Yizkor – Memorialization

Remembrance and Identity – “Remember the days of old; reflect upon generations, ask your father and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you” (Deuteronomy 32:7) Jewish remembrance is not content with merely embracing or mourning the past, not even just in understanding and knowledge. Remembrance is meant to give meaning to the present and the future. Jewish memory is a command, a deposit and a challenge, and it is not for nothing that the nickname “A Nation that Remembers” stuck to us, because the essence of the values of the Jewish traditio [Read more]

Remembrance and Identity – “Remember the days of old; reflect upon generations, ask your father and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you” (Deuteronomy 32:7)

Jewish remembrance is not content with merely embracing or mourning the past, not even just in understanding and knowledge. Remembrance is meant to give meaning to the present and the future. Jewish memory is a command, a deposit and a challenge, and it is not for nothing that the nickname “A Nation that Remembers” stuck to us, because the essence of the values of the Jewish tradition is built on the design of memory. And this is what the Slonimer Rebbe, author of “HaHetivot Shalom” (The Pathways of Peace) wrote: “And the issue of remembrance is not mere historical memory, but by which a Jew links himself to all of the People of Israel, which is an inseparable part of Jewry… the special meaning of remembering martyrs who are in the land from generation to generation is what connects us with the Source of holiness. Because the continuation of the generations of the People of Israel… is like a chain in which all links are linked to each other, and this combination is the foundation of its existence.”

Ganzach Kiddush Hashem took it upon itself to be one of the bearers of the torch of remembrance. To tell the younger generation and its children the song of faith that has not faded. To give them the strength to continue holding on to the chain. This generation is the link that connects the past to the future. Between destruction and revival. Between exile and redemption. The strength of the entire chain depends on this link.

Participants, Holocaust survivors from Sanok, at a memorial for the victims from their city. In the centre is Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Friedman, the rabbi of the survivors in Germany.

Rabbis in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, in Germany, walking to the Yizkor service for the victims of the camp who were buried in graves at the side of the camp. In the photo are Rabbi Zalmanowitch, Rabbi Tzvi Meisels, Rabbi Halperin, Rabbi Olevsky, and Rabbi Helfgott from England

Yizkor prayer for the Jews of Nemirov

A prayer service in memory of the martyrs, arranged in a DP camp in Germany

Survivors after saying Kaddish at a mass grave

Benzion Fishoff with an Agudath Israel delegation from the US at the foot of the Holocaust monument in Warsaw

A crowd participates in the Yizkor prayer in Bergen-Belsen in front of the monument for its victims

A memorial ceremony for Holocaust victims

A memorial for the partisans who fought in the region of Miecow

A memorial for Holocaust victims, with the quote from Lamentations “Who will give me a source of water…”

A memorial built by survivors in the cemetery in Sierpc, Poland, in memory of the Holocaust victims

Memorial for Holocaust victims in the Klooga camp, Estonia

Sarah Leibowitz – My Father’s Will (Velyki Komyaty, Czechoslovakia)

Dov Landau - A Lesson for Generations (Brzesko, Poland)

A Torah cover donated in memory of Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Rosenberg and his son, Aharon

A memorial for the community of Chizev and its surroundings, one of 2000 communities memorializes on the wall at the Chamber of the Holocaust in Jerusalem

A Holocaust memorial day, organized in Budapest, Hungary

Holocaust survivors gathered in Munich for a memorial for the Jews of Lodz

A Jew praying at the foot of the memorial for the Holocaust victims of Salonika, Greece

Members of a daily Mishna lesson established by Poalei Agudath Israel in memory of the Holocaust victims

The rabbi of the British army saying Kaddish at a mass grave of Jews in Bergen-Belsen

Memorial built in the Treblinka death camp in memory of its victims

The memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which stands at the center of the former Warsaw Ghetto

“Earth, cover thou not my blood…” – Holocaust memorial

The Scrolls of Fire memorial in the Martyrs’ Forest in the Jerusalem Hills

A memorial for the 1.5 million children who were killed in the Holocaust, located at the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mount Zion in Jerusalem

A memorial in Bergen-Belsen for its victims

Memorial in Belzec for its victims

Memorial for Holocaust victims in Salonika, Greece

A Holocaust memorial, made out of fragments of gravestones destroyed by the Nazis, in Matersdorf

Memorial for Holocaust victims. At the centre reads the lament of King David “How the mighty have fallen and weapons of war will be lost”

A Holocaust memorial with the words “Remember how the enemy reviled G-d”

Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Bytom, Poland, in memory of 64 Jewish forced labourers from Holland

Memorial for Holocaust victims in the Jewish cemetery in Skopje, Macedonia

A Holocaust memorial arranged in the synagogue at Hassenhecke DP camp in Germany

Yizkor – Memorialization

Sarah Leibowitz – My Father’s Will (Velyki Komyaty, Czechoslovakia)

Dov Landau - A Lesson for Generations (Brzesko, Poland)

David Bruckenthal - A Poem for the Holocaust Survivors (Holland)

Zalman Cohen – Rabbi Hershel Schachter and the First Yizkor Prayer in Buchenwald (Nyiregyhaza, Hungary)

Mordechai Bar Yosef - A Mass Grave in Nitra (Pressburg, Slovakia)

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Sarah Leibowitz – My Father’s Will (Velyki Komyaty, Czechoslovakia)

Dov Landau - A Lesson for Generations (Brzesko, Poland)

David Bruckenthal - A Poem for the Holocaust Survivors (Holland)

Zalman Cohen – Rabbi Hershel Schachter and the First Yizkor Prayer in Buchenwald (Nyiregyhaza, Hungary)

Mordechai Bar Yosef - A Mass Grave in Nitra (Pressburg, Slovakia)

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