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Let each of us view ourselves as though we personally had emerged from the Shoah

JL;DR SUMMARY The keynote address delivered at the Yom HaShoah commemoration in Paramus, NJ, highlights the personal and collective responsibility to remember the Holocaust through the lens of individual and family experiences. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustJewish CommunityYom HashoahSurvivorsLiberationBergen BelsenRemembranceLiturgyFamily Memories

Places mentioned

Paramus, New Jersey, United States
"The keynote address delivered at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, on April 23, 2025."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"Eighty years ago, my mother was at Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi German concentration camp that had been liberated by British troops only days earlier."
Langensalza, Thuringia, Germany
"In November 1944, he was taken from Auschwitz to a concentration camp in Germany called Langensalza, then to Dora-Mittelbau where the V-2 rockets were manufactured in vast caves carved into the Harz mountains, and from there to Belsen where he, too, was liberated on April 15, 1945."
Theresienstadt, Ústecký, Czechia
"Some had been brought to Belsen from Buchenwald, others from Theresienstadt."
Babi Yar, Kyiv, Ukraine
"This idyllic, harmonious relationship with and to God depends on our not confronting God with the reality and horrors of the Holocaust because we know that there can be neither praise not exultation for God in the context of Auschwitz, Treblinka, the Warsaw Ghetto, Babi Yar, or Bergen-Belsen."

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