forge a path to coexistence 
and mutual respect.
But we need more such 
people, many more. Join us! 

Yakov Nagen is director of Ohr Torah 

Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith 

Dialogue and the Beit Midrash for 

Judaism and Humanity.

oppressors and remaining 
sane in a world gone mad. 
Upon arrival at Auschwitz-
Birkenau on the night of Aug. 
3-4, 1943, a little boy named 
Benjamin was separated from 
his mother and sent directly 
into a gas chamber with his 
father and grandparents.
Benjamin was my 
half-brother. Even though my 
mother rarely spoke about 
him, I know that she thought 
of him every day of her life. 
Since her death in 1997, 
Benjamin has continued to 
exist within me. I see his face 
in my mind, try to imagine 
his voice, his fear as the gas 
chamber doors slammed 
shut, his final tears. If I were 
to forget him, he would dis-
appear. 
And I write about him so 
that my grandchildren, and 
their children and grandchil-
dren in turn, will remember 
Benjamin as well. My poems 
are my legacy to them. 

Menachem Z. Rosensaft is asso-

ciate executive vice president and 

general counsel of the World Jewish 

Congress and teaches about the law 

of genocide at the law schools of 

Columbia and Cornell Universities. 

He is the author of Poems Born in 

Bergen-Belsen.

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