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50 Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Their Bar Mitzvahs

A Jewish teen holds a Torah scroll covered by an ornately decorated Torah mantle that commemorates those who perished in Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

During the Holocaust, many Jewish children were deprived of a normal, happy childhood and celebrating their coming of age ceremonies — their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. this past Monday, 50 Holocaust survivors participated in this Jewish “coming of age” ceremony at the Western Wall. Just two days before Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Reznik and a dozen other men danced with the Torah scroll at the end of the day’s Torah readings.

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The Holocaust: Everything is Forbidden to Us and Yet We Do Everything

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Tonight, as the sun sets, Yom HaShoah (יום השואה), Holocaust Day, begins. Here in Israel and around the world, the Jewish People face the memory and pain of the Holocaust and say, “Never again.” And for many of us here at the ministry, it is very personal as we lost grandparents, aunts and uncles, who were gassed and then put in the ovens in Auschwitz. And the family members who were not put to death right away were in slave labor camps becoming living skeletons.

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