There is much in common between the organisers of the Holocaust and the initiators of the pulling down of monuments to liberator soldiers. This is the opinion of the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Russia.
“Disrespect for the memory of the liberator soldiers leads directly to the revision of the results of World War II and, in the long run, to the denial of the Nazi crimes,” says a statement, issued by Berl Lazar, Chief Rabbi of the Federation of Jewish Communities, on the occasion of the International Day of the Memory of Holocaust Victims, which is observed on Saturday.
Rabbi Berl Lazar urged the European countries “not to forget about the crimes of the 20th century and about the heroic deeds of the soldiers, who liberated the world from the brown plague at the cost of their own lives.”
He reminded as well that “inter-ethnic hatred and violence are growing in dozens of countries, and people are killed because of the colour of their skin.” Berl Lazar cited as an example the situation in the Darfur Province of Sudan, where a civil war has been going on for about four years and has claimed the lives of some 200,000 people. The root cause of the conflict is the struggle of black ethnic groups with the Arab population for land.
“When the United Nations Organisation adopted a resolution on the annual observance of the day of memory of Holocaust victims, its intention was to preserve the historic memory of the denunciation of Nazism in all its manifestations, in order to prevent the recurrence of the genocide tragedy,” the statement of Berl Lazar stressed.
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Years ago, when i grew up in boro park, a congressman (irish) was running for re-election. besides his famous four color postcard of his many children (he was observant catholic) he had a reputation of being good to the jews (today we would say he probably gave / arranged plenty of grants to appropriate mosdot, etc to make the “askanim” and rabbonim of the day happy.)
one day, while campaigning in mandelbaum bakery (on 14th ave off 45th st, now private homes), mrs mandlebaum got very excited. she recognized the congressman –
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the US Army colonel who liberated her from matthausen. these people never forget!!!
(by the way, this also disproves those claims that african american troops liberated concentration camps, particularly matthausen.
yes monuments for these people are a jewish cause, are very important. (see the end of the first chelek / volume of the minhat yitzchak, where he discusses this.)
and the congressman never lost an election, eventually becoming ny state governor, who never dabbled in promoting immorality, like the current new governor that the jewish “askanim” and rabbonim promote (after all he gives them plenty of grants, and plenty of government programs) but i digress.