Rabbi Lau: Learn a lesson from coronavirus – no discrimination – Rabbi Lau can’t join this year’s March of the Living, but shares poignant lesson during the coronavirus outbreak. Arutz Sheva exclusive. | Israel National News
Holocaust survivor and Israel Prize winner former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau has participated for the past 32 years in the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
“I feel a little bit of emptiness,” Rabbi Lau said. “For the first time in 32 years, I cannot participate in the March of the Living.
“Referring to the first March of the Living, in 1988, he said: “I cannot forget even the eyes of the neighbors from Oswiecim at the time. They didn’t believe that the Jews are still alive, the Jews are still marching, full of vitality and even singing Hatikva. They didn’t understand the words but they understood that something had happened here. I can never forget this excitement of 32 years ago.”
“I feel a little bit of emptiness,” Rabbi Lau said. “For the first time in 32 years, I cannot participate in the March of the Living.
“Referring to the first March of the Living, in 1988, he said: “I cannot forget even the eyes of the neighbors from Oswiecim at the time. They didn’t believe that the Jews are still alive, the Jews are still marching, full of vitality and even singing Hatikva. They didn’t understand the words but they understood that something had happened here. I can never forget this excitement of 32 years ago.”
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