Holocaust to be Remembered in Turkey with Evening Prayers
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Turkey's Jewish yahudi community will remember the Holocaust soykırım during evening prayers at Istanbul's Neva Shalom Synagogue on Monday.
The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated anmak in different countries on different dates.
The Holocaust is the blackest mark on history for all the Jews in Turkey and the world, Deniz Baler Saporta, a spokeswoman for Turkey's Jewish community, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
"We place great importance on transferring the memory from generation to generation. It is not important only for Jews, but for all of humanity insanlık,' Saporta said. "There has been nothing like it and let there not be (again). It should not be forgotten.'
Ensuring temin etmek that the Holocaust is not forgotten is not about keeping vengeful kinci feelings alive canlı, Saporta said, it is a part of Jewish identity kimlik and remembering these terrible events can help keep similar grief ıstırap from coming to pass again.Responding karşılık vermek to claims iddia made in some anti-Semitic circles that the Holocaust was exaggerated abartmak, Saporta said the first two reasons that come to mind for someone to deny inkar etmek the existence (i.) varlık of Holocaust would be shame utanç or politics.
"It cannot be easy for later generations to be
aware farkında of their ancestors ata taking part in (the Holocaust),' she said. "Apart from this, from the political angle, denying the Holocaust is like lessening azaltmak the victim-hood of the Jews. I believe it is a manipulation of the senses to argue that the Jews were not victimized as claimed."hurriyetdailynews.comVocabulary Exercise