This year for my Jewish Friends Hanukkah is early.. It takes place from November 27 - December 5, 2013. Remember the story on why Hanukkah started.. In those times they had only oil burning Monorahs. They didn't have wax candles in those days. The Holiday stems from when they had oil to celebrate Hanukkah. What was supposed to be just enough for 1 night of oil to burn, turned into 8 days and miraculously it lasted so long.
Hanukkah is not just about lighting a candle for 8 days, but a holiday with potato Lakes, (Potato Pancakes) and candy apples to share among children all over the world. It is a celebration of lights and to be proud of our Heritage. We lived threw the Holocaust by having families that were saved from the in scrupulous times of an evil man that felt a Jew was not important to live,
Life as you know it was hard during those times. Being discriminated because you were a Jew, and having bare minimums in concentration camps, where animals were fed better food. We were famished for not being fed food for dayes, no water to quench our dry mouths, and unbearable conditions. We were like cattle in Box cars, given gas to children because they wee a Jew. Sleeping conditions on sleeping on a mattress of Urine.
We were just a bag of bones as time went on for the fortunate ones that lived more then a day. The graves we dug up for the many were graves we would be hurried in as numerous bodies were piled up on one another. It was a shame being put into a oven to go to our deaths. We were not even worth a loaf a bread.
History explains that Adolf Hitler wanted to create of Arien Race Blond hair and blue eyes. If you were a Jew and didn't look like this, you were killed. Just for not having Blonde hair or Blue eyes?.
There were 2 individuals that come to mind that didn't past a judgement just because you were Jew. The first one was Oscar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Oscar Schindler was a German industrialist who didn't believe in the words and dreams of Adolf Hitler. The other individual was Anne Frank that wrote about persecution of Jewish families. After about 2 years in hiding, were found and sent to concentration camp where she died. We tell ourselves never again will this take place as over 6 million Jews from all over Europe was killed.
Hanukkah is a day or days as you look at it to celebrate life and happiness being a Jew and to look at our past and never forgetting about what took place during World War II. May your souls and memory never forget what it is being a Jew.
Friends and piers please remember that a person should never be judged because of a belief. We are all created in life as equals.Also show all that being a human being, is not a privilege, but an Identity that no one should have their identity ever taken away. In G-d's Eyes we are all our Brother's Keeper to share respect and sincerity in what ever we do to live.
The picture you will see are collectors items from Bradford Exchange. There still we be additional parts of the collection to come, so stop by at times on my page or I will post the rest of the set to have as pictures that will say more then just words, but memories that you all will have.
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