Fiery Netanyahu Thunders On Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘Never Ever Happen Again To Our People’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    On Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a ringing statement in which he vowed to never let the Jewish people be massacred again.

    Auschwitz was located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Almost one million Jews of the six million murdered in the Holocaust - who included one million children - died at Auschwitz; SS physicians performed gruesome medical experiments on prisoners, including forced sterilizations and castrations. Jews were gassed before being cremated; cremation is against Jewish law.

    "We in Israel mark this event by honoring the sacred memory of those who perished at the hands of a murderous Nazi regime," Netanyahu declared. "And we vow that this will never, ever, happen again to our people."

    "The difference now is that the Jewish people have the State of Israel. Israel protects itself by itself," he continued. "We are a strong and vibrant nation and we have built up a powerful state that will not allow our enemies to inflict the very pain, suffering and devastating loss our people experienced during the Holocaust."

    He obliquely referred to the despotic regime in Iran, which has repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state. "And there are those who still call for our destruction, day in and day out. We will not cower in fear nor will we allow the threats of these tyrants to intimidate us. For this enemy knows that at the end of the day, if needed, we can and will defend ourselves, and we will not allow our enemies to possess an ability to carry out its murderous agenda. We see them on their steady march towards obtaining the most lethal of weapons and I say to them here and now - we will stop you from obtaining them."

    "On behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, on behalf of the survivors and those who perished, I vow to you as Prime Minister of the one and only Jewish state, that we will remain vigilant, strong and never allow the Holocaust to happen again. Never," Netanyahu promised.

    "Trains arrived at Auschwitz frequently with transports of Jews from virtually every country in Europe occupied by or allied to Germany," the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum notes.

    Prior to the Holocaust, nine million Jews lived in Europe.

    In addition to the Jews murdered in the gas chambers, mass shooting operations "took place in more than 1,500 cities, towns, and villages across eastern Europe," the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states, adding, "German units tasked with murdering the local Jewish population moved throughout the region committing horrific massacres. Typically, these units would enter a town and round up the Jewish civilians. They would then take the Jewish residents to the outskirts of the town. Next, they would force them to dig a mass grave or take them to mass graves prepared in advance. Finally, German forces and/or local auxiliary units would shoot all of the men, women, and children into these pits. ... As many as 2 million Jews were murdered in mass shootings or gas vans in territories seized from Soviet forces."

    "Millions of Germans and other Europeans participated in the Holocaust. Without their involvement, the genocide of the Jewish people in Europe would not have been possible," the museum concludes.