Dozens of photographs documenting the Holocaust period among European Jews will be displayed as part of an exhibition to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Carmel Academic Center.
In the photographs, European Jews are seen in ghettos, in extermination camps, and some of them were photographed by the Nazis minutes before mass executions were carried out. All photographs are placed in frames that have been restored and renovated for their presentation in the exhibition.
"The presentation of the exhibition is a tribute to Nazi hunter Tovia Friedman, whose life's work was to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. But its importance lies in our need not only to remember, but also to remind future generations of the days of those days. The chilling photographs in their simplicity illustrate, if only slightly, the terrible reality that was the property of the Jews during the Second World War. After Memorial Day, we intend to transfer the photos to other academic institutions in Haifa, in order to reveal as much as we can to future generations the reality of helpless Jews in the face of a German machine of hatred and extermination without the ability to defend themselves," said the president of the academic center Prof. Yehezkel Teller.
Tovia Friedman, now 90 years old, has been chasing Nazi criminals since the end of World War II, which he survived after escaping the labor camp he was in through sewers. After the war, he made it his goal to pursue the Nazi criminals, and was among those who assisted in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. Immediately after Eichmann's capture, Friedman handed the Israeli police a file containing 400 pages of material on Eichmann. Shaked Friedman worked on collecting this material for nearly 15 years. In 1961 he published his autobiographical book "The Hunter". The book was translated into five languages and appeared in several editions. From 1960 he worked to cancel the statute of limitations in the German law on Nazi crimes. His struggle was crowned with success in 1979, when it was decided in the Bundestag to abolish the statute of limitations on the crimes of murder and genocide. This year he also began giving lectures in the United States and Europe, which he held also in order to collect donations to finance the work of the Documentation Institute.
As of 2005, the Documentation Institute under his leadership has published over 150 publications and about 20 books on the subject of the Holocaust.
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This is because everyone else almost fought in battles, or because of the battles, except the Gypsies and Slavs.
The Gypsy and Slav Jews were the only ones who died in a real holocaust, and the Jews suffered the most, they had the most horrible things done to them and we, the Jews, suffered the greatest losses.
And most of the Russians who died in World War II died because of Stalin's sacrifices in the battles.
The way in which the State of Israel processes the memory of the Holocaust is wrong. It is completely erased that there was a war on a huge scale, in which many millions of people besides the Jews were killed. Over twenty million Russians, about nine million Germans, millions in other places, and apart from Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, the retarded, and many others were exterminated.
The State of Israel produces a memory in which, in a sterile manner, there are only Jews without any political historical context, just as the Jewish religion did for the memory of ancient and less ancient Jewish history. According to this way we get the meaningless book known as the Haggadah. Soon there will also be a Holocaust Haggadah, in which someone who knows will tell us in a senseless way.
God will avenge our revenge