PHOTOS: Israel Police’s Southern District Shows Solidarity With Holocaust Survivors

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“On Thursday, 27 Nissan, we will be together with Israel with the victims of the Holocaust. We, the officers of the Southern District, stand here today in honor of the Holocaust, held at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, at the foot of the memorial to Mordechai Anielewicz, the leader of the first ghetto uprising, the Warsaw Ghetto”, said Israel Police Southern District Chief Moti Cohen.

Officers of the Israel Police and the Border Police, who serve in command posts in the southern district, arrived at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in the afternoon for activities dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed in Israel this year on Wednesday night and Thursday.

During the activity they took a guided tour of the Holocaust Museum, from where they moved to the site of the battles of the kibbutz.

At the end of the tour, the officers met with Mrs. Eva Oban, a native of Czechoslovakia, who was sent to the Terezin Ghetto and from there to Auschwitz and survived the death march.

At the age of 19, Eva married Peter, also a Holocaust survivor from Terezin Ghetto, and together they built a home in Israel. Eva shared the testimony with the officers, and as she spoke, there was silence in the hall and no dry eye remained.

At the end of her words, she said with a smile, “If I told myself that the day would come when I would sit in front of the policemen and tell my story, I would not believe it.

Chief Cohen gave her the Southern District Medal, thanked her for her words, and assured her that the police were here to guard and protect.

At the end of the meeting, everyone went out to the water tower at the foot of which was Mordechai Anielewicz’s statue. A ceremony was held in which the district commander spoke and noted that “for us uniformed men, Mordechai Anielewicz is a shining example of the resurgence of the fighting and from which we learn our responsibility as policemen.”