Event · Gathering
World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
The World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors took place in Jerusalem from June 14 to 18, 1981.
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... Over and over again, we have been forced to con-
sider this psalm’s question: ‘‘How shall we sing the
Lord’s song in a foreign land?” and it has become our
central struggle. In Israel we see with great clarity the
continuity of Jewish history, the link between Masada
and the ghetto uprisings. In Jerusalem, on June 14-18,
1981, thousands of survivors of the Nazi attempt to de-
stroy our people returned from this tragic exile to pass
on to their children the need for remembrance and the
the legacy of their faith. I am the daughter of Chanah
Goldfarb and Michael Kremer, one of the thousand
children from twenty-seven countries who joined their
parents for this extraordinary event, the World Gather-
ing of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. ...Connected nodes