Last night (Sunday) when the eve of Holocaust Day was celebrated in ceremonies throughout the country and the world, journalist Haim Atgar shared with his 210,000 followers on Instagram his impressions of his personal journey in the horror camp and the heavy toll that the Holocaust took on his family.
“I am in the camp of horrors,” Etgar opened the story. “I was here more than a decade ago as part of a trip to Poland in high school. This time on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I took my family here (my wife, my mother, and my 75-year-old grandmother) so that they could see for themselves what our nation has been through. I think that every person, whether they are Jewish or not A Jew must come to this cursed place in order to see the horrors perpetrated here by the Nazis and to know that history must not repeat itself and that Jews around the world must fear for their lives just because they are Jews.
Haim Etgar, photo: Meir Partosh
“Tomorrow the March of Life takes place here. I think we should remind everyone who has forgotten what we promised those survivors. Never Again. Remind everyone that that evil that hated us and killed millions of our people has not disappeared from the world. It is still here alive and breathing, just with a different name. No They will be wrong – the agenda is the same: to destroy the Jewish people. Only a truly united people with an unapologetic IDF will be able to defeat evil.”
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Later, Etgar asked to share a family story about his uncle and his grandmother’s younger sister. “Almost my entire family was murdered in the Holocaust. Among the dead was also my uncle, Stefan, father’s twin brother, who was only a baby when he was sent to the extermination camp. He was murdered when he was less than a year old. Not long ago, a distant relative sent me a picture of Adela, my grandmother’s younger sister Adela was slaughtered in the Holocaust. The first time I realized how beautiful she was. He entered the family’s apartment and shot her. He thought it was permissible to kill her She was nineteen years old when she died.
Etgar’s story, Instagram, photo: Instagram
“For months the thought has been echoing in my head: it is true, today we have a strong state and independence, and yet, how similar the events that Grandma and her family went through to what happened to us on October 7” he wrote. “Even then, in the Holocaust, just like about seven months ago, families, children, women and men were severely abused and murdered, just because of their Jewishness. Even then and today, this evil is coated with absurd arguments that are coldly spread by our enemies: national, racial, modern explanations – but The crude seams under those claims hide the same ancient anti-Semitism. In Europe, young people and adults cried out in their throats that the Jews should be taken care of. Today, they scream in the universities: “from the sea to the river”, and again they want to eliminate us. Another era, the same goal. The main thing is that we will stop. Even then, despite the hatred, the ignorance, we can be hurt and make us bleed, but we cannot be broken “.
Etgar’s story, Instagram, photo: Instagram
He signed the story with a photo from the cemetery in Warsaw. “Of my family, only grandmother and father remained who survived. The rest were murdered by gassing and shooting,” he wrote about the tombstone photo he shared. “After the war, my grandmother was immortalized in the city who once loved her parents, her husband, her sister so much and also her son Stefan, my uncle, father’s twin brother, who was murdered before he was a year old. The grave is empty but the memory is eternal. May their memory be blessed. We will not forget you.”
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