Yom Hashoah

Last week was Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Rememberance Day.

Many groups read names from lists of the six million dead, of whom 1.5 million were children. Their names will not be forgotten.

This is the name name I read.

Jozef Piechocki - died in the Stutthof Concentration Camp on 20 June 1942

My grandfather. Not a Jew. A political prisoner and a victim of the Nazi regime.

Remember.

Learn more here and here.

Unto Every Person There is a Name

Unto every person there is a name
Bestowed on him by God
And given to him by his parents.
Unto every person there is a name
Accorded him by his stature and type of smile
And style of dress.
Unto every person there is a name
Conferred by the mountains
And the walls which surround him.
Unto every person there is a name
Granted him by Fortune's Wheel,
Or that which neighbors call him.
Unto every person there is a name
Assigned him by his failings
Or contributed by his yearnings.
Unto every person there is a name
Given to him by his enemies
Or by his love.
Unto every person there is a name
Derived from his celebrations
And his occupation.
Unto every person there is a name
Presented him by the seasons
And his blindness.
Unto every person there is a name
Which he receives from the sea
And is given to him by his death
-Zelda