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Sara Netanyahu together with ministers, members of the Knesset and ambassadors alongside Holocaust survivors attended the International Holocaust Day ceremony at the Yad Ezer association in Haifa that took place on Sunday 28.01.18.
| Watch a video from the ceremony (photo: Hai Pa)
"70 years ago, we shook off the dust of the crematoria, and established the State of Israel, of which we are all so proud. You, the survivors, the survivors serve as living testimony to the strengths that lie within the Jewish people. You emerged from the Nazi inferno full of pain and scars, but you did not give in to despair. You helped build the state , protect it, develop it. You started families and raised children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to glory. We have enormous gratitude towards you. Therefore, on this special day, International Holocaust Day, I want to emphasize three duties that we have:
The duty to prevent another holocaust,
The duty to remember those who perished in the Holocaust,
and the duty to take care of the welfare of Holocaust survivors.
I know that my husband, the Prime Minister, took care of special budgets just for you! Beyond this important aspect - I also mean to be interested in your story, your life and the intensity of the pain you went through. But there is compensation in the form of the children and youth who come to the hot house of 'Yad Ezer Haber' to be with you."
CEO and founder of the association - Shimon Sebag:
"International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 is an unusual day. On an ordinary day we don't get to think and understand that every minute we are on this earth in the State of Israel is almost a miracle. Because we have a tendency to forget the worst disaster that humanity and the Jewish people have known.
At the end of the ceremony, the first Holocaust museum of its kind, established by the Yad Ezer Association, was inaugurated. The museum is a testimony of people who survived the holocaust telling their story, living people who tell the stories of the hell and horror that went through in comparison time. The items displayed in the museum belong to people from the Holocaust who live with us and live in the hot house.
The curator and designer of the museum is Tami Siner, who herself was the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz, tells about the difficulties in choosing the exhibits and the emotional difficulty in designing the museum in general
The museum is dedicated to the memory of Shmuel Ben Artzi, the father of the Prime Minister's wife Sara Netinahu
"The fact that people who survived the Holocaust tell their story to visitors is powerfulGod",
said Shalom Shtemberg, 93, a Holocaust survivor himself. "There are no such museums in the world where the survivors themselves describe the hell they went through."
| Inauguration of the Holocaust Museum:
Shimon Sebag and the Holocaust survivors did not hide their excitement from the moment the museum opened. Mrs. Sara Netanyahu removed the lot and cut the ribbon that officially inaugurated the museum. Afterwards, Mrs. Netanyahu toured the museum together with Holocaust survivors, and expressed great appreciation for the initiators of the idea and the huge investment.
| Video - Sarah Netanyahu's speech at the inauguration of the Holocaust Museum:
https://www.facebook.com/HEBPMO/videos/1683180901743711/
| MK Dr. Anat Barko read a moving poem written by Beita, Tslil:
He is not a number/sound in his back
The number got up in the morning,
Sometimes he doesn't feel he has a reason,
The barber leans over to put on his torn shoes that are also waiting to be retired,
The number opens the door and does not bother to lock it,
The number is trying to gather strength to walk and not fall,
The teller sees an orphaned bench in a shady corner,
the number settles,
The number thinks how to reach the destination when his body is barely carrying,
The number rises and lets out a sigh,
The number continues to move and another half hour has passed.
The number finally arrives at its desired location,
The number knows that only thanks to this place will he be able to eat today,
The number looks up at the sky before opening the tin,
The number is not just a number,
He once had a mother, a father and a brother.
Like hunger, his number is tattooed to the worlds,
The number thought to himself,
Too bad there weren't any in the camps
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In the impressive and dignified ceremony that lasted about an hour and a half, accompanied by the songs of the veteran singer Yaakov Shapiro and a choir of the students of the "Yazraeliya" school with the coordinator of the community system Mrs. Aviva Feldman Behagi, during the event the social justice shield was awarded to the journalist Ahya Rabad, the ceremony was conducted with great grace And in the best guide Gilad Adin.
| Many participated in the ceremony:
Knesset member Yaron Mazuz, deputy minister at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, was present and took part in the event. Member of Knesset Michael Malchiali, Member of Knesset Merav Michaeli, Member of Knesset Leah Padida, representative of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem Mr. David Parsons, ambassadors and consuls from the various countries, founder of the bereaved brothers organization "Lentzach Ahi" and representative of the Kulanu faction in Haifa Eli Debi, the chief curator of the museum Mrs. Tami Siner who spent days and nights in the museum's permanent display, the association's VP and social worker Mrs. Amit Shaked who worked hard for the success of the ceremony, the association's chief of staff Israel Cohen, Mrs. Ofra Ovadia, the mother of the association's "Children's Home" in Neve David , manager of the Katzrin branch of the association "Yad Ezer Havre" Mr. Baruch Sebag, the security man and long-time volunteer of the association Reuven Frizi who assists in all the events of the association on a full volunteer basis, the rabbi of the association Honorable Rabbi Yaakov Meman, the rabbi of the Thessaloniki synagogue "Havis Habib" in Haifa in memory of the community of Thessaloniki The Honorable Rabbi Nissim Danino, The Honorable Rabbi Shimon Elmaleh, Mrs. Naomi Iloz, director of the association's social club, Dr. Isabella Greenberg, a specialist in psychiatry and director of the psycho-geriatric service at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, which has accompanied the association's Holocaust survivors for many years On a completely voluntary basis, the many employees and volunteers of the "Yad Ezer Havrev" association, the police officer from the Athan casualty section of the Israel Police visited by Yoni Turgman, the Athan casualty officer on the North Shore, we note that the Israeli police casualty officers have been accompanying the Holocaust survivors of the association for a number of years years and take care of their well-being. The employees of the association "Yad Ezer Habere" and its many volunteers, guests from abroad who volunteer with the association in its daily work, and a large crowd of Holocaust survivors, residents of the association's hot house and hundreds of residents of the city of Haifa, who at the end of the event, all the guests and those present were honored with the song of hope and then they all went to visit First in the new museum.
| Closure of Kessel Street for the purpose of the operation:
It should be noted that closing all of Kessel Street, located right in the center of the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa, to vehicular traffic, for the benefit of the entire event, is not a simple matter at all, and this was done in the organization and with the assistance of the association's chief of staff Israel Cohen, Hadar district commander R.N.G. Gabi Mizrahi and commander The volunteers Sergeant Major Hagi Pankar with the help of volunteers of personal commitment of the Israel Police in Haifa. Also honored with their presence was a group of "Border Guard" officers who arrived under the command of the unit's commander, Chief Inspector Shlomi Ben Arush.
