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Herzog leads Israel delegation at Auschwitz BY DAVID SAFFER
President Isaac Herzog leads Israel’s delegation at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp today to commemorate Yom HaShoah at the 37th annual March of the Living. Israel held Yom Hashoah state ceremonies last night at Yad Vashem attended by Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and at the Massuah Institute in Tel Yitzhak. “We remember the darkest days,” Herzog told those assembled at Yad Vashem. “Our loved ones who were slaughPresident Herzog speaking at the official Yom Hashoah Tekes on Mount Herzl tered, burned, tortured to death. unity until Independence Day as a historic We remember a loneliness beyond words, no personal home, moment of national responsibility and also called for the immediate return of hostages no national home. And now, we have been held in captivity in Gaza. blessed with a wonderful country, built with Eighty years on from the Allied victory, blood, sweat, and so many tears.” Herzog remembered the Shoah victims but Herzog appealed to Israeli citizens for
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also the ‘greatest massacre’ of Jewish people since the Holocaust on October 7 2023. “Just as we overcame 80 years ago so shall we prevail again,” he said. “It is embedded in us, in our deepest national DNA.” Noting his impending journey to Poland, Herzog added: “While we know nothing can compare to the scope and systematic nature of the Holocaust, it is impossible to hear the terrifying testimonies from the inferno of October 7, or to see the images of the hostages from the PHOTO: GPO death pits of Gaza and not be shaken by the echoes of that historic catastrophe. The voice of our brothers’ blood cries to us from the ground. We must bring them home urgently.” Continued on page 4
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