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Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2009
On this day we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. This year's central theme is "Children in the Holocaust."
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It is a solemn day, beginning at sunset on the 26th of the month of Nisan (Monday evening, April 20, 2009) and ending the following evening, according to the traditional Jewish custom of marking a day. Places of entertainment are closed and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "This evening, the State of Israel marks Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day. Six million of our brethren were massacred during the Holocaust. Sadly, not everyone learned the lesson. While we gather to honor their memory, in Switzerland there will assemble a conference allegedly aimed against racism. Its guest-of-honor is a racist Holocaust-denier who does not hide his intentions to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. I commend the countries that are boycotting this show of hatred. As opposed to those dark days, today a strong Jewish state stands to ensure the continued existence of the Jewish people in the face of this new anti-Semitism."
This year's central theme is "Children in the Holocaust." During the annual "Unto Every Person There is a Name" ceremony, the names of children murdered in the Holocaust will be read aloud.
About one and a half million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust were children. The number of children who survived is estimated in the mere thousands. Some found refuge in the homes of decent people whose conscience would not allow them to remain passive; others were hidden in convents, monasteries and boarding schools; still others were forced to roam through forests and villages, relying entirely on their own ingenuity and resourcefulness. Many were forced to live under assumed identities, facing constant fear and danger, where a wrong word could lead to discovery and death. Some were so young when separated from their parents that they forgot their real names and Jewish identity.
At the end of the war, many of these children were lost to their families and their Jewish heritage forever. For others, the war's end marked a beginning of their return to their real selves. Very slowly, they emerged from hiding, from the forests and the camps, and began the long and painful process of rehabilitation. Liberation did not end their suffering as most had no home to return to, no family to take them in.
The central ceremonies of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day are held at Yad Vashem and are broadcast on Israel television. In the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister, dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families gather together with the general public to take part in the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem in which six torches, representing the six million murdered Jews, are lit. The following morning, the ceremony at Yad Vashem begins with the sounding of a siren for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the sounding, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust.
Afterward, the focus of the ceremony at Yad Vashem is the laying of wreaths at the foot of the six torches, by dignitaries and the representatives of survivor groups and institutions. A ceremony for youth movements with the participation of hundreds of youth will take place in the Valley of Communities at Yad Vashem. Other sites of remembrance in Israel, such as the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz and Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, also host memorial ceremonies, as do schools, military bases, municipalities and places of work.




Iranian terror in Switzerland against opposition activists
Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz's met on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Geneva, a day before Jews worldwide commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I can understand that, for obvious real politick, economic and "protocol" reasons, the president of a democratic country meets with a known Holocaust denier who also calls for the destruction of Israel.
I can also understand that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "regrets" the absence of the United States and eight other Western nations from the UN conference "on racism." He, to be sure, never criticized Iran and its president for calling for the destruction of another member state of the United Nations, precisely Israel.
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What is difficult to understand is why the Swiss judicial authorities did not inform their president that Iran's highest authorities are responsible for at least two assassinations of Iranian opposition activists on Swiss soil.
In April 1990, Kazem Radjavi was assassinated in Coppet, Switzerland. He was a renowned human rights advocate and elder brother of Iranian opposition leader Massoud Rajavi.
In connection with the assassination of Kazem Radjavi at Coopet, Switzerland, on 24 April 1990, it was reported that the Investigating Magistrate of the Canton of Vaud, Judge Roland Chatelain, has issued 13 international arrest warrants against Iranian citizens holding service passports, including former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, and transmitted rogatory letters via Bern to the Iranian authorities, without receiving a reply. Two of the 13 people covered by international arrest warrants, Mohsen Sharif Esfahani, aged 37, and Ahmad Taheri, aged 32, were detained in Paris on 15 November 1992. On 10 February 1993 the indictment division of the Court of Appeals in Paris handed down an opinion in favour of their extradition to Switzerland. On 29 December 1993, however, the two Iranian nationals were expelled from France and sent to Tehran. After extensive investigations, Roland Chatelain, the Swiss magistrate in charge of the case, and Swiss judicial and police officials confirmed the role of Rafsanjani's government and the participation of thirteen official agents of the Iranian regime who had used "service passports" to enter Switzerland for their plot. (Cited from the United Nations Report Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 14 October 1994, see at: http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/74e1f21f50a70017802566fe005ba67c?Opendocument
Ironically, Kazem Rajavi was Iran's first Ambassador to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva following the 1979 Islamic revolution. Shortly after his appointment, he resigned his post in protest to the “repressive policies and terrorist activities of the ruling clerics in Iran”. He then intensified his campaign against mass executions, arbitrary arrests, and torture carried out by Iran’s theocratic leadership.
At the age of 56, he held six doctorate degrees in the fields of law, political science, and sociology from the universities of Paris and Geneva.
In August 1987, Col. Ahmad Moradi-Talebi was assassinated in Geneva, Switzerland. A former member of the Iranian Air Force and an F-14 pilot, he was reportedly against the current regime’s ideology and wanted a more democratic government in Iran.




