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Yad Vashem – Remember

Posted in People, Poetry, Prose & Prayer with tags holocaust, Israel, Jewish, memorial, Never Again, poem, remember, shoah, shrine, yad vashem on January 30, 2011 by Joann

Names from concentration and death camps/Paul74 via Flickr

Stolen name replaced by number,
Savaged soul and broken heart.
Hell, a people to encumber.

Blind eyes outside in darkness.
Dead souls dismissed the human face.
Stolen name replaced by number

Rising from the ashes,
Pledging nevermore.
Hell, a people to encumber

Yad VaShem, the vault of memory,
Yad VaShem, the ground of tears
Stolen name replaced by number

Shoah: families, children.
Here named, remembered, mourned
Hell, a people to encumber

Faces pictured in the silence.
Tears cried forevermore.
Stolen name replaced by number
Hell, a people to encumber

Copyright Joann Nelander

(experimental Villanelle)

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Everybody’s Gotta Serve Somebody

Posted in People, Religion with tags freedom, God, Jewish, Man, Passover, Peace Place, People, Reflections, Religion, service, slavery on March 26, 2010 by Joann

Passover’s Essential Message.

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Yad Vashem – God Remembers Their Names

Posted in Catholic, Christian, Culture, Defending Life, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion with tags Catholic, Christian, Church, Culture, Defending Life, holocaust, Holy Land, Jewish, memorial, News, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Reflections, Religion, shoah, Spiritual, survivors, world news, yad vashem on May 12, 2009 by Joann

“I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name. I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.” With this passage from the Book of Isaiah, Pope Benedict XVI began a recollection of those slain in the Holocaust and memorialized at Yad Vashem. This passage furnished two words: Yad meaning “memorial” and shem “name.” The Pope recalled how each person remembered there bears a name. Though robbed of their life they could never be robbed of the name God had given them. The Pope said that he can only imagine the joyful expectation of their parents as they anxiously awaited the birth of their children; “What name shall we give this child? What is to become of him or her?” He said, that they could never have imagined that they would be condemned to such a degradable fate. Their cries still echos in our hearts. the Pope said that it is the cry of Able rising from the earth to the Almighty. Pope Benedict prayed from the Book of Lamentations proclaiming that the favors of the Almighty are never exhausted and His mercies are not spent.They are renewed each morning. So great is His faithfulness.