Soviet soldier Shalom - Shalom Israel!
8th May - Europe's liberation and the founding of the State of Israel!
At this year's 8th May fall together two important events: the day of liberation of Europe will mark the 63rd Time is of the same day of the founding of the State of Israel 60 years ago this year on the same day. This is for us a double reason to celebrate.
Both days are closely related. With the Allied victory over Nazi Germany on 8 May 1945 not only ended the war in Europe, including the mass murder of European Jews was finally halted. The Nazis had set itself the goal to destroy European Jewry and completely develop in this way the new "living space" in Eastern Europe for the "Aryan race". The anti-Semitic policy of the National Socialists, particularly in Germany, but also in many European - from Germany occupied - by a wide majority of countries actively supported and driven. By the end of the war were murdered six million Jews. Those who survived the Holocaust, whether in camps, in hiding or in exile, had mostly lost everything: family, friends, health etc.
Three years after the end of the mass murder of European Jews was the state of Israel was founded. Even the next day was the Jewish state from its Arab Neighbors Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq attacked. The Arab League had it - the goal to put up with no Jewish community in this part of the world and threatened openly trying to destroy the Jews - only three years after the end of the extermination camps. claim in this war, as in the following, could Israel's existence. For many Jews, Israel was given the catastrophe of European Jewry, the symbol of hope for survival. Even the Eastern European Jews emigrating to Palestine in the First Aliyah in 1880 - on the run from discrimination and pogroms of rights in their homeland - were hoping to be able to live a better life there. The political idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine was created, but only towards the end of the 19th Century with Theodor Herzl's publication "The Jewish State". Herzl saw the Jewish question as a national problem whose solution could only be political. He was concerned about saving the Jews in Europe prior to the louder and more violent
Semitism, was it a sign of the failure of Jewish emancipation. Possess the Jews a state, it would be possible for them to emancipate themselves as a collective. Only one end of anti-Semitism to be expected. Since then, Israel for the Jewish community either their home, where they do not Fear of anti-Semitism must have, or a potential place of refuge. Yet the right to the existence of the state of its neighbors is still in question and in many parts of the world denounced as a threat to world peace.
The German-Israeli Youth Forum on Sunday, 4 resign May 2008 at the Ohlsdorf cemetery with Jewish Red Army veterans and a wreath to celebrate the day of liberation in this context. Anyone who wants to celebrate this day with us is welcome to be there.
MEETING: Sunday 04 May at 12 clock in front of the memorial to the victims of fascism and war (compared to the crematorium) at the cemetery Ohlsdorf.
So come all!
And at the 3.5
MEMORIAL EVENTS 63rd YEAR OF RELIEF
10:00 Cemetery Cap Arcona, Neustadt in Holstein, Stutthofweg 17:00 Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Memorial
the occasion of 63 Anniversary of the liberation of Europe from Nazi rule
calls the work Community
Neuengamme on this, on 3 May participate jointly with former
prisoners and their families to the public commemorations on Memorial Cemetery
Cap Arcona, Neustadt / Holstein
in the Baltic Sea and the memorial site Neuengamme
.
We survivors expected from several countries.
There are buses available to go in the morning from Hamburg-
Dammtor a memorial event in New Town and from there to the concentration camp memorial
Neuengamme. The trip is accompanied
content.
program
8:00 Departure Hamburg Center Hamburg (output Edmund-
Siemers-Allee/Tankstelle) to Neustadt / Holstein
public commemoration at 10:00
Cemetery Cap Arcona, Neustadt / Holstein
drive to the cemetery Groneberg / Neukoppel,
wreath
Continue to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Neuengamme
arrival 15.00 Clock: Short guided tours of the
site, visit the Exhibitions
17:00 commemoration at the memorial monument
Neuengamme
18:30 Buses return to Hamburg
Please register early for the bus ride
to 25 April 2008:
3 to 4.4. Wahl at Bert, tel: 040/644 30 606,
Email:
bertwahls@t-online.de 3 from 5.4. by Susan Forest, Tel: 040 / 31,795,950,
Email: line_23@gmx.net
3 fee per person 10, - / 7, - reduced
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