Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? - Shylock Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Act III Scene I

The Holocaust The Yellow Star of David was used as a badge of shame by the Nazis.

We Light Our Candles We light our candles by passing the light of memory and hope from one to another. Let us honor those whose lights were put out, whose dreams, hopes and lives were snuffed out before they even lived, for the one and one half million children. We light a candle for the untold millions for whom there is no one to mourn, whose entire families were annihilated and who lie in unmarked graves. We light a candle for those who stood upright while others were bending to unmoral will. For the Righteous Among the Nations who risked and even gave their lives to help their fellow human beings. We light a candle for those brave soldiers who liberated the camps; who carried the dead and near dead in their arms to a kinder and more humane future and for those who served with the allied forces to put an end to tyranny and oppression. We light a candle for the nearly six million Jews and for the six million non- Jews who perished in a planned system of human destruction, the scale of which had never before been even imagined. We light a candle for those who live even now under the yoke of oppression, in places where the threat of genocide is real and ever present. -Unknown Candles are often lit in remembrance and honor of the lives taken by Hitler.

Hitler and the Nazi Party In Germany, the WWI defeat was blamed on the Jewish people. The people of Hitler’s master race were called Aryans. The Nazi Party promoted nationalism and racism. The Nuremberg Laws were passed to take away the basic rights of Jews.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran on Friday, October 5, 2007, reiterated his denial of the Holocaust and called for a referendum to remove the State of Israel from the Middle East.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana: Life of Reason, 1905

Judaism is a religion in which the people worship one god. A Jew was identified by the Nazis by the Yellow Star of David they were made to wear.

“Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) Concentration camps were labor camps where Jews were forced to live.

Jews were mostly murdered by poisonous gas.

About 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

The “Final Solution” was Hitler’s plan to execute all Jews.

David Bergman introduces The Holocaust

In Memoriam…

Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust MapNazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust Map

Map depicting the Liberation of Nazi Camps