These days, when the phrase is used to invoke the Holocaust, it can be either particular or universal. Later, however, Kahane’s violent call for action was adapted by American Jewish establishment groups and Holocaust commemoration institutions as a call for peace, tolerance and heeding the warning signs of genocide. In the anthem of the Jewish Defense League, members recited, “To our slaughtered brethren and lonely widows: Never again will our people’s blood be shed by water, Never again will such things be heard in Judea.” Kahane used Never Again to justify acts of terror in the name of fighting anti-Semitism. It means that if it happens again, it won’t happen in the same way. As Kahane said, “the motto Never Again does not mean that ‘it’ will never happen again. The shame surrounding the alleged passivity of the Jews in the face of their destruction became a cornerstone of the JDL. The phrase was used in secular kibbutzim there in the late 1940s it was used in a Swedish documentary on the Holocaust in 1961.īut the phrase gained currency in English thanks in large part to Meir Kahane, the militant rabbi who popularized it in America when he created the Jewish Defense League in 1968 and used it as a title of a 1972 book-length manifesto. As the president of the American Jewish Committee, Sholom Comay, said after Kahane’s assassination in November 1990, “Despite our considerable differences, Meir Kahane must always be remembered for the slogan Never Again, which for so many became the battle cry of post-Holocaust Jewry.”įor Kahane, Never Again was an implicitly violent call to arms and a rebuke of passivity and inactivity. The first usage of Never Again is murky, but most likely began in postwar Israel. While some have traced the phrase to the Hebrew poet Isaac Lambdan’s 1926 poem “Masada” (“Never shall Masada fall again!”), its current use is more directly tied to the aftermath of the Holocaust. 2023’s theme is “Home and Belonging” and what that means to “persecuted individuals during the Holocaust and in its aftermath.The “big stone” monument in Treblinka commemorating the thousand of Jews who were murdered at the Treblinka death camp, with the inscription “Never Again” written in six languages. Each year the UN has a theme for the annual commemoration. 27, 2005, with a ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York. The same resolution supports the development of educational programs to remember the Holocaust and to prevent further genocide.” It also serves as a rebuke of Holocaust denial.Īccording to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The date marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and is meant to honor the victims of Nazism. The day is marked as a day to commemorate the victims of the Nazis and share education about the Holocaust. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). In 2005, the UN adopted a resolution designating Jan. The stickers say “the only gas the Russians deserve is Zykon B.” (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
The museum said Friday, Jthat fake posts claim to show stickers placed around the memorial site in southern Poland, an area under German occupation during World War II. he Auschwitz-Birkenau museum says it has been targeted with the use of “primitive” propaganda after disinformation spread on Russian social media posts. FILE – A view of the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. The only freedom victims of the holocaust found was in death.
“Work makes one free” are the words, written in German on the main gates leading into Auschwitz where millions of Jews and other outcasts from Nazi society were murdered in the name of ideology. (COLORADO) - #NeverForget the terrible atrocities committed in the name of evil ideology and the numerous lives lost and shattered on #HolocaustRemembranceDay, Friday, Jan.
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