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What we were unable to shout out to the world
A talk by DAVID ROSENBERG on a panel at Stand Up To Racism’s Holocaust Memorial Day event 2022
Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Captured Jews escorted by the Waffen SS, 1943

HOLOCAUST memorial events enable us to acknowledge and remember who and what was lost to the world, and learn from individuals’  personal experience.

The Nazis’ final solution attempted not only to wipe out a people, but erase a culture and civilisation — Yiddish culture.

But I am proud to use the Yiddish words of anti-Nazi resisters — “mir veln zey iberleben” — we will outlive them, and “mir zaynen do” — we are here!

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