Why Do We Respond To The Holocaust?

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"Fifty-three years ago, on July 16th, 1942, 450 French police and gendarmes, under the authority of their leaders responded to the demands of the Nazis. That day in the capital and in the Paris region, nearly (almost) 10,000 men, women and Jewish children were arrested at their homes at dawn and were gathered in police stations
Were atrocious scenes: families shattered, mothers separated from their children, elderly people - including some veterans of the Great War which had shed their blood for France - Thrown ruthlessly in buses and trucks of the Prefecture de Police. Were also policemen that were made BLIND of the eye, allowing some to escape.
For all the detainees, then begins the long and painful journey to hell. How many of them will return to their homes? And HOW many, at that moment, felt betrayed? How much will have been his anguish? “.. ... “France Homeland of illustration, homeland of human rights, land of welcome, land of asylum, France on that day, was doing the irreparable. Failing in his word, gave his protégés to their executioners.
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Others will follow further raids and arrests in Paris and in the provinces. Seventy-four trains leave for Auschwitz. In total, 76,000 Jews deported from France who will not return. We have an imprescriptible debt with them "... (We have with them a debt imprescriptible.".)
"The Torah says that every Jew has the duty to remember. A phrase that always appears and says: "Never forget that you were a stranger and a slave in the land of Pharaoh.
Fifty years later, faithful to their law, but without hatred or revenge, the Jewish community remembers and with it (it the entire ) throughout France, , to live the 6 million martyrs of the Holocaust, so that such atrocities do not ever ever happen, for which the blood of the Holocaust, becomes, in the words of Samuel Pisar, "blood of

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