In Holocaust ceremony, president describes how the Jews in his hometown were murdered by the Nazis
“Every man has a name, but some names will
forever go unknown,” Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said during the
Knesset’s official Holocaust Rememberance Day ceremony Thursday.
Rivlin read the names of those killed by the
Nazis in the village of Shklou, in Belarus. The town had a Jewish
community since the 16th century, he said. That history ended the night
after Yom Kippur 1941, when the Jews were taken from the ghetto and
murdered by the Nazis.
President Shimon Peres read the names of
people from his town, and mentioned his grandparents and their families
who were killed.
“Those who remained were brutally murdered,”
Peres said as he described the entire town being rounded up into the
wooden synagogue. “The doors were locked and they were burned alive,” he
said. Read the rest on: The Times of Israel
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