The Kiss

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  “Ryabovitch pulled the bed-clothes over his head, curled himself up in bed, and tried to gather together the floating images in his mind and to combine them into one whole. But nothing came of it. He soon fell asleep, and his last thought was that someone had caressed him and made him happy—that something extraordinary, foolish, but joyful and delightful, had come into his life. The thought did not leave him even in his sleep. When he woke up the sensations of oil on his neck and the chill of peppermint about his lips had gone, but joy flooded his heart just as the day before.” The Kiss By Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah): "Never Again: Heeding the Warning Signs"

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) is an international day of recalling the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This day always falls on the 25th day of Nissan in the Jewish Calendar which is this day by our counting.

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The 2013 Days of Remembrance invite us to look back 75 years at the events of 1938 and examine how citizens and countries responded to signs of impending war and the Holocaust.

In the pivotal year before Nazi Germany invaded Poland and launched World War II, intervention could have saved many lives. Why did so many fail to respond to the warning signs and what lessons do their actions hold for us today?

Read more on this year’s theme. 

Themes of past years included: “Choosing to Acts: Stories of Rescue” (2012), “Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?” (2011); “Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters” (2010) and “Never Again: What You Do Matters” (2009).

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