That's one of the main reasons for "holocaust" propaganda, to enable
Israel
to have an excuse to commit it's many crimes against humanity.
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Israeli soldiers urged to study Holocaust
by Charly Wegman
KIBBUTZ LOHAMEY HAGETAOT, Israel (AFP) - At a kibbutz founded by survivors
of the Nazi death camps, Israel's top brass has urged soldiers to learn
the
lessons of the Holocaust to better protect the Jewish people.
"The Nazis had vowed to annihilate the Jewish people ... every Jew is a
Holocaust survivor," said army chief of staff Lieutenant General Gaby
Ashkenazi, before flying to Poland to pay tribute to the Jews who led the
1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising 65 years ago.
Ashekenazi's comments were made at a gathering of top military officers
and
survivors at a kibbutz in northern Israel ahead of Holocaust Remembrance
Day, which starts at sunset on Wednesday.
The army "must protect the Jewish people as well as their state which some
still want to destroy," Ashkenazi told the 24 generals assembled at
Lohamey
Hagetaot kibbutz, whose name recalls the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Educating soldiers about the Holocaust, when more than six million Jews
perished in the Nazi concentration camps, was a crucial part of military
training, he said.
"Teaching about the Holocaust is imperative for the rank and file of the
army. We want to preserve and pass on the memories (of the Holocaust)
before
the last witnesses die," said Brigadier General Elie Shermeister, head of
the army's education department.
Holocaust instruction will be expanded and groups of new army recruits
will
travel to the sites of the death camps and other memorials, including the
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
At the kibbutz, which was was founded in 1949 by Holocaust survivors from
Poland and Lithuania, emotional mementoes of those who died are on
display.
Carefully preserved in glass cases are simple objects such as a pair of
shoes, a suitcase, a prayer shawl, a Torah scroll, a typewriter, a
jewellery
box, pens and notebooks.
At an interactive station, the history of each item is explained along
with
the story of the tragic deaths of their owners.
"We have preserved some 150 million objects, among them a cloth in which a
two-year-old girl, Ruthie, was hidden by her mother at Auschwitz, before
she
was taken to be used in medical experiments at Birkenau by Doctor Joseph
Mengele," said museum director Simha Stein.
Ruthie lived through it all and today is among the 280,000 Holocaust
survivors still living in Israel.
The generals stood before a giant screen on which the names of 4,000
Jewish
communities that were eradicated in Europe and north Africa during the
Nazi
era briefly appear before fading away.
"Here, at Lohamey Hagetaot, we are determined to remain strong," Stein
said.
Starting at sundown on Wednesday, the entire country will begin marking
Holocaust Remembrance Day, when each year the wail of sirens reminds the
citizens of the genocide.
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