WhatsappA young boy, one of the younger children of a Rabbi in a large Jewish community of Poland, Yisrael Meir Lau was about to start his Jewish education at the young age of 4 or 5. But Hitler’s Nazi war machine invaded Poland in Sept. 1939, and within weeks, nothing would be the same for the young boy.
He would become an orphan within a few years and seemed destined to end up like most Jewish children in that time period – dead in the gas chambers and furnaces of a German death camp. But Lulik, (his Polish nickname), somehow survived through a long litany of miracles. He ended up immigrating to the Land of Israel, lived with his relatives, studied the Bible and Talmud, and ended up becoming the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. His story is simply unbelievable on so many levels and serves as a testament of the greatness of human spirit and the resilience of mankind.
Every person who survived the Holocaust was a miracle. The ruthlessness of Nazi tyranny and persistence in searching out every last Jew in order to accomplish the goal of the “Final Solution,” are facts that have tens of thousands of Jewish, Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, French, Czech, and Ukrainian witnesses.
The number six million is so astronomical that it still cannot truly be fathomed by most people today. But the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, has done such an exhaustively through and professional job of recording thousands of videos from Holocaust survivors that no reasonable person could deny the horrible tragedy of the Holocaust. Today, it behooves all who have heard the stories of the Holocaust firsthand from survivors to share and educate the world. The lessons are many. The main thing is to talk and talk more. Never shall the memories of the heroes of the world be forgotten.
