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At Holocaust Memorial, a Survivor Says He "Cannot Forgive"

(New York Times) David M. Halbfinger - Speaking on behalf of the Holocaust survivors at the Yad Vashem ceremony was Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, 82, who was sent with his brother to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a child, was liberated at the age of 8 by American forces, and rose to become the chief rabbi of Israel and a towering moral voice of his generation. At the age of 7, he said, he had no name, only a number. "I came especially to tell you I cannot forgive," he said, "because I am not authorized." He said his parents, before they were taken away, "did not ask me to forgive. They asked me to continue the chain, so the Jewish chain will be unbroken, unbroken forever." Now chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Rabbi Lau added, "I can never forget."
2020-01-24 00:00:00
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