06.02.2019

 

 

Bern Jewish Community Center, Einstein Hall

28.01.2019

 

 

Yehudi Menuhin Forum, Helvetiaplatz 6, Bern

 

More than 200 guests including Holocaust survivors, representatives of parliament, diplomats, scientists, and clergy joined together on 28 January in Bern, Switzerland to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event was a joint project of the various member countries of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, with cooperation by the Historical Service of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Gamaraal Foundation, which supports Holocaust survivors and is engaged in the field of Holocaust education. The event was organized by the embassies of Israel and Italy, the current chair of IHRA.

 

Rabinowicz said of his artwork, “I am a survivor of the monstrosity and tyranny of the German Nazi regime. A regime that had set itself the goal, and almost achieved it, of annihilating European Jewry and eradicating its culture. I was rescued from the barbed wire of the concentration camps, physically and mentally deeply wounded and marked for the rest of my life; uprooted from my own culture and security."

 

President Carobbio Guschetti said: “As the highest Swiss citizen, it is my duty to express my deepest sympathy to all Holocaust victims and their families today and to pay my respects to the Holocaust survivors and their families…. The fact that we pay tribute to you here today, alongside the Swiss persecuted by the Nazis and their collaborators, has a very specific reason: commemoration of the Holocaust goes beyond national borders. It is global and above all has universal significance. We will never be able to make the night of the Holocaust disappear, to recover the millions of lost lives, to wipe out from the memory of the survivors the images of the horrors suffered. In this darkness, however, we can light a few lights.”

 

Israeli Ambassador Jacob Keidar said: “The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was designated by the UN General Assembly resolution in 2005. The essence of the resolution is to honor the memory of Holocaust victims, to educate about Holocaust history and to help prevent future acts of genocide. For people like me, the second generation of holocaust survivors, this UN message has a special meaning. My father who was 18 years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, lost his whole family – his parents, four sisters and four brothers. He survived, joined the partisans after the Nazi invasion into the Soviet-Union and later, in 1943, he joined the Red Army and fought the Nazis until their final defeat. The memory, the education, should not be only for the sake of remembering but to make sure that it will never happen again.”

 

06.03 - 11.04.2019

 

 

Jewish Community Center, Bern

 

10.03 - 10.06.2015

 

 

Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, Israel

22.10 - 30.11 2014

 

 

Ramat Gan Israel - Wohl Center, Tel Aviv / Israel

24.04 - 03.06.2014

 

 

Neve Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv / Israel

06.05 - 29.05.2008

 

 

Wasserkirche, Zurich, Switzerland

April 20, 2004 - May 30, 2005

 

 

Institute for Jewish Studies, Basel / Switzerland

 

1991

 

 

Lugano Switzerland - Cultural Jewish Circle

 

11.03 - 04.04.2001

 

 

Romero House, Luzern / Switzerland

 

23.03 - 04.06.2000

 

 

Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne, Australia

 

1999

 

 

Evangelical Reformed Community, Muralto / Switzerland

 

1996

 

 

Jewish Community Florence, Florence / Italy

 

1996

 

 

Evangelical Reformed Center, Lugano / Switzerland

 

1995

 

 

Museum Torchio, Balerna / Switzerland

 

1995

 

 

Evangelical Community - Part 2, Ascona / Switzerland

 

1992

 

 

Evangelical Community - Part 1, Ascona / Switzerland