Rabbi Shapira is well known because of a book he wrote while in the ghetto. The book, which is a compilation of weekly sermons to his students, contends with complex questions of faith in the face of the mounting suffering of the Jews in the ghetto. When it became apparent to Rabbi Shapira that the end of the ghetto and all its inhabitants was near, he buried the book in a canister. This canister was found by a construction worker after the end of the war. The book was published in Israel in 1960 under the title Esh Kodesh[5]

I urge everyone to take a look at his story.

I hate this “who’s the bigger victim” line of discussion. I also don’t approve of the claim that the Holocaust is unique. One is entitled to believe that, but can one say such a thing to an Armenian?

jeff_from_mpls on May 2, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Jeff,
I dont think that is it at all. I think that the focus has been on the 6 million who died in the shoa and for a long time no one acknowledged the 4 million others who died. Yes we were the primary targets, but the Nazis were just as committed to eliminating homosexuals and the handicapped as they were the jews. The Jews were just the biggest group.

And that is why we are where we are now, looking back through a mirror darkly.

Those who cannot remember the past shall have it happen again.

Remember this, remember these days.

For we shall soon know their events like we do the events of the 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, and 1930s.

The gathering storm once again looms.

And due to the negligence of our leaders and the cunning of our foes, the blood of the innocent shall once again drench Europe, and the world.

Do you think i am crazy? Do you think this is some lurid nightmare ranting of a crazy NeoKon?

I hope, when the textbooks are written, it is so. My heart hopes it is so.

But my brain, my mind, every ounce of my logic, tells me otherwise.

Iranian President Imadamnnutjob . . .

AZCoyote on May 2, 2009 at 6:52 PM

Score!

God has a special place for all the victims of the Holocaust.

He also has a special place for its perpetrators and those who deny it and those who admire what was done (Monkey Man take note….).

They are vastly different.

On a different note:

Workers found the bottled message when recently demolishing a wall at the State Higher Vocational School in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, the site of the infamous World War II Auschwitz Nazi German death camp.

What kind of school is this and who in their right mind would attend?!?!?

I pray that those who have since died are in Heaven with loved ones and smiling down on their offspring.

May God bless them all.

How was I supposed to know that anybody that constructed a sentence as florid as

Today our notes are pixels on a screen, stashed away on a server …. still reminding others of the evils in our world.

was merely jesting with us?

ericdijon on May 2, 2009 at 5:12 PM

Sorry I taxed your brain. You’ll recover.

Even though I had heard of the Holocaust in school, I had never seen the horror we say that day.

Then on the way home, our car broke down in Verdun, France and we had to spend the night. There is a building there with the remains of people killed in a mass slaughter by the Germans.

Thirty years later I learned that my grandfather was one of the first to enter Dachau when the American forces liberated it.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Maybe this message is God’s way of lovingly reminding us.

As the warnings for this growing theocratic tyranny disaster go unheeded by the p.c.-blinded, multiculti-numbed, neo-treason of the intellectual class on the Continent.

Islam macht frei.

Never deny the distinctive German contributions, prior to the rise of fascism, that should be honored as intuitive means for European revival of spirit that treasures the transcendental aesthetic through metaphysics.

maverick muse on May 2, 2009 at 1:13 PM

Nor those afterward. Many Germans died fleeing Communism. I find it interesting that the site with the most information on the bottle note was a German one.

Churchill spoke in terms of nations and states, and hence his imprecise language lambasting the Germans. I doubt he was thinking of post-Nazi Germany as he spoke in 1941.

Dude, I was just making an observation. I know the difference betweens 1s and 0s stashed on a hard drive and printed text.

fogw on May 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM

How was I supposed to know that anybody that constructed a sentence as florid as

Today our notes are pixels on a screen, stashed away on a server …. still reminding others of the evils in our world.

was merely jesting with us?

Nyuck, nyuck – dude.