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What My Father Told Me Before He Was Sent to Treblinka
[Jerusalem Post] Naphtali Lau-Lavie - Yes, there is bloodshed all over the world; it has existed since Cain murdered Abel. But the terms "Holocaust" and "genocide," in the sense of the industrial-scale and systematic destruction of an entire people, are specific to us, the Jews. My father's life was taken at Treblinka. At our last meeting, he said: "If you manage to get out of here, go and return to the land from which we were expelled, because only there will the Jewish people be itself and become strong enough to prevent such tragedies." The writer is a former Israeli diplomat and former consul-general in New York.