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VAYAKHEL 5784 Seeing The Bigger Picture Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
This week I was once again back at Auschwitz. I was guiding another trip for the vitally important Holocaust Education Trust for 200 6th form students from schools in the South West of England. It was the second time I had been back to Auschwitz since October 7th and as I entered again, I realised it really has not been the same since then. While I was waiting for one of the student groups to arrive at Block 27 at the Auschwitz museum, I happened to glance at the wording at the entrance of the block. Block 27 was opened in 2013, designed by Yad Vashem and the State of Israel. In my mind, it is by far the most important and powerful block to visit at Auschwitz. So, what did the intro read? The Holocaust was the unprecedented genocide, total and systematic, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people. The primary motivation was the Nazis' antisemitic, racist ideology. Between 1933 and 1941 Nazi Germany pursued a policy that dispossessed the Jews of their rights and their property, followed by the
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