Introduction.
The history of humanity 'has been full of wickedness, which incidentally, are repeated cyclically and in the same way': the only so-called boundary conditions or circumstances .
If, during World War II, about 70 years ago, has led to racial hatred from off the face of the earth, in a few years tens of millions of persecuted people (Jews, Gypsies and other groups ethnic), still the story continues in the same faldariga, to do so, especially in the East-West conflict and in some inland areas of Africa. So nothing new in the human heart.
About the other week there 'was a celebration in memory of the Holocaust in Germany to concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, where we have been asked many rappresentatnti world, for Italy was present also the community 'S. Egidio. Significant speech made by Rabbi of Isreal, to remember the barbarism that occurred and to nourish the hope that these events do not happen again '.
For this reason, some representatives of the community 'S. Giles, after returning to Rome organized a meeting dedicated in their home district tuscolano.
Speak Sergio ...
Monday 'morning, Sept. 20.
meeting my colleague Paul Fabbreschi us and let's have coffee 'business. He tells me that the day before and 'was a town hall meeting on X (Cinecitta' - Rome), where he 'celebrated the final day of Ramadan. The day was also asserted on the pretext of finalizing a certain reality 'and look for ecumenical dialogue and friendship with people different from our Christian faith.
Obviously everything was was organized by the community 'S. Giles, who for years has worked in this sectorial end there 'was also a substantial banquet, where he had prepared a buffet full of every gift of God
As a result of this day and' thought of organizing the next evening for a meeting to talk about the experience, that the community 'S. Giles had done a week before in Germany, where he 'celebrated the memory of the Holocaust'.
Paul tells me if I want to go with him that night and I willingly accepted.
At eight o'clock I'm in via Caio Mamilius 15, there 'a garage ramp down and an immediate right turn structure with a corridor and a large dining room.
The chairs are arranged in a circle, but are still empty, there 's only Nicholas and his friend chel' accompanies it. Nicholas and 'a disabled man who is on a wheelchair, with obvious difficulty' in speech. Despite all this will make 'a very effective intervention, with very practical solutions to the Faith and true.
Paul is not 'here yet, I see him shortly after the entrance of number 15.
Slowly, up to eight and a half coming in dribs and drabs all others: Sergio, who must 'chair the meeting, Valerie, a young engineer, and that' he was at Auschwitz last week, a couple of pairs and a dozen other people, with some girls and young women.
Around a quarter to nine and Sergio begins, a type of tiny stature, with curly graying hair, he begins to talk to the attention of all present. persecution, and many of them remain hidden from the eyes of the world for a bit 'of years everything will be' revealed since May 1945, when Soviet troops find all the atrocities' consumed in the German concentration camps .
After un'esposione General Sergio makes some evidence: the law of the texts that speak and recount in detail the atrocities' consumed in the camps. Shocking and disturbing reading a song from "The Voice of the submerged" by Carlo Saletti. This book is' a collection of manuscripts of Jewish internees, to die, manuscripts that were found later, everything was held in prison cells, contained in bottles or hidden in walled part.
The track bed is about a number of Jewish women stripped completely transported on a wagon and overturned on the road, like a pile of gravel, IF 'are located in the vicinity' of the gas chambers, where they are die asphyxiated and then cremated in the ovens.
Sergio skips some songs that are scabrosissimi descriptions, not to further upset the crowd.
Then Law of the songs on the "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and where 'summarized the story of a father and a fifty-year-old son, both of which are locked in a concentration camp. Eventually, you will see 'that they too adjust to the pace of life in prison, who will lose all sense of anger and rebellion, pure spirit of survival.
After this first part, and 'time was given to the comments of the bystanders and first and' Valerie was talking about, since he, too, Sergio was gone last week in Germany, celebrzione memory of the Shoah ' .
Valerio said first that an account and 'read books about the experience Shoa ', and another and' see directly, even if after sixty years, the concentration camps: they ', on-site, your mind begins to imagine and to reconstruct the stories that are intertwined in the first five years of the forties: it seemed see these people living in hardship, suffering in captivity 'and was brought to death as anything. Indeed, it is said that in a period of 90 days have been brought to death over 'to 400000 people!
How not to imagine in its place, these heinous crimes of humanity '. we must be aware that we must fight with what appropriate means' that hinders a civil coexistence among all the inhabitants of this troubled land .
E 'followed the administrative attention of my colleague Paul, who has ribabdito, you have to roll up sleeves, trying to find the real values \u200b\u200bto be inculcated for young people, but mainly starting from an institution that is in danger of collapse: the family.
They closed two or three operations, one important 'was to Nicola: "What' that limits us in human relationships at all levels and 'fear and is' fear itself that triggers wars. For this we must open ourselves to another, but above all, as said GP II, open the doors to Christ! ". Last but not least, Sergio, through his laptop, has revealed to us, translating it into Italian, sentence by sentence, the video of the ceremony in Birkenau the other week, with the speech English who made the Rabbi of Israel. In the latter part of the video 'was taken the time to a beautiful Jewish prayer for the dead, to honor the memory of the Holocaust.
Carryover for the accuracy of Rabbi interview, translated into Italian, in the immediately following lines, if you click the following hypertext (
original video), we have the video of the celebration of memory, with the same discourse of Rabbi . In September of '93 this week 16 years ago I had a long conversation with Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo in Italy. At the beginning of our long meeting said: "I remember di suo nonno, nella città di Cracovia, dove sono stato vescovo, durante la guerra mondiale.Ricordo suo nonno il Rabbino Frankel che andava verso la sinagoga per lo Shabbath il sabato, circondato da moltissimi bambini.”Gli chiesi: “Quanti nipoti ha?”Lui rispose: “47.”Ed il Papa mi chiese allora: “Quanti sono sopravvissuti all’Olocausto?”Io risposi: “Solo cinque.”42, compreso mio fratello, che aveva 13 anni, e tutti i miei cugini, erano morti durante l’Olocausto. Il Papa alzò gli occhi al cielo e disse: “Ho visitato già un centinaio di Stati. Ovunque io vada lo ripeto sempre con forza. Noi, tutta l’umanità, abbiamo l’obbligo e l’impegno to ensure continuity and a future for our brothers, the Jews. "Today we are gathered here at the invitation of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which has brought us to visit together the largest graveyard of humanity, history of 'humanity in the place where the factory was morte.Potete see pictures of Mengele, decided whether a finger right or left, life or morte.Ecco, was the factory of the world was divided morte.E in 3 parti.Una part where they were murderers, Nazis and the resistance. Across the victims. The third part consisted of the world remained silent. It did not say a parola.Ecco because today we promise qui.Per ourselves, our children and future generations, as you said before, NEVER AGAIN, never più.Noi never forget, we can not forget, and we will make every effort to ensure that such horror never happens again. Nowhere in the world, against any nation in the mondo.Secondo to UN reports that I cite and repeat continuously every day of hunger and only of hunger, disease, non-motor vehicle accidents, not Aids or cancer but only because of hunger, 18,000 children die every day. Since we arrived in Auschwitz today, thousands of children, infants, innocent children have already died of hunger, mainly in Asia and Africa. But not even see the front pages of newspapers, or in the titles of news. On any channel. 18,000 children a day! Sant'Egidio takes care of the health of the poor, the needy, victims of the past and to avoid innocent victims in futuro.Vedete how many religions are represented here today. I appeal also to the cousins \u200b\u200bof the Islamic world. If we can walk shoulder to shoulder here today and lay the flowers, we can not even sit together and have a good dialogue to resolve all conflicts and problems and talk, with each other as friends as cousins, as neighbors? Yes possiamo.Io I had a friend, an Auschwitz survivor, a famous writer who wrote several books about his terrible esperienza.Mi always said: "I never write with ink, but with my blood. "He was called as a witness at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. After a few minutes into his testimony he fainted and fell to the ground. He could not bear to testimoniare.Quando saw Eichmann, said: "I come from a country where children are never born and the flowers no longer grow. It was a different planet, a planet called Auschwitz. I see their faces. "He said and then svenne.Che the memory of my friend is blessed. This did not happen on another planet. It was our planet. They felt the music, read books, studied philosophy, morality, ethics and were elected in a very democratic. But they did. The murder of 50 million people, including 6 million Jews. Nobody had minacciati o messi in pericolo.Noi non avevamo armi. Non avevamo un paese, ne’ uno stato. Ne’ missili, ne’ razzi. Non avevamo una pistola in mano. Su questo pianeta!Dobbiamo essere sicuri che su questo pianeta non riappaia più un orrore simile.Finirò il mio discorso così come ho iniziato, con la memoria di Giovanni Paolo II.Mi chiese: “Rabbino Capo, lei ha dei figli?”Risposi di sì. “Vivono in Israele?” mi chiese.“Sì, tutti, anche i miei nipoti vivono tutti in Israele.”Ed egli mi disse:”Questa era la promessa di cui parlavo sul futuro e la continuità degli Ebrei.”Quando nel ’95 mi trovavo nel campo di Buchenwald, nella città di Weimar in Germany, where he was released when I was 8, on the wall of the torture room window I saw a word "necumene" in Yiddish "do revenge." It was the last word of a man tortured into that room, a victim of Buchenwald. Vendetta. What vengeance can we do? I am a believer, I believe in Almighty God, not only because they are a rabbi or a jew. But because I am a human being. I think it happened from Cielo.Due or three hours ago here in Krakow, I had come to attend the meeting tonight, I received a call from my niece. "Grandfather, half an hour ago I gave birth to another grandchild." It 'was born today at 7 in Israele.Questa is my revenge. This is the mia risposta. Questa è la mia soluzione.Vivi e lascia vivere. Vivete insieme, in amicizia, in amore ed in pace. Grazie.
La serata si conclude alle 22:30, con la promessa di rivederci ben presto ad un incontro successivo.
(Paolo Carlizza)
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